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Azuma, Mariko | Yin Yu Tang and the effects of re-contextualization on vernacular architecture | My paper on the cultural and architectural re-contextualization of Yin Yu Tang, or Hall of Abundant Shelter, at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, has two main goals: 1) to consider the connections between architecture, space, and the family in a traditional Chinese house; and 2) to exami... | Peabody Essex Museum - Exhibitions, Hall of Abundant Shelter; Architecture, Chinese - Exhibitions | 2016-04 |
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Clegg, Zachary | Manifesting Nationalism During Interwar Germany and the United States (1933-39): Memorializing, Maintaining and Investing Nationalism Through Architecture | Political factions, states, nations and empires have used architecture as an expression of power for thousands of years - and there seems to be little chance of stopping. In the Interwar period of 1933-1939, a time of great nationalistic fervor, many nations throughout the world, including the Unite... | | 2017 |
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Mimi Locher | The body in modern architecture: Perceptions, philosophies and design consequences in the work of Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto | This thesis explores the place of the human body in architectural design during the modern period. A brief history of using the human body as design inspiration is given, which includes a discussion on our tendencies as humans to use anthropomorphism, cognitive patterns, and our body to understand t... | Architecture - Human factors | 2014-05 |
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Hellige, Charles Joseph | Effective, Equitable Community engagement process: A case study of the participatory design process between the University of Utah and the Uintah-ouray reservation | In order to understand and strengthen the process of participatory design within the University of Utah's School of Architecture, this paper will analyze the case study of an undergraduate senior design studio using the participatory process to design a high school with the Northern Ute Tribe on the... | | 2018 |
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Thissen, Caitlin | Establishing sense of place in an urban desert wasteland : reconsidering traditional design materials in contemporary building | A reconsideration of traditional and sustainable construction materials should not only be encouraged in the contemporary age, but should support the establishment of a more engaging spatial experience, culturally and ecologically. Traditional building and design materials preserve the local charact... | Sustainable architecture - Arizona; Building materials - Arizona; Pueblo architecture - Arizona | 2013-05 |
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Tallman, Lance | Breaking the mold: using epistolary architecture to craft a new type of video game narrative | Breaking the Mold: Using Epistolary Architecture to Craft a New Type of Video Game Narrative discusses the uniqueness of classic epistolary literary works, such as Bram Stoker's Dracula, and demonstrates how applying the storytelling techniques of these texts can allow game developers to create a ne... | | 2022 |
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Neofitos, Evangelos | Solid timber: emerging construction methods and materials | Today, more than ever, the construction industry, the architecture industry, and our environment is in dire need of renewable materials. Out of the multitude of standardized materials within the building industry, wood is the most sustainable. This research focuses on the evaluation of cross-laminat... | Building, Wooden - Design and construction; Laminated wood construction | 2014-05 |
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Robertson, Jaden | Building a better podium | Podium construction (also referred to as one-plus-five or five-over-one) has become the predominant typology for new multi-family construction in Salt Lake City over the past decade.⁴ Its low-cost construction has made it popular with developers due to its high return on investment and with city p... | | 2021 |
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Emeney, Drew | Sensory experience in space: an analysis of phenomenology and wineries | Architects commonly design spaces for primary human needs based on design necessities, but dwelling is much more than just being sheltered; it is a subjective human experience. What you see, hear, touch, smell, or even taste can create a certain impression of a space. Therefore, the perceptions o... | Architecture; Winneries - Designs and plans | 2016-04 |
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Dibble, Alicia G. | Computer Simulation-Aided Design of Single-Ion Conducting Structures for Solid Polymer Electrolytes in Lithium0ion Batteries | Lithium-ion batteries are commonplace in consumer devices, but the volatility of the liquid electrolyte used in those batteries poses an innate safety risk that must be combated if the batteries are to maintain their preferential status in modern technology. One alternative to liquid electrolytes is... | | 2019 |
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Alverson, Michael | Discovery of novel crystal structures VIA generative adversarial networks | The idea of material discovery has excited and perplexed research scientists for centuries. Several different methods have been employed to find new types of materials, ranging from the arbitrary replacement of atoms in a crystal structure to advanced machine learning methods for predicting entirely... | | 2021 |
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Nielson, Clark | Gel-Cast fluorapatite scaffolding for bone repair | Calcium-phosphate bioceramics have long been attempted as replacement bone substitutes due to their resemblance to the mineral component of natural bone tissue, and because their dissolution byproducts can elicit new bone growth. Many studies have demonstrated that fluoridated hydroxyapatite, or flu... | | 2021 |
