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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Rural Environments"”.
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MapLite : autonomous navigation in rural environments without detailed prior maps
Most autonomous vehicle systems currently rely on high-definition prior maps in order to localize and navigate in their environment. In this work, we present MapLite: a one-click autonomous navigation system capable of piloting a vehicle to an arbitrary desired destination point given only a sparse …
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A comparitive study of beach morphology between urban and rural environments : case studies : Għajn Tuffieħa and Balluta beaches
… two different beaches: one situated in a rural environment (Ghajn Tuff:ieha Beach) and the other situated in an urban environment (Balluta Beach) were monitored every week. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used in this study. The quantitative method consisted in …
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Comparative assessment of flood resilience in urban and rural environments: a case study of Chennai City and Wardha River Sub-basin, India
… highly vulnerable to floods, both urban and rural areas face distinct challenges. This thesis explores the contrasting dynamics of urban and rural flooding, focusing on Chennai as a case study for urban flooding and the Wardha River sub-basin for rural flooding. By examining the role of land …
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A Model Institute: The Mansouria Agricultural Learning Laboratory and Community Center
Inadequate rural housing, poor sanitation, resource scarcity, lack of adequate income and a general substandard level of living, forces a mass migration from rural areas into overtaxed urban centers in Egypt. Unable to sustain their families on increasingly smaller and less productive agricultural …
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Differences In Urban and Rural Natural Hazard Mortality In the United States
… United States` population has migrated away from rural environments towards urban centers and coastal areas. Both areas are considered prone to natural hazards. Two contrary trends have appeared at the same time: 1) property and crop damage from natural hazards has increased; and 2) hazard …
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Habitat Use of Urban Bats in Springfield, Missouri
… within Springfield, Missouri and surrounding rural areas in southern Missouri to compare the activity indices of nine bat species between urban and rural environments. A total of 1,876 echolocation call sequences was recorded, identified to species and analyzed; 1,066 were from 42 Springfield …
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Pair Coordination of House Wrens, Troglodytes aedon, in Rural and Urban Environments
… aedon) at active nests in an urban and rural site to explore whether alternation and synchrony differed between urban and rural environments. The urban site had significantly fewer parental visits than the rural site. Pair coordination, measured by alternation and synchrony, was …
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Becoming the Best Mom or the Best Doctor? Gender Inequality and Medical Students’ Specialty Choice
… and career interests. Students’ perceptions of “rural” environments, student debt, professional obligations, specialties, and preceptorship experiences were analyzed. Students’ gender heavily influenced their feelings about choosing a medical specialty, as did their stereotypes of physicians in …
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Visual perception and preference of water features in relation to environmental background
… people's provenance from urban, suburban, and rural environments and their visual perception and preference of natural versus man-made water features.H A sample of 165 college students was surveyed, using a questionnaire in combination with a slide presentation as a survey instrument. …
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Identification of barriers and least cost paths for autonomous vehicle navigation using airborne LIDAR data
… races among autonomous ground vehicles in rural environments. These vehicles must follow a course delineated by Global Positioning System waypoints using no human guidance. Airborne LIDAR data and GIS can play a significant role in identifying barriers and least cost paths for such …
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Recent Change in Ireland's Rural Peripherary: A Case Study of Gweedore.
… discrepancies emerging between the urban and rural environments. This thesis investigates the type, and level of these disparities in relation to the Northwest, rural, region of Gweedore, Co.Donegal. To being with, the demographic and socio-economic features of a rural area were documented in …
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Bit error rate simulation of a CDMA system for personal communications
… including heavy urban, urban, suburban and rural environments. Simulation results for both 915 MHz and 1920 MHz are presented. Vertical and circular antenna polarization are compared. In the simulation, a RAKE receiver is implemented, the advantage of this RAKE receiver implementation is …
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Fifth Graders Talk about Leisure Reading: a Series of Focus Groups
… by location including urban, suburban, and rural environments. Student selection was made by classroom teachers based on a variety of reading abilities and gender. Focus groups were interviewed regarding their leisure time reading habits, interests and behaviors. Group responses were then …
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A Critical analysis of the secondary school economic science curruculum
… prominence in all schools including those in rural environments where given subject advisors seldom visit
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Behavioral Differences Between Urban and Rural American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
… explore behavioral differences between urban and rural American crows (<em>Corvus brachyrhynchos</em>) by installing baited perches in urban and rural settings in Kittitas County, Washington. In order to observe differences in urban and rural crow behavior to approach or avoidance-oriented …
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Microhabitat Affinity of Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi) in Rural and Urban Areas in Central Texas
… whether differences exist between urban and rural areas of central Texas. That is, I examined whether cricket frogs altered their use of microhabitats when in urban environments compared to rural. Vegetative and substrate characteristics and moisture profiles of microhabitats were …
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How Does Place Affect Access To "What Works?": Knowledge Usage In Urban And Rural Ngo Intervention Design
… to capital across ties. However, urban and rural environments present different concentrations of institutions and organizations, perhaps resulting in unequal abilities for urban and rural NGOs to cope. To investigate the ways Mississippi NGOs are utilizing data to inform health …
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Many voices, one wilderness : collaborative conservation in the greater Chicago region
… to protect land on this scale have occurred in rural environments dominated by resource lands, an increasing number of efforts are occurring in urban environments. These locales are characterized by biological and political fragmentation that complicate landscape-scale conservation. Chicago …
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A counselling psychology approach to reconnecting with urban nature for personal and societal wellbeing
… living in contemporary urban, as opposed to rural, environments. Professionals and academics are arguing that this is partly due to our disconnection from nature, that was brought about by the 19th Century industrial revolution. Finding ways to reconnect with the natural world, may thus go …
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A design of variable transmission power control for wireless ad-hoc network
… network to remote areas such as congested environments, rural environments etc. It is known that nodes involved in Wireless Ad-hoc Network rely on battery energy as their source of power. Energy consumption has become one of the major challenges experienced in Wireless Ad-hoc Network, which …
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