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Journal articles on the topic "Terrain adaptation"

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Fahmi, Shamel, Michele Focchi, Andreea Radulescu, Geoff Fink, Victor Barasuol, and Claudio Semini. "STANCE: Locomotion Adaptation Over Soft Terrain." IEEE Transactions on Robotics 36, no. 2 (2020): 443–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tro.2019.2954670.

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Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. "Adaptation and Nostalgia." Adaptation 13, no. 3 (2020): 283–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa025.

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Abstract This essay highlights the shared critical terrain of adaptation and nostalgia: how they critically juxtapose the past with the present, and how they underscore the impossibility of return while also relying on prior experience. It also explores nostalgia’s effect on personal responses to adaptations and its interaction with textual form. Drawing from various areas of literary, media, and performance studies, including film adaptations of children’s literature, Watchmen and its screen adaptations, and Disney’s live-action remakes, this essay underscores how both nostalgia and adaptatio
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ZHANG, HE, RUI WU, CHANGLE LI, et al. "ADAPTIVE MOTION PLANNING FOR HITCR-II HEXAPOD ROBOT." Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology 17, no. 07 (2017): 1740040. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219519417400401.

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Multi-legged robots have the ability to traverse rugged terrain and can surmount the obstacles, which are impossible for being overcome by wheeled robots. In this regard, six-legged (hexapod) robots are considered to provide the best combination of adequate adaptability and control complexity. Their motion planning envisages calculating sequences of footsteps and body posture, accounting for the influence of terrain shape, in order to produce the appropriate foot-end trajectory and ensure stable and flexible motion of hexapod robots on the rugged terrain. In this study, a high-order polynomial
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Estremera, J., P. Gonzalez de Santos, and J. A. López-Orozco. "Neural virtual sensors for terrain adaptation of walking machines." Journal of Robotic Systems 22, no. 6 (2005): 299–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rob.20066.

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Yu, Seung-Nam, Kwang-Jin Ko, Ki-Sung Kim, and Wan-Soo Kim. "Terrain Classification Strategy of a Quadruped Robot for Gait Transition and Adaptation in a Field Terrain." Advanced Science Letters 19, no. 1 (2013): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2013.4703.

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Ion, Ion, Mircea Găvan, Adrian Curaj, Grigore Stamatescu, and Cornel Dinu. "Adaptation to Rough Terrains by Using Force Sensing on the MERO Modular Walking Robots." Applied Mechanics and Materials 762 (May 2015): 147–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.762.147.

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The last years a large number of vehicles have been developed for their mobility characteristics over rough terrains. The new modular walking robot MERO* (MEchanism Robot- *Pelecudi Ch et.al.) by reconfiguring their architecture are built to displace the heavy loads on the rough terrains. The main characteristic of the modular walking robot is that they are able to move away on not arranged, horizontal and rough terrains. The modular mechatronic system protect much better the environment when its contact with the soil is discrete, a fact that limits appreciately he area that is crushed. Operat
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Liedtke, H. Christoph, Hendrik Müller, Julian Hafner, et al. "Terrestrial reproduction as an adaptation to steep terrain in African toads." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284, no. 1851 (2017): 20162598. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2598.

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How evolutionary novelties evolve is a major question in evolutionary biology. It is widely accepted that changes in environmental conditions shift the position of selective optima, and advancements in phylogenetic comparative approaches allow the rigorous testing of such correlated transitions. A longstanding question in vertebrate biology has been the evolution of terrestrial life histories in amphibians and here, by investigating African bufonids, we test whether terrestrial modes of reproduction have evolved as adaptations to particular abiotic habitat parameters. We reconstruct and date t
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Valada, Abhinav, and Wolfram Burgard. "Deep spatiotemporal models for robust proprioceptive terrain classification." International Journal of Robotics Research 36, no. 13-14 (2017): 1521–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0278364917727062.

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Terrain classification is a critical component of any autonomous mobile robot system operating in unknown real-world environments. Over the years, several proprioceptive terrain classification techniques have been introduced to increase robustness or act as a fallback for traditional vision based approaches. However, they lack widespread adaptation due to various factors that include inadequate accuracy, robustness and slow run-times. In this paper, we use vehicle-terrain interaction sounds as a proprioceptive modality and propose a deep long-short term memory based recurrent model that captur
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Rao, Zhe, Jing Yuan Zhang, and Wen Jin Yin. "Entering Direction Analysis of Matching Area of Underwater Terrain Aided Navigation Based on Variation Function." Applied Mechanics and Materials 668-669 (October 2014): 374–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.668-669.374.

