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Eddy, Raymond Greg. "Focusing the Senses." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9953.
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This thesis studies increasing awareness of the connectedness of the body to architecture. The objective is to explore and investigate the levels of attention required by each sense to summon the corporeal nature of the observers, to call us to a quietness of mind, transcending our western pace and creating awareness that leads our bodies and mind toward a unified perception of place.Master of Architecture
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O'Connell, Erin K. "Senses of Place." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276954023.
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Romero, Carolina. "Making sense of word senses : evidence for a lexical ambiguity continuum." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81510.
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Polysemy refers to word forms that have semantically related or overlapping meanings. Studies of polysemy are few in number and contradictory. Some find differences between polysemy and homonymy (Frazier & Rayner, 1990); others find similarities (Klein & Murphy, 2001). Here, polysemous words independently rated to have low, moderate, or high semantic overlap of their distinct meanings, were studied using the methods of Klein & Murphy. Participants judged the sensicality of phrases consisting of a modifier and a polysemous word as a function of a cooperating, conflicting, or neutral context. Low and moderate-overlap words elicited slower judgments than high-overlap words, and were facilitated by a cooperating context. In contrast, high-overlap words were uniformly fast and did not differ as function of context. Thus, low- and moderate-overlap polysemous words behave similarly to homonyms, whereas high-overlap words do not. This is taken as support for a lexical ambiguity continuum delimited by homonymy and polysemy, without precise boundaries between the two.
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Wansten, Jamie. "Back to your senses." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Trower, Shelley. "Senses of vibration, 1749-1911." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429100.
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Nudds, Matthew. "The nature of the senses." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/910/.
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My thesis provides an account of the nature of the senses. Many philosophers have supposed that the fact that we have different senses makes the integration of the senses problematic. In this thesis I argue that introspection reveals our perceptual experience to be amodal or unitary (that is, we cannot distinguish distinct experiences associated with each of our senses) and hence that the real problem is not how the senses are integrated with one another, but how and why we distinguish five senses in the first place. What we need is an account of what our judgements are about when we judge that we are, say, seeing something or some property. I argue that such an account cannot take any of the forms commonly supposed. Philosophers often assume that an account must appeal to differences between kinds of experience, but I argue that such differences are not sufficient to explain the way that we distinguish five senses. Nor can we explain the distinction by appealing to the different kinds of mechanism involved in perceiving, since recent cognitive psychological models of the mechanisms of perception show them to be functionally diverse in a way that undermines any correspondence between them and the five senses, and our common-sense grasp of the different mechanisms involved in perception presupposes a prior understanding of the distinction between different senses. I provide and account of the distinction that we make between the five senses, according to which the senses are not substantially distinct. Although our judgements about the senses are true, they are not judgements about kinds of thing; rather, we distinguish different ways of perceiving in terms of different, conventionally determined, kinds of perceptual interaction we can have with our environment.
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MANCINI, FLAVIA. "Multisensory modulations of bodily senses." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/28150.
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The human perceptual system is essentially multisensory. I studied how vision
modulates the bodily senses, particularly the multisensory modulation of the visual
context on touch and pain. I used a combination of behavioural, neurostimulation and
electro-physiological techniques to investigate the neural correlates of contextual
multisensory interactions.
I first demonstrated that the visual context modulates touch: task-irrelevant
visual arrowheads influence spatial representations of stimuli perceived by touch,
depending on the spatial coincidence between visual and tactile sensory inputs
(Chapter 1). These visuo-tactile interactions do not require spatial attention to occur,
being preserved in brain-damaged patients with attentional deficits (Chapter 2).
Importantly, the occipito-temporal cortex is causally involved in merging visual and
tactile inputs in multisensory representations of shape (Chapter 3).
I then showed that the visual context can also modulate pain perception: in
particular, I demonstrated that viewing one's own body in comparison to viewing an
object is analgesic, increasing contact heat-pain thresholds of 3.2 °C (Chapter 4). This
'visually-induced analgesia' is reflected in enhancements of sensory cortical rhythms,
possibly due to active inhibition of somatosensory processing (Chapter 5). In addition,
changes in the excitability of the extrastriate visual cortex are involved in
multisensory modulation of pain (Chapter 6).
Taken together, these results indicate that the visual context modulates the
processing of touch and pain. Visual cortical areas mediate visual-somatosensory
contextual interactions.
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Richardson, Louise Fiona. "What is distinctive about the senses?" Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2020/.
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For the most part, philosophical discussion of the senses has been concerned with what distinguishes them from one another, following Grice’s treatment of this issue in his ‘Remarks on the senses’ (1962). But this is one of two questions which Grice raises in this influential paper. The other, the question of what distinguishes senses from faculties that are not senses, is the question I address in this thesis. Though there are good reasons to think that the awareness we have of our bodies is perceptual, we do not usually think of bodily awareness as a sense. So in particular, I try to give an account of what it is that is distinctive about the five familiar modalities that they do not share with bodily awareness. I argue that what is distinctive about vision, touch, hearing, taste and smell, is that perception in all these modalities has enabling and disabling conditions of a certain kind. These enabling and disabling conditions are manifest in the conscious character of experience in these modalities, and exploited in active perceptual attention— in looking, listening, and so on. Bodily awareness has no such enabling conditions. The five familiar senses having this distinctive feature, and bodily awareness lacking it is not a merely incidental difference between them. Nevertheless, I do not claim that having these enabling conditions is necessary and sufficient for counting some faculty as a sense, or, correlatively, for something being an instance of sense-perception. Rather, we can see why it would serve certain (contingent) human interests for us to think of the faculties that involve these enabling conditions as instances of a single kind of thing, of which bodily awareness is not an instance.
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Adib, Fadel. "Wireless systems that extend our senses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108852.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
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Wireless signals, such as Wi-Fi, are traditionally used for communications. In this thesis, we show that these signals can also be used as sensing tools that enable us to learn about our environment without physically reaching out to the various objects in it. Specifically, as these signals travel in the medium, they traverse occlusions like walls and bounce off different objects and humans before arriving at a receiver; hence, they carry information about the environment. This thesis presents algorithms and software-hardware systems that extract this information to deliver a variety of new sensing capabilities. We deliver four fundamental contributions: We present the first design that uses Wi-Fi signals to see through walls, enabling us to detect people behind walls by relying purely on the reflections of Wi-Fi signals off their bodies. Next, we demonstrate how we can use radio frequency (RF) reflections to track people's 3D locations and gestures in indoor environments without requiring them to wear or carry any devices. Beyond localizing people, we introduce the first system that can recover human silhouettes through walls; the captured silhouettes enable us to track the 3D positions of human limbs and body parts and to distinguish between different people behind a wall. Finally, we show how smart environments can monitor their inhabitants breathing and heart rates by relying purely on how the human body modulates reflected RF signals. To deliver these contributions, we exploit physical properties of RF signals, work across software-hardware boundaries, and introduce new systems and new algorithms that require redesigning the entire computing stack, from the hardware to the applications. We implement and evaluate these systems demonstrating how they can enable many new real-world applications including baby monitoring, elderly fall detection, non-invasive vital sign tracking, gesture control, and human identification through walls..
by Fadel Adib.
Ph. D.
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Shin, Taeseop, and Stephan Hernandez. "Making kin : landscape, material and senses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129849.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, February, 2020Cataloged from student-submitted thesis.
