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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"blank slate"”.
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Utopia And Commons: Enclosure And Blank Slate In The Americas
How can utopia, as a concept and a project, have as its goal the exposure and defense of the commons while its very articulation must posit a tabula rasa to be enclosed, improved, and defended? This question lies at the heart of my own project. I investigate and critique a series of moments that …
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Beyond the table and into the dungeon: a study into queer and neurodivergent experiences of identity within tabletop roleplaying games
… – genderless, emotionless beings – providing a blank slate to explore whatever aspect of themselves they would like to. Finally, participants exhibited strong feelings of wanting to be understood, and TTRPGs allowed them a judgement free, safe space to explore their identities.
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Radicalization within the Somali-American diaspora: countering the homegrown terrorist threat
… European Muslim counterparts. Thus, they are a "blank slate" for jihadist recruiters; much of their parent's clan and cultural traits are erased or otherwise diluted in the process of integration. These youths rush to embrace American culture but are torn between two diametrically opposed …
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Applied optimal control for dynamically stable legged locomotion
… policy for 3D dynamic bipedal walking from a blank slate using only trials implemented on the physical robot. The robot begins walking within a minute and learning converges in approximately 20 minutes. The learning works quickly enough that the robot is able to continually adapt to the …
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Growing in Place
… with simply removing the freeway to render a blank slate, and ultimately retains the "scar" of this infrastructure as a physical and historical record. It records the misprioritized urban design philosophies that benefited the automobile and sprawl-based development patterns at the expense of …
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A non-linear approach to modelling motivation in the workplace using artificial neural networks
… business conception of the employee is as a blank slate machine motivated through a behaviourist system of reward and punishment. In contrast to this conception, studies of human evolution, neurology and cognition suggest that motivation emerges from the interaction of a complex and …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… of entire populations. For them, the blank slate of the American continent was simultaneously a ruined wasteland, and the mythical American Adam was really an American Noah - a patriarch of a new world built on the violent dissolution of the old. U.S. frontier literature between the …
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The nature of public action: social environments, psychological traits and mobilization
… of the citizen. In this image, the citizen is a blank slate upon which external factors inscribe beliefs, values, and motivations for taking action. Based on this popular image of the citizen, the goal of mobilization is to create incentives and reduce disincentives to participate by changing the …
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Patterning temporally dynamic 4D hydrogel and nanocomposite material gradients: predictive cellular and actuator responses
… pHH-based scaffolds and films perform as blank slate materials, which are defined by their robust resistance to cellular attachment while at the same time maintaining extremely low toxicity and high tolerance to the attachment and development of cells immediately adjacent to them. …
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Design and evaluation of neuroregenerative properties of 4D hydrogel scaffolds
… therapies. A particularly complex system to translate in vitro is that of the dorsal root ganglion (DRG), an interesting research target due to its relevance in peripheral nerve repair, and to its connection to the non-regenerative central nervous system (CNS). Severe peripheral nerve injuries …
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Engineered microsystems and their application in the culture and characterization of three-dimensional (3D) breast tumor models
… In order to do this, we first evaluated a blank-slate matrix consisting of thiolated collagen, hyaluronic acid and heparin, cross-linked chemically via Michael addition reaction using diacrylate functionalized poly (ethylene glycol). The hydrogel network was used with triple-negative breast …
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How to wear utopia: A dress manual for a convivial future
… from cultural or historical references, offer a blank slate for imagining new possibilities for dress, demonstrating their potential as tools for creative exploration. The critique and construction of utopian dress possibilities as an art practice suggests that utopia is not an end goal but a …
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The ContexTable: Building and Testing an Intelligent, Context-Aware Kitchen Table
<p>The purpose of this thesis was to design and evaluate The ContexTable, a context-aware system built into a kitchen table. After establishing the current status of the field of context-aware systems and the hurdles and problems being faced, a functioning prototype system was designed and built. …