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Daruwala, Yohann. "A Constructive Memory Architecture for Context Awareness." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2250.
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Context-aware computing is a mobile computing paradigm in which applications can discover, use, and take advantage of contextual information, such as the location, tasks and preferences of the user, in order to adapt their behaviour in response to changing operating environments and user requirements. A problem that arises is the inability to respond to contextual information that cannot be classified into any known context. Many context-aware applications require all discovered contextual information to exactly match a type of context, otherwise the application will not react responsively. The ability to learn and recall contexts based on the contextual information discovered has not been very well addressed by previous context-aware applications and research. The aim of this thesis is to develop a component middleware technology for mobile computing devices for the discovery and capture of contextual information, using the situated reasoning concept of constructive memory. The research contribution of this thesis lies in developing a modified architecture for context-aware systems, using a constructive memory model as a way to learn and recall contexts from previous experiences and application interactions. Using a constructive memory model, previous experiences can be induced to construct potential contexts, given a small amount of learning and interaction. The learning process is able to map the many variations of contextual information currently discovered by the user with a predicted type of context based on what the application has stored and seen previously. It only requires a small amount of contextual information to predict a context, something common context-aware systems lack, as they require all information before a type of context is assigned. Additionally, some mechanism to reason about the contextual information being discovered from past application interactions will be beneficial to induce contexts for future experiences.
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Daruwala, Yohann. "A Constructive Memory Architecture for Context Awareness." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2250.
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Master of Philosophy (Architecture)Context-aware computing is a mobile computing paradigm in which applications can discover, use, and take advantage of contextual information, such as the location, tasks and preferences of the user, in order to adapt their behaviour in response to changing operating environments and user requirements. A problem that arises is the inability to respond to contextual information that cannot be classified into any known context. Many context-aware applications require all discovered contextual information to exactly match a type of context, otherwise the application will not react responsively. The ability to learn and recall contexts based on the contextual information discovered has not been very well addressed by previous context-aware applications and research. The aim of this thesis is to develop a component middleware technology for mobile computing devices for the discovery and capture of contextual information, using the situated reasoning concept of constructive memory. The research contribution of this thesis lies in developing a modified architecture for context-aware systems, using a constructive memory model as a way to learn and recall contexts from previous experiences and application interactions. Using a constructive memory model, previous experiences can be induced to construct potential contexts, given a small amount of learning and interaction. The learning process is able to map the many variations of contextual information currently discovered by the user with a predicted type of context based on what the application has stored and seen previously. It only requires a small amount of contextual information to predict a context, something common context-aware systems lack, as they require all information before a type of context is assigned. Additionally, some mechanism to reason about the contextual information being discovered from past application interactions will be beneficial to induce contexts for future experiences.
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Raffle, Hayes Solos 1974. "Topobo : a 3-D constructive assembly system with kinetic memory." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/26920.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-116).
We introduce Topobo, a 3-D constructive assembly system em- bedded with kinetic memory, the ability to record and playback physical motion. Unique among modeling systems is Topobo's coincident physical input and output behaviors. By snapping together a combination of Passive (static) and Active (motorized) components, people can quickly assemble dynamic biomorphic forms like animals and skeletons, animate those forms by pushing, pulling, and twisting them, and observe the system repeatedly play back those motions. For example, a dog can be constructed and then taught to gesture and walk by twisting its body and legs. The dog will then repeat those movements and walk repeatedly. Our evaluation of Topobo in classrooms with children ages 5- 13 suggests that children develop affective relationships with Topobo creations and that their experimentation with Topobo allows them to learn about movement and animal locomotion through comparisons of their creations to their own bodies. Eighth grade science students' abilities to quickly develop various types of walking robots suggests that a tangible interface can support understanding how balance, leverage and gravity affect moving structures because the interface itself responds to the forces of nature that constrain such systems.
by Hayes Solos Raffle.
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Fernandes, Rafael Leite. "Memory, attention and constructive visual skills in individuals with HTLV – 1." Escola de Medicina e Saúde Pública, 2014. http://www7.bahiana.edu.br//jspui/handle/bahiana/82.
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Pacientes infectados pelo vírus linfotrópico para células T humanas (HTLV-1) apresentam acometimento da substância branca encefálica com lesões similares às encontradas em pacientes com esclerose múltipla ou infectados pelo HIV. Apesar disso, poucos estudos avaliaram as repercussões destes danos no desempenho cognitivo dos infectados. OBJETIVOS: Descrever o desempenho de indivíduos com HTLV-1 em provas neuropsicológicas associadas à atenção, memória e habilidades visuoconstrutivas. Além disso, objetivou-se identificar o efeito do quociente intelectual, sintomas depressivos, ansiosos, idade, escolaridade e presença de HAM/TSP nos resultados dos testes realizados. METODOLOGIA: Corte transversal, realizado entre outubro/12 e outubro/13, com 54 pacientes com diagnóstico sorológico de infecção pelo HTLV-1. Foram utilizados os seguintes instrumentos: Teste de Aprendizagem Auditivo Verbal de Rey (RAVLT), Figuras Complexas de Rey-Osterrieth (FCRO), subtestes Dígitos e Cubos da Escala de Inteligência Wechsler para adultos, Teste Trilhas Coloridas (TTC) e Escala Hospitalar de Ansiedade e Depressão. O quociente intelectual foi estimado a partir dos testes Dígitos e Cubos. Para análise estatística foram utilizados o teste do qui-quadrado, teste t de student e regressão logística. RESULTADOS: A maioria dos pacientes avaliados apresentou déficits relacionados às habilidades visuoconstrutivas, memória alça visual e atenção. Na análise bivariada, a menor escolaridade foi associada a piores escores no teste Dígitos (p = 0,047). Para a sintomatologia ansiosa, foram constatadas diferenças significativas somente no índice de interferência proativa (p = 0,03) e no TTC forma 2 (p = 0,001). Para a presença de HAM/TSP, somente na etapa cópia da FCRO obteve-se diferenças significantes (p=0,003). Na análise multivariada, os sintomas de ansiedade associaram-se ao pior desempenho na cópia da FCRO (7,67: 1,75 – 33,65) e no TTC forma 2 (4,0: 1,63 – 9,78), enquanto o QI estimado abaixo de 79 relacionou-se a piores escores nos testes FCRO (cópia) (0,05: 0,01 – 0,35), Cubos (14,7:1,57 – 137,42) e Dígitos (16,13: 2,71 – 95,99). CONCLUSÃO: Sugere-se que o vírus HTLV-1 pode relacionar-se a piores resultados em testes neurocognitivos, no entanto, novos estudos destes domínios merecem ser realizados.
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Gérardin-Laverge, Loraine. "La mémoire constructive : repenser la mémoire pour penser l’identité personnelle." Thesis, Paris 10, 2020. https://bdr-parisnanterre-fr.faraway.parisnanterre.fr/theses/intranet/2020/2020PA100104/2020PA100104.pdf.
