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Minimizing Chaos
The thesis works presented in this paper are mixed media paintings that explore the tension between artistic control and abandon in what is essentially an intuitive driven process of image making. With these thesis works I have sought to use additive and subtractive processes to create compositions …
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Edge length minimizing polyhedra
… problems on convex polyhedra: first, minimizing edge length for fixed volume (Melzak's Problem), and second, minimizing edge length for fixed surface area (Aberth's Problem). Specific examples are given that demonstrate the necessity of restricting the problems to convex polyhedra. The …
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Minimizing electron optical aberrations
… system and proposed a doublet design capable of minimizing the field curvature under the magnetic round lens scheme. We also discussed the principle of using space charge to correct the field curvature and show the practical layout of space charge foils. For HREM, we proposed a …
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Minimizing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration
… patient outcomes and nurse satisfaction by minimizing the avoidable interruptions that occur during medication administration. The microsystem is a pediatric and adult medical-surgical overflow unit at a large, urban teaching hospital in Northern California. A series of surveys for nurses …
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Local Criteria in Polyhedral Minimizing Problems
This thesis will discuss two polyhedral minimizing problems and the necessary local criteria we find any such minimizers must have. We will also briefly discuss an extension of a third minimizing problem to higher dimension. The first result we present classifies the three-dimensional piecewise …
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Minimizing residual stresses in molded parts
Thesis. (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1987.
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Minimizing interference due to genetic manipulation
… Together these projects explore ways of minimizing unwanted effects due to genetic manipulation.
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Minimizing Gender Division in Sixth Grade Classrooms
This thesis looks at gender bias in a sixth grade social studies classroom in order to develop a new strategy to minimize the gender gap and create a classroom environment that makes learning a success for all students. The author used student survey, teacher questionnaires and direct observation …
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Minimizing the Inappropriate Use of Physical Restraint
… is to be able to improve patient safety by minimizing the inappropriate use of physical restraints from 45% to about 20% in the acute respiratory unit which caters to patients with acute respiratory issues, such as exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), patients with …
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Minimizing distortion and crosstalk in asymmetric channeling
Thesis (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 1953.
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Area-minimizing equivariant cones and coflat calibrations
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 1987
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Risk-minimizing program execution in robotic domains
… on the battlefield. We introduce a novel, risk-minimizing approach to program execution that utilizes program flexibility and estimation of risk in order to make runtime decisions that minimize the probability of program failure. Our risk-minimizing executive, called Murphy, utilizes two forms …
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Minimizing harm : three problems in moral theory
Chapter 1 (Distance and Morality): This chapter is a response toFrances Kamm's "Faminine Ethics: the Problem of Distance in Morality and Singer's Ethical Theory". I argue that Kamm fails to produce a pair of cases in which a moral difference is present that is not attributable to factors other than …
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Straw Bale Construction: Assessing and Minimizing Embodied Energy
As the effects of global warming and the exhaustion of natural resources become more and more evident, the importance of low-impact construction alternatives is becoming increasingly apparent. Conventional construction not only irreversibly drains natural resources; it is also responsible for the …
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Minimizing uncertainty in cure modeling for composites manufacturing
The degree of cure and temperature are consistent variables used in models to describe the state of material behaviour development for a thermoset during cure. Therefore, the validity of a cure kinetics model is an underlying concern when combining several material models to describe a part forming …
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Identifying and Minimizing Underspecification in Breast Cancer Subtyping
<p>In the realm of biomedical technology, both accuracy and consistency are crucial to the development and deployment of these tools. While accuracy is easy to measure, consistency metrics are not so simple to measure, especially in the scope of biomedicine where prediction consistency can be …
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Minimizing Precession Torques in the Electrically Supported Gyro
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T21:03:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6402853.pdf: 5225880 bytes, checksum: a9987b4df6299a0b140c4569a8a5951e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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Minimizing the continuous maize penalty through intense management
As maize prices escalate with increasing demand for grain resulting from recent legislation mandating renewable fuel production, more Midwest farmers are interested in producing maize continuously. Increasing or maintaining maize yield levels becomes a challenge in continuous maize systems due to …
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