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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Measuring tool"”.
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An investigation of the diamond impression method for measuring tool wear
Thesis (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1952.
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A machine vision based non-contact measuring tool for mensuration in industry and manufacturing
… implementation and testing of a non-contact measuring tool based on the principle of stereo photogrammetry. The system uses a pair of CCD video cameras and a frame-grabber in a PC to capture the pair of images this requires. The software on the PC then measures the image co-ordinates of …
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Design of mechanical testing device to measure break angle of thin, stainless steel
… Corporation, an automated mechanical testing tool that bent a small flat piece of steel was designed. The design of the tool was an effort to improve upon previous generations of the same tool. It consisted of three main elements; a servomotor, connected to a torque transducer, which was …
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The Development of a Survey to Assess the Type of Capacity within Nonprofit Sport Organizations
… towards achieving a reliable and valid tool for assessing types of nonprofit sport organizational capacity. This research provides interesting insight into what capacity means by organizing the all-encompassing literature into an easy to understand framework. In addition, it sets the …
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The Relationship between Comprehension and Literature Based Reading Program
… The California Achievement Test was used as a measuring tool. The results were that among literature based reading groups there was no significant difference in comprehension gain. However, when comparing the student selected literature based reading program with the growth the children had …
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A structured light solution for detecting scapular dyskinesis
… quantitatively. In this thesis, we developed a measuring tool that can be used to evaluate certain key clinical parameters specific to scapular dyskinesis. The tool employs a 3D structured light computer vision approach to create a surface map of the soft-tissue across the scapula. This surface …
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Love or protection? Defining and measuring maternal-fetal attachment from the woman’s perspective
… maternalfetal attachment and ultimately create a tool that will act as a reliable, valid and simple measurement. A mixed method framework utilising a sequential exploratory strategy has allowed qualitative exploration of the phenomenon under investigation followed by quantitative testing of the …
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Influences of the use of management systems on the moral attitudes and behaviours of small and medium sized enterprises : measuring the dynamic interplay of morality, environment and managing systems
… environment and uses a corresponding measurement tool to discuss the interplay of these issues with the intention of leading SMEs to continuous improvement. For the design, issues of system thinking have been applied to cope with the complexity of the interplay of the elements. The model and the …
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Comparison of Three Dimensional Measurement Accuracy Using Stereo Vision
… Thus, the stereo vision system can be used as a measuring tool. A few applications have been reported and some of them are included by the literature review. In this thesis, two parameters of the stereovision system have been used to test the measuring results: the distance between the cameras …
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Evaluation of velocity interferometry for high energetic materials using a VISAR
… B explosive charge. A Valyn VISAR was used as a measuring tool to record the expansion history of the cylinder by Doppler shift of the light reflected off its surface, which subsequently was used to obtain the velocity history of the square prism cylinder. Quadrature fringe signals obtained from …
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A study of variables essential for success in an information management post-secondary curriculum /
… be a significant step forward in developing a measuring tool, and would be invaluable in decreasing the attrition rate. The population consisted of 237 MRT students from Baker College in Michigan. A multiple regression statistical analysis (SPSS) was used to test the contribution of each …
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The mechanics of incremental sheet forming
… metals and sandwich panels. A new system for measuring tool forces in ISF is commissioned. The system uses six loadcells to measure reaction forces on the workpiece frame. Each force signal has an uncertainty of ±15 N. This is likely to be small in comparison to tool forces measured in ISF. …
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Imminence and immanence : embodied meaning in architectural experience
… body may be seen as a "paradigmatic ruler," a measuring tool for spatial experience, which in fact measures the spatially implicit meaning in bodily experience. Thus, this thesis is about trying to resolve the difficult juxtaposition of the transcendent qualities of embodied meaning with issues …
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The Effects of Discharge Nursing Intervention Program On the Self-care for The Elderly with Cancer
… before and after self-care performance. Study tools utilized includes self-care performance measuring tool by Jang Okjum(2004). The collected data was analyzed with SPSS Win 12.0, and the homogeneity test was analyzed by Independent t-test, Chi-square test, and Fisher's exact test, and the …
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Sustainability and the ecological footprint : comparing human demand with nature's supply.
… progress in the right direction by providing a measuring tool that gives a clearer understanding as to whether sustainability is being achieved. The ecological footprint has emerged as an innovative technique to measure the ecological dimension of sustainability. The research tests the …
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Watching the wind blow by: a theoretical framework for improving energy justice in the UK.
… and internationally. Through a lack of a clear measuring tool of what effective sustainable development is under Brundtland’s definition, differing interpretations (either deliberately or subconsciously) can be made leading to competing interests between the environmental, economic and social …
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Three-Dimensional Body Volume Measurement From Two-Dimensional Images: Towards A Smartphone Application
… Three-dimensional (3D) scanners provide a useful tool to provide body measurements based on 3D images in obesity management. However, such scanners are often inaccessible due to cost. A smartphone image-based method able to produce 3D images may provide a more accessible measuring tool. As a step …
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Investigating the factors affecting the development of a sustainable national accreditation body for engineering and technology laboratories in North Africa
… be used by prospective accreditation bodies as a measuring tool against its current accreditation process. The main contributions of this research are the development of a sustainable accreditation framework, which was developed and cross validated and development of a PESTILE framework which has …
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