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Dans cette thèse, je propose de repenser la mémoire afin de repenser l'identité personnelle. Je pars de la question suivante : Comment est-il possible que les personnes, malgré les changements qui les affectent, se reconnaissent comme mêmes à différents moments du temps ? Une réponse classique à la question diachronique de l'identité personnelle est qu’elle repose sur la mémoire : les souvenirs fondent notre continuité psychologique. Cependant, les récentes recherches empiriques sur la mémoire épisodique montrent qu'elle a une dimension constructive et qu'elle n'est pas seulement une capacité de stockage fidèle du passé. Qu'est-ce que cela change à la question de l'identité personnelle ? J’explore d’abord la théorie mémorielle de l'identité personnelle de John Locke, et je soutiens qu'être une personne, selon Locke, c'est se reconnaître comme telle à différents moments du temps et donc, dans cet acte d'auto-reconnaissance, constituer son identité personnelle. Je soutiens cependant que la vision conservatrice de la mémoire de Locke doit être révisée et je propose de repenser le concept de mémoire en m’appuyant sur les sciences contemporaines de la mémoire. Je soutiens qu’elle a une dimension constructive et propose une théorie de la mémoire constructive de l'identité personnelle. La mémoire épisodique est à la fois une capacité qui me permet de me reconnaître et, parce que cette reconnaissance n'est pas une simple reconnaissance mais la construction d'une représentation de moi-même à travers la collecte d'informations provenant de diverses sources, elle peut produire et constituer mon identité personnelleIn this thesis, I propose to rethink memory in order to rethink personal identity. I start from an interrogation about personal identity. How is it possible that people, despite the changes that affect them, recognize themselves as themselves? A common answer to the diachronic question of personal identity is that memory is what makes the self: memories allow us to connect with ourselves and to have an idea of our diachronic personal identity. But interestingly, the recent empirical research on episodic memory shows that it has a constructive dimension and is not only a storage capacity that allows one to preserve and retrieve accurate representations of the past. What does it change for the question of personal identity? I start with an exploration of John Locke’s memory theory of personal identity, and argue that to be a person, in Locke's view, is to recognize oneself as same at different moments of time and thus, in this act of self-recognition, to constitute oneself as a person with a temporal dimension. I argue that Locke’s preservative view of memory has to be revised, and I propose an empirically informed discussion on the concept of memory. I contend that episodic memory has a constructive dimension and has both epistemic functions and functions related to the constitution of diachronic personal identity. I propose a constructive memory theory of personal identity. Episodic memory is at the same time a capacity which allows me to recognize myself and, because this recognition is not a simple recognition but a construction of a representation of myself through the gathering of information from various sources, it can produce and constitute my personal identity
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Tumminio, Danielle Elizabeth. "Out of the formless void a constructive theology of trauma and its relationship to communication, memory and personal identity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p051-0117.
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Segabinazi, Joice Dickel. "Evidências de validade do Teste de Retenção Visual de Benton em amostras brasileiras." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/158572.
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Investigações das evidências de validade dos testes devem ser contínuas, a fim de aprimorar aspectos teóricos e empíricos, abrangendo o significado dos escores do teste, as consequências e sua utilidade. A presente tese investigou evidências de validade Benton Visual Retention Test ou Teste de Retenção Visual de Benton (BVRT) para a avaliação da memória visual e habilidades visuoconstrutivas na amostra total de normatização do teste no Brasil. Mais especificamente, investigaram-se a Administração A (Memória) e Administração C (Cópia) do BVRT. O primeiro estudo aborda aspectos históricos e conceituais da avaliação neuropsicológica na interface com a Psicometria, as principais funções neuropsicológicas avaliadas pelo BVRT e suas bases neurais. Os três capítulos empíricos investigam fontes de evidência de validade do teste utilizando diferentes técnicas de análise de dados. No Capítulo II, por meio da Modelagem de Rasch, observou-se a necessidade de incluir itens nos dois extremos da escala logit para a Administração C (Cópia). A análise também forneceu uma proposta de avaliação considerando a dificuldade específica de cada item. O Capítulo III investigou a influência de outras variáveis no BVRT tendo se encontrado padrões em forma de U-invertido em função da idade, da infância até a terceira idade, principalmente na memória visual, avaliada pelo BVRT. Ainda, a Modelagem de Equações Estruturais permitiu identificar um efeito fixo da variável Quociente Intelectual (QI) na Administração A (Memória) do BVRT em diferentes grupos etários, sendo que nos grupos dos adultos e idosos observou-se uma relação positiva e significativa entre os anos de estudo e o desempenho no BVRT. No Capítulo IV, realizou-se a comparação de um grupo clínico de pacientes pós-Acidente Vascular Cerebral unilateral e um grupo controle, emparelhado por idade e anos de estudo, e encontrou-se um pior desempenho do grupo clínico no teste, principalmente na Administração C (Cópia). Em complemento, o método de série de casos, evidenciou dissociações fortes e clássicas entre as duas administrações do BVRT. As evidências de validade do BVRT investigadas na presente tese reforçam a necessidade de aprimoramento das características dos itens do teste e ressaltam a importância de se considerar variáveis sociodemográficas, como a idade e anos de estudo, e variáveis cognitivas como o QI na determinação do desempenho do BVRT. A tese contribui para as investigações de diferentes fontes de evidências de validade para o BVRT em amostras brasileiras. A utilidade do BVRT na avaliação clínica de pacientes pós-AVC foi evidenciada, uma vez que o teste permitiu a investigação de déficits de memória visual e habilidades visuoconstrutivas separadamente, o que pode implicar no melhor planejamento dos programas de reabilitação de pacientes.Tests evidence validity investigations should be continuous to improve theoretical and empirical issues, including scores meaning, consequences and utility. This doctoral dissertation investigated Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) evidence validity in evaluating visual memory and visuo-constructive abilities in Brazilian total norming sample of the test. Specifically, were investigated de Adminstration A (Memory) and Administration C (Copy) from BVRT. Chapter I consisted of a review about historical and conceptual aspects in neuropsychology evaluation in relation to psychometrics, the main neuropsychological functions evaluated by BVRT and its neural basis. Three empirical studies were performed in relation to sources of validity evidence using diferent data analysis tecniques. In Chapter II we used Rasch analisys and observed the need of itens in both extremes of logit scale for the Administration C (Copy). In addition, a new strategie of interpretation considering the itens difficulty was presented. Chapter III investigated variables influences on the BVRT scores and showed an inverted-U shaped trend considering the age, in childhood to old age, mainly in visual memory evaluated with BVRT. Still, using Structural Equation Modelling in different age groups we identified a fix effect for IQ in Administration A (Memory) of BVRT and a positive and significative relation between years of shooling and the BVRT performance in adults and old age groups. Last, in Chapter IV, we did a comparative study between a clinical group of unilateral stroke patients and a control group paired by age and years of schooling, and we found a worst performance in the clinical group, mainly at Administration C (Copy). Also, the case series method showed strong and classic dissociations between both BVRT administrations. This doctoral dissertation investigated different sources of evidence validity in Brazilian samples. The results highlighted the utility of the test in clinical evaluation of stroke patients considering that BVRT allowed the evaluation of visual memory and visuoconsttructive abilities separately, what can imply a better planning of patient’s rehabilitation programs.
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Fiorindo, Priscila Peixinho. "O papel da memória construtiva na produção de narrativa oral infantil a partir da leitura de imagens em sequência." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-03022010-155318/.
