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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Flyer"”.
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The Resilient Micro Flyer: a New Collision-tolerant Autonomous Robot
… and autonomous navigation of the Resilient Micro Flyer, a new type of collision-tolerant small aerial robot tailored to traversing and searching within highly confined environments including manhole-sized tubes. The robot is particularly lightweight and agile, while it implements a …
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Theory and modeling of laser-driven flyer plate experiments to study explosives under a microscope
… and simulating microscopic size, laser-driven flyer impact experiments at 0.5 – 4.5 km/s, (2) identify and develop effective material models for inert and reactive materials, and (3) utilize this framework to present deeper understanding of reactive behavior for a classical reactive material, …
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Alternative weekly and city magazine under one roof: Contemporary Media, Inc.'s “Memphis Flyer” and “Memphis” magazine
… publications through a case study of the Memphis Flyer and its relationship with sister publication Memphis magazine, both under the umbrella of Contemporary Media, Inc. History of the publications, targeted demographics and business models will be taken into account to answer proposed research …
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Airline strategies in the 1990s : frequent flyer programs, domestic and international partnerships, and entry by low-cost carriers
… two chapters focus on airlines' use of frequent flyer programs (FFPs) while the final chapter considers the entry strategies of "low-cost carriers". FFPs may alter the intensity of competition between firms. Increasing marginal benefits built into the reward schedules of FFPs give consumers an …
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Comparison of Airline Co-Branded Credit Card Programs via Frequent Flyer Money Saver Analysis for Full-Service U.S. Carriers
… segments, passengers who want to redeem frequent flyer miles often encounter difficulties. Sometimes airlines demand an extensive amount of air miles to book requests for award seats to not only their partner airline customers but also their own customers. Furthermore, while the airline co-branded …
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Performance of the UBC two-stage light-gas gun
… front of the projectile is a metal disk - the flyer plate. In a typical experiment, the behaviour of the target material under the high pressure conditions that result from the impact between the flyer plate and the target is examined. In this study, the use of gun powder loads of 46 to 150 g, …
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Milles&Més : Programa de fidelització per a aerolínies
… J2EE per a la gestió d'un programa de "frequent flyer" d'una aerolínia.
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Reactive solids under shock compression
… an apparatus to launch and monitor laser-driven flyer-plates was developed. This was coupled to a home built photonic Doppler velocimeter (PDV) which tracks the motion of flyer plates and embedded gauges. This system was characterized using PDV to determine the range of impact velocities and …
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An experimental study of the explosive welding window using a gas-gun
… of explosive welding. The gun can fire a flyer plate at velocities up to 1 km/s using helium as the driving gas for the higher velocity and air for the lower velocity region. The driving pressure is determined by use of scribed bursting discs which have been studied to establish their …
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Women’s Leader Development: Examining the Impact of Leadership Grants, Bias Interrupters, Stereotype Threat, and Purpose on Leader Identity
… the two conditions: a written bias interrupter flyer, or a non-bias interrupter flyer, and then asked to complete a leader identity questionnaire. Independent t-tests and multiple regressions revealed no significant effects of bias interrupters on leader identity. Gender bias was also found not …
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Creating a Healthy Work Environment: Empowering Nursing Staff
… of communicating was via email (15/24) and a flyer in their work mailbox (11/24), where PCAs prefer a flyer in their work mailbox (3/4). A univariate ANOVA revealed a statistically significant difference between RN and PCA for email <p>While the hypothesis for this study is inconclusive, …
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Motivating Community Attendance: The Role of Self-Determination Theory and Message Framing, with Moderating Effects of Organizational Credibility and Community Attachment
… hosting the event, as well as perceptions of the flyer advertising the event. Findings revealed that perceptions of organizational credibility for a local government agency are similar to a private company, social norms played a crucial role in decision making, and the organizations’ reputation …
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A spinoffs study applied to the airline industry
… their non-core divisions, such as the Frequent Flyer Program (FFP).A spinoff is a form of corporate contraction that many companies have recently chosen. Through a spinoff, both the parent company and the divested subsidiary can each focus on their own activity, which translates into a better …
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Hardware & software architecture for multi-level unmanned autonomous vehicle design
… based on a commercially available non-autonomous flyer called the Vectron Blackhawk Flying Saucer. Due to its full body rotation, the craft is more inherently gyroscopically stable than other more common types of UAVs. This morphology was chosen because it has never before been made autonomous, so …
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Shock initiation of explosives under the microscope
… of solid state explosives by thin, laser-driven flyer plates. These flyer plates consist of aluminum foils, typically 25 – 75 μm thick, which are launched using a Nd:YAG laser with a 20 ns pulse width in a technique developed within the Dlott group. A full description of the novel instrumentation …
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Consumer Attitude Towards Branded Quick-Service Foods on Domestic Coach Class In-Flight Menus
… A random sample of one hundred sixteen frequent flyers residing in the United States participated in the study. An examination of consumer attitude towards branded quick-service menu items if introduced on domestic in-flight menus was performed. Multiple regression analysis was used to determine …
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Kinetic Simulations of Spacecraft Charging and Plasma Interactions in the Solar Wind
… consisting of a large platform and a small free flyer in the absence of photoelectron emissions where we set a free flyer at 2*Debye length behind the platform in the wake. For the particular system studied in this dissertation, the simulation shows that wake charging is not severe under both the …
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Optimizing aerobot exploration of Venus
Venus Flyer Robot (VFR) is an aerobot—an autonomous balloon probe—designed for remote exploration of Earth's sister planet in 2003. VFR's simple navigation and control system permits travel to virtually any location on Venus, but it can survive for only a limited duration in the harsh Venusian …
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Evaluating the airline selection behavior of United States domestic travelers: An empirical study
… staff service, dining, seating, frequent flyer programs, scheduling and price. The findings provide useful implications for airline marketers and identify areas for future research.
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The Gamer
… the way to their semi-final basketball game, a flyer blows into Travis's face - Bungie is hosting a tournament in their home town, and the winners get a scholarship to any college of their choice. This is their chance. They enter the tournament as a team. But there's a problem. There's a girl, …
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