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Showing 1 to 20 of 42397 for “"human"”.
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Indoor Human Sensing for Human Building Interaction
… aware of and responsive to the occupants. Human sensing system is one of the key enabling technologies for smart built environments. We present our research findings related to the design and deployment of an indoor human sensing system in large public built spaces. We use a case study to …
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Human levitation
Human levitation occurs when the physical body rises into the air and then hovers or moves around, seemingly in defiance of the force of gravity. Traditionally most levitation reports have originated from seven groups: shamanism, people supposedly possessed by demonic spiritual entities, those …
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Human Theatre
Human Theatre III's photography series of juxtaposition of space is a confluence of ideas and a group of loose practices. It does not have a single point of origin, a clear meaning, or a linear narrative: Instead, it uses a series of fragmented metaphors and metonymy phrases to solve the problem of …
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Role of human β-defensins in human burn wounds
… an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Human Β Defensins (HBD) are a group of recently discovered antimicrobial peptides. The main subtypes include HBD1, 2 and 3 and are individually known to have other functions apart from being anti-microbial. Some of these are inherently expressed …
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Analysis of human cytomegalovirus in the healthy human carrier
… blood leukocytes as one site of persistence of Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in healthy carriers. However, the exact population of peripheral blood cells that carry HCMV and to what extent they express HCMV gene products in not known. I have examined the sites of HCMV persistence in the …
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Images of human motion : changing representations of human identity
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982.
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Evidence of Human Endogenous Retrovirus K Involvement In Human Cancer
… population, as well as commercially available human cell lines for the presence of human endogenous retrovirus K (HERV-K) Env viral RNA (vRNA), protein, and viral particles. We hypothesize that HERV-K proteins are tumor-associated antigens and as such can be profiled and targeted in patients …
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From business 'and' human rights to human rights 'in' business
In 2011, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council endorsed the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which set out the norm of ‘corporate responsibility to respect human rights’. This interpretive qualitative study explores the meaning-making processes of human rights and business …
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Trafficking in human beings: international and European human rights framework
Trafficking in human beings is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that presents regulatory and policy challenges that touch upon a wide range of disciplines and approaches, including criminal law, human rights, migration, social work, international judicial cooperation etc, with the application of all …
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Cognitive Human Activity and Plan Recognition for Human-Robot Collaboration
… Consequently, there is an emerging need for humans and robots to work together. Human-robot collaboration has become an important topic in various domains, such as home assistance and manufacturing. For effective collaboration, robots must be able to recognize human activity and plan, while …
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Something Like Human
… remnants of post-climate change post-nuclear war humanity have relocated to colonies on the Galapagos Islands. The novel follows the young daughter of a metalworker, Kyra Krikorian, as she befriends a squid boy, who she names OctoBoy. Concurrently, the novel explores her adulthood and the …
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Cutaneous Human Papillomaviruses
Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) exist as more than 100 distinct types. Variants of HPVs appear to be common findings while HPV subtypes have been considered rare. New information about subtypes has recently been reported by us. Our characterisation of subtype HPV38b[FA125] and the identification of …
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Human Activity Analysis
… with higher resolution and frame-rates. Humans are often the focus of these videos, making human motion analysis an important field. This thesis explores the level of detail necessary to distinguish human activities for tasks of regression, like body tracking, and activity …
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Human motion prediction.
… The capacity to understand and predict humans’ future movements is much sought-after, for it would have a range of practical applications in fields such as autonomous vehicles and interactive robotics. The complicated constraints of the human body and its high-dimensional dynamics, …
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Careless Human Acts
The novel is divided into three sections, a few days at a three times in an 18-year relationship. Part One is set in June 1976. A dissolute couple is flying home from Europe to Johannesburg. Elsa, who has concealed sexual contraband, is nervous. Her irascible husband, Derk, is drunk; plagued by …
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Human-animal relationships
… discussions about the relationships between humans and animals concern the human use and treatment of animals in contexts such as those of food production, scientific experimentation, and pet-keeping. By contrast, the kinds of affective bonds that do - or might conceivably - occur between …
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