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Partindo do pressuposto de que memória e narrativa são elementos inseparáveis, pois para se contar uma história é preciso ter um conhecimento prévio, ou seja, a estrutura narrativa (script) armazenada na memória, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo principal verificar o papel da memória construtiva em histórias orais, produzidas por crianças, a partir da leitura sequencial de imagens. Para tanto, nos apoiamos em Flavell, Miller & Miller (1999), que compartilham com a visão de Piaget de que o armazenamento de informações é construção; e a recuperação delas é reconstrução, em que o sujeito deve fazer inferências a partir daquilo que está na superfície contextual, denominado, assim, esses dois processos de memória construtiva. Levando em conta que a leitura de imagens faz parte da decodificação e construção de significados de mundo, elegemos as cinco sequências de imagens, retiradas da história A pedra no caminho, extraída do livro Esconde-esconde (FURNARI, 1988). Participaram desse estudo, doze crianças brasileiras, de 5, 8 e 10 anos de idade, de ambos os sexos, de uma instituição particular de ensino. Nesta perspectiva, o método constituiu-se em apresentar para as crianças, num primeiro momento, uma imagem de cada vez, na tela do computador. Logo em seguida, foram expostas as sequências das cinco imagens no conjunto. Após a visualização das imagens, as mesmas foram retiradas e as crianças foram solicitadas a contar a história. Os dados foram gravados em câmera de vídeo digital, com gravador de áudio e transcritos com base nas Normas do Projeto NURC/USP, propostas por Preti e Urbano (1990). De acordo com a natureza dos dados coletados, direcionamos a atenção, também, à memória episódica (TULVING, 1972), responsável pelo armazenamento dos eventos, mas sem perder de vista a memória semântica, onde estão as informações do conhecimento de mundo do sujeito. Os resultados confirmam divergências significativas, nas produções narrativas das crianças, nas diferentes faixas etárias, quanto à utilização dos elementos linguísticos e discursivos. Neste aspecto, não observamos distinção relevante, nas produções de histórias entre meninos e meninas. Outro fator interessante, é que as crianças, independente da idade e do sexo, se posicionam diante dos fatos narrados, apresentando pontos de vistas, crenças e valores, mostrando, dessa maneira, a originalidade e a autoria em suas histórias. As conclusões, por sua vez, evidenciam que as narrativas construídas pelas crianças é uma atividade que abrange o uso de mecanismos de funcionamento da memória de curto prazo, onde estão presentes as informações recentes (as imagens, antes visualizadas) e da memória de longo prazo (memória semântica e episódica). Todas estas informações, provenientes dos diferentes sistemas de memória, são recuperadas e reelaboradas, por meio do script, na memória construtiva infantil para o enredo acontecer.Assuming that memory and narrative are inseparable elements, once that to tell a story is necessary to have a pre-knowledge - in other words, the narrative structure (script) kept in mind - the present research has as main goal to verify the role of the constructive memory in oral stories, produced by children, based on the reading of sequential images. Thus, we have the support of Flavell, Miller & Miller (1999), who share the same point of view of Piaget, that the storage of information is construction; and its recovery is reconstruction, in which the subject must make inferences from what is on the contextual surface, denominating, therefore, these two processes of constructive memory. Taking into account that the reading of images is part of decoding and construction of meanings of world, we chose the five sequences of images from the story A pedra no caminho, extracted from the book Esconde-esconde (FURNARI, 1998). Twelve Brazilian children aged 5, 8 and 10 years old, from both genders and from a private school, took part in this study. In this perspective, the method was formed to provide for children, at first, an image at a time, on the computer screen. Soon after, the sequence of the set of five images were shown. After the visualization of the images, the same ones were taken away and the children were asked to tell the story. Data were recorded on digital video camera with audio recorder and transcribed based on the standards of the NURC/USP Project, proposed by Preti e Urbano (1990). According to the nature of the collected data, we drew attention, also, to the episodic memory (TULVING, 1972), responsible for the storage of events, but not losing track of the semantic memory, where are the details of knowledge of the subject\'s world. The results confirm meaningful divergences in the childrens narrative productions in the different ages, regarding the usage of linguistic and discursive elements. In this aspect we didnt have noticed relevant distinction in the production of stories between boys and girls. Another interesting factor is that the children, regardless of age or gender, express themselves before the narrated facts, presenting their point of view, creeds and values, showing, in this way, the originality and the authorship of their stories. The conclusions show that the narratives constructed by the children is an activity that includes the use of the mechanisms of the short term memory, where are recent information (the images seen before), and of the long term memory (semantic and episodic memory). All this information, coming from different systems of memory, are recovered and rebuilt by the script, in the childs constructive memory, to finally the plot happen.
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Schneider, Christiane N. "False-memory construction : the effect of memory confidence /." Electronic version (PDF), 2004. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2004/schneiderc/christianeschneider.pdf.
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Zhang, Sizhuo. "Constructing and evaluating weak memory models." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122690.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2019
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A memory model for an instruction set architecture (ISA) specifies all the legal multithreaded-program behaviors, and consequently constrains processor implementations. Weak memory models are a consequence of the desire of architects to preserve the flexibility of implementing optimizations that are used in uniprocessors, while building a shared-memory multiprocessor. Commercial weak memory models like ARM and POWER are extremely complicated: it has taken over a decade to formalize their definitions. These formalization efforts are mostly empirical--they try to capture empirically observed behaviors in commercial processors--and do not provide any insights into the reasons for the complications in weak-memory-model definitions. This thesis takes a constructive approach to study weak memory models. We first construct a base model for weak memory models by considering how a multiprocessor is formed by connecting uniprocessors to a shared memory system.
We try to minimize the constraints in the base model as long as the model enforces single-threaded correctness and matches the common assumptions made in multithreaded programs. With the base model, we can show not only the differences among different weak memory models, but also the implications of these differences, e.g., more definitional complexity or more implementation flexibility or failures to match programming assumptions. The construction of the base model also reveals that allowing load-store reordering (i.e., a younger store is executed before an older load) is the source of definitional complexity of weak memory models. We construct a new weak memory model WMM that disallows load-store reordering, and consequently, has a much simpler definition. We show that WMM has almost the same performance as existing weak memory models.
To evaluate the performance/power/area (PPA) of weak memory models versus that of strong memory models like TSO, we build an out-of-order superscalar cachecoherent multiprocessor. Our evaluation considers out-of-order multiprocessors of small sizes and benchmark programs written using portable multithreaded libraries and compiler built-ins. We find that the PPA of an optimized TSO implementation can match the PPA of implementations of weak memory models. These results provide a key insight that load execution in TSO processors can be as aggressive as, or even more aggressive than, that in weak-memory-model processors. Based on this insight, we further conjecture that weak memory models cannot provide better performance than TSO in case of high-performance out-of-order processors. However, whether weak memory models have advantages over TSO in case of energy-efficient in-order processors or embedded microcontrollers remains an open question.
by Sizhuo Zhang.
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Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Boyle, Adele. "Constructing Memories: Time Made Tangible." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34950.
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Time, by definition, is an intangible phenomenon. Everyone knows it exists and can tell the passage of time based on the track of the sun and the hands on a clock, but time itself is an invisible entity. This architectural thesis maintains that time can be made tangible through the relationships formed between people and their personal histories and memories. The predominant way the present knows anything about its past is through someoneâ s telling of it. A person who experienced the past shares with the present and in doing so, gives the past and time itself presence. This Memory Center, located in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., gives the opportunity for people to share their memories and experiences in order to give time physical presence. Like an interactive science museum, the Memory Center opens itself to the people who visit it and allows for interactions that create lasting memories. Although one cannot consciously control most of what becomes memory, events that are new or unusual or involve interacting with new people usually form stronger and more lasting memories.Master of Architecture
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Luger, Moberley. "Poetry after 9/11 : constructing the memory of crisis." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30465.
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My dissertation examines the cultural functions of poetry in the aftermath of the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. After 9/11, poems could be found in
many and unexpected places: they were posted on the internet in the tens of thousands; published
in newspapers, magazines, and single-author books; read aloud on television and on radio and
collected in at least ten anthologies. Seeking to explain this surge in poetry’s popularity, many
critics have discussed the genre’s ability to provide comfort. I suggest that poems after 9/11 be
seen also as examples of memory scholar Marita Sturken’s “technologies of memory”:
politically-charged objects through which memories are shared, produced, and given meaning. I
argue that poetry can be held accountable for its production of the memory of 9/11 and that it can
be investigated for the multiple functions it serves in the aftermath of crisis. Using the resources
of memory studies, and of cultural studies of poetry, my dissertation makes a case for poetry’s
political, memorial, witness, and public-discourse functions.
