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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"made of plastic"”.
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With Children in Mind…
Industrial design is meant to improve the design of mass produced objects and by doing so to contribute to improve the users' quality of life. The designer's challenge is to balance functionality, aesthetic appeal and ease of use to create a successful market product. This industrial design thesis …
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The perception of material qualities in real-world images
… is slippery, if food is fresh, if a spoon is made of plastic or stainless steel, or if a suspicious looking mole warrants a trip to the doctor. This ability to visually identify and discriminate materials is known as material perception and little is known about it. We have measured human …
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A multimodal breast cancer imaging system using coregistered dynamic diffuse optical tomography and digital breast tomosynthesis
… In particular, the multimodal approach of combining DOT with x-ray digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is especially synergistic as DBT prior information can be used to enhance the DOT reconstruction. DOT, in turn, provides a functional information overlay onto the mammographic images, …
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Disentangling entanglement in Cape fur seals for better management of plastic pollution impacts
… and ingestion are among the most common impacts of marine litter on wildlife. While most marine litter is assumed to come from land-based sources, marine items such as fishing gear tend to be responsible for most entanglement incidents. Entanglement is a frequent threat to pinniped species …
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The abundance, distribution and accumulation of plastic debris in Table Bay, Cape Town, South Africa
… in Table Bay, South Africa, repeating a survey made at the same two beaches in 1994. One beach (Milnerton) is a popular recreational beach 12 km from the city centre, whereas the other (Koeberg) is situated in a nature reserve, with limited access by the general public, and is 27 km farther from …
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A Discrete Choice Mean Variance (EV) Cost Model to Measure Impact of Household Risk from Drinking Water Pipe Corrosion
… model, which evaluates the anticipated payout of different assets with respect to uncertainty where portfolios with higher risk demand higher expected returns from an individual. This thesis adapts this framework to a cost setting where decision makers are evaluating alternative physical assets …
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Design and development of thin optical components for nonimaging applications = Diseño y desarrollo de componentes ópticos delgados para aplicaciones anidólicas
… optics has focused grounded in the design of imaging systems in which it has reached a high level of development. However, classical optics solutions to the problems of light energy transfer are only appropriate when the light rays are paraxial. The paraxial condition is not met in most …