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Showing 1 to 20 of 144 for “"physical features"”.
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A form-of-inhabiting movie : some geography about its physical features.
Thesis. 1976. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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High-level perceptual contours from a variety of low-level physical features
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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An in vivo study of GTF2IRD1 function and its contribution to the physical features of Williams Beuren Syndrome
… on chromosome 7q11.23. Amongst the spectrum of physical and neurological defects of WBS, it is common to find sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and a characteristic set of facial features. The gene GTF2IRD1, first discovered in our laboratory, and the adjacent, homologous gene GTF2I, both fall …
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De-objectifying bodies : how African American women view their own skin color
… of beauty. Rather than focusing on psychical features this paper explores the various social-structural forces that impact a sense of attractiveness. I found that age and a sense of community, not skin color, were the significant predictors of Black women's feelings of attractive. This finding …
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Combat Reconsidered: A Statistical Analysis of Small-Unit Actions During the American Civil War
Historians often emphasize the physical features of battleterrain, weaponry, troop formations, earthworks, etc.in assessments of Civil War combat. Most scholars agree that these external combat conditions strongly influenced battle performance. Other historians accentuate the ways in which the …
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ERP correlates of the interactions between top-down and bottom-up processes in visual object categorization
… of such category differences. Both low-level physical differences and higher-level category-specific processes have been shown to modulate the visual ERPs. The present research investigates how physical features (such as amplitude spectrum and spatial frequency) and top-down processes (the …
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Conformal microstrip antennas
… and tracking systems. The microstrip antennas' physical features and simplicity of construction make them especially suited for these many applications.
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Interactive Touch for Manipulation
… life, robots need to better interact with our physical world and inevitably make contact with various objects. Touch provides contact geometry and forces information during interactions, which can be challenging to observe from vision due to occlusions or inherent limitations. This thesis will …
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The quantification of dorsal hand features of interest to assist forensic human identification
… from photographic or video evidence through physical features has been via facial characteristics. However, criminals are increasingly ensuring that their face does not appear in physical evidence. This has become particularly problematic within investigations related to paedophilic images …
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Effects of hardware and soft features on the performance evolution of low-carbon technologies
This dissertation studies how physical and non-physical features of low-carbon technologies evolve and influence performance evolution. This fundamental question about the role of hardware- and non-hardware ('soft') innovations in technological progress remains largely unanswered despite the …
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Toward a philosophy of water: Politics of the pollution and damming along the Ganges River.
… representations of the Ganges, accounting for physical features of the river, Hindu myths and rituals involving the river, and ecological crises characterized by the pollution and damming of the river. In my third and final chapter, I look into the philosophical implications of these crises in …
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Nondestructive Evaluation/characterization of Airport Pavements Using Stress Wave Methods
… describe most meaningful mechanical and physical features of the material/system. Those features may be retrieved using single, or ensemble-averaged, impulse-generated NDE tests using the methodology presented in this work. As a result, the NDE method may be considered as a forward step …
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The impact of design on privacy and social interaction between neighbours in sustainable housing developments in England and Wales
… a site survey checklist to collect data on physical features affected by eight principles of sustainable design, and a household survey to collect data on the behaviour and characteristics of the residents. Statistical analyses were used to test the nature and extent of the hypothesised …
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Significant influences on the creation of the rose windows of Chartres Cathedral
… contributed a history, a circumstance and physical features that were solely its own. In 1194 the cathedral burned. When rebuilt the edifice presented more height and width than any other cathedral of that time. The new expanse of space was made rich with Gothic Style stained glass, …
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Prediction of aesthetic response: a comparison of different philosophical paradigms' predictive utilities of aesthetic response towards natural landscape scenes
… based on design elements and the arrangement of physical features. Data were gathered from a total 354 subjects responding to 60 different natural landscape scenes (color slides) from a wide variety of United States' biomes. Results indicated that the two aesthetic criteria were nearly identical, …
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Blonde hair colour: classification, characterisation and genetic associations for use in forensic science
… was to characterise the microscopic and chemical features of hair colour in this sample and to determine how they relate to the macroscopic colour. The final objective was to compare genetic results with objectively measured and defined hair colour phenotypes in the search for genetic associations …
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Crafting Clementina: Using Material Culture to Interpret the Contributions of 18th-century American Craftswomen in Scholarship and at Public History Sites
… been minimally interpreted. Objects and their physical features reveal important insights that go beyond existing written records, especially for populations that have been excluded from or misrepresented in historical records. This research utilizes The Virginia Gazette, a newspaper produced …
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The morphology of place
… which incorporates into its design the unique features of the site and region. The site was chosen because of its unique physical features and strong regional character. The ideas of the layering of the walls was derived from the strata of a nearby bluff. The form of the building, a series of …
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