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This project proposes a series of architecture and landscape interventions in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Koreas. The Korean war divided Korea into North and South. It divided their territories, and in doing so it also divided many of its families. During the seventy years since the war, the number of survivors of these family separations has gradually decreased through natural mortality, with only about 16 percent of those aged 80 or younger remaining as witnesses. In the next decade the memories of family ties across the DMZ may be lost forever. Very recently, in April 2019, the governments of North and South Korea and the U.S. have agreed to implement a new protocol that aims to ease the tension by requiring both countries to destroy all military outposts across the DMZ, and finally allowing the public to visit several places within the DMZ for the first time. The project started with collecting memories of some of the survivors of the war, traveling west to east across the DMZ. Interviews were conducted with members of families separated by the DMZ, and collecting material samples along the DMZ based on their memories. This preliminary research revealed that the landscapes of the DMZ were still triggering memories of their pre-war lives, over 70 years ago. Geography, materials, and other experiential elements figured strongly in the survivors' narratives. This project proposes architectural design for four different sites along the DMZ that are intended to foster new, non-familial kinship across the DMZ and based on our survivors' memories related to the landscape, material and sensory experience.
by Taeseop Shin [and] Stephan Hernandez.
M. Arch.
M.Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Le, Corre François. "Distinguishing the senses : individuation and classification." Thesis, Paris 6, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA066419.
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Cette Dissertation porte sur deux problèmes théoriques concernant les modalités sensorielles. Le premier pose la question de savoir comment les sens sont individués (indépendamment de la façon dont on les conçoit communément). La stratégie consiste à tester la résistance des critères d'individuation proposés dans la littérature contre les objections qui leur ont été adressées. Je défends la thèse selon laquelle les sens sont individués par les propriétés environnementales auxquelles ils donnent accès, et je montre que ce critère résiste à toutes les objections qui lui ont été adressés. Le second problème concerne l'origine de notre croyance en exactement cinq sens. Sur la base d'observations issues de l'anthropologie et de la linguistique comparative, je défends que cette croyance résulte uniquement de ce qui nous a été enseigné. En outre, ce travail doctoral contient deux études supplémentaires. La première porte sur la question de savoir comment les gens distinguent ordinairement les sens. Je défends que nos concepts ordinaires des sens sont sensibles aux types de propriétés environnementales auxquelles les sens donnent accès ainsi qu'aux parties du corps auxquelles ils sont attachés. La seconde étude se concentre sur le phénomène de la substitution sensorielle, longtemps considéré comme un défi pour l'individuation des sens. Je défends que la substitution sensorielle n'est pas un défi de cet ordre parce que le type d'information environnementale traité par un outil de substitution sensorielle est métamodale, i.e. accessible par n'importe qu'elle modalitéThis Dissertation is concerned with two theoretical issues about the senses. The first issue focuses on the question how the senses are to be individuated (regardless of the way one commonly conceive of them). The strategy is to test the ability of the criteria of individuation available in the literature to withstand objections. I argue that the senses are to be individuated in terms of the environmental properties they give access to, and show that this criterion can withstand all of the objections it has received. The second issue is the question why do we believe in exactly five senses? On the basis of observations from anthropology and comparative linguistics, I argue that this belief result from what we been taught. In addition, this Dissertation contains two supplementary studies. The first study focuses on the question how people ordinarily distinguish among the senses. I argue that people are sensitive both to the types of environmental properties the senses give access to and to the body parts they are attached to. The second study is concerned with the phenomenon of sensory substitution that has long been considered as a challenge for the individuation of the senses. I argue that sensory substitution is not a challenge of this kink because the type of environmental information processed by a sensory substitution device is metamodal, i.e. accessible through any sensory modality
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Martin, Gregory Isaac. "Legitimizing the Senses and Provoking Emotions." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33309.
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McDowell, Ashley Catherine. "Two senses of justification in epistemology." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289981.
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In epistemology, justification is supposed to capture what makes a belief reasonable as opposed to merely true. However, imagine someone in a society where throwing bones to predict the future is completely accepted. Of course this is a terrible way to come to hold beliefs, but if she is being as responsible as she knows how, we want to call her beliefs reasonable or justified in one sense, but not another. In this dissertation, I argue that we should incorporate two separate senses of justification into epistemological theorizing. Many philosophers have discussed two-sense views, but they have contrasted exclusive senses (e.g., a belief is either internally or externally justified), or included one sense within the other (e.g., all objectively justified beliefs must be subjectively justified as well). I am making a novel proposal, distinguishing between two overlapping senses: internal and objective senses of justification. They are independent but not exclusive, so that beliefs can be justified in either way independently, but the conditions for being justified in one sense do not fall completely outside of the conditions f or being justified in the other sense. Basically, a person's belief can be reasonable when considered on the inside or it can be reasonable when considered from an objective, all-things considered point of view . In Chapter One, I survey the internalism/externalism literature, in order to find in it a motivation for finding two senses of justification. I argue that intuitions and differences in use pose a strong motivation for attempting a two-sense view. My second chapter is a methodological one, exploring ways to make linguistic and theoretical arguments for adopting a two-sense view. In Chapter Three, I discuss various ways to disambiguate justification. I argue that the most promising way to make the distinction is between the internal and objective senses. Chapter Five is an argument that the internal/objective distinction has more theoretical utility and explanatory power than either a univocal sense or than other distinctions. The final chapter is an exploration of the implications of the internal/objective two-sense view for the internalism/externalism debate, justification, knowledge, and epistemology as a whole.
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Der-Kureghian, E. "Considerations in designing a cybernetic simple 'learning' model; and an overview of the problem of modelling learning." Thesis, Brunel University, 1988. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4868.
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Learning is viewed as a central feature of living systems and must be manifested in any artifact that claims to exhibit general intelligence. The central aims of the thesis are twofold: (1) - To review and critically assess the empirical and theoretical aspects of learning as have been addressed in a multitude of disciplines, with the aim of extracting fundamental features and elements. (2) - To develop a more systematic approach to the cybernetic modelling of learning than has been achieved hitherto. In pursuit of aim (1) above the following discussions are included: Historical and Philosophical backgrounds; Natural learning, both physiological and psychological aspects; Hierarchies of learning identified in the evolutionary, functional and developmental senses; An extensive section on the general problem of modelling of learning and the formal tools, is included as a link between aims (1) and (2). Following this a systematic and historically oriented study of cybernetic and other related approaches to the problem of modelling of learning is presented. This then leads to the development of a state-of-the-art general purpose experimental cybernetic learning model. The programming and use of this model is also fully described, including an elaborate scheme for the manifestation of simple learning.
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NEVES, JULIANA DUARTE. "ON PROJECTS FOR ALL THE SENSES: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ARCHITECTURE TOWARDS PROJECTS DIRECTED TO THE OTHER SENSES BEYOND VISION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=19246@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORPROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O presente trabalho aborda os sentidos sob o ponto de vista projetual. Seu principal objetivo é trazer contribuições teóricas e metodológicas à pesquisa na área de Design Emocional para o desenvolvimento de projetos dirigidos aos demais sentidos além da visão. Primeiramente, investiga o design de experiências em espaços físicos, questão atual e crucial das disciplinas projetuais tratadas pelo recente campo da arquitetura de atmosferas, a qual, por sua vez, tem como uma de suas principais estratégias contemplar todos os sentidos humanos. Em seguida, traz considerações sobre a importância de o designer expandir sua atenção para além dos aspectos visuais de seus produtos, apontando alguns motivos pelos quais a visão vem sendo tratada como o sentido hegemônico perante os demais. Discorre sobre e ilustra o papel de cada um de nossos sentidos na percepção do meio construído com base nos ensinamentos do psicólogo James Gibson (1966). Descreve, ainda, três importantes espaços físicos projetados com o propósito de promover experiências a seus visitantes e que, para tanto, se valeram de estratégias com foco em todos os sentidos: o Thermal Baths, o Blur Building e o Museu dos Judeus de Berlim. Por fim, esta pesquisa confirma a importância dos sentidos na expansão das respostas emocionais do usuário ao meio projetado.
