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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"outdoor environment"”.
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Engaging with nature and work: associations among the outdoor environment and employee outcomes
… & Bolino, 2020) to examine how the type of outdoor environment (i.e., urbanity and natural amenities) and experiences of time spent outside (i.e., amount of time outside, enjoyment of time outside, outdoor activities), influence employee engagement and creativity. Participants included …
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Probabilistic service life prediction of composite viscoelastic cylindrical structure under random outdoor environment
… viscoelastic cylindrical structure under random outdoor environment. The analysis emphasized both the statistical variations of environmental thermal loads and of material properties. The daily probability of failure was calculated considering failures due to both the excessive stress and strain. …
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Rethinking Infants’ Relationship with the Outdoor Environment. Reconfiguring Our Understanding of Agentic Assemblage Intra-Action and Place.
… were chosen from a total of 15 filmed at two outdoor nurseries settings. The age of Infants ranged from 6-18 months. The findings explore specific excerpts from continuous intra-action and that these go unnoticed, thus, warranting further research. Further, the findings offer sites to …
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Walking in old age: A year-round perspective on accessibility in the outdoor environment and effects of measures taken
… of measures taken, to achieve barrier-free outdoor environments the year round. Older peoples’ perceptions as pedestrians in terms of usability, mobility, and perceived safety, as well as municipal employees’ views, contribute to the findings presented. A mixed-method approach is applied …
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Performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing in a high noise, low signal-to-noise ratio environment with co-channel interference
… OFDM and measure its performance in a multipath, outdoor environment with low signal-to-noise ratio, high noise and cochannel interference. Because of the unpredictability of the outdoor environment and the proliferation of various OFDM standards, the simulation will utilize only one algorithm for …
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Developing good practice in the provision of outdoor education in the early years
… the relationship between children's use of the outdoor environment and the early years curriculum. An action research approach was used in which cycles of observation, reflection and intervention led to deeper understandings about children's learning and the way it can be facilitated through the …
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A Measure of Time A Sense of Place
… inhabitantsâ psychological connection with the outdoor environment, and thus enhances their quality of life.
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An assessment of the effects of two residential camp settings on environmental attitude development
… residential camp settings on the development of environmental attitudes by 4-H members (CA = 11-15 years). Subjects attending a 4-H Conservation Camp were randomly assigned to one of the two treatment conditions, the outpost camp setting (n=30), or the central camp setting (n=30). A control group …
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The philosophy and design of an outdoor play space for pre-elementary school children
The need to redesign the outdoor play space and related equipment at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Laboratory School, in Blacksburg, Virginia, was investigated. Under the direction of the Department of Child Development, a rigid program was created which would determine …
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An Integrative Approach to Therapeutic Outdoor Spaces in Dementia-Care Units
… is an evident gap in the research regarding the environmental needs of older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and the design of therapeutic outdoor spaces for these persons. With the rapid growth of the aging population, appropriate outdoor spaces will become essential …
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Localization for teams of autonomous ground vehicles
… implemented and tested on a ground robot in an outdoor environment. Dead reckoning was used as a localization baseline. An extended Kalman filter (EKF) using the manufacturer firmware’s calculated positions for the measurement input was implemented and resulted in a final pose error of 29 cm. A …
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Steel in an Architecture of Performance: Indoor Soccer Facility
… of steel construction and connection to the outdoors through a sports facility for the city of Blacksburg, Virginia. The program being that of an indoor soccer facility allows for the steel to express its ability to span great distances with a very fine and visually delicate structure. Cables …
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The Impact of Climate Change on Historic Interiors
It is widely understood that the environment is critical for the preservation of historic collections and interiors, if the environment is unsuitable it can create an increased risk of damage. In historic houses collections are usually on open display, and the room environment often has little …
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A STUDY OF FAÇADE THERMAL PERFORMANCE FOR NON-AIR CONDITIONED RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
In the tropics, indoor thermal environment is very critical especially for nonair- conditioned residential buildings. Fagade system is the 'skin' of the building, which separates the indoor and outdoor environment and is the most important part of the building to provide suitable thermal …
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SKY RECRE-ATIONAL HUB : RECLAIMING AIR SPACE ABOVE ECP EXPRESSWAY : RECONNECTING DISSECTED SPACES
… relevant social activities which require the outdoor environment.
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Array Processing for Mobile Wireless Communication in the 60 GHz Band
… study using ray tracing to model an outdoor and an indoor environment on the Virginia Tech campus. Because arrays are required for antenna gain and adaptability, we explore the use of arrays as a form of equalization in the presence of channel-induced intersymbol interference. The …
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Robust Optimal Control of a Tailsitter UAV
… for fully autonomous operation in an outdoor environment in the presence of model uncertainties. QRBPs undergo a rotation of 90° about its pitch axis during transition from vertical to horizontal flight that induces strong aerodynamic forces that are difficult to model, thus …
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THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF INDOOR VERSUS OUTDOOR AEROBIC EXERCISE IN FEMALE CANCER SURVIVORS: A LITERATURE REVIEW
… and psychological effects of indoor and outdoor aerobic training on ROS, antioxidants, QOL, vitamin D, estrogen, kynurenine, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and the immune system within cancer patients and survivors may be imperative to their recovery and survival. Outdoor aerobic …
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High-precision position control of a heavy-lift manipulator in a dynamic environment
… the manipulator's base. Due to the uncontrolled outdoor environment, the behavior of these disturbances in the field cannot be accurately predicted using models developed offline. To achieve high-precision control, the system must therefore be capable of effectively estimating and compensating …
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Analyzing Bit Error Rate using Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) Software Defined Radio in Indoor and Outdoor Environments
… over long term scales in both indoor as well as outdoor environments with the help of Software Defined Radio’s (SDR). Software Defined Radio technology provides cost effective approach and flexibility whereas the hardware approach of traditional systems has significant limitations. We used SDR …
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