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Richards, Gregory Stephen. "Expressed attitude towards physical fitness contrasted with actual participation in physical exercise." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4682.

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Harrison, Carmel. "Touch : Exploring physical contact in therapy." Thesis, Bangor University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.506181.

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Barry, Barbara A. "Relationship between actual and perceived physical fitness in college students /." View online, 1989. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998878771.pdf.

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McBriar, D. I. "The plasma treatment of contact lenses." Thesis, Durham University, 1990. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6292/.

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This thesis investigates the use of low temperature plasmas as a means of improving the surface properties of hard gas permeable contact lenses. It is important that the polymers used for this application should have good optical properties, should allow transport of oxygen to the cornea and be biocompatible, that is they should not stimulate an adverse response in the tissues which they contact. Whilst most patients have no problems with current materials there are a significant number who experience irritation of the eyes and abnormal build up of deposits on the lens surface. It has been fou

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Webster, Michelle Anne, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Psychology. "Physical holding in psychotherapy." THESIS_CAESS_PSY_Webster_M.xml, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/334.

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Physical holding is an intense form of physical contact that can be initiated by a therapist during the course of therapy. The purpose of this research is to investigate clients' accounts of what happened in an endeavour to develop a coherent explanation for what occurred in the holding experience. Former clients who experienced sustained physical holding during their therapy describe these experiences and discuss the effects and meanings.The main effects of physical holding were the identifying and experiencing of feelings, and the remembering and re-experiencing of past events.The emerging p

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Germain, Jesse Luke. "Assessing the relationship between perceived and actual physical fitness a meta-analytic review /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004268.

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Gustafsson, Johan, and Petter Wallgren. "Utilizing modern technology to promote tourism and reduce physical contact." Thesis, KTH, Hälsoinformatik och logistik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-296412.

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Tourism is an important factor for economic growth. Unfortunately, the on going COVID-19 pandemic has struck hard on the tourism sector due to the lockdowns and travel restrictions. The lockdowns have also led to an increasing isolation among people which in the long term can lead to a decline in people’s psychological wellbeing.Together with Cybercom Group AB, an idea to solve this problem was to developan application with the intention to nurture the tourism sector and get people out of their homes while keeping the human interactions at a satisfactory level. The main feature of the applicat

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SHAMLOO, SORAYA ELIZABETH. "REDUCING PREJUDICE: THE ROLE PLAYED BY PHYSICAL CONTACT IN INTERGROUP RELATIONS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Trieste, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2991035.

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Research suggests we have an innate capacity to communicate via touch. Also, studies have shown that touch strongly affects people. Indeed, touch has positive effects at the intrapersonal level (e.g., enhanced levels of oxytocin and decreased levels of cortisol) and also at the interpersonal level (e.g., pro-social behavior and more positive attitudes towards the toucher). Recently it has been investigated whether physical contact may also have positive effects when touch occurs between people pertaining to different groups. It has been shown that touch administered by an outgroup member impro

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Lopez, Tissa Rochelle. "Maturity differences in comprehending the essentiality of physical contact for contamination." Scholarly Commons, 2001. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2728.

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This study was a replication and extension of the study done by Springer and Belk (1994) in which the proximity of a contaminant (bug) to juice was manipulated and children were asked whether someone would get sick from drinking the juice. The experimenter read the child three stories about a young boy who drinks a glass of orange juice. In their study, some preschoolers, and most 7 and 8 year olds recognized the need for physical contact between the bug and the juice to make the juice harmful. The purpose was to examine the development of children's theories, about contamination. The present

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Oleson, Mark D. "Adolescents' Recollection of Early Physical Contact: Implications for Attachment and Intimacy." DigitalCommons@USU, 1996. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2466.