My chapters explore (1) the popularity of W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” after 9/11
and the contemporary politics of the poem’s circulation; (2) the memorial function of poetry as
that function is negotiated in a text installation in the newly-built 7 World Trade Centre; (3) the
function of poetry as witness and the way the mediation of 9/11 invites a reconsideration of the
witness position itself; and (4) the public-discourse function of poetry found, for example, at
poetry.com, where 55, 031 people have uploaded their 9/11 poems. By studying poetry’s national
presence after 9/11, I challenge the idea, dominant especially since the mid-twentieth century,
that poetry is a marginal genre in literature and culture. I also challenge the mid-twentieth century
notion that poetry’s value can best be found in its timelessness. Poetry had many timely functions
after 9/11 and can be read as a set of discursive practices integrated in our everyday lives.
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Nash, Robert Alastair. "The metacognitive roles of external evidence in memory construction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2781/.
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Human memory is not like a videotape that conserves faithful records of events. Rather, memories are reconstructed, and to this end people engage in a fallible process of source monitoring. When source monitoring, people judge whether their mental content constitutes a memory by considering its characteristics. For instance, vivid, plausible, familiar mental images are more likely to be memories than are mental images that possess none of these cues. Such cues—derived from a subjective inspection of mental content—are here termed internal evidence of an event’s occurrence. Contrastingly, recent research has examined the capacity of external evidence—obtained via perception rather than introspection—to promote distortions. This thesis explores the effects of external evidence on autobiographical beliefs and memories, in terms of the underlying cognitive mechanisms, the conditions under which distortions can occur, and their behavioural consequences. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrate the capacity of external evidence to distort people’s beliefs and memories of their recent experiences, even those that are memorable, and even when people are warned about false evidence. These experiments provide preliminary data on causal mechanisms underlying the distortions, explored more directly in Experiment 3. The findings of Experiments 1-3 have numerous practical applications, particularly with respect to the functions of legal evidence. Experiments 4-5 ask whether seeing fabricated evidence might elicit false confessions from innocent suspects. The experiments show extremely high levels of compliance, and demonstrate that seeing false evidence can promote internalisation of guilt, and confabulation. Alongside discussion of theoretical implications of Experiments 1-5, the findings are used to amend Mazzoni and Kirsch’s (2002) model of autobiographical belief and memory. The amended model captures the effects of external evidence on source monitoring, and thus provides a better account of autobiographical memory processes. This thesis, in sum, helps us to understand the roles of external evidence in memory construction.
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Kanar, Ege. "Photography as artificial memory: Construction of the Photographic Self." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze. Filmová a televizní fakulta AMU. Knihovna, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-78095.
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Hammond, Ralph. "The construction of physiotherapists' identities through collective memory work." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2013. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/a006339e-c660-4b59-a5f0-07efa1e962a2.
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This thesis examines the challenges for professional practice, socialisation, and identity in Physiotherapy. The government‘s modernisation agenda and society‘s increasing expectations of healthcare require physiotherapists to update their role, location, and identity. Physiotherapy has viewed identity as a fixed entity emphasizing coherence, continuity and distinctiveness. Socialisation has required the acquisition of a professional identity as one among several necessary assets‘ for novices. Yet how do physiotherapists come to be the physiotherapists they are?
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Kaulicke, Peter. "Space and Time in the Formative Period: Some Final Reflections." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113584.
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These final reflections stress the relevance of this substantial collection of papers presented in both volumes of the Boletín. Monumental architecture is particularly important with early beginnings, long construction sequences, and, as such, testimony of local histories, identities and memories. It transmits cosmological and cosmogonic ideas as ceremonial centers and organizes the landscape, and thus can be defined as central places in an economic, political and social sense. As such, it is of major relevance to the establishment of interaction spheres.Las reflexiones finales enfatizan la relevancia de esta colección sustancial de contribuciones. De particular importancia es la arquitectura monumental, que se inicia de manera muy temprana y se presenta en forma de secuencias. Esta arquitectura, por lo tanto, define historias locales, transmite identidad, memoria, así como ideas cosmológicas y cosmogónicas en su calidad de centro ceremonial, organiza el paisaje y se establece como lugar central en un sentido económico, social y político. Como tal desempeña un papel sustancial en las esferas de interacción.
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Kim, Jinwoo. "Memory hierarchy management through off-line computational learning." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/8194.
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Bays, Rebecca. "Investigating a Model of False Memory Construction: Is Seeing Believing?" Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/epse_diss/72.
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In the current literature review I examine false memory research, including variables that affect memory accuracy, instrumentation, and analyses used to assess false memory construction, as well as possible frameworks accounting for the development of false memories. Do errors in memory occur during encoding of an event or during retrieval of a memory? I discuss two models of false memories, both born from the source-monitoring framework, to highlight the important cognitive processes leading to crucial errors in memory recall. In the study that follows I investigate whether repeated imaginings of an implausible autobiographical event will lead to the creation of false memories. Plausibility, in the form of prevalence ratings, and visual imagery are manipulated for six suggested events that could have occurred during childhood. A model proposed by Pezdek and colleagues supports the roles of plausibility and imagination in false memory construction (Pezdek, Finger & Hodge, 1997; Pezdek, Blandon-Gitlin & Gabbay, 2006). However, their model is based on research conducted using a Life Events Inventory, a survey that assesses a belief rather than a memory construct. In the present study, I use the Autobiographical Belief and Memory Questionnaire, a survey instrument that distinctly measures plausibility, belief and memory (Scoboria, Mazzoni, Kirsch & Relyea, 2004). Confirmatory factor analysis is employed for instrument validation, followed by a 2 (plausibility: high or low) x 3 (number of imaginings: 0, 1, 5) x 2 (time: pre or post) within subjects ANOVA to test the Pezdek model of false memory construction. Both belief and memory ratings increase significantly when imagination is employed, regardless of event plausibility. However, memory ratings increase as the number of imaginings increase. Belief ratings only increase with one imagining. Present results provide insight into the role of visual imagery on memory accuracy, and inform researchers of appropriate survey instruments and statistical analyses to detect false memories. False memory research is valuable for informing therapeutic techniques, evaluating the reliability of eyewitness testimony, and advising interrogation procedures used by law enforcement and legal officials.
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Collier, Shannon. "Constructing a Memory House: Preserving the Past through Personal Relics." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/750.
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Forchelli, Gina Anna. "Construction and Validation of an Ecological Measure of Working Memory." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/314763.
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Working memory (WM) has been closely linked to learning and achievement in children (Gathercole et al., 2004). The Forchelli Following Directions Task (FFDT) is a 15-item group-administered screener designed to assess working memory ability in school-aged children. The FFDT was developed to address the need for early identification of children with working memory difficulty. It specifically focuses on the need for easily administered and ecologically valid assessment. The FFDT was developed based on tasks cited in research to assess WM. The measure was developed across three iterations after receiving continual review from research experts in working memory and a group of three elementary school teachers. It also was piloted by three elementary school children to assess group-administration considerations. Participants in the validation study were 70 elementary school students 5 to 10 years of age spanning kindergarten to third grade were recruited from schools in the greater Philadelphia area. Participants were administered the group-administered working memory screener and completed individually administered measures of working memory, the WISC-IV Digit Span and Spatial Span, for comparison. Parents and teachers also completed behavior rating scales (i.e., BRIEF) measuring working memory. The FFDT demonstrated a sufficient Alpha's coefficient, indicating internal consistency. Significant Pearson correlations were found between existing measures of WM and the FFDT, indicating that the FFDT measures WM ability to a similar extent. The FFDT demonstrated good sensitivity to age and grade, as well. Further, the results of a ROC analysis comparing the identification of WM difficulty on the FFDT to existing measures of WM demonstrated a low to moderate effect. Overall, results indicate that the FFDT exhibited good reliability and validity. The anecdotal support of elementary school teachers and time efficiency of the task compared to existing WM measures also suggests good ecological validity. This study also demonstrated the utility of the FDDT in populations within a Response to Intervention (RtI) framework. Further research will be challenged to investigate the FFDT further scrutinize the construct validity and demonstrate significance in a larger, more representative sample of students.
