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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"footsteps"”.
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Supplementing Localization Algorithms for Indoor Footsteps
… of this is to use the vibrations measured from footsteps to locate occupants within a building. The localization of indoor footsteps can yield several benefits in areas such as security and threat detection, emergency response and evacuation, and building resource management, to name a few. The …
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In their footsteps: Women faculty of Wartburg College 1914–1945
1 PDF file (iv, 191 pages)
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The muffled accomplishments: South Asian digital learners’ invisible footsteps in MOOCS
Online education has become a popular tool for learning and it has gained incredible positive publicity with the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Learning through MOOCs has gained momentum over the last few years as prestigious universities and their esteemed faculty members offer …
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Female leaders in commercial real estate : to the women following in their footsteps
Within commercial real estate, women are not as likely as men to achieve senior-level executive positions. Commercial real estate has been slow to change in terms of achieving gender parity, and though improvements have been made in the status of women in leadership positions, gender-based …
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New footsteps in well-trodden ways : a brief biography of Catholic journalist Katherine Eleanor Conway
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Journalism, 2005
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Following in the Footsteps of Prior Law: the Expanding Application of the USA Patriot Act
<p>Laws are often enacted in response to a moral panic. Examples of this are found in the Mann Act of 1910, passed to deal with forced prostitution, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act of 1970, which addressed the threat of organized crime. In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act …
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Retracing Footsteps of the Literati: Towards Understanding Literacy Development through Stories of Malawian Teacher Educators
If there is a single song in which nations, governments, human rights organizations, communities, and parents harmoniously blend their voices, it is that being literate is valuable and valued. Being literate entails one's access to and interaction with text in one's environment (Harris & Hodges, …
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Evolution's footsteps : reconstructing in vitro and in vivo evolutionary trajectories via massively parallel sequencing and profiling
Understanding how phenotypes evolve through natural selection is a fundamental question of biology. Microbial evolution studies provide the rare opportunity to experimentally elucidate the changes that allow an organism to adapt to novel conditions. In an in vitro experimental evolution system, …
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Hefnigjarna sagan um fótatakið sem flúði: A Translation of "The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran"
… of the short story “The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps that Ran” by Dorothy Leigh Sayers, as well as an analytical essay on the project. Sayers wrote several novels and short stories in the 1920s and 1930s which featured one of her best-known characters, Lord Peter Wimsey. This thesis …
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In the Footsteps of: The Challenge of Recreating and Reflecting on the Writings and Achievements of Historic Women Travellers.
… the journeys they made. My own journeys in their footsteps were heuristic means of understanding their experiences and struggles. I used a ‘time-travel illusion’ in one text to enable me to imagine a dialogue with Kate Marsden, a complex and persecuted woman, in an attempt to understand her …
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Acoustic and seismic signal processing for footsetp detection
The problem of detecting footsteps using acoustic and seismic sensors is approached from three different angles in this thesis. First, accelerometer data processing systems are designed to make footsteps more apparent to a human operator listening to accelerometer recordings. These systems work by …
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Courier of Souls
… cause curses to burn. Following in her father’s footsteps, she strives to match his skills as a courier, and respect the legacy of her adoptive father, who saved her from a life of abandonment and rejection.</p>
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Applications of Vibration-Based Occupant Inference in Frailty Diagnosis through Passive, In-Situ Gait Monitoring
… of temporal gait parameters from consecutive footsteps can then be used to estimate temporal features such as cadence and stride time variation. VBOI provides many algorithms to accurately detect when a human-induced vibration event happened, however, spatial information is also needed for …
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Bending mechanism for piezoelectric transducer footstep energy harvesting using piezoelectric tile
… to harvest the mechanical energy from human footsteps by inserting this transducer in shoes. However, the designated shoes sometimes are not convenient to wearers. In this research, the mechanical energy from the human footstep was harvested using floor tile inserted with piezoelectric …
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Memory, time and place in The Ballad of Rosalind Ballingall
… this unsolved case, the film follows Rosalind's footsteps, from the bohemian city streets of Cape Town in the sixties to the Knysna forests, drawing on the collective memory of the Knysna community and students who were at university with Rosalind at the time. In search of Rosalind, the film …
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Rhetorical Implications of 'Professionalism' for Organizational Culture: Praxis of Mindfulness
… a reality for the organization. Following in the footsteps of Aristotle, this study charges that 'professionalism' as a constructive ethical narrative is rhetorically contagious. Further, since the significance of communication ethics for 'professionalism' lies not just in theory but in action, …
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Developing the next "wow" fitness product
… revolutionary product in the industry. In the footsteps of the elliptical trainer and Bowflex, the aim is to design a brand new fitness product to create industry buzz and become a household name. The work done has gone through the usual design process, beginning with extensive research and …
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Demonstration system for a low-power seismic detector and classifier
… and implemented which was able to detect the footsteps of a person from as far as 35 meters away. Throughout the design an emphasis was placed on using low power circuitry and efficient algorithms. The test platform to demonstrate the concepts of the design utilizes a revolutionary low-power …
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Critical choices in print and cyberspace : a content analysis of three print-based film critics and three Internet-based film critics.
… amateur critics are essentially following in the footsteps of their print-based counterparts.
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