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Showing 1 to 20 of 184 for “"compress"”.
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Effects of a Heating Compress on Self-reported Sore Throat following Endotracheal Intubation for Anesthesia
… was to determine the effects of the heating compress on self-reported sore throat following endotracheal intubation.</p> <p>The null hypothesis stated that a heating compress to the throat would have no significant (alpha = 0.05) effect on the reduction of self-reported postoperative sore …
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Estimating File Compressibility Using File Extensions
Adaptive compression systems dynamically choose a compression strategy — including no compression — by monitoring CPU usage, output rate, expected time to compress, and perhaps most importantly, the estimated compressibility of the data. Many adaptive compression systems were designed with the …
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Data Compression Strategies for RDAT/DDS Media in Hostile Environments
… of error propagation in magnetically recorded compressed data when severe environmental conditions result in uncorrected channel errors.<br/><br/>The tape format DDS is examined and a computer simulation of its error correction procedures is described. This software implementation uses explicit …
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Unsupervised connectivity-based cortex parcellation using the information bottleneck method
… we embody an information-theoretic framework to compress and therefore cluster anatomical connectivity data that avoids many assumptions and drawbacks imposed by previous methods.
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A phenomenological inquiry into the patient's experience of the external application of ginger
… externally on the skin beneath the ginger compress. Gradually the heat Intensified and developed into deep inner warmth. Patients were astonished at the strength and depth the heat generated. The warmth penetrated deep within the body spreading as far as the limbs. There was a definite …
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Investigation and characterization of a high energy piezoelectric pulse
… storing 50 mJ. The mechanical force needed to compress is derived from a steel mass. The high energy PPG uses a variable height and neoprene material to control the force. Peak forces around 18 kN are used to compress the piezoelectric material. An electromechanical model of the PPG is …
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The experience of receiving ginger compresses in persons with osteoarthritis : a phenomenological study
… study exploring the experience of the ginger compress for people with the diagnosed condition of osteoarthritis (OA). The stimulus for this research came out of both the researcher's Masters research and an interest in alternative healthcare. The World Health Organisation has declared …
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A Comparative Study of Data Transformations for Efficient XML and JSON Data Compression. An In-Depth Analysis of Data Transformation Techniques, including Tag and Capital Conversions, Character and Word N-Gram Transformations, and Domain-Specific Data Transforms using SMILES Data as a Case Study
… store and process this type of data using compression. Various general-purpose transforms and compression techniques exist that can be used to transform and compress XML data. More compact alternatives to XML data have been developed, namely JSON due to the verbosity of XML data. Similarly, …
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Object tracking in distributed systems
… DEMOS/MP uses an urgent updating policy to compress the message path. Whenever an object is moved, an updating message is sent to the last node immediately. In Emerald, a lazy updating policy is adopted. When an object migrates, no updating message is sent. The new location is piggybacked on …
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A low latency remote rendering system for interactive mobile graphics
… to select the reference viewpoints and how to compress multiple depth image references efficiently. I propose a Reference Prediction Algorithm for real-time reference selection and a high performance warping-assisted video coding method to compress both image and depth frames in real-time. …
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Machine couture : manufacturing as consumer spectacle
… but always independent. This thesis proposes to compress the stages of production for a new type of spectacle: a consumer factory that uses the process of manufacturing as a branding technique. Set in Shanghai, the project studies how retail and manufacturing spaces can intersect to elevate the …
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Relationship of moulding pressure and weigh of granulate in improving the mechanical and characteristics of biopolymer from renewable resources
… into granulate (powder) to be able to hot compress by hot compression moulding technique. These fabricated samples were namely as biopolymer. The conversion process of bio-monomer into BP was examined using Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTiR) show the complete conversion of BP from …
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An Automatic Framework for Embryonic Localization Using Edges in a Scale Space
… we propose a scale mapping strategy to compress the range of a scale space in order to improve the efficiency of the localization framework. The effectiveness of the proposed framework and the scale mapping strategy are validated in our experiments.</p>
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Design of a re-configurable test stand for a multi degree of freedom compliant robot prototype
A test stand was designed and constructed to compress a compliant robot prototype, while measuring the force applied and the displacement of the prototype's end. The prototype is a five degree of freedom, compliant device, which required the design process to preserve these DOF while measuring the …
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Design and Kinematics of a Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Micro Dragonfly Robot
… around Dielectric Elastomer Actuators that compress and expand 0.5mm. With this knowledge, MATLAB was used to predict the linkage sizes that control the wing stroke movement. Using the values calculated in MATLAB, Solidworks was used to design a soft robot that mimics a dragonfly’s flight. …
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Traumatic Brain Injury As An Environmental Risk Factor For Neurodegeneration: Elucidating Causal Mechanisms With Drosophila
… a piezoelectric actuator to briefly and rapidly compress the fly head against the metal plates of a Heisenberg fly collar. The piezoelectric is supplied with an amplified voltage pulse whose amplitude is controlled through a potentiometer, while an Arduino microcontroller is used to set its …
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A field programmable gate array based software defined radio design for the space environment
… on a Software Defined Radio (SDR) designed to compress a wideband radio signal input for a narrowband signal output. The design is based on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), which is chosen for its reprogrammability, flexibility, and our ability to introduce fault tolerance into the …
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Techniques for design and implementation of physically unclonable functions
… how to predict response errors as well as to compress the challenge/responses in database. We further demonstrate applications where PUFs on reconfigurable FPGA platforms can be exploited for privacy protection. The effectiveness of the proposed techniques is validated using extensive …
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Source and channel coding for low-bandwidth speech communication between optoelectronic devices
… developed by Speex was eventually adopted to compress speech to the bandwidth of the optoelectronic fibers. Several channel coding techniques were examined for an optical channel. This thesis describes the pulse modulation technique eventually used. Finally, this thesis explores how the …
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Sampling-based Algorithms for Fast and Deployable AI
… construct representative subsets of inputs and compress machine learning models to enable fast and deployable systems. We provide theoretical guarantees on the representativeness of the generated subsamples for a variety of objectives, ranging from eliminating data redundancy for efficient …
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