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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"SETI"”.
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Melvin Calvin : Nobel-Winning chemist and SETI scientist wannabe
… first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) conference in 1961.
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Vestra-Gíslholtsvatn í Holtum. Túlkun kolefnisinnihalds í seti VGHV í ljósi umhverfisbreytinga
… mikill og því mögulegt að fá háupplausnargögn úr seti stöðuvatna. Ýmsir þættir í stöðuvatnaseti eru mjög næmir fyrir veðurfarsbreytingum og bregðast fljótt við breytingum á hitastigi, svo sem lífrænt kolefni og lífrænn kísill. Með því að mæla kolefnismagn í seti er hægt að meta lífræna virkni sem …
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Searching for SETI: The Social Construction of Aliens and the Quest for a Technological Mythos
… the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Of particular interest are the cultural, and sometimes religious, assumptions that its creators have built into it. The purpose of this analysis is not to discredit SETI, but instead to show how SETI, along with other avant-garde scientific …
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Determination of the Parameter Limits for Artificial Non-random Microwave Signal Detection
… Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, which can simulate radio frequency interference (RFI) and a buried ETI signal, will determine the limits of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and false alarm threshold for identification of the signal after Doppler shifting. By running …
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The Relationship Between Doctoral-Level Teaching Preparation Strategies In Cacrep-Accredited Counselor Education Programs And Self-Efficacy Toward Teaching
… by the Self-Efficacy toward Teaching Inventory (SETI), and several teaching preparation strategies identified in the CES literature and accreditation standards: formal coursework on college teaching, fieldwork experiences in teaching, and supervision of teaching fieldwork experiences. Data were …
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Sampling the Radio Transient Universe: Studies of Pulsars and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
… The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is an ongoing attempt at discovering the presence of technological life elsewhere in the Galaxy. In this work, I present my forays into two aspects of the study of the radio transient universe---pulsars and SETI.;Firstly, I describe my work on …
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Technologies of perception : searches for life and intelligence beyond Earth
… searched for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) in the form of "technosignatures." This dissertation explores how scientists since the Space Age have constructed experimental assemblages to imagine, relate to, and investigate the alien and exotic microbes -- unknown, indeed, …
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Metinden bağımsız konuşmacı tanıma sistemlerinin incelenmesi ve gerçekleştirilmesi
… süresi 14.1-23.8 saniye arasında değişen veri seti kullandığında, test süresi 3 saniye olarak alındığında 20 konuşmacı için başarım %100’e çıkarılabilmiştir.
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Increasing DOGMA Scaling Through Clustering
… computing resources to applications, similar to Seti@home. DOGMA's ability to scale to large numbers of computers is hindered by its strict client-server architecture. Recent research with DOGMA has shown that introducing localized peer-to-peer downloading abilities enhances DOGMA's performance …
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Black here, black there, black everywhere: using theatre to understand what being-black-in-the-world entailed during apartheid South Africa
When a Black person sees a display on stage of a fellow Black person getting killed by a White person, why do they not intervene to stop that killing from happening? One would answer, ‘Because it is just a performance. That Black person is not literally getting killed. It is all an act'. Fair …
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StarSung: A Timeslip Novel
… The novel begins at a Christmas concert for SETI scientists, where a string quartet premiers newly transcribed music, Promptu Familiaris by Anonymous. During the performance, the main character Marian, a viola superstar, experiences the first timeslip, finding herself briefly in the body of a …
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Analysis of genetic diversity of Melampsora larici-populina in Iceland
… þau var frá þrem til tíu. Meðalfjöldi samsæta í seti var 5,25. Meðal arfblendni var 0,350 samanborið við væntanlega arfblendni sem var 0,375. Meginhnitagreining (PCoA) gaf vísbendingu um að einstaklingar aðgreindust í tvo megin hópa, en PCoA greining á hópum eftir sýnatökustöðum benti til þriggja …
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Análise espectroscópica detalhada de estrelas candidatas a gêmeas solares
… forms similar to those known to us, and for the SETI program researches. Upon identification of HD146233 as the best ever solar twin (Porto de Mello & da Silva (1997)), a following survey (da Silva (2000)) identified a number of further candidates to solar twin status among the G-type stars …
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Volunteer computing
… expert help. In recent years, projects such as SETI@home have demonstrated the great potential power of volunteer computing. In this thesis, we identify volunteer computing's further potentials, and show how these can be achieved. We present the Bayanihan system for web-based volunteer …
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Mixed Signals: Communication with the Alien in Cold War Radio Astronomy
This dissertation examines the development of radio astronomy and the search for and communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) from the 1950s through to the early 1980s, with the aim of understanding how these fields reflected the tensions, successes, and anxieties of Cold War …