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In order to improve precision of underwater terrain aided navigation and make full use of the features of topographic information, an analysis method is proposed in this paper, in which the variation function is used as the measurement tool. We discuss what to explore relation between variation function and underwater terrain. Through fitting experimental variation function curve, the relationships of different directions of variation function to terrain information capacity are confirmed. Meanwhile, the analysis reveals that the matching area of underwater terrain aided navigation. The experi
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Cheng, Chen, Ji Chang, Wenjun Lv, et al. "Frequency-Temporal Disagreement Adaptation for Robotic Terrain Classification via Vibration in a Dynamic Environment." Sensors 20, no. 22 (2020): 6550. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20226550.

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The accurate terrain classification in real time is of great importance to an autonomous robot working in field, because the robot could avoid non-geometric hazards, adjust control scheme, or improve localization accuracy, with the aid of terrain classification. In this paper, we investigate the vibration-based terrain classification (VTC) in a dynamic environment, and propose a novel learning framework, named DyVTC, which tackles online-collected unlabeled data with concept drift. In the DyVTC framework, the exterior disagreement (ex-disagreement) and interior disagreement (in-disagreement) a
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Terrain adaptation"

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ANDRADE, BARROSO GUILLERMO ENRIQUE. "Modelisation et adaptation du mouvement de robots tout-terrain." Paris 6, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA066013.

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L'objectif du travail de recherche presente dans ce memoire est la modelisation de la locomotion des vehicules en vue de definir de nouvelles architectures mecaniques et des commandes adaptees a la conduite tout-terrain. Nous nous interessons aux vehicules se deplacant sur un terrain naturel et dans le cadre de l'exploration planetaire. Cependant, les resultats qui sont etablis sont transposables a d'autres types de vehicules tout-terrain. Cette recherche utilise un robot mobile poly-articule de type marsokhod et un terrain naturel. Ce robot possede six roues rigides motorisees sur trois essie
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Meurer, Linda. "The Effects of Prosthetic Alignment over Uneven Terrain." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/kin_health_theses/5.

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The purpose of this study was to analyze kinetic and kinematic data of individuals with unilateral transtibial limb loss and the effect different alignments have on the individual’s gait while they walk over uneven terrain. Individuals with lower limb loss are currently having their prostheses dynamically aligned to ensure a satisfactory walking gait on level ground with smooth surfaces, usually in the clinician's office or hallway. This study was looking to determine whether or not current prosthesis alignment procedures are adequate for determining a satisfactory walking gait on non-level an
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Papinot, Christian. ""l'image, l'objet et l'outil : la photographie et son adaptation au terrain : une experience malgache." Nantes, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994NANT3001.

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Effectuant des recherches sur les vehicules de transport en commun et leur decoration dans le nord malgache, la photographie s'est imposee d'emblee comme instrument privilegie dans les observations. Les conditions d'utilisation de celle-ci dans cette aire culturelle inciterent l'auteur a developper une reflexion epistemologique sur l'usage de cet outil pendnat le travail de terrain. Dans la premiere partie, apres une analyse de la definition sociale et des usages locaux de la photographie et un expose de l'objet initial de l'etude, les incidences qu'a pu avoir l'acte photographique et l'enregi
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Dansou, Houndjoui Pierre. "Adaptations cardiorespiratoires, métaboliques et hormonales au cours d'un match de tennis : du laboratoire au terrain." Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble ; 1971-2015), 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998GRE10091.

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L'objectif de ce travail est d'étudier les adaptations cardio-respiratoires, métaboliques et hormonales des joueurs et joueuses de tennis au laboratoire et sur le terrain. Au laboratoire : cent joueurs et 76 joueuses réalisent une épreuve d'effort d'intensité maximale afin de déterminer leur aptitude maximale aérobie (vo#2max) ; parmi eux, 32 sujets bénéficient d'une détermination de leur seuil anaérobie lactique et 73 jeunes joueurs effectuent un test charge vitesse. Les résultats montrent que : -la pratique du tennis nécessite non seulement une bonne puissance maximale aérobie mais aussi un
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Nguyen, Quang Long. "Adaptation dynamique de maillage pour les écoulements diphasiques en conduites pétrolières : Application à la simulation des phénomènes de terrain slugging et severe slugging." Paris 6, 2009. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01583888.

