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Showing 1 to 20 of 1024 for “"periphery"”.
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Past Periphery
Past Periphery examines a contemporary manifestation of the mammy archetype. The common threads between the works presented in the thesis exhibition are erasure, invisibility, and projection. The flattening of a person into icon is the equivalent of the One standing in for the Many. The One …
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Past Periphery
Past Periphery examines a contemporary manifestation of the mammy archetype. The common threads between the works presented in the thesis exhibition are erasure, invisibility, and projection. The flattening of a person into icon is the equivalent of the One standing in for the Many. The One …
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Exiled periphery
It was a city of unimaginable beauty, where diverse ecological landscapes and people converged to live in harmony. The spatial scenarios were diverse ; the lines separating one ecology from the next, one population group from the next, and urban from vast openness, was universal and apparent. It …
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Temporary Sojourns in the Periphery.
This thesis reports the findings of a qualitative research project on partners of international students in Lancaster, United Kingdom, a place selected as an example of the many peripheral university cities affected by the growth in international student migration. The experiences of these …
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Consolidated periphery : commercial and highway interchange
Highway expansion legislation has been a significant catalyst for suburban development. Initially funded for military mobilization in the 1930s , later massively extended in the 1950s, today's highway system, together with the service and information based economy of postindustrial development, …
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Ordovician corals of the Williston Basin periphery
<p> Tabulate and rugose corals are described from the Ordovician Red River) Stony Mountain, and Stonewall Formations in southern Manitoba and the Ordovician Bighorn Formation in northern Wyoming. Fifty-four species, 12 of which are new, are distributed in 20 genera. The Flower Model of coral …
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A BLENDED DISPLACEMENT; STORIES FROM THE PERIPHERY
<p><em>A Blended Displacement; Stories from the Periphery</em>, explores various forms and definitions of displacement through relationships, travel, and the sense of home. The thesis explores such subject matter as a creative work of mixed creative non-fiction and fiction. By engaging with …
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Engaging the periphery : integrating port and city
… interface between the city's core and its periphery therefore engaging the life of the city of the pulse of the people. With respect to this philosophy, this Thesis attempts to provide an interface between the city's core and its periphery.
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Guidance of Developing Motor Neurons into the Periphery
… nervous system and project to muscles in the periphery. The development of all MNs subtypes begins with Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling in the spinal cord and then progresses to increasingly specific guidance signaling systems. MN subtypes are classified by the combined activities of …
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How can Architecture and Urbanism work in a Periphery?
… has moved from the center of city to its periphery in a diluted manner. There exists the continuation of monotonous cityscape as by-product and leftover of architecture and urbanism. Herein lies the question: how to build a meaningful 'place' in a site where the sense of place is lost. …
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Tamám : trace, reinterpretation and the periphery of poetic translation.
This thesis consists of two parts: my main creative project, Tamám; four translations of the Chinese T’ang poet Yu Xuanji; and an accompanying critical commentary. Tamám is a present-day reimagining of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám consisting of one-hundred-and-one quatrains. It frames translation …
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Reclaiming the periphery: Kinetic perimetry in patients with glaucoma
… ~20% of the visual field. However, ignoring the periphery may sacrifice information on how patients are affected functionally. Peripheral vision is important for guiding attention, balance and mobility. An efficient standard automated examination for the peripheral visual field has not been …
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Center, periphery, and frontier – Tang Qi’s 1946 Chinese sonnets
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Staging frontier dynamics : interplay at the periphery of Manaus
… hybrid zones. In order to establish a new hybrid periphery growth model at the frontier which incorporates natural and built space, the project explores ecological, agrarian, and urban tools and proposes strategies of addition and subtraction, sharing and exchange in order to: connect and link …
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Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art
… Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art,” defines and contextualizes the distinctive regional contributions of Appalachian culture to American art production. To further diversify the range of art historical study, my dissertation proposes that from the mid …
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Responses to tourism development and governance in a core-periphery context.
… of Malta. Malta is situated on the southern periphery of Europe and although a member of the European Union it remains on the socio-economic and political margins. Gozo is both geographically and economically peripheral to Malta. This puts Gozo on the periphery of the periphery, and thus it …
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Unconquerable Monsters Of The Imperial Periphery: Early Dinosaur Fiction, 1864-1912
This thesis defines the term "dinosaur fiction" as narratives that feature living fossil reptiles in the modern world and looks to the emergent period of dinosaur fiction, 1864-1912, for patterns of representational practices and ideologies. An analysis of Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the …
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Ambiguous statistics - how a statistical encoding in the periphery affects perception
… understanding in human vision suggests that the periphery compresses visual information to a set of summary statistics. Some visual information is robust to this lossy compression, but others, like spatial location and phase are not perfectly represented, leading to ambiguous interpretations. …
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