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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"blurring"”.
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Blurring Boundaries
Blurring Boundaries investigates the ability of architecture to serve as a platform for advocacy to inspire beneficial relationships within ecosystems. The project explores the environmental threats we face today, including habitat loss and pollution, which regularly go unnoticed or ignored by …
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Blurring spatial limits : photography and spatial definition
The Image based space of vision has substituted functional space as a stage of contemporary life, the relationships between physical spaces are constantly being redefined by the change from function to image, forcing us to live in a state of spatial indeterminacy, in a Blurred space that lacks a …
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Blurring the Lines: Private and Public Dissection in Renaissance Italy
From the fourteenth through the eighteenth century in Europe human dissection came to be practiced for a variety of purposes. Private dissections, in the forms of judicial, holy, and maternal anatomies, were performed, respectively, for the purposes of generating medical evidence that could be used …
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Engaging the Abandoned | Blurring the Edge of Baltimore's Forgotten Fortresses
Baltimore’s Harbor Defense network consists of five fortresses that were built during the 19th century to protect the city in times of war. In the early 20th century, the need for these forts became less relevant and they were abandoned. Over time, two of these forts, Forts Armistead and Carroll, …
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De-noising and de-blurring of images using deep neural networks
… attempting to decouple the de-noising and de-blurring steps to reconstruct noisy, blurry images. Overall, the LS-DNN performed similarly to the DNN trained only with respect to the ground truth images, and decoupling the de-noising and de-blurring steps underperformed compared to the results …
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Aeroponic System Optimization for Butterhead Lettuce Growth and Future Sustainability Using Flow Blurring Atomization
<p>The global population has grown by 6 billion people over the last century and is trending toward 9.7 billion people by the year 2050. Agriculture accounts for 70% of global fresh water usage. Technology must be developed to accommodate the increase of food production demanded by the growing …
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Blurring the lines : postmodernism and the use of tradition in the works of Yu Hua
The modern Chinese writer Yu Hua (1960-) uses and incorporates a wide variety of arguably postmodernist techniques and themes in his fiction. There are, however, parallels between these themes and techniques and various aspects of pre-modern Chinese literature and philosophy. Additionally, in an at …
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Blurring the Gender Lines: Margaret of Anjou's use of Gender as Power in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy
<p>Queen Margaret of Anjou is a uniquely placed character in Shakespeare’s tetralogy beginning with <em>I Henry VI</em>. Margaret is the only female character to be featured in and survive all four plays. From her entrance in <em>I</em> <em>Henry VI,</em> she is a force to be reckoned with; she …
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A study of droplet velocity and diameter measurements in a reacting diesel spray produced by a flow-blurring injector
… regions of a diesel spray flame using a flow-blurring (FB) injector. PDPA is a well-known technique to measure the diameter and velocity of spherical particles. PDPA is used in many research applications including fuel injection, spray, and combustion. PDPA system does not disturb the flow …
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Blurring the Lines Between Instructor-Led and Online Learning: an Evaluation of an Online Composition Curriculum on the Bleeding Edge
The contemporary classroom currently faces an evolving world of computer based training, online courses, instructor-led learning and several blended approaches in-between. With the increased presence of computers and communication in every facet of students' lives, students have changed to adapt to …
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Blurring the Boundaries Between Midwifery and Obstetrics: An Exploration of the Role of Midwife Practitioner in a Maternity Unit In Wales
This thesis explores the newly established role of midwife practitioner (MP) and its impact on midwives and obstetricians in a maternity unit in Wales. MPs manage the care of women at high obstetric risk and carry out aspects of care, such as assessment, diagnosis and the development of management …
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An architecture and protocol, an access control model, and a sighting blurring algorithm for improving users' security in the context of location based services operating over the internet
… LBSs. The third technique that we propose is a blurring algorithm that performs spatial blurring on users' location information. It does not perform temporal blurring, because this reduces an LBS's ability to �offer a useful service. Instead, our blurring algorithm introduces a new parameter …
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Ground-based ISAR imaging of cooperative and non-cooperative sea vessels with 3-D rotational motion
… motion of such vessels often gives rise to blurring. Blurry ISAR images are not desirable because they lead to inaccurate parameter estimation, which reduces the probability of correct classification. The objective of this thesis is to explain how 3-D rotational motion causes blurring in …
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Mammography machine compression paddle movement andobserver performance analysis
… to report blurred images through local audits. Blurring was probably present in SFM as well, however the improvement in contrast resolution in FFDM may have made it more apparent. The sources of blurring include improper imaging techniques, patient movement caused by breathing and heart …
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Inverse filtering by signal reconstruction from phase
… of the magnitude of the Fourier transform of the blurring function and are sensitive to noise in the blurred image. It is known that a typical image is defined completely by its region of support and a sufficient number of samples of the phase of its Fourier transform. We will investigate a new …
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Cramer-Rao bound analysis of multi-frame blind deconvolution
… object. In multi-frame blind deconvolution, the blurring function is unknown and must be estimated along with the object. Applying a support constraint to both the object and the blurring functions, when using blind deconvolution, is one way to ensure a unique solution. The effects on the …
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Local Solutions for County-Wide Amalgamation: Factors for Success and Failure
… assimilation of individual communities, and the blurring of each community’s distinct characteristics into one homogenous mass.
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FINITE ELEMENT AND IMAGING APPROACHES TO ANALYZE MULTISCALE ELECTROTHERMAL PHENOMENA
… In this work we combine TR and FEM with image blurring/reconstruction techniques to improve electrothermal characterization of micron and nanoscale devices.
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