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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Buddy"”.
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The back stroke buddy
… set forth is aptly named The Back Stroke Buddy. This apparatus consists of three parts - a head support, a neck support, and a base. A swimmer's head will lie in the middle of the base while the head and neck support, which are located below the base, cradle the back of the head and …
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Revisiting "Hapworth": The Catharsis of Buddy Glass
… story purports, but his grieving younger brother Buddy, who has spent the years since his brother's death trying to come to terms with it. "Hapworth" is Buddy's final--and perhaps finally successful--attempt to do so.
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Improving diabetic self-management using Glucose Buddy.
… looks at utilizing the application “Glucose Buddy” designed for diabetic patients, available on Apple devices, and identified if the application is easy to use for any type of user and the security of the application to protect potentially sensitive health data. The navigation and ease of use …
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Fit Buddy Prototype and KSUGo Mobile App
… at Kennesaw State University (KSU), called Fit Buddy. There are three key concepts that will be covered in this Proof of Concept project: social networking, fitness, and IoT (Internet of Things) usages.</p> <p>Additionally, the purpose of the CS Capstone project is to deliver a mobile app that …
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Scalable memory management using a distributed buddy allocator
… allocator algorithm based on a new distributed buddy allocator algorithm, one which is made with future processor architectures in mind. The page allocator is a vital and heavily-used part of an operating system, and making this more scalable is a necessary step to build a scalable operating …
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Buddy films and gender identity : representing the bonds of masculinity /
The study examines the buddy film genre and the representation of masculinity in relation to the homosocial and the homoerotic. As a genre, the buddy films focus on male relationships, thematically seeking to mediate the boundaries surrounding the homosocial continuum and the intimacy and eroticism …
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Mochila Buddy: praticidade, conforto e organização para o dia a dia
Neste relatório, são mostradas as principais dificuldades e necessidades averiguadas no estilo de vida de estudantes e trabalhadores de escritório e, a partir disso, apresenta-se o desenvolvimento de uma mochila que prioriza a organização e o conforto do usuário durante o deslocamento de seus …
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Development and feasibility testing of a buddy intervention to increase postnatal physical activity
… content and implementation options resulting in ‘Buddy Up’, an intervention that matches two new mothers as PA buddies to provide mutual support to increase PA. A buddy is an existing friend or another eligible participant. The intervention includes three PA counselling sessions based on …
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“God Is My Quarantine Buddy”: Debates in Ritual Practice Among North American Pagans in 2020
The past four decades of research in the contemporary paganism faith movement in the United States have focused on the creation of cosmologies based on scholarship, reclamations of heritage, counter-culturalism, and environmentalism. However, the dialogue has changed drastically in recent years due …
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Park it over there, buddy : an inquiry into station-area parking and transit-oriented development
Land use planning and regulation is essentially a task of balancing priorities and making choices. The choices made over the better part of the 20th century prioritized separation of uses and low-density development, which has ultimately led to suburban sprawl and traffic congestion. One of the …
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Using a peer buddy system to increase interaction between students with special needs and their peers
… peers as a result of participating in a peer buddy program.
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Examining Emotional Responses to Effective Versus Ineffective Virtual Buddies
… to examine the effect of designing a virtual buddy character with ineffective traits instead of effective or expert traits. The sample population for this study (n = 145) consisted of first year university students enrolled in courses in the fall of 2013 at the University of Central Florida. …
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Providing nurses with a structured approach to emotional support during COVID-19
… and mental/physical quality of life. The Battle Buddy intervention consists of a structured process of peer-to-peer support. The Battle Buddy program is widely used by the U.S. Army and was recently implemented in the hospital setting by the University of Minnesota as a response to the COVID-19 …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of virtual buddy support to improve treatment adherence for patients suffering from schizophrenia in KwaZulu-Natal: a model of care
Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in Health Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.
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Attitudes Toward Disabled Children: A New Measure
… versus 97.0. Children who volunteered for a buddy program or who had previously taken part in a buddy program with a disabled child had significantly higher CATCH scores.</p> <p>CATCH was used as the primary outcome measure in a randomized controlled trial of a buddy program between …
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Mentoring in the learning community: Problematic practices and outcomes of initial implementation of formal mentoring programs in two New Hampshire public school districts
… mentors, who have a history of engagement in buddy support, have difficulty shifting their conceptualization of supporting new teachers from the directive practices characteristic of buddy support to the relational practices that characterize "learning-focused" mentoring. Simply having a …
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Indexing for moving objects
… a a??newa??, simple structure based on the Buddytree, named Buddy*-tree. The Buddy*-tree is a hierarchical structure without the notion of tight bounding spaces. In the proposed structure, a moving object is stored as a snapshot, which is composed of its position and velocity at a certain …
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Supporting Location Privacy Management through Feedback and Control
… of our work are: (1) an implementation of Buddy Tracker, privacy-aware location-sharing application based on the social translucence; (2) the design and evaluation of the concept of real-time feedback as a means of incorporating social translucence in location-sharing scenarios; and finally …
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