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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"heaviness"”.
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A chapel in Back Bay : heaviness and lightness
… on the design development of the chapel alone. Heaviness and lightness are the inspiration for this thesis. I have come to understand the words less in terms of their conventional meanings and more of a dialogue between ranges of architectural forms which complement one another. An experience of …
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Cross-sensory correspondences : cross-activation of connotative feature dimensions through the felt heaviness of lifted objects
… evidence to suggest that a dimension denoting heaviness may be included among a set of aligned feature dimension, the evidence to demonstrate this is limited. The present work explores whether heaviness, as received through the lifting of weighted objects, may enter into this scheme of …
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Frozen tension
… building full of tension—It does not have the heaviness or the profound stillness found in some other structures. Instead, it conveys a sense of dynamism and sharp angularity. Notably, its slanted roof inclines upward, evoking a defiance of gravity, which I find both powerful and aggressive. …
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Exœrcising a Haunted City
… exposure to closure, and lightness to heaviness. Designed to evade institutional surveillance, these clandestine transformations preserve solidarity and identity not by emphasizing the significance of priests exorcising in rituals, but by highlighting the quotidian motor memories …
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The Relationship Between Religiosity and Tobacco Use in a Mexican Spanish Speaking Sample in the United States
… use characteristics including completing the Heaviness of Smoking Index (HSI; Heatherton et al., 1991). Results showed that tobacco users who identified as religious had higher interest in quitting (<em>M</em> = 5.94, <em>SD</em> = 2.39) than those who did not (<em>M</em> = 5.05, <em>SD</em> = …
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Seeking sanctum, a space for healing
… materials to explore solidity and transparency, heaviness, and lightness. Protective thresholds frame and enclose spaces, giving way to openness. Grounded programme is contrasted by the lifting of the most private spaces. More broadly the juxtaposition between public and very private is also …
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Factors which can affect the preferences of the elderly for hand pruners
… to many of the participants because of by its heaviness and the design of its handles while the ratchet pruner was resisted because of the multiple squeezes needed for proper use. Recommendations for choosing pruners and other hand tools were made along with suggestions for further …
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Innately American, Black America’s Inheritance: A Rhetorical Analysis of Black Death & Identity
… me for years after his death. The thickness, the heaviness of his death and the causes behind it are what interest me. The relationship between Black people in America and police has been tumultuous, gruesome, and counterproductive to progress of communities. Black identity and the Black body have …
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Kilea and a critical, reflective essay on Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader and To The Lighthouse, James Joyce's Ulysses and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
… of fate imbue the characters of the novel with a heaviness and fatality regardless of their gender. This is compared with Kilea, in which I wished to leave open a sense of possibility, in terms of the turns of plot, the physical qualities of the landscape and the presence, or imagined presence of …
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A phenomenological study of clients’ experiences of ‘lightness’ and ‘aliveness’ in psychotherapy within the context of Vajrayana cross-cultural therapeutic practices.
… These were 1) freedom from the experience of heaviness as pain 2) freedom as independence 3) a sense of the opening up of possibilities 4) the integration of freedom and possibility into one’s life 5) pathways to lightness and aliveness. This study concludes that exploring the phenomena of …
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Pelvic floor dysfunction in female triathletes
… but those who had symptoms mostly experienced heaviness or dullness in the pelvic area (33.3%), pressure in the lower abdomen (31.3%) and a need for vaginal/rectal digitation in order to have or complete a bowel movement (25%). It was noteworthy to find that the nulliparous triathletes had more …
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A play : Between me and you
… shoulders I can take time to think about its heaviness. I think about the way it feels on my body, then my body slowly slouches. However, the problem of language and the way we use it is that we don't take the time to think about things. I mean the very literal visuals that a metaphor provides …
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Topological effects in particle physics phenomenology
… of the fermion mass problem, such as the heaviness of the third family. We then turn to global anomalies, which we analyse using the Dai-Freed theorem. Our principal tool here is to compute the bordism groups of the classifying spaces of various Lie groups, preserving particular spin …
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Advocating Silence
The buildings people inhabit everyday frame their existence and provide a backdrop for life. This relationship is inextricable and, as such, begs the question as to whether buildings can function as more than mere containers for life or whether they, at some point or in some capacity, can begin to …
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Improving smoking cessation for vulnerable populations in low-resourced settings
… use dependence (n = 150; 75%) measured by the heaviness of smoking index (HSI). Participants reported moderate motivation to quit with a median motivation to quit score of 7 (IQR: 6, 8), and 122 (61%) participants reported a quit attempt in the past year, of which 92 (75%) tried quitting …