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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"response to environment"”.
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The Aesthetic of Love
Indigenous architecture is a loving response to the natural conditions surrounding ones inhabitation of architecture. It is designed and built by those who will inhabit it and is necessarily designed in coordination with both environmental considerations and practical (or use-oriented) …
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Investigating change in toxic algae in Scottish coastal waters
Toxin-producing algae naturally occur in Scottish coastal waters. Despite decades of research into harmful algal blooms (HABs), the environmental drivers remain uncertain and inconclusive. Further understanding and knowledge of the relationships between environmental variables and HAB occurrence …
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First War Syndrome : military culture, professionalization, and counterinsurgency doctrine
… was a persistent and important challenge to military organizations in the second half of the 20th century and seems likely to continue to pose a challenge in the 21st century. This makes understanding how military organizations respond to this challenge both an important policy question …
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Kongming : a generative planner for hybrid systems with temporally extended goals
… scripts are mostly hand-generated by human operators. This introduces inefficiency, puts a significant cognitive burden on the engineers, and prevents re-planning in response to environment disturbances or plan execution failure. For discrete systems, the field of autonomy has elevated the level …
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Fast methods for fitting log-Gaussian Cox process models in ecology.
… latent effects. These latent effects can be used to account for missing predictors or other sources of clustering that could not be explained by a Poisson process. Such models are important in ecology where point patterns arise in the form of presence-only data - records of species' locations - …
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Design and Analysis of Intrusion Detection Protocols in Cyber Physical Systems
In this dissertation research we aim to design and validate intrusion detection system (IDS) protocols for a cyber physical system (CPS) comprising sensors, actuators, control units, and physical objects for controlling and protecting physical infrastructures.<br />The design part includes host …
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Economic and socio cultural experiences of female entrepreneurs in Brazil and the United States: an exploratorial and empirical analysis.
… prescribe whether a female can become or want to become an entrepreneur in her society. Some reasons are obvious such as lack of employment and opportunities; other are disguised in patriarchal culture that deters female entrepreneurship. Against this backdrop it appears that in less developed …