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Showing 1 to 20 of 342 for “"research topic"”.
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Build strategy investigation of TI-6AL-4V produced via a hybrid additive manufacturing process
… parts fabricated via a HAM technique. The first research topic is to investigate the build strategy using the HAM process of correlating yield strength of final parts to processing parameters from both additive and subtractive processes for Ti-6Al-4V structures. The second research topic focuses …
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Beliefs held in counselling psychology regarding secondary mental health care provision : reflections from 1998
… who have enduring mental health problems. This research topic was chosen for its personal relevance to the researcher, who at the time was employed as the sole psychologist within a CMHT. The researcher provided psychological therapy to individuals with enduring mental health problems as well as …
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Fabrication and characterization of advanced materials using laser metal deposition from elemental powder mixture
… according to the following three categories of research topics. The first research topic is to investigate and develop a cost-effective possibility by using elemental powder mixture for metallic components fabrication. Based on the studies of fabricating thin-wall Ti-6Al-4V using elemental …
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Two Innovative Applications Combining Fiber Optics and High Power Pulsed Laser: Active Ultrasonic Based Structural Health Monitoring and Guided Laser Micromachining
… high power pulse laser delivery. The first research topic is "Embedded Active Fiber Optic Sensing Network for Structural Health Monitoring in Harsh Environments", which uses the fiber delivered pulse laser for acoustic generation. The second research topic is "Fiber Optics Guided Laser …
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Floating wetlands for urban stormwater treatment
… A review of literature identified several research gaps, including: (1) assessments of the treatment performance of FTWs; (2) evaluations of FTWs in the U.S., particularly within wet ponds that receive urban runoff; and (3) plant temporal nutrient distribution, plant growth rate, and the …
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Synthesis of small-molecule HGF-Met inhibitors for use in preventing cell motility
… are becoming more and more focused upon as a research topic due to the broad use they have in aiding wound healing and preventing cell motility through competitive inhibition of the HGF-Met pathway. This pathway is extremely important in various cellular processes including cancer development, …
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Linking Leadership, Investment Strategy and Competence to Organizational Performance with special reference to post-M&A firms
M&A is an important research topic in the areas of strategic management, organization development, leadership, management of change, and corporate culture. There are seminal works with solid empirical evidence of effective M&A strategic planning, leadership, competence, and effective cultural …
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Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Graph Data
… networks as listed above, it is an important research topic to devote more efforts to. We point out a few possible future works, especially discovery-driven Graph OLAP. We believe that this is an interesting direction to go, and give our initial thoughts on it.
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Construction of Piecewise Linear Wavelets.
… setting is a very challenging and important research topic. In this thesis, we first introduce the method of construction wavelets by using semi-wavelets. Second, we construct piecewise linear wavelets with smaller support over type-2 triangulations. Then, parameterized wavelets are …
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Adaptive motion synthesis and motor invariant theory.
… motion for virtual characters is a challenging research topic. It becomes even harder when adapting synthesized motion to interact with the environment. Current methods are tedious to use, computationally expensive and fail to capture natural looking features. These difficulties seem to suggest …
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A Search for Authenticity: An Adopted Adult’s Autoethnographic Account of the Search for Authenticity: Through an Adult Education Lens
… in a different direction to my original intended research topic. Using personal archival documents, reflections and vignettes as educational aids I embark on a journey of contemplation using the lens of adult education. I will consider how adult education gave me the tools to examine my fractured …
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Las prácticas políticas en la comunidad digital de Facebook: @Deslengua2
This research is relevant since it seeks to analyze and highlight the importance of digital media for information spaces and political debate. The results of the findings will also contribute to determining the effectiveness and efficiency of social networks based on this theme, which will be a …
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On Grouped Observation Level Interaction and a Big Data Monte Carlo Sampling Algorithm
… analytics algorithms emerges as an important research topic in statistics. In this dissertation, I will summarize our research on two data analytics algorithms: a visual analytics algorithm named Grouped Observation Level Interaction with Multidimensional Scaling and a big data Monte Carlo …
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Biped walking control design based on zero moment point dynamics
… robots has been a challenging yet promising research topic in the past decades. The complicated nonlinear dynamics and numerous degrees of freedom are the main obstacles for biped walking control. This thesis studies the complete control scheme of biped walking control based on Zero Moment …
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Mobile interface for mobility incentives schemes : FMS-Advisor
Reducing energy consumption is a common research topic in the United States because of its importance in environmental, health, and industrial fields. In this project, we aim to reduce global energy consumption for the Greater Boston Area by encouraging users to make more energy-efficient travel …
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Geographic inequities in local higher education opportunities? : identifying college deserts with critical GIS
… education, access to college is a pertinent research topic. Access is a widely researched topic, but only recently has college access been studied specifically. This study proposes a geographic information systems based methodology for quantifying college access at multiple spatial scales. …
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Synesthetic Sensor Fusion via a Cross-Wired Artificial Neural Network.
… robotics where sensor fusion is a current research topic. This model of synesthetic sensor fusion does not exhibit synesthetic responses. However, it was observed that cross-wiring two independent networks does not change the functionality of the individual networks, but allows the inputs …
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The Insignificance of Feature Frequency in Classifying Gender of Twitter Tweets
… and what they post. This relationship is a hot research topic and one of the most frequently studied characteristic is the gender of a user. Feature frequency is often included in such a task, but this thesis shows that for Twitter tweets it either does not contribute significantly to gender …
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Security Analysis of ICT Systems based on Bio-Inspired Models
… Ph.D. thesis proposes and shows a new kind of research topic, Bio-inspired Telecommunication Security. It will be key to reach efficiency of the future networks and to obtaine a sustainable ICT infrastructure in terms of energy consumption, economic investment and in terms of privacy and …
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Distinguishing Dynamical Kinds: An Approach for Automating Scientific Discovery
… of scientific discovery has been an active research topic for many years. The promise of a formalized approach to developing and testing scientific hypotheses has attracted researchers from the sciences, machine learning, and philosophy alike. Leveraging the concept of dynamical symmetries a …
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