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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Tricky"”.
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"One Tricky Coyote": The fiction of Thomas King
This thesis evaluates the literary achievement of Thomas King from an individual Aboriginal perspective by examining specifically his novels, Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water, with reference to his short stories. It argues that textual readings which merely impose the Western literary …
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Development of a 6 degree-of-freedom manipulator arm for use on an urban search and rescue robot
… tracks to enable it to traverse stairs and other tricky terrain. The sensor payload is equipped with life detection equipment and the manipulator arm enables the USRR to manipulate with its environment (opening doors etc.) and to interact with survivors, passing them water or food packs.
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Using Polarised HI Absorption to Estimate Distances to Supernova Remnants
… distance measurements to SNRs are remarkably tricky. This thesis demonstrates the application of a new technique, which uses the absorption of the polarised radio emissions from supernova remnants by neutral atomic hydrogen to determine kinematic distances. An absorption spectrum towards the …
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CONTIGO Y LAS ESTRELLAS
… This book is a meditation on time travel and how tricky it can get when you involve devastation and hope.</p>
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Powderworld: A Platform for Understanding Generalization via Rich Task Distributions
… a ‘foundation environment’ for such tasks is tricky – the ideal environment would support a range of emergent phenomena, an expressive task space, and fast runtime. To take a step towards addressing this research bottleneck, this work presents Powderworld, a lightweight yet expressive …
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GoTxn: Verifying a Crash-Safe, Concurrent Transaction System
… reasoning about concurrency and crashes can be tricky, especially when scaling up to larger systems that must also have good performance. This thesis discusses the verification of GoTxn, the concurrent, crash-safe transaction system underlying the verified Network File System (NFS) server …
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On the Use of Grouped Covariate Regression in Oversaturated Models
… oversaturation. However, these techniques can be tricky to implement well, difficult to interpret, and unstable. What is proposed is a technique that takes advantage of the natural clustering of variables that can often be found in biological and ecological datasets known as the omics datasests. …
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Cosmological Perturbations in the Early Universe
… calculation, does not effect the end result, is tricky. In this thesis we make full use of the effects of diffeomorphism invariance of the theory on the primordial fluctuations to pursue two different approaches that focus on treating perturbations after gauge fixing. On one hand we work towards …
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A GAN-BASED HUMAN UV COORDINATES ESTIMATION
… is very common in real-life scenarios and can be tricky to be captured and generated by generation models. We proposed a novel method to capture loose clothing and hair with temporally coherent UV coordinates. The method uses a differentiable pipeline first to learn UV mapping between a sequence …
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Healing Architecture for Troubled Nightowls: Restoring Natural Rhythms in Nocturnal U Street
… sun and other natural phenomena. Located in a tricky triangular site in one of the busiest nighttime neighborhoods of Washington DC, a wellness center and sleep clinic would allow city dwellers to find a peaceful oasis for healing. In parallel, this thesis is also a study of collage as a design …
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A Framework to Detect the Susceptibility of Employees to Social Engineering Attacks
… a human element, preventing these attacks can be tricky and challenging and has become a topic of interest for many researchers and security experts. While methods exist for detecting SE-attacks, our literature review of existing methods identified many crucial factors such as the national …
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Evaluating Macrobenthic Indicators of Organic Enrichment and Hypoxia Within the Coastal Mississippi Hypoxic Zone
… anthropogenic from natural stress is tricky because coastal taxa are eurytolerant. Effective coastal management calls for benthic indicators that respond to specific stressors, apply across different habitats, and reflect ecosystem function. Macrobenthic process metrics based on …
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LIKE A DUCK ON WATER: CHINESE ACADEMIC MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR SUBURBAN WEEKEND CHINESE SCHOOL
… an often-excruciating immigration policy and the tricky discourses of multiculturalism. My data analysis draws upon diverse fields including education, sociology, philosophy, cultural geography, Asian-American studies, gender studies, migration and globalization studies. What is also interesting …
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From brush painting to high relief.
… exact depth map from the painting, which is a tricky computer vision problem, requiring assumptions that are rarely satisfied. The relief proxies of brush strokes are then combined together to form a 2.5D high-relief model. To extract brush strokes from 2D paintings, this work applies layer …
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Moving: knowledge, image, embodiment and Iranian-American identity in the post-911 USA
… of communication as affect and presence make tricky new turns which practitioners of the technologies of affective resistance, need to understand. This dissertation works to contribute in that direction. To make this goal, extended elements of performance ethnography and auto-ethnography are …
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Computer vision based corn kernel quality evaluation: Traditional versus machine learning
… and agriculture researchers, but it becomes tricky if we try to develop a computer vision based automatic solution. In this thesis, we present two approaches for this problem, briefly introduce the data sets corresponding to each method and compare the accuracy between them. We attack the …
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Design and implementation of a single phase modified Z-source inverter topology for photovoltaic/grid interconnected DC charging applications
… Power Filters (APF) for the ZSI topology can be tricky because of the shoot-through state. A new DC side active power filter has been proposed for ZSI topology which suppresses the 120 Hz component completely thereby eliminating the need to use electrolytic capacitors in ZSI systems. The proposed …
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An embedding green function approach for electron transport through interfaces
… of the scattering problem which is particularly tricky when applying this method. Thus, a key part of the present thesis describes the development of a new computational scheme which is able to deal with a scattering region sandwiched between semi-infinite leads. Based on the ideas put forward by …
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Application Oriented Programming and Control of Industrial Robots
… of deficient utilization of the device or tricky user programming which is often the case today. A layered software architecture has been designed based on an application oriented view, considering typical hardware and software constraints. The top layers of the architecture support …
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Patronage: The Renaissance and Today
… of the patronage system in the arts can be a tricky concept to describe due to the circularity involved in the relationship between the patron and the client. To explain, artists needed to make products worthy of the attention of patrons, but needed patrons in order to make the products …
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