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Showing 1 to 20 of 237 for “"touching"”.
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The Touching Rooms
<p>The Touching Rooms are a place of encounter between the living and the dead. We traverse the stages of grief through memory, dreams and magical realism, through language and music. In this work, I explore how paying attention, the art of seeing and describing, helps us through deep loss. Our …
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All Kinds of Touching
Poems about skin, fucking, death, disaster, growing up, blood, caves, art and general stickiness.
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Touching hands, touching lives : pathways to fortune telling and social work services : parallels and divergences
This study offers comparative insights on the propelling forces that lead persons to use fortune telling and social work services. The authors sought to draw parallels and divergences between both client groups in an attempt to examine pathways for making social work services more accessible to …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
… rather than, or in tension with, observation. Touching Time argues that British Romantic literature develops a new approach to tactility, a way of engaging with the world physically in the present in order to introduce new possibilities for the future. While the field of vision is experienced …
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TOUCHING THE CENTER THAT BURNS: AN EXORCISM
<p>This thesis seeks to explore the relationship between language, traumatic memory, and identity. Through a cross-genre creative style of writing and scholarship, the writer engages with trauma theory, performative language theory, psychoanalysis, and literature in order to illuminate how …
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Adaptive restoration of text images containing touching and broken characters
… images, most OCR errors are caused by broken and touching characters. This thesis presents an adaptive system to restore text images distorted by touching and broken characters. The adaptive system uses the distorted text image and the output from an OCR system to generate the training character …
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Touching home : baseball and the liberal-republican tradition in America.
This dissertation explores how baseball has shaped the way Americans understand the liberal and republican foundations of this country. To do so, it examines baseball's relationship to the class, race, and gender issues of the 20th century. It argues that baseball's combination of liberal …
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Touching is believing : sensing and analyzing touch information with GelSight
For robots to perform advanced manipulation in a world of unknowns, touch is a critical source of information, and a high-quality tactile sensor is essential. However, existing tactile sensors generally are low-resolution and/or non-compliant, making it difficult to capture detailed contact …
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Touching Autism Spectrum Disorder: Somatosensory Abnormalities in Shank3b and Cntnap2 Mouse Models
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) represent a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders characterised by deficits in social interaction and communication, and by restricted and stereotyped behaviour. The diagnosis of autism is based on behavioural observation of the subject as research has …
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Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world
„Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world‟ explores different forms of physical interaction with cult statues in the many cults and beliefs evident across the Roman world, and proposes wide-ranging implications of this for the understanding of Roman religions and …
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Touching the Face of God: Religion, Technology, and the United States Air Force
The goal of my project is a detailed analysis of the technological culture of the United States Air Force from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective. In particular, using the metaphor of the Air Force as religion helps in understanding a culture built on matters of life-and-death. This …
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Touching the hero: bodies, boundaries and blood in the Old French Cycle des Narbonnais
… in battle. Modern sociologists suggest that touching follows lines of social prestige; however, by employing a performative approach to identity, overlaid with a psychoanalytic interpretation of the subject’s relationship with the Other, I argue that regulated patterns of touch in the poems …
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A phenomenological understanding of an image of a city: touching water in waterfront cities
This thesis attempts to grasp the creation of an image of a city, taking the case of waterfront cities where the presence of water becomes a sense of place. A phenomenological method was employed for investigating actual waterfront cities: Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Although a single …
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Touching on the Untouchable: contesting contemporary Black south african masculinity and cultural identity through performance
As a moment of slipping in, turning away and recovering from; the thinking for this project is focused on understanding through and from within culture. With this the paper begins to weave itself through a guided journey of my own personal accounts and the theorists that align and/or challenge such …
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Sexual Parameters in Doctor-Patient Relationship
… attitudes and practices of physicians regarding touching (erotically and nonerotically) their patients was conducted with 164 female physicians. The results were compared with a previous study (from the University of California, Los Angeles) of male physicians. As compared with the UCLA sample of …
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The development of the preterm infant's responsiveness to auditory and tactile social stimuli prior to 40 weeks' postconceptional age
… talking, (b) tactile stimulation in the form of touching/stroking, and (c) the combination of talking and touching. Further, these infants were assessed weekly for the development of neurological reflexes and responsiveness to the orientation items from the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral …
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Improving exercise adoption: the effects of social support, personalized goal setting and feedback and prompting in a community walking program
… of prompting (feedback and goal setting versus "touching base") in a walking program designed to meet ACSM's cardiovascular exercise goals. Survival analysis using six months of data points and using the criteria of walking at least 20 minutes a day for a at least three times per week indicated …
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