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Three hundred seventy-six college students responded to a measure designed to examine retrospective accounts of the physical affection received during early childhood. The study looked exclusively from the perspective of the adolescent. Assessing the importance of touch in human development, and the role it plays in adult attachment and the ability to form and maintain close and intimate relations with others was the purpose of the study. Six separate measures were used to assess the role of touch in adolescent development: three items from Gupta and Schork to assess physical affection (touch)

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Hubka, Tate. "The Capability to Align Estimated Performance with Actual Performance: Insights from Physical & Cognitive Performance Contexts." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13508.

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Discrepancies between estimated and actual performance occur daily in both normative and performance based tasks. This is synonymous with a type of cognitive bias known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect (DKE). In this thesis, Chapter 2 examined the existing literature on estimation and performance alignment and DKEs using systematic and meta-analytical procedures. Findings identified a small-moderate correlation in the ability to align estimation with actual performance. In DKE terms, quartile 1 performers overestimated, while quartile 4 underestimated. Alignment correlations were also found to be

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Absetz, Erica. "Actual Entities: A Control Method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3094.

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The focus of this thesis is on Actual Entities, a concept created by the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, and how the concept can be applied to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as a behavioral control method. Actual Entities are vector based, atomic units that use a method called prehension to observe their environment and react with various actions. When combining multiple Actual Entities a Colony of Prehending Entities is created; when observing their prehensions an intelligent behavior emerges. By applying the characteristics of Actual Entities to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, specifically in a s

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Schmidt, Sonja. "Root responses to soil physical conditions and the role of root-particle contact." Thesis, Abertay University, 2011. https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/ab0e3468-93c7-40ab-8809-48c41cf5caa2.

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This thesis considers the elongation of root and shoots in relation to matric potential and soil strength in contrasting species. The role of root-particle contact for root and shoot elongation in relation to particle/aggregate size and bulk density at various matric potentials is discussed. Root and shoot elongation of maize and lupin in soil and vermiculite at matric potentials ranging from -0.03 MPa to -1.6 MPa were investigated. Both root and shoot elongation rate of maize and lupin were significantly slower in vermiculite than in soil (p < 0.001). As vermiculite has very different particl

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Illergård, Josefin. "The creation of antibacterial fibres through physical adsorption of polyelectrolytes." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Träkemi och massateknologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-90731.

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Contact-active antibacterial surfaces with irreversibly attached antibacterial com-pounds are a sustainable alternative to traditional biocides. No chemicals are released into nature and the antibacterial mechanism reduces the risk of the evolution of re-sistant bacteria. However, the preparation of such surfaces is far from sustainable, as organic solvents and harsh reaction conditions commonly are required. An alter-native option is to use polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEM), based on physical ad-sorption, which can be performed in water-based solutions at room temperature. Although contact-ac

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Komárková, Markéta. "Vliv základní agrotechniky na fyzikální a hydrofyzikální vlastnosti půdy." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-372322.

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In the master’s thesis, we evaluate the impact of different types of soil treatment on the physical and hydro-physical properties of the subsurface layers of soil. The experimental research took place near the town of Šakvice in two chosen areas treated conventionally, i.e. by tillage. The PRP SOL substance was applied to one of the observed areas. Unimpaired soil samples were taken during the vegetation period of the grown crops in the topsoil (10,20 cm) and in the undersoil (30 cm) on 13th May 2009 and on 10th September 2009. The chosen physical parameters of the soil, i.e. the reduced volum

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Rauen, William Bonino. "Physical and numerical modelling of 3-D flow and mixing processes in contact tanks." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2005. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55985/.

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Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Modelling, Physical Modelling, Contact Tanks, Hydrodynamics, Hydraulic Efficiency, Solute Transport, Mixing Processes, Finite Volume Method, Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry, Tracer Techniques.

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Haskell, Rachael A. "Evaluating Social Work Students’ Attitudes Toward Physical Disability." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1655.

