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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"urban terrain"”.
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In plain site: scripting value in an urban terrain vague
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Navigating the urban terrain: how practitioners adapt sport for development programs amid external challenges
… the influence of factors within the U.S. urban context on SFD programming have not been explored. The purpose of this study was to investigate how societal factors may affect the design, delivery, and evaluation of urban SFD programs. Utilizing a comparative case study, the questions of …
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Path Planning for Unmanned Air and Ground Vehicles in Urban Environments
… used to track a human moving through complex urban terrain. This research focuses on path planning problems for both a UAV and a UGV, and presents effective solutions for both problems. In the UAV path planning problem, we desire to plan a path for a miniature fixed-wing UAV to fly through …
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Do villages still matter?
… cases in areas with some of the highest rates of urbanization. The historic case broadens the geographic scope of the study, but also provides historical insights into how each variable influenced success or failure once an insurgency occupied the urban terrain. Ultimately, this thesis concludes …
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Urban Insurgency and the Search for a Solution: United States Counterinsurgency Strategy for the Twenty-First Century
… (COIN) doctrine is imperative. The urbanization of the Third world and the inability of many of its governments to cope with rapid social change, as well as the advantages that the urban environment provides for the insurgent who employs asymmetric warfare, making designing an urban …
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A design for dynamic self-organization in autonomous distributed operations
… commonly encountered in Military Operations in Urban Terrain.
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A parametric analysis of the start-up procedure and flight characteristics of a gliding autogyro
… capable of placing small, high value items into urban terrain. Theoretically, autogyros can achieve descent rates and glide slopes similar to current parafoil based systems, but do so with greater precision. Over the past half-century most rotorcraft research has focused on helicopter design, …
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Ambivalent structures
… the latent connection of the bunker with the urban terrain, channelling its psychological influence while addressing contemporary anxieties regarding power and control. Military bunker facilities have long been the subject of intense interest for artists and architects, particularly since the …
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Remote Terrain Navigation for Unmanned Air Vehicles
… for hazardous missions through mountainous and urban terrain in the successful completion of many of these missions. The focus of this research was on remote terrain navigation and the issues faced when dealing with limited onboard processing and limited payload and power capabilities. …
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Effect Of Operator Control Configuration On Unmanned Aerial System Trainability
… reconnaissance during military operations in urban terrain. The need to quickly and reliably train soldiers to control small UAS operations demands that the human-system interface be intuitive and easy to master. In this study, participants completed a series of tests of spatial ability and …
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The Impact Of Mental Transformation Training Across Levels Of Automation On Spatial Awareness In Human-robot Interaction
… through a simulated military operation in urban terrain (MOUT) environment. The results showed that mental transformation training increased two areas of spatial ability, namely mental rotation and spatial visualization. Further, spatial ability in these two areas predicted performance in …
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The Labour of Love Songs: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland
… is negotiated and received in contested urban terrain. I show the primary labour of love songs to be the distillation, performance and creation of intimate social relations: intimate relations predicated on “dareen-wadaag” (“feeling-sharing”) that transcend everyday cleavages and …
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Physical space and its role in the production and reproduction of violence in the "slum wars" in Medellin, Colombia (1970s-2013)
… often make a tacit linkage between the spaces of urban informality ("slums"), crime and violence. This occurs in academic circles-as exemplified by the common occurrence that when researchers seek to understand urban crime and violence, they tend to study urban informal spaces (slums, favelas, …
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An exploration of a traceur's experience of lack of progression in parkour: a grounded theory study
… finding a route through predominantly urban terrain, mastering various physical and psychological skills to overcome obstacles in the most efficient, effective way possible (Belle, 2009). Although initially proposed as a noncompetitive discipline, it is now headed for the Olympics in …