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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"object theory"”.
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Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice
Fallen things is an exhibition of sculptural objects and accompanying text that investigates how the overlapping motifs of veil-wound-womb can articulate fragility and the erotic in sculptural practice. This research draws from Christian iconographic traditions of the contact relic and vera icon, …
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Connectibles : tangible social networking
… of social network application rooted in physical objects and real world social behavior. This research is inspired by social signaling and object theory, which together suggest that gifts act as physical symbols and constructors of social relationships. The Connectibles system leverages these …
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Object lessons: technologies of education in British literature, 1762-1851
… understanding of self-development in literature, Object Lessons: Technologies of Education in British Literature: 1762-1851, examines Romantic-era and Victorian writers who represent education as an embodied experience, with learning and literacy grounded in what they called “object learning” or …
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Mobile Phone Adoption in Rural Ghana: Understanding How Technologies and Platforms Influence Farming Business Activities
… Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Boundary Object theory. At the empirical level, it draws on two farming groups in the Kwahu district – a remote area of rural Ghana. For the study, 24 farmers were interviewed, 12 each from Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) farmers groups and ESOKO …
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Pedagogical Practices: Triggering and Sustaining Students’ Interest and Engagement in Bhutanese Science Lessons
… approach, and drew on Krapp’s Person-Object Theory of Interest (POI) and Action of Interest (AOI) framework to explore how students’ interest and engagement in science are accomplished through pedagogical practices in Bhutanese classrooms. A qualitative approach was taken, valuing …
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The Neural Representation of Polysemy: The Case of Dot-objects
… for instance "book" can refer to both a physical object (as in "a torn book") and the abstract content (as in "an interesting book"). How is the meaning of such concepts represented in the brain? In this thesis, we address this question in the light of Pustejovsky’s dot-object hypothesis …