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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"spatial environment"”.
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Incentive zoning in New York City: managing the urban spatial environment, an interactive and incremental process.
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 1973
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Re-imagining a child-centric spatial environment that promotes quality of life for children in Altantis (Witsand)
… node” within the framework of apartheid spatial development policies. These policies were designed to physically separate and divide South Africans along racial lines of Cape Town. Acknowledging the significance of integrating children's development/ upbringing in urban design research …
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Developing spatial strategies for workplace change
… techniques analyze people's perceptions of their spatial environment to understand the nature of work practice. The techniques are applied at Swanson Roberts, an executive search firm, and the results are analyzed to explore the relationship between spatial inquiry and the nature of work practice. …
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Social Capital and Conventions: A Social Networks Perspective
We introduce a spatial cost topology in the network formation model analyzed by Jackson and Wolinsky, <i>Journal of Economic Theory </i><b>71 </b> (1996), 44--74. This cost topology might represent geographical, social, or individual differences. It describes variable costs of establishing social …
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Multi-omics characterisation of mouse gastrulation and organogenesis at single-cell resolution
… focus was to characterise (1) the role of the spatial environment and (2) DNA methylation in cell lineage priming and specification during embryonic development. To better understand the spatial environment's role on cell fate specification (Aim 1), we used the image-based single-cell …
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Space, object, and illusion : a sculptural environment with light and shadow
An environmental light sculpture with screen-like architectural units which interact with moving light and shadow to create a complex spatial environment. The environment involves movement and change and has many possibilities and configurations rather than one fixed view. It evolved from an …
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Solving Intelligence Analysis Problems using Biclusters
… and visual analytics tools in one seamless environment. The combination of biclusters and visual data glyphs in a visual analytics spatial environment enables a novel type of filtering. This design allows for rapid exploration and navigation across connected documents. Through a user study …
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The mall society : illusion, exclusion, and control in the urban center
… of an illusory, exclusionary and controlled environment is presented: Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Finally, a speculative short story, The Mall Society in 2038,is presented, illustrating the potential society that could develop given the continued mallification of our socio-spatial …
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The contribution of 3-D sound to the human-computer interface
Sound inherently has a spatial quality, an ability to be localized in three dimensions. This is the essence of 3-D, or spatial, sound. A system capable of recording sounds as digitized samples and playing them back in a localized fashion was developed in the course of this research. This sound …
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Vending the city : mapping the policy, policing and positioning of street vending in New York City
… vending has with each neighborhood's socio-spatial environment, resulting in the creation of diverse vending cultures. By recognizing this vibrancy and detangling the determinants of the spatial landscape of vending rule enforcement, this thesis advocates for a fairer regulatory schema for …
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Systems of Power, Systems of Space: Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Smith, and John Keats in Romantic Greater London
This study considers the suburban spatial environment in the works of three Romantic-eraauthors. I argue that these authors use the suburbs as outlets to express the economic and cultural systems of power as capitalism defines the spaces where nineteenth century texts are set and also the …
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Robotic Contextual Awareness for Human-Robot Collaboration and Environmental Understanding
… industrial settings to dynamic, human-centric environments, such as manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare, has made their safe and autonomous operation a critical area of research. These sophisticated machines must be capable of perceiving, understanding, and interacting with their …
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The productive unconscious : architecture, experimental psychology and the techniques of subjectivity in Soviet Russia, 1919-1935
… energy was evoked by material objects and the spatial environment.
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Usability Studies with Virtual and Traditional Computer Aided Design Environments
… natural interface with the immersive virtual environment. This allows a more rapid and efficient set of actions to recognize geometry, interaction with a spatial environment, the ability to find errors, or navigate through an environment. The wand interface is used to provide an improved means …
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Receiver-Assigned CDMA in Wireless Sensor Networks
… kbps) wireless sensor nodes within a limited spatial environment. Existing Medium Access Control (MAC) layer protocols, namely IEEE 802.15.4, may not be suitable for highly dense, low rate networks. A new MAC protocol has been proposed that supports a Receiver-Assigned Code Division Multiple …
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"I Have a Sense that Gay is Diluting Significantly." Gay Nostalgia in a Post-Gay World and the Intergenerational Transitions of Toronto's Church-Wellesley Village (1973-2023)
… them. Changes in the built and demographic environments are also contributing to these concerns. Fears about such changes and the risk that the histories of older gay men will be lost are prompting some gay men to express nostalgia during a transitional period. This dissertation explores …
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Experiences of place attachment and mental well-being in the context of neighbourhood regeneration : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Regeneration of the built environment is an important focus of policy across the European Union (EU) and at any one time, there are numerous projects being delivered across Member States. Studies of neighbourhoods and communities highlight the significant role of the physical environment in life …
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PanoFrame : a crowdsourcing platform for making and editing multi-perspective narratives with panoramic video
… provide understanding of stories that occur in a spatial environment and their related context. However, telling a story with a panoramic video can make it challenging for storytellers to share their perspectives given that the whole landscape is presented to the audience without any frames. The …
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Development and Evaluation of the iWalker: An Instrumented Rolling Walker to Assess Balance and Mobility in Everyday Activities
… walker kinematics, and video of the immediate spatial environment. The design and development of the iWalker is first described, followed by two studies characterizing the involvement of the upper limbs for balance in standing and walking that served to address gaps in the literature and …
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Space to Think: Sensemaking and Large, High-Resolution Displays
… displays create a fundamentally different environment from conventional displays, one that is inherently spatial, resulting in support for a greater range of embodied resources. To support this, we describe a series of studies that examined the process of sensemaking on one of these …
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