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Showing 1 to 20 of 396 for “"breath"”.
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The Revolutionary Breath
The Revolutionary Breath is praxis of conscious breathing and values awareness. I explore the transformative potential of this praxis through a method I call axio-somatic ethnography, which is an expansion of traditional autoethnography that de-centers identity and valorizes body-sensing as the …
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Catching My Breath
Catching My Breath is a collection of four fictional, graphic novel scripts that examine themes such as identity, trauma, death, and family relationships. Each story takes place in different coastal cities in Maine, including Kennebunkport, Sandy Neck Beach, Old Orchard Beach, and Crescent Beach. …
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Widows' Breath: Grief Fractures
… and limp through mental illness they exist in breath-by-breath survival. </p> <p>The intended audience is anyone experiencing death and separation, cultural or environmental grief, or with an intent to find a balanced life after loss. </p>
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Shadows Hold Their Breath
<p>In 1979, after suffering the loss of her dear friend and sister-in-law, Kat Hunter begins to question everything about her traditional life. With a backdrop of the 1970s feminist movement, Kat decides the only way she can discover who she was meant to be is to leave her husband and her three …
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A Deep Breath of Art
… of architecture and give these artists a deep breath of art.
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Detection of hydrogen peroxide and ethanol in exhaled breath using biosensors: Considerations in standardizing breath collection
Breath monitoring is a non-invasive, safe, and repeatable approach to determining the health status of humans and other mammals. Breath samples could be detected in two ways directly sensing exhaled breath (EB) or chilling the EB to obtaining the exhaled breath condensate (EBC). Each has its …
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Measurement and analysis of breath sounds
Existing breath sound measurement systems and possible new methods have been critically investigated. The frequency response of each part of the measurement system has been studied. Emphasis has been placed on frequency response of acoustic sensors; especially, a method to study a diaphragm type …
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Helium breath : an updated 6.111 curriculum
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Exhaled breath analysis using laser absorption spectroscopy
… developing field, with many applications in breath diagnostics and therapeutic monitoring. For this thesis, laser spectroscopic techniques were employed to measure exhaled nitric oxide (NO), carbonyl sulfide (OCS) and carbon dioxide (CO2). A pulsed quantum cascade laser operating at 4.86 …
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EXCEPT FOR BREATH: Reflections on Image and Memory
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Aligning Mind, Body, and Spirit Through Breath in Architecture
At the root of all living beings is our breath -- without it, we are not alive. Eastern practices such as yoga and meditation are conveyed through the awareness of our breath and the encouragement to be present in what our physical bodies are telling us. This awareness is a huge influence in …
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Analysis and detection of obstructive apnea in individual breath cycles
Vaxandi samstaða vísindamanna á sviði svefnrannsókna er að kæfisvefn sé röskun sem hrjáir stóran hluta fólks. Kæfisvefn veldur fjölda neikvæðra heilsufarslegra áhrifa, þar á meðal einkenna eins og mikla syfju yfir daginn. Til að greina kæfisvefn eru sjúklingar settir í svefnrannsókn. …
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"Sometime There is Breath": Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons as Maternal Lexicon
A study of Gertrude Stein's poetry collection Tender Buttons, this thesis uncovers and explores the text's covert maternal trope. Although Stein staunchly evaded categorization as a feminist, the employment of maternal imagery and the exploration of a language predicated by the feminine space of …
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"Speake, Breathe, Discusse" : Towards a critical breath pedagogy for speaking Shakespeare
… is to establish a foundation for a critical breath pedagogy for speaking Shakespeare. It examines the practical implications of applying ideas of breath training for speaking Shakespeare rooted in British voice trainin⋅g in a university context. In addition to the drawing on literature and my …
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An Investigation of Breath-Holding as a Measure of Cardiovascular Fitness
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:56:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0001555.pdf: 10125370 bytes, checksum: 4b9d301443637ab0252392cca8ca4f94 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1949
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Reliability of the Acetylene Single-Breath Method For Measuring Cardiac Output
… to analyze cardiac output (Q) with only a single-breath, making measurements during exercise quicker and less invasive for the subject. Certain non-invasive techniques allow for measurement of the disappearance of a soluble inert gas as it diffuses across the blood-gas barrier in the lungs. The …
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