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Showing 1 to 20 of 2319 for “"Avoidance"”.
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Lane departure avoidance system
Traffic accidents cause millions of injuries and tens of thousands of fatalities per year worldwide. This thesis briefly reviews different types of active safety systems designed to reduce the number of accidents. Focusing on lane departure, a leading cause of crashes involving fatalities, we …
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PermPAL - Permutation Pattern Avoidance Library
Við leitum leiða til að reikna út tölusetningu (e. enumeration) á klösum umraðana (e. permutation classes) sem innihalda ekki mynstur út frá fléttufræðilegum (e. combinatorial) formgerðum (e. structure) sem skilgreind eru af reikniritunum Struct og ATRAP. Framleiðniföll og rakningarformúlur eru …
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Avoidance learning in Drosophila melanogaster
<p>The importance of showing that Drosophila are capable of learning an instrumental response would, with the information already known from genetic studies, enable researchers to possibly isolate the genetic basis of a simple learning process and thus gain greater insight into this phenomenon. If …
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The experience of dental avoidance
… of nine individuals in relation to their dental avoidance. The participants were three women and six men who had periods of 2 to 20 years duration when they avoided dentists. Of the nine participants or co-researchers, two are still in avoidant patterns. These two people differed from the others …
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Approach-avoidance motivation across cultures
… One such psychological process is approach and avoidance motivations: approach motivation is useful for Westerners’ pursuit of high self-esteem whereas avoidance motivation is useful for East Asians’ concerns for face maintenance. Review of prior research renders support to this theorizing. …
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Blame avoidance in government communication
… are tempted to apply strategies of blame avoidance which permeate administrative structures, operations, and language use. Linguistic aspects of blame avoidance are yet to be studied by discourse analysts in great detail. It is necessary to develop a more sophisticated, context-sensitive …
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Repetition avoidance in human language
… that may lead to categorical phonological avoidance. I call this set of claims the Biomechanical Repetition Avoidance Hypothesis (BRAH), and support it with evidence from cross-linguistic patterns in repetition avoidance phenomena, articulatory data from music performance, and a series of …
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Collision avoidance via laser rangefinding
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1999.
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Analysis avoidance techniques of malicious software
Anti Virus (AV) software generally employs signature matching and heuristics to detect the presence of malicious software (malware). The generation of signatures and determination of heuristics is dependent upon an AV analyst having successfully determined the nature of the malware, not only for …
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Avoidance Behavior in the Elderly Driver
… whether functional limitations were related to avoidance and whether avoidance is related to reducing crash risk. Results showed that, on the average, older drivers reported avoiding driving at night, on high traffic roads, on high speed roads, and in rush hour traffic while not avoiding left …
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Pavlovian-Instrumental Interactions and Avoidance Learning
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:22:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7820956.pdf: 3034884 bytes, checksum: b33bad7eb600701e0f5b9fc7f1f8f438 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Path-planning strategies for ambush avoidance
This thesis examines a variety of ambush games in which one player must navigate between an origin and a destination, and the other player seeks to intercept and ambush him. These games include single-stage games, in which all decisions are made at the outset of the game, and multi-stage games, in …
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Design of Experiments for Contrail Avoidance
… the costs and benefits of performing contrail avoidance deviations. This thesis shows that measuring the total contrail length avoided relative to the total length of deviations is a way to compare the costs and benefits of contrail avoidance. The results of a Monte Carlo simulation show that a …
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Computer aided tax avoidance policy analysis
his thesis presents a three part methodology for analyzing the ow of taxable income in large partnership structures. The method forms the basis for prototypical software which would clarify many complicated basis adjustment issues associated with partnership taxation. Partnerships, the most common …
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CEO Severance Agreements and Tax Avoidance
… CEO severance agreements and corporate tax avoidance. Severance agreements, by providing executives with additional compensation when there is a change in employment status, should serve to encourage additional risk-taking, as reflected by increased tax avoidance activities. Using a large …
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Congestion avoidance in internet protocol (IP) networks
… link updates, therefore to assure congestion avoidance during planned link failures in IP networks, we demonstrate the use of an orderly link cost update algorithm to achieve optimum routing hence avoiding congestion. In this dissertation we present the use of an orderly link cost update …
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