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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Acrobatics"”.
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Mental acrobatics: Spatial perceptions of human rotation
The primary goal of this dissertation was to understand to what extent are humans capable of accurately perceiving both their own rotations and the rotations of others and how do spatial manipulations of the actor and the perceiver affect the perception of the action. Four experiments were …
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum in Sports Acrobatics and Spiritual Witnessing
… spiritual witnessing concepts into their acrobatics programs.</p> <p>Method. The developmental process of Baker and Schutz (1971) was used to produce and validate the instructional product. First, the content of a curriculum to train Seventh-day Adventist coaches was identified through an …
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Scalable and Modular Manufacturing of Insect-Scale Aerial Robots Towards Swarm Flight Demonstrations
… including collision resilience and aerial acrobatics. Despite these advancements, MAVs weighing less than a gram continue to face critical challenges in design, assembly, and repair. Additionally, limitations in sensing and control have prevented the realization of swarm-like behaviors, …
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Freestyle Bearing: Work, Play, and Synergy in the Practice of Everyday Life Among Mongolian Reindeer Pastoralists
… they cheerfully embody poised improvisation and acrobatics in both skillful discernment and movement. Simultaneously anticipating and performing diverse tasks in playful cooperation with friends, family and other animals along nomadic lifestyles in a wilderness habitat involves persistent, …
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From Hormones to Genomes: Investigating Testosterone, Social Behavior, and Evolution In Manakins
… studies on manakins, synthesizing findings on acrobatics and display behaviors, physiological adaptations for performance, the influence of androgen hormones on social behavior, phylogenetic relationships, genomic mechanisms of evolution, and environmental drivers of behavior. Chapter III, I …
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The mechanics of the double-back somersault
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Physical Education, and Recreation, 1962
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Il Pazzia D'innamorati: A Commedia Dell'arte
… formed, some expressing their comedies through acrobatics, like the schoenobates of Greece and funambuli of Rome. During the sixteenth century, improvisational comedy became a flourishing art form, known as the commedia dell'arte. It is the sixteenth-century commedia dell'arte form that will be …
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Shape change for global vorticity shedding and added mass energy recovery
… generated on their wings to perform aerial acrobatics. Another example is the release of free vortices to affect bodies downstream, as in the case of fish extracting energy from an upstream wake generated either from a leading fish when within a school, or from a bluff rock as in the case of …