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Showing 1 to 20 of 736 for “"Surveying"”.
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The position of women in surveying
… are developed, centred around the concept of a surveying subculture. The historical development of women's position In surveying is traced. The present day nature of surveying education and practice is Investigated based on a qualitative* sociological approach, using ethnographic methods and …
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Application of optical techniques to surveying
… the optical triangulation technique for use in surveying was addressed through a programme of prototype development, testing, and refinement. Three prototypes were built that demonstrated the reliability, accuracy, speed and robustness of this technique. The errors associated with the a …
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Surveying Underwater Shipwrecks with Probabilistic Roadmaps
<p>Almost two thirds of the Earth's surface is covered in ocean, and yet, only about 5% of it is mapped. There are an unknown amount of sunken ships, planes, and other artifacts hidden below the sea. Extensive search via boat and a sonar tow fish following a standard lawnmower pattern is used to …
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Time surveying : clock synchronization over packet networks
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
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Surveying face liveness detection in the deepfake era
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Optimization of UAV-borne Aeromagnetic Surveying in Mineral Exploration
… systems as a trusted and viable geophysical surveying technique. Therefore, this research is aimed at describing and bringing to the forefront some of the key issues that affect the achievable resolution and quality of UAV-borne aeromagnetic data, as well as outlining practical solutions, …
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Quantity surveying education and the benchmarking of future needs
… important. As a vocational subject, the quantity surveying (QS) undergraduate courses delivered in HEIs are designed to prepare students for the world of practice and to deal with emerging challenges (or at least with those intentions). The extent to which graduates from these programmes fulfil …
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Land surveying in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Dublin
… explores and documents the profession of land surveying in Dublin, Ireland, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries until 1810. It aims to present the many aspects of land surveying in Dublin during this period. As such, it is the history of a skilled, varied and complex craft …
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Leadership Styles of Entrepreneurs in Small Land Surveying Businesses.
… the leadership styles of owners of small land surveying businesses in the states of Tennessee and Virginia to determine what leadership style was currently being employed by the majority of those owners. The participants in this study were chosen from members of the Virginia Association of …
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Satisfaction and service quality in the quantity surveying profession
… satisfaction and service quality in the quantity surveyingprofession. Whilst many reasons abound for dissatisfaction with the construction industry,this thesis focuses on client satisfaction with the provision of quantity surveyors' services. To this end, a greater understanding of the …
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Evaluating the use of acoustic monitoring for surveying tropical birds
… of an acoustic recording system (SRS) for surveying tropical bird communities and species relative to traditional point count surveys. To address this goal, I compared species richness, composition and detection probability of 20 species between SRS and point counts across six tropical …
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An Aspirations-led Capabilities Approach to Women’s Career Pathways in Quantity Surveying
This thesis explores the career experiences of female quantity surveyors (QSs) in the UK construction industry and examines how they can pursue their aspirations within the structure and the culture of its organisations. There is a lack of research about the careers of female QSs, although there is …
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Surveying and the ecology of belonging in the nineteenth-century United States
By the early Nineteenth-Century United States, the myth of North America’s resource superabundance sat uneasily with the nation’s liberal doctrine of individual rights. Imagining a vast continent of endless resources available to all, Americans then cordoned them off as property accessible only by …
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Analysis of a sub-bottom sonar profiler for surveying underwater archaeological sites
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Development of an end-effector system for autonomous spraying applications and radiation surveying
… autonomous shotcrete application and radiation surveying in underground uranium mining environments. The prototype end-effector system presented consists of two functionally distinct prototype tools that achieve the independent tasks of autonomous shotcrete spray pattern control and surface …
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Eyes In The Text: Surveying The Ocular Aesthetic In Pat Barker's War Trilogy
In 1991, British novelist Patricia Barker published Regeneration, the first of three novels that portrayed the exploits of both factual and fictional characters during the darkest days of WWI. Barker's Eye in the Door (1993), followed by The Ghost Road (1995) for which she won the Booker Prize for …
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