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Nous nous intéressons à la simulation des écoulements diphasiques en conduites pétrolières. Le transport diphasique est modélisé par un système de lois de conservation composé de trois EDPs et fermé par deux lois fortement non-linéaires. Pour pouvoir utiliser de grands pas de temps tout en garantissant la positivité du schéma numérique, nous proposons de combiner la méthode de relaxation avec la décomposition Lagrange-Projection. Le schéma semi-implicite résultant garantit la stabilité et la positivité du schéma sous une condition CFL basée sur la vitesse de transport. Le gain en temps CPU par
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Devys, Simon. "Analyse et optimisation pluridisciplinaire de la performance en vélo tout terrain cross-country olympique (VTT XCO)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0204/document.

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Ce travail de thèse s'articule autour des caractéristiques de la performance dans la discipline du Vélo Tout-Terrain Cross-Country Olympique (VTT XCO). La performance produite dans une situation d’interaction homme-matériel résulte de l’adéquation optimale entre le pratiquant et son matériel. Elle résulte aussi bien de facteurs mécaniques (géométrie et rigidité du cadre, réglage des suspensions, taille des pneumatiques, transmission), biomécaniques (adoption d’un patron de pédalage adapté au terrain), physiologiques (économie du geste, endurance, fatigue) ou encore motivationnels (confiance en
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NOUVEL, JOHAN. "Niveaux de details dynamiquement adaptatifs pour objets et terrain." Rennes 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998REN10030.

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Les simulations en images de synthese sont de plus en plus realistes, du fait de la complexite des modeles utilises et de la capacite de traitement des generateurs d'images. Mais la limite actuelle des simulations visuelles interactives d'environnements virtuels est le nombre de triangles composant les modeles que peut afficher un generateur d'images. Ce memoire se place dans le cadre de ces applications et etudie plus precisement les niveaux de details, technique permettant d'optimiser le nombre de triangles des bases de donnees. Les travaux portent sur la generation automatique de niveaux de
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Lerbour, Raphaël. "Chargement progressif et rendu adaptatif de vastes terrains." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 1, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00461667.

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Dans cette thèse, nous proposons des solutions pour le chargement progressif et le rendu adaptatif de vastes terrains. Cela peut servir notamment à visualiser la Terre en 3D sur un ordinateur en chargeant les données depuis une immense base de données via un réseau. Dans la première partie de cette thèse, nous introduisons une solution générique pour manipuler des cartes d'échantillons de taille quelconque depuis un serveur jusqu'à un système de rendu client. Nos méthodes s'adaptent aux performances du réseau et du rendu et évitent de traiter des données redondantes. Dans une deuxième partie,
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Bragier, Christophe. "Modélisation d'un terrain et génération de maillages adaptés à la bathymétrie." Lille 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996LIL10093.

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On étudie dans ce travail la génération de maillages bidimensionnels isotropes adaptés à la résolution des équations à surface libre. Les paramètres qui doivent être pris en compte lors de la construction du maillage sont variés et dépendent de l'étude envisagée. On citera notamment la bathymétrie et la présence d'ouvrages d'art. Tout d'abord, la bathymétrie et la géométrie d'une étude sont abordées. Un modèle numérique de terrain est construit à l'aide d'une triangulation de Delaunay contrainte hiérarchique sur des données numérisées. Ensuite le mailleur de Delaunay piloté par une carte de ta
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Barrabé, Laure. "Systématique et Evolution du genre Psychotria (Rubiaceæ) en Nouvelle-Calédonie, adaptation aux terrains ultramafiques." Phd thesis, Université de Nouvelle Calédonie, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00967108.

