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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"merges"”.
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Modeling gap acceptance at freeway merges
This thesis develops a merging model that captures the gap acceptance behavior of drivers that merge from a ramp into a congested freeway. Merging can be classified into three types: normal, forced and cooperative lane changing. The developed merging model uses a single critical gap function, which …
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Evaluation of two-lane ramp merges on urban freeways
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1971
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Towards a Synthetic Account of Sin that Merges Magisterial Teaching and Theological Reflection on Sin with the Philosophical Insights of Bernard J.F. Lonergan
In my dissertation I shall develop a synthetic account of sin that examines and takes seriously the theological anthropology provided by the magisterium and contemporary theologians. I shall also attempt to make this account of sin accessible to the more sceptical reader by drawing on the work of …
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Merges and acquisitions and the resultant ramifications on employees in the transaction. a study of South Africa's Section 197 Labour Relations Act 1995 as amended in 2002
Business organizations engage in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to accomplish various objectives, including, but not limited to, increasing growth potential, expanding product lines, entering new markets at a faster speed, eliminating competitors gaining access to intellectual capital and gaining …
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Multicultural social intervention and nation-building in South Africa : the role of Islamic counselling and psychotherapy
… and psychotherapy as a research case study. It merges a number of seemingly disparate disciplines in an innovative analysis of post-Apartheid social reconstruction. Culture, counselling, politics and religion converge and embrace areas of enquiry like Islam, diversity and identity studies, …
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Ten Cuidado: Gendered Carceral Care Work & Miseducations of Love in Latina/o Youth Intervention
… as a “soft” arm of crime prevention that merges care practices with institutional policing mandates. Using a theoretical framework based on bell hooks’ “miseducations of love,” I suggest that punishment and care become inextricably linked in programs like the PKP. I argue that the PKP …
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Teaching intra-active comprehension with picturebooks in a grade three South African classroom
… of how the teaching of comprehension e/merges when taking account of how human and nonhuman bodies affect and are affected in a classroom and how knowledge is always produced relationally. Rather than representing and analysing data as inert evidence of what (really) happens in my …
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A death in the family: meditations on mourning in contemporary cinema
… particular focus on representation. My study merges a theoretical and analytical investigation. I aim to defend cinema against the wider post-structuralist claim that trauma refutes the possibility of representation and argue, instead, that an increasing array of filmic examples demonstrate …
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Harvesting Encounter: An Interpretive Research Center at Pack Forest
… at Pack Forest, where a recreational landscape merges with a working forest. Through the investigation of a dynamic landscape, the project exposes the processes of resource extraction, sharing them with the public to encourage a unique contact with nature. The architectural integration of wood …
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Simulation-based Bayesian machine learning methods for Cosmology and beyond
… 21-cm Cosmology. Moreover, PolySwyft merges nested sampling and neural ratio estimation into a general Bayesian framework, and the method is a general-purpose algorithm applicable beyond Cosmology. This thesis is divided into five sections. In the first chapter, I elaborate on the …
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IAIN BAXTER& and N.E. THING CO.: A Study in Pop-Inflected Conceptual Art
… Conceptual Art" to describe how BAXTER& merges his use of information technologies, modern and ubiquitous materials, and pedestrian activities with a desire to question the received role and purpose of art through an epistemological approach. By presenting BAXTER&‘s key influences—Zen …
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Formal verification of safety-critical hybrid systems
… vehicles traveling on straight tracks, on binary merges, and on a directed graph of tracks involving binary merges and diverges. In each case, the protectors sample the state of the physical plant and take protective actions to guarantee that the physical plant does not reach hazardous states. The …
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The structure of things to come: New movements in the architectural profession
… and by applying certain business theories on merges and acquisitions projecting a building-design industry where Gropius' team and entity exist in mega building services firms.
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THE FEAR OF DROWNING
… works in conversation with the whole. Fiction merges into poetry and finally lands in an undeniable desire to somehow return home.</p>
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MergeArray and scalable, relaxed, concurrent, mergeable priority queues
… an array of sequential objects and performs merges lazily, index-by-index. I use MergeArray to build a linearizable and scalable priority queue with lock-free merge and insert and a relaxed, deadlock-free remove-min with expected worst-case rank-error of O(plogp) for p threads under common …
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Deep learning models for defect and anomaly detection on industrial surfaces
… and manufacturing. For textiles, a novel system merges capsule networks with convolutional neural networks and a spatial attention module, achieving a 99.42% accuracy on the TILDA dataset. In civil engineering, the DepthCrackNet model, optimized for pavement crack detection, attains mIoU scores …
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How to Factor Loss
… Theory, A Sensuous Poem,” explores how Hass merges the discourses of theory and poetry to create a poem that hangs suspended between a confidence and an anxiety about language. The poems in this thesis are primarily responses to finitude. The first section turns toward an “other” as a …
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Empowerment and Self-Efficacy in the Lives of Four Emerging Bilingual Assistants in an Additive Bilingual Program
… are analyzed through a conceptual framework that merges Freire's concept of empowerment with Bandura's notion of self-efficacy. My findings suggest that school and home domains intersect, transforming what the EBAs, their families, and friends believe about language, education, and themselves. I …
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Nike, feminism and rhetoric
… to the female consumer. This reading of Nike ads merges interests in feminism, theories of rhetoric, visuality and very simply, how things become important.
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WhanauSIP : a secure peer-to-peer communications platform
… communications on the Internet. WhanauSIP merges a Sybil-proof distributed hash table with the session initiation protocol (SIP) to enable instant messaging, audio chat, and video conferencing that is resilient to censoring, eavesdropping, and forgery. Performance and security evaluations …
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