Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 239 for “"icon"”.
-
The Relief Icon in Byzantium
This dissertation examines Byzantine relief icons from the ninth to the fifteenth century, challenging the prevailing scholarly emphasis on panel-painted sacred images. While Byzantine icons are often equated with painting, the material record reveals a rich corpus of relief imagery fashioned from …
-
CONTROL MECHANISMS FOR GENERATORS IN ICON
… of the generator-based control structures in Icon and to introduce several novel control structures based upon generator evaluation. Co-expressions are introduced as the expression-level equivalent of coroutines, and combined with generators to provide a powerful programming facility. Finally, …
-
Depicting Orthodoxy: The Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered
The Novgorod icon of Divine Wisdom is a great innovation of fifteenth-century Russian art. It represents the winged female Sophia flanked by the Theotokos and John the Baptist. Although the icon has a contemporaneous commentary and it exercised a profound influence on Russian cultural history …
-
ICoN: Immersive Computational Notebook for Data Science
… complex, the traditional WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers) interface faces limitations in supporting advanced, embodied workflows. To address this, we initially adapted the computational notebook into the immersive environment to leverage the embodiment and immersiveness provided by …
-
Jeep Nation: Wilderness Ideology and the American Icon
… offers reasoning behind consumption of the iconic Jeep Wrangler.</p> <p>Individuals have become so far removed from nature that one of the avenues in which to return is through consumption. The concepts of both wilderness and nature have become loaded with socially constructed meanings, many …
-
James Jamerson: From Jazz Bassist to Popular Music Icon
No abstract prepared.
-
Lei Feng: China's Evolving Cultural Icon, 1960s to the Present
In 1962, very few people within the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) had ever heard of Lei Feng, a young soldier who died in a tragic accident while driving a truck for the People's Liberation Army. The following year, his name was known throughout China as one of the finest young soldiers that the …
-
Mediterranean Myth: from a colonial paradigm into a branding icon.
… its visual culture and branding disclosed the iconic Mediterranean, which brands involve in the creation of identity myths. Also, we discovered the mistakes that we should avoid when handling designs related to the Mediterranean concept. Contribution: Our findings enrich the theoretical …
-
End-to-end testing of the Leksell Gamma Knife Icon system
The Leksell Gamma Knife Icon is a stereotactic radiosurgery system that is used to non-invasively treat brain lesions. It incorporates 192 fixed cobalt-60 sources, which ensures the highest degree of accuracy during treatment due to the minimization of potential error from stationary sources. The …
-
Inventing George Whitefield: Celebrity and the making of a religious icon
… of his publishing campaign meant that he reached iconic status, his every move seemingly documented in newspapers and pamphlets around Great Britain and its American dominions.</p><p>Owing to Whitefield's successful use of the trans-Atlantic public print networks and his itinerant preaching, …
-
icon : an exploration into learning across distances with a wearable device
… shoulder-worn wearable communication device 'icon' and a set of tools 'iconHub' and 'iconView' that try to facilitate learning across distances between people, while offering a eyes-free and hands-free experience.
-
The ICoN integrated communication and navigation protocol for underwater acoustic networks
… underwater acoustic environment. We then present ICoN, a proposed network protocol, designed to integrate acoustic communication and navigation and optimized to operate in the low-bandwidth, high-loss underwater environment. A working description of ICoN and a discussion of its features are …
-
Icon + expectation : exploring the evolution of the American single family home
… the mechanisms that have created this revered icon. Since the industrial revolution, the commercial packaging of the home has continually reinforced its significance as a mass-produced object. From clothing to automobiles, little in our environment escapes considerations of mass-market …
-
Canonizing Le Corbusier: The Making of an Architectural Icon as Colonial Hegemony
In 2016, it was announced that iconic Franco-Swiss modern architect, Le Corbusier, and his nearly complete oeuvre of seventeen buildings, would be enshrined on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s World Heritage List. With this notable decision, Le …
-
The gallant six hundred: performing the Light Brigade into a heroic icon
… lodged in the British cultural ethos as an icon of heroic and national identity. The dissertation focuses on various types of dissemination: public records, newspaper articles, published personal journals, paintings and lithographs, music, and theatrical entertainments. The written document …
-
Shadow of the Vampire: Understanding the Transformations of an Icon in Popular Culture
… that should provoke fear and repulsion is now an icon of popular culture?" Use of Joseph Campbell’s theories of mythology and culture alongside the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung presents one explanation for the vampire’s shift from monster to dark hero.
Page 1 of 12