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Two competitions
Architectural competitions offer opportunities to the participants which are both, individual and collective in nature. For the individual, it is an exercise in the ability to crystallize ideas and communicate them clearly - often exclusively through graphic means. Competitions are also a means of …
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Mean Field Analysis of Generalized Cyclic Competitions
The mean field analysis of stochastic dynamical system allows us to gain insight into the qualitative features of their complex behavior, as well as quantitative estimates of certain aspects of their coarse-grained properties. As such, it usually furnishes a first front in approaching new dynamical …
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Code for Success: Software Development for Robotics Competitions
… with, or completely automating tasks. Robotics competitions such as RoboCup aim to push the field forward while providing an environment for participants to acquire important skills and knowledge. Most participants in these competitions are university teams with members from different …
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Incentive competitions as a policy tool for technological innovation
Large incentive competitions are becoming increasingly popular amongst policymakers and philanthropists as a mission-orientated tool for inducing innovation, particularly in areas of national priority where market incentives and conventional tools such as patents and procurements tend not to be …
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The Power of a Tourney: Physical Competitions in Heian Japan
… and economic importance of organized physical competitions at the Heian court during the Heian period (794–1185) with an emphasis on the late tenth and early eleventh centuries when the frequency and importance of these physical competitions reached their zenith. I conducted this research by …
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Effectiveness of bridge design competitions in the United States (1989-1998)
… and analyze one such method, bridge design competitions. Unlike Europe, the United States has held few bridge design competitions over the last 20 years, and this thesis focuses on three as case studies: the U.S. Naval Academy Bridge design competition (1989), the San Francisco-Oakland Bay …
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A study of US government's satellite incumbents and follow-on competitions
… - the U.S. Government's unclassified satellite competitions - an arena characterized by deep technical skills, strong and lasting complementary assets and robust IP. Given these strengths, we would expect to find that incumbents would successfully win most competitions. In fact, according to …
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An analysis of accounting tests used in the 1989 Virginia FBLA regional competitions
This study had four purposes. They were to determine whether accounting tests used during the 1989 Virginia FBLA regional accounting competitive events were reliable, valid, comprised of test items at appropriate difficulty levels, and to ascertain if the curricular drift was present. …
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Doorway to the Competitions of Life: African American Citizenship and Access to Higher Education
Legal developments of the 1950s and 1960s such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Civil Rights Act (1964) relied heavily on the Reconstruction Amendments to launch a revised attack on segregation and racial discrimination producing only limited success. However, more recent court cases …
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Selecting private developers for projects with public purpose : development competitions of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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The effects of preliminary unaffiliated dressage competitions on the mechanical properties of a synthetic equestrian arena surface
… and after six preliminary, unaffiliated dressage competitions, held between January and June 2009. Thirty two positions were tested within the arena, which were split into two sets of 16. The first set of 16 were positioned 7.5m apart around the outside (track) area, and the second set of 16 were …
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Perceived positive and negative effects of participation in student construction management competitions: a qualitative priority mixed methods study
… of construction management (CM) student competitions are well thought of and have good construction industry support. Very little published research was found however addressing these competitions. This qualitative priority, mixed methods study collected qualitative data via interviews …
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Quantifying changes in accelerations and heart rate indicative of fatigue during condensed competitions in elite youth ice hockey players
<p>Thirty-three elite youth ice hockey players wore Bioharness-3 (Zephyr, MD) sensors to compare accelerations (ACC) and heart rate (HR) over four games (G1–G4) in three days, in order to establish changes in cardiovascular stress and physical exertion associated with fatigue. Peak ACC and HR …
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Epidemiology and risk factors for illness in athletes participating in sport tournaments or competitions - a specific focus on Rugby Union
… codes and across different tournaments and competitions. The Super Rugby competition is a particularly demanding 16-week tournament among countries in the Southern Hemisphere, and is associated with a high incidence of illness. In this tournament, 15 rugby union teams compete and play …
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A study of life sciences projects in science talent quest competitions in the Western Cape, South Africa, with special reference to scientific skills and knowledge
… for Young Scientists (i.e., science talent quest competitions) provide such a context. The present study focuses on educational outcomes of selected 2007 Expo participants, namely, scientific skills (that is, process skills, scientific inquiry, problem solving and critical thinking skills) and …
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The Art of Racing: Cracking the Puzzle of Programs Supporting Startup Creation
… education programmes and startup competitions. This thesis explores the topic from a dual perspective: theoretical and empirical. From an organizational lens, it adopts a three-paper model and is outlined in five chapters. To start with, the first chapter paves the way for the …
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THE COMMISSIONED FLUTE CHOIR PIECES PRESENTED BY UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE FLUTE CHOIRS AND NFA SPONSORED FLUTE CHOIRS AT NATIONAL FLUTE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTIONS WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FLUTE CHOIR AND ITS REPERTOIRE
… a range of non-performance and performance competitions for performers of all ages. Non-performance competitions are: a Flute Choir Composition Competition, Graduate Research, and Newly Published Music. Performance competitions are: Young Artist Competition, High School Soloist Competition, …
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