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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"vastness"”.
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place for a line collector
… that inspire architectural experiences of vastness. it does so by manifesting artifacts that engage curiosities of scale, anticipations of a rigorously nested architecture. ultimately, it proposes a trail, a mound, and a structure holding site-cast concrete rooms in blacksburg, virginia.
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Exploring existential interventions that enable competency development in Information Systems students
… field covers a vast intellectual territory. This vastness causes inconsistent focus and different prioritisation across geographic regions, academic institutions and industry entities. In contrast to established fields, where curricula are relatively standardised, Information Systems' curriculum …
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Outlaws Don't Cry
… year-old Hank runs away from his home into the vastness of the American Great Plains in the summer of 1927. He quickly learns that he isn’t who he thought he was, and that almost nothing in the world is what he imagined. In the retelling of his life, Hank accepts his own mistakes and tries to …
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
… limited in how can describe the world; from the vastness of time and space to the quality of feelings and emotions. Thus it is not just language, but the limits of language – characterised here as the ‘doors of perception’ – that have effects on worldviews; effects that throw light on the …
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Developing, Refining, and Validating a Survey to Measure Stereotypes and Biases that Women Face in Industry
… that they have faced in their careers, and the vastness of types of challenges makes asking the correct questions very difficult. Through testing, this study has developed a valid data collection instrument that can be used to gather the varying data. The final instrument yielded 22 items that …
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Portinari, poeta de imensidões
… the intensified external and internal spaces, vastness is encountered.
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Becoming “so terribly altered”: Reading transformations of the self in “The Fall of the House of Usher”
… intimately dependent on selfconsciousness of the vastness of human potential, as well as the dissolution of the very borders designed to limit and make sense of that vastness.
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Topographies of Memory
… are lost. An imagined landscape reflects the vastness of our mind. The unspecified topographies I create leave a sense of mystery about the place formed by the materials.
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Ultraviolet Light and Fluorescence in Medicine: Their Application to the Problem of Microscopic Localization of Tetracycline
… fluorescent dyes, and interpretation, whose vastness is exceeded only by the inaccessibility of much of the basic work which has been printed in German journals and is not generally, if at all, available in this country. | Fluorescence is a physical phenomenon whose manifestations can be …
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Sillage
… Within this tension, the significance and vastness of tangled space envelops the figures, more grandly connecting place and form. The two push and pull against each other as the space threatens to overwhelm the presence of the figure. In this contested environment emerges the figure as a …
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Automated feature extraction in oceanographic visualization
… of maritime and naval operations. Given the vastness of ocean, it is essential for effective ocean prediction to employ adaptive sampling to best utilize the available sensor resources in order to minimize the forecast error. It is important to concentrate measurements to the regions where …
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The meaning in the pattern
… The built form must therefore embody the vastness of this available knowledge. The building must, through its very structuring, make easy and accessible learning. It must also express the intricacies and inter-relationships of knowledge using an architectural vocabulary. The making of the …
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Hyperimage: Photography Beyond the Human Scale
… this doctoral thesis addresses how their vastness impacts visual culture. I argue that the large expansion of statistical scale not only leads to a quantitative expansion of operational capacity but also entails a qualitative change in how images mediate reality. While offering new …
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Watery bodies, natures mortes, lost backgrounds and decapitated heads: contemporary painting practice in the Anthropocene
… To sidestep the Anthropocene's scalar vastness, abstraction and representational obstacles, I locate practice within an 'everyday' enquiry, where the objects painted and the artistic artefacts created, are manifestations of the Anthropocene. The research develops what I call the …
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Inspirational Journey: People and Places
… mountain, without a manmade object in sight. The vastness and icy glow of the mountain surrounded by lush greenery filled me with a sense of God's presence. In my landscape paintings, I attempt to capture these moments on canvas. I can never quite attain the original beauty of the landscape but I …
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Of Water Cultures: Finding an Architectural Approach to Revitalizing, Supporting and Creating Water Cultures
… ways that we can endure the overwhelming vastness of the natural environment within our understanding of our own minuteness. The project locates itself at the Strandfontein Pavilion a public area aimed at creating a safe space for beach goers in my hometown, Strandfontein Village, …
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The implementation of environmental education in the Ubombo circuit schools
… of participants was random, owing to the vastness of the circuit and schools are far from each other. The first research instruments were administered to Senior Phase educators and subject advisors to solicit their understanding of environmental education and its implementation across the …
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BENTHIC HABITAT MAPPING OF MOUNTAIN TOP BANK WITHIN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO THROUGH INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL AND VISUAL DATA ANALYSIS
… and observation by a scientific team, and the vastness of the seafloor. The Gulf of Mexico, a geologically complex environment, has demonstrated the characteristics needed to support MCEs, with reefs such as the Pinnacle Reefs, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS), the Florida …
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Bringing Frames into Focus: Reading Middle English Literature
… demonstrate the variety of such devices and the vastness of readers’ expectations to which they may respond. Ultimately, this study proposes the need to embrace medieval reading practices in order to begin to understand the complicated (and continuing) influence of these rhetorical …
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Enabling Accurate and High-Throughput Kinetics Predictions via Message Passing Neural Networks
… approaches are less amenable to exploring the vastness of chemical space due to monetary cost, time, and safety considerations. Modern machine learning (ML) techniques offer a promising option since they can quickly provide estimates to narrow the search space for more expensive ab initio or …
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