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A Design Process Framework and Tools for Teaching and Practicing Biomimicry [PDF]
BiomimeticsFew design methods exist that provide clearly structured, visually intuitive, and easily monitored scaffolding for navigating the considerable complexity of biomimetic processes. To this end, we present a holistic biomimicry process framework informed by
Benjamin Linder, Jean Huang
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Metaphysics and Evolution: Response to Critics [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2021 I respond to Michał Chaberek’s and Robert A. Delfino’s criticisms of my argument that evolution is compatible with Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics.
Dennis F. Polis
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A Really Good Example Helps Learning About an Abstract Concept
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023 University students are often asked to learn abstract concepts. Abstract concepts are hard to learn. Giving specific examples can help learning abstract concepts.
Ava Funkhouser, Elena Nicoladis
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Centers in the Event Domain: A Retake on the Wholeness of Urban Spaces
Urban Planning, 2023 This article demonstrates that geometric analysis by itself is not enough to evaluate Alexander’s wholeness in public spaces and that his theories of wholeness can—and should—be extended into the realm of events.
Ridvan Kahraman
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A Theological Age: A New Way of Looking at the History of the West
Histories, 2023 This paper argues that the current age is best understood as a theological age in that its normal approach to the world is one based on a high level of abstraction. Theology stands in contrast with piety, which derives much more from immediate experience
Greg Melleuish, Susanna Rizzo
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“Can I go into the artwork?” Material–relational situations with abstract art
Journal for Research in Arts and Sports Education, 2022 The purpose of this article is to study museum educational situations, where 5–7-year-old children encounter abstract art, from a new materialist perspective.
Heidi Kukkonen
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Handcrafting Objects made with Machine Learning: An Object Design Approach with Computer Vision
Engineering Proceedings, 2023 Many of today’s computational design systems based on explicit or graphic programming software require designers to determine relationships for morphogenesis based on computational thinking supported by the abstraction process.
Jose L. Reategui
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The importance of computational thinking training for primary school teachers
Освітній вимір, 2022 The importance of modern schools in developing students’ problem-solving skills, including through digital tools, is described in the article, which includes the development of basic coding skills and digital literacy, as well as the ability to solve ...
Nataliia V. Morze +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 AntecedentsPrevious research on citizens’ reactions after terrorist events has shown that positive reactions can also emerge alongside pain and horror. Positive emotions have been widely associated with an abstract style of thinking.
Itziar Fernández +5 more
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Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2021 The text juxtaposes two different understandings of religion, the first: Hegelian, where it functions as an imaginary representation of the concept, and the second: Derridean, which confronts and radicalizes the idea of the death of God. At the center of
Marta Olesik
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