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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Complex Activities"”.
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Inferring Complex Activities for Context-aware Systems within Smart Environments
… challenges faced in accurately recognising Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) performed by single or multiple inhabitants within smart environments. Specifically, this thesis explores five complementary research challenges in HAR. The first study contributes to knowledge by developing a …
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VirtualHome : learning to infer programs from synthetic videos of activities in the home
This project models complex activities that occur in a typical household. Programs - sequences of atomic actions and interactions - are used as a high-level, unambiguous representation of complex activities executable by an agent. However, no dataset of household activity programs currently exists. …
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Individualized Reading Instruction in Grade Five
Reading is not a unique ability, or a single complex of abilities, but a series of complex activities that vary with the kind of material read and the purpose for which the reading is done. Attainment in reading is influenced by many personal and environmental factors and progress in reading tends …
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Daily activities and functional abilities impacted by cognitive impairment
… cognitive domains and the preservation of daily activities. Previous research has demonstrated that Activities of Daily Living (ADL) tend to be well preserved in individuals with MCI but more complex activities such as Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) show a decline as these …
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An Adaptive Resource Management Architecture for Global Distributed Computing
… services that can be used as a basis for more complex activities. The thesis develops mathematical frameworks and formal mechanisms for reasoning about the interaction and composition of resource management activities in open distributed systems, their dynamic installation and modification. In …
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A platform for consumer driven participative design of open (source) buildings
Homes in the future will contain many new and complex activities, becoming centers for work, commerce, learning, proactive health care, distributed energy production, etc.. The baby boomer and GenX population are demanding choice and tailored solutions in all products they buy, including homes. The …
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VirtualHome : simulating household activities via programs
In order to learn to perform complex activities, autonomous agents need to know the sequences of actions needed to reach a given task. In this thesis, we propose to use programs, i.e., sequences of atomic actions and interactions, as a high level representation of complex tasks. Programs are …
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REDOX PROTEOMICS, THIOL HOMEOSTASIS AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATIONS IN AGING AND NEURODEGENERATION
… manner. Actually, they are particularly complex and multifaceted processes, involving different biochemical systems. Increasing evidence supports the notion that reduction of cellular expression and activity of antioxidant proteins and the resulting increase of oxidative stress are …
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Gestão do Conhecimento e o uso estratégico de Tecnologias de Informação: um estudo em Redes de Franquias no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte
… Norte/Brazil, whose management and operation are complex activities, characterized by the geographic spread of their network unities, creating barriers to communication and information sharing between franchisors, franchisees and final customers. In view of this, the following hypotheses were …
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Desverticalização das cadeias produtivas no setor de produção de biomedicamentos e a utilização das empresas CMOs (Contract Manufacturing Organization)
… area are choosing to outsource their production activities. Considering a recent tendency to the movement, several companies (called CMOs) are specializing in providing production services. The research used as main sources of information literary references and insights obtained from interviewed …
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Balance performance in people with Parkinson’s disease. Effects of subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation.
… increased fall-related self-efficacy during more complex activities and decreased activity avoidance due to the risk of falling. These findings indicate a positive effect on activities and participation.
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The effect of hybridization on metabolism and hypoxia tolerance in sunfish
… and mitochondrial-encoded subunits of the enzyme complexes of oxidative phosphorylation. In my thesis, I examined metabolic properties and hypoxia tolerance of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), pumpkinseed (L. gibbosus), and their unidirectional F1 hybrids (male bluegill x female pumpkinseed). …
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Toward Practical, In-The-Wild, and Reusable Wearable Activity Classification
… far, have been able to perform well with simple activities, strictly-scripted activities, and application-specific activities. In addition, current classification systems suffer from using impractical tight-fitting sensor networks, or only use one loose-fitting sensor node that cannot capture …
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Multi-Modal Recognition of Manipulation Activities through Visual Accelerometer Tracking, Relational Histograms, and User-Adaptation
… full-body motion patterns to recognizing complex activities. Manipulation activities as occurring in food preparation are particularly challenging to recognize, as they involve many different objects, non-unique task orders and are subject to personal idiosyncrasies. Video data and data …
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Localized muscle fatigue during isotonic and nonisotonic isometric efforts
… amount of physical workload, repetitive manual activities are still typically observed in various work settings. Despite their fairly low workload intensity, prolonged repetitive tasks have been associated with the development of musculoskeletal complaints and problems. Research on localized …
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The Role of Intelligence in Securitisation Processes: A Tool or An Agent
… making and implementation process that involves complex activities, like interactions, between a securitising actor and the targeted audience – whose receptivity is vital for the outcome of these interactions. What is known as securitisation is a routine and daily activity for the Intelligence …
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Human Activity Analysis
… level of detail necessary to distinguish human activities for tasks of regression, like body tracking, and activity classification.</p><p>We first consider activities that can be distinguished by their appearance during a single moment in time. Specifically, we use a database-retrieval approach …
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The industrialisation of South Africa s creative economy: The role of creative intermediaries
… This approach allows for the exploration of the activities of creative and cultural practitioners representing the micro-level of sectoral activity whilst also reflecting on the policy frameworks which creative intermediaries operate in. South Africa's creative economy has been proven to support …
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Influence of Weight Loss on Metabolic and Mitochondrial Function in the Mature Horse
… status. Mitochondrial electron transport chain complex I and IV displayed greater activity in SSM than IFM (p≤0.05), while I, III, and IV in SSM had decreased activity due to BCS change and percent weight loss (p≤0.01). Interactions between SSM and IFM complex IV activity and both weight …
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Stakeholder management within BIM implemented projects in the UK construction industry
… (BIM) has proliferated to manage the increasing complexity of construction projects. Project managers face challenges while managing stakeholders on BIM-implemented projects because the BIM concept is still relatively new to many stakeholders. The implementation of BIM brought new and complex …
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