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Showing 1 to 20 of 424 for “"enclosure"”.
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Enclosure
This thesis proposes an urban hybrid within the historical district of downtown San Francisco. The design develops a new typ of urban housing introducing the architectural concept of the house to the highrise.
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Building Enclosure
Enclosure is usually understood by architects as a material system that creates a distinct thermodynamic atmosphere. The past century of Modernism reified the façade as the dominant architectural element of enclosure. In the Anthropocene, an expanded understanding of enclosure redraws the boundary …
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Enclosure and improvement: an investigation into the motives for parliamentary enclosure
… the variety of motives for parliamentary enclosure. Its aim is not to determine their importance or frequency, except in general terms, because the detailed research of all the acts where suitable sources survive is beyond the scope of a single doctoral thesis. The, aim is rather to show …
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Simulation to access exterior enclosure innovations
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Compression and release, enclosure and transparency
A philosophical standpoint that directly informs the design method: concern to invoke genius loci, to make a specific place, to give appropriate expression to architectural form. There is an attempt to remain in touch with what, in another age, would be described as romantic: the emotional appeal …
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Boiling and condensation in a liquid-filled enclosure,
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1971.
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A Thermal Enclosure Prototype For A Suspended Inertial Sensor
… air current. I have designed and built a thermal enclosure for the suspended sensor to minimize the effect of the air current, and reduce the ambient temperature variations. The theoretical model of the enclosure, as well as the experimental measurements are presented in this study. The results …
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From enclosure to embrace : punitive isolation and network culture
Cultural theorists such as Henry Jenkins¹, Lawrence Lessig², Yochai Benkler³ , Robert Hassan⁴, and Manuel Castells⁵, have written extensively on the role of network communications technologies in reconfiguring contemporary culture. While the penetration of the "information society" is now …
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Recovering the wall : enclosure, ethics and the American landscape
… the marking of territory: for an ethics of enclosure in the modern landscape.
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Optimal Design of an Enclosure for a Portable Generator
… determine the feasibility of producing such an enclosure for a generator. Several engineering aspects are incorporated in the design of the enclosure. The first, and probably the most paramount, are the acoustical effects of the enclosure itself. The investigation follows the theories for …
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Tangram treemaps : an enclosure geometrical partitioning method with various shapes
… or process sessions. Although the traditional enclosure (or space-filling) tree approach can guarantee the maximization of space utilization in an isolated session display (that commonly occupies a single rectangular geometrical area), they however do not consider the maximization of display …
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Utopia And Commons: Enclosure And Blank Slate In The Americas
… dystopian; and contemporary debates over the enclosure of immaterial property and labor that, in turn, posit cyberspace as a new utopia and decry new enclosures of that immaterial realm. Chapter 1 pairs two contemporary dystopian post-apocalyptic novels from Argentina- Plop and El año del …
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Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution
This dissertation addresses the emergence and proliferation of plays about convents, a French revolutionary subgenre based on the representation of monastic costume, setting, and characters. In the Old Regime, the theatrical representation of Roman Catholic clerics and garb was prohibited from the …
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The use of transpiration in a precision temperature-controlled enclosure
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1984
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Experimental and theoretical study of convective instability in an enclosure.
Thesis (Sc.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1979.
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Design of an ultraportable surgical enclosure for low resource environments
… SurgiBox consists of a clear, disposable plastic enclosure that is adhered to the patient's surgical site and inflated with filtered air. Long gloves, similar those used in a glovebox, are integrated into the enclosure and used by the medical personnel to perform the surgery. Surgical instruments …
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An investigation of sound transmission irregularity in a one dimensional enclosure
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 1949
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Design and analysis of a battery pack enclosure for Formula SAE
… thesis documents the design and analysis of the enclosure for the high voltage battery pack which powers the Model Year 2017 MIT Formula SAE racecar. The battery pack is custom designed and built with six modules of 144 Samsung INR18650-25R lithium-ion cells each. Each component of the enclosure …
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Natural convection heat transfer from a horizontal disk in a cylindrical enclosure
… in the center and surrounded by a cylindrical enclosure. The test section was designed to insure a one dimensional heat flux. Measurements were taken with power inputs varying from 25 to 5 watts. Fluid depth had a definite effect on the heat transfer. An apparent maximum value existed at a …
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