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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"repeated patterns"”.
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Low-rank Based Algorithms for Rectification, Repetition Detection and De-noising in Urban Images
… the problem of automatic image rectification and repeated patterns detection on 2D urban images, using novel low-rank based techniques. Repeated patterns (such as windows, tiles, balconies and doors) are prominent and significant features in urban scenes.</p> <p>Detection of the periodic …
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The Art of Adjustment
… elements, vibrant color, luminous light, and repeated patterns found in nature. These elements unify my oil paintings and computer generated artwork and form a substructure that serves to magnify the unique concord found in nature.
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Consumer holiday structure: an analysis of Christian holiday patterns and consumer ritual practice in America
… holidays are viewed as complex sets and repeated patterns, involving inversions and binary oppositions. A structuralist analysis is applied to explore the role of Black Friday as a new consumer holiday in a larger symbol set--one that reveals the reinforcement of underlying values and …
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On the Factor Refinement Principle and its Implementation on Multicore Architectures
… factorization algorithms) is used to remove the repeated patterns from each input element. Differentiation, division and GCD calculation op erations are required to complete this pre-processing step. Both factor refinement and square-free factorization often rely on plain (quadratic) algorithms …
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Exploiting Novel Deep Learning Architecture in Character Animation Pipelines
… animation data resulting in many duplicates and repeated patterns. We present our work in four main chapters. We first present a large dataset of human motion called MoVi. Secondly, we show how machine learning approaches can be used to automate proprocessing data blocks of optical motion capture …
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Studies on the evolution of morphological traits in ferns, with an emphasis on the family Dipteridaceae.
… Comparisons on 1515 species of ferns to identify repeated patterns of evolution among all extant ferns with regard to morphology and climate. The next three studies delve into the evolutionary history of Dipteridaceae (Gleicheniales), an early-diverging leptosporangiate fern lineage with an …
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Mitigating Risk for Anxiety Among Preschool-Age Children Living in Poverty: Evaluating the Impact of Adult-Provided Social Support on Autonomic Stress Reactivity
… to stress, elevating their risk for developing patterns of heightened sympathetic and parasympathetic stress reactivity. Repeated patterns of high sympathetic activation and parasympathetic withdrawal place children at risk for anxiety disorders. This study evaluated whether providing social …
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How to choose what to do? Essays on adoption of organisational routines
… routines i.e. firms specific, path dependent, repeated patterns of collective behaviour are at the heart of the capabilities-based perspective of building competitive advantage. It is therefore not surprising to see a large body of scholarly work on the impact of organisational routines on …
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Exploring regularity and structure in travel behavior using Smart Card data
… by large cities become more diverse, the travel patterns of public transport users become more heterogeneous. From personalized customer information, to improved travel demand models, understanding these heterogeneous travel patterns is useful for a number of applications relevant to public …
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Improved methods for pattern discovery in music, with applications in automated stylistic composition
… for intra-opus pattern discovery (discovering repeated patterns within a piece of music) and stylistic composition (composing in the style of another composer or period) can offer insights into how human listeners and composers undertake such activities. Two studies are reported that …
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Mining time-series data using discriminative subsequences
… for unsupervised mining of approximately repeated patterns in time-series data, testing their performance in terms of speed and accuracy on synthetic data, and on a real-world electricity-consumption device-disambiguation problem. We show that individual devices can be found automatically …
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Physically based geometry and reflectance recovery from images
… of geometry recovery from a single image with repeated texture. Our technique leverages the PatchMatch algorithm to detect and match repeated patterns undergoing geometric transformations. This allows effective enforcement of translational symmetry constraint in the recovery of texture lattice. …
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The Political Geography of Regional Diplomacy in the Russian Federation
… on practice theory to integrate analysis of the repeated patterns of diplomatic behaviour with their material and discursive context. It is argued that regions should be considered as fully-fledged geopolitical actors capable of reshaping both federal and international relationships. In this …
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Exploring mechanisms to improve female parliamentarians’ participation in decision-making: Case study of Namibian National Assembly
… was accomplished by searching a data set for repeated patterns, analysing them, and reporting them using themes. The study findings revealed that there some mechanisms in place (such as: as framework laws, governmental programs, national action plans, and the establishment of gender equality …
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Roger Ackling: Work and Teaching
… lens of a hand-held magnifying glass to scorch repeated patterns of lines across the surface. Collecting materials from the margins, he is renowned for his work on driftwood but also used other materials of no or little value that were found or discarded. His primary tool was the light of the …
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A Framework for Monitoring and Adapting Business Processes Using Aspect-Oriented URN
… performance, situations, and improvement patterns using one modeling notation, in an iterative and incremental manner; • A method for the modeling and analysis of cause-effect relationships between indicators used to measure goal satisfaction; and • A technique allowing the detection of …
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Loss of Identity, Radicalization, and Terrorism
… of terrorism. This thesis investigates the repeated pattern of events and analyzes from a birds-eye view the cycle leading to the rise of terrorism in France and Belgium. This research disputes that anxiety causes discrimination and lack of integration in France and Belgium, which …