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Showing 1 to 20 of 1776 for “"searching"”.
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Sketch similarity searching
… of image data. This necessity for better image searching techniques has instigated researchers to study new technologies that could be the pinnacle of next generation image retrieval systems. Current technologies allow the user to search only by text content. However, this searching environment …
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Searching for planets
As part of a larger program precise radial velocities (PRVs) have been obtained by useof a hydrogen fluoride (HF) cell over the period 1980 to 1992, for twenty-one dwarf andsubgiant stars (luminosity classes IV and V) together with eleven giants and supergiants(luminosity classes I, II, and III). A …
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Searching for shelter
Architecture is born out of a need for the re-definition and intensification of t he existing physical landscape. An architects services respond and re-define culture and can never be legitimized by the want of form. Architecture is only significant when it is necessary and responds directly to our …
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Searching for commonsense
Acquiring and representing the large body of "common sense" knowledge underlying ordinary human reasoning and communication is a long standing problem in the field of artificial intelligence. This thesis will address the question whether a significant quantity of this knowledge may be acquired by …
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Searching over encrypted data
… most of cloud services, and in particular, searching on outsourced data. Researchers therefore got interested in the following question: "how to search on outsourced encrypted data while preserving efficient communication, computation and storage overhead?" This question had several …
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Constant Time Sorting and Searching
… processors for any positive constant c. The searching problem studied is locating the interval of n sorted real numbers for inserting a query real number. Taking into account an input of n real numbers and organize them in the sorted order to facilitate searching. Initially, sorting the n …
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Searching for the Real McCoy
Masters thesis in Creative Nonfiction Writing
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Searching for the Real McCoy
Masters thesis in Creative Nonfiction Writing
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Searching for Embodied Presence in Architecture
Buildings have the capacity to affect our emotions. When designed with care, they can move us and put us into a state of emotional awareness that heightens our everyday experience of living. But unfortunately, a building’s ability to elicit any kind of meaningful emotional response is a rare …
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Searching business process models by example
… and thousands of process models. In practice, searching process models has been solved only superficially by means of free-text search of process names and their descriptions. Scientific contributions are limited in their scope, as they either present measures for process similarity or …
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INTELLIGENT PATH SEARCHING AND POSE ESTIMATION
… in the last decade. This thesis focuses on path searching and pose estimation for autonomous vehicle navigation. The thesis first studies multi-sensor pose estimation on the vehicle that is equipped with cameras, an altitude and heading reference system (AHRS), and digital maps. The proposed pose …
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Searching for a Place to Land
A collection of essays addressing topics in North American ecology and environmentalism.
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Searching for a Place to Land
A collection of essays addressing topics in North American ecology and environmentalism.
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Photo searching on small screen devices
… screens. However, they lack the tools for searching through large collections of photographs. This is particularly important as users have expressed a desire to store images on mobile devices in the long term. No substantial research has looked at addressing users searching needs. Few …
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A Family Chapel: Searching for Form
The building is a family chapel comprised of three separate yet interdependent spaces: a sanctuary, a stair tower, and a spire. The design developed from the inside out, specifically from the interior of the sanctuary to the building as a cohesive whole. The building's form was found through …
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Indexing and Searching Document Collections using Lucene
… The search tool is capable of indexing and searching databases, PDF documents, word documents and text files.
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