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Showing 1 to 20 of 276 for “"EARS"”.
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Using Ears for Human Identification
… has been researched extensively in recent years. Our research considers the use of ears as a biometric for human recognition. Researchers have not considered this biometric as much as others, which include fingerprints, irises, and faces. This thesis presents a novel approach to recognize …
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High-throughput phenotyping technology for corn ears
… allows for high-throughput phenotyping of corn ears, based on an existing imaging arrangement that produces frontal views of the ears. This thesis describes the development of machine vision algorithms that measure overall ear parameters such as ear length, ear diameter, and cap percentage (the …
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Morphometric analysis of ears in two families of pinnipeds
… reconstructions of the heads and ears from CT data were used to determine interaural dimensions and ossicular chain morphometrics. Ossicular weights and densities were measured conventionally. Results strongly support a canalcentric system for pinniped sound reception and …
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"Falling upon deaf ears" : the case of colloquial architecture
World War II had instigated a strong national movement in The Middle East. In the Fifties and Sixties this region witnessed the end of colonialism in wide spread revolutions. The predominantly agrarian societies of The Middle East were mobilized to modernize. The institutions, with a specific …
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Through the Eyes and Ears of Students: Sixth Graders' Worries
The primary purpose of this qualitative study was to discover the kinds of issues that were troubling sixth-grade students while they were in school through focus groups which were led by eighth-grade peer helpers in the school, the Natural Helpers. The second purpose of this study was to evaluate …
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Dirty Ears: Hearing And Hearings In The Canadian Liberal Settler Colony
… dissent. The research is based on two years of ethnographic work among activists fighting oil and gas development in Vancouver, and indigenous sovereigntists resisting pipelines in the province of British Columbia’s north. Juxtaposing case studies from different struggles over land use …
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Bears Ears National Monument, Relationship, and the Rhetoric of Public Lands
… lands through three case studies related to Bears Ears National Monument (BENM). I argue that a central part of what makes public lands rhetorical are the relationships that people have with the lands, or the experiences, interactions, and meanings that they associate with the land. Chapter …
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
"Ears Taut to Hear" investigates the sustained engagement between American literature and sound reproduction technologies during the twentieth century. Through an analysis of texts by Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Alan Lomax, Sidney Bechet, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. …
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Listening with Two Ears: Conflicting Perceptions of Space in Tonal Music
The Tonnetz is a spatial model of tonal pitch, constructed by placing fifths along the horizontal axis of a coordinate plane and thirds along the vertical axis. This dissertation examines the ways in which different conceptions of interval, including just-intonation ratios, diatonic scalar …
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Friend Me Your Ears: A Musical Approach to Human-Robot Relationships
A relationship is something that is necessarily built up over time, however, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) trials are rarely extended beyond a single session. These studies are insufficient for examining multi-interaction scenarios, which will become commonplace if the robot is situated in a …
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A theory of speech perception in normal and hearing-impaired ears
… is to characterize hearing-impaired (HI) ears by using our knowledge of specific consonant speech cues in ANH ears, thus quantifying how the HI ears di ffer from ANH ears in their use of acoustic cues. Our analysis shows that HI ears may have poor temporal and/or frequency resolution, …
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Through the Ears to the Soul: Female Musicians in Seventeenth-Century Painting
“Through the Ears to the Soul: Female Musicians in Dutch Seventeenth-Century Painting” examines representations of music-making featuring female musicians to demonstrate how visual and aural elements interweave to create an emotional and physiological experience for a seventeenth-century audience. …
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Correlation of Certain Characters in Ears of Moody County White Dent Corn
… has been prevalent that the most cylindrical ears of corn have the largest percentage of corn on them, and it has been the purpose of this study to determine the correlation coefficient between the degree of taper and the percentage of shelled corn on ears of Moody County White Dent.
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Masking effects of perceptual cues on hearing-impaired ears for speech perception
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On the effects of masking of perceptual cues in hearing-impaired ears
… strategy, the masking of the primary cue on HI ears, and hope it will lead us in a positive direction of generalization. An extension of three consonant identification experiments is proposed, derived from Miller and Nicely (1955), Li and Allen (2011), and Kapoor and Allen (2012). Both Li and …
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GAUSSIAN PROCESSES FOR 3D SHAPE MODELLING OF NOISY AND INCOMPLETE DATA. AN APPLICATION TO HUMAN EARS RECONSTRUCTION
… is the modelling or reconstruction of human ears from 3D point clouds, the motivation behind this thesis. This specific problem proves to be a particularly challenging case due to the fine and non-linear details to be modelled, together with the extensive presence of missing data and …
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Measurement of middle-ear acoustic function in intact ears : application to size variations in the cat family
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
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A low-power analog logarithmic map circuit with offset and temperature compensation for use in bionic ears
… power, and can therefore run for over 50 years on just a couple of AA batteries. At the current level of power consumption, we have proven that this design is thermal-noise limited to a 6-bit precision, and higher precision is possible only if we expend more power. As such, it is already …
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