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Showing 1 to 20 of 651 for “"swimming"”.
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Swimming in slime
… waving sheet. We consider two main cases of this swimming sheet problem. In the first case, the type of wave being propagated down the length of the swimmer is specified. We compare the swimming speeds of viscoelastic shear thinning, shear thickening and Newtonian fluids for a fixed propagating …
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Swimming patterns of zoospores
… success of P. infestans is the dispersal of free-swimming zoospore cells from infected plant tissue into aqueous environments. These cells are specialised infection agents that have evolved an array of tactic responses in order to locate and infect new hosts. An interesting and poorly understood …
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Bio-inspired swimming helix
This thesis investigated a bio-inspired swimming chain (BISH), inspired by Weelia cylindrica. After developing a model, it was used to investigate conditions under which helical motion would emerge. The properties of this chain as the number of nodes changes was also investigated, to see if the …
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Imagery Use in Synchronized Swimming
… this study and how imagery improves synchronized swimming training programs. Key findings include: Each progressive skill level had better imaging skills and utilization than the lower levels Years experience, repetition, and training impact synchronized swimmers use of imagery The very nature of …
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Low Reynolds number biohybrid swimming
… more complex filament deformations and scaled up swimming performance by, for example, synchronization by mechanical strain coupling. To characterize the ability of strain coupled cardiomyocytes to synchronize, an experimental platform is constructed to produce high speed sinusoidal substrate …
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Undine: creative artistic swimming practice: towards a training and choreographic strategy for contemporary artistic swimming
… in 2017, decided to rebrand "Synchronized Swimming" as "Artistic Swimming" (FINA, Communications Department, 2018). In this context of transformation, my research foregrounds an artistic opening that is implicit in the configuration and history of this sport.
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Swimming behavior and energetics of sharks
In a field study of blue shark swimming behavior, acoustic telemetry was used to record depth, swimming speed and tailbeat frequency from free-ranging blue sharks (Prionace glauca) in northwestern Atlantic slope waters. Records obtained from five sharks show a consistent pattern of vertical …
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Developing High Performance Linear Carangiform Swimming
This thesis examines the linear swimming motion of Carangiform fish, and investigates how to improve the swimming performance of robotic fish within the fields of kinematic modeling and mechanical engineering, in a successful attempt to replicate the high performance of real fish. Intensive …
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Hydrodynamics of flexible-body swimming motions
The performance and agility of fish swimming motions have intrigued both biologists and fluid mechanicians for many years. Both have endeavored to understand the mechanics of fish swimming and to resolve the paradoxical observations surrounding the performance of fish, yet the unsteady …
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Propeller based human powered swimming device
Currently the only human powered swimming device widely sold on the market are swim flippers. However, flippers are not efficient for the human body, and there is a potential to increase the speed while swimming with a device. This thesis is the planning, design, construction, and prototyping of a …
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Quantification of performance analysis factors in front crawl swimming using micro electronics: a data rich system for swimming.
… is to increase the depth of data available to swimming coaches in order to allow them to make more informed coaching decisions for their athletes in front crawl swimming. A coach’s job is to assist with various factors of an individual athlete to allow them to perform at an optimum level. The …
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Movement and energetics of swimming marine mollusks
… species. These novel data elucidated fundamental swimming behaviors such as swim direction, postures, and environmental extents of ecologically-vital diel vertical migration. In Chapter 3, I linked lab-calibrated bioenergetic models and field observations to map energy output and necessary caloric …
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Swimming: Writing Childlessness, a Novel and Exegesis
This thesis includes two volumes: The novel, Swimming, in the first volume, is the fictional narrative of one woman's life and her experience of being childless. Kate, the protagonist of the novel, is not me though she has a number of similar experiences. Kate is the subject of her own narrative, a …
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Contemporary college coaching techniques in swimming, 1976
… placement by event in the 1976 NCAA Division I Swimming Championship Meet.
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Hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms in complex fluids
<p>Swimming motion of microorganisms, such as spermatozoa, plankton, algae and bacteria, etc., ubiquitously occurs in nature. It affects many biological processes, including reproduction, infection and the marine life ecosystem. The hydrodynamic effects are important in microorganism swimming, …
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Motility of Swimming Bacteria Hydrodynamics and Statistics
… field of biophysics, specifically the study of swimming bacteria. Swimming microorganisms can be modeled as active particles moving at low Reynolds number (Re ≪ 1) and subject to different sources of noise. The term “active” means that they are self-propelled, while Re ≪ 1 implies that their …
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Experimental flow characterization of anguilliform swimming motion
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 2002.
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An experimental analysis of swimming pool design
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, 1938.
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The fast-start swimming of angelfish, Pterophyllum eimekei
… despite specializations for low speed swimming in the labriform (pectoral fins) mode. In addition, angelfish turning radii (0.065 ± 0.0063L: Mean ± 2 s.e.) are lower than those previously reported for any fish. The swimming trajectories of angelfish escape responses to mechanical …
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