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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"upside down"”.
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This Side Up, Upside Down
<p>This Side Up, Upside Down is a collection of one short novella and six short stories dealing with themes of guilt, disconnection, mis-creation, aging, death, grief, and time. The stories mostly follow the life of Theo Cobarde, a Mexican-American man living in the small town of Eagle, Idaho. He …
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Turn that Frown Upside-down! The Effectiveness of Opposite Action in Changing Emotion
<p>While research demonstrates that opposite action (OA) impacts emotion (Rizvi & Linehan, 2005), we lack an understanding of the mechanisms by which it produces opposite emotions. The current study dismantled emotion regulation skill components by comparing tasks with different combinations of …
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Reviving upside-down architecture : using a historically transitional form of parking to reduce the impact of cars in mixed-use commercial areas
… the suburban center redevelopment potential of "upside-down" buildings, the top-heavy stacked construction that puts parking above retail. Initial findings suggest, first, that strategically designed parking can encourage people to park once and walk to multiple destinations.
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Wundheilung bei athymischen Nacktmäusen mit humanen kultivierten Keratinozyten auf einer equinen Kollagen-Typ-I-Membran
… erprobt. Zehn Tiere wurden im Sinne der upside-down-Technik operiert. Das bedeutet, daß die Kollagen-Membranen mit den Zellen nach unten auf Vollhautwunden aufgebracht wurden, so daß die Zellen direkten Kontakt zum Wundbett hatten. Die Folie diente als biologischer Verband. Die …
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The Emotion of Joy and the Rhetoric of Reversal in Luke-Acts: A Socio-Rhetorical Study
… corpus is based on a worldview that is totally ‘upside-down’. Objectively, the joy theme provides the reader/auditor with evidence that YHWH has fulfilled or begun to fulfill his promises. Subjectively, the joy theme provides pathos or emotional power that draws the reader/auditor into the …
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Mechanics of Righting Behavior in the Tarantula (Theraphosidae)
… in critical situations (falling and landing upside down), but is necessary after molting, when the tarantula must intentionally turn itself upside down in order to shed the old cuticle. In order to describe and analyze the mechanics of this behavior, 33 external markers were painted on leg …
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Memory, identity, and farce in carnival mirrors : a director's approach to David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers.
… central subject of interest is a world turned upside down by hardship and pain. Although commonly labeled a dark farce, Lindsay-Abaire's 1999 play, Fuddy Meers, is haunted by the spirit of medieval folk festivals in its grotesque imagery and subversive laughter. This thesis offers an …
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Hate Date
… handsome, heartbreaker. His world gets turned upside down when Bryce, despite his affliction, falls in love with a woman and must undergo painful subterfuge techniques just to be around her. Can a relationship built on pain, survive? Will Bryce give up what he believes in for the love of a …
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The small house
… and margarine. Tina's life is suddenly turned upside down when she discovers that her husband is having an affair with a woman called Zodwa. In Zimbabwe, such affairs are referred to as 'small houses'. This discovery sets Tina's life on a new course, characterised by emotional upheaval, deep …
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A Place Like Home
… Because this natural disaster turned their lives upside down, both in large and small ways, their lives would never be the same. This thesis . documents stories of those that for various reasons chose to stay on the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina. Twenty-five interviews of residents of Pass …
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Thermal testing of the STAR forward GEM tracker disks
… I took measurements for were for a disk placed upside down in a horizontal surface and for a disk placed vertically on a pipe. After analyzing the data, I found that these two orientations have no effect on the heating and the cooling of the readout cards.
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Marisol By Jose RIvera: Scenic Design
… post apocalyptic environment and a world turned upside down. I created a space in the round that uses raw metals and concrete to symbolize the location through simple line and shape. The set is purely realistic at its core and dissipates into a surrealistic form on the outer edges. Through the …
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Cognitive conflict in learning three-dimensional space station structures
… they were visually upright than when they were upside-down. Although alternative explanations cannot be ruled out, data collected and subjects' comments suggest that unlearning the GC cognitive map posed a significant challenge, and that subjects' knowledge of modules in GC, acquired earlier in …
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The Generalized Lindley-Weibull Distribution with Applications to Lifetime Data
… decreasing, monotonically increasing bathtub and upside down bathtub shaped. The model provides a better fit to data in the sense that it leads to more accurate results and prediction, which should facilitate better public policy in a wide range of areas including but not limited to medicine and …
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Realism, sentimentalism, and popular fiction
… productively turns these critical commonplaces upside-down and moves beyond their limitations. Freeman's work needs to be understood as an investigation of sentimentalism and a deployment of its strategies for literary purposes.
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An exploration into the parental experience of Emotionally Based School Non Attendance in young people: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.
… four superordinate themes: ‘It turns your life upside down’; Power and the battle to be heard; Loss and fear and Retrospective clarity. These themes captured the far-reaching effects on parents which impacted on relationships within the family, their own mental health and poor relationships …
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Density and diversity : evaluating one CDFI's place-based revitalization strategy in Detroit's underwater market
… dwindling economic base that has resulted in an upside down development market. Projects require complex capital stacks and high levels of subsidies, as rents alone cannot support development costs. The client, a national CDFI with expertise in health care, education, and senior-living facilities …
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Investigation Into Snap Loading of Cables Used in Moored Breakwaters
… was conducted on a breakwater configured upside down and hanging by two mooring lines. The length of the mooring lines, coefficient of restitution, size and shape of the breakwater, initial position of the breakwater, amplitude of wave forcing, ratio of vertical to horizontal forcing, and …
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Gumball Astronauts: Establishing a Space-Time Vocabulary for Genre Bending in Picture Stories
… pattern within a genre, only to turn that genre upside down. The third part of this essay looks at religiosity as a genre and the profundity that deliberate slowness evokes. It pulls apart one of my comics, Two Tigers, and looks at how its elements of density, simplicity, and flatness give the …
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Page segmentation and identification for document image analysis
… different types of distortion; they also contain upside-down, skewed and low resolution images. The system classifies 93.5% of the script type correctly and 6.5% of these documents incorrectly
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