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Showing 1 to 20 of 2465 for “"imagery"”.
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Athlete imagery ability and effective imagery use
The aim of this thesis was to extend existing imagery ability literature. After reviewing the literature in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 validated and modified the Movement Imagery Questionnaire-Revised to provide a more comprehensive assessment of movement imagery ability. Known as the Movement Imagery …
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Preference for imagery perspective, imagery perspective training and task performance
… intemal and extemal training groups trained in imagery perspective use across two 30-minute general sessions and two 30-minute specific sessions on each of the skills. Participants completed RS manipulation checks after the general and specific training sessions to examine the effects of …
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Imagery use in fencing
… the motivational and cognitive components of imagery use among fencers, and (2) to determine if these motivational and cognitive components and the use of imagery among fencers is a function of skill level, experience, primary weapon, gender, or handedness. A survey containing the Sport …
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Yeats and water imagery
… philosophical system, water and its related imagery. This thesis intends to remedy this neglect. The centrality of water imagery stems from the fact that Yeats had identified both himself and the Irish people (his subject, as he was trying to build a national body of symbols) with water. …
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Imagery and Contamination Aversion
… hand-washing). The present study utilized an imagery-priming paradigm to test the effects of experienced disgust on compulsive hand-washing. Seventy-eight participants were selected for high or low symptoms of CB-OCD. Following response training, participants were submitted to a disgust or …
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Motor imagery in neurological rehabilitation
… been observed to attain greater impact. Motor imagery is a promising intervention for use in rehabilitation as it can be used to safely increase treatment dose at low cost. However, motor imagery is a complex intervention and there is limited evidence on the optimal content and delivery of the …
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Water Imagery in Paradise Lost
Milton brilliantly uses water imagery throughout Paradise Lost to present an orderly poem which portrays the order of God when the hierarchal authority is obeyed, and the disorder of evil when the Chain is violated. Water in itself is good, and even though it is affected by the fall of both angels …
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Mental Imagery and Exercise Endurance
… exercise endurance and various forms of mental imagery. Existing research on exercise imagery has focused primarily on internal aspects for exercise. However, studies of issues related to exercise adherence have cited pain as a primary factor in early termination of exercise. This study explored …
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Light Imagery in Little Dorrit
<p>The imagery of sun and fire function with varied meanings according to the particular scene or situation, depending upon the characters' psychological or spiritual states of mind and their present states of awareness of reality and illusion, and separate chapters will be devoted to each image. …
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Kinesthetic Imagery and Choreographic Praxis
… image is a label for a certain types of mental imagery that are generated through the sensation of moving body, as well as dynamic qualities that are kinesthetically perceived from movement. Dancers can create mental images from these type of kinesthetic experiences by enhancing their sensory …
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Imagery Use in Synchronized Swimming
… of this study was to examine the utilization of imagery and the impact of imagery use on collegiate synchronized swimmers. Swimmers (N=165) completed The Sport Imagery Questionnaire (Hall et al. 2005), reporting their frequency of imaging. Interviews were conducted (N=11) to further ascertain why …
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Hyperspectral Imagery for Precision Agriculture
The main contribution of this dissertation to hyperspectral image processing is that a hybrid feature selection and feature extraction approach was proposed and implemented for image feature reduction. The general procedure was to select a subset of the original image bands and transform the image …
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Building detection in SAR imagery
… detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery can be computationally expensive and/or enforce stringent requirements for data acquisition. I present two techniques that are effective and efficient at determining an approximate building location. This approximate location can be used to …
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Surface modelling for 2D imagery
… provides powerful tools for drawing scalable 2D imagery. With the rise of mobile computers, of different types of displays and image resolutions, vector graphics is receiving an increasing amount of attention. However, vector graphics is not the leading framework for creating and manipulating 2D …
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Speckle reduction in SAR imagery
… and space-borne remote sensing. Inherent to SAR imagery is a type of multiplicative noise known as speckle. There are a number of different approaches which may be taken in order to reduce the amount of speckle noise in SAR imagery. One of the approaches is termed post image formation processing …
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Topographic reconstruction from radar imagery
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, 1988.
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Road detection on radar imagery
… detection procedure is described for radar imagery. The procedure includes a line detection part and a road detection and connection part. The line detection part analytically detects linear features using a facet Valley finding technique. Valleys are defined as zero crossings of the first …
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A commercial architecture for satellite imagery
… satellites which produce high resolution imagery. This study focuses on the concept of the U.S. government purchasing proven and successful commercial satellites with minimal non-recurring engineering costs to help augment current national systems. The benefit with this alternative is the …
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