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Bhavnagarwala, Azeez Jenúddin. "Voltage scaling constraints for static CMOS logic and memory cirucits." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/15401.
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Li, Chun-Mei. "Elastic properties and phase stability of shape memory alloys from first-principles theory." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Tillämpad materialfysik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-38456.
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Ni-Mn-Ga and In-Tl are two examples of shape memory alloys. Their shape memory effect is controlled by the martensitic transformation from the high temperature cubic phase to the low temperature tetragonal phase. Experimentally, it was found that the martensitic transformation, related to the elastic properties, is highly composition-dependent.In order to better understand the phase transition and facilitate the design of new materials with improved shape memory properties, the atomic scale description of the thermophysical properties of these alloys is needed. Therefore, in the presen tthesis, the elastic properties and phase stability of Ni-Mn-Ga and In-Tl shape memory alloys are investigated by the use of first-principles exact muffin-tin orbitals method in combination with the coherent-potential approximation. We present a theoretical description of the equilibrium properties of pure In and standard stoichiometric Ni2MnGa alloy with both cubic and tetragonal structures. In In-Tl alloys, all the calculated composition-dependent thermophysical properties: lattice parameter c/a, tetragonal shear modulus C" = (C11 - C12)/2, energy difference between the austenitic and martensitic phases, as well as electronic structures are shown to be in line with the experimentally observed lowering of the martensitic transition temperature TM with the addition of Tl. For most of the off-stoichiometric Ni2MnGa, the excess atoms of the rich component prefer to occupy the sublattice of the deficient one, except for the Ga-rich alloys, where the excess Ga atoms have strong tendency to take the Mn sublattice irrespective of the Mn occupation. In Ni-Mn-Ga-X (X=Fe, Co, and Cu) quarternary alloys, Fe atom prefers to occupy the Mn and Ni sublattices even in Ga-deficient alloys; Co has strong tendency to occupy the Ni-sublattice in all types of alloys; Cu atoms always occupy the sublattice of the host elements in deficiency. For most of the studied Ni-Mn-Ga and Ni-Mn-Ga-X alloys with stable site-occupations, the shear modulus C" can be considered as a predictor of the composition dependence of TM of the alloys: the alloy with larger C" than that of the perfect Ni2MnGa generally possesses lower TM except for Ni2Mn1+xGa1-x and Ni2Mn1-xGaFex. The failure of C" as a factor of TM in these two types of alloys may be ascribed that the compositiondependentmagnetic interactions and the temperature-dependent C0, which also playan important role on the martensitic transformation in these alloys. Furthermore, wedemonstrate that a proper account of the temperature and composition dependence ofC0 gives us reasonable theoretical TM(x) values in Ni2+xMn1-xGa alloys. Also in this type of Ni-rich and Mn-deficient alloys, by using the Heisenberg model in combination with the mean-field approximation, the abnormal trend of experimental magnetic transition temperature TC(x) with respect to the composition x is shown to be well captured by the theory.QC 20110830
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Gauggel, Andrew W. "The Resurrection of the Dead: New Construction in Cities of Memory." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336682136.
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Shi, Tong. "Toward constructing a memory model for building a Chinese mental lexicon." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392908882.
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Terrance, Cheryl A. (Cheryl Ann) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "Jury simulation; the construction of victims in the courtroom." Ottawa, 2000.
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Zabanick, Uriol Jhordano Jesus Alfredo. "Contenedor en madera: Memoria constructiva en Oxapampa." Bachelor's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/18861.
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Oxapampa, ciudad ubicada en la selva central del Perú, mantiene una tradición del
uso de la madera como principal materia prima de su arquitectura. Asimismo, acoge
festivales y eventos culturales, lo cual, sumado al déficit de equipamiento cultural,
hace pensar en la necesidad de implementar un complejo que soporte esta
demanda.
El lugar de intervención escogido corresponde al lote del ex Cine Lido,
recientemente demolido (1957), con una ubicación privilegiada frente a la Plaza de
Armas. Sin embargo este edificio carecía de un valor arquitectónico considerable, y
su lenguaje, heredero de una modernidad inconclusa, resultaba muy disonante con
la expresión arquitectónica del lugar. Es por ello que no se plantea el reciclaje de un
edificio, sino el de una memoria constructiva.
La propuesta parte del análisis de la arquitectura vernacular, ya que se observa una
voluntad por techar luces cada vez más grandes desde viviendas hasta
equipamientos públicos, como iglesias, centros de esparcimiento, entre otros.
El proyecto se entiende como un contenedor. A partir de lo analizado, se propone
una estructura de soporte que acoge diferentes actividades, las cuales se organizan
de acuerdo a sus requerimientos espaciales. Un sistema de esqueleto, en el que
la estructura, forma y programa se conjugan generando espacios definidos.
La estructura en madera es soportada por un anillo de concreto armado, el
cual le otorga rigidez al edificio y define un zócalo que determina la
horizontalidad de la fachada exterior, dándole continuidad para entender el
edificio como un volumen único que contiene la plaza.
Es así que el proyecto propone el reciclaje a través de reforzar la vigencia de
una tradición constructiva mediante su actualización tecnológica, otorgándole un
valor contemporáneo a un espacio cargado de historia en la memoria de los
oxapampinos.
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Hudson, Laura Gwynne. "Memory and identity (de)construction : an a/r/tographic act of inquiry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32837.
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This text documents an a/r/tographic act of inquiry into memory and identity
(de)construction. Speaking in, through, and of images the work physically
situates itself in spaces uncharted. Meaning asserts and reveals itself between
words, creating an other-text which defies boundaried definitions in its resistance
to be known. That which we seek to map or mark eludes us. Knowledge is
displaced in its representation. It is our longing for meaning which paradoxically
interferes with its own processes. Spaces (dis)lodged between borderlands
(Irwin 2004) shift and elude our grasp. The work resists that which it seeks to
define and erases that which it seeks to name. It calls upon us to create space
for doubt and unknowing within our own longing for understanding(s).
If, as Grumet (1996) asserts "education is about a human being making sense of
her life" (17) we must be aware of the ways curricular directives "do and do not
stand for our experience" (19). The crisis of modernism is that we exist as
fractured selves (Pinar 1996) within curricular landscapes which cut us off from
our own identity (24). Pinar claims that "understanding curriculum as the
revelation and construction of identity implies understanding education as a form
of social psychoanalysis... (American) identity is constructed partly by denial, by
maintaining fictions" (25). I view curriculum as traumatized text - that which
refuses to be 'known' by the curriculum serves to subvert, bury and deny the learner's knowing. Absence of authentic dialogue creates gaps in the curricular
landscape which serve to silence and partition off knowing - essentially, the
learners are partitioned off from themselves.
The work calls upon us to re-imagine curriculum as the space between learner
and text/image, where meaning is continually (re)(de)constructed in the fissures
of lived experience. It calls upon us to dwell (Aoki 1993) in spaces of uncertainty
and ambiguity - spaces for possibility. If wisdom begins in wonder (Socrates) as
I believe it does, we must embrace what may be the ultimate paradox in
teaching: to facilitate learning we must also be willing to facilitate unlearning.
May we, as Walt Whitman decrees, 'ordain ourselves loos'd of limits and
imaginary lines'.Education, Faculty of
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Johnston, Martin. "A distributed memory model for the construction of topologically ordered feature maps." Thesis, University of York, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304078.
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Urquiza, Arribas C. "Constructing concepts and word meanings : the role of context and memory traces." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1463235/.
