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Showing 1 to 20 of 1830 for “"gathering"”.
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Gathering as significance
The architect gathers his knowledge along the wandering path of life. He approaches a threshold and a new journey begins, a process of design into which he is gathered to embark on the task of touching peoples lives in hope that they may gather together. "One cannot be together with others in a …
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A gathering of water
The act of immersion is a powerful catalyst for the affirmation or transformation of identity. How we place ourselves in water expresses cultural valuations of our bodies, water, and social relations, as well as categories of place and time. This thesis proposes to regenerate the mikvah, or Jewish …
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Making a place of gathering
"Architecture exists because of man's desire to express meaning in the shaping of his environment, i.e., to express himself, his innate humanness in the making of built spaces that can accommodate the events of his life with ease and grace." David C.S. Polk makes this statement in his essay "The …
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Gathering Blue, Holding the Aqueous
This set of drawings and paintings is a means to explore building. The building is imbued with the qualities of elusive memories and images that have been rediscovered and reconsidered through making. The qualities are linked back to place, the place of a bath house and sailing club at Smith …
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Decentralised coordination of information gathering agents
… this view, each sensor becomes an information gathering agent. As a team, these agents can then direct their collective activity towards collecting information from their environment with the aim of providing<br/>accurate and up-to-date situational awareness.<br/><br/>Against this background, …
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Interactive physical agents for story gathering
… agent to facilitate interaction and documentary gathering within a ubiquitous media framework as a method for studying human dependent systems. We built a robot and sent it out to autonomously capture stories about its environment. The robot had a specific story capture goal and leveraged humans …
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Gathering Spaces: Designing Places for Adolescents
Research shows that adolescents use places in the natural environment much differently from the general population. Research also shows that, when asked, adolescents express environmental preferences that reflect these differences. These differences in use and preference reflect new design …
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Decision uncertainty minimization and autonomous information gathering
… to face limitations in the areas of information gathering and analysis. These limitations affect technologies that use autonomous agents, which are devices that can make routine decisions independent of operator instructions. Bandwidth and other communications limitation require that autonomous …
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Active Information Gathering Using Distributed Mobile Sensing Networks
… and surveillance. In some cases, information gathering turns into a multiple target tracking (MTT) problem. Usually, an MTT tracker is utilized to recursively estimate both the number of targets and the state of each target. In order to estimate more efficiently and reliably, sensors must …
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Learning of information gathering in modular intelligent systems
… a system level approach for the information gathering process and an implementation that puts this idea into work. The presented framework takes a modular systems approach where modules are defined as elementary processing units for information acquisition and processing. The modular system …
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“Gathering Thinglessness”: Samuel Beckett’s Essayistic Approach To Nothing
My dissertation, “Gathering Thinglessness”: Samuel Beckett’s Essayistic Approach to Nothing, responds to the dominant strand in Beckett criticism that figures the writer as a philosopher of “nothing” whether of Democritean, existentialist, or deconstructionist voids. In contrast, I argue that …
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An expert system assistant for gathering expert knowledge
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Corporate intelligence gathering : scanning for international business information
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1983.
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Essays on information gathering in principal-agent contracts
This dissertation is a collection of essays on principal-agent contracts under asymmetry of information. The papers investigate how the possibility of acquiring information influences contracts. The first essay analyzes the contract between a principal and an agent, when the principal can conduct …
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The Return of the Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering
… overlooked collection of poetry <em>Family Gathering </em>(2000), and how the poems operate within the mode of the grotesque. I argue that the poems illuminate both the southern grotesque and Roland Barthes’s theory of photography’s <em>Operator, Spectator, </em>and <em>Spectrum</em>. I …
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Extraction of arbitrarily moving arbitrary shapes by evidence gathering
… especially when phrased in terms of evidence gathering. As yet, the newer approaches to arbitrary shape extraction avoid discretisation affects but do not include motion. The moving-object evidence gathering approach has yet to include arbitrary shapes and can require high order description …
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Why are those computers sitting over there gathering dust
The purpose of this project was to create electronic books (E-books) for kindergartens to read during their center time. The E-books are intended for kindergarten teachers to use to help their students learn to read while utilizing the technology resources in their classroom. These E-books are …
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Why are those computers sitting over there gathering dust
The purpose of this project was to create electronic books (E-books) for kindergartens to read during their center time. The E-books are intended for kindergarten teachers to use to help their students learn to read while utilizing the technology resources in their classroom. These E-books are …
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Studies toward a design approach for public gathering facilities
… inter act with a variety of ceremonial public gathering events related to its curriculum, through the shared physical presence of its building facility. An existing music school is analyzed to provide a source for introductory design in formation. Concurrently, some similar buildings are …
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