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Showing 1 to 20 of 355 for “"manuals"”.
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Adaptive fault diagnosis in interactive electronic technical manuals (IETMs)
An Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) is a technical manual that is prepared in digital format to provide information about the diagnostics and maintenance of complex systems.;In this thesis we present a methodology for adaptive fault diagnosis in IETMs, a methodology that constantly …
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English Godly Art of Dying Manuals, c. 1590-1625
… regimen, created and conducted through printed manuals. Godly divines William Perkins, Nicholas Byfield and Samuel Crooke use various rhetorical methods to incite, regulate and suppress readers' emotions regarding the prospect of death. A final chapter returns to the use of personal examples in …
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Protecting the magazine brand: Brand manuals, their uses and implementation
This thesis discusses the need for a brand manual for a magazine after the creation of a first issue. A brand manual ensures each subsequent issue of the magazine has consistent design from issue to issue as well as keeps the tenets of the overall magazine brand intact. This thesis was project …
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Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Impact of Nineteenth-Century Conduct Manuals
… strategies in nineteenth-century conduct manuals, Sarah Stickney Ellis’s <i>The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits</i>, and Harriet Martineau’s <i>Household Education</i>. In examining the rhetoric of the conduct manuals, this researcher has identified the audience, …
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Improving Anesthesia Provider Use of Emergency Manuals through a Training Session
… acceptance and intent to use emergency manuals in their practice. A secondary purpose was to determine how emergency manual usage would change anesthesia providers’ confidence in their performance during the management of crisis scenarios in the operating room. Background: Emergency …
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Teach Yourself? Language Learning through Self-Instruction Manuals in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia
… that the robustness of self-instruction language manuals is due to their ability to adapt to the personal circumstances of their readers. By surveying ordinary nineteenth-century Scandinavians, it is established that they turned to self-directed learning as a consequence of social and economic …
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A Rhetoric Of Technology: The Discourse In U.S. Army Manuals And Handbooks
… processes captured in paper-based technical manuals and adding intelligent functionality to these designs are two of many possible design options. Research also dispels a myth concerning the history of modern technical communication and illustrates the development of many genres and …
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Commanding Texts: Knowledge-ordering, Identity Construction and Ethics in 'Military Manuals’ of the Roman Empire
… identity construction and ethics in 'military manuals’ of the Roman Empire By Daniel Alexandru Chiritoiu This thesis is about ‘military manuals’ produced in the first few centuries of the Roman imperial period. It argues that these texts merit far more attention and appreciation than they have …
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"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
… argues that sixteenth-century English prayer manuals set rigid boundaries for women by representing them in limited ways. Analyzing and comparing Thomas Becon's The Flour of Godly Praiers (1550), Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones (1582), and Anne Wheathill's A Handfull of Holesome …
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Older adults and computer technology : the role of conventional manuals, multimedia, and the effects of practice
With the continuing absorption of computers into everyday life, it becomes important to determine the most effective methods for teaching older adults to use computers as well as the extent to which their ease of learning is affected by individual differences in ability and aptitude. In this study …
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To Do as Said and Written: Excavated Manuals and the Performance of Medicine and Spirit Power in Early China
… excavated medical, incantatory, and divinatory manuals from early China. These manuals are studied collectively as medicine and people's engagement with the spirit world were inseparable. While there has been much research into the early Chinese medical and divinatory landscape, the …
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The Consequences of Adopting an Educational Innovation: A Study of the Impact of the Illinois Occupational Curriculum Project Manuals
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:53:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7616114.pdf: 6529956 bytes, checksum: b2f3bccd679164662b2867c9f02eae7d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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The investigation of online manuals and the role guidelines abstraction has on the usefulness of interface design guidelines in the evaluation of user system interfaces
… Studies of online guidance systems, such as help manuals, have yielded mixed results in comparing performance when using online systems versus hardcopy manuals. This thesis also explores the effect which guideline presentation media has upon guidelines usage.
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An interactive virtual manual in augmented reality
… system for users to author and view virtual manuals on augmented reality devices. Augmented reality virtual manuals offer multiple advantages over traditional paper manuals. We explore the design space of building a virtual manual system on a variety of augmented reality devices with …
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Using data analytics and innovative research methodologies for the mapping of psychopathology
… issues via assessments based on diagnostic manuals, such as the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). However, there is a growing literature that has raised serious concerns about these two manuals. Some …
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The State of the Anti-Union Address: A Rhetorical Critique of Select Service Worker Training Methods
… explores links among technical writing, training manuals, surveillance, and anti-union rhetoric used with service workers in select American chains and franchises. Brief histories are provided, including those of technical writing, the rise of unions in America, and how technical writing became …
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The Spread of Hindu-Arabic Numerals in the European Tradition of Practical Arithmetic: a Socio-Economic Perspective (13th–16th centuries)
… to prospective merchants: practical arithmetic manuals. I have reconstructed the European tradition of practical arithmetic collecting detailed information on over 1280 practical arithmetic manuals written throughout western Europe from the 13th to the 16th century. This catalogue, which is …
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Review of codes of practice for the design of box culverts for recommendation for South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)
… by applying load obtained using the three design manuals. The objective of this study is to analyze the methodology involved in estimating vertical earth load on a culvert as outlined in the design manuals to ascertain relevance of the formulae and procedure in TMH7 or/and to recommend the most …
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