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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"passage of time"”.
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EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF TIME AND REPETITION ON RECENT AND REMOTE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY RETRIEVAL USING fMRI
Repetition and the passage of time influence the consolidation of long-term episodic memories. The experiments presented here have explored the influence of repetition on recent and remote autobiographical memories both behaviorally with regard to qualitative and quantitative measures of content, …
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Place in Time: The Role of Architecture in Establishing an Emotional Connection between Man and Time
This thesis explores the role of architecture as a means of reconnecting humans to the passage of time. A neglect of the temporal in our built environment obscures understanding of the human condition in all of its sensory aspects. The exploration and design of a series of ritual engagements, both …
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Storied objects: design thinking with time
The traditional approach to the design of everyday objects is articulated by form and function. This thesis aims to model an approach to design thinking that extends the praxis of form and function to include the expression of time. Designing objects to explicitly express the passage of time …
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Light interaction
In the heart of a park, a path spirals up a hill. Follow it and the trees part to reveal a building halfway up. Its thick, rough walls are pulled apart at moments, allowing light and movement into the space. The path leads between the walls. The narrow passage continues in a counter-clockwise …
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Time-Space: Constructing Meaning Through Temporal Phenomena
This thesis is an examination of the significance of time and temporal phenomena in the conception and construction of the built environment. It began as a question regarding the aging and life-span of contemporary buildings, in contrast with those that have at present survived long enough to earn …
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Legend, and Other Stories
… all likelihood, be viewed as conventional. They often deviate from a standard fictional methods, and at times they depart from traditional grammar and punctuation. Their various forms, however, do not represent an attempt to escape from the story-telling process. Rather, they represent an attempt …
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Human Theatre
Human Theatre III's photography series of juxtaposition of space is a confluence of ideas and a group of loose practices. It does not have a single point of origin, a clear meaning, or a linear narrative: Instead, it uses a series of fragmented metaphors and metonymy phrases to solve the problem of …
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Passages
The term passages, evokes the French term for landscapes, paysages. These poems are concerned with mapping: alternately marking new trails and finding paths through forests, bodies of water and cityscapes: places both familiar and unknown. As a whole, these Passages explore a personal vision of the …
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A Study Of Collaborative Skills Of Graduates Of A National, Faith-Based, Leadership Development Program
<p>Collaboration is often cited as a long-term benefit of participation in leadership development programs. Successful collaboration requires unique leadership skills, which rely on trust and influence rather than authority and position. Collaboration takes place over the passage of time. …
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Connections: Material Time & Place
… an important role in our everyday life. A work of architecture is inevitably a series of connections between objects, people, and places. This study is an exploration into the idea of strengthening the connections to a place, and perhaps it is possible to give the visitor a heightened awareness …
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Four houses in a row
… a memory long thought lost, mark and signal the passage of time, inspire us to do great things, and provide us with warmth and security even for a short while. Architecture can play host to our dreams. It is the role of the architect to create fragmentary places that stand as enclaves, as pockets …
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Moments of perfection : a study of natural lighting in the Church of Santo Spirito
… is put into context through the exploration of religious light symbolism and the explanation of the dependence on the solar path to measure the passage of time. Through systematic observation of the light distribution through out the year "moments of perfection" are identified. These are the …
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Conditional distributions arising from variation of parameters in non-linear response functions
This paper proposed the idea that the growth of an individual organism follows a mathematical model very closely and that different individuals follow different members of the same parametric family of models. This idea implies that the variation observed between individuals measured at the same …
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From cohabitation to marriage: couples' perceptions of the transition stage II of the family life cycle
… common in the United States. Approximately half of the persons currently in their 30s cohabit prior to marriage and more than half of all recent marriages were preceded by cohabitation between those marrying. Through the use of in-depth interviews I studied the transition between this new form of …
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Neural activity in the posterior thalamus and hippocampus during time interval discrimination in rats
… have developed different mechanisms to quantify time over a wide range of durations, from microseconds to daily circadian rhythms. Interval timing, which refers to timing in the range of seconds-to-minutes durations, is a prerequisite for numerous daily behaviors, including the perception and …
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Analysis of Mammoth Cave Pre-Park Communities
Before the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park, this area was home to numerous communities, each with a sense of identity. To prepare for the creation of the National Park, all residents living within these communities were relocated, and many of these communities were lost to the passage of …
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Topographies of Memory
… work gives physical form to the ephemeral sense of memory. Memories shift and fade as life passes. The subtle and constant changes in the atmosphere give visual form to the passage of time. The time I spend working is marked by each stitch, each knot, each repetitive act of my hands. I construct …
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Accumulation: embroidery palimpsests
… to preserve. Through the gradual accretion of fibrous material over extended periods of time, I produce stratified composite structures which serve as metaphors for material cultural advancement and highlight the role of decoration in examining the past, particularly its ability to mark an …
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Part and Parcel: An Essential Component of Experience
In order to give voice to the understanding of my individuality, I create work as a memoir through visual symbolism. My hope is that as I revisit these parts of my life I am able to reflect on and release negative fragments. I choose to create work visually emphasizing the extremes of life using …
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In Flux
<p>This thesis explores my practice of non-representational, mixed media painting as a way to consider the passage of time and the shifting nature of memory. Working in layers of paper, pigment, paint, and other materials, I build and disrupt surfaces that mirror the instability of short-term …
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