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Given the social work profession's commitment to serving individuals with disabilities and cultural competence, the promotion of favorable attitudes toward persons with disabilities within social work education is critical. This study examined the question: "what are the attitudes of undergraduate social work students at three universities toward individuals with physical disabilities as measured by responses on the Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale Form B (ATDP-Form B; Yuker et al., 1960, 1966) and Interactions with Disabled Persons Scale (Gething, 1991)?" It explored the following hypo

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Ritchie, John. "Contact Angle Of A Nano-Drop On A Heterogeneous Surface." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/174.

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CONTACT ANGLE OF A NANO-DROP ON A HETEROGENEOUS SURFACE By John Andre Ritchie, Master of Science A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010 Major Director: Dr. Alenka Luzar, Professor of Chemistry We examine the relation between contact angle of a nanodrop of water and the location of surface-water interaction energy at the perimeter and beneath the drop. Young’s equations gives the relationship between surface tension, at the three phase solid liquid vapor interfac

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Gale, Evelyn. "The use of touch in learning disability nursing." Thesis, Keele University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311733.

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Sjölander, Ellen, and Marina Soheili. "Den fysiska beröringens pedagogik i förskolan." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-76792.

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The purpose of this study is to produce knowledge about when and in what way preschool teachers give children physical contact in the preschools’ daily routine and how the children react to physical contact. Physical touch in preschool is regarded as an important part of the children's human contact, sense of security and learning. We chose to do a qualitative study which was based on observations and interviews as a method. The empirical study was guided by three research questions: How do preschool staff describe and use physical touch in teaching the children? In which ways do preschool st

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Webster, Michelle Anne. "Physical holding in psychotherapy." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/334.

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Physical holding is an intense form of physical contact that can be initiated by a therapist during the course of therapy. The purpose of this research is to investigate clients' accounts of what happened in an endeavour to develop a coherent explanation for what occurred in the holding experience. Former clients who experienced sustained physical holding during their therapy describe these experiences and discuss the effects and meanings.The main effects of physical holding were the identifying and experiencing of feelings, and the remembering and re-experiencing of past events.The emerging p

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CHANDER, DIVYAKSH SUBHASH. "Modelling the Physical Human-Exoskeleton Interface." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2928614.

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Goodale, Tyler. "The Relationship between Physical Qualities and Activity Profiles of International Women’s Sevens Players." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2017. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/219a342f41a025a793cf4b6cffa6ebd74a840c44582ebae813802e059439ebbb/1924372/Goodale_2017_The_relationship_between_physical_qualities_and.pdf.

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Due to its inclusion in the recent Olympic Games, women’s Rugby Sevens has experienced a marked increase in popularity. As a result of the sports’ emergent nature the player profile and performance demands of women’s Rugby Sevens remain poorly understood. Rugby Sevens is a modified game of 15-a-side Rugby Union, played under similar laws but with fewer players per side and for less total game time. The sport is played in a tournament format with multiple games played in one day and across a 2 to 3-day period. Rugby Sevens is one of the few true contact sports played by females and is therefo

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Saunders, Brandon Scot. "Observational Intelligence: An Overview of Computational Actual Entities and their Use as Agents of Artificial Intelligence." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1235.

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This thesis' focus is on the use of Alfred North Whitehead's concept of Actual Entities as a computational tool for computer science and the introduction of a novel usage of Actual Entities as learning agents. Actual Entities are vector based agents that interact within their environment through a process called prehension. It is the combined effect of multiple Actual Entities working within a Colony of Prehending Entities that produces emergent, intelligent behavior. It is not always the case that prehension functions for desired behavior are known beforehand and frequently the functions a

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Saleh, Maysoun. "Actual versus best practices for young children with cerebral palsy : a survey of pediatric occupational therapists and physical therapists in Quebec, Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103179.

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Background and rationale. Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the most common disabling disorders of childhood and constitutes a substantial portion of pediatric rehabilitation. This condition demands comprehensive rehabilitation using age-appropriate tasks and activities and encompassing aspects of body function and structure, activity and participation, and personal and environmental factors. Yet little is known regarding actual occupational therapy (OT) and physical therapy (PT) practices.<br>Objective. The primary objective of this doctoral thesis was to describe OT and PT practices for young ch

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Peck, Joshua James. "The biological impact of culture contact a bioarchaeological study of Roman colonialism in Britain /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1237945824.