This work deals with the senses from the point of view of projects. Its main goal is to bring theoretical and methodological contributions to the research field of Emotional Design for the development of projects directed towards the other senses beyond vision. First, it investigates experience design in physical spaces, a current and crucial question studied by the recent research field of architecture of atmospheres, which in turn has as one of its main strategies to consider all the human senses in its designs. Then, this work brings some thoughts on the importance of the designer to expand his attention beyond the visual aspects of his products, pointing at some of the reasons why vision is held as the hegemonic sense before the others. It broaches on and illustrates the role each one of our senses plays on the perception of the constructed environment, based on the teachings of psychologist James Gibson (1966). It also describes three important constructions which were designed with the intention of promoting experiences for their visitors that have used strategies focused on all the senses: Thermal Baths, Blur Building and the Jewish Museum Berlin. Last, this research confirms the importance of the senses in the expansion of the emotional responses of the user towards the designed environment.
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Martinez, Josue A. "Lavanda: Connecting Film with the Five Senses." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/43.
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In this paper, I will cover the process of connecting my honors thesis film, Lavanda, with the five senses. I will mainly focus on how the sense of smell can be represented in film along with visual and aural elements. Also, I will present the challenges that arouse while trying to represent taste and touch. Ultimately, I will evaluate the representation of each sense in Lavanda and how a film has the potential to encourage the use of other senses besides seeing and hearing while watching a film.
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Ramsey, Rachel. "An exemplar-theoretic account of word senses." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2017. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/35586/.
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This thesis offers an exploratory study of certain aspects of the psychological status of the senses of four polysemous words, over, under, above and below, using three sets of sentence-sorting experiments. The thesis assumes that word senses are examples of linguistic categories; therefore, it is further assumed that categorisation tasks will offer insights into their nature as categories, and that effects predicted by existing models of categorisation can be tested. The first set of experiments questions the representativity of linguists’ intuitions about the senses of these words. The results indicate that expert and naïve speakers’ intuitions do not reliably coincide. This is consistent with existing research into the representativity of expert intuitions in syntax (e.g., Schütze, 1996). The possibility that this is due to individual differences is the subject of the second experiment. The data gathered suggest that there may be individual differences in word senses, consistent with observations of individual differences in other areas of language (e.g., Bates et al., 1995; Street and Dąbrowska, 2014). It is noted that lack of consensus may be a product of the task design, and that the scale of the task may have caused fatigue, forgetting, or semantic satiation. This was remedied in the final set of experiments. Further evidence of individual variation in word senses was found. In addition, the versatility of the methodology was exploited to test whether word senses are stored in memory, and in a manner compatible with the Generalised Context Model of Classification, or exemplar model (Nosofsky, 1986). Participants sorted the same stimuli twice, divided by a period of two months. In general, participants reached better consensus with themselves than with others. This indicates that word senses may have some form of mental representation. Effects of selective attention, a central prediction of the exemplar model, were observed in sorting behaviour. Four original contributions to knowledge are made: (1) there appear to be individual differences in word senses; (2) expert intuitions about what the senses of a given polysemous word are do not correspond to those of other speakers; (3) word senses do appear to have some form of mental representation, but not in the fixed form previously suggested (e.g., Tyler and Evans, 2001); and (4) selective attention effects are observed in this example of linguistic categorisation. The findings indicate that the exemplar model can account for the representation of word senses. This allows the conclusion that we may understand word senses as potential categories of exemplars.
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Miller, Catherine Annalisa. "A Revelatory Landscape: Wind through the Senses." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9627.
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Technology has been an ever evolving component of society and civilization, making our life easier but simultaneously creating problems. Now we have become the tools for our tools. It is the reaction to this technology that has led our society to become more and more mechanized and engineered, detaching us from the natural processes and the natural phenomena that make up our interesting world. However, because of the landscape's potential for communication and demonstration, it is a critical time for landscape architects to use the landscape, highlighting the interaction between the human and natural processes and create a heightened sense of ecological awareness. This thesis design explores how technology can be integrated into the landscape in order to reveal the natural phenomena of wind on the site. The revelation of wind is achieved through the engagement of the airplanes landing and taking off from Reagan National Airport and one's senses as one can hear wind, see wind, feel wind, smell and taste wind. The sensory experience is one that focuses on the overlapping of the senses in a type of synthesia, creating a rich and dynamic fabric for exploration, interpretation and understanding of wind, its movement and its unique cycles.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Carrillo, Quiroga Perla. "Embodiment and the senses in travelogue filmmaking." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2013. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/8yyz3/embodiment-and-the-senses-in-travelogue-filmmaking.
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This practice-based research presents an analysis of the representation of embodied experience in the travelogue film genre. It reflects upon the embodied and synaesthesic nature of the cinematic experience by tracing a shift in travelogue filmmaking from the ocular realism characteristic of early travelogue films to the emergence and proliferation of subjective approaches. Moreover, it analyses experimental travelogue films and the capacity of non-linear and non-narrative structures to express sensuous, embodied perception. 9 Meditations is the practice component of this thesis. It is an experimental travelogue film. Through its production this research explores the translation of embodied experience as a multi-sensory process into filmmaking practice. In the field of film studies, the travelogue has not been widely discussed outside historical approaches, and it has certainly never been discussed in relation to phenomenology and embodied sensation. This research articulates a new conceptual framework for both the production and theorisation of the travelogue film, as a form that is intrinsically related to performance, subjectivity and embodied perception. Moreover, this research concerns both the production process in filmmaking practice and the cinematic experience as grounded in synaesthesic, embodied perception. This approach brings to the forefront the capacity of audiovisual practice to both encode and produce sensuous knowledge.
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Shaup, Karen L. 1979. "Disciplining the Senses: Aestheticism, Attention, and Modernity." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12094.
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vii, 157 p.In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Aesthetic Movement in England coalesced literary and visual arts in unprecedented ways. While the writers associated with the Aesthetic Movement reflected on visual art through the exercise of criticism, their encounters with painting, portraiture, and sculpture also led to the articulation of a problem. That problem centers on the fascination with the attentive look, or the physical act of seeing in a specialized way for an extended period of time that can result in a transformation in the mind of the observer. In this dissertation, I consider how Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde utilize the attentive look in their poetry, fiction, and drama, respectively. As I argue in this dissertation, the writers associated with the Aesthetic Movement approach and treat attention as a new tool for self-creation and self-development. As these writers generally attempt to transcend both the dullness and repetitiveness associated with modern forms of industrialized labor as well as to create an antidote for the endless distractions affiliated with the modern urban environment, they also develop or interrogate systems for training and regulating the senses. What these writers present as a seemingly spontaneous attentive engagement with art and beauty they also sell to the public as a specialized form of perception and experience that can only be achieved through training or, more specifically, through an attentive reading of their works. While these writers attempt to subvert institutional authority, whether in the form of the Royal Academy or the Oxford University system, they also generate new forms of authority and knowledge. Even though the Aesthetic Movement is not a homogeneous set of texts and art works, the Aesthetic Movement can be characterized in terms of its utilization of attentiveness as a way to both understand and create modern subjectivity.
