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Showing 1 to 20 of 4267 for “"Laws"”.
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Steering Laws for Pursuit
… mathematicians and engineers. Guidance/steering laws are essential in robotic systems. In this thesis, we first review the results on steering laws for a specific pursuit process, motion camouflage with respect to infinity. This type of guidance law renders the baseline (line connecting the …
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Conservation Laws and Electromagnetic Interactions
… light and matter is governed by conservation laws that can manifest themselves as mechanical effects acting on both matter and light waves. This interaction permits remote, precise, and noninvasive manipulation and sensing at microscopic levels. In this dissertation, we demonstrated for the …
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Of First Principles & Organic Laws
<p>The First Principles and Organic Laws of the United States ought to be part of a daily discussion at every water cooler and every dinner table in the country. Instead, it is entirely possible there have been days, weeks, months—or even years—when neither term has been spoken anywhere in America. …
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Power laws in software systems
… main topic of my PhD has been the study of power laws in software systems within the perspective of describing software quality. My PhD research contributes to a recent stream of studies in software engineering, where the investigation of power laws in software systems has become widely popular in …
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The Laws of Humanitarian Assistance
… And yet, as a global field of inquiry, the laws of humanitarian assistance are little understood. This dissertation works to fill that gap. Taking a mixed-method approach that relies on doctrinal analysis and semi-structured interviews with humanitarians, this dissertation explores the laws …
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Scaling Laws for Deep Learning
… pruning are predictable and governed by scaling laws — for state of the art models and tasks, spanning image classification and language modeling, as well as for state of the art model compression via iterative pruning. Predictability, via the establishment of these scaling laws, provides the …
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Does Cyberspace outdate Jurisdictional Defamation Laws?
… is implemented by domestic courts using 'state-laws'. These laws are based on a ‘physical presence’ of an individual within the territory. It elevates conflicts relating to cyberspace jurisdiction. This research examines private international law complications associated with cyberspace. The …
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Scaling laws for heterogeneous wireless networks
This thesis studies the problem of determining achievable rates in heterogeneous wireless networks. We analyze the impact of location, traffic, and service heterogeneity. Consider a wireless network with n nodes located in a square area of size n communicating with each other over Gaussian fading …
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Discontinuities, Balance Laws, and Material Momentum
… entails interrogation of the classical balance laws of momentum, angular momentum, and energy across propagating discontinuities. A major part of this dissertation also concerns itself with a non-classical entity called the ``material momentum''. The balance of material momentum is studied in a …
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Scalar Balance Laws with Singular Nonlocal Sources.
North Carolina State University Dissertation Mathematics
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A study of sub-optimal control laws
Electronic Thesis
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A history of California teacher retirement laws
… of the study is to show that California laws as they exist today are the results of continuous action for improvement of teachers’ retirement. This has been done by reviewing several areas of retirement history. These are mainly the area of mutual aid societies, early retirement …
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Adaptation and Tradition in Hellenistic Sacred Laws
… Through the lens of inscribed Greek sacred laws we see communities balancing the twin requirements of innovation and tradition. The epigraphic record shows significant changes to the choreography of religious experience in response to demographic change; experimentation in funding …
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From Conflict of Laws to Global Justice
At the beginning of the 21st Century, conflict-of-laws theory lies in tatters. The determination of the applicable law could hardly be more disputed and insecure. At the same time, globalization requires a strong basis on which legal systems can be coordinated. It is therefore high time to …
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