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Sense of Duration
The following writings contain different segments about the concept of time. To best describe certain feelings and thoughts concerning my ideas and work I have used poetry and short stories in a prosaic manner. I also felt it necessary to include some historic facts about the history of time and …
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A logarithmic cost-duration analysis
… Indirect costs are proportional to project duration, with the penalty rate factor. Direct costs are related to the activity durations. An important problem of cost-duration analysis is how to design the trade-off between indirect and direct costs. Academics and practitioners have been …
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Duration, cultural programming and sensemaking
… research sought to understand how a durational programme method can contribute to the sensemaking processes of the people who engage with it, and the thesis does two things:<br/><br/>-demonstrates the work of the programmer within a new ‘Stakeholders model’ which describes …
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Models of non-work activity duration.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1979.
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Effect of vibration exposure duration on discomfort
… very little is known about the effects of the duration of exposure to vibration on comfort.<br/>This thesis investigates the effects of body support, frequency, waveform, and direction of excitation on the Subjective Discomfort Time-Dependency (SDTD) during vibration so as to improve …
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Crew Training Requirements For Long Duration Missions
<p>After reviewing the journals of astronauts, cosmonauts, and others who lived and worked in confinement, a new pre-mission training approach for missions in confinement was developed. This new training approach is founded on the idea that conflicts in confinement often arise due to humanity's …
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Quantile regression and the duration of unemployment
Powell (1986) proposed a quantile regression estimator for censored regression models on the basis of equivariance of quantiles to monotone transformations. In this thesis, censored quantile regression models are generalized using two-parameter Box-Cox transformation to relax the conventional …
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Cross-regional word duration patterns in Mandarin
Duration contrasts can convey many types of information, including language background, word structure, word frequency, speech genre, intention, and emotions. An understanding of duration lays the foundation for many aspects of speech technology since duration plays a major role in speech …
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A fully scaled short duration turbine experiment
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1985.
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Building Duration: A House Living Toward Death
Life is a transition through stages, framed by birth and death. We transition through life in a nonlinear fashion, moving sometimes closer to, and sometimes farther from, rest. Daily, we rise for living and fall to rest. Daily, we prepare for activity and prepare for sleep. Daily we age and endure, …
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Israeli Coalition Governments: Formation and Duration (1949-1999)
… that have contributed to the formation and duration of Israeli coalition governments. Most importantly, it differentiates between two historical periods that have shaped Israeli coalition politics. Prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the election of the 7th Israeli Knesset in 1969, …
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Determinants of bankruptcy protection duration for Canadian firms
… the determinants of the bankruptcy protection duration for Canadian firms. Using a sample of Canadian firms that filed for bankruptcy protection between the calendar years 1992 and 2009, we fmd that the firm age, the industry adjusted operating margin, the default spread, the industrial …
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The Duration of Unemployment: A Search-Information Approach
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913669.pdf: 3246980 bytes, checksum: 345f906345aff75262720e70c56f931a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Hierarchical duration modeling for a speech recognition system
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Teleseismic study of rupture processes with long duration
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1994.
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