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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"kick"”.
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Kick Me
Human experience, particularly the trials and tribulations of growing up, is the foundation on which I build. In this body of work, I represent these somewhat unsettling times. I use flattened space, strong diagonals, and vibrant color to add energy to the compositions. An underlying structure of …
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Biomechanical analysis of instep kick in soccer
… actions of the human body. Among the various kicking motion performed by the soccer players, the instep-kick occupies a place of fundamental importance. The player exhibits different levels of speed and trajectories of the ball by controlling the kinematic variables, the dynamics and motor …
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Electric kick scooter assessment from vehicle dynamics to rider perspective
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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“Girls Who Kick Butt”: A Cognitive Interpretation of Tamora Pierce’s Adolescent Feminist Fantasy
Recent empirical evidence supports the theoretical stance that fiction provides vicarious experiences of imagined spaces and situations that can help shape our perceptions of the real world, our social others, and the self. The implications for this are especially interesting for adolescents, as …
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KINEMATIC COMPARISON OF THE UNDERWATER DOLPHIN KICK BETWEEN SWIMMERS WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF COMPETITIVE ABILITY
… elite swimming competition, underwater dolphin kick (UDK) is considered an essential skill to master, although swim researchers and coaches claim that the mechanics of UDK are poorly understood and are often overlooked in training. The purpose of this study was to identify kinematic differences …
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Seisan! ... Ichi ... Ni ... San! : the kick of Design for Six Sigma in the automotive industry
In today's aggressive business environment, many manufacturing firms are searching for new strategies or methodologies that will provide some type of competitive advantage. Recently, in order to address that issue, the automotive industry has adopted the process of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS). …
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And Now a Punch, Kick, and Slap from Our Sponsors: A Content Analysis of Aggression in Network Television Commercials.
<p>While the violent content of television news and entertainment programs has been widely documented, commercials have been rarely scrutinized for aggressive traits. This study sought to improve on this situation and gather additional data about television commercial violence. Because commercials …
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Humanoid Robot Soccer Locomotion and Kick Dynamics: Open Loop Walking, Kicking and Morphing into Special Motions on the Nao Robot
… actions or motions is crucial when attempting to kick the ball. It is common to see a discontinuity between walking and kicking where a robot will return to an initial pose in preparation for the kick action. In this thesis we explore the removal of this behaviour by developing a transition gait …
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Numerical Evaluation of Various Well Control Methods with Emphasis on Application in Managed Pressure Drilling Operation
… MPD is designed to identify and circulate out kicks (uncontrolled flow of formation fluids into the wellbore) that possess blowout risk. Since MPD allows fast changes in the bottom hole pressure, the reaction to an undesirable inflow is not automatically to shut in the well and increase the …
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An Investigation of Technique and Equipment Factors Associated with Clubhead Speed in Golf
… were designed to develop a method to locate the kick point during the golf swing and examine the effect of kick point location on swing parameters and their related launch conditions, respectively. Study III involved two phases, Firstly, the level of agreement between two methods of determining …
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Kinematics of drop punt kicking in Australian rules football - comparison of skilled and less skilled kicking
The types of kick that are performed in the football codes fall into two broad categories: punt kick and place kick. One type of punt kick is the major means of ball movement in Australian Rules football – the drop punt kick. Past studies have investigated the biomechanics of kicking. The pattern …
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Stochastic modelling for the analysis of blowout risk in exploration drilling.
… and quantification of probabilities related to kick, loss of well control, and blowout volumes; model input related to company and well specific parameters; and pro-active decision making in the development of drilling programmes to enable the identification and selection of risk-reducing …
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The galactic population of binaries containing neutron stars
… that most neutron stars receive very large "kick" speeds at birth. This problem may be rectified in a self-consistent way if the kick speed depends on the rotation rate of the pre-collapse core, which I propose is strongly influenced by the evolution of the neutron-star progenitor in a binary …
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Imagery rehearsal self-efficacy and the performance of Australian rules football skills
… study presented an imagery rehearsal program on kick passing to ten Austrahan Football League (AFL) players over half a competitive season.
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Turning up the variable noise: the quiet eye, functional variability and advancements in perceptual cognitive expertise
… Study 1 compares the traditional penalty kick protocol with a 1 v 1 dynamic condition, where the striker can move the ball before shooting at the goal. Study 2 compares expert senior goalkeepers against youth goalkeepers in the dynamic task to understand QE differences between ages with …
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Novel Computational Infant Musculoskeletal Model for Biomechanical Analysis of Infant Movement
… capture data recorded of the infant during a kicking motion, and a constant ground reaction force value of 52.48 N to represent the infant’s weight, the hip joint angle and external joint moment was calculated using inverse kinematics and inverse dynamics. Preliminary results showed a hip …
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