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La Nouvelle-Calédonie est un archipel du Pacifique Sud-Ouest. Sa flore est riche, unique, et dysharmonique. L'origine temporelle et géographique de cette flore constitue une des problématiques majeures des botanistes. Une étude systématique a été menée sur le genre Psychotria (Rubiaceae), et ses genres alliés (clade Psychotrieae-Palicoureeae), afin de comprendre les modes d'établissement et de diversification des plantes dans l'archipel. Les deux tribus comportent 86 espèces néo-calédoniennes réparties entre les genres Geophila (une espèce), Margaritopsis (quatre espèces) et Psychotria (81 esp
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Books on the topic "Terrain adaptation"

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Chew, Stephen. Diamondback terrapins: Gems of the turtle world. Mill City Press, Inc., 2008.

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Kimber, Gerri, Todd Martin, and Christine Froula, eds. Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439657.001.0001.

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Katherine Mansfield’s ardent overture to Virginia Woolf launched a historic friendship of mutual admiration and fascination shot through with wary misunderstandings, rivalry, and envy. These comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship – absorbing, intimate, distant, secretly critical, competitive, sometimes foundering in ‘quicksands’ – and its profound impact on their creative imaginations. Critical essays include Katherine Mansfield Essay Prizewinner Karina Jakubowicz on Woolf’s Kew
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Antiquity, Archaeological Processes, and Highland Adaptation: The Ifugao Rice Terraces. Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015.

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Book chapters on the topic "Terrain adaptation"

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Nabulsi, S., M. Armada, and H. Montes. "Multiple Terrain Adaptation Approach Using Ultrasonic Sensors for Legged Robots." In Climbing and Walking Robots. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26415-9_47.

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Bradshaw, Sarah, and Brian Linneker. "The Gendered Terrain of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation." In The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315684260-13.

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Okamoto, Shogo, Kaoru Konishi, Kenichi Tokuda, and Satoshi Tadokoro. "Adaptation to Rough Terrain by Using COF Estimation on a Quadruped Vehicle." In Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33453-8_42.

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Turek, Piotr, Stanisław Grzywiński, and Witold Bużantowicz. "Selected Issues and Constraints of Image Matching in Terrain-Aided Navigation: A Comparative Study." In Self-driving Vehicles and Enabling Technologies [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.95039.

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The sensitivity of global navigation satellite systems to disruptions precludes their use in conditions of armed conflict with an opponent possessing comparable technical capabilities. In military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) the aim is to obtain navigational data to determine the location and correction of flight routes by means of other types of navigational systems. To correct the position of an UAV relative to a given trajectory, the systems that associate reference terrain maps with image information can be used. Over the last dozen or so years, new, effective algorithms for matching digital images have been developed. The results of their performance effectiveness are based on images that are fragments taken from source files, and therefore their qualitatively identical counterparts exist in the reference images. However, the differences between the reference image stored in the memory of navigation system and the image recorded by the sensor can be significant. In this paper modern methods of image registration and matching to UAV position refinement are compared, and adaptation of available methods to the operating conditions of the UAV navigation system is discussed.
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Martin, Randall. "Land-Uses and Convertible Husbandry in As You Like It." In Shakespeare and Ecology. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199567027.003.0007.

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Having made jibes at Orlando’s love-verses and drawn defensive reactions from Rosalind, Touchstone gently reproves her by appealing to nature as a third party: ‘You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge’ (3.2.117–18). Thinking ecocritically, we might hear in his advice an anticipation of Aldo Leopold’s landmark book, A Sand County Almanac (1949). Leopold redefined ecological ethics by reading his local Wisconsin landscape for signs of its biodiversity, whose value he asserted independent of its economic and social utility. He also encouraged readers to think about reciprocity and fairness in their dealings with the environments and resources they share with non-human life. Jaques’s viewpoint in As You Like It is hardly as self-disinterested as that of a forest. Yet he captures the essence of Leopold’s biocentric principles by reminding Oliver that the trees into which he has thoughtlessly, if romantically, carved his verses are entitled to their own physical integrity (3.2.251–52). Leopold’s outlook inspired the later movement, bioregionalism, which looks to identification with a landscape’s terrain, climate, and biota, or collective plant and animal life, as the basis for resistance to environmental damage caused by distant political authorities and transnational economies. In conceiving environments as ‘life-territories’ with natural rights that extend beyond those of human culture, Leopold invited people to imagine cooperative attachments to regional modes of subsistence and dwelling. Arden and surrounding Warwickshire were the life-territory where Shakespeare learned to think bioregionally. Whereas his knowledge of Windsor in Merry Wives came from passing acquaintance, his sensitivity to Arden’s place-attachments was both deeply personal and critically detached, and he integrated both perspectives into As You Like It. Topographic and social contouring of Warwickshire’s historically changing terrains dramatically heightens the visibility of Arden’s early modern bio-relations. I’ll begin exploring these by considering how Shakespeare gave his dramatic adaptation of Thomas Lodge’s prose romance Rosalynde (1590) a distinctive environmental profile. In doing so, Shakespeare created an ecological meta-commentary on Lodge’s popular forest romance.
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Sewall, Sarah. "US Civil-Military Relations in the Gray Zone." In Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197535493.003.0015.

