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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"perpetuity"”.
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Timely/timeless : temporality and perpetuity in architecture
In modern consumer culture where history and tradition are mere footnotes to the insatiable obsession for instant gratification, much of today's architecture profession has maintained its philosophy around past glory and heroism. Many of us continue to approach architecture with the conviction for …
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Time in the Landscape: Designing for Perpetuity
Landscape is dynamic. All the elements in the landscape are in a continual process of change. There is growth, expansion, weathering, disintegration, decay and renewal. Change is the very substance of things and it is through these changes that we register the passage of time. This thesis explores …
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Fountain in perpetuity: a historical examination of Islamic fountain design from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries and a contemporary interpretation
This thesis is an examination of the development of fountain design in the work of selected key Muslim engineers, covering the period from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries lt first introduces, translates and examines a previously undocumented fifteenth -century manuscript, Al-Riv. %a/r a! …
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Cosmic Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
… and providence led Platonists to affirm the perpetuity of the world, and those who thought the world would be annihilated (in 2nd–4th century AD texts) intentionally subverted these Platonic presuppositions. Turning to Hebrews, I argue it broadly shares the presuppositions which led …
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Responsible Design: Design Methods for Anthropocentric Sustainable Futures
… human generations may have equal opportunity in perpetuity is an anthropocentric pursuit. It requires intergenerational equity in everything we do, including how we design the products, systems, and companies we build and use. Responsible Design is a new methodology that helps provide the …
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Design investigation of the Lake Calumet Complex: improving water quality to regenerate local industrial, community, and ecosystem resources
… allow them to interact within the landscape in perpetuity. The resulting design strategy seeks to re-think the treatment of waste in the landscape into a new framework for future park design. This park will serve as grounds to interweave these complex systems in order to rehabilitate ecosystem …
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Privatization of transit in Yokohama : social and financial impacts
… a new framework and methodology based on the perpetuity valuation for financial impact analysis and quantifies the financial value of each option from the perspective of the City of Yokohama and its citizens.
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Encasing the American Dream: The Story of Plastic and Steel
… designed and promoted to appear “brand new” in perpetuity. Based on their significance as pervasive mid-twentieth-century building materials, as well as their broader social, cultural, and technological roles, this study focuses on porcelain enameled steel and high-pressure plastic laminate. In …
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Political Conspiracy in Napoleonic France
… his family would protect and serve the nation in perpetuity.
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Driving with the Dead: Stories of Loss, Journey, and Wonder
… finitude, we embrace ideas of boundlessness and perpetuity, and perceive ourselves as beings in constant motion, as<em> travelers</em>, in life as well as in death. We rely on metaphors of inner and outer journey to express life challenges and opportunities, and envision our deceased to be …
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Object-Oriented Implementation of the minimally restrictive liveness enforcing supervisory policy in a class of Petri nets
… enter into a state of suspended animation for perpetuity, while others proceed with no impediment. This report is about the automatic synthesis of Liveness Enforcing Supervisory Policies (LESPs) for Petri net models of DEDS systems. Past research has shown that the existence of an LESP in DEDS …
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To Produce and Persist: A Dialectical Investigation of Purpose in Commercial Stereophony
… for accumulation by capitalists, and to do so in perpetuity.
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Hierarchical supervisory control of complex Petri nets
… into a state of suspended animation for all perpetuity, and the user is left with no other option than to forcibly kill the suspended job, or reboot the machine. This thesis is about finding supervisory control policies that enforce livelock-freedom in large complex systems that are modeled …
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Repurposing of mine waste: an alternative management approach to gold tailings in South Africa
… To remove these potential pollution risks in perpetuity, non-conventional approaches to mine waste management are required which avoid land disposal of “unwanted” material. This dissertation explores the opportunities, drivers and barriers for the re-purposing of gold tailings in South Africa. …
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The doctrine of piercing the corporate veil in South Africa: an analysis of the South African approach with lessons from the Canadian jurisprudence
… As a separate legal person the company exists in perpetuity despite changes in ownership structure. This makes commercial sense, because ‘the primary purpose for the doctrine of separate legal personality is to encourage entrepreneurship, by shifting the risks of business failure away from …
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National parking
… aside by-passed land to remain wilderness in perpetuity, simulating the Frontier and thereby allowing Americans to renew themselves as they had before." The RV, a hybrid between vehicle and architecture, has evolved as an exceedingly popular apparatus for this American pursuit of renewal. …
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A Pre-Feasibility Assessment of Geologic CO₂ Storage, Offshore Corpus Christi
… store the CO2 in deep geological formations in perpetuity. The Gulf of Mexico is a region of interest for CCS development, as it contains laterally extensive reservoir-seal systems comprising Miocene sands with high porosity and permeability that are overlain by low permeability shale. Because …
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) sorption to Na-rich montmorillonite at Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) P-T conditions in saline formations
… change by storing CO2 in geologic formations in perpetuity. At PT conditions relevant to CCUS, CO2 is less dense than the pre-existing brine in the formation, and the more buoyant CO2 will migrate to the top of the formation where it will be in contact with cap rock. A typical cap rock is …
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Buyouts as resiliency planning in New York City after Hurricane Sandy
… bought through their program as open space in perpetuity. The state was able to promise former residents that their land would become a buffer for inland areas, increasing resilience along this vulnerable coastline. I analyze the success of the state program in achieving this goal by assessing …
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Duality of Ground: Re-envisioning Space of Death in New York City
… and its profound notion of impermanence and perpetuity. Cemeteries, nonetheless, reveal as much about the living as they do about the dead. Today, their relevance has been challenged by the spatial constraints and the ever-changing perception of cultural and religious discourses and practices …
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