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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"seeing-in"”.
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More seeing in learning
Recently, creativity has received increased attention for educational programs from primary to tertiary levels. This research examines the intricacies of the creative process to understand what creativity is and how an educational environment can nurture creative learning through seeing and doing. …
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Principles, opportunism and seeing in design : a computational approach
This thesis introduces elements of a theory of design activity and a computational framework for developing design systems. The theory stresses the opportunistic nature of designing and the complementary roles of focus and distraction, the interdependence of evaluation and generation, the …
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Experience and Pictorial Representation: Wollheim's Seeing-in and Merleau-Ponty's Perceptual Phenomenology
Contemporary aesthetics includes a project directed at understanding the nature of pictorial representation. Three types of theories enjoy recent favor. One explains pictorial representation by way of resemblance or experienced resemblance between the picture and what it represents. A second …
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Visual Descriptors: A Design Tool for Visual Impact Analysis
… analysis of the visual impact of building development in rural areas. Its contribution is fourfold. Firstly, a conceptual model has been developed for the process of seeing in the context of visual impact analysis. Secondly, a mathematical model for a consistent series of visual …
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DESIGN OF AN OPTICAL GROUND STATION FOR SPACE-BASED QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION
Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides information-theoretic security built on the ‘No Cloning’ Theorem and recent efforts have demonstrated that space-based QKD may be established with acceptable link loss. Meanwhile, on the ground, a network of optical ground station (OGS) is necessary to …
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A Search for Low-Amplitude Variability Among Population I Main Sequence Stars
The detection of variable stars in open clusters is an essential component of testing stellar structure and evolution theories. The ability to detect low-amplitude variability among cluster members is directly related to the quality of the photometric results. Point Spread Function (PSF) fitting is …
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Building the spectacle : breaking the wall : project for a civic sports precinct at Trafalgar Park, Cape Town
… research and design speculation. The report defines the subject of the project and is the first part of the dissertation. The subject can be divided into the two major themes of: historically defensive territory and voyeurism or peoples' desire for publicness. The project is initiated through …
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Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Labor and Burnout of Clinical Nurse
… research study is to understand and determine emotional intelligence, emotional labor and burnout of clinical nurses and to identify the relationships among them and then the usablity of emotional intelligence in nursing organizations. Population of the study is a 201 women of nurses and …
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The athletic training clinical experience: A phenomenological study
… was to understand how students experience the clinical component of their preparation and the phenomenon of integration. Integration is the application of scientific content knowledge into a setting that reflects the real world of practice. Within the athletic training literature, this concept of …
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Where is my geography, where is your geography.
… lives of three immigrant women who are seeking to be settled in Ireland. The connection between thinking and living with the prospect of space and self are seeing in the paper in dialectical division of self and space, which space is verified in geographical manner. Analysis of texts …
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Utilizing Pre-education Assessment and a Targeted Education Module to Enhance Nurse Knowledge of Standard and Transmissible Precautions
… patient safety and prevent healthcare acquired infections by improving nurses’ knowledge of infection prevention practices. A second practical benefit was creating a pilot for an RN education program.</p> <p>I propose that the reason compliance with hand hygiene is low at any facility can be …
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Microscopy and Modernist Fiction from Hardy to Beckett
… writers – D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett – registered shock experiences of the microscopic in prose fiction. Focusing on microscopes and the unfamiliar microworlds they reveal, I illustrate ways in which optical instruments had the capacity to change, …
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Anishinaabe giikeedaasiwin – Indigenous knowledge: an exploration of resilience
There is a need to explore how Indigenous knowledge(s) relates to Anishinaabe ongoing resilience. I do this by telling the story of my home and privileging Anishinaabe Gikeedaasiwin, which means Anishinaabe knowledge. This study investigates socio-cultural knowledge(s) of the Lake Nipigon and Lake …
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
Ralph Waldo Emerson's publication of Nature in 1836 began a process of creating a new condition of American thinking, severed from European cultural and intellectual influences. The subsequent lectures The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address furthered this process, calling for an …
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Acts of interpretation: An exploration of the role 'played' or 'performed' by the audience in the process of viewing as it affects the production of meaning and interpretation
… of both the 'active audience' and the artist within the viewing of live art'. This 'active audience' is described as one who can become sufficiently involved within the process of interpretation so as to understand their own place within that process, to the point of appreciating that they …
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Fiction, Imagination, Videogames, and Virtual Reality
This thesis contains five chapters on our imaginative engagement with fiction, videogames, and virtual reality. Relatively recent forms of fictional media, such as videogames and virtual reality, offer opportunities to inhabit different roles and access alternative social spaces, but they can also …
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Choir Boy, A Scenic Design
… approach a design. Not only does this aid us in streamlining our process for ease and efficiency, but it also allows us to feel like we have left our individual and personal mark on the project, whether it is recognized by every individual audience member or not. In the Spring of 2023, I was …
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High resolution solar observations from first principles to applications
The expression "high-resolution observations" in Solar Physics refers to the spatial, temporal and spectral domains in their entirety. High-resolution observations of solar fine structure are a necessity to answer many of the intriguing questions related to solar activity. However, a researcher …
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Media Mimicry - How ‘Mimic Vlogs’ Emulate User-Generated Content in Online Stories
… format popularised on YouTube. Mimic vlogs predominantly adapt well-known, existing stories, and many of the web series are very successful with some having millions of views across the series. As many mimic vlogs are transmedia texts, existing literature in the field tends to approach these texts …
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