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Showing 1 to 20 of 2416 for “"connect"”.
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Artists Connect
<p>A collection of five pieces:</p> <ul> <li>Freedom: Essential for Writing</li> <li>Cervantes and Shakespeare: the Don and the Prince</li> <li>"The Play’s the Thing"</li> <li>Melville and Rockwell: Sea-Room and the Ordinary</li> <li><em>Housatonic</em> (Beyond the Mountain Place)</li> </ul>
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A Place to connect
This dissertation contributes to the discourse on the design of public space in the city. It illustrates a design approach that favours the social welfare of marginalised communities living in Cape Town in particular foreign nationals. By providing a socio- economic anchor for this marginalised …
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Bernard Malamud and the struggle to connect
… becomes an act of freedom and self-redemption. Connection, then, embodies a spiritual potential, and it is played out in a physical world that makes its own demands.</p>
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Out of network : technologies to connect with strangers
Popular connective technologies are supposed to save us time and simplify our lives, but instead we are more overwhelmed and scattered than ever. These same technologies promised to help keep us close to our friends and loved ones, but instead we are becoming increasingly isolated. This is result …
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StoryNet: A 5W1H-based knowledge graph to connect stories
… and more, it is harder to draw parallels and connect the information from all around the globe. Even though there have been efforts to consolidate the information on a large scale like Wikipedia, Wiki Data, etc, they are devoid of any real-time happenings. With the recent advances in Natural …
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Future of Identity and Access Management: The OpenID Connect Protocol
… systems. This thesis explores the OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard introduced by the OpenID Foundation. Built on an earlier standard known as OAuth 2, the OIDC standard, also referred to as a protocol, specifies a near-complete procedure to provide authentication and authorization of users …
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Measuring Political Activity How Online and Offline Political Activities Connect
… the Bayesian Update method to establish a connection between these two domains based on prior research; further bolstered by an analysis of a national Hungarian panel survey to account for the unique context of the research. The findings affirm the link between online and offline political …
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Responsive IoT : using biosignals to connect humans and smart devices
… biological signals as the interface to directly connect with the smart surroundings. The work is partitioned in two parts. First, I present a wearable sensing system to estimate the thermal comfort level of the user by monitoring skin temperature, blood volume pressure and skin conductivity. This …
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A computational model to connect gestalt perception and natural language
We present a computational model that connects gestalt visual perception and language. The model grounds the meaning of natural language words and phrases in terms of the perceptual properties of visually salient groups. We focus on the semantics of a class of words that we call conceptual …
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Using Internet Videoconferencing to Connect Fashion Students With Apparel Industry Professionals
… Internet videoconferencing and a web camera to connect college and university fashion students with apparel industry professionals. A total of 70 college and university fashion students, three instructors, and three apparel industry professionals participated in this introductory study. Data was …
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Identification of novel components that connect cellulose synthases to the cytoskeleton
… regarding the identification of proteins that connect cellulose synthases to the cytoskeleton. This involves the development of bioinformatics tools allowing candidate gene prediction through co-expression studies (Mutwil et al., 2009), identification of candidate genes through interaction …
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Implicit ordering : a tribal center to connect land, community and creativity
… in which they are spatially aware of their connection to the greater environment. The final design was sited on a peninsula set aside by the Band for community development and not built upon to date. The peninsula is located within easy walking distance of the public housing area and near to …
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Walking into Mindfulness: Using Communication Design to Connect Us to the Present
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Using The Software Adapter To Connect Legacy Simulation Models To The Rti
… simulation model for shuttle operations, is connected to the RTI using the DMS adapter. The adapter provides a set of functions that are to be incorporated within the Shuttle Model, in a procedural manner, in order to connect to RTI. This thesis presents the procedure when the Shuttle Model …
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Yearnings: Stories of Insecure Attachment and the Journey to Connect to God
… stories suggested that: I) one's struggle to connect with God was a part of their struggle to connect with others; 2) that experiencing others as safe and responsive contributed to building a more secure attachment with God; and 3) that attachment is less a fixed style and more of an ongoing …
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Design and Testing of a Quick-Connect Wheelchair Power Add-On Unit
A quick-connect wheelchair power add-on unit (PAU) has been developed at the Human Factors Engineering Center of Virginia Tech. The objective of the new invention is to provide an inexpensive, highly portable product which can quickly convert a manual wheelchair into a power-operated wheelchair. …
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Tap, Swipe, and Connect: Exploring Perceptions of Inclusivity Through Smartphone Design and Accessibility
<p>There has been an increasing importance placed on customization of products and desire for the product to allow the consumer to express themselves or fit into desired social groups with their product choices. Designing products to be inclusive can encompass these desires, as well as ensure that …
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Connecting For Success: Evaluating the Frequency of Check & Connect Meetings on Student Behavior
… continues to be a nationwide concern. Check & Connect is a student engagement intervention that aims to improve graduation rates and mitigate several risk factors of dropout. Previous research has failed to address if the frequency of Check & Connect meetings results in varied effectiveness of …
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Caregiver connect: a mobile application for stress tracking anddelivering support for dementia caregivers
The growing prevalence of dementia imposes escalating demands on caregivers, whofrequently experience severe emotional, social, and financial stresses. Most caregivers juggle their responsibilities with full-time work: more than one in five Americans (21.3 percent) are caregivers, with 70% …
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