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Showing 1 to 20 of 2326 for “"signs"”.
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Signs Following
… attraction to Minnie, an enigmatic member of the Signs Following Church. Jacob is slowly lured by the strength of faith demonstrated by the community and must come to terms with his relationship with his father and make a crucial decision about his future.
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Flight Signs, Flight Symbols
… In terms of Semiotics, they have become signs. Through photographs and installation, I seek to understand their presence in my, and our, unconscious mind.
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Outward Signs (Original writing)
Outward Signs is a full-length play produced as required for the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Playwriting. It consists of seven (7) characters and was performed by UNLV undergraduate acting students in the Black Box Theatre in November, 1991.
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The First Signs of Vision
There has been a lot of research on the evolution of eyes through the lens of biology; however, there have been a distinct lack of research in simulating what animals saw as their eyes evolved. This project aims to create interactive simulations of the evolution of animal visions from the Cambrian …
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Word formation in Icelandic sign language. When identity becomes signs: Queer-related signs in ÍTM
… processes involved in the creation of new signs in Icelandic Sign Language (ÍTM). It focuses on four queer-related signs (icel. hýr tákn) introduced in 2022 through a collaborated event between Samtökin 78 and the ÍTM Language Council. Drawing on previous research in sign language word …
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The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B
… of the Linear B script, 14 of its 87 syllabic signs still have no sound-values assigned to them. This group of ‘undeciphered’ signs represent a significant gap in our ability not only to read the Linear B script, but also to understand its development and use. Chapter 1 of this thesis analyses …
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Improvement of Conspicuity for Trailblazing Signs
… coral, black on light blue, and yellow on purple signs were chosen for further testing against a baseline black on orange sign, all with 125-mm, D series letters. Study 2 was an on-road field study of conspicuity, conducted using an instrumented vehicle through a construction zone-related detour, …
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The Aristarchian Signs of Codex Colbertinus-Sarrvianus
… regarding his employment of the Aristarchian signs asterisk and obelus. This codex has not received adequate attention since it was photographed and published in the late nineteenth century. This dissertation contains an exhaustive catalog of and commentary on all of the Aristarchian signs in …
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Signs of change in Jacobean city comedy
This thesis is concerned with a study of a particular genre, Jacobean city comedy, in relation to its socio-economic and religious context. It aims to show that the structural forms of city comedy share similarities with structures in Jacobean social consciousness. By arguing that the plays are …
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Development and Evaluation of Food Safety Signs
… develop bilingual (English/Spanish) food safety signs, to determine their comprehensibility and most effective delivery mechanism for presentation to food handlers. The food safety concepts developed into images were: cross-contamination, proper use of thermometer to check temperatures of foods, …
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Signs in Architecture: Beauty in the Ordinary
In Japan, the basics of living are described as three main elements; clothing, food, and shelter. These elements involve simple daily activities such as changing clothes in the morning, eating lunch, and sleeping at night. It may easily become a mundane topic since they are woven into our daily …
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Iconographic architecture as signs and symbols in Dubai
… in this thesis: evolution of architecture as signs and symbols, international iconic architecture and its impact, architecture as identity through symbolism. The study also focusses on Dubai as an emerging iconic city concentrating on the needs of people and impact of these icons on people …
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English grammar as a stratified system of signs
… can be uniformly represented as a system of signs. In addition to the traditional linguistic signs, the connections between morphemes or morphemic words and their meanings, syntactic constructions, idiomatic expressions, discourse phenomena, all types of linguistic information, are treated as …
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Changing Road Signs in Israel: Production and Perception
… to change the orthography of city names on road signs so that they are transliterations of the Hebrew name of the city. This one event, the Israeli suggestion to change city names on road signs, is represented to the public by two competing, and mostly opposing, discourses. This paper uses …
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