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Showing 1 to 20 of 1512 for “"Relief"”.
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3D digital relief generation.
… thesis investigates a framework for generating reliefs. Relief is a special kind of sculptured artwork consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background. Traditional relief creation is done by hand and is therefore a laborious process. In addition, …
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Disaster emergency relief shelter.
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1973
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Dry solutions for drought relief--institutional innovation in relief delivery in Ceará, Brazil
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Disaster relief: Fatugue and countermeasures
… of fatalities and injuries. Fatigue in disaster relief workers is an unstudied and critical safety issue in the complex process of disaster management and relief. This paper is designed for leaders in disaster agencies and management as guide to understanding the problem of fatigue in the austere …
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The Relief Icon in Byzantium
This dissertation examines Byzantine relief icons from the ninth to the fifteenth century, challenging the prevailing scholarly emphasis on panel-painted sacred images. While Byzantine icons are often equated with painting, the material record reveals a rich corpus of relief imagery fashioned from …
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Micro-Relief Surface Depression Storage
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:36:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7105180.pdf: 5782313 bytes, checksum: e6bf99675f281184d37f5c33f463e61f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Collaborative environments for disaster relief
In a large-scale disaster relief mission, a variety of personnel and organizations with different expertise take part in the relief activities towards a common goal. Interactions between them are important to promote efficiency, and the relief activities, especially search and rescue (SAR) …
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Disaster Relief: A System for Recovery
On January 12, 2010, Haiti was subjected to an earthquake that measured a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale. The earthquake exposed Haiti's vulnerabilities in regards to its built environment, and had a devastating effect on economic and social balance in the region. Although the earthquake …
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Disaster Relief and Psychological First Aid
… of disasters often do not provide psychological relief. Although people tend to be rather resilient in the face of traumatic events, the psychological distress and possible psychopathology that can ensue should not be taken lightly. This manual was created to be used as a training tool for those …
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Relief Is the Thing with Teeth
<p>Relief, Missouri is the kind of small town that a person can get stuck in. 16-year-old Cat has other plans—she's going to skip town just like her mother did years ago. She just has to wait for the right time to break it to her best friend, 15-year-old Vera. (And the new crush she's developed on …
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From brush painting to high relief.
As an artistic form, relief is described as a hybrid between 2D painting and 3D sculpture. A novel approach for generating a texture-mapped high relief model from a single brush painting is presented in this work. The aim of this work is to extract the brush strokes from a painting and generate the …
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Children’s thinking about regret and relief
… thinking about their own and others’ regret and relief. The results were described in relation to the developmental counterfactual thinking literature which offers an account of gradual improvements in order to achieve adult-like counterfactual thinking. Children aged 5 to 6 years old children …
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Risk management and disaster relief operations
… participation of the private sector in disaster relief operations. This could generate the incentive for a collaborative work in an effective and efficient manner despite the number of agencies involved in disaster relief and fund raising in the corporate world. After providing an overview of the …
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Cerebral mechanisms of breathlessness and its relief
… undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS) for relief of other symptoms. Focusing on experimentally induced ‘air hunger’ (the most unpleasant form of clinical breathlessness) two primary working hypotheses were generated: (i) Perceptual sensitivity to experimentally induced breathlessness will …
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3D printed relief valve analysis and validation
1 PDF file (xi, 92 pages)
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Outdoor relief by the counties of Missouri
… results of a somewhat isolated study of outdoor relief are presented. The general value of the study probably lies in the novel view it affords of a public relief system in the earlier stages of its development. Though sufficient facts have been learned to give a comprehensive idea of the …
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Cloth Filter for Disaster Relief Water Treatment
<p>Relief organizations and governments strive to provide safe drinking water to natural disaster survivors as quickly as possible. However, drinking water is typically provided either as bottled water or via mobile water treatment equipment, both of which can be difficult or expensive to transport …
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Disaster relief vehicle routing with volunteer coverage
In disaster relief operations, modelers typically adopt a pessimistic approach, where we optimize for the worst-case scenario. In reality, there is a chance for human compassion and support which we can incorporate in the operations: specifically, we often see volunteers who are willing to offer …
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Design and implementation of a relief interface
… surface. We define this type of system as a relief interface. This thesis documents the hardware and software design and proposes a set of pressure-based gestures, which are evaluated through applications for geospatial exploration, surface modeling and multilayer viewing.
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