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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Hobby"”.
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Understanding the Impact of Hobby Participation on Quality of Life During Cancer Treatment
… of this study is to explore the role of regular hobby participation on QoL with regards to finding purpose and meaning making, increased coping skills, and social support through hobby participation during breast cancer treatment. </p> <p>Method: Qualitative descriptive study using snowball …
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A kind of superior hobby : women managers in the John Lewis Partnership 1918-1950
During the interwar period, a radical departure from earlier traditional management practices in British department stores can be identified. Increasing trade, combined with the introduction of new systems and stock, required a dramatic increase in the number and calibre of managers employed to run …
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The Effectiveness of Hobby Oriented Physics Experiences (h.o.p.e.) in The Teaching of High School Physics
In the last century, scientific technology has played a major part in altering the way of life for persons in the United States. The need for more persons with a knowledge of this technology is growing rapidly. The job of training these persons rests mainly with the colleges and universities across …
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Hobby-Eberly Telescope Chemical Abundances of Stars in the Halo (CASH) project : spectroscopic analyses of the first ~80 stars
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Chemical Abundances of Stars in the Halo (CASH) project aims to characterize the nature of the early universe through the study of metal-poor stars in the stellar halo of the galaxy. Once completed, this will be the largest set of abundances determined for metal-poor …
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Volný čas a podmínky pro jeho realizaci v Litoměřicích
This dissertation deals with hobby education at elementary schools in Litoměřice. It focuses mainly on the activity of after-school centres and school clubs. The main objective of this dissertation is to analyse and compare the offer and potential of elementary schools in Litoměřice in the field of …
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Crafting Culture: Scrapbooking and the Lives of Women
… industry (currently the fastest growing hobby and cottage industry in the United States) and how it utilizes ideologies of family and femininity to engage women's participation in the hobby. Scholars have analyzed women's organizations and businesses, women's relationships, and the …
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Hobby Grade Lithium-Ion Batteries for Spacecraft Applications: Establishing an Automated Electrical Characteristics Testing Procedure For Flight Acceptance of non-Space-Grade Small Secondary Batteries
<p>Li-ion batteries are widely used due to the large amount of rechargeable energy they pack into a small, light package. This higher energy density makes Li-ion batteries ideal for small satellite applications, specifically CubeSats. CubeSats have grown in popularity in higher level education due …
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Design and implementation of series elastic actuation in a biomorphic robot leg
… incorporate series elastic actuation, but with hobby servo motors as the power source. The use of hobby servos was intended to keep costs low, as was the extensive use of off the shelf parts whenever possible. With the recent advances in hobby servo motors, it was expected that reasonable if not …
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The trajectory of modern ceramic scholarship: Okuda Seiichi's ceramic appreciation in the Taishō period, 1912 – 1926
… dissertation investigates the connection between hobby (shumi), aesthetic appreciation (kanshō), and the imagining of Japan-centered “oriental ceramics” (tōyō tōji) in Okuda Seiichi’s thought during the period of rapid modernization and aesthetic nationalism that accompanied Japanese imperialist …
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A Case Study of Michelle's Statuary
… Georgia had made and painted wall plaques as a hobby in their spare time. Jimmie had also participated in various theater groups. | Some of their artist acquaintances had begun traveling to California to purchase unpainted statues. The statues were brought back to Omaha to be sold painted or …
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The Influence of Sex-Appropriate and Sex-Inappropriate Sports and Hobbies on Perceived Physical Attractiveness (Athletic, Female)
… versus inappropriate) role (sport versus hobby) and gender (female versus male) on social assessments of physical attractiveness. High school juniors and seniors rated the physical attractiveness of photographs matched with conformity and role variables. The experimental design manipulated …
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Design of an electro-mechanical hexapod for accelerated life testing of optical fiber assemblies
… and length of optical fibers required for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment (HETDEX) create unique fiber handling challenges. More than 33,000 optical fibers will enable the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) to collect data on at least one million galaxies that are 9 billion to 11 …
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Design, Test, and Evaluation of a High Powered 4 DOF Prosthetic Leg for Transfemoral Amputees
… series elastic actuators with high powered hobby grade helicopter motors capable of providing 2880~W of power each for knee and ankle pitch and ankle roll. In addition, a yaw motor with a planetary gearbox combination is used for yaw actuation providing up to 21~Nm of torque. The prosthesis …
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Black holes and how to find them : on the detection of compact objects at several scales
… gravitational wave sources conducted using the Hobby Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory.
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Design and control of an animatronic Aardvark
… possible. These requirements were met by using hobby servos to produce the movements, and control was achieved with a Motorola based micro controller (the Handy Board). The proportions of the animatron were based on those or a real aardvark, made to approximately 1/4 scale. The final product met …
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Religious institutions and associational freedom in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.
… For example, in the 2014 case of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, only a bare majority of the justices sustained a closely held corporation's right to exercise religion. Justice Ginsburg, embracing an individualistic understanding of religion and rights in her dissenting opinion, argued that religion …
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Design and Manufacturing of a Mecanum Wheel for the Magnetic Climbing Robot
… The drawbacks include design, usage of hobby grade material, bumps in rollers, etc. A comprehensive design of the Mecanum wheel is being presented using Computer Aid Software, CAD and analysis tools, such as Finite Element Analysis, FEA. The different concepts were hand sketched using …
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Spectroscopy of white dwarf stars observed by HETDEX.
… spectral data of white dwarf stars found in the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, in addition to parallax data from the Gaia space observatory, to determine effective temperature and surface gravity of this unique magnitude-limited sample.
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Design of low cost biomimetic flexible robots using additive manufacturing techniques
… to the electronics and built using a modified hobby grade 3D printer.
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