Dissertations / Theses: 'MFA thesis in Ceramics'

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Dagam, Sarah A. "The Effects of Life Experiences." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1461679558.

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Hulings, Quinn A. "Hugging The Fog." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1333651801.

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Porobic, Damir Verona. "MFA thesis exhibition." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=4189.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--West Virginia University, 2005. Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 30 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes a video file in the QuickTime format. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 30).

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Wessman, Stina. "MFA thesis Stina Wessman : BäddBoken sängliggande aktiviteter." Thesis, Konstfack, Experience Design, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3039.

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Degges, Douglas Ross. "Master of fine arts thesis." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2854.

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In the course of studying painting for the past three years at the University of Iowa, I have found collaborating with other artists to be a great way for me to try on different hats. Two of these collaborations in particular, The Old Man Study Group with Hamlett Dobbins (Memphis, TN) and The Coracle Drawing Club with David Dunlap (Iowa City, IA), have given me the license and opportunity to pretend to be someone else. These collaborative projects have asked me to consider, and at times adopt, even if only for a moment, the interests and concerns of another maker. A few months into these two projects, I noticed that the work I was making on my own, in the isolation of my own studio, was suddenly open to the world's innovations, and not just my own.

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Sarama, Brian C. "Daydreams." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1343427052.

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Cuevas, Santamaría Sergio Axel. "My MFA Experience." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524073680662621.

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Strickler, Jason A. "Drift." Claremont Graduate University, 2010. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,78.

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Winchester, Rachel. "Dance as Literary Criticism: Literary Analysis and Dramaturgy in a Dance Theatre Choreographic Process." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18356.

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In my research into interdisciplinary choreographic processes, I found there to be a lacking representation of recent scholarship dedicated to exploring the relationship between literature and dance. As a dance theatre choreographer who often utilizes textual sources as impetuses for artistic creation, I have employed methods of traditional dramaturgy in my practice and, in seeking scholarship on this subject, have noted a need for clear examples of dance dramaturgy in practice. In this thesis study, I employed methods from literary studies and dramaturgy in the process of adapting a work of short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut for the stage. I documented my process and have structured the information for the benefit of those who may read it. The artistic product of this research was presented to an audience in direct relation to its literary source. At the conclusion of this research, I posit that dance can function as literary criticism.

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Sines, Benjamin P. "Letters of a Ruined House." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2007.

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Tajpour, Azadeh. "The observer effect." Claremont Graduate University, 2010. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,77.

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My work explores the gray area and the shifting border between "us" and "other." It investigates the helplessness and the submissiveness on both sides of this spectrum and one's passivity that makes the "pain of others" inevitable. Moreover, it examines the individual and collective experiences of guilt and complicity in relation to world events. I am interested in the selective and repressed memories of individuals and nations, the reluctance to look and the ability to forget.

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Tice, Rebecca N. "Bestiary." Claremont Graduate University, 2010. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,79.

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Schwartz, Adam. "The Making and Analysis of For Justin." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/883.

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This paper thoroughly examines the production of the thesis film, For Justin. Each area of the film's production is discussed and analyzed, including the writing, directing, production design, cinematography, editing, sound, and workflow. My decisions in these areas will be discussed at length and ultimately the final film will be analyzed in order to determine whether I achieved my goal of challenging myself to create a heartfelt, touching film with high production values for my twin brother, Justin.

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Jesko, Alex. "Pyramid scheme." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6773.

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I was watching the tele the other night and a commercial came on exclaiming that scientists have found a way to translate waveforms into text to help the deaf. I realized at that moment; I am as much a scientist as I am an artist. In this regard, composition is deemed a scientific recipe. Ingredients such as conveying the rhythm of linguistic discoveries to further guide fragmented responses of memories. Analyzing frequencies emerging upon application of colors adjacent as well as finding the visual balance that coheres with a particular tempo as relating to sound and vibration to exploit the untold conversations between traditional means and contemporary constructions. There’s a sync button for everything we do, finding that button is the test. I do not confine myself as a scientist, tomorrow I may think I’m a surgeon. But only after I’ve exhausted every theory for my actions, after I’ve become synchronized within the realm of my creations, will I then be able to determine why I’ve governed myself to evolve with what it is that I am becoming.

