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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"limitations and constraints"”.
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Passive Viscoelastic Constrained Layer Damping Application for a Small Aircraft Landing Gear System
… was to test several common viscoelastic polymers and identify key attributes of their applicability to a small aircraft landing gear system for improved damping performance. The applied viscoelastic damping treatment to the gear was of a constrained layer type, promoting increased shear …
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Winning the peace: the British in occupied Germany, 1945-1948.
… the contribution made by twelve important and influential individuals to the development of a policy of physical and economic reconstruction, political renewal and personal reconciliation in the British Zone of occupied Germany in the first three years after the end of the Second World War. …
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Do-it-yourself devices : personal fabrication of custom electronic products
… of DIY (do-it-yourself) activity, like knitting and woodworking, offer two kinds of value: the making process itself and using the resulting products in one's life. With electronics, the sophistication of modern devices makes it difficult to combine these values. Instead, when people make …
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Stanley Kubrick: Producers and Production Companies
… filmmaker Stanley Kubrick’s role as a producer and the impact of the industrial contexts upon the role and his independent production companies. The thesis represents a significant intervention into the understanding of the much-misunderstood role of the producer by exploring how business, …
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An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing
… are well established yet there exists no understanding of their cognitive foundations. This thesis attempts to correct this oversight by proposing that “continuity” is actually what perceptual and developmental psychologists refer to as existence constancy (Michotte, 1955): “the experience that …
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Navigation and Control of an Autonomous Vehicle
The navigation and control of an autonomous vehicle is a highly complex task. Making a vehicle intelligent and able to operate "unmanned" requires extensive theoretical as well as practical knowledge. An autonomous vehicle must be able to make decisions and respond to situations completely on its …
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Radio Resource Management Optimization For Next Generation Wireless Networks
The prominent versatility of today’s mobile broadband services and the rapid advancements in the cellular phones industry have led to a tremendous expansion in the wireless market volume. Despite the continuous progress in the radio-access technologies to cope with that expansion, many challenges …
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Synchronization in complex systems with multiple time scales
… the fast firing of action potentials (spikes) and the burst of repetitive spikes followed by a quiescent phase. This system has been integrated numerically and analyzed with methods based on recurrence in phase space. An interesting result are the different transitions to synchrony found in the …
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Multiple Simultaneous Optical Links for Space-Based Platforms
… over Radio Frequency (RF) communications in bandwidth, Size, Weight, and Power savings, and unregulated spectrum. Theoretical and demonstrated lasercom systems have shown higher data rates for similar or equal SWaP compared to their RF counterparts. New space-based network architectures, such …
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A thermomechanical motorsport tyre model applicable for real-time driver-in-the-loop simulations
With the introduction of real-life testing limitations and the advances in the simulation technology, the driver-in-the-loop type simulation environments have gained great popularity over the past decade and become the norm used in the high level of motorsport engineering for driver and vehicle …
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The use of reflectance classification for chlorophyll algorithm application across multiple optical water types in South African coastal waters
… about key biogeochemical variables over inland, coastal and ocean waters at scales unachievable via in situ techniques. However, broader use of ocean colour data is still limited by the need for users to choose among a seemingly complicated range of available satellite products and to …
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The Successes and Limitations of Retraining Non-specialist Teachers to Teach Mathematics
… new more mathematically rigorous GCSE courses, and the expectation that most post-16 students will engage with some mathematics (studying for A and AS levels, a Core Maths qualification or re-taking GCSE) many more teachers of mathematics will be needed. The questions posed, explore whether …
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From the Restoration to the Pisanelli Code (1815-1865): A Cultural and Historical Assessment of the Legal Status of Women in the North of the Italian Peninsula
… to the Pisanelli Code (1815-1865): A Cultural and Historical Assessment of the Legal Status of Women in the North of the Italian Peninsula In the context of a changing political landscape, where shifts in state boundaries and socio-economic structures deeply affected the Italian peninsula and …
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Identifying limitations of monitoring the success of river rehabilitation schemes for freshwater fish
… water supply, flood protection, navigation and transportation, fisheries and recreation. Rehabilitation of rivers is a tool that underpins the Water Framework Directive (WFD) by means of addressing river degradation by re-introducing habitat heterogeneity to impacted river systems. Many past …
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A strategic planning approach for the operational-environmental problem of air transportation system terminal areas
… way of life, characterized by access to products and services from around the world, and access to remote locations. Therefore there is a strong incentive to maintain the system and promote its growth. None the less, important challenges have plagued civil aviation, particularly the commercial …