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Trinity Restoration Inc. Theater Design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Problems: (1) Sound travels very quick around the curve of the wall creating a disproportional amount of sound on the opposite ends of the arc. (2) Sounds that start in front of the curve gets reflected back to a focal point.
Robinson, Arnold
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An Impossible Utopia: People’s Art and the Cultural Revolution

open access: yes, 2014
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution period of the People’s Republic of China (1966-1976) was crucial in the creation of modern-day China. The material culture of that period mirrors the turbulent political activity of students and the directives of
Reynolds, Molly E.
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The influence of cultural experience in botanic garden on plant conservation: A case from the peony garden in China

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
It reveals that the visitors' cultural experiences in botanic garden will enhance the plant conservation education, through a case from Chinese peony garden, using the questionnaire survey method (1030 samples). This paper advocates enriching the dimensions of the human–plant relationship from an interdisciplinary perspective, creating a more direct ...
Shanshan Yan, Chao Wei
wiley   +1 more source

Guardians of Ink and Vellum: Ethiopian Magical Scrolls

open access: yes, 2017
Ethiopian magical scrolls are powerful tools to combat sickness and demons in Ethiopian folk belief. As works of art, they display influences from Muslim, Jewish, and Christian sources.
Wesley, Zachary A.
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Indigenous Peoples’ human genomic sovereignty: Lessons for Africa

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, EarlyView.
Abstract Human genomics research with indigenous peoples has often been characterised by tension between the ‘western’ science ideologies and indigenous peoples’ cultural beliefs in relation to their human genetic resources and data. This article explores this tension from the lens of the concept of indigenous peoples’ human genomic sovereignty and ...
Faith Kabata
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СЕМІОТИЧНИЙ АНАЛІЗ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ НАРОДНОЇ РЕЛІГІЙНОСТІ / Semiotic Analysis of Ukrainian Folk Religiosity

open access: yesАктуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2015
Остащук Иван. Семиотический анализ украинской народной религиозности. Исследовано при помощи семиотического научного метода отдельные примеры украинской народной религиозности как важной части религиозной картины мира и общего мегатекста национальной ...
Остащук Іван
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Summertimes, July 20, 1951 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1951
Volume 14, Issue 9https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/11584/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Architecture, Concepts, and Introspection: An Information-Theoretic Solution to the Problem of Phenomenal Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This essay is a sustained attempt to bring new light to some of the perennial problems in philosophy of mind surrounding phenomenal consciousness and introspection through developing an account of sensory and phenomenal concepts.
Aydede, Asoc Prof Murat   +1 more
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