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Brown, Nicholas Albert Thomas. "Construction of a dynamic-contact task by children : the role of segmental mass and inertia in cycling /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004225.

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Agusil, Antonoff Juan Pablo. "Fabrication of (bio)molecular patterns with contact printing techniques." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/297711.

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Patterns are a collection of forming units predictably repeated over a defined magnitude. Researchers have used patterns to guarantee the functionality and repeatability of their study. For that, the obtained data is purposely compared over and over in hope that the results are comparable. Two main research approaches are based on patterns: The initial requires a single substrate with localized and repeated units to create multiple testing sites, obtaining a repeated, multi-analysis system. The second approach uses fixed localization with different testing motifs, creating a diverse multi-ana

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Babenko, Maksims. "A Study of Heat Transfer at the Cavity-Polymer Interface in Microinjection Moulding. The effects of processing conditions, cavity surface roughness and polymer physical properties on the heat transfer coefficient." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14745.

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This thesis investigates the cooling behaviour of polymers during the microinjection moulding process. The work included bespoke experimental mould design and manufacturing, material characterisation, infra-red temperature measurements, cooling analysis and cooling prediction using commercial simulation software. To measure surface temperature of the polymers, compounding of polypropylene and polystyrene with carbon black masterbatch was performed to make materials opaque for the IR camera. The effects of addition of carbon black masterbatch were analysed using differential scanning calorimetr

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Bastola, Ebin. "CdTe Back Contact Engineering via Nanomaterials, Chemical Etching, Doping, and Surface Passivation." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1596813646708798.

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Bentley, Vivianne M. N. "Maternal childhood risk status as a predictor of emotional availability and physical contact in mother-child interactions : an intergenerational study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ40181.pdf.

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Winkler, Lauren A. "The Social Structuring of Stress in Contact-Era Spanish Florida: A Bioarchaeological Case Study from Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1304529731.

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Kim, Junyoung. "Mediating Relationships among Perceived Throwing Competence, Successful Practice Trials in Throwing, and Skill Improvement in Throwing in 1st Graders in Elementary School Physical Education." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1510763194026188.

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Wegner, Stephan, Fabian Löschner, Stefan Gels, and Hubertus Murrenhoff. "Validation of the physical effect implementation in a simulation model for the cylinder block/valve plate contact supported by experimental investigations." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-199564.

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Overall losses in swash plate type axial piston machines are mainly defined by three tribological interfaces. These are swash plate/slipper, piston/cylinder and cylinder block/valve plate. Within a research project, funded by the German Research Foundation, a combined approach of experimental research and simulation is chosen to acquire further knowledge on the cylinder block/valve plate contact. The experimental investigations focus on the friction torque within the contact and the measurement of the cylinder block movement in all six degrees of freedom. Simultaneously a simulation model is c

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Worner, Averil Ann. "Tactile communication across the first year of life - the complexity of naturalistic dyadic patterns and the effects of contextual, age and affectual factors." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5057.

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Early intimate interactions between mothers and their infants are characterised by mutuality and reciprocity. Although a great deal is known about the distal processes such as gaze and affect, by concentrating on touch this research addresses a key aspect of early life interactions that has received far less attention. this research comprises a single major quasi-experimental and observational longitudinal study, exploring the naturalistic interactions between mothers and their full-term infants (n=32). Dyads were videotaped in their own homes at five age points across the first year - 6 weeks

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Syversætre, Johannessen Vega. "White Noise : An exploration of tufted surfacesin relation to sound, physicalcontact and tactility." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-615.

