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Showing 1 to 20 of 4085 for “"Inspired"”.
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"Inspired Industry."
… the Master of Fine Arts exhibition entitled "Inspired Industry" at Johnson City Area Arts Council, Johnson City, Tennessee, from November 14 - December 22, 2005. It is the culmination of studies and research affected by the artist's own industry vis-à-vis personal inspirations, including: …
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Biologically inspired speaker verification
… techniques. However, in general, methods inspired by the human auditory system tend to show better verification performance than other methods. In this thesis three biologically inspired speaker verification algorithms are presented.
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E6 inspired supersymmetric models
… extensions to the Standard Model that are inspired by supersymmetric models with an E6 gauge group. The models are non-minimal supersymmetric theories which keep the Higgs mass stable against the quantum corrections from higher energy physics, but do not contain the mu-problem or little …
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Origami-inspired mechanical metamaterials
Origami-inspired mechanical metamaterials are recognised for their diverse property tuneability and controllable collapse behaviours, but their performances are often limited by the flat foldable unit cells. This thesis introduces a novel concept of heterogeneous origami-inspired mechanical …
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Bio-inspired fluid locomotion
We have developed several novel methods of locomotion at low Reynolds number, for both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids: Robosnails 1 and 2, which operate on a lubrication layer, and the three-link swimmer which moves in an unbounded fluid. Robosnail 1 utilizes lubrication pressures generated in …
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Cognitively-inspired direction giving
… Our route overviews are based on cognitively-inspired design criteria such as: the use of spatial hierarchy, goal-directed descriptions, selective suppression of detail, and the use of the trunk segments and cognitive anchor points along the route. In our experiments, we show that we can make …
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Biologically inspired digital fabrication
Objects and systems in nature are models for the practice of sustainable design and fabrication. From trees to bones, natural systems are characterized by the constant interplay of creation, environmental response, and analysis of current structural constituents, as part of a larger dynamic system. …
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Bio-inspired swimming helix
This thesis investigated a bio-inspired swimming chain (BISH), inspired by Weelia cylindrica. After developing a model, it was used to investigate conditions under which helical motion would emerge. The properties of this chain as the number of nodes changes was also investigated, to see if the …
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Fiber inspired neural probes
… during the TDP. I have applied these fiber-inspired probes to record spontaneous and stimulated neural activity in vivo.
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Bio-inspired optical components
… in this thesis encompasses biologically inspired tunable multilayer reflectors made from block copolymers and improvements to liquid filled lenses which mimic the human eye.In this thesis a poly(styrene)-poly(2-vinylpyridine) block copolymer was used to create a bio-mimetic, …
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Tree-Inspired Water Harvesting
… to develop novel devices for water harvesting inspired by natural trees, and to understand their collection efficiency and working principles. We accomplished that with scale-model and large-scale fog harps, floating leaves, and synthetic trees. Fluids mechanics, physics, and thermodynamics …
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Improving Bio-Inspired Frameworks
… we provide solutions to two different bio-inspired algorithms. The first is enhancing the performance of bio-inspired test generation for circuits described in RTL Verilog, specifically for branch coverage. We seek to improve upon an existing framework, BEACON, in terms of performance. …
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Bio-inspired Cellulose Nanocomposites
… range from molecular to the macroscopic scale. Inspired by this design, layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition technique was used to create lignocellulosic composites from isolated wood polymers namely cellulose and lignin, with a lamellar architecture. In the first phase of the study, adsorption of …
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OS INSPIRED COMPLETE KERNEL FUSION
Distributed Machine Learning (DML) is increasingly recognized as a communication-bound workload, with most existing work aiming to alleviate this bottleneck through communication-computation overlap. However, current approaches—largely reliant on CPU-managed operator scheduling and synchronous …
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On Physics-Inspired Generative Models
Physics-inspired generative models such as diffusion models constitute a powerful family of generative models. The advantages of models in this family come from relatively stable training process and high capacity. A number of possible improvements remain possible. In the thesis, we will first …
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Blood clotting inspired polymer physics
The blood clotting process is one of the human body's masterpieces in targeted molecular manipulation, as it requires the activation of the clotting cascade at a specific place and a specific time. Recent research in the biological sciences have discovered that one of the protein molecules involved …
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Bio-inspired collective analog computation
… cells. To this end, I first implement a neuron-inspired collective analog adder in a standard 0.5 [mu]m CMOS process. It serves as a prototype system that visualizes fundamental design ideas and techniques for building a collective analog computation system. Next, I build a cell-inspired analog …
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Biologically Inspired Modular Neural Networks
… to the neural network design and learning are inspired by the engineering, complexity, psychological and neurobiological aspects. The main theme of this dissertation is to explore the organization and functioning of the brain to discover new structural and learning inspirations that can be …
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Bio-inspired surface engineering for hydrophobicity
Highly evolved, efficient and sophisticated biological systems can be used as models for scientific innovations. This research explored specific surface structures on plant leaves with respect to their hydrophobicity in the context of the often arid Australian climate. The relationships between …
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