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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"indirect methods"”.
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An Investigation of Electrochemical Processes for Refrigeration
A number of indirect methods for refrigeration are reviewed.
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Estruturas de solos: métodos de observação
… first part a literature review on the existing methods for the observation of soil fabric is made. This part is itself sub-divided in two other parts: - indirect methods, - direct methods. In the indirect methods, the use of the principal properties of soil, such as permeability, shear strenght, …
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Child and adult mortality in Zimbabwe, 1980-2005
This research applies direct and indirect methods to data from censuses and Demographic and Health Surveys to derive empirical estimates of the level and trends of child and adult mortality in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2005.
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HIV/AIDS impact on childhood mortality and childhood mortality measurement : from the perspective of Kenyan and Malawian DHS data
… trends constructed from the direct and the indirect methods of estimation in high HIV prevalence scttings. The second goal is to assess the direct impact of HIV / AIDS on childhood mortality in Kenya and Malawi for the periods 1999 - 2003 and 2000 - 2004 respectively. It is important to …
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An investigation of momentum exchange parameterizations and atmospheric forcing for the Coastal Mixing and Optics Program
… dissipation estimates indicates that both indirect methods systematically underestimate the momentum flux into developing seas. To account for wave-induced processes and yield improved flux estimates, modifications to the traditional flux parameterizations are explored. Modification to the …
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An investigation of momentum exchange parameterizations and atmospheric forcing for the Coastal Mixing and Optics Program
… dissipation estimates indicates that both indirect methods systematically underestimate the momentum flux into developing seas. To account for wave-induced processes and yield improved flux estimates, modifications to the traditional flux parameterizations are explored. Modification to the …
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Quantification of biomass in a biooxidation system
… study was to investigate and compare various methods to enumerate the number of bacteria in a minerals biooxidation system. In this system most of the bacteria are attached to fine particles of ore and therefore cannot be enumerated by direct cell counting. This has hindered attempts to …
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Quantification of biomass in a biooxidation system
… study was to investigate and compare various methods to enumerate the number of bacteria in a minerals biooxidation system. In this system most of the bacteria are attached to fine particles of ore and therefore cannot be enumerated by direct cell counting. This has hindered attempts to …
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Morals Education in the Public Schools
… setting and if teachers use a direct or indirect method of instruction for the teaching of values. The study included 70 teachers from grades kindergarten through sixth grade; special education teachers were included. The data were compiled from results of a questionnaire. Analyses of the …
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Determining the Refractive Index of Phytoplankton via Direct Measurement of Cellular Structures
… attempts to measure it have been done through indirect methods. While these methods have proven useful, they contain assumptions about the particles morphology and composition that cause for uncertainty with the measurements. Through the use of the 3D Cell Explorer, a high precision …
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Semi-direct visual SLAM for stereo cameras: system design and validation
… image alignment for camera pose estimation, and indirect methods to optimize poses and landmarks. The system maintains a sparse point cloud map and allows loop closing and relocalization when tracking is lost. Further experiments validate that it can achieve competitive accuracy with higher …
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A Validation Study of a Writing Skills Test for Police Recruit Applicants
… ability dimensions included on a separate, indirect, multiple choice test were investigated. Direct and indirect scores were correlated with training academy performance. Because both tests assessed higher-order and lower-order writing abilities, comparisons were made to determine which type …
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Development of New Cost-Sensitive Bayesian Network Learning Algorithms
… learning and identifies three common methods for developing cost-sensitive algorithms for decision tree learning. These methods are then utilised to develop three different algorithms for learning cost-sensitive Bayesian networks: (i) an indirect method, where costs are included by …
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The centrality of legitimacy and the limitations of the small footprint approach to military operations
… an illegitimate regime using direct or indirect methods appropriately tailored to the context. I draw on two successful small footprint operations, the American engagement in the Philippines and the French Intervention in Mali, as case studies to define the characteristics of the regime, …
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Interplanetary mission design with applications to guidance and optimal control of aero-assisted trajectories
… tours of the solar system is developed using indirect methods. Two cost functionals are used in the optimization; finding the minimum required maximum lift-to-drag ratio, with and without a convective heating-rate path constraint, and the path which provides the minimum total stagnation point …
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Guanxi 2.0: social capital within a cultural context revealed by the use of social media by Chinese international students
… as an example, using the ethnographic research methods of participatory observation and in-depth interviews to explore the process of Chinese international students building their social networks through social media (WeChat) in a cross-cultural environment, and through thematic analysis to …
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Estimating fertility and childhood mortality for the western region of Ghana from pregnancy history data
… was found to have a few advantages over other indirect methods used for estimating fertility and childhood mortality. However, pregnancy history data suffer from under-reporting, event misplacement and age mis-statement errors; and these off-set some of the advantages of the method. The …
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Estimating fertility and childhood mortality for the western region of Ghana from pregnancy history data
… was found to have a few advantages over other indirect methods used for estimating fertility and childhood mortality. However, pregnancy history data suffer from under-reporting, event misplacement and age mis-statement errors; and these off-set some of the advantages of the method. The …
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The Astrometric Contribution of Unresolved Stellar Companions
… obscuring the companion - and we must turn to indirect methods to infer its presence. Astrometry, the mapping of the motion of stars across the sky, is one such method. A significant mass concentrated in one or more collapsed companions will perturb the path. In the simplest and most ubiquitous …
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Estimating forage mass of tall fescue pastures and dry matter intake and digestibility of fescue forage by beef steers
… experiments were conducted to evaluate different methods of estimating forage mass of tall fescue pastures, and dry matter intake and digestibility in beef steers under indoor and grazing conditions. Forage mass was estimated with the herbage cutting method (HCM) and three indirect methods; the …
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