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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"expansiveness"”.
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Expansiveness and Security Through Materials and Design
… core of the structure supplements the idea of expansiveness by extending up and out to the gathering area on the roof where everyone can congregate and enjoy the outside view of the City of Roanoke. In my travels and staying in youth hostels throughout Europe, a high level of security wasnâ t …
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Surveys
… western landscape. The perceived lawlessness and expansiveness of the American west is at odds with the desire to frame and compress. By superimposing a grid onto the images I choose, I act to literally "lay down the law," and confine and delineate the sense of expansiveness. The works in my …
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Characterization of Problematic Red Clay Soils in Arkansas for the Purpose of Onsite Wastewater System Placement
… of this study were to: i) confirm the non-expansiveness and reducibility of select soils in the Ozark Highlands that meet the criteria for the red-soil exception for determining soil suitability for on-site wastewater system placement, and ii) compare the expansiveness and reducibility of …
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Uniting States: Narration, Space, and Nation in Four Nineteenth-Century American Travel Novels
… in the picaresque's geographic scope, formal expansiveness, and textual fluidity a metaphor for a spatially expanding and socially fluid nation, and the models of narrative and national authority that emerge in their novels signal the local's increasingly diminished reputation in the nation's …
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Place In The Middle Landscape
… of a democratic society coupled with the vast expansiveness of the American landscape have led to settlement patterns within the urban environment that are distinctively American and non-traditional. The continual tension between principles of collective majority rule and rights of individual …
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A Human-Centered Framework for Oncological Healthcare System Modeling Applied to Mobile Radiation Delivery
… is challenging due to the complexity, geographic expansiveness, inertial properties, and the heterogeneous sub-systems, with varying vested interests. Additionally, humans comprise many of the forms and functions, and are independent, with resistance and uncertainty in their decision-making that …
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Toiminnan muutos ja ekspansiivisen oppimien mahdollisuus : tutkimus Verohallinnon monitilaympäristön käyttöönotosta
… conceptions three learning visions of varying expansiveness could be identified. The weak learning vision describes the change of the work environment merely as the change of physical space. The enabling learning vision means that the change of the work environment has spontaneously influenced …
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Sonifying Hamlet
… digital inquiry that is commensurate with the expansiveness of what is thinkable and expressible in human discourse.</p>
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The possible impact of the organisation on the effectiveness of workplace learning
… and Unwin (2003, 2004, 2006) in relation to the expansiveness and restrictiveness of the organisation with regard to workplace learning and Eraut (2004, 2007) in relation to informal learning in the workplace. Literature examining the relationship between organisational and individual learning is …
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How Power and Powerlessness Corrupt
… of power mediated the link between postural expansiveness and dishonesty. In an observational field study, Chapter 5 revealed that automobiles with more expansive driver's seats were more likely to be illegally parked on New York City streets. The second part of the dissertation examines if …
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Cloud village: a novel
… a sense of inclusiveness, proliferation, expansiveness and syncretism.
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Relational Transformation through Dialogue: Conflict mediation in a secondary school in the UK
… cases. As for student’s actions, openness and expansiveness appeared most frequently in Relational-Transformation cases, and attacking and defiance appeared most frequently in Conflict-not-transformed cases. Resolution-Only cases lie between these two categories. These findings suggest that …
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Accentual counterpoint and metrical narrative in the music of Brahms
… of accentual counterpoint, dubbed metrical expansiveness, and examines the interaction of this effect with form and narrative.
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Analyzing the effects of product architecture on technical communication in product development organizations
… differential attraction, and differential expansiveness of both components and teams. Findings in this research are complemented with the results of another empirical study focused on the effects of distance and communication media use in geographically distributed development …
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Haunted Homelands: The Ghosts of Partition in Pakistan, India and Palestine
… uncontainable, allows us to think through the expansiveness of these Partitions' contemporary impacts. Haunted Homelands uses literature to widen the discourse of comparative Partition studies, situating the subjective, intimate and imaginative alongside the political and national, showing how …
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Advancing architecture optimizations with Bespoke Analysis and Machine Learning
… anew for each new architecture. Given the expansiveness of the architectural parameter space, this is not feasible. To overcome this barrier, we developed a generic symbolic simulation tool that can handle any design, technology, or architecture, making it possible to explore …
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"Cerulean Skies" by Maria Schneider: A Formal and Semiotic Analysis
… minutes. “Cerulean Skies” is distinct in its expansiveness and unusual form, making it an appropriate case study for the inquiry into expressive meaning in Schneider’s style.</p> <p>In the chapter one, interviews from various points in Maria Schneider’s career are considered in order to …
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Designing Provably Convergent Algorithms from the Geometry of Data
… to have useful properties such as convexity, non-expansiveness, monotonicity and invertibility. In this dissertation, we develop algorithms in the context of optimisation and sampling, leveraging the expressive strengths of machine learning while maintaining theoretical interpretations. First …
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'Lyric realism' to 'Epic consciousness' : poetic subjectivity in the work of Edward Dorn
… The first half is concerned with Dorn's push for expansiveness in his poetry and his attempts to achieve, what he calls, a "condition of the simultaneous." The second half of the chapter however, locates in this collection, a poetics of melancholy and isolation that is more in keeping with his …
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Engaging in creative tasks: An inquiry into implications for donation behavior and significance of behavioral intentions
… donation behavior, manifests as social and moral expansiveness that in turn leads to higher monetary donation. Further, I find that such effect of creative engagement on monetary donation holds only when the creative task is divergent in nature. When the creative task is convergent in nature, the …
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