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Showing 1 to 20 of 2042 for “"HUGE"”.
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Huge networks, tiny faulty nodes
Can one build, and efficiently use, networks of arbitrary size and topology using a "standard" node whose resources, in terms of memory and reliability, do not need to scale up with the complexity and size of the network? This thesis addresses two important aspects of this question. The first is …
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The huge delusion: a study of the young emperors and Roman historians
… endured betrayal, and equally suffered the huge delusion of some major purpose. Centuries of romanticism and prejudice have obscured the vision of each, but the distance is traversable.</p> <p>I attempt to cover four basic topics in my study: (1) the transformation of the Roman revolutionary …
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Feature selection from huge feature sets in the context of computer vision
Most learning systems use hand-picked sets of features as input data for their learning algorithms. This is particularly true of computer vision systems, where the number of features that can be computed over an image is, for practical purposes, limitless. Unfortunately, most of these features are …
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Does funding huge capital outlay projects through project finance enhance shareholders' value?
… finance advancing as a crucial tool in funding huge capital outlay projects that facilitate development little research has been conducted in assessing whether it is the most optimum way of funding big project especially when one looks at the value addition in respect of the shareholders. …
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Extreme Value Analysis of Huge Datasets: Tail Estimation Methods in High-Throughput Screening and Bioinformatics
… are applicable to statistical analysis of huge datasets in general. The main results are covered in four papers. The first paper develops novel methods to handle false rejections in High-Throughput Screening experiments where testing is done at extreme significance levels, with low degrees …
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“Seeing the word ‘police’ can be a huge point of recoil”: a qualitative examination of trans people’s perceptions and questions of police legitimacy
This dissertation examines transgender people’s experiences and perceptions of police within Canada. Transgender people experience a wide variety of negative interactions with police, including disrespectful language, rude and inappropriate behaviour, verbal and physical harassment, and the denial …
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Tar sands or scar sands: the oil sands are a huge benefit to the Canadian economy but is this at the expense of the environment that is left behind for future generations?
Crude oil is an essential resource for the world. About 40% of the world’s total supply of energy, and 95% of the energy used in the transportation industry comes from oil and with global consumption of oil increasing to record highs, and conventional sources of oil dwindling, this makes …
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The effect of regulations on insurance companies expanding to emerging markets
… for growth opportunities in their business. Huge opportunities in Africa and in other emerging economies of the world have lured the Insurance companies to expand their operations beyond South Africa, at the expense of their operations in developed economies. These expansions, especially in …
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Development of techniques to culture shrimp haemocytes and purify white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in order to study WSSV-haemocyte interactions
… the shrimp farming industry has experienced a huge expansion in the last four decades. The conjugation of these two factors originated the emergence of many infectious diseases that threaten the sustainable development of the shrimp farming industry. Shrimp viruses are the biggest threat. They …
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Sequence of the mouse Y chromosome
… Mb segmental duplication that we have named the Huge Repeat array. The Huge Repeat array is a collection of 150-200 515 kb repeat units. The repeat units are internally repetitive, gene-containing, and have a repeat unit to repeat unit similarity ranging from 99% to 99.999%. This array has no …
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An Analysis of the International Legal Framework for the Protection of Coral Reefs
… only covers 1 percent of the ocean floor. This huge wealth of biodiversity is founded upon a structure made entirely of animals. The coral polyps that provide the limestone structure of the reef date back around 200 million years and they in that time, although their growth is slow, have …
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High Efficiency High Power Density Gan Based Power Supply Unit (PSU) for Data Center Application
… of data and its handling has resulted in huge server stations which cover prime land space and consumes huge amounts of power at low voltages causing high inefficiency. This work attempts to evaluate the design of a GaN based high efficiency and high power density server PSU. A two-stage …
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Business models and strategies in the video game industry : an analysis of Activision-Blizzard and Electronic Arts
… beyond the role of a cultural medium. With its huge size and potential for more growth, the industry has attracted many newcomers. The target customers are expanding to females and elders who have not been known to be game players. Moreover, the introduction of new platforms, personal computers …
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The notion of buying architecture : a proposition of strategic architecture for urban economic contexts
… thesis starts by acknowledging that there is a huge gap understanding of the value of land, communal life, and architecture between development-involved constituencies such as investors (developers), architects, and current residents. With this awareness, and finding an urban site expecting huge …
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Dynamic Workload Division in GPU-CPU Heterogeneous Systems
… provides powerful computational capabilities and huge potential optimization possibility of efficient. As a result, the CPU-GPU heterogeneous architecture is still the hot zone of the high performance computation. However, the energy consuming is still the bottle neck of the entire the system, …
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Information-theoretic aspects of quantum channels
… Here, quantum entanglement plays a huge role. Pre-shared entanglement could enhance the capacity, whereas entanglement across inputs could render the capacity formulae impossible to compute. The first part of this thesis seeks to address this issue, by studying the additivity …
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The power quality of wind turbines in Sout Africa and their impacts on distribution networks
… as grid connected wind turbines could have a huge impact on these, especially when connected to weak distribution networks.
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A Quantitative Analysis of the Economic Incentives of sub-Saharan Africa Urban Land Use Planning Systems: Case Study of Accra, Ghana.
… the developed world where there are relatively huge volumes of organised data. This study aims to prescribe a simplified quantitative methodology, which is subsequently employed to gauge the economic impacts of these regimes. It proceeds on the central argument that planning regimes in the …
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High resolution Doppler spectroscopy of a transiting ultra-hot Jupiter at optical wavelengths
… of planetary systems. In particular, the huge, high-temperature exoplanets known as hot Jupiters are fascinating laboratories for extreme atmospheric physics, and their size, translucent atmospheres and proximity to their host stars makes them excellent targets for characterisation through …
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