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Scrapbook of Laura Heath Hills: Dr. Arthur Stevens, Master Medicine
No full textPage 1 of Laura Heath Hills scrapbook; title taken from scrapbook photograph caption. Laura Heath Hills was a graduate of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1896
Analogical Reasoning in Biomimicry Design Education
No full text“Teaching is both an art and a science” (Harrison & Coll, 2008 p.1). Good teaching excites students and cultivates their curiosity to learn more than they are asked. But what if students’ blank faces tell you that the teaching did not land, what can you do? Using an analogy or metaphor to explain the principle helps students visualize and comprehend the knowledge of difficult, abstract concepts by making it familiar. The National Academy of Engineers issued a report in 2008 emphasizing the need for design engineers to develop 21st century skills, such as ingenuity and creativity, and to create innovative products and markets. However, designers have a hard time ignoring evident constraints on their concepts during their design process. This is especially difficult for novice designers when attempting to use analogical reasoning (Osborn, 1963; Hey et al. 2008). Hey et al. explains how the multitude of design considerations is even more difficult for novice as compared to expert designers who are more able to focus on the important features of a problem. Kolodner (1997) iterates how novice designers have difficulty sifting through the mass of information they encounter. They need help with the transfer of knowledge that analogical reasoning requires. When students can clearly extract and articulate what they have learned, this helps them to internalize this. Biomimicry education teaches the clear extraction and articulation while learning to decipher and transfer function analogies from biology to design. This transfer can also improve reasoning when solving problems (Wu and Weng, 2013), reacting to the challenge in a more ‘out-of-the-box’ manner (Yang et al. 2015). However, not being able to fully understand this “conceptual leap between biology and design” in an accurate manner, is sited as a key obstacle of this field (Rowland, 2017; Rovalo and McCardle 2019, p. 1). Therefore, didactics on how to teach this analogical leap to overcome the hurdles is essential. There is insufficient research on the effectivity of biomimicry education in design to help establish ‘best practices’. This thesis offers advice to fill this pedagogical gap to find out how to overcome the obstacle of analogical reasoning for novice designers, while practicing biomimicry. The contribution to science is a not earlier tested methodology that leads to a clearer understanding of the translation of biological strategies and mechanisms found in scientific research. This translation from biology to design in visual and textual manner, is called the Abstracted Design Principle (ADP) and is introduced and explained in detail in chapters 4, 5 and 6 of this thesis. Together with the proposed instructions, we sketch the net-gain of positive mind-set for novice designers on their path to design for a sustainable future.Dr. ir. Laura Stevens holds two MS degrees in the fields of Architecture from Delft University of Technology and in Biomimicry from Arizona State University. She is a biomimicry design educator in her role as a senior lecturer in the Industrial Design Engineering program at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. A sustainable design instructor since 2007, she writes peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the topic of Biomimicry Design Thinking as a methodology to enhance circular, systems-thinking solutions in design by learning from time-tested biological strategies and mechanisms found in nature. Her aim is to evolve together with the education of Industrial Design Engineering to Regenerative Design Engineering enabling students to take charge of the design of their future world. Biomimicry, the field that teaches us to mimic biological strategies into design solutions, is the best of both worlds and can aid them to do this. Laura aspires to replicate strategies that work and cultivate cooperative relationships to offer a platform in which interdisciplined design teams tackle the complex challenges of today. By incorporating the education from the bottom up and combining modular and nested components one at a time, she hopes to integrate the development of biomimicry with the growth of a passion to learn more.Science Education and Communicatio
Evaluating TQM : the case for a theory driven approach. Laura A. Wilson, Robert F. Durant
No full texttag=1 data=Evaluating TQM : the case for a theory driven approach. Laura A. Wilson, Robert F. Durant
tag=2 data=Wilson, Laura A.%Durant, Robert F.
tag=3 data=Public Administration Review,
tag=4 data=54
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tag=6 data=March/April 1994
tag=7 data=137-146.
