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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Limited Control"”.
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Relative orientation with limited control in close range Photogrammetry
… or impossible to establish a network of control points as required for a conventional absolute orientation procedure. The thesis investigates the replacement of the traditional control network by a few control distances measured between well-defined artificial markers or natural feature …
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Using gesture recognition to control PowerPoint using the Microsoft Kinect
… a speech and gesture recognition system used to control a PowerPoint presentation using the Microsoft Kinect. This system focuses on the identification of natural gestures that occur during a PowerPoint presentation, making the user experience as fluid as possible. The system uses an HMM to …
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The Indian neutral barrier state project: British policy towards the Indians south and southeast of the Great Lakes, 1783-1796
… state project, Great Britain hoped to regain limited control over the vast territory she had ceded to the United States in the Peace Treaty of 1783. Britain desired control over this region for two main reasons: 1) the protection of Canada from both Indian and American raids, and 2) control …
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The design and development of an upper limb assistive technology
… biosignal integrated technologies; patients with limited upperlimb mobility due to paresis, may finally have the opportunity to regain normal movement. An effective yet portable upper limb assistive orthosis has not yet been developed to rehabilitate these patients. A portable device would allow …
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Simulating control of the ankle joint
… where the programmer desires a high level of control over model parameters. Simulations of the ankle kicking a ball and taking a step were created to examine the effect of joint stiffness on these motions and help determine the usefulness of ODE as a simulation tool. Pre-existing models were …
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Microfluidic platforms for studying cell behavior
… chemotaxis and intercellular signaling have limited control over the microenvironment. Control over the microenvironment is required to generate multiple independent gradients and modulate spatial and temporal presentation of signaling molecules, which is needed to study neutrophil chemotaxis …
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… presented in this study demonstrates the limited control that the Confederacy, the Union, and, by implication, most modern nation states, exerted over their subjects. This study also explores the relationship between race and loyalty. It demonstrates how an internal war between …
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On the economic optimality of marine reserves when fishing damages habitat
… effort distribution; (2) a manager with limited control of effort and stock distributions, who seeks to maximize tax revenue by setting the length of a single, central reserve and a uniform tax per unit effort outside it; and (3) a manager with even more limited enforcement power, who can …
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Sheep farmers and turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) in the Falkland Islands: from conflict to coexistence
… a perceived conflict regarding the lethal control of turkey vultures Cathartes aura by sheep farmers in the Falkland Islands. The conflict escalated after the passage of a government policy limiting the traditional method of vulture management (i.e., shooting). I interviewed half of the …
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An integrated framework for ensuring runtime quality in service-oriented systems
… services also presents the service consumer with limited control over the quality of a system. Existing quality assurance initiatives for service-oriented systems are currently limited in the service quality control they offer the consumer, provide poor support for expressing quality …
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On the economic optimality of marine reserves when fishing damages habitat
… effort distribution; (2) a manager with limited control of effort and stock distributions, who seeks to maximize tax revenue by setting the length of a single, central reserve and a uniform tax per unit effort outside it; and (3) a manager with even more limited enforcement power, who can …
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Optimizing terminal conditions using geometric guidance for low-control authority munitions
… at the target. Many small guided munitions have limited control authority to achieve these competing objectives due to system hardware tradeoffs. This thesis develops guidance algorithm modifications that demonstrate consistent improvement in achieving these objectives over previously used …
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The regulation of the private equity fund in South Africa
… approach. These approaches have, however, proven limited with regard to both application and their effectiveness in promoting investor protection, and market efficiency. Two methods have been identified to address governance challenges. The legal tools include facilitating transparency, the …
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Microfluidic perfusion culture for controlling the stem cell microenvironment
… Although conventional methods exist for controlling the soluble microenvironment, they are able to exert only limited control over diffusible signaling. Especially in conventional static culture, the content of the cell culture media changes constantly over time as cells interact with and …
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A Narrative Analysis of the Romantic and Sexual Scripts of Pregnant/Parenting Adolescent Girls
… consequences of sexual behaviors. This focus has limited much of the research in this area. The purpose of this study was to add to the existing literature by focusing, instead, on the adolescent mother's subjective experiences of romantic and sexual relationships.</p> <p>This study was guided by …
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Development of Novel Synthetic Methods for Size-Tunable Synthesis of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
… vary dramatically with size, so reproducibly controlling size is critical for practical applications. This is particularly true when moving into clinical settings, where regulatory approval requires demonstrated reproducibility in efficacy that can only be achieved with excellent size control. …
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How do mental health practitioners experience and understand resilience: The risk of death in mental healthcare
… deaths, being held to account, while having limited control. Seven semi-structured interviews were transcribed and analysed, following van Manen (1990). Themes: 1: Not-disengaging in an emotional process. To not disengage, but to stay with feelings and concerns in the face of death. Being …
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Measurement of the Effectiveness of a Decision Support System for Blending Control of Large Scale Coal Mines
… are achieved by blending adjustments. There is limited control in variability. With only partial information available, operation controllers blend coal by empirical approximation, trying to keep quality between acceptable ranges in order to avoid penalizations, shipment rejections or even …
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A system for high strain rate interruptible tensile tests
… limitation of conventional SHPB is that there is limited control of the ultimate deformation of specimens, because specimens are rarely recoverable after having undergone a single loading event. For this reason, microstructural investigations on SHPB specimens offer limited value, as the specimen …
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