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The main aim of this thesis is to develop a new account of concepts and word meaning which provides a fully adequate basis for inferential accounts of linguistic communication, while both respecting philosophical insights into the nature of concepts and cohering with empirical findings in psychology on memory processes. In accord with the ‘action’ tradition in linguistic theorising, I maintain that utterance/speaker meaning is more basic than sentence meaning and that the approach to word meaning that naturally follows from this is ‘contextualism’. Contextualism challenges two assumptions of the traditional ‘minimalist’ approach to semantics: (i) that semantics (rather than pragmatics) is the appropriate locus of propositional content (hence truth-conditions); and, (ii) that words contribute stable, context-independent meanings to the sentences in which they appear. I set out two stages in the development of an adequate contextualist account of utterance content. The first provides an essential reformulation of the early insights of Paul Grice by demonstrating the unavoidability of pragmatic contributions to truth-conditional content. The second argues that the ubiquity of context-dependence justifies a radically different view of word meaning from that employed in all current pragmatic theorising, including relevance theory: rather than words expressing concepts or encoding stable meanings of any sort, both concepts and word meanings are constructed ad hoc in the process of on-line communication/interpretation, that is, in their situations of use. Finally, I show how my account of word meaning is supported by recent research in psychology: context-dependence is also rampant in category and concept formation, and multiple-trace memory models show how information distributed in memory across a multitude of previous occasions of language use can come together to build an occasion-specific word meaning, thereby bypassing the need for fixed word meanings.
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Holtschneider, K. Hannah. "German Protestants remember the Holocaust : theology and the construction of collective memory /." Münster : Lit, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38881318n.
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Goldberger, Tyler Jordan. "Memory As A Tool Of Resignification/"The Contested Nature Of Constructing National Identity"." W&M ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1616444283.
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“Memory as a Tool of Resignification: Shifting Spain’s Valley of the Fallen from a Historic Monument to a Memory Site” As early as April 1, 1940, one year to the day that Nationalist forces defeated Republicanism in the Spanish Civil War, Dictator Francisco Franco proclaimed the erection of a monument known as the “Valley of the Fallen.” The signification of this monument had always intended to honor the fallen Nationalists while disregarding the sacrifice and memories of the Republican narrative, and this was confirmed when Franco was interred in the center of the Valley with an inscribed tombstone, one of only two distinguished tombstones despite the over 33,000 bodies buried in this site. This paper engages with the work of dialectical memory in demonstrating how those related to victims of Republicans during the war and subsequent Franco dictatorship have fought to have their loved ones memorialized through the constantly transforming meaning of the Valley despite counter-memory practices that reject this resignification. Analyzing the political, cultural, and social circumstances that have shaped the Valley and who it memorializes leading up to Franco’s body being exhumed from the Valley in October 2019, this paper demonstrates how memory from different sides of this history have contributed to a new meaning of the Valley, one that more inclusively acknowledges and honors the memories of a broader range of Spanish Civil War victims. “The Contested Nature of Constructing National Identity: The Appropriation of Tecún Umán through Representation in Guatemala after 1960” In 1960, the Guatemalan Congress honored Tecún Umán, one of the last indigenous leaders before the Spanish conquistadores conquered the land, as a National Hero. Following this declaration, different actors in Guatemala, including elites, local voices, and select indigenous figures, appropriated Tecún Umán’s image through a variety of public-facing representations. This paper analyzes various print publications, erected monuments, and currency that depict Tecún Umán’s image and argues that these different representations contribute to a construction of a particular national identity in Guatemala. By deconstructing the military as the only group with agency and power, other communities have prioritized their needs in crafting representations of Tecún Umán and how he contributes to a national identity. Understanding national identity as a unique construction in which different voices craft certain representations for their own purposes, this paper argues that these representations assert intentional images of indigeneity that demonstrate how Guatemalan society acknowledges and accepts indigenous identities.
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Parry, Katherine. "CONSTRUCTING AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORIES IN CENTRAL FLORIDA." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2754.
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From the time of their occurrence up to the present, people have constructed and revised narratives about violent racial events in Florida. In the case of the racial violence in Ocoee and the lynching of July Perry, multiple accounts coexisted until one particular group in the 1990's contested earlier conservative white Southern narratives with new public memories containing African American perspectives of the events, demanding racial justice and memorialization of the events. A struggle over the power to construct this narrative resulted in compromises between the two sets of memories. While some goals were attained, the landscape of memorization remains undeveloped. The construction of a narrative concerning the meaning of Harry T. Moore's life and death entered the public domain at his death and remained unchanging, carried forward by the collective memories of African Americans in Florida. Historians reassessed his role as a martyr for civil rights to the first martyr of the Civil Right's Movement. A group of African Americans in Brevard County were successful in attaining resources that included landscape and a memorial complex during the 1990's and the first decade of 2000. The construction of public memories and the power to gain landscape and resources for commemoration reflected the aims and power of each group. Because the public memories of July Perry were contested, the group could not attain commemorative landscapes. However, the narratives about Harry T. Moore had consensus, allowing significant commemorations.M.A.
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Li, Fuhua, and 李富华. "Design, analysis, control and application of permanent magnet brushless dual-memory machines." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/208621.
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Conventional PM machines have fixed PM excitation and can only perform flux-weakening by controlling the d-axis current. This current incurs the power dissipation and reduces the efficiency during flux-weakening operations.
Memory machines change this situation by introducing the memory function, namely magnetizing or reversely magnetizing Al-Ni-Co PMs to change the air-gap flux density. This provides another new way to realizing flux-weakening. And the elimination of the flux-weakening d-axis current improves the overall efficiency. But the single-memory machines have lower power density due to the low-energy Al-Ni-Co PMs.
By incorporating the memory concept and with the intention of improving the power density, the DC-excited PMBL dual-memory machines have been proposed and implemented, based on two kinds of PMs which are high-coercivity Nd-Fe-B PMs and low-coercivity Al-Ni-Co PMs. The Nd-Fe-B PMs provide a strong magnetic field to excite high air-gap flux density; while the Al-Ni-Co PMs can be forward magnetized to strengthen the magnetic field produced by Nd-Fe-B PMs or can be reversely magnetized to cancel that field. Consequently the air-gap flux density can be controlled within a wide range.
A series of design principles on such kind of dual-memory machine are devised for guidance. The key design principles involve how to determine the number of salient poles on the stator and rotor, how to choose the surface areas and thicknesses of the two kind of PM pieces and how to size the rotor dimension.
Generally, increase on the proportion of Nd-Fe-B PMs will raise the base field and the load capacity. On the other hand, increment on the proportion of Al-Ni-Co PMs will extend the controllable flux range. Analysis is also carried out on the equivalent magnetic circuit to formulate the magnetizing force exerted on Al-Ni-Co PMs.
The machine model is analyzed by using time-stepping FEM (TS-FEM) and co-simulation of FEM software and Matlab Simulink. The dynamic reverse magnetizing processes are simulated and presented in details under different magnetizing current. In addition the effect of adding iron bridges between the two kinds PMs is also evaluated by simulations.
Furthermore, the control methods are evaluate by simulations and experiments. The direct torque control (DTC) scheme is adapted to this doubly-salient dual-memory machine and a torque estimator is proposed to facilitate the DTC method. Both of the simulation results and the experimental results confirm the validity of the proposed design principles and the effectiveness of the control methods.
Eventually, this dual-memory machine is proposed as a pole-changing wind power generator and a pole-changing EV machine. Simulation and experimental results have verified the validity of the pole-changing scheme and the pole-protection scheme.published_or_final_version
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Norton, Kristen. "I am a citizen of the world constructing the public memory of Arthur Ashe /." Tallahassee, Florida : Florida State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04112010-112828/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2010.Advisor: Jennifer Koslow, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of History. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed on July 13, 2010). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 87 pages. Includes bibliographical references.
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Egbert, Teresa M. K. "Self through remembrance : identity construction and memory in the novels of Octavia E. Butler." Thesis, Bangor University, 2016. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/self-through-remembrance(370d2dc4-e0b2-4000-a0b8-aa696469142e).html.
