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Language And Perception In Plotinus, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

I will argue that in the thought of Plotinus, how we perceive the world around us is determined by how we use language.

Robert Grosseteste: Optics And Perception, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

In De Luce seu de inchoatione formarum, the treatise on light written between 1225 and 1228, Grosseteste explains that light is the first corporeal form, the origin of matter.

The Imaginary And Symbolic Of Jacques Lacan, John Shannon Hendrix

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

The principal categories of Lacanian psychoanalysis in the structuring of the psyche are the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. The imaginary (imaginaire) refers to perceived or imagined images in conscious and unconscious thought, sensible and intelligible forms; picture thinking (Vorstellung), dream images or manifest content, and conscious ego in discursive thought. The symbolic (symbolique) refers to the signifying order, signifiers, in language, which determine the subject; it refers to the unconscious, and the intellectual, the logos endiathetos and the logos prophorikos. It is the relation between the imaginary and symbolic in conscious and …

Finding Common Ground: Smart Growth And Affordable Housing, Edgar Adams, Brian Boisvert, Fenton Bradley

Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications

Low and Moderate Income (LMI) housing is an integral part of Smart Growth planning; however growth boundaries, taken alone, can constrain the supply of available land driving up housing costs. In many states, with more integrated growth management plans, these costs are made up for by incentives for more compact and integrated housing within well served, mixed use town and village centers; however, in Rhode Island the absence of real incentives and the slow pace of local reforms to outdated and exclusionary zoning policies has created some tension between Smart Growth and LMI housing advocates.

In PART I of this …

Cultural Integration In Newly Formed Public-Private Partnership Organizations, Scotty O. Izevbigie

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) formed public-private partnerships (PPPs) with local and international private companies during the construction of the Port of Miami Tunnel (POMT) project. These PPPs had employees from different cultural backgrounds who brought new cultures, ideas, innovation, and experiences to their PPPs. The limited PPP literature did indicate that different cultures should be properly integrated to avoid challenges and conflicts in the new organization. If not properly managed and integrated, cultural conflict can create communication problems, increased employee dissatisfaction, higher turnover, and poor employee performance. Using Risberg's communication theoretical foundation, the purpose of this phenomenological study …

Ua66/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Architectural & Manufacturing Sciences, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by the Architectural & Manufacturing Sciences.

Files are arranged in the following subseries:

1. Administration
2. Publications
3. Centers & Institutes

Ua1c2/9 Cabell Hall Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Cabell Hall.

Ua3/3/7 President's Office-Thompson Scrapbooks, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Scrapbooks created during Kelly Thompson's tenure as president of WKU.

Ua30/1/3 Planning, Design & Construction Capital Construction Disbursements & Receipts, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

This series documents the disbursement of funds for capital construction projects at WKU. As defined by KRS 7A.010 (1), capital project means (a) any undertaking which is to be financed or funded through an appropriation by the General Assembly of general fund, road fund, bond fund, trust and agency fund, or federal funds; (b) any undertaking which is to be financed by a capital expenditure for use by state government or one of its departments or agencies; (c) any capital construction item, or combination of items necessary to make a building or utility installation complete, estimated to cost $600,000 or …

Ua1c2/16 College Heights Foundation Buildings Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the College Heights Foundation Buildings.

Ua1c2/21 Downing University Center Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the Downing University Center.

Ua1c2/26 Agricultural Pavilion & Farm Building Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the Agricultural Pavilion and WKU Farm buildings.

Ua1c2/20 Diddle Dorm Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the Diddle Dorm.

Ua1c2/23 East Hall Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of the East Hall.

Ua1c2/32 Gilbert Hall Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Gilbert Hall.

Ua1c2/28 Craig Alumni House Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Craig Alumni House formerly the president's home.

Ua1b3/6 Parking & Traffic Committee, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by the Parking & Traffic Committee.

Ua1c2/44 Keen Hall Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Keen Hall.

Ua1c2/38 Helm Library Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Helm Library. The building was originally constructed and used as the Physical Education building 1931-1964. All images are in this series.

Ua1c2/34 Grise Hall Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images of Grise Hall.