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Kovarik, Kathleen R. "In Riches, Rags, Rhythm, and Rhyme: Designing Kent State University's Production of Ragtime." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334610228.

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Gumiela, Josh. "Distance Generation: Postmemory and the Creation of New Family Histories." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/592.

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This paper explores the `creative' process of postmemory in relation to family photographs, story telling, the absence of memory, and the subsequent construction of new and elastic family histories in my MFA thesis artwork. I define postmemory and how it relates to the limited number of existing photographs that document my family's experience as displaced persons and immigrants. I also discuss how literalist art has influenced the works in my thesis exhibition and outline the reasons for the absence of actual photographs in my work. Then, drawing from Freud's ideas of the condensation of dreams and the formation of screen memories, I discuss the relationship between historical family photographs, the memories elicited by them, and the act of forgetting to reveal the elasticity of truth in postmemory and how my work represents the beginnings of a personal understanding of a fragmented family history riddled with holes and unknowns. I also describe and discuss the two installation works found in my thesis exhibition, which are titled Descendant and Lineage. Finally, I outline the influence of other artists and describe how these ideas are tied together in my artwork.

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Rusenova, Ina Boryana D. "Between Familiarity and Estrangement:Making Paintings From Constructed Dioramas." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460672646.

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Shrestha, Amit K. "Synthesis and characterization of ceramic composites." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006shresthaa.pdf.

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Brown, Morgan. "A numerical investigation of the effect of induced porosity on the electromechanical switching of ferroelectric ceramics." Online access for everyone, 2005. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2005/M%5FBrown%5F121205.pdf.

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Stroyan, Jared James. "Processing and characterization of PVDF, PVDF-TrFE, and PVDF-TrFE-PZT composites." Online access for everyone, 2004. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2004/j%5Fstroyan%5F121704.pdf.

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Hughes, Kevin Thomas. "Bicycle Season." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1224.

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In this paper I will thoroughly analyze the thesis film, Bicycle Season, as it relates to specific areas of film production. The goal is to determine the effectiveness of specific approaches to narrative filmmaking, when the intention of the narrative to portray believable human behavior in moments of dramatic conflict. I will discuss this thesis from the point of conception on a screenwriting level; analyze the steps along the way as they relate to film production, and conclude at the point of final screening to an audience. Direct feedback from audience members in test screenings will serve as a measurement of achievement of said goals for the narrative.

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Brashear, Jr Frederick. "Other Nature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/912.

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Other Nature Other nature is a long term, ongoing documentary project that explores the relationship between humans and the natural environment of the Mojave Desert. Predicated on the reduction of the Joshua Tree woodlands that surround my home of Hesperia, Other Nature examines and questions the practices used in the creation of the built environments that are replacing the Mojave’s endemic terrain. Through various techniques, I document and record the systematic removal of the Mojave’s natural presence. Photography, eco-printing and paper making all offer a cathartic approach to witnessing the loss of these natural spaces. Included in my work is an aspect of gathering and reclaiming removed plant material to commemorate the beauty of and offer a voice to a habitat that is being forever changed. Fred Brashear Jr.

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Rewinkel, Scott Everett. "The effects of SiO₂, ZnO, and MgO doping on the mechanical and biological properties of beta-tricalcium phosphate bioceramics for bone tissue engineering, in vitro and in vivo analysis." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2009/s_rewinkel_100909.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in mechanical engineering)--Washington State University, December 2009. Title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 22, 2010). "School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering." Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-128).

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Bull, Edward. "POTENTIAL ENERGY." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2192.

