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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"The Raven"”.
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The Raven King
The Raven King is the first novel in a planned series of animal tale stories that explore disability through the lens of animal characters. My thesis is the first two parts of a three-part novel. My target audience is the 8-14 age range, as most animal tales for younger readers are categorized …
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The Raven : an opera in one act
In a dim room, with only a weak fire keeping out the cold December wind, a poor student sits alone, slowly, painfully working himself into a frenzy of grief over the loss of his young wife, Lenore. This is the image in my mind when I read Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece, "The Raven". Such an …
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Dynamically Evaluated Gravity Compensation for the RAVEN Surgical Robot
Using an accelerometer on the base of a robot, it is possible to calculate the torque required from each actuator in order to maintain a known pose regardless of base orientation with respect to the direction or magnitude of gravity. A simple and novel method has been developed and implemented for …
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The raven kernel: a microkernel for shared memory multiprocessors
The Raven kernel is a small, lightweight operating system for shared memory multiprocessors. Raven is characterized by its movement of several traditional kernel abstractions into user space. The kernel itself implements tasks, virtual memory management, and low level excep-tion dispatching. All …
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Black power the shamantic associations of the raven and the crow.
… Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1982.
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Animals as Projections of the Self in “The Raven” and “The Black Cat”
<p>In both “The Raven” and “The Black Cat,” Edgar Allan Poe has the narrator project himself into an animal in order to fulfill the manifestation of his desire. Each animal is a projection of the narrator’s subconscious desire, which allows him to embrace his manic, sadistic tendencies. The …
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The Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices, Metropolitan Readiness and Detroit First Grade Intelligence Tests as Predictors of Achievement in Primary Grades
This study was designed to investigate the extent to which the Raven Coloured Progressive Matrices Test {RPM) correlates with academic performance; and, when used with the MRT, the extent to which it increases the efficiency of predicting school achievement. Of principal interest were primary …
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Word and image : Doré/Poe : an enquiry into the role of word and image in the late Romantic period, with specific interest in the participation of Gustave Doré, Edgar Allan Poe and the influence of the gothic revival
This study is an investigation into the relationship between word and image, with specific interest into the work of Edgar Allan Poe and Gustave Doré. The twenty six illustrations that Doré executed for Poe's The Raven form the basis of the study. The intention is, through analysis of the …
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Virus constructed iron phosphate lithium ion batteries in unmanned aircraft systems
… first became commercially available in 1991, they have been repeatedly improved, continually redefining just how much we can do with electronic devices. Today, battery powered Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) the size of a model plane such as the Raven allow soldiers to see dangerous situations …
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A structuralist reading of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
I hypothesize that the methodical arrangement, which epistrophe and refrain adhere to throughout "The Raven," is important for a thorough understanding of the poem because it reinforces the narrator's growing state of insanity and ultimate loss of self. These figures of speech reflect the …
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Predicting performance on fluid intelligence from speed of processing, working memory, and controlled attention
… ability to reason which is measured commonly by the Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM). Individual differences in fluid intelligence are currently explained by the Cascade model (Fry & Hale, 1996) and the Controlled Attention hypothesis (Engle, Kane, & Tuholski, 1999; Kane & Engle, 2002). The …
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Tethered UAV Flight using a spherical position controller
In recent years, the aerospace community has seen a rise in the popularity of multirotor unmanned aircraft. This increase in popularity is in part due to the ability of a multirotor aircraft to hover, its simple dynamics, and its mechanical simplicity. Operating these unmanned aircraft indoors or …
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Long-range outdoor monocular localization with active features for ship air wake measurement
… pose tracking, augmented reality, and numerous other areas. However, some unexplored areas of camera pose estimation remain academically interesting. This thesis provides a detailed description of the system hardware and software that permits operation in one application area in particular: …
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Sedimentology of the Mid-Visean limestones of the southern part of the Askrigg Block, North Yorkshire
The earliest Carboniferous deposits, resting with profound unconformity on Lower Palaeozoic rocks, have been mapped across their entire outcrop area on the Askrigg Block. The sediments, comprising approximately half of the thickness of the Dinantian Great Scar Group, have been subdivided into four …
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Vision-based guidance and control of a hovering vehicle in unknown environments
This thesis presents a methodology, architecture, hardware implementation, and results of a system capable of controlling and guiding a hovering vehicle in unknown environments, emphasizing cluttered indoor spaces. Six-axis inertial data and a low-resolution onboard camera yield sufficient …
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Cooperative collision avoidance control and coordination for multiagent Lagrangian systems with disturbances
… capture, pursuit evasion etc., while all at the same time aiming to be optimal in some sense, or following certain constraints imposed by the environment or communication limitations. Whatever is the objective, we always want to have a safety guarantee for the agents; the agents should avoid …
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Chasing Captain Canada: National Identity Challenged Through Superheroes In Canadian Comic Books
This thesis explores the connections between nationalism and the superheroic effigy in domestically produced Canadian superhero comics, with an eye on how Indigenous superhero comics published within Canada may enrich or complicate this landscape. Domestically produced comics and/or graphic novels …
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Robust decision-making with model uncertainty in aerospace systems
… problems can be extremely sensitive to errors in the models, and this research addressed the role of robustness in coping with this uncertainty. The first part of this thesis presents a computationally efficient sampling methodology, Dirichlet Sigma Points, for solving robust Markov Decision …
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Counseling-consultation with gifted adolescents and their parents: effects on self acceptance and adjustment of the gifted
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of different counseling strategies on the self acceptance, personal adjustment, and social adjustment of gifted adolescents. Subjects, age 13 to 16, were identified as gifted based upon a performance of 120 IQ or above on the Raven Advanced …
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