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This thesis focuses on the roles of memory and identity in Octavia E. Butler’s novels: Kindred, Lilith’s Brood, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Fledgling. By using material from such diverse disciplines as philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and sociology, I have treated the characters in Butler’s novels as individual selves; selves narrated by a living Butler. In current identity studies, the thought is that the self is constructed through narrative; therefore, what better way to analyze individual characters and communities than through the narrative provided by Butler. These selves are, of course, fictional, but how often are the selves we present, even temporarily, to the world in a given situation a fictional construction. We use many different critical tools to interpret and understand the world around us. While it is important to acknowledge the insightful implications of Butler’s work in regard to African American, gender, and feminist studies, there are unexplored approaches to her writing that can contribute to understanding the intricacies of Butler’s writing. This look at Butler’s texts shows that by opening up the ways we traditionally look at certain texts we can gain a more multi-faceted view of those texts, which are sometimes viewed through a type of tunnel vision. My discussion begins with a look at the theories used in the analyses of Butler’s novels. First, I look at Kindred and a discussion of individual identities and how they are deeply connected to group affiliations, as well as history. Then I move on to how group identities are created and influenced by collective memories in Lilith’s Brood. The Parable novels are the focus of my discussion on the construction of self through narrative. I end my analyses with a look at neuroscience and memory pathology through the amnestic protagonist of Fledgling.
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Torres, Ana Cecília da Gama. "Working memory capacity and reader's performance on main idea construction in L1 and L2." Florianópolis, SC, 2003. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/85195.
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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-20T16:14:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 204122.pdf: 1189470 bytes, checksum: ef11263f1dadfe4cf341f0aa1fa3635d (MD5)
Este estudo tem três objetivos. O primeiro é investigar se há uma relação entre a capacidade de memória de trabalho e o desempenho na tarefa de construção de idéias principais em textos mal sinalizados (L1- português/ L2- inglês). O segundo é descrever o processo de construção de idéias principais. O terceiro objetivo é verificar se há uma relação entre o perfil de escolha de estratégias usadas na construção de idéias principais e a capacidade de mémoria de trabalho dos leitores.
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Finney, Timothy John. "Urban Hospice: A Montage of Expiration and Memory." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31237.
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Architecture is visuality. Its object is what Norman Bryson has referred to as a screen of signs. â Between subject and the world is inserted the entire sum of discourses which make up visuality, that cultural construct, and make visuality different from vision, the notion of unmediated visual experience. Between retina and the world is inserted a screen of signs, a screen consisting of all the multiple discourses on vision built into the social arena.â (Norman Bryson, from Practice; Architecture, Technique, and Representation, by Stan Allen)
Architecture and representation are integral to the screen.
How do we make architecture?
Is the act of making architecture a montage?
Can architecture be made through montage?
What is the role of montage in an architecture for life and death?
The process of making architecture is not a prescribed methodology with a predetermined outcome. Architecture, crafted by the hand of the architect, is a divine act of assemblage of subconscious allegorical thought, image, and tectonics. Through this art of assemblage, an architecture is born capable of instigating a narrative of metaphor and memory. Metaphorical narrative has the innate ability of summoning memory, and is critical in an architecture for life and death. Architecture is the only total sensory means of narrative.
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Ozorhon, Beliz. "Organizational Memory In Construction Companies: A Case-based Reasoning Model As An Organizational Learning Tool." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604852/index.pdf.
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Companies struggle against complex and dynamic conditions in order to survive in their business settings. Being in the knowledge era, learning has been accepted as one of the main sources of sustainable competitive advantage. Organizational learning (OL) is a set of activities to obtain organizational memory (OM) by acquiring, sharing, interpreting, integrating and institutionalizing knowledge. OM is exploited by the companies in strategic decision-making process, which makes OL a critical concept.
The major objective of this study is to explore how construction companies create OM and how they exploit this asset in strategic decision-making process. In this context, an interview study is conducted with eight large Turkish construction companies and OM perceptions of each company are presented as case studies. This survey revealed the strengths and weaknesses in terms of OL competence. One of the key outputs is that companies are successful at acquiring and storing knowledge but they are not familiar with decision support systems
(DSSs) that benefit from OM. Such systems enable OL by assisting decision makers in processing, assessing, integrating and organizing knowledge. To meet the requirements of the industry, a DSS is proposed to aid construction companies in international market entry decisions. This tool is generated under a software package by adopting case-based reasoning (CBR) as the problem solving approach, which finds solutions to new problems based on the past experiences. The model is developed by the acquisition of past real international project data as input information. The model produces two outputs that are indicators of attractiveness of a project and competitiveness of a company, which are the key decision criteria in international market entry problem.
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Hu, Tzu-Yun. "Culture, memory, and space on stage : the construction of female Hakka contemporary theatre in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3571.
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Theatre is a location of cultures, the reflection of our daily lives, the present moment we are living. This thesis focuses on studying performances of the Hakka Contemporary Theatre created by female directors (Hakka and Non-Hakka) in Taiwan to observe how they combine western modern theatre forms with Hakka traditional and cultural elements and further transformed the specifics of Hakka culture on stage and represented various images of Hakka women. Through applying theories in relation to diaspora discourse, the hybridity of post-colonialism and postcolonial feminism and theatre study as the foundation of academic research, I attempted to critically examine the hybrid forms and development of the Hakka Contemporary Theatre to explore in depth the meaning of Hakka culture represented in theatre. In this thesis, I firstly offer performance analysis and draw on hybridity discourse and feminism in relation to post-colonial study to discuss three elements: the interaction and negotiated relationship between Hakka women (including female directors and the Hakka actresses), Hakka culture, and modern theatre forms. Furthermore, as part of my research, I critically reflect upon a practical performance project I have undertaken to illustrate how Hakka culture could be presented as subject and be constructed as the subjectivity of the Hakka ethnic group in post-colonial Taiwan. I hope that this thesis may encourage more Taiwanese to appreciate the value of Hakka culture and offer Taiwanese theatrical practitioners a practice of critical hybridity in associating ethnic and cultural issues of Taiwan in the future.
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Launchbury, Claire Louise. "Music in transmission constructing French cultural memory at the BBC during the second world war." Thesis, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536890.
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Weston, Brenna Elizabeth. "Ghosts and Graveyards: Colonial Park Cemetery and Memory Construction on Ghost Tours in Savannah, Georgia." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27970.
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This thesis examines memory construction and landscape interaction on ghost tours at
Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. The research in this thesis centers on the ways in
which ghost tours in the area interact with the cemetery?s landscape and how oral narratives
compare with written sources through the lenses of authority and authenticity. Ghost tour
narratives are included in a larger argument for their usefulness and importance to
archaeologists, especially for introducing dialogues with local communities about site
interpretation and preservation. This may also be useful for archaeologists researching
intersections of landscape interactions and modern interpretations.
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Jones, I. R. "Policy, memory and voice : re-constructing narratives of widening participation in higher education in England." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1559751/.
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This study offers two contributions to research and practice on different representations of widening participation as an analysis of policy but also for policy. The first contribution is methodological. An interpretive methodological framework has been designed by combining narrative policy analysis, institutional ethnography and the concept of bricolage. The framework was used to analyze and interpret policies and practices within six national and institutional policy texts, interviews with seven national and eight institutional policy actors and a diary of field notes and critical events. The methodology and methods enabled me to ask what the discourses and narratives of widening participation were in higher education in England, between 2004 and 2014, how these were interpreted and whether they could be re-constructed and re-cast. In the second contribution, narratives were incorporated into an explanatory typology of widening participation derived from a re-construction of ‘restricted’ and ‘reformist’ narratives and an ‘extended’ metanarrative. National policy actors, and those within the institution where I work, constructed different narratives of widening participation embodying various notions of transition, of their organisation and their own places within organisational stories. These suggested widening participation and transition are not simply problems to be managed but a set of recurring and complex dilemmas to be problematized. The typology may enhance research on the complexities of policy and practice by going beyond ‘the student lifecycle’. However, ‘extended’ metanarratives are not a compromise or comparison between ‘restricted’ and ‘reformist’ narratives. The typology is not designed to reduce complexities to distinct and static categories. Instead, by interpreting struggles between narratives, an ‘extended’ metanarrative may offer a starting point in a re-casting of policy and practice and the typology a possibility for further research on widening participation.
