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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"minutia"”.
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Minutiae Triplet-based Features with Extended Ridge Information for Determining Sufficiency in Fingerprints
… comparison. The proposed methodologies use minutiae triplet-based features in a hierarchical fashion, where not only minutia points are used, but ridge information is used to help establish relations between minutiae. Results show (1) that our triplet-based descriptor is useful in …
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At Ease with Mr. Wrong and Other Stories
This collection of short stories explores the minutia of everyday existence while questioning what it is that makes up a life. In examining this overarching question, the stories often stray into the surreal while taking the reader into moments between couples navigating their relationships, to …
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Comparison of the Biological Attributes, First and Second Level of Detail of Friction Ridge Skin of the Palms and Fingers
… demonstrate a correlation between second level minutia detail as it exists in fingerprints and palm prints.</p>
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: The Everyday Southern Epic
… which the life as lived is developed in all its minutia and the manner by which the state acts upon that existence. Using these ideas as a framework, we begin to see how the narrative of Scarlett's day-to-day existence functions as a voice for the New South. Finally, questions of how GWTW enters …
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Calamity Sample: Stories About The Weatherman
… for human connection, obsession around the minutia, & the fleetingness of stability. Yes, the world is ending, but those details don’t matter as much as The Weatherman’s loss of intimacy, his strange collection of ties, the bizarre & ritualistic celebrations of Humansville, & the desire to …
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It’s all relative: the small craft museum's contribution to intangible cultural heritage
… rather than a definitive exploration of the minutia and skills required for the individual handcrafts. This thesis demonstrates that small heritage craft museums offer an important avenue for the continuous transfer of explicit and tacit knowledge between craft practitioners and …
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Creating a Digital Rehearsal Aid Library for High School Choral Singers
… success is causing me to bog down in the minutia of those things which must be repeated almost the same way for hundreds of students, for hundreds of hours, year after year. I have just completed year thirteen of my teaching career, and it is time to use my wisdom and skills to create a …
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Creating a Digital Rehearsal Aid Library for High School Choral Singers
… success is causing me to bog down in the minutia of those things which must be repeated almost the same way for hundreds of students, for hundreds of hours, year after year. I have just completed year thirteen of my teaching career, and it is time to use my wisdom and skills to create a …
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Development of an early stage ship design tool for rapid modeling in Paramarine
… many of the initial ship's estimates and minutia of design. Utilizing both Excel and Paramarine software, the ESSDT rapidly creates a visual model of a basic naval vessel with primary systems and equipment from relatively few initial user inputs while embodying a depth of user-changeable …
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Sustaining Threat Narratives about Muslims and Arabs in Germany in The Post 9/11 Era: An Analysis of Showtime?s Homeland
… sociocultural characteristics and the Minutia Reception Method to measure participants' moment-by-moment engagement with the text. The ‘Grounded Theory Coding Approach' and follow-up emails then allowed me to systematically create categories based on repeated themes prevalent in the …
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Robust Feature Extraction and Temporal Analysis for Partial Fingerprint Identification
… due to the speed and accuracy of matching minutia features of good quality plain-to-rolled prints, the performance is less than impressive when matching partial fingerprints. For some applications, including forensic analysis where partial prints come in the form of latent prints, it is not …
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Matching optical coherence tomography fingerprint scans using an iterative closest point pipeline
… Characteristic of 0.910 is a composite of 3D minutia and mean local cloud, followed by our geometric properties feature, with an AUC of 0.896. By contrast, 2D minutiae extracted from the internal fingerprint achieved an AUC 0.860. These results make our pipeline useful in both access control …
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Artifacts of Exchange: A Multiscalar Approach to Maritime Archaeology at Elmina, Ghana
… are problems of scale: how do we move from the minutia of cargoes and the specificity of an event to wider social processes? Methodologically, how do we decide what data are to be collected and evaluated? Conceptually, what is it that we seek to understand from our studies? Grappling with these …