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(American Library Association. Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, 2013-01-10)
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(2012-06-27)Digital media increase the visibility and presence of the past while also reshaping our sense of history. We have extraordinary access to digital versions of books, journals, film, television, music, art and popular ...
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(Pacific University Library; Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2012-05-15)INTRODUCTION The Accessibility Quotient (AQ), a new measure for assisting authors and librarians in assessing and characterizing the degree of accessibility for a group of papers, is proposed and described. The AQ offers ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-03-01)
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(2012-02-14)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)How can light and space influence our consciousness and the shape of the perception? Dematerialization is a mean to alter our perception to this physical world -- Materials lose their sense of solidity and lights reconstruct ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In recent decades, Seoul in Korea has experienced a rapid economic and urban development. As a result, the city exposes extreme disharmony between different zones. For example, the heavy mega structures are inconsiderately ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Weathermart reinvents the supermarket by questioning the generic big-box typology, where produce is placed in the same way, in an hermetically sealed environment. Supermarkets now consume excess energy by heating and cooling ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Neuronal communication relies on the continual replenishment of synaptic vesicles that are primed for neurotransmitter release in response to action potentials. A vast array of proteins is required to mediate synaptic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)shRNA screens have been very effective in identifying novel cancer genes in mammalian cells, but they have primarily been limited to in vitro applications in tumor cell lines. Whereas in vivo retroviral mutagenesis screens ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Understanding the ways that matter deforms and flows, which is the focus of the branch of science known as rheology, is essential for the efficient processing and proper function of such practically and technologically ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Due to budget issues, the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal has been left exposed to the arid desert environment since its construction in the 1970s. As a result, 5% of the amount of water diverted from the Colorado River ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis addresses the issue of energy efficiency through the lens of thermal performance in the context of urban housing in the city of Boston. Located in the historic brick row house neighborhood of the South End, the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The 20th century's notion of a skyscraper in Manhattan, a symbolic object aloof from a city, should be redefined due to the reinterpretation of the grid to accommodate more public amenity and facilitate the cultural contexts ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Huntington's Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disease that occurs when an expansion of the polyQ tract of the huntingtin gene expands to greater than ~35 residues. This mutation leads to aggregation ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The use of wood is fraught with paradox. Wood as a building material is embraced for its naturalness, while the cutting of trees is indicted as a destruction of nature. Wood is lauded for its structural properties and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In 2050, global oil supply will decline to 1/8 of today's. Migrating to the Post-Oil Era, over 10000's km2 of Powerscapes - the solar-collecting infrastructure - will be gradually constructed across the arid desert, for ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In the design of buildings, structural analysis is traditionally performed after the aesthetic design has been determined and has little in uence on the overall form. This thesis presents methods to integrate architectural ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis presents the idea of a networked, transient mode of local food exchange and proposes a responsive infrastructure for integrating dynamic markets within the urban fabric. Focusing on market typologies as an area ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The motivation behind this work was to obtain a better understanding of how a building's natural ventilation potential is affected by the complexities introduced by the urban environment. To this end, we have derived in ...
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