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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"State change"”.
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Partner-specific abstinence state change in adolescent women
… of partnerships, particularly as relationships change over time. Understanding the factors that predict abstinence states and how those states may change over time is important to understanding sexual decision-making. In this longitudinal study of 365 young women, the influence of relationship …
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The Design of Fault Tolerant Software for Loosely Coupled Distributed Systems
… system. Petri nets are used to represent the state and to solve state reachability problems for concurrent systems. The dynamic behaviour of the system can be characterised by a state-change table derived from the state reachability tree. Systematic conversation generation is possible by …
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Synchronization of system-of-systems interfaces in military satellite communications
… to quantify the performance of the present MCSW change management process. A value stream mapping and analysis effort along with a discrete even simulation model is conducted to identify areas for improvement in the as-is change management process and suggest an improved future-state change …
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A general approach to temporal reasoning about action and change
Reasoning about actions and change based on common sense knowledge is one of the most important and difficult tasks in the artificial intelligence research area. A series of such tasks are identified which motivate the consideration and application of reasoning formalisms. There follows a …
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Managing Data Consistency in IoT Devices
… it has at any given time, when the information changes, the decision needs to change as well. For example, a smartphone user decides in the morning to go for a walk later in the afternoon since the weather is sunny and the temperature is above 15 degrees Celsius. The user then records the …
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Controlling molecules with lasers and lasers with molecules
… laser pulses in order to produce a desired state or state change. Interesting pulse shapes have been able to break chemical bonds, drive chemical reactions, selectively excite molecular states, and most recently, control photoisomerization in proteins [1, 2, 3]. In this thesis I began by …
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Change Detection and Analysis of Data with Heterogeneous Structures
… the observations collected from a process may change on its mean or variance. In numerous applications, data are often of mixed types including both discrete and continuous variables. Heterogeneity also commonly arises in data when underlying models vary across different segments. Besides, the …
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Great Fool: Six Poems of Ryōkan for Tenor and Orchestra
… of impermanence—the nature of any conditioned state to end—and a notion of an emptiness inherent in all things. As any state is only knowable in contrast to another opposing state (fast is not slow, hot is not cold, etc), all states are, in and of themselves, empty of a self-nature. These …
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The contribution of civil society to combatting torture and ill-treatment: a cross-national analysis
A majority of states have signed treaties promising not to torture; torture, however, remains widespread. Something further is needed to turn de jure commitment to de facto compliance by the state. This research focuses on the contribution of civil society to this process, employing a mixed methods …
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Interactive logical analysis of planning domains
… around the interactive formal verification of state invariants and specifications of the state-change effects of handwritten recursive program-like generalized plans.</p> <p>The human interaction required for these verifications was metered and qualitatively characterized. This characterization …
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Activity recognition with end-user sensor installation in the home
… home setting that uses a set of small and simple state-change sensors, machine learning algorithms, and electronic experience sampling is introduced. The sensors are designed to be "tape on and forget" devices that can be quickly and ubiquitously installed in home environments. The proposed …
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Acoustically optimized propulsion systems using a Cause-Effect Controller
… and control systems, a finite number of unique states can be created. The ARCP uses hardware and software together with a CEC to learn the cause-and-effect relationship between the finite states of the ship and the resulting acoustic noise and vibrations which are generated. Once this …
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An investigation into the causes for the reduction in the variability of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation in the early Holocene in a global climate model
… (ENSO).We devise a scheme to incorporate mean state data, into the background states of a linearisation of the Zebiak and Cane model (Zebiak and Cane, 1987), due to Thompson and Battisti (2000). We show that when sets of background states are compiled using observations of the present climate …
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Mutagenesis and Spectroscopic Studies on Cytochrome Bd Quinol Oxidase of Escherichia Coli
… that neither heme b595 nor heme d undergo spin-state changes upon cyanide binding, and all the hemes retain the same spin-state upon redox state change.
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Explaining Radical Change in Ghanaian Health Care Policy
… existing literature about the causes of welfare state change, including health care reform, emphasizes stability, yet there is evidence of remarkable changes taking place in welfare systems in much of the developing world. This study analyzes health care reform in Ghana, a country which has …
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States of the nations : nationalism, narratives and normative change in Postwar Japan
… those needed to examine how nationalism might change in contemporary, peaceful, wealthy, and stable democracies such as postwar Japan. This study defines nationalism as a discourse that constructs and reconstructs points of identification and differentiation that define both a political …
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Understanding the role of stochastic atmospheric forcing in tropical Pacific decadal variability and ENSO modulation
… temperature (SST) response. The associated changes in the tropical Pacific mean state not only extend climate anomalies into the other hemisphere through atmospheric teleconnections, but also significantly affect the properties of ENSO. In particular, the ENSO-like TPDV affects the relative …
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Improving Well-being, Academic Achievement, and Social Emotional Skills in Chinese Adolescents: from Latent Profile Analysis and Intervention Evaluation
… (MBI) helps them in terms of behavioural change (Study 3). Study 1 recruited 818 Chinese adolescents (aged 12-15 years, 46 percent female) and employed latent profile analysis to discover naturally occurring social status- behaviour patterns. Four distinct social status profiles were …
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