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This chapter argues that the changing character of conflict demands rethinking U S civil-military relations. The United States has long relied on a nuclear deterrent and conventional military superiority to defend itself, but its adversaries have changed the rules of the game to exploit civilian vulnerabilities in the U S homeland using non kinetic tools. To ensure continued civilian control of the military use of force and effective management of competition below the threshold of war, civilian leaders must assume greater responsibility for the political and operational management of hostilities in the Gray Zone. Because civilian leaders are underprepared for this new global competition, they will be tempted to default to conventional military solutions. Traditional civil-military frameworks did not envision permanent conflict or the centrality of civilian terrain, capabilities, and operational responsibilities. The United States needs civilian-led tools and approaches to effectively avoid the dual extremes of national immobilization in the face of non kinetic threats and inadvertent escalation of conflict without civilian authorization or intent. Civilian adaptation could also diminish the traditional role of the armed forces in defending the nation. The United States must rewire the relationship of the military and civilians through its decisions about how to manage Gray Zone competition.
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Goldberg, David E. "John H. Holland, Facetwise Models, and Economy of Thought." In Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195162929.003.0008.

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Noted complex adaptive system researcher John H. Holland now receives acclaim from many quarters, but it is important to understand that this man and his ideas have been controversial since the beginning of his career. Genetic algorithms (GAs) were ignored or disparaged throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and even now, as these and his other ideas receive worldwide recognition in broad outline, the specifics of his mode of thought and insight are rejected by many who claim to embrace his key insights. This is a mistake. I have known John Holland for 23 years, and I have learned many things from him, but a critical influence has been his style of thought, in particular, his style of modeling. John has an uncanny knack of getting to the heart of a matter through the construction of what I call little models. Sometimes these models are verbal, sometimes they are mathematical, but they almost always shed a great deal of light on some nagging question in the analysis and design of complex systems. In this chapter, I propose to briefly explore John Holland's style of little modeling, and better understand its nature, its essence, and why some of those who embrace the broad outlines of his teaching have been slow to embrace the details of his modeling and the style of his thought. The exploration begins by recalling my own first impressions of John Holland and his style of thought, impressions made 23 years ago in a classroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It continues with a case study in Holland-style facetwise model building in constructing a takeover time model. It continues by integrating the takeover time model with a model of innovation on dimensional grounds. Finally, the Hollandian mode of model building is placed on intellectual terra firma with an economic argument, suggesting that the costs of modeling or thought must be weighed in relation to the model's benefits in understanding or designing a complex system.
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West-Eberhard, Mary Jane. "Phenotypic Recombination Due to Learning." In Developmental Plasticity and Evolution. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195122343.003.0024.

