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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"tight coupling"”.
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Decoupling, Tight Coupling and Barriers to Sustained Culture Change for Environmental Sustainability in North-East Scottish Universities
… focused on the policy-practice and means-ends decoupling of environmental sustainability (ES) within North-East Scottish Universities (NESU). It explores the 'tight coupling,' where ES becomes embedded and sustained in institutional members' daily routines and activities. Additionally, the …
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Tightly coupled neutronics and thermal-hydraulics using open-source software
Coupling the neutronic and thermal-hydraulic analyses of a nuclear reactor core is important because it helps identify the most relevant safety issues. Currently all coupled computations solve the same set of governing equations using different coupling methods, which can be sorted into two …
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Microbial food web interactions in two Long Island embayments
… standing stocks and mortality of prey indicated tight coupling of growth and grazing mortality in both bays. Phytoplankton mortality rates accounted for the removal of 14% to 65% of total phytoplankton standing stocks daily, while bacterivory accounted for the removal of 14% to 88% of total …
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Analysis of adaptive reactive control systems for autonomous mobile robots
… perspective which is characterised by a tight coupling between perception and action. With this view in mind, control systems ranging from pure reactive controllers to controllers that can construct spatial representations of the environment are investigated. Hand-designed techniques as …
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Microbial food web interactions in two Long Island embayments
… standing stocks and mortality of prey indicated tight coupling of growth and grazing mortality in both bays. Phytoplankton mortality rates accounted for the removal of 14% to 65% of total phytoplankton standing stocks daily, while bacterivory accounted for the removal of 14% to 88% of total …
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Knitting with directed graphs
… these formats suffer by the nature of their tight coupling with the method used to construct the garments they represent. Alternatively, we use Knit Meshes, which represent knitting structures by their geometry separate from a directed graph description of their topology. This thesis presents …
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A symbol's role in learning low-level control functions.
… It proposes a novel hybrid architecture with a tight coupling between a variant of symbolic planning and reinforcement learning. This architecture combines the strengths of the function approximation of subsymbolic learning with the more abstract compositional nature of symbolic learning. The …
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Fab trees for designing complex 3D printable materials
… physical properties. On the software side, the tight coupling between geometry and material specification, and the lack of tools in specifying materials volumetrically, however, hinder the full usage of the multi-material capability of 3D printers. The heavy dependency on traditional modeling …
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Narratives of refugee resettlement workers: The impact of recent policy changes on refugee resettlement
… futures and the futures of their clients. The tight coupling of refugee resettlement policies with resettlement organizations and workers via government agreements make them unusually sensitive to policy changes. Contributions to adult education and policy-making with recommendations for …
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Regulation of the localization of Lte1, a S. cerevisiae mitotic exit activator
… Network (MEN). In this simple eukaryote, the tight coupling of nuclear migration and mitotic exit is achieved in part by the spatial segregation of Lte1, a positive activator of the MEN, and Teml, a GTPase that acts at the top of the MEN signaling cascade. The spatial segregation of Lte1 and …
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Solving Bluetooth deficiencies through publish and subscribe systems
… and lack of friendships stem from the tight coupling of device interactions during the discovery protocol. One solution to this problem uses the advantages of publish and subscribe systems to decouple this interaction between smart mobile devices. Available devices can announce their …
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Troubleshooting interactive complexity bugs
… that with increasing interactive complexity and tight coupling, unexpected interactions of failures are bound to happen. Indeed, with the proliferation of Internet enabled cheap embedded devices with built in sensors and actuators (e.g., smart phones, smart appliances), the physical world is …
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Simulating Nanoparticle and Polymer Dynamics in Solution
… transport mechanism characterized by the tight coupling of the translational motions of the nanoparticle and polymer centers-of-masses, which is not accounted for in current theories. We explore the consequences of this new coupling mechanism and perform extensive MPCD studies to …
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Rapid nutrient fluctuations and their implications for bacterial growth
… rely on resource acquisition for growth, and the tight coupling between bacterial growth physiology and nutrient availability has long been observed. When nutrient environments shift on timescales of hours, days or seasons, bacteria adapt to a physiological steady state characteristic of the new …
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Effects of different canopy tree species on belowground biogeochemistry in a wet lowland tropical forest
… correlated to litter N/P, suggesting a tight coupling between N and P cycles belowground. I also conducted a laboratory incubation experiment in attempt to isolate the effects of litter chemistry on belowground biogeochemistry. Results showed a significant relationship between litter …
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Effects of different canopy tree species on belowground biogeochemistry in a wet lowland tropical forest
… correlated to litter N/P, suggesting a tight coupling between N and P cycles belowground. I also conducted a laboratory incubation experiment in attempt to isolate the effects of litter chemistry on belowground biogeochemistry. Results showed a significant relationship between litter …
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FlexiGesture : a sensor-rich real-time adaptive gesture and affordance learning platform for electronic music control
… electronic music controllers has abolished the tight coupling between input gesture and resultant sound, making an exponentially large range of input-to-output mappings possible, as well as an infinite set of possible timbres. This revolutionary change in the way sound can be produced and …
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Speleothem climate capture of the Neanderthal demise
… evidence from the speleothems demonstrates a tight coupling of the North Atlantic Ocean-Atmosphere system throughout MIS3. The Cueva de las Perlas speleothems have established that the period of the Neanderthal demise was characterised by climate instability involving abrupt shifts and …
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Preserving spore dormancy
… inhibition by D-alanine. This demonstrates tight coupling between germinant metabolism and sensing. Additional suppressors revealed that changes in the spore-envelope properties shape germinant exposure. Reduced envelope permeability likely limited germinant access to receptors, while …
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Chronology and paleoenvironment of Peoria Silt deposition and Jules Geosol development along the Illinois Valley, Illinois, USA
… the time of the Mississippi diversion suggests a tight coupling between regional ice sheet dynamics, loess deposition, and climate in this region during the Last Glacial period.
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