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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"useless"”.
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"It Is Useless to Conceal the Truth Any Longer": Desertion of Virginia Soldiers From the Confederate Army
This study of Virginia desertion differs from other desertion studies in several respects. The statistical analysis of the patterns of desertion within the army is one of the most unique characteristics of this study. Several other scholars have attempted to track desertion across the Confederacy, …
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Portrayal of women in SiSwati drama
… children who read books and perceive women as useless. A child reads and has the idea that a woman is unfaithful, useless, a pretender, and dependant and has no job opportunities. If a child is a boy he grows with a negative connotation that a woman has no power. This affects our young girls …
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Identifying Application Level Protocols by Analyzing Communication Patterns over Multiple Ports
… identification and deep packet inspection nearly useless as applications tend to use non-standard ports and traffic is increasingly encrypted.
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The Wild Diamond Diaries: Healing Alongside America's Wild Horses
… at worst. They have a reputation for being useless, destructive, and untrainable. Yet my childhood horse—gifted to my family when I was three—was a gentled Mustang, W.D. Through W.D., I first encountered these horses’ kind dispositions, composure, and hardiness. After my younger sister died …
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Measurement of Working, Reflected, and Detrimental Active Power in a Three Phase System
… this detrimental active energy is converted to useless energy, namely heat in an induction motor's windings yet the customer still pays for the useless energy harming his own equipment. As one can see, active power in the sense of economics is not a simple quantity as originally thought. With …
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Smart Image Search System Using Personalized Semantic Search Method
… it applies Apache OpenNLP Library to avoid useless words. Second, it considers the searchers’ actions such as click and feedbacks to affect the associated words and associated weight. The Smart Image Search System uses the associated words and associated weight to calculate the relativity …
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The Experience of Illuminating Organisational Culture from a Systems Psychodynamic Perspective
… hopeful & relieved; defensive, wary & impeded; useless & guilty. Discerning countertransference, I interpreted ‘useless and guilty’ as a 13th cultural theme and unconscious way of being. In a systems-psychodynamic frame, this could be understood as the organisation unconsciously processing the …
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On foveation of deep neural networks
… input transformation, makes CNNs more robust to useless background features than a standard raw-image input. Our results also find that using the inverted pyramid method generally reduces useless background pixels, therefore reducing required training data.
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On the heat value of milk
… of the definition, it would be worse than useless for the nourishment of the young, and it would not occur in a healthy animal.
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Applications of Ideal Point Approaches to Scale Construction and Scoring in Personality Measurement: The Development of a Six-Faceted Measure of Conscientiousness
… traditional approaches found them virtually useless. Third, scales designed using the ideal point model provided more information, and, hence greater measurement precision. Results also indicated that new ideal point scales showed evidence of construct validity. A number of implications for …
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Imitation: A classical art for modern composition
… inspiration that imitation becomes nearly useless. The regular practice of imitation in the classroom teaches modern students composition techniques, awakens them to the legacy left by earlier writers and introduces them to specific discourse communities.
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A computational bow-spring model
… solutions to such systems are relatively useless to a mechanical engineer. This work comprises an iterative model developed in MATLAB that computes the mechanical behavior of buckled beam (or bow-spring) sections, over a range of parameters and geometries, to be used in the development and …
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Mechanically mediated trithiocarbonate addition to commodity polymers for a more circular economy
… working once, maybe twice before the material is useless. Studies to harness the chain-scission with functional groups have proved possible but limited. This study shows the effect of adding bis(BTTC) and monomer to a mechanical recycling process to allow for post-recycling reactions with …
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Reduced-Encoding Dynamic Imaging
… data sets can render the reference information useless as a constraint for image reconstruction. A motion compensation method is proposed which uses a similarity norm to accurately detect the motion in spite of contrast changes and the low-resolution nature of the dynamic data.
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Highly maneuverable spherical robots for underwater applications
… These damages will often times render the robot useless, leaving it stranded. Continuing off previous work designing externally smooth robots with uniquely designed internalized mechanical components, this work explores the design of new, spherical robots. There exist many benefits to the …
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A computational semantics system for detecting drug reactions and patient outcomes in personal health messages
… identifies personal comments, by eliminating useless messages. Clustering groups similar topics from different messages, by statistical overlap with specified terms. Summarizing labels the clusters so content can be quickly digested. We implemented a prototype system with these functions for …
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On-Orbit Resident Space Object (RSO) Detection Using Commercial Grade Star Trackers
… their positions very inaccurate and effectively useless. I propose complementing current tracking efforts using commercial-grade star trackers (popular attitude determination sensors for satellites). This proposal is a novel approach that has not been implemented before. To determine their …
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Making Detailed Predictions Makes (Some) Predictions Worse
… details makes information that is relatively useless for predicting the winning team more readily accessible in memory and therefore incorporated into forecasts. Furthermore, we show that this differential use of information can be used to predict what kinds of games will and will not be …
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Solving Large MDPs Quickly with Partitioned Value Iteration
… improved by eliminating redundant or useless backups, and by backing up states in the right order. We present several methods designed to help structure value dependency, and present a systematic study of companion prioritization techniques which focus computation in useful regions of …
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