Committee in charge: Dr. Forest Pyle， Chair； Dr. Sangita Gopal， Member； Dr. Linda Kintz， Member； Dr. Kenneth Calhoon， Outside Member
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CARVALHO, ALECIR FRANCISCO DE. "INTERACTIONS, MEANINGS AND SENSES IN VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=35950@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTITUIÇÕES COMUNITÁRIAS DE ENSINO PARTICULARES
A presente tese é um estudo acerca das aproximações e distanciamentos entre os campos do Design e da Educação a Distância (EaD) e uma análise sobre as concepções dos agentes da EaD (gestores, docentes, designers e designers instrucionais) acerca do que potencializa o Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem (AVA) como suporte de significação e interação que media a relação educador-educando. Assumimos como marco teórico nesta pesquisa os conceitos de interação abordados por Jean Piaget e Lev Vygotsky e as concepções de Significados e Sentidos abordados por Mikhail Bakhtin. O foco analítico recai sobre as interseções possíveis entre esses dois campos e de modo particular sob a perspectiva da construção e configuração de Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem. Argumentamos na tese que as aproximações entre Design e Educação a Distância podem contribuir para o surgimento de novas práticas de ensino e favorecer a interação e a construção de sentidos em suportes e sistemas em situações de uso no contexto das comunidades de ensino-aprendizagem. Deste modo, a presente pesquisa tem como objetivo geral compreender as concepções dos agentes da Educação a Distância acerca do que potencializa o Ambiente Virtual de Aprendizagem como suporte de significação e interação, sendo facilitador de práticas mediadoras na relação educador-educando. Sendo assim, presume-se que tais agentes da EaD são aqueles sujeitos envolvidos diretamente no planejamento, na execução e no acompanhamento de cursos na modalidade a distância, tais como gestores, docentes, designers, designers instrucionais, discentes, entre outros. Considera-se, assim, o campo da EaD como um segmento que tem despontado na contemporaneidade e demandado a incorporação de tecnologias digitais de informação e comunicação como recursos fundamentais para a expansão dessa modalidade de ensino. Trata-se de uma investigação conduzida pela pergunta que questiona quais as concepções dos agentes da Educação a Distância acerca do que potencializa o AVA como suporte de significação e interação. Em vista disso, por meio desta pesquisa, foi possível constatar que as instituições investigadas optam pelo uso de recursos comumente reconhecidos, demonstrando uma escassez de alternativas na produção e apropriação de novos AVAs no contexto de ensino do Design. Também foi possível reconhecer, por meio de nossa análise preliminar descritiva e comparativa, as potencialidades e limites em cinco ambientes virtuais de Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem mais utilizados no mundo: Moodle, Blackboard, EDX, Cousera e Edmodo.
The present thesis is a study about the approximations and distances between the fields of Design and Distance Education and an analysis of the conceptions of Distance Education agents (managers, teachers, designers and instructional designers) about what enhances the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) as a support of signification and interaction that mediates the educator-educating relationship. We assume as theoretical framework in this research the concepts of interaction addressed by Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky and the conceptions of Meanings and Senses addressed by Mikhail Bakhtin. The analytical focus falls on the possible intersections between these two fields and particularly from the perspective of the construction and configuration of Virtual Learning Environments. We argue in the thesis that the approaches between Design and Distance Education can contribute to the emergence of new teaching practices and favor the interaction and the construction of meanings in supports and systems in situations of use in the context of the teaching-learning communities. The present research has as general objective to understand the concepts of the agents of Distance Education about what enhances the Virtual Learning Environment as a support of meaning and interaction and facilitates mediating practices in the educator-educating relationship. Thus, it is presumed that such agents of Distance Education are those subjects directly involved in the planning, execution and follow-up of courses in the distance modality, such as managers, teachers, designers, instructional designers, students, among others. Thus, the field of Distance Education is considered as a segment that has emerged in contemporary times and demanded the incorporation of digital information and communication technologies as fundamental resources for the expansion of this type of teaching. It is an investigation conducted by the question that questions the conceptions of the agents of the Distance Education about what potentiates the VLE as a support of signification and interaction. In view of this, through this research, it was possible to verify that the investigated institutions opt for the use of commonly recognized resources, demonstrating a shortage of alternatives in the production and appropriation of new VLE s in the context of Design teaching. It was also possible to recognize, through our preliminary descriptive and comparative analysis, the potentialities and limits in five virtual environments of Virtual Learning Environments most used in the world: Moodle, Blackboard, EDX, Cousera and Edmodo.
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Sugeta, Keiko 1969. "Branch Street Ryokan : relaxation through reactivating human senses." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28260.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 56).
My thesis is a Japanese traditional Inn, called Ryokan. The is open to anyone seeking refuge from the rapid pace of urban life, including local residents and tourists, yet is limited to adults in order to keep quietness within. It is similar to a Bed & Breakfast in terms of person-to-person service, yet its emphasis is on the idea of reactivating human senses by offering an intimate experience with the surrounding nature through materials. The intention of my thesis is to explore an experience in Ryokan architect~re. The thesis introduces Ryokan architecture as a typology. Incorporating ritualistic Japanese inn traditions, the architecture is designed with a sense of order, which encourages guests to settle their state of mind. The inn investigates the notion of 'continuity of moments (in time)' through a manipulation of light and water as well as through materiality, which is to lure forgotten human senses. Communal bathing experience within the inn enhances stimulation to human sanity. Beacon Hill in Boston is selected as the site for the Ryokan. The site's existing condition is a 6000sq ft-vacant-lot. Although it is just one block-in from the very active and busy intersection of Charles and Beacon Street, the site offers quietness and tranquility. Given that I sensed the stark contrast between the very busy streets and the solitude of this site, I felt that there was an intriguing quality.
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Baglodi, Venkatesh. "A Feature Structure Approach for Disambiguating Preposition Senses." NSUWorks, 2009. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/83.
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Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) continues to be an open research problem in spite of recent advances in the NLP field, especially in machine learning. WSD for open-class words is well understood. However, WSD for closed class structural words (such as prepositions) is not so well resolved, and their role in frame semantics seems to be a relatively unknown area. This research uses a new method to disambiguate preposition senses by using a combined lookup from FrameNet and TPP databases. Motivated by recent work by Popescu, Tonelli, & Pianta (2007), it extends the concept to provide a deterministic WSD of prepositions using the lexical information drawn from the sentences in a local context. While the primary goal of the research is to disambiguate preposition sense, the approach also assigns frames and roles to different sentence elements. The use of prepositions for frame and role assignment seems to be a largely unexplored area which could provide a new dimension to research in lexical semantics.
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Chmelar, Albert P. "Integrating the Senses: An Architecture of Embodied Experience." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275666649.
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Luczaj, Sarah. "Felt senses of self and no-self in therapy." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59247/.
