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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"Tying"”.
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Kinematic analysis of the tying phase of calf roping
Call number: LD2668 .T4 PELS 1987 H37
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Kinematic analysis of the tying phase of calf roping
Call number: LD2668 .T4 PELS 1987 H37
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An innovative technology in concrete construction--semi-automated rebar tying
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991.
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Married to the Lab. Tying the Knot of Art and Science
The aim of this thesis is to tie the knot of art and science, searching for ways to explain and explore complex atmospheric phenomena through art. Primary methods of research are poetry, video and performance art practice. The results of this thesis are five video performance art works as well as …
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Stabilizing demonstration trajectories of linear deformable objects for robotic shoe tying
Tying a shoelace knot is commonly seen as a milestone for young children as they learn how to use their hands to execute complex motions. Humans are able to consistently tie a shoelace knot on a wide variety of shoes, even if they haven’t seen the shoe before. In comparison, shoe tying is a problem …
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Brides of Drought: (Un)tying the Knots Between Climate, Cane, and Early Marriage in Western India
This thesis examines the tensions and interactions between social reproduction and the trajectories of accumulation in India’s historically drought-affected Marathwada region. By drawing connections between everyday experiences and broader socio-ecological shifts, it focuses on the high prevalence …
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A silicon-cast device that aids in securing rope ends by ensuring a figure-eight knot is tied for use in gym and rock climbing
… Current climbing habits do not reinforce the tying of a stopper knot. More people are learning to climb in the gym and do not know risk reducing habits when beginning to climb outside, such as tying a stopper knot. The Hedgehog is a silicon device that reinforces the risk reducing habit of …
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Community Workshop
… are contained within its boundaries... further tying the place to a larger urban spatial sequence.
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Pricing, Variety, and Inventory Decisions in Retail Operations Management
… items that we refer to as ``convenience tying," and focus on analyzing the effect of this selling strategy on pricing and profitability. We also study inventory decisions under convenience tying and exogenous pricing. For a product line of substitutable items, the retailer's objective is …
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The Effects of Trained Facilitation of Learning-Oriented Feedback on Learner Engagement, Performance, Self-Efficacy, and Enjoyment
… self-efficacy, and enjoyment on a knot-tying task by college students who received positive verbal and non-verbal learning-oriented feedback by trained facilitators was examined. Secondary learner outcomes were learner perception of engagement and learner perception of facilitator …
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A Thematic Analysis of Anticompetitive Behaviour in the Credit Rating Process of Structured Finance
… the theoretical framework suggests notching and tying to be the anticompetitive behaviours that strengthen the oligopoly. Hence, the study finds that the drivers of anticompetitive notching in the rating process are the taking of haircuts and mapping, the guise of protecting investors’ interests, …
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The alternative of Chinese aid in Africa : impacts of China's development strategy through Chinese aid, finance, and firms in Kenya
… first study to outline how the combination of tying of Chinese aid to Chinese firms and China's "Go Out" policy create excessive power for Chinese companies in Kenyan road development and debt financing decisions as well as marginalize Kenya's interests. China's tying of aid and the competitive …
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Relationships and Communication
Chapter one of this thesis examines how tying social insurance to marriage influences matching and marital decisions in the context of Sweden, and draws implications for when it is optimal to separate social insurance from marriage in modern societies. Chapter two analyzes firms' communication …
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The urban weave: Interlacing intangible threads to form a cohesive hybridized urban fabric
… objective is to find tangible ways of seamlessly tying informal systems within formal systems in an urban space that will result in a paradigm shift of the way informality is viewed by the public. The intervention seeks to find a balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of …
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A study of skill acquisition the Illinois fire service
… Firefighters have to be able to perform knot-tying under stress conditions. In this study, firefighters were taught to tie five knots. They varied in complexity, from the clove hitch in the middle to the rescue knot. They were taught the bowline, becket bend, clove hitch-middle, clove …
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The political logics of patronage : uses and abuses of government jobs in Brazil
… rents), mobilizing voters, rewarding supporters, tying the opponent's hands, and anchoring coalitions. Each of these political logics of patronage has a different rationale, distinct employment patterns, and divergent effects on governance and service delivery.
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Discriminative training and acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition
… covariance matrices can be subject to arbitrary tying schemes. The re-estimation equations as well as the choice of the iteration constants for controlling the convergence rate are discussed for the case that full or diagonal covariance matrices are used. In case of full covariance matrices, the …
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Performance, Conservation, and Creativity: Mentoring for Musicianship in Four String Music Studios
Tying the issues that arose from the data to the literature reviewed in this dissertation brings to the fore the contrasting demands from performing musicians. On the one hand stands the demand for conservation of an original meaning of a work, and on the other stands the need to be creative. By …
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Bottling Hell: Myth-Making, Cultural Identity And The Datil Pepper Of St. Augustine, Florida
… local lore are embedded on this spicy pepper, tying it to north Florida's Minorcan population, a group descended from indentured workers brought to the area in the late 1700s. The prominence of this mythology speaks to heritage tourism's demand for consumable cultural emblems, and the datil …
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The Literary Structure of the Fifth Book of the Hebrew Psalter: A Structural Analysis and Canonical Reading of Psalms 107–150
… Lastly, chapter 6 concludes with a brief summary tying the threads of the discussion together.
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