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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"thought process"”.
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Musical Thinking as Exemplified in Music Criticism
The purpose of this study was to consider the thought processes involved in the formulation of written music criticism. Using John Dewey's definition of thinking as a basis, the works of metacritics Francis Sparshott, Theodore M. Greene, and D. W. Gotshalk and critics Virgil Thomson and M. D. …
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Hoodoo and the Law: mostly printed works
… practical mysticism. I discuss in this paper my thought process, the work itself, and the works intended functions. I discuss the idea of the book and my rationale behind working in printmaking.
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Writing Images: Blending Drawings and Code
Drawing has long been known to show the thought process of the artist because of its physical immediacy and the way it encourages fast, informal iteration. In contrast the history of programming has been toward a universal language so that common challenges can be addressed in the same way. This …
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Decreasing Interruptions at the Bedside
… routine, thereby causing a break in work and thought process. Medication administration demands full attention from nurses to ensure accurate doses, preparations and administration. Triaging interruptions can help to decrease the inevitable distractions interruptions can cause and allows the …
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Cyber-security Risk Assessment
… also driven by attacker's exploratory nature, thought process, motivation, strategy, and preferences. Current security risk assessment is driven by cyber-security expert's theories about this attacker behavior. The goal of this dissertation is to automatically generate the cyber-security risk …
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Global expansion strategies for software firms
… framework is introduced to simplify the thought process in determining which business a firm is competing in, what are the implications of global competition and what a firm should think through when it considers international expansion to another country or region. Third, a DAC framework …
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An analysis of the elements of style in the university sermons of John Henry Newman
… only the personality of the man, but his very thought process; these are the common elements identified by critics of the Apologia. To what extent these elements exist in the prose of the university sermons, and what other elements of style are identifiable in these sermons are the subject of …
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Space & event in contested territories: Public assembly through place-making tradition exploring tectonics and materials of the circular economy
Design is an iterative process. This design dissertation explores 'concept-form' by Tschumi (2010, pp. 15-19) who argues it is a generator of new conditions to freely inform or locate activities to generate events. Concept-form reflects a specific moment in a thought process when an architectural …
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Preoccupations
… answered. This is an accurate reflection of the thought process of the speaker.
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Design rationale representation and testing
… collection of arguments and decisions and the thought underlying them are not communicated. This may lead to various project personnel having differing views about the requirements of the project. This research focuses on an attempt to communicate the thought process underlying the project to …
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Poem, Swim
… poem, this done by exposing the mechanics of the thought process and writing process.
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Fragments, as I Remember
… is written as both a journal of my creative thought process and an exposition of the research that thematically contextualizes my work. The paper indirectly unpacks specific elements that inform and inspire this work. It is a journal intended to contextualize my creative practices within my …
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A History of the Concept of Creativity in Western Nursing: A Cultural Feminist Perspective
… view was that of a novel, unrestrained thought process. It required no creative work or attainment for its ascription. The creative lives of select Western nurses, e.g., Florence Nightingale, Lillian Wald, Margaret Sanger, and Sister Elizabeth Kenny were also examined. It was revealed …
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Nutrient Drug Interaction Probability Scale (NDIPS): A Creation and Validation Process
… the probability of DNIs. An internal validation process was conducted by testing the NDIPS on published case reports describing DNIs. An external validation to assess consistency in question interpretation involved practicing clinicians who used the NDIPS to assess a selected case report and …
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Art Through Sensation: Unfolding Image and Text Together, Through Bacon, Bergson and Jung
… Working in reverse, it begins with the painting processes of Francis Bacon (as analyzed by Gilles Deleuze), the metaphysics of philosopher Henri Bergson and the psychology of Carl Jung. The book attempts to build an in-between; to start with givens and fill in the space that blends them together …
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Design and prototype of an automated system for commercially viable production using micro contact printing
This dissertation is a documentation of the thought process, its justification and the implementation details that went into prototyping a fully automated system employing Micro Contact Printing, an emerging technique for replication and pattern transfer using soft organic materials, for a nano …
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Immersive Space to Think: the Role of 3D Immersive Space in Sensemaking of Textual Data
… spaces in supporting the sensemaking process, by providing a "Space to Think" in which analysts can organize information and externalize their thought process. In this paper, we investigate how analysts use 3D immersive spaces for the same task. To this end, we conducted a user study …
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Rediscovering the Vernacular
… results. The thesis also explores the modes of thought of pre and post industrial societies and the various influences that come to bear on thought. This thesis examines the thought processes involved in the initial stage of design and proposes the use of vernacular thought process, on a …
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Knowledge transformation in a mobile learning environment : an interpretive inquiry of ubiquitous context and social presence awareness
… there is a shift in view, perspective and the thought process consequent to a social activity. The problem for a contact university is that mobile learners do not have access to consistent social resources for academic support as they drift from formal to informal learning contexts. The …
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The process of design : a tool in the exploration and understanding of place
… Texas. The objective is to develop an analytical process for the understanding of place and its architectural characteristics. A framework is developed for design guidelines based on observations of the shared language of the urban structure in San Antonio and suggest guidelines that can provide …
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