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Showing 1 to 20 of 4465 for “"soft"”.
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Soft boundaries
Textiles have always played a critical role in the spaces we inhabit. Although textiles are often in opposition to what we consider to be architecture. Architecture is permanent, grounded, fixed; textiles are temporary, flexible, and portable. It is precisely those qualities of variation that allow …
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Electroosmotic Soft Actuators
… involved in creating the first paper-based soft actuator driven by electroosmosis. To accomplish this, research breakthroughs were made in the fields of electrokinetic pumping and device manufacturing using soft materials. Electroosmosis is an electrically induced microfluidic flow …
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Soft Morphological Computation
Soft Robotics is a relatively new area of research, where progress in material science has powered the next generation of robots, exhibiting biological-like properties such as soft/elastic tissues, compliance, resilience and more besides. One of the issues when employing soft robotics technologies …
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A Soft Landing
… this assertion as a point of departure, ‘A Soft Landing' is a novel that explores the implications of a past not decisively dealt with. The novel explores how the past gives meaning to present identities and how new identity formations are negotiated within the eye of the past participating …
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Soft Aerial Manipulation
… explores the theory and implementation of a soft drone, consisting of a quadrotor and a tendon-actuated soft gripper, which for the first time fully exploits the advantages of softness in aerial manipulation. Manipulation and grasping with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) currently require …
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The soft grid
… grid, which will serve as the antagonist of the soft grid, is geometrically and topologically unyielding on both the local and global scales. There are, however, alternatives to such hard grids. Through a series of studies, this thesis will catalog and analyze the soft girds, i.e. those that are …
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Soft, wireless electronics for the thermal characterization of skin and soft tissue
… and wiring into form factors that are soft, flexible and stretchable. These sensors offer qualitative improvements in patient comfort and are comparable, if not superior to clinical gold standard technologies. The strong, conformal mechanical coupling between these sensors and …
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A Troubling, Soft Underfoot
A Troubling, Soft Underfoot delves into the spatiality of complex otherness, and investigates pluralistic, non-delineated and deviant embodiments of place, race, gender, and sexuality through cross-bred processes of drawing, painting and sculpture. Through thin washes of pigment extended onto …
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Automation of soft lithography
… whose goal is demonstrating manufacturability of soft lithography. Specifically, our target is creating micron scale patterns of resists on a 3 square inch, relatively large area in case of soft lithography, flexible substrate using microcontact printing in order to forming electronic circuit …
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Soft at the Joints
A building can be understood entirely through its joints. It can explain gravitational forces, interlacing moments of material application, and environmental conditions. Yet, this portion of the design is often relegated to the end of the design process, as a finishing touch. The walls, floors, and …
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Design, Manufacturing, and Control of Soft and Soft/Rigid Hybrid Pneumatic Robotic Systems
Soft robotic systems have recently been considered as a new approach that is in principle better suited for tasks where safety and adaptability are important. That is because soft materials are inherently compliant and resilient in the event of collisions. They are also lightweight and can be …
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Enhancing the soft proofing paradigm
… study is devoted to assessing the suitability of soft proofs as a surrogate for the final print in judging colour-reproduction quality. Two sets of psychophysical experiments were carried out. The first investigated whether the type of medium used to generate a stimulus influenced its appearance, …
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Soft matching for question answering
… texts. To combat such problems, I develop two soft matching schemes. I implement both soft matching schemes using statistical models and apply them to two components in a QA system. Such a QA system is designed to fulfill the information need of advanced users who search for information in a …
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UNDERLYING EVENTS AND SOFT QCD
Recent highlights in various soft Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) phenomena are discussed, focusing on the measurement of the underlying event at 2.76 and 13 TeV with the CMS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Such soft QCD phenomena are of huge phenomenological and experimental …
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Soft Lithographic Patterning on Silicon
A methodology for controlling the nanoscale architecture of etched silicon was developed though the printing of mixed monolayers. Contact printing of mixed solutions of different mole fractions of DTS and octyltrichlorosilane (OCTY) were formed monolayers on Si. Once annealed in air, these films …
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Soft, Compliant Tactile Robotic Manipulators
When we look to the future of soft robotics and manipulation, we begin to look towards sensory-rich and compliant grasping mechanisms. Not only do we want to capitalize on the significant advantages in safety and adaptability that soft robots have, we also want to incorporate high-resolution …
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Surface fatigue of soft steel
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1936.
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Soft exchanges for interaction design
… to experience our own world differently. Soft Exchanges are created through the design and development of a camera like instrument implementing the Bactograph protocol developed in 2005 by Jeffrey Tabor, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. Of the many advances in …
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