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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"art materials"”.
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Old Broken Crayons: Adolescent Artists with Autism in Art Education
… engages a combined qualitative methodology of arts-informed research and critical descriptive ethnography to study thirteen adolescent artists with autism as they engage in art making across multiple art education contexts. This study revealed the perceptions of stakeholders about art and …
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FOSTERING IMAGINATIVE EXPRESSION IN ELEMENTARY ART STUDENTS: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF TEACHER STRATEGIES
The students in my elementary art classes did not seem to be creating for themselves. They seemed to have the understanding there was only one correct answer in art class, and the art teacher knew what that answer was. By way of research I have found ways to create an atmosphere in my art room that …
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Tailoring Isothermal Redox Properties of Calcium-based Perovskites
Perovskite structured (ABO3) redox materials are highly attractive for the advancement of a variety of sustainable processes such as Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC), thermochemical fuel production, etc. Apart from the state-of-the-art materials that require extreme synthesis and reaction …
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Synthesis of perovskite-ceria composites for solar-to-fuel conversion
… the effectiveness of novel composite materials made from previously researched state-of-the-art materials as catalysts in the thermochemical solar-to-fuel conversion process. Materials such as ceria and gadolinium-doped ceria (GDC) have been determined to have excellent kinetics for …
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High Performance Engineering Polymers: Design, Properties, and Performance
… highlights the immediate impact on state-of-the-art materials, and the fundamental development described herein provides a road map for future development in this field.
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Self-Concept Through Art Therapy: Using Therapeutic Creative Arts Techniques With Students With Learning Disabilities
… of "Creative Pride Studio", a 12-session art therapy/self-education program designed specifically for students aged 9 through 12, diagnosed with learning disabilities (LD).</p> <p>This grant explores trends in the public educational system and discrepancies in defining academic …
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A hypermedia and Project-based approach to Music, Sound and Media Art
This thesis describes my artistic practice as essentially project-based, site-responsive and hypermediating. Hypermediacy—i.e. the tendency of certain media or objects to keep their various constituents separate from their structure—is to be understood as opaque, juxtaposed and after a recurring …
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Becoming Christ Cathedral : the emergence, rise, and transformation of the crystal cathedral /
… AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Crystal Cathedral was part of the Reformed Church of America, located in Southern California, started by Reverend Robert H. Schuller. This Protestant place of worship thrived for many years, however, after struggling financially, was sold to the Catholic Diocese of Orange …
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Photo Art Therapy for the Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Program at McAuley Behavioral Health Services
… seeking support to establish an innovative photo art therapy program under the direction of art therapist Carolyn Donnay. McAuley Behavioral Health Services has earned a national reputation offering San Francisco and surrounding communities comprehensive and divergent mental health services.</p> …
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Mechanical design of high frequency, high power density electric machine
… and compactness in combination of state-of-the-art materials and technologies, such as Halbach array magnets and airgap windings. Combining these novel ideas imposed challenges onto the mechanical design of the motor, mainly because the design was optimized to thin radial builds for weight …
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Saving face: an arts-based hermeneutic phenomenological study of women’s personal agency explored through the lens of adverse childhood experiences
… and after the creation of images using basic art materials. Within the creative research design, a pluralistic philosophical approach, which included Critical Realism, supported the development of the bespoke methodology combining arts-based research, hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry and …
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Beyond aesthetics : a contemporary approach to teaching visual language at a post secondary level
… discourse focuses on the conceptual aspect of art, I am concerned that the cognitive and affective aspects of visual language have been neglected. In this study I introduced students to a revised approach to the formal elements of art, that breaks away from the prescriptive nature of historical …
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Micromechanics of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fibre composites
… composites are considered to be state-of-the-art materials for penetration and ballistic impact protection applications. The composites are made of strong UHMWPE fibres with a soft compliant matrix. The extreme anisotropy caused by the mismatch between the stiffness and strength of the fibres …
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The Effects of Artistic Expression on Identity Formation Within a Learning Disabled Adolescent Population
… week sessions comprise this 24-week after school art therapy/psychoeducation program designed specifically for adolescents with learning disabilities. This co-ed program will be conducted through the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, (H. A.R.D.), at the Sorensdale Center in conjunction …
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On Physics of Durable Ice Phobic Surfaces
… slippery surface outperforming state-of-the-art icephobic surfaces with an ice formation temperature of -34 °C, 2-3 orders of magnitude higher delay time in ice formation, extremely low ice adhesion strength (~2 Pa), and stability in shear flows up to Reynolds number of 105. In these …
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Kinetics of Heat and Mass Transfer Near the Liquid-Vapor Interface
… these components remains. Recently, state-of-the-art materials and micro-nanofabrication techniques have been applied to develop high-performance prototypes to prevent such a bottleneck. These advances are pushing toward the fundamental limit of evaporation/condensation in which the kinetics of …
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Phase transformations in layered electrode materials for sodium ion batteries
… sodium ion intercalation in layered electrode materials for sodium ion batteries. Layered metal oxides have been at the forefront of rechargeable lithium ion battery technology for decades, and are currently the state of the art materials for sodium ion battery cathodes in line for …
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Language as a potential means of increasing the preceptual art ability of elementary school children
… as a control section and received traditional art instruction, primarily working with common art materials without specific language instruction and without viewing color slides of paintings. The subjects in all four groups were pre and post tested using the Children's Embedded Figures Test …
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