tag=8 data=MANAGEMENT
tag=10 data=How does Total Quality Management stand up to systematic and rigorous evaluation?
tag=11 data=1994/6/4
tag=12 data=94/0283
tag=13 data=CABHow does Total Quality Management stand up to systematic and rigorous evaluation
Mindscapes: Laura Riding's poetry and poetics /
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Esta tese propõe uma leitura revisionista da poesia contemporânea através do exame do caso de um dos mais esquecidos escritores norte-americanos do século XX: Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). O objetivo é demonstrar que Riding não apenas possuía uma poética definida e singular, mas que ela permanece uma das instâncias mais extremas e paradoxais do modernismo anglo-americano, a ponto de Riding abandonar a escrita da poesia em 1938. Recorrendo a conceitos de "formação do cânone" bem como às noções de "discurso" e "função do autor", em Foucault, investigo a construção do cânone da poesia moderna anglo-americana, recuperando o contexto e as circunstâncias da ocultação de Riding. Enquanto cubro os "discursos" poéticos em circulação na primeira metade do século XX-o "imagismo" de Pound, a "dissociação da sensibilidade", "impersonalidade" e "tradição" de Eliot, a "unidade orgância" e "ambigüidade" da Nova Crítica-ofereço um panorama crítico de modernismos alternativos sendo articulados à época. Minha intenção é demonstrar que os poemas de Riding são expressões vigorosas de um escritor para quem "a mente pensando se torna a força ativa do poema", para usar a apta formulação de Charles Bernstein. Entre minhas descobertas sobre as várias e complexas razões que levaram à não-canonização de Riding estão a hegemonia da Nova Crítica, o exílio voluntário de Riding da cena literária (onde são feitas ou desfeitas as reputações), sua recusa em ser antologiada, bem como em ser explicada em termos críticos que não os dela. Todos esses fatores, mais a "dificuldade" de sua poesia, contribuíram para fazer de Riding "a maior poeta esquecida da poesia norte-americana", como escreveu Kenneth Rexroth. Ajudado pelos insights de dois importantes críticos de poesia norte-americana, Charles Bernstein e Marjorie Perloff, defendo que a "poesia da mente" de Riding-onde o que está em jogo é que o que pensamos ser a nossa realidade-representa uma mudança radical no paradigma da poética modernista: de uma poesia centrada na imagem para uma poesia centrada na linguagem. Focalizando a experiência consciente e o tempo duracional do pensamento presente em seus poemas, concluo que as "pensagens" de Riding têm o objetivo preciso de constatar um fato universal: enquanto seres humanos e pensantes, estamos numa condição permanente chamada linguagem
Jackson County: Laura Wilson
No full textAn audio recorded interview with Laura Wilson on life in a rural community in Jackson County, Ohio by Olivia Walker
Chambers, Laura 1. Lisa Wilson interviewing Laura Chambers regarding knitting, Flower's Cove.
No full textLisa Wilson's June 24, 2010 interview with Laura Chambers, Flower's Cove, Newfoundland. Chambers discusses knitting, keeping dog teams, and spinning wool. She also discusses the "Seal Skin Church" where people made and sold seal skin boots
Richard Avedon and Laura Wilson
No full textPhotograph of (left to right) Laura Wilson, Richard Avedon, and Watt Reynolds Matthews sitting in the cookshack at Matthews Ranch headquarters. Wilson is holding a notepad, and she and Avedon appear to be listening to Matthews as he talks. Avedon is wearing a cowboy hat given to him by Matthews. In the background are two picnic tables with checkered table cloths
Laura Lee Duncan Interview
No full textOral history interview with Laura Duncan on Mrs. Duncan\u27s impressions of Cora Wilson Stewart from January 22, 1991
Correspondence: Laura Kephart and Arthur Stupka
No full textThis 1936 correspondence, between Laura Kephart (Mrs. Horace Kephart) and Arthur Stupka, concerns a possible Kephart Memorial. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Arthur Stupka (1905-1999) was the first park naturalist to work at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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