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BULL, EDWARD. Potential Energy. (Under the direction of Pat Rushin.) Potential Energy is a collection of sixteen short stories. They range from the fictional to the autofictional to the entirely non-fictional. In all of them, characters both real and imagined struggle to live and define themselves in a world that is outside their control. They cope with the inevitability of loss, dangers both internal and external, and the passing of their own greatness. Some of these characters become lost while others learn to embrace life on its own termsÂ to accept Â without hope or expectation.Â More often, they are not lost or enlightened, but simply survive to continue on, still uncertain. Though all the stories in Potential Energy are stand-alone, they are thematically connected. The themes of family and identity are most prominent in Â Potential EnergyÂ and Â Eulogy to Maria Mamani, Fire-Eater.Â Loss is confronted and the question of what comes next is asked in Â OystersÂ and Â Slide.Â The conflict between fate and the need for control rises to the surface in Â Threshold,Â Â The Elizabeth Years,Â and the non-fiction story of Charles WhitmanÂ s deadly rampage in 1966, Â Seed.Â Themes of ambiguity, moral erosion, and literary exploitation appear in the non-fiction Â Bright and Loud and Then Gone,Â about a landlord burned alive in Chicago in 2008, and Â What It Might Have Been Like If We Had Been There,Â an apologetic for the writerÂ s right to write inspired by the 2007 Al Mutanabbi Street car-bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. Most importantly all the content of Potential Energy tells stories of people trying to hold on to what is good when, tragically, everything must eventually come to an end. M.F.A. Department of English Arts and Humanities Creative Writing MFA

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Wichlacz, Caitlin Anne. "Complementary compositional analyses of ceramics from two great house communities in west-central New Mexico." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/C_Wichlacz_022409.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in anthropology)--Washington State University, May 2009. Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 2, 2009). "Department of Anthropology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-68).

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Thompson, Christopher. "Confronting design case studies in the design of ceramics in New Zealand : thesis submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts in Art and Design, 2003." Full thesis. Abstract, 2003.

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Teague, Michael Phillip. "Modeling and measurement of thermal residual stresses and isotope effects on thermo physical properties of ZrB₂-SiC ceramics." Diss., Rolla, Mo. : Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2008. http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/thesis/pdf/MichaelTeague_09007dcc8056387c.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2008. Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed August 27, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

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Zhao, Xiyue. "Modeling and control of freeze-form extrusion fabrication." Diss., Rolla, Mo. : University of Missouri-Rolla, 2007. http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/thesis/pdf/Zhao_09007dcc8043fdb1.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri--Rolla, 2007. Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed April 16, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

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Hare, Richard Paul. "Craft art practice [an exegesis [thesis] submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts (Art and Design), 2003]." Full thesis. Abstract, 2003.

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Knight, Michael K. "Bit by bit." Claremont Graduate University, 2010. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,82.

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Winch, Nicola Maree. "Light scattering in glass ceramic x-ray imaging plates : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Physics /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/535.

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Thesis (M.Sc.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2008. CD-ROM contains scattering simulation code, Mie theory code and the LabView driver to run the experiment. Includes bibliographical references.

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Pantshi, Bukiwe. "The red syenite of the Pilansberg complex as a nepheline source for the South African ceramics and glass industry." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03232007-112854.

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Bernard, Sheldon Ainsworth. "Influence of silicon dioxide, magnesium oxide and zinc oxide on resorbable tricalcium phosphate based bioceramics." Online access for everyone, 2005. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2005/s%5Fbernard%5F083005.pdf.

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Williams, Floyd Thomas. "Burnished souls." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1101104-142120/unrestricted/WiliamsF120604f.pdf.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004. Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-1101104-142120 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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Rincon, Diego. "CUBAN JAM SESSIONS IN MINIATURE: A NOVEL IN TRACKS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2774.

