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Urban figure
This thesis examines role of the mega-scale urban figure, specifically its appropriateness within contemporary cities. Since Rem Koolhaas's 1993 essay, "Bigness or the Problem of Large," the concept of mega-scale urban intervention has been a prominent issue both in architectural theory and …
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Grounded Figure: A Winery
The nature of figure-ground relationships and their potential for use as a tool for architectural composition was investigated through the design of a winery. Included in the winery were facilities accomodating both the production and consumption of wine. These programmatic elements were used as …
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A Series of Figure Drawings
… the purpose of this study to create a series of figure drawings by means of experimentation with various materials and techniques, with a brief study on artists and their need and potential to delve in fantasies and mystical realms, just as the candidate will do in certain stages of development.
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Pseudoholomorphic quilts with figure eight singularity
… construction is pseudoholomorphic quilts with figure eight singularity. In the first part, I propose a blueprint for constructing an algebraic object that binds together the Fukaya categories of many different symplectic manifolds. I call this object the "symplectic A[infinity]-2-category …
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Early Sport Engagement in Elite Figure Skaters
… histories to understand the development of elite figure skaters. Utilizing elements of the Exposure to Sport Scale, data were collected from 23 elite figure skaters across Canada in both Junior and Senior levels of competition. Results showed high variability in our small sample size and revealed …
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A Possible Ehecatl Figure from West Mexico
… from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston: a dancing figure with a complex zoomorphic headdress. Late Pre-Classic Colima, the figure's culture of origin, is poorly understood due to its severely compromised archaeological record. Based on a comprehensive iconographic analysis, the MFAH figure is …
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The Figure and Environmental Forms in Jewelry
… conceived as small sculpture, using the human figure in relation to environmental form. The review of literature pertinent to the study consisted of a presentation of the visual and philosophical content in the work of Rico Lebrun and Ernest Trova, and an analysis of the work of the candidate …
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Predicting Reading Readiness from Human Figure Drawings
<p>This study was undertaken specifically to aid the Arlington Elementary School in Tacoma, Washington. The expressed need of this school was to find a best predictor of the readiness of kindergarten age children to begin formal reading programs. It was hoped that an adequate yet easily …
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Capturing the human figure through a wall
… RF-Capture, a system that captures the human figure - i.e., a coarse skeleton - through a wall. RF-Capture tracks the 3D positions of a person's limbs and body parts even when the person is fully occluded from its sensor, and does so without placing any markers on the subject's body. In …
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Modelling Bipedal Locomotion Using Wavelets for Figure Animation
… for creating realistic animation of articulated figures. The realism obtained is difficult to achieve by other animation approaches. As motion capture supplies only sets of unstructured points representing joint trajectories, all information concerning the motion and the individual …
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Body Agents: Deploying a New Figure for Design
… absence stems from a Modernist aversion to the figure, which has been absorbed by contemporary design. It contributes to a diminished embodied imagination and a diminished ability to address a lived embodiment and situated subjectivity in architecture, particularly in representations and …
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The Investigation of Figure-Ground Relationships in Painting
The thesis problem involved the investigation of figure-ground relationships in painting. This study dealt with varying experiments in space, color relationships, the juxtaposition of form, and value relationships. The media used were those common to oil, watercolor and drawing. The investigation …
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The Michael Figure in the Book of Daniel
<p>Problem. In the book of Daniel, The Michael figure, although mentioned only three times, occupies a prominent position in history and at the eschaton as the heavenly guardian prince of Israel. The Michael problem, although complex, may be understood as basically twofold: Who is Michael? What is …
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Chaucer's Poetic Treatment of the Figure of Mars
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Figure Extraction from Scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The ability to extract figures and tables from scientific documents can solve key use-cases such as their semantic parsing, summarization, or indexing. Although a few methods have been developed to extract figures and tables from scientific documents, their performance on scanned counterparts is …
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La figure transgressive du pli dans le corps-territoire
Résumé de la thèse L'objectif de ce mémoire est de répondre, à la suite de Spinoza et Deleuze, à la question " qu'est-ce que peut un corps? ". Il s'agit dans un premier temps d'explorer les liens entre le corps, le pouvoir et le politique. Tenter de comprendre comment le corps est formalisé par le …
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