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Mind, Time, and Material Engagement

open access: yes, 2020
The study of material culture is changing the way we perceive and study the past, as well as how we understand the process of human becoming. This chapter proposes that a focus on the phenomenon of material engagement provides a productive means to situate and integrate evolutionary, historical, and developmental processes.
Malafouris, L, Gosden, C
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Manipulating Frictional Performance of Wet Clutch Engagement through Material Properties and Operating Conditions

open access: yesLubricants, 2022
Wet clutch engagement is mainly influenced by the frictional behaviors between the friction pad and steel plate as well as the lubrication behaviors.
Siyoul Jang
doaj   +1 more source

Technical Creativity, Material Engagement and the (Controversial) Role of Language

open access: yesAisthesis, 2019
For several hundred thousand years, the genus homo deployed a characteristic technical creativity, communicating and transmitting its outcomes, together with its operative protocols, without the available recourse to articulated language.
Pietro Montani
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Computational and conceptual blends: Material considerations and agency in a multi-material design workflow

open access: yesFrontiers of Architectural Research, 2022
The assimilation of functionally graded (or multi-) materials into architecture is deemed to enable the rethinking of current architectural design practice and bring back material considerations at the heart of the early design process.
Kostas Grigoriadis
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Engagement strategies: plan and material

open access: yes, 2021
This deliverable presents the strategy and material developed by PrismArch partners towards the establishment of an ecosystem around the project, which will attract and involve third-party contributors, aiming to accelerate the adoption and broaden the scope of high-quality services in the PrismArch platform.
Ververidis Dimitrios   +3 more
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Timely Reading

open access: yesLanguage and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal
This is a theoretical paper which presents a Distributed Cognition (DCog) perspective on reading that supplements existing approaches to account for phenomena that appear contradictory.
Sarah Bro Trasmundi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spoilers as (Un)Wanted Information: How Reader’s Engagement with Paratextual Material Affects Wellbeing

open access: yesOpen Information Science, 2022
Engaging with a text allows one to enter a flow state through the actions or reading/viewing a narrative or event. Spoilers, which provide information about the text but bypassing the intended reading path as set out by the author, can serve to interrupt
Romaguera Gabriel
doaj   +1 more source

Materialities, Space, Mind: Archaeology of Visual Cognition

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2023
A perceptual study of different styles of prehistoric Galician ceramics (from 6000 to 2000 BP) conducted by eye-tracking, underpins the material engagement of mind by showing that the visual world fosters the entanglement between doing, seeing, and ...
Rafael Millán-Pascual   +5 more
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Learning engagement; nursing students' experiences in an online environment at a university

open access: yesNursing Open, 2023
Aim The aim of this study was to understand students' engagement with learning in an online environment at a university in Namibia. Design A qualitative descriptive design was applied.
Takaedza Munangatire, Lea Indjamba
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Twist-hands and shuttle-kissing

open access: yesFORMakademisk, 2021
This paper seeks to understand the skills of operating automated manufacturing machines of the C19th as craft practices, employing externally powered and automated tools around which new cultures of practice emerged.
Simon Penny, Tom Fisher
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