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Showing 1 to 20 of 11659 for “"living"”.
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Covenantal Ethics: A Living System for Living Systems
<p>Covenantal ethics is a living system for living systems. We humans are not simple, isolated individuals living stagnant, dead lives. Rather we are immersed in a complex system of living, glowing and developing interpersonal relationships with others. Philosophy in general and ethics in …
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Living large : an alternative model for urban living
A house once symbolized the American dream-frequently clustered in tight rows and cul-de-sacs, the single-family dwelling not only represented financial success but stability and hope for the future. However, as recent generations have come to face more and more economic difficulties, a house has, …
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Living differently
… centralised authorities who devise systems for living (eg: food supply, energy sources) that are not necessarily in keeping with sustainable processes. South Africa is facing a severe energy crisis and the current solution to this problem is to build more energy plants that are heavily dependent …
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LIVING TINY
Living Tiny is a thesis that explores the role of architecture as a tool for designing both the built environment as well as the social realm of living. In a rapidly urbanizing world, the current pattern of city development results in unwanted isolation, expensive housing prices, and unsustainable …
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Living apart together
… a small nocturnal primate from Madagascar living in dispersed pairs. First, I characterise their social organization, focusing on behavioural mechanisms of cohesion between pair partners. Second, through application of van Schaik's ecological model, I investigate predictions about the …
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Living Storied Lives
Philosophy should help guide our lives. After all, the central question of ethics, one of philosophy’s central fields, is “How ought one to live?” Yet, philosophy’s answers are inadequate, not because they are illegitimate, but because they are incomplete, pressingly so. I believe that by and large …
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Living cationic polymerization
… Reactions at 0 °C and -15 °C have shown that a "living" polymerization could be obtained at low temperatures. A method was derived to study the kinetics of a "living" polymerization by following the increase in degree of polymerization with time. Polymerizations of styrene were conducted using …
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A Living Vehicle
A living vehicle sets forth the ability for a lifestyle not of a static place, but as part of the interstate system built into the American landscape. A living vehicle provides the ability to craft a lifestyle around mobility, and will support the situation of living on the road for extended …
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Rethinking Vertical Living
I have always been fascinated by vertical living, especially in the dense Urban context. I wonder how families become neighbors and create a sense of neighborhood when under a single roof in a multifamily/ multi storied housing complex. Whereas the building also serves the various amenities to its …
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Life, Living, & Space
… and finally a house. We can say, therefore, "a living room" originates from an independent life and is created for a person. Man cannot and does not live alone. Human interactions help develop the spatial relationship among rooms in a house, and among houses in a community. Social relations, …
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Ambient assisted living deployment aims to empower people living with dementia (AnAbEL)
Ambient Assisted Living aims to support the wellbeing of people with special needs by offering assistive solutions. Those systems focused on dementia claim to increase the autonomy of people living with dementia by monitoring their activities. Thus, topics such as Activity Recognition related to …
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LIVING ON THE EDGE
… historic fishing communities are not simply “living on the edge,” but inhabiting strategically vital thresholds where culture, economy, and geography converge. Their resilience depends not on withdrawal from coastal conditions but on reimagining how architecture can mediate between …
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Projects for the Living
… my MFA dance thesis project, Projects for the Living, including insights into the inception, research phase, choreographic process, design, collaborations, and final performances. Additionally, this document provides a look into the lasting questions this project has brought up for me, as well …
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Living collections in museums.
… thesis focuses on the uniquely dynamic nature of living collections in museums. Emphasis will be placed on the interaction between the living collection and the staff members directly responsible for their care. An historical account of living collections in museums will be given as well as an …
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