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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"carving"”.
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Corrupted MP4 carving using MP4-karver
… by the law enforcement. In digital forensic, carvings of deleted, damaged video files have an important role in searching for evidence. Therefore, many existing tools and techniques such as Scalpel’s, PhotoRec, Bi-Fragment Gap Carving (BGC), Smart Carving and Frame Based Carving attempt to …
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Carving mass: to frame the center
Architecture frames life. By framing I mean that it gives individual awareness perimeters which shape the habits of the mind while the material frame supports the life of the body. We live in the center of our awareness. Some of Wallace Stevens’ poetry explores the habits and the shape of …
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Icy futures : carving the northern sea route
The research examines intersections between globalisation and climate change in the (re)emergence of a 'Northern Sea Route' through the Russian Arctic, which some speculate could soon rival or replace the Suez Canal as major global trade artery. The research explores shifts in the contemporary …
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Ivory carving in later medieval England, 1200-1400
… recognized. This is particularly true with ivory carving in England between the years of 1200 and 1400. Some of the problems to be dealt with in this paper are: was there a decline in ivory carving in England, and when did the practice cease to be an art form? In England, we will see two declines, …
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"""Carving the world"": Inca monumental sculpture and landscape"
This thesis contains the results of an archaeological and ethnohistorical study of carved rocks, created by native Americans during the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth centuries A.D. in Peru and adjacent Andean countries. In this study a typology and catalogue of forms of Inca monumental …
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Volatile Memory Message Carving: A "per process basis" Approach
… from traditional physical memory extraction to carving residues of data on a “per process basis”. Each Android application runs in a separate process within its own Dalvik Virtual Machine (JVM) instance, thus, the proposed “per process basis” approach. To extract messages, we first extract the …
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Forensic research on detecting seam carving in digital images
… popular image editing techniques, called ‘seam carving’. To reveal seam carving applied to uncompressed images from the perspective of energy distribution change, an energy based statistical model is proposed as the first work in this dissertation. Features measured global energy of images, …
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Carving the spirits of the wood: an enquiry into Trobriand materialisations
… material expressions in the form of woodcarvings for sale (tokwalu) to outsiders. Throughout the thesis, I demonstrate how Trobrianders conceive tokwalu as symbolic and material tools for the apprehension of what is becoming an increasingly de-territorialised universe. Woodcarvings are …
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Craving / Carving a sacred space : a study of religion on Stone Mountain.
Drawing upon the tools of spatial analysis, this study examines varieties of sacred space crafted at Stone Mountain Park, near Atlanta, Georgia. The focus on spatial aspects of religious practices at Stone Mountain grounds three over-arching methodological objectives of the thesis. The first is to …
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The Urban Floodscape: Revealing, Carving, and Placing the Historic Klingle Ford Road
When we think of floods in the urban environment we also think of damage. We continuously rebuild our infrastructure to alleviate any damage. Although erosion and flooding can be detrimental to our environment, a by-product of the damage is wild nature, offering health and mental benefits and …
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Carving a New Notch in the Bible Belt: Rescuing the Women of Kentucky
<p>In recent years, the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation has become a major focus on the local, national, and global level. This is despite research, which has identified labor trafficking to be a significantly larger issue across the globe. The purpose of this research is to …
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Following the stone: Zimbabwean sculptors carving a place in 21st century art worlds
… continued to be framed as a link to pre-state carving traditions – solidifying links with “tradition” – while the political economic situation in Zimbabwe began to deteriorate by the end of the 1990s. The combination of changing political climate and changing market forces led to a decline in …
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Making Love in the English Reformation: Carving Images in the Temple of Our Harts
"This project establishes that English poets replayed the Reformation conflict over ""true religion"" on a battlefield of Petrarchan lyric. Conventional, theology-based methodologies insufficiently account for the ongoing appeal of Catholicism and the ubiquity of representations of ritual practice …
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Carving the Line: A Critical Examination of Women Athletes’ Experiences of Maltreatment in Freestyle Skiing
The purpose of this feminist narrative study was to understand the experiences of Canadian women athletes in freestyle skiing to uncover potential aspects of maltreatment in sport. Guided by Bronfenbrenner’s (1979, 1986, 1999) ecological systems theory, this research examined individual, social, …
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From Direct Carving to Récupération: The Art of Moustapha Dimé in Post-Independence Senegal 1974-1997
… récupération works, while a departure from carving, were not a rejection of his earlier styles. Rather, I present evidence to suggest that Dimé arrived at récupération through a sustained investigation of sculptural methodology over the course of his career. In assessing the entirety of …
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"Without carving how would I survive?" : Economic motivation and its significance in contemporary Inuit art
To date, art historians who specialize in contemporary Inuit art have minimized or disregarded the economic significance Inuit art has for its producers. Although economic factors of Inuit art production have been treated as irrelevant in most art historical inquiries, Inuit artists say that …
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Carving out a sense of place: The making of the Marble Valley and the Marble City of Vermont
<p>The making of the Central Valley of Vermont created a sense of identity for the region. Strategically between two Native American confederations, the area was also enmeshed in European settlement to the north, south, east and west. At first conventional farming was the engine of growth in the …
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