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The thesis develops Gendlin's concept of the felt sense in two directions, and introduces parallel concepts of self. It starts by examining western and eastern cultural contexts, neuroscientific conceptualisations and linguistic issues as they relate to self, using the lens of Gendlin's two ways of relating to the world ̶ interpreting according to the unit model and thinking beyond patterns, to point out conceptual confusions. Buddhist philosophy and practice are discussed as methods of undoing such conceptual confusions in order to relieve suffering, with self as an independent, stable, substantial entity being the primary example of such a confusion. Dualism is identified as the basic misconception from which suffering ensues. Non-duality is investigated as a spiritual endstate, an integral part of the goals of humanistic therapies and an intrinsic element in 'carrying forward', then compared with Gendlin's implicit intricacy, Sartre's Being-in-itself and intersubjective theories. A small qualitative study investigates what happens when felt senses of self are intentionally produced or accessed by focusing. A continuum of experiences is described, ranging from self to no-self, with trauma proving a major block to both self and no-self experiencings. The felt sense is re-defined in two ways, as an extending boundary and as a direct referent. A sense of self is also considered both as a boundary drawing exercise, and a direct referent. Self may function in either of these forms on a relative level, constructively or destructively, according to circumstances and conditions, while on an ontological level no such single entity may be proven to exist. The conclusion is drawn that self and no-self form a kind of twisting human thread, which shows, at any one moment, just one side of a duality. These sides are conceptually, rather than actually, distinct.
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Brochu, Bernard. "Senses of belonging and not belonging during job loss." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0011/MQ39136.pdf.
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Tillas, Alexandros I. "Back to our senses : An empiricist on concept acquisition." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529883.
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Mullender, Rob. "Silent light, luminous noise : photophonics, machines and the senses." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650323.
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Vandesteeg, Bonnie. "Senses of place and the struggle for the Cairngorms." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2005. http://research.gold.ac.uk/9136/.
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My thesis is based on fieldwork in the Badenoch and Strathspey area of the Scottish Highlands, on the northern side of the Cairngorms. Its starting premise, inspired by the work of Tim Ingold, is that people’s attitudes and beliefs about their environment and environmental issues arise out of their practical engagement with that environment. By focusing on the activities that people are engaged with, I identify three approaches to the environment: livelihood, recreation and conservation. The first part of the thesis explores in detail how these ‘senses of place’ arise out of, and are manifested in people’s practice. The next section uses case studies to show how the three approaches, with their contrasting perceptions and perspectives, often come into conflict. I first examine disputes between canoeists and anglers and debates between conservationists and sporting estates over red deer and native tree regeneration. I then go on to explore the conflicts over the building of the funicular railway and planning powers in the National Park, in which the main line of conflict is drawn between local livelihood interests against outside conservation and recreation interests. The final part of the thesis will go on to argue that the approaches are not fixed, bounded groups as might first appear. I use my data to demonstrate that there is in fact much common ground as well as much overlap in people’s identity. The main conclusion of the thesis is that what appears to be irreconcilable conflicts between people with different senses of place are actually conflicts that emerge because of issues to do with power and social, political and economic inequality. I offer some ideas, based on my fieldwork data, about how these conflicts can be overcome for the benefit of both people and the environment.
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Jansson, Daniel. "nuSense : Wearable technology to prototype and create new senses." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-105774.
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nuSense is the result of a degree work on master level at Umeå Institute of Design exploring why wearable technology oftentimes tread a rather narrow path, with many different companies releasing essentially the same product with a new shell, and innovation being slow. Through research, interviews and user research, hardware prototyping and testing it became clear that developing for wearable technology is a very complicated task, for many reasons. Being able to build quick exploratory prototypes was nigh impossible if you do not have a grasp of hardware developing platforms and programming. Further, those outside the industry who just want to explore wearable technology lack a platform to do so easily, aside from buying ready-made solutions made to do one single prepackaged thing. Based on this a concept was developed to provide a platform to explore wearable technology, through modular building-blocks and an easy to grasp interface.
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Mota, Rui Manuel Nunes. "Designing for the senses through food design and psychophysiology." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17971.
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Melogno, Pablo. "Two Senses of Massive Truth in Donald Davidson's Philosophy." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113090.
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The present paper proposes a critical revision of the massive truth notion, in the context of Donald Davidson’s criticism to skepticism. It´s distinguished in Davidson’s work a cuantitative sense and a cualitative sense of the massive truth, asserting that the first one has been more frequently used and has had just an intuitive level of elucidation. The main problems associated to the cuantitative notion of massive truth are revised in relation to the quantification of beliefs, the detection of error on a background of truth and the application of the Davidsonian methodology to non perceptual beliefs. Over this revision it is proposed the substitution of the cuantitative notion of massive truth for a cualitative notion, and are analized its advantages over eventual skeptical objections.El presente trabajo propone una revisión crítica de la noción de verdad masiva, en el contexto de la crítica de Donald Davidson al escepticismo. Se distingue en la obra de Davidson un sentido cuantitativo y uno cualitativo de verdad masiva, afirmando que el primero ha sido de uso más frecuente y ha contado con un nivel de elucidación solamente intuitivo. Se revisan los principales problemas asociados a la noción cuantitativa de verdad masiva, en relación con la cuantificación de las creencias, la detección del error sobre un trasfondo de verdad y la aplicación de la metodología davidsoniana a creencias no perceptuales. Sobre esta revisión se propone la sustitución de la noción cuantitativa de verdad masiva por una noción cualitativa, y se analizan sus ventajas frentea eventuales objeciones escépticas.
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Angjeli, Anila. "Contented Architecture - In Search of Delight for All Senses." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9664.
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Contented Architecture : In search of delight for all senses is an attempt to discover and capture the delightful sensory experiences of the users in the architectural space. Architectural space is seen as an artistic space, that appeals to different senses.
The project is a Bike Hotel in Old Town, Alexandria. The situation and orientation of the building on site, the program and the features altogether make it possible for bikers to experience
the space through different senses. This assembly among other pleasant experiences offers those sensory experiences that counteract the bikers daily exhaustive activities. Their bodies and minds feel relaxed, revitalized and encouraged to achieve their next goals.Master of Architecture
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Wall, Jenna L. "Young Children's Coordination of Label Extension Across the Senses." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1357918390.
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Griffith, Ashley R. "Baking a Building: An Experiment In Activating the Senses." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491303753804295.
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Hernandez, Jesse. "Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/621.
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During the late 19th century, arts and literature had a surge of sensory awareness, made manifest through sensory analogy, intersensory metaphor, and synaesthesia. This dissertation explores this phenomenon through a study of five poets and artists: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Barlas, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Using imaginative sensing, these artists transformed the relationship between artist and observer, assigning greater responsibility to their audience while simultaneously asserting artistic control of their work. Their fascination with sensory mixing and multisensory awareness demonstrates unique ideas about perception and embodiment, ideas that have sparked both controversy and imitation. I begin with a brief history of the condition known as synaesthesia, considering its position as an “abnormal” clinical condition, a desired artistic state of transcendence, and a simple transfer of metaphor. Chapter 1 describes how two French poems brought synaesthesia to public consciousness and prompted a literary movement. In Chapter 2, I explore how poet-painter Dante Rossetti used “acts of attention” and unheard music to demand viewers’ embodied participation. Chapter 3 introduces John Barlas, a relatively obscure British poet who crafted exotic, sensory-laden environments that hovered between the actual and imagined, insisting that the reader use his sensory imagination to participate. Moving to the realm of photography in Chapter 4, I consider Julia Margaret Cameron, whose “out-of-focus” pictures changed photography from a mechanistic technology to high art by incorporating the sense of touch. Historically, the senses have been ranked and separated, with priority given to vision, the sense most associated with reason. I argue that considering the senses as bundles of interconnected experiences and through imagination rather than as isolated methods of physical perception can show how the senses function culturally and give us a much greater understanding of how we process the world. While no time period has regarded the senses with the intensity of the late 19th century, the embodied approach of the era can be applied to our current “sensory revolution” and can impact how we regard technology, cultural studies, and interdisciplinarity. Evaluating how 19th century artists blended the senses through imaginative constructs gives a more thorough explanation of the characteristic sensuality of the period and provides a model for how sensing can function more fully in current endeavors.
