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Showing 1 to 20 of 243 for “"creatures"”.
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Little creatures superbowl: la multiplicidad del tobogán
La siguiente tesis se basa en los juegos infantiles de uso público de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.
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Izzy and Aster's Guide to Cryptid Creatures
<p>Izzy and Aster’s Guide to Cryptid Creatures is a novel length work about two girls who have just graduated high school going on a road trip to investigate legendary cryptids such as the mothman and bigfoot. It is a LGBTQIA+ Young Adult contemporary rom-com that explores themes of found family, …
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Directing animated creatures through gesture and speech
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995.
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Sea creatures of the Southern deep : a novel
This dissertation consists of a short novel, Sea Creatures of the Southern Deep, accompanied by a preface. In the preface, I discuss some aspects of my own experience that have influenced the text. I also outline the development of the manuscript, illustrating the process of revision with excerpts …
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Old tricks, new dogs : ethology and interactive creatures
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.
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Towards adaptive and directable control of simulated creatures
… and for the communication of ideas. Active creatures, such as humans, robots, and animals, are often at the heart of such animation and are required to interact in compelling and lifelike ways with their virtual environment. Physical simulation handles such interaction correctly, with a …
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The virtual hippocampus : spatial common sense for synthetic creatures
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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Alternative Creatures for an Alternative Space: a Process of Evolution.
… The way these abstracted sculptures become creatures and the evolution thereof. It also explores the ways that concepts are altered in response to different media, evolving yet further.</p>
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The Dwelling of the Word: On Creatures as Signs of God
… in, and that such dwelling entails interpreting creatures as infinitely significant signs of God. To interpret creatures in this manner is, I contend, what it means to live faithfully as signs of God. However, our ability to dwell is hampered by sin, and I explore this through engagement with …
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The butterfly people, and their impacts on the creatures they love
Humans have been entranced by butterflies for thousands of years. This thesis parses apart the complex interactions between humans and butterflies, focusing specifically on people whose lifestyles are significantly intertwined with butterflies. On-site research observing butterfly collectors, …
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Observation-based expectation generation and response for behavior-based artificial creatures
This thesis seeks to address the incorporation of a low-level cognitive ability into reactive, behavior-based artificial intelligence architectures. Specifically, it addresses the need to generate short-term, observation-based expectations about the world and react appropriately to the violation of …
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Próffræðilegir eiginleikar íslenskrar þýðingar Creatures of Habit Scale og Habit Index of Negative Thinking
… Habit Index of Negative Thinking og Creatures of Habit Scale í íslenskri þýðingu. Báðir kvarðanir mæla vanabundna eiginleika, sá fyrri metur vanabundnar neikvæðar sjálfshugsanir og hinn síðari vanabundna eiginleika daglegra athafna sem einkennast af rútínu og sjálfvirkni. Eins var …
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Microdevelopment of co-construction of knowledge during problem solving : puzzled minds, weird creatures, and wuggles
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.
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Toward Creaturely Value: God's Inner Processive Life and the Intrinsic Value of Creatures in Thomas Aquinas
The intrinsic value of creatures is defensible on many accounts, though more rarely from a speculative, metaphysical, and theological perspective. In this thesis, I seek to establish and elaborate the connection between creaturely value and scholastic theology through the work of Thomas Aquinas. In …
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All Creatures Great and Small: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Function of Animals in Biblical Texts
This dissertation identifies and analyzes all 3,805 references to animals in the Bible and categorizes them according to their function. Proof texts can be used to justify either an anthropocentric or ecocentric perspective on animals, which is why this dissertation seeks to bring quantifiable data …
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Rational Creatures: Using Vector Space Models to Examine Independence in the Novels of Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson (1800–1820)
Recent trends in digital humanities have led to a proliferation of studies that apply ‘distant’ reading to textual data. There is an uneasy relationship between the increased use of computational methods and their application to literary studies. Much of the current literature has focused on the …
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"How Desperate Are You, That You Call on Such Lost Creatures to Defend You?": Exploring how the MCU Establishes and Challenges the Cinematic Archetypes of Masculinity of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
The field of superhero studies is a fast-growing and evolving one that has grown rapidly over the past decade although relatively little attention has been paid to the depiction of masculinity on screen within superhero films. This thesis proposes that established cinematic archetypes of …
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Cherubim and Seraphim : a textual and iconographic study
… within a specific timeframe, depicting composite creatures, are studied and analysed. Possible depictions of seraphim are identified, using information from the texts of the Hebrew Bible and through analogy with widely-accepted depictions of cherubim. The study contends that where cherubim were …
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The law's authority to implicitly inscribe the rhetoric of forgiveness through creatures of statute tasked with truth recovery, justice, peace and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda
This thesis presents a socio-legal approach of the rhetoric of law and the rhetoric of forgiveness in bodies legally mandated with reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda. Through a qualitative engagement with literature, the aim is to ascertain whether the law has the …
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