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Showing 1 to 20 of 141 for “"measurement tool."”.
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Tissue thickness measurement tool for craniofacial reconstruction
… of images in the third phase.;Tissue thickness measurements are necessary to generate the facial model over the skull. The thesis emphasis is on the first phase of the project. An automated "facial tissue thickness measurement tool" (TTMT) has been developed to populate this database.
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A Measurement Tool for Videoconferencing User Experience
… In contrast to existing approaches, an ideal measurement application would merely run on users’ devices without cooperation from the other endpoint that they’re conversing with. Such an application enables researchers to collect network statistics across a wide range of Internet conditions at …
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A Network Measurement Tool for Handheld Devices
This thesis describes a performance measurement tool that allows a user to measure network performance using a handheld device. The measurement tool consists of a client program that runs on a Microsoft Pocket PC device and a server program that runs on a regular Microsoft Windows computer. Both …
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An electromagnetic measurement tool for UHS RFID diagnostics
… designed to be used as an environment evaluation tool. The tag implements the Auto-ID Center/EPCglobal Generation 1 RFID passive UHF tag protocol, and it implements a power detector on the received UHF signals. The power detector enables the tag to operate as a Field Probe providing instantaneous …
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Development and prevalidation of a measurement tool for the pivot shift phenomenon of the knee
La rupture du ligament croisé antérieur (LCA) est une des blessures sportives les plus fréquentes. Le LCA est essentiel pour la stabilité du genou; ses fonctions principales sont de limiter la translation antérieure et la rotation interne du tibia par rapport au fémur. Lorsqu’une rupture survient, …
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Investigation of a Design Performance Measurement Tool for improving collaborative design during a design process
… improving collaborative design by a performance measurement approach. In addition, many studies have demonstrated that performance measurement can improve design effectiveness significantly. Therefore, this PhD research focused on investigating ‘How to improve collaborative design via a …
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Development of a measurement tool to assess sustainability in the built environment curriculum using psychological constructs
… knowledge by outlining the development of a measurement tool designed specifically to tap into sustainable construction attitudes. This tool was also used to assess the level of sustainability within built environment curriculum. The research was conducted in four phases, with phase four …
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Evaluation of a vibration measurement tool as part of a whole-body vibration management program in underground hard-rock mining
… by mobile equipment operators requires routine measurement to manage the risk for numerous adverse health effects. The WBVpod is an affordable and purportedly accurate iPod application that could provide workers the means to regularly measure WBV exposure. The WBVpod was used simultaneously with …
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Assessment and evaluation of the employment of the Midshipman Information System (MIDS) as a performance measurement tool by Company Officers at the United States Naval Academy
… faculty, staff and midshipmen as a performance measurement tool at the United States Naval Academy. Specifically, this project examines how Company Officers use MIDS to measure the performance and development of the midshipmen over time, what metrics they believe are important to midshipmen …
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Sentiment analysis to improve the usability of an online practice space
I develop a new confusion measurement feature for use in Teacher Moments, an online practice space for teachers in training. Teacher Moments, developed at the Teaching Systems Lab (TSL) at MIT, is an online platform that simulates difficult classroom experiences. Teacher candidates can use this …
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The Exploration of Sagittal Spine Curvature: Validating a surface topography method & relating curvature to physical function
… spine curvature by validating a new surface measurement tool and implementing it in a clinical setting in order to understand and relate it to physical function outcomes. The findings from the first stage of this thesis came from an exploratory analysis of a large physiotherapy randomised …
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Influences of the use of management systems on the moral attitudes and behaviours of small and medium sized enterprises : measuring the dynamic interplay of morality, environment and managing systems
… system, and environment and uses a corresponding measurement tool to discuss the interplay of these issues with the intention of leading SMEs to continuous improvement. For the design, issues of system thinking have been applied to cope with the complexity of the interplay of the elements. The …
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Effects of Cognitive Style on Food Perception and Eating Behavior
… was to develop and validate an analytic-holistic measurement tool that could accurately separate participants based on their analytic-holistic tendencies in food-related situations. Through completing these objectives, it was first found and continuously supported that analytic and holistic groups …
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Revisiting the food agency framework: from understanding why we cook to improving the measurement of food agency
… Action Scale (CAFPAS) was developed as a measurement tool attempting to measure these structural factors, but recent evaluation studies on this scale found that the structure domain of the current CAFPAS, with only time constraints, might not be able to capture the full social structural …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Dimensions of Organizational Learning and Firms' Financial and Knowledge Performance in the Korean Business Context
… has some utility as organizational learning measurement tool in the Korean context. The findings of this study support the limited existing empirical research which has suggested that there is a positive relationship between organizational learning and firms' perceptual and objective …
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Paediatric High Dependency Care in West, North and East Yorkshire
A 36 item, measurement tool to establish the volume of paediatric high dependency care (PHDC) activity was developed from inpatient episode data (n = 24,540) collected in 14 hospitals in West, North and East Yorkshire in 2005. The PHDC measurement tool was subsequently applied to the inpatient …
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The use of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in the physiological assessment of sprint triathlon.
… of the literature identified a wide variety of measurement tools that have been utilised to observe the global physiological responses (oxygen consumption, heart rate, blood lactate concentration among others) that occur during participation. Despite this wealth of information, it is complex to …
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Work Redesign and Its Influence on Employee Motivation and Job Satisfaction
… implemented at two for-profit hospitals using a measurement tool developed specifically for work redesign. The intent is to compare the hospitals separately as each work redesign initiative is unique to each entity. Observations and analysis are made based upon each hospital's experience from …
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Investigating Instructors' Conceptions of Evolution Through the Development of the Classroom Test of Evolutionary Reasoning
… to allow it to continue to be used as a measurement tool for an understanding of evolution. When assessing a sample of teachers (n = 724), the mean score was 6.35 out of a possible 13 points. The sample was found to possess an adequate understanding of Lamarkian evolution, but had …
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Some practical item selection algorithms in cognitive diagnostic computerized adaptive testing -- smart diagnosis for smart learning
… testing (CD-CAT), an intelligent educational measurement tool that was envisioned as enhancing individualized learning over twenty years ago. Several new selection algorithms are proposed for addressing two important issues in CD-CAT: measurement efficiency and item exposure control. The …
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