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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"surfacing"”.
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Next Generation Computer Controlled Optical Surfacing
… fabricated by computer controlled optical surfacing (CCOS) that uses well characterized polishing tools driven by numerically controlled machines. The CCOS process is optimized to vary the dwell time of the tool on the workpiece according to the desired removal and the calibrated tool …
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Surfacing: A Collection of Fiction, Poetry and Screenwriting
Fiction/poetry collection
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Surfacing Rescue Container concept design for trident submarines
… escape capsule commonly referred to as a Surfacing Rescue Container (SRC). Although SRCs have been employed in several submarine designs over the last four decades, the United States has never adopted the underlying strategy. This paper recognizes the SRC concept as the most reliable means …
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Action to Awareness: Surfacing Dysconscious Racism through Focused Professional Development
<p>Utilizing critical race theory (Ladson-Billings and Tate, 1995) and King’s (1991) theory of dysconscious racism, this dissertation aims to explore the beliefs and actions of teachers operating within an inherently racist society. Teachers struggle with many disadvantages from inadequate funding …
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Seeing, surfacing, patterning: A socially inclusive architecture for the blind
Architectural design possesses the dual capacity to either inflict or transverse spatial barriers in our built environments, which prevent people from accessing and interacting with the built environment, and in turn imparts consequences on the social order of our cities. This dissertation inquires …
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Stereo-tectonic choreography: A sculptural [re]surfacing of an enigmatic genius loci
This inquiry draws on architectural pieces - collages and models - that explore the tactile and spatial world conceptually. I have a broad interest in the mechanical world and the processes of assembling and disassembling. The making of the pieces and my fascination with the medium is manifested …
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Post-environmentalism, the deep ecology/ecofeminist debate, and Surfacing : rereading environmental theory
… subject to the same specular logic. In so far as Surfacing is a postmodernist text which constantly relativizes the discourses of, in particular but not exclusively, ecofeminism and science, it functions like 'Post-Environmentalism' to deconstruct the specific problems of each. In particular I …
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Surfacing silicon : revealing the underlying material and structure of digital electronics through aesthetics
Digital electronics are everywhere. We spend most of our days surrounded by them, but what most of us ever experience is their surface. The purpose of this work is to open up the black box of everyday digital electronics as a way to show what is hidden inside. This is done, not as a way to teach …
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An Analytical Surfacing Methodology for Application to the Geometric Measurement and Analysis of Landforms
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:41:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511727.pdf: 9538259 bytes, checksum: 00506c7e683265623208629bc642e3a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Re-constructing identity through language and vision in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Cat's Eye
Margaret Atwood's work examines the individual's struggle for identity within a prescriptive Western society that tends to divide the world into binary categories. One side of the binary is considered powerful, while the other side is less powerful. Often, those on the weaker end of the spectrum …
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Establishing the process-structure-property-performance relationship and viable repair pathways for expeditionary airfield surfacing systems.
Expeditionary airfield (EAF) surfacing systems, or airfield matting, have enabled the operation of aircraft in austere environments for over eight decades. However, there is a need to evaluate newly proposed and legacy EAF systems to establish compatibility with current and next-generation …
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A tool for process, a process for design tools: Surfacing design narratives via version-controlled creation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Surfacing factors that prevent small businesses in economically deprived areas from growing: a multiple case study in Site C, Khayelitsha
The research identified Site C area of Khayelitsha, a township in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, as the case study. Khayelitsha is a historically black township situated on the periphery of Cape Town. Site C is an area which was built around one of the old formal areas, and is made up …
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Finding the goddess within : the goddess archetype in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Robber Bride.
… for unification with the Goddess archetype. In Surfacing, Atwood's narrator attempts to return to a pre-patriarchal period when the Goddess was a unified whole, but discovers that the ancient archetype is silent. The Handmaid's Tale details the dangers inherent in women's succumbing completely …
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Reducing the decibels of noise produced by the wood planer in the shop of the Vocational Agriculture Department
… material to reduce the shop planer operating and surfacing noise to eighty-five decibels of audible sound revealed that the acoustical treatments would reduce the noise level in the shop. Eighty-five decibels of sound was the established federal safety level at which continuous exposure of the …
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The basking shark Cetorhinus maximus: movement, behaviour and connectivity in the Northeast Atlantic
… the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) regarding surfacing behaviour and thermal ecology as well as, connectivity between recognised coastal sites for seasonal aggregation. This study focused on a seasonal ‘hotspot’ for basking sharks at Malin Head, Ireland. In Chapter 2 we used data collected by …
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Three-Dimensional Stability/lateral Shift Analysis of Continuous Welded Rail (Cwr) Track and Innovative Methods to Enhance CWR Track Performance
… or reduce slow orders following tamping or track surfacing to improve railroad productivity.
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… ruin. Finally, I turn to Atwood’s second novel, Surfacing, to end my discussion. Surfacing demonstrates that Atwood does not believe that returning to nature is the answer to ecological problems and the ills of society. The dissatisfaction at the end of the novel hints at the necessity of humans …
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Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… ruin. Finally, I turn to Atwood’s second novel, Surfacing, to end my discussion. Surfacing demonstrates that Atwood does not believe that returning to nature is the answer to ecological problems and the ills of society. The dissatisfaction at the end of the novel hints at the necessity of humans …
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