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Williams, Erika Kristen. "Coding of Internal Senses: Vagal Gut-to-Brain Circuits." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493310.
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Our ability to detect features of environments in and around us is fundamental. Organisms have developed highly specialized systems to allow for transduction of a broad variety of stimuli to convey sensory information to the nervous system. In addition to traditionally appreciated external sensory systems, such as sight, smell, taste and touch, organisms also posses internal sensory systems to detect changes in physiological state. One key body-to-brain connection is via cranial nerve X, the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve innervates most major organ systems, transmits information from peripheral organs to the brainstem, and plays a critical role in the regulation of diverse physiological processes. However, the organization of this sensory system, and direct links between response properties, terminal morphology, and signaling mechanisms is not currently available for many vagal neuron types.
To study the peripheral representation of autonomic inputs, we developed a vagal ganglion imaging preparation for large-scale parallel analysis of single neuron responses in vivo. Using this preparation, we can record responses evoked by a broad array of peripherally applied stimuli, including stretch in the lung, stomach, and intestine, responses to inhaled carbon dioxide, and to chemical cues perfused through the intestinal lumen. This work allows for a careful description of response properties of vagal sensory neurons, and their organization within the ganglion.
Furthermore, to link response properties of vagal sensory neuron subsets to specific anatomical phenotypes and physiological roles, we developed a genetic strategy to molecularly define neuron subsets in the context of in vivo imaging. We identified one neuron subset marked by the gut hormone receptor Glp1r that responds to mechanical distension in the gastrointestinal tract, forms stereotyped mechano-sensitive terminals, and whose activation increases gastric pressure. A second neuron subset, marked by Gpr65, detects chemical cues in the intestine, projects into intestinal villi, and causes cessations of gastric contractions. These studies clarify the roles of vagal afferents in mediating particular gut hormone responses. Moreover, genetic control over gut-to-brain neurons provides a molecular framework for understanding neural control of gastrointestinal physiology.Medical Sciences
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Battaglia, D. "ARTIFICIAL SENSES IN FEED ANALYSIS: BETWEEN RESEARCH AND LEGISLATION." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/246140.
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The ingredients used in animal feed are fundamentally important in terms of both the quality and safety of the resulting food products and for the potential human health impact associated with the animal-based food production chain (Sapkota et al., 2007). Feed analysis is an important topic in animal nutritional research and as a control: evaluation of feed quality and safety require a high number of analyses to be performed. Considering that feed science has progressively evolved, prompted by different factors such as the need to obtain validated and standardized methods of analysis, the analysis on feed should be a multi-analytical approach, in accordance with screening work conducted at different levels. For this reason new analytical laboratory instruments have been developed. Requirements for new analytical methods emphasize performance,
sensitivity, reliability, speed, simplified use, low cost for high volume, and routine assays. The starting point of my PhD was a thorough review of the literature to trace the state of the art in, in vivo and in vitro models, review analytical methods used, and to critically analyze the advantages and disadvantages of different models and methodological approaches, from "wet chemistry" to modern analytical techniques and to in vitro approaches. This analysis showed clearly how the analytical approach is essential to evaluate feed and how farmers, researchers, industry and governments have been forced to give serious attention to animal feedstuff production process. New methods for evaluation of feed composition and safety have been developed. My PhD project focused on feed analysis using new analytical methods (image analysis and electronic nose), to ensure quality and safety of feed and animal origin products for human consumption. Aspects of quantification of quality and safety in real time with the objective of an instrumental response were obtained using techniques based on use of the senses, such as vision and smell, which represent rapid methods for screening and quality control feed.The research aim was to evaluate quality and safety of feed and pet food by thedevelopment and application of a multi analytical approach, as reported in the diagram below (Figure 1). In conclusion, the application of artificial senses in feed analysis can be considered an example of how science and engineering work effectively together. The image analysis and electronic nose represents new tools for rapid screening and quality control and as a support for decision making in the area of product quality. Chemometric tools are required for efficiently extracting qualitative or structural information from the wide volume of data collected. Image analysis allows, both in feed and pet food, the identification and characterization of products of animal origin (PAPs) so that morphometric descriptions of bone fragments can be used as possible markers in routine analysis. Electronic nose allows evaluation of the odour profile of pet foods, representing a promising and powerful tool able to provide immediate and satisfactory answers in complex matrices as pet food. Obviously, a legislative approach is an important issue to consider in a worldwide discussion regarding quality and safety of
feed. A study was carried out to address some aspects concerning feed and food-related issues, providing an update of the current EU Regulation and Directives. To give the reader a rapid first approach to the topic of his interest, a synoptic presentation of all law related to the above-mentioned topics is given, along with the main points of each law, cited in conjunction with its effect on previous laws (replacement, modification, amendments, and main related acts). Results were used to create a database to manage the consolidation and updating of the legislative texts.
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Owen, Gail. "Cognitive function associated with experimental hypoglycaemia and negative energy balance in healthy adults." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272802.
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Hanover, Jacqueline. "The role of the spiritual senses in contemporary mission, with particular reference to John Wesley's employment of the spiritual senses : a revised correlational approach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-the-spiritual-senses-in-contemporary-mission-with-particular-reference-to-john-wesleys-employment-of-the-spiritual-senses-a-revised-correlational-approach(9fde24dd-f5e3-4a2a-8bd6-921b2d389515).html.
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This thesis explores the potential role of the spiritual senses in contemporary mission. Responding to the development of a new type of non-religious spirituality known as contemporary spirituality, which has emerged in response to cultural change in the West, this thesis enters into a conversation between contemporary spirituality, contemporary Christianity and John Wesley's theme of the spiritual senses. The theme of the spiritual senses has a rich history and this thesis aims to discover if a revisit of Wesley's particular employment of the spiritual senses has the potential to offer a meaningful contribution to Christian mission in the twenty-first century. Using Gordon Lynch's application of Don Browning's revised correlation, seven key motifs within contemporary spirituality are identified as foundational and used to develop the conversation. The thesis proceeds to use these motifs namely, creation spirituality, individualism freedom and choice, innate spiritual perception, the physical senses and spirituality, the sacred within, a call to community, and religious pluralism, to embark on a conversation between contemporary spirituality and contemporary Christianity. In all of the key areas points of convergence are noted, along with some differences, and suggestions are made concerning further engagement. It is argued that, whilst the findings of this conversation, and the practical applications that flow from them, can be used to engage with contemporary spiritual seekers, nevertheless all would benefit from a renewed framework that responds more particularly to the foundational motifs of contemporary spirituality and that Wesley's application of the spiritual senses might offer this framework. Following this, an investigation of Wesley's employment of the spiritual senses, in his own terms, is embarked upon, where his key tenets are discovered. This section confirms the unity between the spiritual senses and the restoration of the life and image of God, moving from complete cognitive unawareness of God or the spiritual world, through prevenient grace to awakening and the new birth including faith, assurance and sanctification. These basic tenets are then developed showing the spiritual senses to be drawn from the creative moment, personal and yet inclusive, accessible, experiential, centered on both healing and forgiveness, based on the value of the individual, freedom, and choice, based on restored, intimate, and ongoing relationship with the creator, facilitating transformation, communal, and working in harmony with reason. Given the similarities to the key motifs of contemporary spirituality, it is affirmed that Wesley's theme of the spiritual senses has potential to make a significant contribution to the conversation between contemporary spirituality and contemporary Christianity. Finally the conversation between all three parties is developed. Here the information gathered in the previous conversation is correlated and synthesised to specifically identify the contribution that the spiritual senses might offer to contemporary mission. Based on the findings of the conversation, a reconstructed gospel message is presented that, it is argued, both correlates with the aspirations of contemporary spirituality and yet is grounded in the Christian tradition, thus affirming the significance of the role of the spiritual senses to contemporary mission.
