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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"lantern"”.
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The Lantern and the Sword
… darkness battle for dominance. Light creates a Lantern to illuminate all reality and Darkness creates a Sword to help control the extent of the light. The god of light then creates a champion to lead his forces against his dark brother and the war intensifies. In his struggle the champion …
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Peripheral meanings : constructing a celebration of the Jamaica Plain Lantern Festival
… of this place and the annual Jamaica Plain Lantern Festival is a ritual that to me represents a rich celebration of community, life, place, time . .. My thesis explores this notion of the construction of meaning via a proposed architectural intervention that involves the cross-programming of …
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The Lantern: Patterns in Public Drinking Behavior in a Middle-Class Bar
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Two studies in Proust : the magic lantern and romantic analogues of the death of love
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1967.
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Structure of Sound
… that posses a strong sculptural language (3) The Lantern, a free standing lobby/box office, clad in wood and glass (4) Circulation towers that accommodate balcony seating. Studies of these elements went through many iterations resulting in over one hundred drawings. Progression of these drawings …
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The Enchanted Image: The Transforming Imagination of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Through Material Practice and Media Technology
… various forms such as book illustrations, magic lantern presentations, films and stop-motion animations. I argue that these mediations were influenced by contemporaneous material practices and media technologies, and that these mediations, in their various forms, reflected and influenced the …
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The isolation and characterization of a P. Angulosus homeobox
… levels in intestines, ovary and Aristotle's lantern. Two transcripts of size 5,2 and 5,7 kbp were observed. Expression in Aristotle's lantern and embryonic stages could not be detected by Northern analysis.
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CITE Suitability : an exploration of product evaluation methodologies for developing world technologies
… Both user groups ranked the importance of solar lantern characteristics similarly, with a Kendall's -r coefficient of 0.4545. Each method also had unique advantages, revealing different kinds of information on solar lantern performance. This suggests that it may be useful to employ both methods …
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Digital diorama
… on the project. These histories of the magic lantern, the panorama, and the diorama are investigated in relation to forming a context for creating an interactive environment with digital video on a personal computer. Critical theories of the late twentieth century are used to illustrate the …
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Classroom Photographic Journeys: Alfred Hugh Fisher and the British Empire's Development of Colonial-era Visual Education
… were used in this context for the production of lantern-slide lectures, dedicated for use in children’s geography lessons. In attending to Fisher’s production of visual materials for COVIC, the thesis, therefore, simultaneously reveals how COVIC modified its approach to the importance of …
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Optical Fibers for Space-Division Multiplexed Transmission and Networking
… the conventional splitter with a photonic lantern, upstream combining loss can be eliminated. Low crosstalk has been achieved by a customized mode-selective photonic lantern carefully coupled to the FMF. We have demonstrated the first few-mode GPON system with error-free performance over …
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Comparação interpopulacional de caracteres morfológicos e reprodutivos do ouriço-do-mar Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758) (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) em duas localidades do litoral do estado do Rio de Janeiro
… weight of the tests and length of Aristotle's lantern. The results of this study suggest that phenotypic plasticity and gene flow between these two populations of Arbacia lixula should be occurring. Studies on population genetics and ecology should be done before any commercial explotation of …
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Effectiveness of mustard short-cycle cover crops for management of Phytophthora capsici and Fusarium spp. in cucurbits
… crown infection of ‘Eureka’ cucumber, ‘Magic Lantern’ pumpkin, and ‘Dickinson’ pumpkin in the greenhouse. None of the ‘Eureka’ cucumber seedlings were infected by P. capsici. However, all of the ‘Magic Lantern’ pumpkin seedlings were infected. The FBL+Tilney and FBL extracts significantly …
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Life cycle assessment of off-grid lighting applications : kerosene vs. solar lanterns
… fuel subject to price volatility. Thus, solar lanterns are being introduced to developing markets, but incur their own energy and emissions intensity from more complex manufacturing processes and requirements. Life cycle assessments examine the energy required and the emissions released over …
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Mask and closet ; or, "Under the Hood" : metaphors and representations of homosexuality in American superhero comics after 1985
… DC Comics; and the character Terry Berg in Green Lantern, published by DC Comics.
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Immersed in Horror: A Study of the Historical and Contemporary Influences of Poe's Shadows
… team to imitate hand-cranked panoramas, magic lantern shows, and shadow plays, while also using sound effects and narration that combined elements of theatrical tradition and ghost shows. By studying the history of Poe's Shadows, as well as the reception of the installation, one can see how the …
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From Bradford Moor to Silver Dale. The life, work, and legacy of W. Riley, 1866-1961
… Director of the successful Bradford Optical Lantern Company, Riley Brothers and was also, for 75 years, a Methodist local preacher and an important layman within northern Methodism. He wrote 39 books, published many stories and articles, and was a busy lecturer. Riley located most of his 30 …
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Dynamic Analysis and Seismic Retrofit of the Point Sur Lighthouse
… first-order Fresnel lens was removed from the lantern room and placed in safekeeping due to its high risk of damage in the event of a strong earthquake. The lens has been approved to return to its original setting but the seismic performance of the building must first be assessed in order to …
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'Protective colouring' : the political commitment in the poetry of Seamus Heaney
… to "strike his own note" The parables of The Haw Lantern document a more realistic assessment of the political evolution in the North and of the poet's political influence. Heaney still advocates reconciliation and his metaphorical verse seems to be the most satisfactory way of responding to the …
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Katherine Mansfield and Visual Culture
… prior to or alongside it, from the magic lantern to photography, and the impact they had on literature as writers sought new forms of representation. Furthermore, I believe that I will be able to examine this shift in cultural consciousness in a unique way through my focus on Mansfield, an …
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