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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"catapult"”.
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Doubter Come Home from a Drowning of Vision
A poetry collection in two parts. Slingshot Catapult, the first half of the manuscript, explores the lives of two professional wrestlers. While the spectacle of professional wrestling is the backdrop for this series of linked, narrative poems, the relationship between protagonists Tracy and Dodge …
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Food, water, shelter, fresh air ... and stories: teachers’ creative writing in the classroom
… novel (70%), entitled Frank Davies’ Amazing Frog Catapult, to satisfy the requirements of this degree. The contention of the exegesis is that the meat of writing lies in the creative nature of how a text comes to be constructed, the journeys that ideas may take and the maturation and realisation …
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Physical performance of football players in the Icelandic male top league
… observation was 756. A GPS tracking system from Catapult, Playertek by Catapult, was used. One-way ANOVA - Post hoc Tukey test was performed to measure physical performance from various playing positions on the field. The results showed differences between playing positions; central defenders …
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The Workload Demands of Mixed Martial Arts
… firstly demonstrates the reliability of the Catapult Minimax x3 in measuring the external workload of isolated mixed martial arts movements and then uses this technology alongside video based time motion analysis and capillary blood sampling to determine the workload demands of MMA sparring …
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Inlet flow-field measurements of a transonic compressor rotor prior to and during steam-induced rotating stall
Steam leakage from an aircraft carrier catapult is sometimes ingested by the aircraft's engines upon launch which may induce compressor stall. Investigation of the phenomenon known as a "pop stall" is of particular importance as the Navy prepares to field the F35C, the aircraft carrier variant of …
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The Expansionistic Aspirations Of The People's Republic Of China
… effects for the United States and will catapult the PRC into a position of regional and eventual global power. Many U.S. policy makers are still unaware of the intentions of the PRC and are failing to react quickly to respond to the threat of PRC aggression. The United States must …
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Enabling sustainable development through logistics: a case of Southern Africa
… requires rapid development in order to catapult the continent into developed status. As decision-makers on the continent acknowledge this, ambitious development goals have been put in place. This research study analysed whether logistics, and more specifically, transport logistics can …
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Producing Popularity: The Success in France of the Comics Series "Astérix le Gaulois"
… by the media worked interdependently to catapult Astérix, the series' protagonist, into stardom by the middle of the 1960s. In so doing, this study forcefully argues that elements external to the text itself greatly facilitated, and in some ways determined, the series' quick and dramatic …
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Positional characteristics and movement pattern differences in professional part time soccer
… (GPS) sampling at 10 Herz (HZ) (PlayerTek, Catapult Innovations, Melbourne, Australia).<br/><b>Results</b>: Positional data found that midfielders carried out a significantly greater total running distance in game play than both Defenders (p < 0.05) and Forwards (p < 0.05). Midfielders also …
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Quantitative convergence analysis of dynamical processes in machine learning
… including edge of stability, balancing, and catapult. We broaden the previous convergence analysis to a family of objective functions with various regularities, where good regularities combined with large learning rates result in the occurrence of these phenomena. In the third part, we …
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Inferring parafoil glide slope by extending unsettled trajectories via simulation
A unique catapult has been developed at the University of Cape Town for launching parafoils from a hilltop or into a quarry. The initial objective to determine optimum glide slope of a parafoil using Design of Experiments via flight testing presented challenges. The flight tests and supporting …
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Key challenges to model-based design : distinguishing model confidence from model validation
… experiment that included a simple model of a catapult and varying contextual details representing the factors. In total 252 respondents interacted with the model and made a binary decision on a design problem to provide a measure for model confidence. Results from the testing showed several …
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Sister Madeleva: Lyric Poet
… current acclaim into hazy remembrance or catapult obscurity into world renown, must be weighed thoughtfully; else, the critical scales may tilt capriciously. Thus, without the ruthless editing of centuries, nor even the perspective and trial of a single century, the study of the works of …
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Understanding the Chemistries of Ni-rich Layered Oxide Materials for Applications in Lithium Batteries and Catalysis
… storage. The energy revolution continues to catapult the need for improved battery materials, especially for applications in portable electronic devices and electric vehicles. Lithium batteries are at the frontier of energy storage. Due to geopolitical concerns, there is a growing need to …
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Is Playerload related to fatigue following different types of repeated maximal sprint exercises in recreationally active young men?
… clubs to estimate the “external load” [e.g. Catapult PlayerloadTM (PL)] experienced by the athlete during exercise to predict fatigue response, despite a lack of evidence for a relationship between PL and exercise fatigue. The aim of this study was to (i) compare PL and fatigue during and …
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Foreign aid and economic performance during crises in Sub-Saharan Africa
… of foreign aid in alleviating poverty and catapulting development in less developed economies. Proponents of foreign aid as a tool for development such as Sachs (2005) believe that many African economies may well be trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty from which they cannot pull …
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Development, assessment and application of a novel algorithm to automatically detect change of direction movement and quantify its associated mechanical load in elite Australian Football
… available microtechnology unit (Optimeye S5, Catapult Innovations). Raw inertial sensor data were extracted, processed using our novel algorithm to calculate COD angle, and compared against a high-speed video (remotely piloted, position-locked drone aircraft) criterion measure. Concurrent …
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The use of GPS technology to quantify the game demands of elite youth soccer: implications for training design.
… compare data collected using 5Hz GPS (MinimaxX, Catapult) and the ProZone™ (PZ) match analysis system and to establish satellite and Horizontal Dilution of Precision (HDOP) threshold limits to allow direct comparison between the two data sets. Ten elite outfield youth team players were monitored …