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Providing Connections: A Wetland Boardwalk
As part of their Northwest Stream Center located in Snohomish County, Washington, Adopt-a-Stream Foundation plans to add a boardwalk route through the wetland site adjacent to their building to provide an outdoor learning area for wetland education. This report is the culmination of my on-site …
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Providing Cultural Balance for Young Americans
Children today are increasingly being introduced to tablets and other personal electronic devices at very young ages. Due in part to this, the entertainment industry now has a near ubiquitous presence in America compared to cultural arts. Its influence on the development of children is almost …
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Seismic strengthening by providing structural diaphragm
There are a large number of precast frame buildings used in Turkey for industrial facilities. One-story warehouses are the most common structural configurations. Because there was little redundancy in the lateral load resisting system, many precast buildings were damaged beyond repair during the …
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Providing caching abstractions for web applications
Web-based applications are used by millions of users daily, and as a result a key challenge facing web application designers is scaling their applications to handle this load. A crucial component of this challenge is scaling the data storage layer, especially for the newer class of social …
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Providing concurrent implementations for Event-B developments
The Event-B method is a formal approach to modelling systems which incorporates the notion of refinement. This work bridges the abstraction gap between the lowest level of Event-B refinement and a working implementation. We focus on the link between Event-B and concurrent, object-oriented …
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Providing intrinsic support for user interface monitoring
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990.
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Providing a Restoration Framework for Regulated Rivers
With over 800,000 dams occurring globally and the construction of thousands more being proposed, successful restoration of regulated rivers will depend on the creation of broadly applicable frameworks that provide management solutions by generalizing patterns in habitat and ecology. Based on the …
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Providing Location Security in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
<p>Location is fundamental information in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs). Almost all VANET applications rely on location information. Therefore it is of importance to ensure location information integrity, meaning that location information is original (from the generator), correct (not bogus or …
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Providing guaranteed QoS in the hose-modeled VPN
… and value-added services instead of only providing bandwidth and access services. Virtual Private Network (VPN) is one of the most important value-added services for ISPs. The "classical" VPN service is provided by implementing layer 2 technologies, either Frame Relay (FR) or Asynchronous …
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Colombus: providing personalized recommendations for drifting user interests
… satisfying users’ evolving information needs and providing additional information on their behalf.
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Terrace housing : providing quality in higher-density housing
… space, which limit the quality of living space. Providing better quality of living space above ground must therefore be considered. Terrace housing, that is multi-story housing with open spaces on each level, is a building type which has the advantage of providing the qualities of private open …
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Providing precise indoor location information to mobile devices
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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Business models for providing education to the poor
This thesis presents four business cases for delivering education services to the poor. All four business cases meet three fundamental criteria, namely, they are (i) focused on primary or secondary education for the poor, (ii) commercially viable and (iii) highly scalable. These four business cases …
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Providing personalised information based on individual interests and preferences.
The main aim of personalised Information Retrieval (IR) is to provide an effective IR system whereby relevant information can be presented according to individual users' interests and preferences. In response to their queries, all Web users expect to obtain the search results in a rank order with …
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Peer mentoring: providing a partnership for guidance through school
<p>The purpose of this study was to provide at-risk students with peer mentors to guide students as they make the transition from the intermediate school level to the middle school level. The study resulted in the creation of a program that formed a partnership between 7<sup>th</sup>-grade at-risk …
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Providing academic access to individuals with significant disabilties [sic]
1 PDF file (v, 43 pages)
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Classifying Mouse Movements and Providing Help in Web Surveys
… Web surveys, researchers have experimented with providing real-time assistance to respondents who take a long time to answer a question. Help provided in such a fashion has resulted in increased accuracy, but some respondents do not like the imposition of unsolicited help. There may be …
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Reviewing critical pedagogy's criticisms and providing a pragmatic heuristic
<p>"This article reviews scholarly literature about problems in critical pedagogy, pragmatic examples of implementing critical pedagogy, professional learning communities, and critical pedagogy-based curricula in new media toward proposing part of a broad solution to some of critical pedagogy's …
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