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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Gadgets"”.
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American gadgets: cybernetics, consumer electronics, and twentieth-century us fiction
… single row of play controls on a cassette deck, gadgets preserve the concept of human autonomy by yoking personal entertainment with technical knowledge, agency, citizenship, and individuality. In American postwar fiction and film, gadgets serve powerful functions that allow authors such as …
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Gadgets and Gizmos: A Formal Model of Simulation in the Gadget Framework for Motion Planning
… work has developed a theory of motion-planning gadgets, which are a useful tool for proving hardness for a variety of problems that can be thought of in terms of an agent navigating a dynamic environment. We introduce formal objects representing motion-planning gadgets, which we call gizmos, and …
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A framework for visualizing hardness reductions to grid-based games
Hardness proofs for grid-based games often use gadgets connected together to represent computational problems. We present an open-source framework to implement these reductions, producing actual game instances out of hard computational instances. Our framework first converts the input problem …
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Influence of the 21st century technology in learner academic performance in King Cetshwayo district secondary schools
… that can be adapted for the control of online gadgets in order to enhance learners’ academic performance in the 21st Century. Quantitative methods were adopted for the study. Rural and urban-based secondary schools were purposively selected, while 180 educators were randomly selected across the …
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A framework for proving the computational intractability of motion planning problems
… that move around a connection graph and through "gadgets" which are stateful parts of the environment whose state and traversability can change only in response to traversals of the agent within the gadget. The model includes variants for 0-player, 1-player, 2-player, and team imperfect …
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Quantitative Metrics and Measurement Methodologies for System Security Assurance
… seconds (1.5-3.5) to find various code reuse gadgets such as the Turing Complete gadget set. Experiments also suggest that some code pointer leaks allow attackers to find gadgets more quickly than others. Besides, the instruction-level single-round randomization can restrict Turing Complete …
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Orientation-indepedent wireless charging of multiple mobile devices at a distance
… user to remove all of her wearable and handheld gadgets and place them on a charging pad. This thesis proposes MultiSpot, a new wireless charging technology that can charge multiple devices, even as the user is wearing them or carrying them in her pocket. A MultiSpot charger acts as an access …
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Computational design with curved creases : David Huffman's approach to paperfolding
… categories. I abstract his designs into gadgets, or small sets of curves with specific three-dimensional folding consequences. The taxonomy begins with reflected cylinders and cones which are well understood mathematically. The bulk consists of gadgets Huffman invents for himself which …
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Designing and Production of Original Jewelry and Micro-Sculpture
… methods and techniques; (1) combining common gadgets of everyday use into unusual surroundings in order to create a piece of jewelry; and (2) applying new concepts in the manufacturing of jewelry by means of experimental castings.
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Virtual learning for persons with visual impairment: an exploration of learning platform in a home environment from UTH special school in Lusaka, Zambia.
… on internet connectivity and having rightful gadgets which were user-friendly to individual with visual impairment as well as low socio-economic background as it determined the purchasing power. Furthermore, challenges faced included: children lack of computers and phones with bundles to go …
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Virtual learning for persons with visual impairment: an exploration of learning platform in a home environment from UTH special school in Lusaka, Zambia.
… on internet connectivity and having rightful gadgets which were user-friendly to individual with visual impairment as well as low socio-economic background as it determined the purchasing power. Furthermore, challenges faced included: children lack of computers and phones with bundles to go …
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The prevalence of technology usage in the teaching vocabulary in english in selected primary schools of Kasama district of Zambia.
… it aimed to establish the use of technological gadgets teaches of lower grades use in teaching vocabulary. Secondly, the study wanted to ascertain the technological application, software and learning platforms that were used for teaching vocabulary among early graders and the third objective …
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The prevalence of technology usage in the teaching vocabulary in english in selected primary schools of Kasama district of Zambia.
… it aimed to establish the use of technological gadgets teaches of lower grades use in teaching vocabulary. Secondly, the study wanted to ascertain the technological application, software and learning platforms that were used for teaching vocabulary among early graders and the third objective …
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Using 3D Visual Data to Build a Semantic Map for Autonomous Localization
… maps are essential for robots and intelligent gadgets to autonomously carry out tasks. Traditional maps built by visual sensors include metric ones and topological ones. These maps are navigation-oriented and not adequate for service robots or intelligent gadgets to interact with or serve human …
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Compiler and Machine Learning-based Predictive Techniques for Security Enhancement through Software Debloating
… these reusable code snippets, known as gadgets, has become one of the prime focuses of attack surface reduction research. The aim is to break these chains of gadgets, thereby making such code reuse attacks impossible or substantially less common. Recent work on attack surface reduction …
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Combinatorial algorithms for perturbation theory and application on quantum computing
… called perturbative reductions (or perturbative gadgets) is adopted from quantum complexity theory and in this dissertation these techniques are improved for experimental considerations. The idea of perturbative reduction is based on the mathematical machinery of perturbation theory in quantum …
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Origami transformers : folding orthogonal structures from universal hinge patterns
… insights. We show how to compose "cube gadgets" to fold any N-cube polycube from an O(N) x O(N) rectangle of paper, using only O(N 2 ) time to compute the parameters of the unambiguous folding sequence. We also describe extensions of our basic algorithm to larger classes of shapes with …
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A service orientated architecture and wireless sensor network approach applied to the measurement and visualisation of a micro injection moulding process. Design, development and testing of an ESB based micro injection moulding platform using Google Gadgets and business processes for the integration of disparate hardware systems on the factory shop floor
… machine process systems with frontend Google Gadgets (GGs) based web visualisation applications. A business process framework is proposed to manage and orchestrate the resulting services from the architecture. Results from the analysis of the WSN kits in terms of their usability and …
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SYSTEMATIC METHODS FOR MEMORY ERROR DETECTION AND EXPLOITATION
… which selectively stitches basic data-flow gadgets for a desired purpose. With DOP, we build Turing-complete data-oriented attacks.
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Screen-based sedentary behaviour of school-ages children in the Thulamela Municipality of Vhembe District Limpopo Province
… in children. 74% of the households had 3 to 10 gadgets available. 42.3% of the children own their own phone and 59.6% of those who reported that they do not own one borrow from others. At the top is parents at 58.7%, borrowing children their phones. Screen-based sedentary behaviour specifically …
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