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This project is about exploring a textile surface with the design elements of sound, physical contact and tactility. It is interesting to analyse how audio and physical elements can help stimulate the human senses. The aim is to bring these elements into a design context and create a textile surface that can give people a sensory and spatial experience. Through tufting it is possible to work with long and short pile, which adds tactile values in the material. The outcome of this exploration is a vast tufted landscape that partly covers the wall and continues out on the floor. The surface has a

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Peck, Joshua J. "THE BIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF CULTURE CONTACT: A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF ROMAN COLONIALISM IN BRITAIN." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1237945824.

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Sarkisov, Pavel. "Physical understanding of tire transient handling behavior." Cuvillier Verlag, 2018. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34414.

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Increasing vehicle performance requirements and virtualization of its development process require more understanding of physical background of tire behavior, especially in transient rolling conditions with combined slip. The focus of this research is physical description of transient generation of tire lateral force and aligning torque. Using acceleration measurement on the tire inner liner it was observed that the contact patch shape of the rolling tire changes nonlinearly with slip angle and becomes asymmetric. Optical measurement outside and inside the tire has clarified that carcass latera

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Quirt, Jill Sutherland. "Epigenetic DNA methylation is not associated with natural variation in caregiver-infant physical contact time in a cross-sectional sample of human toddlers." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42157.

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Background: Early infant experience has been associated with long term epigenetic modifications of gene expression and subsequent health outcomes. We questioned whether daily physical contact time shared between an infant and their caregiver as an early experience was associated with prolonged variations in the epigenetic patterns of toddlers. Methods: We performed a second look analysis of a self-reported 3-day diary kept by 1,055 caregivers of their behaviours and interactions with their infants at 5 weeks of age. We measured the average daily physical contact time shared between the infant

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Vittal, Srigiripura Sahana. "Development of a method for estimation of contact fatigue life in hypoid gears." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-288898.

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Hypoid gears have been used extensively in automobiles, aerospace, marine and other applications for decades. The special advantages of hypoid gears come with inherent contact complexities of varying curvature and sliding in both profile and lengthwise direction. Spalling failure is catastrophic and needs to be addressed with deeper roots in gear design. Analytical methods present several limitations. Iterative development from experimentation is expensive and time consuming with different nonlinear parameters difficult to interpret. This thesis aims to develop a method to calculate contact fa

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Taylor, Gregory. "The impact of a telephone contact program on physical and psychological functioning : level of pain and perceived social support among elderly females with arthritis." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29704.

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Having identified the need to provide services to elderly, homebound people with arthritis, the Social Work Department at the Vancouver Arthritis Centre initiated an Arthritis Telephone Contact Program in Autumn, 1989. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not a weekly telephone call from volunteers would impact positively on subjects' physical and psychological functioning, level of pain and perceived level of social support. The 11 subjects in this study were elderly, Caucasian women identified by health care professionals as being socially isolated due, in part, to the lim

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Smith, Rebecca. "Analysis of Medical Images by Colonies of Prehending Entities." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2095.

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The concept of emergent behavior is difficult to define, but can be considered as higher-level activity created by the individual actions of a population of simple agents. A potential means to model such behavior has been previously developed using Alfred North Whitehead's concept of Actual Entities. In computational form, actual entities are agents which evolve over time in response to interactions with their environment via the process of prehension. This occurs within the context of a Colony of Prehending Entities, a framework for implementation of AE concepts. This thesis explores the prac

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PAPETTI, Stefano. "Sound modeling issues in interactive sonification - From basic contact events to synthesis and manipulation tools." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Verona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11562/340961.

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Questa tesi affronta una varietà di temi di ricerca, spaziando dalla interazione uomo-macchina alla modellizzazione fisica. Ciò che unisce queste ampie aree di interesse è l'idea di utilizzare simulazioni numeriche di fenomeni acustici basate sulla fisica, al fine di implementare interfacce uomo-macchina che offrano feedback sonoro coerente con l'interazione dell'utente. A questo proposito, negli ultimi anni sono nate numerose nuove discipline che vanno sotto il nome di -- per citarne alcune -- auditory display, sonificazione e sonic interaction design. In questa tesi vengono trattate la pro

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Blomquist, Susanne. "Den ömma vilden : -En studie av pedagogens syn på den fysiska kontakten mellan barnen i den vilda leken i förskolan." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för pedagogiska studier, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-36834.

