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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"semblance"”.
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Semblance
<p>My thesis exhibition consists of four large, diaphanous woven sculptures. The pieces reflect my interest in relationships that occur by juxtaposing materials and processes that possess contrasting characteristics. Using transparent nylon monofilament thread with steel rods or other linear metal …
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Kirchhoff Common Offset Migration Velocity Analysis via Differential Semblance
… In this thesis, two versions of differential semblance velocity analysis are introduced: NMO-based and Kirchhoffbased. For each version, both the efficiency and effectiveness are discussed. For NMObased differential semblance, the application is illustrated on both synthetic data set and …
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A delicate dance: autoethnography, curriculum, and the semblance of intimacy
… experienced what is the focus of this study: the semblance of intimacy. This dissertation, via autoethnography, couples experiences teaching multicultural education and learning to zydeco dance in order to explore semblances of intimacy across self and other; also, to consider the implications of …
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The nonlinear differential semblance algorithm for plane waves in layered media
… formulate waveform inversion into a differential semblance optimization (DSO) problem with artificial low-frequency data as control variables. To my knowledge, this approach is the first version of differential semblance with non-linear modeling that may properly account for nonlinear effects of …
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The idea of mimesis: Semblance, play, and critique in the works of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno
… in which these features of mimesis, namely its semblance (Schein) and play (Spiel) character, are initially at work in our experiential relation to nature, but are ultimately subject to a violent taboo that wrenches us from nature and thereby wages a desperate battle against the attempt to give …
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The Life and Literature of Reinhard Goering: A Study in Contradictions
… two constants which recur repeatedly and give a semblance of cohesion to an otherwise eclectic nature and literary output: his theory of the inherent contradictions and paradoxes
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Velocity analysis in the presence of uncertainty
… with velocity estimation methods of differential semblance type. The main result of this thesis is that the noise in seismic reflection data associated with the middle scales in velocity heterogeneity does not strongly affect the estimates of the long-scale component of velocity, if these …
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A comparison of logging while drilling (LWD) and wireline acoustic measurements
… compressional velocities, as calculated by time semblance methods, were found between the two data sets. We modeled radially layered formations with increasing or decreasing radial velocity profile to estimate the acoustic measurement penetration for each tool. We reprocessed sections of the data …
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Carnisaurs and Capital: Assertion and Preservation of Hegemony in the Novels of Michael Crichton
… contending that while his novels provide the semblance of critiquing the present epoch, the novels in fact reify the powerful "ideology of the specialist" as the novels assert the hegemony of late capitalism.
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Those Living in the Shadow of Death: A Short Story Cycle
… answer this question: When it seems like every semblance of hope is lost, how do you keep moving forward?</p>
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Living expressions and their effects on primary recipients
… through self-disclosure. Living Expressions have semblance to ideas contained in eulogies, Gestalt and other therapies and group theories. Self-enhancement and self-consistency theory conflicts were considered. Social penetration theory and self-disclosure studies were reviewed. Eleven recipients …
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Content Analysis of the Florida State Assessment Test and the Duval County Essential Skills Test
… It is assumed that if there is a high degree of semblance between test items, there may not be a need for the administration of both tests. Specifically, the project is designed to analyze the contents of the State Assessment Test and the Essential Skills Test to determine if the test items …
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I found your address in a fortune cookie : a novel
… person. Although going about his life with the semblance of routine, Joshua, the protagonist, is thirsting for something unnamable. His desire runs from mundane, sensual pleasures like lying in bed or drinking coffee to desires for which there are no easy names, like the desire to escape the …
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Evolution: A Museum of Entomology for Roosevelt Island
… into the design that, short of demolition, a semblance of identity will always be retained? Buildings have identities which can be enhanced or repressed through renovation. But can a building inform? Can a building be a devise for spreading information? What essential characteristics are …
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A study of seismoelectric signals in measurement while drilling
… in both time and frequency domains using a semblance method. We found no tool mode components in the electric signals by examining both the waveforms and the time and frequency domain semblances.
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
… prioritized individual liberty and opposed any semblance of authoritarianism. However, the same partisan loyalty that aided them in coming to dominate a region left their churches and associations vulnerable to emerging religious movements that better embodied those same Jeffersonian ideals. …
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A Way to Persist: Storytelling and Its Effect on Trauma in Gábor Schein’s The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus
… build off of each other’s memories and regain a semblance of the community they lost.</p>
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A comparative analysis of shareholders' appraisal rights in Nigeria and South Africa
… potential statutory framework bearing semblance to South Africa’s appraisal right provision.
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Building Transparent Models
… (like deep neural networks) often lack any semblance of this concept, primarily due to their inherent complexity. In this thesis, we focus on a set of formal properties of transparency and design a series of algorithms to build models with these specified properties. In particular, these …
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Stefano Landi's Arie a una voce and Early Seventeenth-century Italian Guitar Music with Alfabeto Notation
… progressions long before such concepts bore any semblance to a functioning theory. This paper uses the 1620 publication Arie a una voce by Roman composer Stefano Landi as a case study through which to examine the important roles that both alfabeto and the guitar played in the development of …
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