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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"movement of time"”.
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Quiet till the bombs go off
This collection of stories discusses themes of identity, masculinity, and the movement of time, both conceptually and literally. Yet while these matters are frequently apparent throughout, the collection is at heart less a unified fictive front, and far more a representation of constantly shifting …
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A Study on Locally Persistent Time Series
While it is recognized that many economic time series are highly persistent over certain ranges, less persistent results are also found around very long horizons, indicating the existence of local or temporary persistency. Seeking to describe the dynamics of locally persistent processes, this …
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Sensing the Threshold
The sacred and the profane: a dichotomy that can only exist through the thresholds within. In a world that's drowning in the profane, we yearn for the ephemeral, in which our mind, body, and soul emerge out of the mundanity of day-to-day life, and into something beyond. We search for the art, seek …
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Lightness of Being and the Burden of Gravity
The challenge of the human condition is to bear the loss that comes with every second, moving forward, breathing without thinking; moving forward, through moments that pass so uneventfully that we will not recall them, along with moments that we experience so profoundly that we begin to use them as …
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Auspicious Generation: The Bamboo LIfe Cycle of a Chinese Cultural Center
… a material, but asking what the temporal nature of the material could mean for design. While bamboo is often considered sustainable because of its considerable growth rate, few really embrace the nature of bamboo. To exhibit this concept this project follows the line from source to destination, …
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Aktivitäts- und Herzfrequenz-Monitoring zur Erfassung der Bewegungszeit und der Bewegungsintensität im schulischen und außerschulischen Kontext von Grundschülern im Land Brandenburg
"Kinderwelt ist Bewegungswelt" (Schmidt, 1997, S. 156, zitiert nach Schmidt, Hartmann-Tews & Brettschneider, 2003, S. 31). Das kindliche Bewegungsverhalten hat sich bereits im Grundschulalter verändert, so dass sich Bewegungsaktivitäten von Kindern erheblich unterscheiden und keineswegs mehr …
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The “Presence of Movement” in the Works of Elizabeth Bowen
This thesis explores representations of space and movement and the relationship between them in Elizabeth Bowen’s work to examine how she registers the shifting material, social, cultural, and psychological landscapes of the twentieth century. The first chapter examines how a rhetoric of “overflow” …
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Shaping time light and movement : a modern rail station for Boston
After a century of neglect, due to investment in worldwide road construction and enlargements of airports, there is a renewed incentive to revive rail travel within the continental US. This motivation is derived from both the environmental benefits of the electric train as well as the ease of urban …