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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"blinding"”.
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Evaluation of the sludge blinding coefficient
The sludge blinding coefficient, β, was evaluated in this experimental study, to determine if β could be used as a useful characterization parameter for sludge filterability. Fresh activated sludge, activated sludge aged at room temperature, primary sludge, alum sludge, and a calcium carbonate …
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Exploring Preferences for ‘Blinding’ One’s Own Judgment
… investigate people's degree of preference for "blinding" in decision-making: purposefully restricting the information one sees in order to try to form a more accurate evaluation. For example, when grading her students’ papers, a professor might choose to "blind" herself to students’ names by …
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On the measurement of blinding in randomized, controlled trials.
… bias and improve retention. The importance of blinding has been emphasized by groups such as the FDA and CONSORT, but the reporting of blinding is not standard and the quantification of blinding success is rare. Two blinding indexes have been proposed to measure the success of blinding in …
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The Electric Company script development process : "Brilliant! The Blinding Englightenment of Nikola Tesla"
… site specific and touring venues. Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla was a cornerstone piece for this group and existed in a number of incarnations before the script was eventually published in 2004 and the production toured again in 2006. This thesis examines how the Electric …
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Relationships between sludge specific resistance, coefficient of compressibility, blinding coefficient and vacuum filter yield
… increase with decreasing mean particle size. The blinding coefficient (B) was used to show the influence of mean particle size on filter cloth blinding. Blinding was shown to occur only for mean diameters less than 40u. The use of the blinding coefficient also allowed the prediction of maximum and …
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In the dark : an experimental study in distinguishing an authentic herbal substance from a sham substance
… One important aspect of an RCT is the blinding of various parties involved in the trial. Blinding is similar to randomization, in that its goal is to distribute participant expectancies evenly across the two or more groups. The assessment of blinding has been fraught with complications …
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The effectiveness of fibrin sealants in head and neck surgery
… Inadequate reporting on randomisation processes, blinding, and adverse events raises concerns about potential biases and the reliability of the reported outcomes. The lack of comprehensive adverse event data and selective outcome reporting further complicate the assessment of the safety profile of …
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House of Lambs
… how I’ve struggled to find myself through the blinding lights of lust, love, and deceit and the infliction of psychological warfare. Finally, it tells a story about emergence, steadfastness, and transcendence. </p>
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On the protection of compact DC power systems with high-power energy storage
… of associated protection devices (protection blinding).The impact of several key DC power system design and operation parameters on the ESS fault response is quantified and a new critical fault impedance term, beyond which protection blinding can be expected to occur, is introduced. Building …
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Measuring the Weak Charge of the Proton and the Hadronic Parity Violation of the N →Δ Transition
… Aep = -265 ± 40 ± 22 ± 68 ppb (stat., sys., and blinding). Extrapolated to Q2 = 0, the value of the proton's weak charge was measured to be QpW = 0:077 ± 0:019 (stat. and sys.) ±0:026 (blinding). This is within 1 o of the Standard Model prediction of QpW = 0:0705 ± 0:0008. The N >> Δ inelastic …
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The effectiveness of physiotherapy following discharge from hospital after primary total knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis
… occurring in the home visit group. 3. Since blinding procedures are often assumed to indicate trial quality, the feasibility of achieving blind outcome assessment in a pragmatic physiotherapy rehabilitation trial involving older people was explored. Reasons for unblinding were explored and …
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Toward mind/body unity: Seeking the deeper promise of dance education
… belief may begin to pass as fact or truth, thus blinding individuals to the arbitrary or prejudicial nature of dominant discourses. This is an issue in the current practice of Western dance forms.
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Towards Resilient Protection of Interconnected ICT and Power Systems
… in undesired phenomena such as protection blinding. This thesis characterises this phenomenon by proposing two indices that capture the protection trip time under the influence of distributed generation. These indices consider the electrical distance between faults, protection and …
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Privacy Enhancing Protocols using Pairing Based Cryptography
… the data it presents to a third party. In IBE, blinding focuses on obscuring elements of the identity string which an individual presents to the key generation centre. This protects an individual's privacy in a direct manner by allowing her to blind sensitive elements of the identity string and …
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Characterisation of a harvesting step for monoclonal antibodies from mammalian cell culture
… to ineffective in DNA removal. Historically, blinding of the depth filters had been unpredictable with data such as numbers of viable cells, non-viable cells, product titre, or process shape (batch, fed-batch, or draw and fill) failing to inform on the durability of depth filters in the …
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Trauma and the PhD
… sense of the world. Trauma may happen in one blinding moment or slowly eat away at us for years. Writing is often a way to cope with that trauma. This dissertation represents a small portion of my traumatic lived experiences that led me up to the doctoral process, and those that occurred in …
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Archaea
… the day: the first movement depicts the blinding light of the sunrise, and the second the orange glow cast over the city buildings in the evening, ending with the final glimmer of light as the sun sinks below the horizon. The third movement, a lively percussive dance, represents …
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DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES WITH APPLICATIONS IN GLAUCOMA
Glaucoma is an irreversible blinding disorder affecting nearly 70 million people worldwide. Although the exact cause of glaucoma remains unknown, the elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) that results in complex 3D biomechanical changes of the optic nerve head tissues (ONH), is indeed a well-known …
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Outcomes of uveitic cataract surgery in a cohort of South African children
… Cataract formation is a common and potentially blinding complication of paediatric uveitis. Surgical management approach remains a point of controversy. The purpose of this study was to determine the peri- and postoperative outcomes of uveitic cataract surgery in a cohort of South African …
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Anatomical and functional correlates in ischaemic retinal vein occlusion
… retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is a potentially blinding condition that is not fully understood, and entails a higher risk of developing complications and poorer prognosis than non-ischaemic RVO. This PhD project was designed to improve the level of understanding on ischaemic RVO as well as to …
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