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This is the collection of a novel, Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature: A Novel in Tracks, and an embedded short story, "Shred Me Like the Cheese You Use to Make Buñuelos." The novel tells the story of Palomino Mondragón, a Colombian mercenary who has arrived in New York after losing his leg to a mortar in Korea. Reclusive, obsessive and passionate, Palomino has reinvented himself as a mambo musician and has fallen in love with Etiwanda, a dancer at the nightclub in which he plays--but he cannot bring himself to declare his love to her. His life changes when he is deported from the United States at the height of the Cuban Missile crisis without having declared his love. Through the thirty years chronicled in the novel, Palomino does all possible in his quest to return to the United States to find Etiwanda despite the fact that he knows she has grown to be a fantasy, an obsession of his imagination. Palomino’s quest takes him to the United States and back three times, as he becomes more and more desperate, as he becomes involved with drug traffickers and for-hire murderers like Polo Norte, as he loses track of what it means to feel alive. Palomino is trapped in a tug-of-war between his rational desire for a normal existence and his irrational but inescapable longing for Etiwanda. In the end, his desperation to get to Etiwanda brings the underworld of Polo Norte to her doorstep. "Shred Me Like the Cheese You Use to Make Buñuelos" tells the story of Polo Norte, Palomino’s antagonist, on his last day on earth, as he is followed by a writer who has agreed to watch him commit suicide. Together, the stories explore the history and nature of the Colombian Diaspora in the United States, and the violent circumstances surrounding the relationship between both countries and the migrants stuck in the middle of it. M.F.A. Department of English Arts and Humanities Creative Writing MFA

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Burton, Calvin. "Painting as Becoming: Reflections Between Content and Form." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/48.

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Painting As Becoming: Reflections Between Content and FormThis thesis is the culmination of my two years at graduate school. It lays out some of my ideas about painting as a particular approach to art making. The development of my work has not always followed a linear path some ideas take longer to emerge, some vices longer to recognize. The text is separated into four main sections: Form, Development, Color, and Landscape. The main issue that I explore is the relationship between abstraction and representation. Tending to be over-logical, I have avoided explicit content' in my work, because I am afraid that it will pin it down. Painting abstractly initially allowed me to exercise the other side of my brain, to avoid meaning'. But abstraction is also a language that can be assimilated and therefore does not really offer an enduring solution to the problem of content.My paintings are usually structured in a logical way: composition, color harmony and dissonance, perspective, light, and space - but my process also leaves room to explore the illogical and the absurd. I began to appropriate representational imagery into the work to weave in additional information a textual layer to frame and foil the objectivity of oil paint. This juxtaposition puts paint in the role of becoming at the same time that it puts the image in the role of disintegrating. Importantly these roles are interchangeable. The imagery itself is derived from places that have been significant to me by effecting the formation of my scattered sense of identity: my birthplace in Virginia, my upbringing in Lake Tahoe, my studies in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and my subsequent move out of the country to Mexico, where I lived until returning to Virginia to pursue an MFA. The transitions between abstraction and representation resonate with the intersection of the personal and the collective.Ultimately, the comings and goings of interpretation that characterize my work occur through the lens of beauty. I cannot define beauty, but I maintain the belief that it can be found in painting, and that its primary function is to remind us to see.

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Bureš, Michal. "Použití keramik v kladné aktivní hmotě olověných akumulátorů." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-221312.

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Sharpe, Trenna L. "Perfect Teeth." 2016. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/englmfa_theses/56.

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Odasso, Adrienne Jo. "Holding pattern." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19456.

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Please note: creative writing theses are permanently embargoed in OpenBU. No public access is forecasted for these. To request private access, please click on the locked Download file link and fill out the appropriate web form. MFA Thesis: Holding Pattern, by A.J. Odasso. 35 pages of new poetry submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry), academic year 2015-2016. 2031-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Saye, Eric. "The Yard's Edge: Poems." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/203.

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This manuscript is comprised of a selection of poems written during my time as a student in the creative writing MFA program at Georgia State University. These are lyric/narrative poems arranged loosely according to subject matter – family, spiritual yearning/mystery.

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Efstratopoulou, Olga A. "Tensile bond strength of four all-ceramic systems to dentin a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment ... for the degree of Master of Science in Restorative Dentistry ... /." 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68799846.html.

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Snell, Steven. "M.F.A. Thesis Quest, or, I Went into the Wilderness and I Found Alec Baldwin." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/647.

