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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"action analysis"”.
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Automatic facial action analysis
This thesis describes a research system called aide: automated intelligent design expert that creates graphics from data. It assists users of data who wish to design graphics by combining artificial intelligence techniques with current automated design software paradigms. The work extends previous …
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A Database Supported Modeling Environment for Pandemic Planning and Course of Action Analysis
Pandemics can significantly impact public health and society, for instance, the 2009 H1N1<br />and the 2003 SARS. In addition to analyzing the historic epidemic data, computational simulation of epidemic propagation processes and disease control strategies can help us understand the spatio-temporal …
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A director's approach to Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile".
This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of Steven Martin's play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, followed by a detailed description of Rebekah Baker's directorial approach to the work in Baylor University's production, which ran from April 22 to April 27, 2008. Chapter one will provide background …
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Active shooter response: defensive tactics and tactical decision-making for elementary school teachers and staff
… from the research are categorized as pre-action (mental preparation and situational awareness), action (defensive tactics and tactical decision-making techniques), and re-action (ongoing situational awareness, action analysis and modification). Additionally, the findings support the …
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Interactions between Text and Music in Three Pieces by Jon Deak, Frank Proto, and Tom Johnson
… String Bass (1975). This essay explores the interactions between music and verbal text. Three categories of text-music interaction are proposed: music as accompaniment to text, music in dialogue with text, and music in imitation of text. These categories demonstrate how text and music operate as …
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Is the EU "Going Too Far"? Examining the divide between the legislator within the EU and members of the financial market
… The research was performed in two parts, with analysis of the responses to the Green Paper and subsequent interviews with members of the financial market. Analysis of the responses found an overwhelming degree of opposition from all of the participants, presenting the hypothesis that the …
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Effects Of Content Augmentation Strategies In An Instructional Virtual Environment
… dissertation may be the first use of a decision analysis approach for analyzing the results of behavioral data for instructional design decisions. The decision analysis approach used decision trees, simulation and optimization to obtain content augmentation strategy rankings. As this approach is …
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"if More Women Knew More Jokes...": The Comic Dramaturgy Of Sarah Ruhl And Sheila Callaghan
<p>Conversations around women and comedy are few, and tend to swirl around the tired question of whether or not women are funny. Conclusions usually range from, "They're not" to a few token funny women whose exceptional wit proves the rule that, in fact, women are not funny. Or, if women are funny, …
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Human and Animal Behavior Understanding
… applications including human computer interaction (HCI), video surveillance, pharmacology, genetics, etc. We first present an evaluation of spatiotemporal interest point features (STIPs) for depth-based human action recognition, and then propose a framework call TriViews for 3D human action …
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Photorealistic retrieval of occluded facial information using a performance-driven face model
… in a variety of important tasks such as facial action analysis and expression classification. This is because the missing information is not reconstructed accurately enough for the purpose of the task in hand. Most current computer methods that are used to tackle this problem implement complex …
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Quantitative human reliability assessment in Marine Engineering Operations
… as well as the threat of erroneous human actions, which account for 80-90% of marine incidents and accidents. In this respect, shipping environments are extremely vulnerable. As a result, decision makers and stakeholders have zero tolerance for accidents and environmental damage, and …
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Autonomistiniai judėjimai erdvinės politikos vingiuose: tvarios savi-organizacijos vertinimas /
… is multi-modal, criteria extracted via thematic analysis reflected different orientations and processes of self-organisation: community and mobilisation potential, promotion of the production of knowledge, organisational integrity, catalysation of autonomy, and spatial resilience. Thematic …