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Showing 1 to 20 of 225 for “"reinterpretation"”.
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Artwitter : the reinterpretation of social networks
Ant farm was a collective group of architects established in 1968 in San Francisco. Through critiquing the reversal of TV and automobile, Ant Farm reinterpreted television into Inflatable Architecture and Inflatocookbook, and reinterpreted automobiles into the Media Van and Truckstop Network. Ant …
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Reinterpretation of space in a networked community
One of the most significant reasons why architects dwell on the design of a space is because we believe that the physical environment will influence social and interpersonal relationships. Recognizing the limitations in the conventional design paradigms, this project brings the focus on the …
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The role of executive control in garden path reinterpretation
… sentences shown to induce noticeable degree of reinterpretation difficulty (the "garden path" sentences), this thesis examined the role of executive control, particularly ability to attend to relevant information and ignore salient but irrelevant information, in reinterpretation. To the extent …
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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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THE ROLE OF REINTERPRETATION IN THE REVISION OF IMPLICIT IMPRESSIONS
… can be updated when new information provides a reinterpretation of the basis of the initial negative impression, overturning the negative construal of earlier learning. In a first set of studies (1a-6), people who formed a negative implicit first impression of a new person based on seemingly bad …
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GENDER AND MENTAL HEALTH: AN ANALYSIS AND REINTERPRETATION (DEMORALIZATION, SOCIAL CLASS, FAMILY)
<p>Two research findings on sex roles and mental disorder have become a firm part of the knowledge base in the sociology of mental health and illness. The first of these is that, since around 1950, females consistently report higher overall rates of mental disorder than males. A second, related …
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Trace of Everyday Performance: A Contemporary Reinterpretation of the Ondol and Dot-Jari
This practice-based research investigates floor-based living, focusing upon the realm of Korean everyday life. My particular concern is with the relation of the body to domestic space through memorised rituals, such as cleaning, polishing and removing shoes. The thesis asks the question: how does …
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Kantian Relationality: A Reinterpretation of the Kantian Self through Feminist and Intersectional Discourses
This thesis examines the relationship of ‘remote discursive precursorship’ between feminist writing on selfhood and concepts relating to selfhood from the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Apart from providing a rereading of the Kantian subject from a feminist perspective, its aim is to …
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Reform from above, reinterpretation from below : state making and institutional change in Ghana
The dissertation engages a fundamental question in the social sciences: How do institutions change? The questions that drive this research include: How does institutional change occur, and how do varied forms of social organization within informal institutions influence institutional reforms in the …
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Architectural Emptiness: On a reinterpretation of the architectural implications of Heidegger's concept of dwelling.
This thesis reinterprets the architectural implications of Heidegger’s concept of dwelling. In particular it stresses the importance of the concept of poetry on dwelling that was outlined in ‘... Poetically Man Dwells ...’. This essay from Heidegger’s late period has been less frequently quoted in …
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Preserving a form : a reinterpretation of the New England farm for multi-family living
… but the overall form is to be recognizable as a reinterpretation of the existing vernacular form of the New England farm. The thesis presents a statement of dissatisfaction in the suburbanization of exurban areas. It suggests a design which respects the previous use of the land. References are …
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A reinterpretation of "sense of place" : a study of the Stone Town of Zanzibar
… tool that could be utilized to generate a reinterpretation of the 'sense of place' in a socially transformed urban fabric. The substance of this reinterpretation is directed towards establishing a premise for reinvigorating, by stressing continuity, a stagnant traditional environment …
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The stimulus specificity of the electrodermal recovery time : an examination and reinterpretation of the evidence
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Psychology, 1974
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The Transformation of The Rangatira: A Case of the European Reinterpretation of Rarotongan Social Organization
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A reinterpretation of the Yalta Conference with particular emphasis on the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt
We know that World War II did not bring the lasting peace everyone hoped and assumed it would bring. The United States, along with other Western powers, now finds itself in a seeming life and death struggle with the Soviet Union and its satellites, with both sides arming for another possible global …
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The plight of the humanists: a reinterpretation of the battle between the ancients and the moderns
Historians have traditionally viewed the controversy between the ancients and moderns within the narrow scope of the title. However, in the seventeenth century the issue of learning and knowledge was a significant issue in the controversy. By 1600, the humanists were well established in the …
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Science and the sacred : new technologies within new religions : a reaction to secularization and a reinterpretation of myth
This study is a social historical examination of the use of science and technology within new religious belief systems. The emphasis is placed upon the incorporation of scientific method, scientific findings, scientific theory, scientific terminology, and technological components within the …
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Tam Grecos Quam Latinos: A Reinterpretation of Structural Change in Eastern-Rite Monasticism in Medieval Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
In the eleventh and twelfth centuries southern Italy passed irrevocably out of Byzantine control and into Norman control, at roughly the same time as the Roman papacy and the Christians of the East were beginning to divide into what we now know as the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. …
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