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Runyeon, Marian 1960. "Subjectivity and objectivity of body sensation: A study of kinesthesis." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276728.
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The importance of touch-related sensations as a kinesthetic perceptual system through the observation of the subject/object phenomenon is explored through defining aspects of movement learning experiences associated with dance training.
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Fagerlund, Martin. "Computing Word Senses by Semantic Mirroring and Spectral Graph Partitioning." Thesis, Linköping University, Scientific Computing, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-57103.
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In this thesis we use the method of Semantic Mirrors to create a graph of words that are semantically related to a seed word. Spectral graph partitioning methods are then used to partition the graph into subgraphs, and thus dividing the words into different word senses. These methods are applied to a bilingual lexicon of English and Swedish adjectives. A panel of human evaluators have looked at a few examples, and evaluated consistency within the derived senses and synonymy with the seed word.
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Solander, Tove. ""Creating the Senses" : Sensation in the work of Shelley Jackson." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-65968.
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This monograph on the œuvre of contemporary American author and multimedia artist Shelley Jackson addresses the question of how literary works employ language to evoke sense impressions. Gilles Deleuze’s notion of aesthetic percepts is drawn on to develop a theory of literary phantom sensations which is then tested on the work of Jackson and related authors. Although imperceptible as such, it is argued that percepts are made perceptible in art in sense-specific forms as phantom sensations. “Phantom” is not meant to indicate a pale shadow of real sensations but the intensely perceived realness of phantom limb phenomena, in accordance with Deleuze’s understanding of the virtual as real but not actual. For the sake of clarity, literary phantom sensations are divided into phantom smells, tastes, touches, sights and sounds, with a chapter devoted to each in turn. It is found that different phantom sensations serve different functions in Jackson’s work, correlated to the cultural history of the senses as outlined by recent sensory scholarship. Phantom smells are associated with Deleuze’s concept of becoming due to their liminality. Phantom tastes contribute to an aesthetics of distaste in which shades of disgust are cultivated and drawn upon for literary effect. Phantom touch creates conceptual intimacy and invites the reader to handle words like toys in a game. Phantom sight is turned back upon itself in an anatomy of the eye. Phantom hearing is associated with forms of ventriloquism in which it is unclear who is speaking through whom and in which language itself throws its voice. However, it is also found that all phantom sensations similarly serve to create a material and affective connection between the body of the reader and the body of the text. Throughout the dissertation, Jackson’s work is read against and alongside that of other writers such as Djuna Barnes, Neil Bartlett, Brigid Brophy and Leonora Carrington. Together these form a trajectory termed minor writing for queers to come, which is meant to indicate that aesthetic and sexual-political radicalism go hand in hand. Furthermore, Jackson’s work is described as a form of body writing informed by feminist body art and écriture féminine. Specifically, Jackson takes her cue from early modern anatomical blazons and describes living bodies in pieces. Her work is also described as object writing: a literary equivalent to surrealist object art. A central method for making words more like things is to arrange her texts spatially rather than temporally, as exemplified by her electronic hypertexts.
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Joy, Stephen Michael. "Anatomies of the senses in the fiction of Thomas Mann." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611512.
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Pitts, William Edward 1976. "Natural phenomena and the senses : linking memory and corporeal experience." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69432.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2002.Some ill. printed as leaves and folded.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).
How could the experience of our rituals be made more meaningful? Our experience of ritual exists as an exchange between our memory and natural phenomena in a place over time. These place specific phenomena are filtered by our senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight and balance before becoming part of our memory. It is the task of the architect to create place that heightens certain qualities of local phenomena in order to make more specific and meaningful our ritual s. Too often, today we are trapped in homogenized landscapes of ideas and visual images that overshadow our remaining senses. To allow for more meaningful and personal memory, we must look to total corporeal experience of phenomena in specific places. Slowing our physical actions, we allow all of our senses to engage the world around, and only then do we become more aware of our body and experience in that world. Ultimately, in better understanding our human corporeal and experiential roots we may feel both secure and inspired being part of a system that is far more pervasive and permanent than we are. The project that follows, the renovation of a house in SouthWestern France, is a physical exploration of the question and notions posed above. Phenomena of light, sound and material are explored through the architectural making of place as it relates to the rituals of those inhabiting the house.
by William Edward Pitts, III.
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Urzúa, Miranda Pablo, and Pineda Alejandro Pérez. "Centro de estimulación temprana Play & Senses : desarrollando los sentidos." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2014. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/117400.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en AdministraciónAutores no envían autorización para el acceso a texto completo de su tesis en el Portal de Tesis Electrónicas de la U. de Chile.
Urzúa Miranda, Pablo [Parte I Estratégico y de mercado], Pérez Pineda, Alejandro [Parte II Organizativo y financiero]
La idea del negocio surge de un servicio que la hija de uno de los autores de este trabajo recibe fuera del país, siendo muy valorada y lamentablemente no existe en Chile, no obstante observa que en otros países de Sudamérica está instaurado como una necesidad y como parte natural del crecimiento y desarrollo de los niños en edades muy prematuras. Por lo señalado, Play & Senses se enfoca en crear una necesidad de estimular tempranamente a los niños ofreciendo una amplia variedad de experiencias que sirvan como base para futuros aprendizajes. Mediante la estimulación se entrega a los niños situaciones que los inviten al aprendizaje, faciliten canales sensoriales para adquirir mayor información del mundo que están comenzando a conocer y es responsabilidad de los padres (o tutores) dar al niño un ambiente apropiado para poder despertar sus energías y ponerlo en situaciones que les permitan comenzar a desarrollar, experimentar y enriquecerse con cada experiencia a muy temprana edad, lo cual se desea reforzar dentro del plan comunicacional. El negocio se sitúa dentro de la industria de la educación, más específicamente en el subsector “estimulación temprana de niños sanos”. Analizado el subsector de la industria, competidores y clientes se evidencia que claramente es una oportunidad no atendida, ya que según los resultados del censo del año 2012 hay un mercado potencial importante y que con una adecuada comunicación, llegará a ser un servicio requerido por el mercado objetivo definido. La estimación de la demanda realizada nos indica que existe un mercado importante de clientes potenciales considerando la segmentación de clientes que hemos identificado. El mercado objetivo elegido para iniciar la comercialización del servicio está ubicado en la comuna de Las Condes, idealmente en un Strip Center. La elección se debe a que son las comunas que concentran gran parte de los clientes ABC1 C2 y C3 que están dispuestos a pagar más por un servicio distinto que genere un valor agregado a la educación y desarrollo actual y futuro de sus hijos bajo un entorno didáctico y seguro. El producto ofrece una propuesta distinta a los sistemas tradicionales y está además segmentado por edad y desarrollo psicomotor lo cual el servicio es adecuado y dirigido de acuerdo a estas variables. Nuestros precios están acorde al mercado y segmento que queremos atacar y el canal de relacionamiento con ellos serán preferentemente directo cuando vayan con sus niños al centro de estimulación, no obstante los medios digitales y redes sociales también serán medios de apoyo. Con esto se conseguirá seguir enseñando la metodología, logros de sus hijos, fotos, videos, etc que los motive a seguir participando y requiriendo nuestros servicios. Luego de analizar los recursos que se dispondrán para la prestación de este servicio, a través de la herramienta VRIO, se concluye que la metodología de enseñanza es un recurso clave y generará una ventaja competitiva para el negocio. La propuesta de valor está centrada en la personalización y metodología que el personal profesional pone a disposición de los padres y tutores para acompañarlos en el desarrollo de sus hijos en esta primera etapa de la vida, porque es un período en la que los padres y tutores, sobre todos los “nuevos”, están aprendiendo en conjunto con los niños y sienten la necesidad de que alguien los guíe y asesore porque buscan desempeñarse lo mejor posible dentro de su rol. Y por último a nivel de indicadores financieros el proyecto presenta números que respaldan la ejecución de éste. Con una inversión de $18.260.000 y un ROE 73% al quinto año, el patrimonio se estima en $67.214.291.
