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Showing 1 to 20 of 452 for “"casual"”.
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Casual Death in Contemporary Cities
… and introduce the natural process of death as a casual and cyclical interaction within cities.
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Pursuing Mid-level Perception from Casual Videos
… learn mid-level perception from collections of casually shot videos? To avoid reader’s disappointment, I would like to be frank at the start: contents within are only starting steps towards solving the problem. Specifically, a major part of this thesis addresses the problem of recovering depths …
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The Influence of Casual Footwear on Human Balance
… of daily living (ADLs). However, recent types of casual footwear may be putting the body’s postural control system at a functional disadvantage, predisposing wearers to the risk of a fall. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects three forms of casual footwear (thong style flip-flops …
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Waging a Living in Casual Dining Restaurant Chains
… with 14 restaurant servers who worked in "casual dining" restaurant chains, this study explores service work and servers' perceptions of restaurant culture. Interactions between servers and customers are examined through the lens of servers' personal experiences. The analysis of interview …
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Character-Centric Literary Visualisation for Casual Discussion and Analysis
Casual reading communities, like book clubs, can benefit from tools that facilitate character recall and narrative reflection. However, existing resources – such as wikis, social media, other text-based repositories, or even handwritten notes – can lack an integrated format that enables all …
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Quantifying balance for casual inference: An information theoretic perspective
Impact evaluation is concerned with generating evidence of a causal effect of a policy or a treatment. The central question in any impact evaluation is what would have happened to those receiving the intervention had they not received it. Randomized controlled Trials (RCT) are best at answering …
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Strategic Choice and Financial Structure in Casual Themed Restaurants
… are shaped within the context of the multi-unit casual themed restaurant industry. Restaurant industry is well known for a high bankruptcy rate. Many multi-unit restaurants exist in the casual themed restaurants strategic group in the Unites States, and many small independent restaurants are also …
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Relationship maintenance differences in close and casual friendships on Facebook
… networks, and shared tasks with both close and casual friends who lived both on and off campus. This study was conducted via an internet survey and consisted of 232 graduate and undergraduate level students. Four relationship types were identified; on-campus/close, on-campus/casual, …
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Mental representation and processing of reduced words in casual speech
Contains fulltext : 113045.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Back-Channel Behavior in Thai and American Casual Telephone Conversations
In both languages short utterances tended to show understanding, short questions to request clarification, and laughter to display emotional response. In Thai brief restatements were likely to show agreement whereas in American English sentence completions were related to the function of …
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UbiqGames : casual, educational, multiplayer games for mobile and desktop platforms
… the UbiqGames project is to develop a suite of casual, educational, multiplayer games that are playable across a wide variety of operating systems and devices. To accomplish this goal, we plan on making use of the expanding availability of wireless networks and the increasing capabilities of …
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User interfaces supporting casual data-centric interactions on the Web
… it reaches the user's web browser. Consequently, casual users-those without programming skills-are limited to whatever features that web sites offer. Encountering a few dozens of addresses of public schools listed in a table on one web site and a few dozens of private schools on another web site, …
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DIRECT REPEATS AND DELETIONS IN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA: CASUAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS
In this thesis, I employed a computational approach using genome analysis and statistical and thermodynamics-based modeling to understand the role of sequence motifs and DNA misalignments in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletion mutagenesis. Meta-analysis of age-related deletion breakpoints indicated …
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Self-Esteem in Relation to Casual Sex Behavior, Attitudes, and Affect.
<p>Casual sex is common on college campuses and is potentially relevant to a person's self-esteem. Unfortunately, data are mixed regarding how self-esteem is influenced by casual sex. This thesis is an attempt to understand how casual sex influences women's self-esteem through a series of …
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Examining the principles of social influence and condom use in casual sex
… scarcity, and social proof) and condom use in casual sex relationships in college populations. In Study 1, nine single-gender focus groups (N = 48) of college undergraduates were conducted to investigate the use of the principles of social influence for condom use decisions in casual sex. Data …
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The business and dynamics of free-to-play social-casual game apps
… companies making free-to-play social-casual games have created a multi-billion dollar market for virtual goods, a revenue model in which the core product is given away for free and ancillary goods are sold on top of it. Zynga, the most successful firm in this space, held the largest …
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Determining distributed source waveforms in casual, lossy, dispersive, plane-wave (CLDP) materials
This thesis presents and employs novel mathematics for the inversion of linear, first-kind Fredholm integral equations (IEs) which have a time t dependent response signal, a space z dependent source waveform, and a kernel with time dependence (at each z) corresponding to the impulse response of a …
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