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Learning, like consciousness, is something that everybody can recognize and no one can define without provoking controversy. Perhaps this is why some important books dedicate hundreds of pages to learning without defining it (e.g., Mackintosh, 1974; Marler and Terrace, 1984). In one unusually candid book, the indexed page that promised a definition of learning proved to be completely blank. That stimulated me to make my own definition, something that is easier for a person who is not an expert in the field: learning is a change in the nervous system manifested as altered behavior due to experience (based on discussions in Marler and Terrace, 1984; Bell, 1991; Mackintosh, 1974, 1983; Papaj, 1994). Most people, including most biologists, probably underestimate the importance of learning in the biology of nonhuman animals. But there have been important exceptions, for example, in the writings of Baldwin (1902), Hinde (1959), Partridge (1983), Roper (1983a,b), Slater (1983,1986), Shettleworth (1984), Davey (1989), Wcislo (1989), Real (1993, 1994), Dyer (1994), Morse (1980), Marler (1998), and others (see Marler and Terrace, 1984). Some form of learning, whether habituation, associative learning (Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward or punishment is associated with some cue such a color, odor, or sound), aversive learning, or trial and error learning (operant conditioning, in which a rewarded behavior is repeated or a punished one stopped), seems to occur in all animal groups where there is enough versatility in movement to allow it to be recognized. The venerable animal psychology text by Maier and Schneirla (1935 [1964]) gives many interesting examples from a time when researchers sought to demonstrate learning in a wide variety of organisms. They found it even in protists. In more recent research in areas such as foraging behavior and kin recognition (e.g., see Heinrich, 1979; Fletcher and Michener, 1987), learning has proven to be important but is a sidelight to research more concerned with optimization and adaptation. So learning itself has not always received the attention it deserves as a phenomenon of general evolutionary interest.
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Conway, G. "Practical innovation: Partnerships between Scientists and Farmers." In Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195113129.003.0027.

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Farmers have been experimenters since the beginning of agriculture. Hunters and gatherers had long since learned to use fire as a means of stimulating the growth of tubers and other food plants, and of grass to attract game. Plant selection began when people found they could encourage favored fruiting trees by clearing their competitive neighbors, but the first steps toward intensive plant breeding were taken when an individual, probably a woman rather than a man, deliberately sowed a seed from a high-yielding plant somewhere near the dwelling and observed it grow to maturity. In Europe and Asia, wheat and rice naturally attracted experimental attention. Because they are predominantly self-pollinating, selection produces rapid improvements and the rare crosses provide new material, often with exciting potential. The first bread wheat, a natural cross between emmer wheat and a wild goat grass, was noticed by farmers as early as 8,000 years ago; it was the kind of exotic cross that modern genetic engineers strive for and that is announced in the press, today, as a miracle variety. Farmers continued to domesticate new species, but most attention was devoted to the local selection and adaptation of the existing relatively small number of cereals and livestock. Experimentation also resulted in new whole systems of agriculture— swidden, rice terracing, home gardens, irrigated agriculture, the Mediterranean Trio of wheat, olives, and vines, the Latin American multiple cropping of maize, beans, and squashes, and, in many parts of the world, various forms of integrated crop-livestock agriculture. As is evident from their writings, the Romans analyzed the structure and functions of agricultural systems in a scientific manner. They also described the process of experimentation. Marcus Terentius Varro, who wrote a treatise on agriculture in the 1st century BC, urged farmers to both “imitate others and attempt by experiment to do some things in a different way. Following not chance but some system: as, for instance, if we plough a second time, more or less deeply than others, to see what effect this will have” (Hooper and Ash, 1935). The great agricultural revolution of Britain in the late 18th century was led by farmers.
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Crouch, Dora P. "Greek Settlements and Karst Phenomena: Corinth and Syracuse." In Water Management in Ancient Greek Cities. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195072808.003.0017.

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To get a sense of the relationship between karst geology and Greek settlement, we will look at examples from the Greek mainland, the islands of the Aegean, and Sicily. There is no attempt here to be comprehensive, as the necessary field work has not been done to make that possible, but rather these examples are selected to suggest the way that karst water potential played an important role in site selection and development. The major examples selected are Athens and Corinth for mainland Greece, Rhodes for the Aegean Islands, Assos and Priene for Ionia, and Syracuse and Akragas for Sicily. Other places will be cited briefly if the details from those sites are particularly illuminating. Karst phenomena, as we have seen, are found throughout the Greek world. Since Athens is perhaps the best documented Greek city, and has in addition a phenomenal karst system as its monumental focus, it receives here a section of its own, Chapter 18, The Well-Watered Acropolis. In Chapter 11, Planning Water Management, we discuss Corinth’s water system in comparison with that of her daughter city Syracuse. Here, however, we will consider the aspects of water at Corinth that derive from the karst geology of the area. This city is an excellent example of the adaptation of urban requirements to karst terrane, the siting of an ancient Greek city to take advantage of this natural resource. Ancient Corinth was built on gradually sloping terraces below the isolated protuberance of Acrocorinth, which acts as a reservoir, with the flow of waters through it resulting in springs (Fig. 8.1). That karst waters are to be found in perched nappes even at high altitudes accounts for the spring of Upper Peirene not far below the summit of Acrocorinth, as well as the two fountains half-way down the road from its citadel, and the fountain called Hadji Mustapha, at the immediate foot of the citadel (as reported by the late seventeenth century traveler, E. Celebi, cited in Mackay, 1967, 193–95.) The aquifers also supply the aqueduct (probably ancient) from Penteskouphia southwest of Acrocorinth.
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Conference papers on the topic "Terrain adaptation"