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Fluckiger, Kylee Renee | Flexible Sensing for Pressure Ulcer Detection and Prevention | Pressure ulcers are a common and harmful ailment among those who use a wheelchair for extended lengths of time. Periodic pressure relief actions performed by the wheelchair user have been shown to reduce the occurrence of pressure ulcers, but these actions may not be completed correctly or regularly... | | 2020 |
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Van der Merwe, Mark | Learning 3D Reconstructions for Geometrically aware Robotic Grasping | Robotic grasping is a crucial subtask of many important robotic applications, such as in-home robotic assistance, emergency responce robots, and industrial robotics. Deep learning has enabled remarkable improvements in robotic grasp synthesis for previously unseen objects from partial object views. ... | | 2020 |
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Wang, Albert Abdul-Barr | Two reflections on the capitol insurrection | Two Reflections on the Capitol Insurrection acts as a complementary set of essays for Albert Abdul-Barr Wang's extensive photo book The Cults of the Famous and the Dead (https://www.blurb.com/b/11471408-the-cults-of-the-famous-and-the-dead). The artist reflects on the impetus for his research projec... | | 2023 |
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Tiwari, Sarthak | Utilizing light scattering spectroscopy and machine learning to differentiate heterogenous tissue samples | Current biopsy approaches either lack depth penetration or real-time analysis. Light scattering spectroscopy (LSS) aims to address these issues, and our goal is to investigate the use of LSS for identifying cardiac conduction tissues. LSS data were collected from donor tissue samples and created a 3... | | 2023 |
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Redman, Simon | Critical Reroute | Due to network failure, underprovisioning, or temporary unanticipated increases in traffic, networks may become overloaded. In such situations, it may be desirable to prioritize some traffic flows over others, such as for public safety applications or priority customers. Solutions such as priority q... | | 2018 |
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Burga, Carlos Alberto | Binary superlattices of semiconductor nanocrystals : a path towards possible high-temperature superconductivity | This thesis provides a platform to experimentally test Dr. Daniel Mattis' theoretical work on the possible superconductive behavior of nanostructured intrinsic semiconductors1-2. The theoretical work hinged on the nano-scale architecture of semiconductors. Therefore, using various types of semicondu... | Semiconductor nanocrystals; Superconductivity; Superlattices as materials | 2013-05 |
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Herbert-Voss, Ariel | Generating audio mixtures using deep convolutional neural networks | Deep neural networks have recently been used in a generative capacity to separate and convolve the content and style of two input images. This is done using a joint cost function during gradient descent that encodes information about style and content to iteratively calculate forward node activation... | Computer sound processing; Computer music; Machine learning; Neural networks; Audio mixtures; Spectrograms; Split integer scaling | 2016-05 |
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Sunkaraneni, Tarun | Transformer-Based Observers in Psychotherapy | Motivational Interviewing is a style of psychotherapy which has shown success as a method for treating addiction and substance abuse problems. In recent years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have shown promising results in assisting Motivational Interviewing (MI) training and advancing... | | 2020 |
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O'Brien, Cullen | Intimate ideological space: an analysis of personalized online environments | This thesis examines the ideological significance of "personalized online environments." POEs are environments on the internet that are engineered to adhere to individuals' preferences. Most influential theories of ideology - those of Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Stuart Hall and othe... | | 2021 |
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Williams, Zachary | Spatial Configuration and Life for People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | We live in a world designed for a specific type of person. This thesis investigates the needs of a marginalized group that is not often considered in our modern discourse when talking about disability. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects 1 in 11 people and causes an inability to ... | | 2018 |
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Campbell, Andrew | Asynchronous distributed }OT-Enabled customer characterization in distrubtion networks: theory and hardware implementation | This work proposes and implements an asynchronous distributed IoT (Internet of Things)-enabled customer characterization framework to classify customers' load consumption behaviors in electric distribution networks. More specifically, the proposed framework enables robust fully distributed clusterin... | | 2021 |
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Thompson, Patrick C. | Redesigning communities: The case for utopias | This thesis studies the importance of Utopian city planning in attempting to transform our communities and solve the social issues faced throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries. Idealist city plans originated as a genre of literature dating back to the 16th Century, playing a vital social role throug... | Utopias -- United States City planning -- United States | 2014-05 |
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Woodruff, Derek | Uncovering Synaptic Defects resulting from loss of the intellectual disability and autism-associated gene Kirrel3 | Neurodevelopmental disorders severely impact an individual's life. Surprisingly, the genetic and cellular cause of over half of intellectual disability cases and more than 80% of autism spectrum disorders remain undiscovered1,2. It is likely that mutations in molecules regulating synapse development... | | 2017 |