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Schwartz, David Asa. "Shifting signifier on the sidelines : memory and boundary work in the construction of Joe Paterno." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3185.
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Using myth, media memory, and boundary work as the theoretical underpinnings, this research aims to understand how journalists manipulated meanings assigned to a single subject over a long period of time. The research explores how journalists shaped and reshaped former Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno, and how journalists imprinted evolving cultural values on Paterno. As “what matters” within a culture shifts, the journalistic narrative of authority figures and heroes shifts along with it to reflect new or emerging cultural values.
The research also examined what happens to a profession when it faces severe structural unrest. In this case, disruption to the Paterno narrative was caused by new technologies that increased access to the profession. To accomplish these research goals, the researcher employed qualitative and historical research methods, including archival research, textual analysis of newspaper, magazine, and online articles, and a critical historical analysis that allowed for input from multiple paradigms.
The examination of shifting, long-term journalistic narrative matters because it helps us understand how cultures respond and adapt to gradual changes in values or sudden moments of public trauma. This research also offers journalism professionals insights into how new technologies affect industrial structures.
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Wilson, Christopher Samuel. "Remembering And Forgetting In The Funerary Architecture Of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: The Construction And Maintenance Of National Memory." Phd thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608490/index.pdf.
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This dissertation traces the concept of national memory through the five architectural spaces that have housed the dead body of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: the bedroom in Dolmabahç
e Palace, Istanbul, where he died on 10 November 1938
the catafalque in the Grand Ceremonial Hall of Dolmabahç
e Palace used between 16-19 November 1938
the official funeral stage in Ankara designed by Bruno Taut and used between 20-21 November 1938
the temporary tomb in The Ethnographic Museum, Ankara
and Atatü
rk&rsquo
s mausoleum, Anitkabir, in use since 10 November 1953. The dissertation firstly narrates the construction of a Turkish collective memory by means of architectural representation and politicization and secondly the physical and ideological maintenance of this memory by means of additions and subtractions to these spaces.
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Goerl, Katie. "Identity construction in the diaries of teenage girls: a study of the history and memory of female adolescence, 1870–1940." Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38428.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of History
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
At the conclusion of the first decade of the twentieth century, 60 percent of high school graduates were women. They were also the first generation of young women to be labeled as “adolescents” by psychologists. By 1950, the word “teenager” had not only been coined; it was part of everyday vernacular. Historians now recognize that adolescence — as a common set of ideas about how young people behave and interact with society — is a cultural construction that has changed over time. Using a combination of scholarly literature on the subject as well as primary sources to demonstrate and interpret the interplay between the exterior forces that shaped the cultural construction of adolescence and the interior forces that shaped young women's identities, this report addresses both how a collective memory of female adolescent identity arose and how individual memory operated in the context of this collective identity. Applying theories of collective memory to the individual diaries of six young women who came of age between 1870 and 1940, this analysis represents a departure from the traditional use of diaries in historical scholarship and provides a fresh approach to the analysis of collective memory.
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Dib, Amal [Verfasser]. "The Un(Civil) War : Media Framing and Memory Construction in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon / Amal Dib." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1193995280/34.
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Abbas, Andrea. "Sociological approaches to the sexed running body and its construction through magazine and memory 1979-1995." Thesis, Keele University, 2000. http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/7755/.
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This thesis explores the transforming embodiment of sex that is integral to the development of running/jogging culture between 1979-1995. Actor-network theory, a foucauldian approach and critical realism are each used to elucidate different aspects of running including the way it defines sex through the body, clothing, space and the rules and practices of running, jogging and racing.
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Carballo, Cristina. "Corporality and identity of the pilgrim gaucho. Tensions and negotiations in the re-construction of memory." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119584.
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The central idea of this paper is to make a critical review of the gaucho archetype analyzed from his corporality and identity. Corporality that recreates during a particular territoriality: the pilgrimage on horseback to the Our Lady Basilica at Lujan, Argentina. The purpose of this reviewing is the search of empirical connections among the diverse social objects, the traditionalist displacement and the religious practice, where corporality becomes substantial as catalyzer of those subjacent differentiations, non-viewed, under an apparent homogeneity.From there, it looks to break up the ingenuous vision of a unique and universal model of being gaucho, pilgrim and Argentine.La idea central que organiza este trabajo parte de la revisión crítica del arquetipo gaucho analizado desde su corporalidad e identidad. Corporalidad que se recrea durante una particular territorialidad: la peregrinación a caballo hacia la basílica de Nuestra Señora de Luján, en la ciudad de Luján, Argentina. El propósito de esta revisión es la búsqueda de conexiones empíricas entre los sujetos sociales diversos, el movimiento tradicionalista y la práctica religiosa, en que la corporalidad se hace sustantiva como catalizadora de estas diferenciaciones que subyacen, inadvertidas, por debajo de una aparente homogeneidad. Y a partir de allí, romper con la visión ingenua de un único modelo posible e universal del ser gaucho, peregrino y argentino.
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Armstrong, Luanne. "The ecology of identity: memoir and the construction of narrative." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62.
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My dissertation is an inquiry into issues of life-writing, narrative, and, in particular, into the genre of memoir, and into the theory, complexities and strategies of memoir as a particular space within the larger genre of autobiographical writing. Writing a personal narrative and then examining the process of that writing raises questions and challenges about such issues as ethics, identity, experience, memory, subjectivity, storytelling, and the interpretation, meaning and place of stories within our current culture. This dissertation is a discursive, dialogic conversation between my process and my understanding as an active, practicing literary writer, and as a researcher inquiring into that process and into the knowledge and new awareness that can be generated by the process of inquiry into life writing, autobiography and memoir. It is also an autoethnographic and experiential inquiry in which I explore my own experience from the multiple positions of rural working class woman, single parent mother, political activist, writer and researcher. However, the pronoun “I” is also a position from which I can articulate some of the experiential, collaborative, and collusive positionality that has shaped my personal notion of selfhood. My research and writing is about (re)cognition, about memoir in particular, and narrative and storytelling as the construction and reconstruction of various texts and the various interpretations that can result from such an analytic and critical study of this process. Within this narrative, autobiographical and theoretical inquiry, my dissertation intends to add to new knowledge of autobiographical writing and its theoretical and ethical dimensions.
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Schneider, Megan C. "Constructing Memory in the Wake of Tragedy: An Analysis of Film as a Tool of Collective Memory in the Aftermath of the Dictatorships in Argentina and Chile." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2256.
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Acting as an audiovisual vector of catharsis, film has proved an innovative and effective tool in the process of reconstructing collective memory in the aftermath of traumatic events. This thesis focuses on the emergence of filmmakers and their movies in the post-dictatorial periods in Argentina and Chile as both nations sought to confront their violent pasts. A general overview of the process of memory construction is included to provide background for the subsequent analysis of film as a vector of collective memory following trauma. An examination and comparison of various films produced for both domestic and international audiences detail each country’s engagement with the political and cinematic process of dealing with ideas of truth, memory, and identity. Central themes include the reconstruction of the identity of the desaparecidos and the challenges of producing films of a faithful, factual, reconstructive nature that also result in commercial success and appeal.