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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"curtain"”.
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As the Curtain Falls
… architects have embraced the efficiencies of the curtain wall. As a technological solution that mediates between our interior desires and the realities of the outside world, these envelope systems have been liberally applied to buildings across the globe. Regardless of longitude and latitude, …
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Cut off by the 'Iron Curtain'
Poland - like other Eastern and Central European countries - was for many years politically, socially and culturally cut off from the Western Europe. Did this have an impact on the representation of Polish cinema in English-language film criticism? Judging by the number of books about Polish cinema …
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Behind the curtain: composing acousmatic sounds and 3D CGI
This commentary details the methods and ideas involved in creating a portfolio of audiovisual works that form a practice-based PhD completed at De Montfort University. The overall aim of this research project is to explore possible ways of combining acousmatic sounds with three-dimensional …
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VDC framework proposal for curtain wall construction process optimization
… and non-structural elements. Among these are the curtain wall systems. The curtain walls are glazed elements that can cover the building façade entirely and provide thermal and enclosure properties. Despite its use worldwide, some challenges have been identified in the construction process related …
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Songs from behind the curtain, an opera in three acts
Songs from Behind the Curtain is the story of Pascal Baur, a damaged composer in 1980's Hartford, who, as the musical director of the Hartford Opera Company, is encoding Soviet messages into his operas. Within the operas he writes, the audience gets an understanding as to what past events (the …
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Glass curtain wall and anchorage system response under blast loading
… to be incorporated into all construction. Glass curtain walls (CW), widely used in administrative and commercial buildings, offer an aesthetic and lightweight solution. They transfer lateral loads to the main structure, comprised of vertical and horizontal aluminum mullions. Laminated glass (LG) …
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Man Behind The Curtain: The 2004 Election from a Historical Perspective
The 2004 election was a very contentious display of modern democracy. It illustrated that political candidates market themselves as though they were products to be bought from a store. By utilizing newspaper articles, autobiographies, and various other sources, this study seeks to show several …
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Improvement of glass curtain wall connections subjected to quasistatic and dynamic loading
… integrity of buildings. Currently, glass curtain wall (CW) systems are widely used as façade solutions in government, educational, medical, and commercial structures. However, advancements in manufactured and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have resulted in a rise in explosive …
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High performance curtain wall mullion section design with various densities of gyroid
… a global lead in sustainable building design. Curtain wall fagade systems are widely used for recent high-rise buildings, and the thermal bridge issue occurs mainly within the aluminum frame of the curtain wall system. In addition to the thermal bridging effects, the conventional curtain wall …
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Computational Modeling of Glass Curtain Wall Systems to Support Fragility Curve Development
… to natural hazards. Since architectural glass curtain walls (CW) have become a popular façade type, it is important to understand how these CW systems behave under extreme loading, including the relationship between damage states and loading conditions. This study subjects 3D computational …
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Pulling back the curtain: Modeling the motivational process underlying the contemporary engagement concept
… of this model was to essentially “pull back the curtain” on the engagement concept to reveal the motivation mechanism underlying the process. Engagement was more precisely defined in this research as job engagement, a state of active motivation to perform in one’s job, characterized by an ongoing …
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Raising the curtain on mathematics identity: The drama of transition to secondary school
Many people reach adulthood having been denied access to positive mathematics learning experiences. At some point during their schooling they seem to have developed a mathematics identity of failure, helplessness or fear. This study aimed to better understand how this happens by focusing on …
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Pulling back the curtain : revealing the production of performance in the Hawaiian Islands
Harbors throughout the Hawaiian Islands serve as the dating a growing commercial cruise ship industry, foreign activity. They are also increasingly sites of controversy structures restrict local access and use of harbor areas man scale. This thesis proposes a platform for performance that ... …
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The People behind the Curtain: A Proposed Succession Planning Model for University-Wide Research Institutes
Public universities and their university-wide research institutes constantly search for ways to evolve to stay relevant and "marketable" in an ever-changing environment. The scholarly literature shows that the majority of higher educational institutes do not participate in succession planning, …
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The other side of the curtain: The power and the potential of performance in public spaces
This research study develops a greater understanding of alternative opportunities for performance majors extending beyond traditional theatre venues. The emphasis of this study is the use and application of environmental entertainment. The study examines and synthesizes the skill set, as defined by …
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Behind the Curtain: An examination of dyslexic students’ responses to feedback on their written summative assignments
There has been an increase in the number of dyslexic students, in higher education with the necessity for better training and understanding by lecturers to accommodate their needs. Any adjustment and intervention seem to, however, concentrate on the medical definition of dyslexia, rather than the …
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Influence of initial turbulence intensity on the heat and moisture transfer through a recirculated air curtain
<p>"An air curtain is a directed jet of air separating a controlled space from an environment of different temperature and humidity. This investigation describes the development and verification of an eddy viscosity model which accounts for the influence of the initial turbulence intensity on the …
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From Behind the Curtain: Liudmila Petrushevskaia's Gender and Age Character Types in Late Soviet and Post -Soviet Contexts
A final chapter analyzes Petrushevskaia's post-Soviet fairy tales, in particular her Wild Animal Fairy Tales and Adventures of Barbie collections. Read within the context of the fall of communism and the rising influence of Western consumer culture, these tales reveal a process in which traditional …
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