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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"da vinci"”.
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DaVinci
DaVinci is an opera about the life of Leonardo da Vinci as told through four different characters, each representing a specific aspect of daVinci's personality. Bambino is the young dreamer, a boy of 8-10 years of age, curious and unsure of himself. Mona Lisa represents the artistic side of …
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O desenho botânico como forma de expressão artística na obra de Margaret Mee
… is exemplified in such artists like Leonardo da Vinci and the romantic naturalists and poets like Humboldt and Goethe. From this view, the work of Margaret Mee is a case study about illustrations of vegetable species as a knowledge's way to botany which is joined to a sensible expression of …
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"A Journey from the Mind to the Soul" Museum of the Human Body
… philosophies as well as the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in searching for the 'sensus communis' as the location of the soul within the body.
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The Uses of Applied Theatre
… and personal experiences working with the VCU da Vinci Center as examples, this paper demonstrates ways that underlying theatre concepts are used to teach communication skills. Additionally, this paper argues that there are many advantages for using theatre professors to teach communication …
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Explorações virtuais
… visou desenvolver uma aplicação de realidade virtual interativa com objetivos pedagógicos e de divulgação sobre a vida e obra de Leonardo Da Vinci, um marco fundamental na história das técnicas e da tecnologia, que contribuísse para motivar os estudantes no sentido da aprendizagem da …
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An Internet based multimedia infrastructure for collaborative engineering
… distributed design teams. Most of today's internet based collaborative applications allow people that are geographically dispersed to meet with each other using their computers and work together without actually having to travel. A prototype system was developed by taking two tactical …
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Picturing the Writing Woman: The Representation of Three Early Vernacular Female Poets in Fifteenth-Century Italy
… (1427-1482), painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio in c.1475; Ginevra de’ Benci (1457-c.1520), painted by Leonardo da Vinci in c.1475; and Cecilia Gallerani (1473-1536), painted by Leonardo da Vinci in c.1490. Significantly, their portraits have all been recognised as innovative in the way the …
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Feasibility study of Leonardo da Vinci's bridge proposal over the Golden Horn in Istanbul
… of a masonry arch bridge proposed by Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519). Leonardo wrote a proposal in 1502-1503 for a masonry bridge spanning over the Golden Horn in present-day Istanbul, Turkey. The design was a response to an invitation by the Sultan Bayezid II (1447-1512) to construct a bridge …
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The European art and Canadiana collections of Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951)
… Madonna of the Yarnwinder attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Collected between 1909 and 1948, the paintings were purchased primarily from a few well-known dealers in London, New York and Paris who were to add considerably to the quality of Reford's collection. His taste, therefore, is representative …
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Nature's engineering : a blueprint for efficient aircraft design
… flight of birds inspired engineers like Leonard da Vinci and Wilbur and Orville Wright to design aircraft that mimic the behavior they observed. The success of the Wright brothers' first controllable aircraft ushered in an era of rapid advances in aviation technology leading to the airplanes of …
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Religious experience of the destined human being
… life and humanity as a whole. They are Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, and, as an exception to some things which have been said, Pablo Picasso. It is hoped that this research demonstrates that these people understand humanity and …
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Dynamic friction: measurement and results
… has been known as a phenomenon since Leonardo da Vinci era. From that time and through the last four centuries, scientists tried to understand this phenomenon in an effort to overcome its undesired side effects which include energy loss, parts wearing, and errors in control systems. Much has …
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The Trattato della pittura (Treatise of painting) by Leonardo da Vinci : a study of the English editions explaining their origins and development and comparing their structure and differences, with particular reference to the first English edition (1721), analysing its relationship to the other English editions, and defining the philosophy and significance of this Treatise
Three aspects are covered: * The origins of the Treatise, how it evolved from Leonardo's Notes, leading up to the various printed editions with their variations. *The early English editions of the Treatise, with a comparison of their differences, and their development from the first edition. How …
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Hydroelastic excitation of cylinders.
… a periodic wake pattern was made by Leonardo Da Vinci, who observed and sketched the process of lternate periodic vortex shedding from a bluff body to form the staggered vortex trail in its wake. It is unlikely that prior to the nineteenth century many structural failures occurred due to …
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Leading Edge
… I would spend hours working in the shop with my dad on airplanes and learning the specific structures that made up all sorts of different aircrafts. As I grew older I became fascinated with the history of aviation and where the idea of flight came from. It was this passion and knowledge that led …
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Approaches to Artistic Style Suppression: An Evaluation Framework for Copyright Compliance in Generative Artificial Intelligence
… artistic styles learned from training data. Parameter-based machine unlearning methods address these concerns by modifying model weights to reduce learned associations, but their computational requirements make them impractical in resource-constrained environments. This thesis …
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The Pleasure of the Senses: The Art of Sensation in Shelley’s Poetics of Sensibility
… imagery, or poetics of sensibility. To elucidate Shelley’s concept of sensibility which links his poetry to its ethical and aesthetic concerns, I combine close textual readings of Shelley’s imagery of the senses with his intellectual and cultural inheritance from the ‘Age of Sensibility’ …
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Digitally-Controlled Deep Brain Stimulation Lead Implant System
… and depression (Mayberg, et al. 2005). The <em>da Vinci® Surgical System</em> developed by Intuitive Surgical<em>®</em> has shown that providing surgeons with digital control of an advanced robotic surgical assistance device to be highly advantageous, however there has been minimal effort to …
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Robotic Cholecystectomy versus Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Single institution experience in Korea
… surgery with new port sites using the da Vinci system by comparing the surgical outcomes of robotic and conventional laparoscopic cholecystectomy in inflammatory gallbladder disease patients. Recently, the robotic cholecystectomy has become an attempt at multiple hospitals, but …
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