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 361 for “"iconic"”.
-
Iconic authentication methods
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2000.
-
An iconic approach to parallel design
… operating system as an example to model with the iconic technique. The hardware configuration for the system is presented to provide further basis for design. The routines are developed and then combined into a system which represents a trivial application using one communication link between two …
-
Friedrich Schlegel and the Romantic Iconic Turn
… the medieval devotional image and the Byzantine iconic tradition in German Romanticism. Tracing the contours and political implications of a Romantic iconic turn in the aesthetics of Friedrich Schlegel and the painting of Caspar David Friedrich, my dissertation concentrates on a countermovement …
-
Coverbal iconic gesture in human-computer interaction
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.
-
Anointing as the Iconic Interruption of the Loving God
… the sacrament of anointing as an experience of iconic interruption of the loving God within the context of the suffering, vulnerability, and dying of a member of the Christian community. </p><p> Liessjen, writing on a postmodern understanding of the sacrament of anointing , has proposed an …
-
Some Effects of Different Masking Stimuli on Iconic Storage
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:01:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6901457.pdf: 1253265 bytes, checksum: be734e0420d618ee7780bfbcef975ec6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
-
Pictorial Primates: A Search for Iconic Abilities in Great Apes
Pictures and other iconic media are used extensively in psychological experiments on nonhuman primate perception, categorisation, etc. They are also used in everyday interaction with primates, and as pure entertainment. But in what ways do primates understand iconic artefacts? What implications do …
-
Detail Outward: How to Add to an Iconic Modern Building
This thesis explores how to design an addition to a modern building that makes the building users cognizant of the layers of history while simultaneously creating spaces that respond to the needs of the occupants today. The existing building, the Washington D.C. Central Library, designed by Mies …
-
Matron, Ruin and New Mineral: A Thesis of Iconic Materiality
… informs us. Along with trying to understand the iconic elements of Architecture, this thesis is also an investigation in its materiality. It is an exercise in trying to understand what confronting the materiality of an artifice reveals. It is an attempt to define architecture by man's endeavour …
-
Global Iconic Events: How News Stories Travel Through Time, Space and Media
… I developed a theoretical concept of "global iconic events." I define global iconic events as news events that are covered extensively and remembered ritually by international media. I suggest five narrative aspects to consider in connection with them: (1) their narrative prerequisites; (2) …
-
Conserving the iconic and highly threatened mahseer fishes of South and Southeast Asia.
… assessment. The mahseers (Tor spp.) represent an iconic group of large-bodied cyprinid fishes found throughout the fast-flowing rivers of South and Southeast Asia. Due to the considerable religious, cultural and recreational significance of these fishes, and the anthropogenic pressures they face, …
-
GDI: (Goal Directed Interface): An intelligent, iconic, object-oriented interface for office systems
… programming techniques, (3) creates an iconic visual representation consisting of persons, things, and processes that closely mimics the user's 'mental model' of the office world, (4) requires that the user's own 'person icon' be present for all interactions so that actions appear to …
-
PlusShorts : using punctuation as an iconic system for describing and augmenting video structure
… movie sequences. This system introduces an iconic language, consisting of punctuation symbols, for annotating, sharing and interpreting conceptual ideas about cinematic structure. The PlusShorts application presents individual movie sequences as elements within an evolving cinematic …
-
Iconic Memory and Aging: Effects of Stimulus Duration, Stimulus Contrast, and Inter-Stimulus Interval
… speed and visual ability, rather than changes in iconic memory, may be responsible for age differences in partial report performance.
-
Speaking Out of the Dust: Religious Reenactments with the Specific Iconic Identity of Place
Sometimes, the place where a play is performed is as important as or more important than the play itself. The first known theatrical rituals were performed in spaces which came to hold deep religious significance. Many religious traditions regard certain places as sacred because of spiritually …
-
An Iconic Comparison of Photographs and the Live Television Screen in Visual Diagnostic Ability
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T21:25:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7000875.pdf: 1692597 bytes, checksum: 83f27d42680742a00890c8cc69cf2c37 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
-
Iconic Images, Visual Appropriations, and Public Culture: Negotiating the Rhetorical Challenges of the USDA Food Pyramids
… and the 2005 MyPyramid, to explore how these iconic images negotiate the competing interests of the food industry, nutritionists, and the general public. As icons circulate, they become subjected to various forms of appropriation which includes copying, imitating, and satirizing the original …
-
Some People Call Them Dolls: Capturing the Iconic Power of the Female Form in Non-ferrous Metals.
<p>The artist discusses her Master of Fine Arts exhibition at East Tennessee State University, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee, October 28-November 8, 2002. Her exhibition was a personal narrative of her southern upbringing in small town Appalachia as well as a reflection of her inner …
Page 1 of 19