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Debao Zhou, K. H. Low, and T. Zielinska. "Design of a quadruped walking machine for terrain adaptation." In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Robot Motion and Control. RoMoCo'99 (Cat. No.99EX353). IEEE, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/romoco.1999.791053.

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Isvara, Yudi, Syawaludin Rachmatullah, Kusprasapta Mutijarsa, Dinara Enggar Prabakti, and Wiharsa Pragitatama. "Terrain adaptation gait algorithm in a hexapod walking robot." In 2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icarcv.2014.7064578.

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Dario Bellicoso, C., Christian Gehring, Jemin Hwangbo, Peter Fankhauser, and Marco Hutter. "Perception-less terrain adaptation through whole body control and hierarchical optimization." In 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/humanoids.2016.7803330.

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Hyon, Sang-Ho, and Gordon Cheng. "Simultaneous adaptation to rough terrain and unknown external forces for biped humanoids." In 2007 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2007). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ichr.2007.4813844.

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Dettmann, Alexander, Anna Born, Sebastian Bartsch, and Frank Kirchner. "Experience-based adaptation of locomotion behaviors for kinematically complex robots in unstructured terrain." In 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iros.2015.7354017.

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Walas, Krzysztof, Dimitrios Kanoulas, and Przemyslaw Kryczka. "Terrain classification and locomotion parameters adaptation for humanoid robots using force/torque sensing." In 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/humanoids.2016.7803265.

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Chen, Teng, Yibin Li, Xuewen Rong, and Lelai Zhou. "Realization of Complex Terrain and Disturbance Adaptation for Hydraulic Quadruped Robot under Flying trot Gait." In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/robio49542.2019.8961497.

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Sato, Tomoya, Sho Sakaino, and Kouhei Ohnishi. "Adaptation method using environmental modes for biped robot with toe and heel joints on unknown uneven terrain." In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics (ICM). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icmech.2011.5971236.

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Homchanthanakul, Jettanan, Potiwat Ngamkajornwiwat, Pitiwut Teerakittikul, and Poramate Manoonpong. "Neural Control with an Artificial Hormone System for Energy-Efficient Compliant Terrain Locomotion and Adaptation of Walking Robots." In 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iros40897.2019.8968580.

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Kim, Sang-Do, Cheong-Hee Lee, Suk-June Yoon, et al. "Variable Configuration Tracked Mobile Robot for Demining Operations." In ASME 2004 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2004-57196.

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This paper introduces a link-type tracked mobile robot developed for demining operations. The robot consists of three parts: a front frame, a rear frame, and a body. The front frame is connected to the rear frame by a rotational passive adaptation mechanism, which is a driving mechanism of the robot. This passive adaptation mechanism enables the proposed robot good adaptability to uneven terrain including stairs. The link structure gives rise to a small, simple, and energy efficient vehicle. In addition, the new demining system adaptable to the proposed tracked mobile robot is discussed on how
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Venäläinen, Ari, Sanna Luhtala, Mikko Laapas, et al. Sää- ja ilmastotiedot sekä uudet palvelut auttavat metsäbiotaloutta sopeutumaan ilmastonmuutokseen. Finnish Meteorological Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35614/isbn.9789523361317.

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Climate change will increase weather induced risks to forests, and thus effective adaptation measures are needed. In Säätyö project funded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, we have summarized the data that facilitate adaptation measures, developed weather and climate services that benefit forestry, and mapped what kind of new weather and climate services are needed in forestry. In addition, we have recorded key further development needs to promote adaptation. The Säätyö project developed a service product describing the harvesting conditions of trees based on the soil moisture asses
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