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Ultra-Smooth
The title of this thesis, ultra-smooth, is an invented term -- a neologism defined by the work produced through this study. Through physical prototypes of formwork shaped by gravity for concrete floors and through the observation of gravity’s effect on the generation of such forms through …
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Smooth Feedback Planning
Algorithms, theoretical analysis, and practical examples (as applicable) are presented for three main problems, and several variations thereon. First, the problem of a fully actuated point robot moving in a piecewise linear environment of arbitary dimension is addressed. Second, fully actuated …
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Smooth Interactive Visualization
… in information visualization are not C^1 smooth, i.e. when represented as a function, they are either discontinuous or have a discontinuous first derivative. For example, histograms are a non-smooth visualization of density. Not only are histograms non-smooth visually, but they are also …
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Smooth regression quantile estimation
… I include algorithmdesign and selection of smoothing parameters. Chapter 2 studies two estimators, first a single-kernel estimator based on "check function" and a bandwidth selection rule is proposed based on the asymptotic MSE of this estimator. Second a recursive double-kernel estimator …
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Lipotoxicity in smooth muscle
… However, lipotoxicity has not been shown in smooth muscle. The goal of this dissertation was to determine if lipotoxicity does occur in vascular smooth muscle and to determine how to modulate this lipotoxicity. We found that vascular smooth muscle takes up fatty acid and does not store it …
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Smooth Shape-restricted Regression
… estimation are typically neither smooth nor parsimonious. There are many researches investigating the smooth shape-restricted regressors in recent years (Meyer, 2008; Wang and Ghosh, 2012). In this thesis, we propose new nonparametric estimators for univariate regression subject to …
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Modeling vascular smooth muscle contraction
… to investigate issues regarding vascular smooth muscle contraction. The overall structure of this thesis consists of (1) a model of single vascular smooth muscle cell membrane electrophysiology, contractile system kinetics and cell mechanics; (2) a model of signal transduction of …
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Piecewise smooth systems and monotonicity.
In this thesis we study piecewise smooth and switched positive systems and investigate the monotonicity properties of such systems. We describe many examples of such systems, particulary drawing from the mathematical biology literature, in order to motivate the work in later chapters. We describe …
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The electrophysiology of smooth muscle
… investigations into the electrophysiology of smooth muscle were carried out by Bozler (1946) who studied the ureter, uterus and muscle of the intestine using external electrodes. He recorded action potentials similar to those which had been recorded from other excitable tissues during normal …
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Smooth Sphere in Extended Solids
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Tribology of atomically smooth surfaces
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1992.
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Robotic navigation of smooth contours
… is to develop a method for robotic navigation of smooth contours depending on the current and desired locations and orientations. Efficient trajectory generation is an essential capability for many autonomous mobile robots, operating in a variety of situations such as military, medical, and home …
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Smooth convex approximation and its applications
In this thesis, we consider a smooth convex approximation to the sum of the $\kappa$ largest components. To make it applicable to a wide class of applications, the study is conducted on some minmax problems. Based on a special smoothing technique, we give an efficient scheme for nonsmooth convex …
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Condensation in horizontal smooth round tube
From thermodynamic point of view, first droplet of liquid during condensation appears at quality one and the last vapor disappears at quality zero. This is because thermodynamic assumes equilibrium and temperature to be uniform. Therefore, conventional modeling of condensation typically contains …
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Smooth Isotopies of Manifolds Surrounding Polyhedra
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Smooth Interpolation on Series of Measures
… number of desirable geometric properties such as smoothness and continuity. We also provide an extension of our model, linking it to previous work on measure-valued splines, and suggest modifications to increase model expressiveness.
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Basic factors affecting smooth engine idling
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1958.
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