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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Frees"”.
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Creative ideas for creativity research in marketing: Creativity connects, frees, and empowers
Creativity—is it simply a means to achieve innovation within companies? Creativity stands as one of the most important forces driving firm growth, particularly in the 21st century. Over the past five decades, the focus of creativity research has predominantly been on enhancing individual creative …
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School determinants of political engagement and participation among South African 'Born Frees'
… first post-apartheid generation, the 'born frees'. I ask whether schools have had an impact on 'born free' students' civic engagement and the likelihood that they will participate in legal and illegal political activity, as well as voting in elections. Despite the legacies of the racially …
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Design and analysis of fiber reinforced elastomeric enclosures with application in upper arm orthosis
Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Enclosures (FREEs) are soft pneumatic actuators that deform in a predetermined fashion upon inflation. They are constructed using a hollow elastomeric cylinder reinforced by two families of helical fibers. This thesis analyzes the deformation behavior of FREEs by …
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Architectures of soft pneumatic actuators for wearable human assistive applications
… as Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Enclosures (FREEs) and studies the implication of wearing them as sleeves around the elbow joint. The first architecture is a helical arrangement of FREEs, which is shown to directionally modulate its stiffness. The second architecture is a nested arrangement …
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Modeling and design of fiber reinforced pneumatic actuators for soft robotics applications
… Elastomeric Enclosures, abbreviated as FREEs, are one such embodiment of fiber reinforced actuators that have two sets of inextensible fibers bonded on to an elastomeric tube. The orientation of these fibers determine the deformation behavior of FREEs, which include contraction, …
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The centrality dependence of thermal parameters in Pb-Pb collisions at 158 GeV/nucleon
… of the system size on chemical-and thermal frees-out and contributions towards the systematic understandig of the experimental data.
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An Architecture for Collaborative Math and Science Digital Libraries
… style. I also describe how Noosphere frees the digital library maintainer from a heavy administrative burden by implementing the design pattern of zero content administration. Finally, I discuss evidence showing that Noosphere works and is sustainable, both in the a priori and …
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The double life of Jane Fairfax: a study of the shadow novel in Jane Austen's Emma
… The solution of the shadow novel's mystery frees the characters from double-dealing and delusion, and effects the reconciliation,leading to the appropriate, happy ending.
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Continuum: an architecture for user evolvable collaborative virtual environments
… into this single shared structure. The system frees distributed users from the constraints of monolithic centralized virtual world architectures and instead allows individual users to extend and evolve the virtual world by creating and controlling their own individual pieces of the larger world …
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How can Cape Flats youth overcome Environmental circumstance by using their Personal potential?
… identity and (un)employment among Coloured born-frees from the Cape Flats in Cape Town. Coloured adolescents could be classified as vulnerable because their living conditions are characterized by unemployment, crime, gangsterism and a lack of positive role models. In conjunction with digital …
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History Has the Voice of a Bird-Filled Tree
… refers to as a “triggering town.” This removal frees the internal biographer and historian to write openly about experiences without guilt or sanitization of a symbolic past. The narrative is mostly true with just enough fibbery to protect both the innocent and guilty alike.</p>
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Feasibility of GNU/Linux as the OS for a PC-based medical product
… to Linux. Using an open-source operating system frees developers from the constraints imposed by relying on a single company for the development platform. Several porting methods are considered. The port method chosen allows development on the Windows version to continue while simultaneously …
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A user interface for customizing cane layouts in Virtual Glass
… an alternative interface we have developed which frees users from the limitations of template patterns. I provide a side-by-side comparison of several previous cane designs replicated in the program with and without the use of this interface. I also detail several unimplemented features and …
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Surrogate models for the design and control of soft mechanical systems
… as Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Enclosures (FREEs). Towards this the thesis is divided into two parts, with the first part investigating reduced order models for design and the other part investigating reinforcement learning (RL) framework for controls. The reduced order models for design is …
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IPSec Overhead in Wireline and Wireless Networks for Web and Email Applications
… time, network load and number of packets since FreeS/WAN IPSec does not carry any form of compression on the data before passing it to the data link layer. Both authentication algorithms, HMAC-MD5 and HMAC- SHA1, result in about the same network load and number of packets. However, HMAC-SHA1 …
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A distributed Hash table
… a wide-area storage service, DHash. DHash frees applications from re-implementing mechanisms common to any system that stores data on a collection of machines: it maintains a mapping of objects to servers, replicates data for durability, and balances load across participating servers. …
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A Long Horizon Planning Framework for Manipulating Rigid Pointcloud Objects
… method plans in the space of object subgoals and frees the planner from reasoning about robot-object interaction dynamics by relying on a set of generalizable manipulation primitives. We show that for rigid bodies, this abstraction can be realized using low-level manipulation skills that maintain …
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Egmont Zechlin
Die Dissertation über den Hamburger Historiker untersucht in einer biographischen Studie die ersten Lebensjahrzehnte bis ca. 1950, da er Zeitzeuge bedeutsamer Perioden neuerer deutscher Zeitgeschichte war. Die Biographie und die wissenschaftliche Laufbahn Zechlins bildet den Rahmen und die …
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Characterization of features of the initiation of translation of satellite tobacco necrosis virus RNA
… initiation codon. This first ribosome binding frees the upstream site from secondary structure allowing all subsequent ribosomes to initiate translation at the upstream AUG codon.
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Representation and simulation of a high level language using VHDL
… representation of a High Level Language in VHDL frees users of custom computing platforms from the tedious job of developing a hardware model for a desired application. The algorithm also constructs a test file that is used with a pre-existing program, Test Bench Generation (TBG), to create a …
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