Global ETD Search
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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"stand-ins"”.
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Lived In
… Through prints and sculpture I produce stand-ins for the body. These objects are meant to invite the viewer to sense recognizable human traits and to experience the works as having been "lived in."
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The Philosophy of Time in Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves
… temporal theories of Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The study highlights the examination of time as a process that has obsessed centuries of writers, intellectuals, and scholars. It also demonstrates Woolf’s belief that the concept of time is a human construction. …
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T2 Characterization of Oil-In-Water Emulsions for NMR Sensor Applications
… techniques lack quantitative methods and standards. Our research explores a point-of-care approach through a portable single-sided magnetic resonance (MR) sensor. We are developing a more accurate and clinically relevant hydration metric through measuring localized skeletal muscle. …
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MetaFormances : the hermeneutics of play in language/art/life
… a pinata factory, a psychoanalyst, etc. As stand-ins for my own body, the letters enable an exploration of the forbidden, the otherwise inaccessible, the abject. Through this process of substitution, the the letters (symbolically) venture towards carnality, enacting rites of death, …
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Low fidelity
… images and their reproductions serve as stand-ins for firsthand experiences of buildings. Buildings are valued in fragments known as images. The layers of information and esoteric specificity intrinsic to design are excluded in the production of these images. This thesis names this …
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Neutron dosimetry, moderated energy spectrum, and neutron capture therapy for ²⁵{45}R²Cf medical sources
… radiochemical and metallurgical studies using stand-ins such as Tb, Gd, and 249Cf. Issues such as capsule burst strength due to helium production for a variety of proposed HDR sources were addressed. A recommended 252Cf source strength of at least 1 mg was necessary for fabrication of a 252Cf …
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Carceral civil society: Citizenship and communities in a U.S. prison
… of dehumanization through policies of the institution and actions by corrections staff. From the bottom-up, interpersonal violence takes the form of either physical violence or a culture of mistrust created by a snitch environment. These forces work to break existing communities and hinder …
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Chamier the Epicurean : the life and works of George Chamier (1842-1915)
… two key questions. The first is: How can we understand the distinctive critical perspective on life in the settler colonies in the early days of European settlement that his novels articulate? The “outside insideness” of his position as an unsettled settler can account for the critical purchase he …
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Like Life: Royal Portraits of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) in Ritual Context
… portraits of certain late Joseon kings that were installed in the repositories. It argues that these portraits functioned not only as stand-ins for the kings but also served broader political agendas.
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Fake people with real influence: Human responses to computer-generated (CG) and GAN faces
… the overarching aim of this thesis was to understand how people respond to CG and hyper-realistic GAN faces relative to human ones. The central finding of this thesis is that people's responses to CG faces are impoverished relative to human ones, except where people cannot tell them apart. …
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Fake people with real influence: Human responses to computer-generated (CG) and GAN faces
… the overarching aim of this thesis was to understand how people respond to CG and hyper-realistic GAN faces relative to human ones. The central finding of this thesis is that people's responses to CG faces are impoverished relative to human ones, except where people cannot tell them apart. …
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Are they family?: Queer parents and queer pasts in contemporary American culture
… RuPaul's Drag Race (2009-present) produces kinship through shared queer knowledge and how contestants cite this knowledge in their performances. My second chapter examines how the melodramatic aesthetics and narrative of the film Carol (2015) re-inscribe pleasure and sensation into historical …