Global ETD Search
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Showing 1 to 20 of 5352 for “"looking"”.
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Looking Forward, Looking Back, Looking Inward: Lessons from Vital Women Leaders in Old Age
Current social paradigms, based on established theory about the aged, consider old age as a time of drastic decline and deterioration and view the aged as nonproductive takers of society's resources. Far from using the wisdom and resources of the aged population, our society marginalizes old adults …
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Looking at windows
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1977.
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Where are they looking?
… gaze of other people to identify what they are looking at. Following eye gaze, or gaze-following, is an important ability that allows us to understand what other people are thinking, the actions they are performing, and even predict what they might do next. Despite the importance of this topic, …
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The Looking and the Seeming
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The Looking and the Seeming
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Learning through looking and listening
In order to read emotions, understand actions or anticipate intentions, humans need efficient ways of gathering information about each other. In particular, gaze and speech are rich sources of information about other peoples' thoughts. This thesis investigates these modes. In the first part of the …
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Looking through the Cracked Looking Glass: Masculinity, Gaelic Sports and Revolutionary Thought in Ireland, 1884-1920
<p>This thesis will observe Foucauldian trends in Irish revolutionary history. Michel Foucault is a French social theorist who discerned the power dynamic in specific relationships. Foucault studied specific institutions such as prisons and insane asylums to view the relationship of power that …
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No One is Looking For You
The poems in this manuscript explore the emotional landscape of an emotionally repressed speaker to explore opposing themes of isolation and connection; self-denial and self discovery; and rage and hope. It is perpetually nighttime for this speaker, and the poems often take place in surrealist, …
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Forward-looking bidders in sequential auctions
… Buyers can therefore benefit from forward-looking bidding strategies that take into account the available information about future auctions. This dissertation develops a model of such bidding, provides both experimental and econometric evidence of the model's relevance to behavior, and …
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Looking back and looking forward: the Silver Studio Collection as heritage asset and educational resource, 1968-2018
The focus of this thesis is the Silver Studio Collection, a body of material that originated as the working contents of a commercial design studio and which is now the focal collection of the Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA), at Middlesex University. The Silver Studio opened in 1880 …
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Looking Back on Creating a COVID Telemedicine
BACKGROUND: In March 2020, the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex experienced a surge in acute COVID-19 infections. At that time, no consistent protocols existed for follow-up of discharged patients with COVID-19 from the William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital at the University of Texas …
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A Forward-Looking Conceptualization of Information Privacy
<p>Privacy is a fluid and ever-evolving concept, studied across multiple fields and with numerous definitions. Privacy research in information systems (IS) is extensive yet has not traveled far beyond the IS realm and fully engaged in the broader conversations being had with regards to privacy. …
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Studies in cardiomyopathy: looking beyond the familiar
Background: Little is known about the mechanisms, clinical characteristics, natural history and outcomes of cardiomyopathy amongst Africans. Familial aggregation of cardiomyopathy has not been studied systematically in an African setting. Further, it is not clear whether the various phenotypic …
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Getting lost and looking for a landscape
… searching for ways of inviting this condition. Looking for a Landscape, my final work at MIT, takes as its site an ordinary object from an urban space. The work is about exposing what we do not see in our everyday lives to provide an opening for participation and dialogue through the creation of …
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Looking for Johnny: A Play in Two Acts
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Through The Looking Glass: Transparency in the WTO
This thesis discusses transparency as a principle in the World Trade Organization. Transparency is used in many contexts within the organization in order to describe phenomena ranging from Agreement provisions to soft law or general principle and from the obligation of member states to publish …
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