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Showing 1 to 20 of 464 for “"pen"”.
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PEN-BASED GESTURE RECOGNITION
… two sets of gestures together, we can form a pen-based user interface to the Finder. Our pen-and-paper analysis has indicated that the two gesture sets have the potential to streamline commonly used Finder interactions. Moreover, these gestures sets can co-exist with or completely replace the …
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Pen-on-paper electronics
… conductivity). There is a need for facile, inexpensive printing methods that yield conductive and resistive traces on flexible substrates. In this thesis, we develop two platforms for patterning conductive silver and resistive carbon inks for flexible electronics: (1) rollerball pen printing and …
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Cognitive load examination via pen interactions
… modalities for cognitive load examination, pen interaction-based assessment is just beginning to be investigated, and only very few empirical studies have been conducted on a small set of writing features. This thesis involves several novel examinations of the relationship between cognitive …
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Computing drawing : programming a vintage pen plotter
… drawing computing) by programing a vintage pen plotter. An apparatus that spans from the computational to the material allows for the incorporation of the desirable qualities of the "hand" drawing into a digital process. The same limitations that led to the obsolescence of the pen plotter …
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Development of a 3-D pen input device
… of the IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) of the pen-type input devices. With the core topic of obtaining the acceleration while correcting integration errors, there are four subsidiary research questions relating to the pentype input devices. First question is how to segment a stroke from the tip …
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Implicit pen annotation assisted by Large Language Models
… a document annotation tool with a digital pen. It leverages a Large Language Model (LLM) (1) to infer the underlying purposes of the user’s annotations and (2) automatically generates annotations with the same purpose throughout the document. AnnotateGPT aims to alleviate the burdens of …
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Effects of Aldrin on Young Pen-Reared Pheasants
… and 1.5 mg) were administered weekly to young pen-reared pheasants from 5 to 11 weeks of age to determine effects on growth and residue levels in brain, feathers, and whole body during and after treatment. During treatment, birds were weighed weekly. After treatment ceased, birds were weighed …
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The Pen is a Thing The Hand Already
The Pen is a Thing The Hand Already is a lyric epic set in the classroom of an American MFA program. The student’s voices as well as the teacher’s all act interchangeably to expand and complicate the reader’s understanding of self. This is a poem.
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Have Pen, Will Travel: A Professional Writer's Sojourn
Professional writing.
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Scanning Probe Array Development for Dip Pen Nanolithography
Out of five array concepts attempted, three are practical and were demonstrated using lithography. Several packaging schemes were developed and used to install the arrays in AFMs modified for multi-probe applications. The arrays were used to write patterns of 1-octadecanethiol on gold surfaces with …
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A new approach to the electronic pen idea
The pen is a very useful, comfortable, quick and portable output device. Even in a world with Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and laptops in abundance, many people still prefer pens for situations like taking notes in a lecture or a business meeting or for sketching an idea. A pen product has …
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PEN International and its Republic of Letters, 1921-1970
… civility across national lines. Over the years, PEN survived a series of onslaughts that undermined this humanistic idea: fascist infiltration, yet another World War, revelations of Holocaust, the shock of atomic warfare, and CIA meddling. By 1970 PEN had become global, transforming from a …
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The audio notebook : paper and pen interaction with structured speech
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.
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Red ink: Native Americans picking up the pen in the colonial period
<p>This dissertation looks at the ways that Native Americans appropriated alphabetic literacy for their own purposes in the colonial period. Studies of Native writing tend to begin with the Mohegan preacher Samson Occom whose A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom (1772) is the first known publication …
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Assembly and functionalization of phage onto substrates patterned by dip-pen nanolithography
… to useful devices. Substrates patterned with dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) serve as templates for the deposition of phage. On gold substrates, 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid (MHA) is deposited to form patterned lines. After surface passivation and activation chemistry, phage are deposited and adhere …
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Integrating digitizing pen technology and machine learning with the Clock Drawing Test
… for analysis of CDT results, the digitizing pen has been used to computerize this diagnostic test. In order to successfully integrate digitizing pen technology with the CDT, a digit recognition algorithm was developed to reduce the need for manual classification of the data collected and …
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The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
Study of the Medieval English romance has burgeoned in recent years, with a focus on the world outside of the texts being central to the resurgence. I offer in this dissertation a reading of four of these works (Athelston, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Cleges, and Sir Gowther) that considers …
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St. Ignatius' Quill Pen: Exploring the Orality-Literacy Difficulty in the Spiritual Exercises
<p>Informed by the work of Walter Ong, in the <em>first prelude</em> of the <em>First Week</em> in the <em>Spiritual Exercises</em>, St. Ignatius of Loyola used an emblematical image, the “prison-cage”, to provide phenomenological accounts for the exercitants to examine the existential situation …
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