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Showing 1 to 20 of 1591 for “"illuminate"”.
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Illuminate
… we could see our movement? This thesis presents, Illuminate, an interactive art installation in which the movements of a person through open space are visually augmented and brought to life in front of them in real-time through custom interactive visualization software. Seamlessly merging physical …
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The use of small molecules to illuminate vascular development
Development of the vascular system is a multifactorial process. Its proper establishment has a big impact on life. Not only is this process essential for organismal growth but abnormal blood vessel formation leads to several pathologies. In some cases the disease itself triggers changes to the …
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Marine carbohydrate-active enzymes illuminate microbial ecology, evolution, and carbonate precipitation
… promise discoveries with the potential to illuminate the evolutionary history of microbes—both as preserved in rock record and in the genomes of modern organisms.
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Designing Socio-Technical Systems to Illuminate Possibilities for a Vulnerable Population
How might computer scientists work with communities in facilitating meaningful social change? In this project, we make a case for an approach that builds upon what the individuals and community already have---their assets---rather than emphasizing "user's needs" as typically postulated by …
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Use of Kinase Inhibitors to Illuminate Signaling Pathways in Breast Cancer
… analysis by mass spectrometry, we intend to illuminate the different cellular responses to both treatment types. The results indicate that the single drug treatment targeting Her-2 appears to increase processes related cellular repair, while the multi-drug treatment indicates an increase in …
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Nonclassical Mechanisms to Inhibit β-Hematin Crystallization Illuminate the Cooperative Action of Antimalarials
Malaria parasites survive within red blood cells by converting toxic heme, released during hemoglobin digestion, into inert hemozoin crystals. Because disruption of this detoxification pathway is a major route of parasite killing, understanding how these crystals form and how drugs interfere with …
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Exploring Performance Ethnography to illuminate mobile banking Capabilities in Western Kenya: Capability Approach Study
… in evidencing how Performance Ethnography illuminates dimensions of concerns within a Capability Approach study and as research tool it provokes the interviewer and the interviewee to self examination and reflection, seen thus, the performance becomes vehicle for moving persons, subjects, …
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Engineering and deploying FRET-based biosensors to illuminate cellular phytohormone dynamics coordinating environmental stress responses
Synthesised in plants in small quantities, phytohormones are naturally occurring chemical messengers that play critical roles in regulating plant growth and development as well as triggering responses to external stimuli. The precise regulation of phytohormone biosynthesis, catabolism and transport …
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Developing cuprous oxide thin film characterization techniques to illuminate efficiency-limiting mechanisms in photovoltaic applications
Future fossil fuel scarcity and environmental degradation have demonstrated the need for renewable, low-carbon sources of energy to power an increasingly industrialized world. Solar energy, with its extraordinary resource base, is one of the most feasible long-term options for satisfying energy …
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A phallic play: Examining 5<sup>th</sup> century cultural references to illuminate aristophanes' appeal for peace to a modern audience
<p>Aristophanes’ <em>Lysistrata</em> is a popular work for contemporary production. Written in 411 BCE, the work explores what happens when the females of Athens participate in a sex strike in order to coerce the males to end the Peloponnesian War. By exploring cultural references to symbols in …
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A qualitative case study deconstructing teachers' decisions in the pre-active stage of teaching to illuminate considerations made for teaching 21st-century skills and knowledge
The purpose of this heuristic case study was to develop a deeper understanding of how middle-level teachers in one Midwestern middle school account for teaching 21st-century skills and knowledge, within the context of a standardized curriculum. This study seeks to obtain descriptive information for …
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Student nurse perceptions : a case study to illuminate the perceptions developed by student nurses which result in absenteeism as the behaviour of choice in response to difficulties in their educational programme
The problem which prompted the undertaking of this study was that of increasing absenteeism amongst student nurses at one South African Nursing College. The information, obtained from individual and group interviews, was analysed to identify the perceptions developed by student nurses. Absenteeism …
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Do Elinor Ostroms principles of successful institutions illuminate the challenges to participation in groundwater governance in South Africa? What limits are there to using Ostrom's principles to analyse groundwater governance challenged in South Africa?
Elinor Ostrom's research has opened up a field of study into locally developed institutions for commons governance and has successfully disproved the notion that it is impossible for individuals to address collective problems cooperatively (Ostrom, 1993:110). South Africa has a semi-arid country …
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Illuminating triangles, quadrilaterals and convex polygons with vertex floodlights.
… Geometry. First we introduce a theorem to illuminate every triangle with three p6 vertex-floodlights and we provide three proofs. Secondly we show that three p4 vertex-floodlights suffice to illuminate every quadrilateral. Finally we provide a theorem for illuminating a cocircular convex …
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Illuminating the Trauma of the Closet Among Sexual Minorities: A Cinematic-Phenomenological Study of Existential Rights
… interpretation, and a short film called “Illuminate” which cinematically brings to life the closeted lifeworld. To produce this film, I developed an innovative research method called “cinematic-phenomenology.” As a researcher, I conducted phenomenological research interviews with five …
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Towards a Language Acquisition Pedagogy of Performance
… (1973/2008) Theatre of the Oppressed, it aims to illuminate the benefits of an integrative performance approach. I bring these two disparate frameworks together in a way that is integrative, innovative, and inclusive for diverse student communities. Two major contributions of this thesis are (a) …
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Self-Creation, Community, and Autonomy: theLiberation of Richard Rorty'S Philosophy of Self As Imagined by Absalom, Absalom!
… account of Rorty's theory of the self, I will illuminate shortcomings in his conception of the relationship between the self and community by engaging with the work of John Brenkman. I will then complicate both Rorty's theory, and my Brenkmanian critique of Rorty through a reading of …
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Green building : concept and practice
… audit and to assess greenbuildings. It seeks to illuminate the breadth and foci ofthe current received wisdom in this area of interest.Green buildings are defined in terms of the broader greencriteria and also criteria particular to buildings.Initially political and economic definitions …
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