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Lemos, Marta Cruz Gomes de. "Mixed senses. Sinestesia como base criativa no design de moda." Master's thesis, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitectura, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/2916.
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Tese de Mestrado em Design de ModaEsta investigação explora o fenómeno da Sinestesia - mistura e associação de sentidos - como base criativa na área do Design de Moda. Será que as percepções sinestésicas de um indivíduo fornecem dados suficientes para serem a única base de inspiração na concepção de vestuário? Para constituir hipótese, foi efectuada uma investigação sobre a sinestesia, as suas variantes e as suas condicionantes, e sobre a concepção de vestuário e os elementos essenciais a ter em conta no desenvolvimento de uma colecção de moda. A hipótese colocada pela investigadora foi que de facto a sinestesia pode ser a única inspiração na concepção de uma colecção, dado que as percepções sinestésicas incluem cores, formas, texturas e manchas/padrões - dados que vão de encontro aos elementos do design essenciais à concepção de vestuário. Para provar a hipótese, realizou-se um projecto experimental envolvendo um grupo de casos de estudo, todos sinestésicos, que culminou na concepção de um projecto de moda baseado exclusivamente nos dados provenientes dessa experiência. O projecto foi o principal objectivo da investigação e constitui a validação da hipótese, sendo a sua prova prática. A colecção final é um espelho do trabalho de investigação, dos quatro sinestésicos que participaram na experiência e do fenómeno da sinestesia em si. Obteve-se, assim, o resultado perfeito para uma investigação cuja uma temática é tão fascinante e fora do comum. Este projecto de investigação prova ainda que é possível a interligação de duas áreas completamente distintas - a Neurologia e o Design de Moda - de maneira harmoniosa e bem sucedida, originando um resultado inovador, que faz jus à temática da sinestesia e é enriquecedor para ambas as áreas.
This investigation explores the phenomenon of Synesthesia - a mix and association of senses - as a creative basis for Fashion Design. Can synesthetic perceptions provide enough data to be the only inspiration in the creation of clothes? In order to create an hypothesis, a deep investigation was carried out, focusing synesthesia and its variants, as well as the conception of clothing and the elements we have to keep in mind while creating a collection. The hypothesis was that indeed synesthesia could be the only inspiration in the conception of a collection, since synesthetic perceptions include colors, shapes, textures and patterns – all of which conform to the design elements that are essential to the conception of clothing. In order to prove this hypothesis, an experimental project took place, implicating a group of case studies, all synesthetes, that culminates with the conception of a fashion project based exclusively on the data gathered from that experience. This project was the main goal of the investigation and it is the validation of the hypothesis, its practical proof. The collection mirrors the investigation, the four synesthetes that took part in the experience and the phenomenon of synesthesia itself. This way, starting with a very unusual, peculiar and fascinating subject, we managed to reach a perfect conclusion for our investigation,. This project also proves that it is possible to connect two completely different areas – Neurology and Fashion Design – harmoniously and successfully, creating an innovative result that merits synesthesia and enriches both areas.
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Steudte, Bjoern. "Architecture and Human Senses - Pre-School in alexandria Old Town." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30950.
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Throughout my years of architecture education I have become more and more aware that we are connected with architecture from the very first moments of our life. Architecture, an important part of our environment, affects our experiences, feelings, memories, and ultimately the decisions we make. To exploring the connection between architecture and the human experience was the intention for my thesis. Whether positive or negative, everything created or done by man has an affect on his environment. Some people are more aware of their architectural environment some are less but at the end we all life with it and have at least an unconscious impression of it. Based on these impressions and the consciously experienced details of our environment, of events we have feelings and make judgments and decisions. The nice dinner on a Friday night which makes you feel comfortable and good, it is a result of the whole environment of the place where you have dinner. Not only the room temperature, your company, your table neighbors, the restaurant staff, the expectations of the coming weekend but more important the dimensions of the space that make it feel grand or intimate, the way sound sticks to the walls or bounces off them giving life to the space, or the way a single beam of light can show you the beauty of colors and materials.Master of Architecture
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Wojno, Alexandra. "Senses of Darkness: An Exploration of Blind Navigation Through Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52628.
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Based on the principle of sequential lessons for teaching orienteering, the program is a center that teaches navigation to people who are blind, located in the remains of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Through the use of materials, light, and this program of sequential patterns, the architecture focuses on heightening the working senses of the occupants using the progression throughout the building. This connection of the body and mind to architecture creates an awareness of space, unifying a perception of place, while bridging the old life to the new.Master of Architecture
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Magalhães, De Luca Tiago. "Realism of the senses : a tendency in contemporary world cinema." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1760/.
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This thesis proposes to examine the production of sensory realism in world cinema by using as case studies the cinemas of Carlos Reygadas (Mexico), Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) and Gus Van Sant (US). These cinemas are bound together through the hyperbolic application of the long take, which promotes a sensory viewing experience anchored in duration and the pure phenomenological presence of animate and inanimate matter. The theoretical underpinnings of the project are laid out in the Introduction, which addresses the alleged demise of realism in light of the emergence of digital technology and provides an overview of the ways the realist style has been historically theorised as connected to the sensory character of the cinematic experience. It further investigates the main aesthetic principles governing contemporary realist cinema and proposes a theorisation of its distinctive sensory mode of address. The thesis is divided into three different parts, which focus separately on each of the aforementioned filmmakers and their distinct realist projects, with emphasis given on their political impact and social significance. Part I is dedicated to Carlos Reygadas’s oeuvre, which, indebted to the transcendental cinemas of Tarkovsky, Bresson and Dreyer, complicates spirituality through a quasi-scientific take on materiality and carnality. Tsai Ming-liang is the subject of Part II, which examines his cinema’s auteurist, ultra-reflexive realist approach as recycling an aesthetics of the everyday in film through a focus on the sheer physicality of domestic spaces and the physiology of a grotesque body. Part III investigates Gus Van Sant’s recent incursion into an experimental-realist style as producing sensory explorations of mental processes of perception in line with the American avant-garde cinema ‘visionary’ tradition. The Conclusion contextualises and evaluates the aesthetic and political contribution of these cinemas as perpetuating, and reconfiguring, cinematic realism.