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The Purpose of this study is to contribute knowledge on and to make the preschool teachers views visible about physical contact between children in wild play in the preschool. I decide to use interview of preschool teachers in a group setting as a mean to investigate this. The group interview is a non-structured interview with open questions where the preschool teachers only received guidance with pre made questions when needed. The result shows what kind of view the preschool teachers have on physical contact and they share concreate examples on how they work in situations like these. By read

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Khan, Muhammad Sikandar Lal. "Enabling physical action in computer mediated communication : an embodied interaction approach." Licentiate thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-108569.

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Lynn, Ulrike W. [Verfasser], and Roland [Akademischer Betreuer] Posner. "Keep in touch - a dictionary of contemporary physical contact gestures in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States / Ulrike W. Lynn. Betreuer: Roland Posner." Berlin : Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Berlin, 2012. http://d-nb.info/103035894X/34.

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Shvarts, Andrei. "Couplage mécano-fluidique pour le contact et le frottement à petites et à grandes échelles." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEM009/document.

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Cette thèse traite du problème de l'écoulement d'un fluide dans des interfaces étroites entre des solides en contact sous un chargement normal, ce qui est important pour de nombreuses applications en tribologie, ingénierie et géophysique. Le traitement de ce problème nécessite de prévoir un couplage entre la mécanique des fluides et celle des solides. Les contraintes liées à la présence du contact, ainsi que les caractéristiques complexes de la géométrie de surface rajoutent un niveau de complexité significatif. Dans cette thèse, un solveur monolithique par éléments finis permettant la gestion

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Henriksson, Ivan, and Johannes Österberg. "Beröring inom omvårdnad : Patienters och sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av expressiv beröring : En litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Röda Korsets Högskola, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-1095.

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Bakgrund: Att beröra någon annan ger känslor och känslouttryck hos både individen som utför handlingen och mottagaren. Mellanmänsklig beröring är ett uttryck för kärlek eller tillgivenhet inom familjer och även i andra miljöer. I kliniska sammanhang är beröring viktigt p.g.a. den lugnande effekt och emotionella påverkan som sker. Att lägga handen på någon som lider kan skapa trygghet. Inom omvårdnad är beröring det viktigaste av alla icke-verbala beteenden. Beröring lugnar, tryggar, ger värme och stimulerar patienten. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva patienters och sjukskötersko

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Jons, Mattias. "Doped 3C-SiC Towards Solar Cell Applications." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Halvledarmaterial, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148595.

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The market for renewable energy sources, and solar cells in particular is growing year by year, as a result there is a large interest in research on new materials and new technologies for solar power applications. In this thesis the photovoltaic properties of cubic silicon carbide (3C-SiC) has been investigated. The research includes material growth using the sublimation epitaxy method, both n-type and p-type SiC have been investigated. 3C-SiC pn junctions have been produced and their electrical properties have been characterized, this is the first time 3C-SiC pn junctions have been studied in

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Seyed, Yazdi Jamileh. "WETTING TRANSITIONS AT NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACES." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/298.

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Shape of a droplet atop a surface heterogeneity at a nanoscale. Small aqueous droplets on homogeneous surfaces, surrounded by a reservoir of vapor are inherently unstable. In contact with supersaturated vapor, the drops will keep growing until they coalesce and form a contiguous aqueous phase. Alternatively, if vapor pressure is below that of the droplets, the droplets gradually evaporate. Departing from this common picture, when nanoscale droplets sit above hydrophilic patches on a heterogeneous surface, at certain conditions they can maintain a stable volume, determined by the pertinent cont

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