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I went into the wilderness and I found Alec Baldwin. This is not a lie. It is also a title for a video installation and this thesis. In it, I investigate three separate adventure-performances, providing a theoretical context for their existence, meaning, and relationship as a form of artistic practice. I call this practice ‘adventure-art’, using the term to describe a performance-based action in which the artist publically explores his or her reality through some type of physical adventure, search, quest, or challenge. It is an attempt to engage oneself and others at both at the physical and mediated levels, reconciling, confusing, and merging the real with the simulated. In this thesis, I explore the confluence of consumption, creativity, the real, and the simulated within American popular culture from the perspective of a middle-class, suburban, white-male, art student – me, Steve Snell.

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Wilson, Steven M. "Make no assumptions : an invitation to the theatre." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26825.

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An in-depth look at my how my desire to make no assumptions with regards to creating art led me to invitation as a guiding principle when directing for the theatre. This thesis will cite examples from three productions I’ve directed as a Master of Fine Arts candidate in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin. text

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El-Ebrashi, Sameh Kamal. "The effect of coping/die fit of procera aluminum oxide copings cemented with different cements a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment ... for the degree of Master of Science in Prosthodontics ... /." 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68800579.html.

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Vyatskikh, Andrey. "Additive Manufacturing of 3D Nano-Architected Metals and Ceramics." Thesis, 2020. https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/13722/12/Thesis%20Draft_v1.3.pdf.

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Additive manufacturing (AM) represents a set of manufacturing processes that create complex 3D parts out of polymers, metals, and ceramics. AM of metals and ceramics is widely used to produce parts for aerospace, automotive, and medical applications. At the micro- and nano-scales, AM is poised to become the enabling technology for efficient 3D microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), 3D micro-battery electrodes, 3D electrically small antennae, micro-optical components, and photonics. Today, the minimum feature size for most commercially available metal and ceramic AM is limited to ~20-50 μm. Currently, no established processes can reliably produce complex 3D metal and ceramic parts with sub-micron features. In this thesis, we first demonstrate a nanoscale metal AM process that can produce ~300 nm features out of nanocrystalline, nanoporous nickel using synthesized hybrid organic-inorganic materials, two-photon lithography, and pyrolysis. We study microstructure and mechanical properties of as-fabricated nickel architectures and compare their structural strength to established AM processes. We then show how this process can be extended to other metals and metalloids, including Mg, Ge, Si, and Ti. This study extends further into nanoscale AM of transparent, high refractive index materials for micro-optics and photonic crystals. We develop an AM process to 3D print fully dense nanocrystalline rutile titanium dioxide (TiO₂) with feature dimensions down to ~120 nm. We carefully study and model the relationship between feature dimensions and process parameters to achieve a <2% variation in critical dimensions. We then use this understanding of the process to fabricate and study 3D dielectric photonic crystals with a full photonic bandgap in the infrared. Finally, a microscale AM process of titanium dioxide is demonstrated for photocatalytic water treatment. We show how synthesized hybrid organic-inorganic materials can be applied for stereolithography to print TiO₂ architectures with 100 μm features. We use the developed 3D printing process to investigate the effect of 3D architecture on the efficiency of photocatalytic water treatment. This work establishes a versatile and efficient pathway to create three-dimensional nano-architected metals and ceramics and to investigate their properties for applications in 3D MEMS, micro-optics, photonics, and photocatalysis.

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Ngaji-Okumu, Walter. "Thermal compatibility of a silica enriched ceramic (Magcor) thesis submitted in partial fulfillment ... for the degree of Master of Science (School of Dentistry) in Dental/Biomaterials ... /." 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68798178.html.

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Faria, Neiva Gisele de. "Resistance to fracture of three all-ceramic systems a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment ... for the degree of Master of Science in Restorative Dentistry /." 1996. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68798806.html.

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Linger, Jackson B. "Color matching and shade selection for porcelain dental restorations a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment ... restorative dentistry, operative /." 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68789809.html.

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Abed, Hassan Mahmoud. "Studies on the Procera all-ceramic porcelain crown a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment ... for the degree of Master of Science in Prosthodontics ... /." 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68896420.html.

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Katranji, Ghalia Kayali. "Margin integrity of three porcelain crowns a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment ... in restorative dentistry (operative) ... /." 1988. http://books.google.com/books?id=TXg9AAAAMAAJ.

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