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Deslauriers, R. Abram. "Insert Title." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3370.
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It is a gestural sensibility forever suspended in the material as it cools. With each movement to and fro, I become fully immersed and given over to the activity of glassworking, where the simplest impressions whisper of fantastic melodies. I remain open to it: conducting a collision: a symphony of riffs, vamps and arpeggios. Constructing the chorus in disjunctive phases as if it forms out of its own directive. The polyphonic rhythm of decisions converge into a new composition, now completely obscured from the intro—existing in reference only to itself and you
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White, Michelle Ann. "An Investigation of Gender, Prior Access to Athletics, and Interest Levels in Intercollegiate Sports of First-Time-in-College Freshmen." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5570.
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The focus of this research was to investigate the effects of gender and level of prior access to athletic programs sponsored by school, community, church, student or civic groups, and informal programs on level of first-time-in-college (FTIC) freshmen's interest in participating in intercollegiate athletics. To this end, 1,196 respondents (682 females and 514 males) who were admitted to the University of Central Florida and attended freshman orientation sessions in May and June of 2007 at the UCF-Orlando campus completed the face-to-face survey. Participants ranged in age from 18 years of age to 25 years of age, representing varied racial/ethnic backgrounds, with a majority being registered as full-time students at time of the survey. The FTIC freshmen anonymously and voluntarily completed a modified version of The Student Interests in Athletics, Sports, and Fitness Survey (National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1995). Quantitative data gathered through analysis of closed-response questions provided information on their demographics, general interest in athletics, prior access to school and non-school sponsored sports, and interest in participating in college athletics. Survey responses suggested that a gender difference exists in FTIC freshmen when taking into account prior access to school and non-school sponsored athletics in predicting level of interest in participating in intercollegiate sports. FTIC freshmen males reported having more access to athletics than did FTIC freshmen females prior to attending freshmen orientation sessions in May and June of 2007. In addition, more FTIC freshmen males than females reported being interested in participating in intercollegiate athletics. Lower interest and participation rates by females in intercollegiate sports may, therefore, be an artifact of less access to opportunities to participate in sports during high school. Although almost four decades have passed with the expectation of gender equity within school settings in effect, most educational institutions are not in compliance with Title IX legislation. Females have not been afforded the same opportunities to participate in sports as males, and this appears to have influenced their interest in participating in sports. The findings of this study demonstrate the need for increased enforcement of Title IX legislation at all levels of education for true gender equity and athletic interest to be realized.<br>ID: 031001407; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: Rosemarye Taylor.; Title from PDF title page (viewed June 12, 2013).; Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-193).<br>Ed.D.<br>Doctorate<br>Educational and Human Sciences<br>Education and Human Performance<br>Educational Leadership
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McNeil, K. "Common law aboriginal title : The right of indigenous people to lands occupied by them at the time a territory is annexed to the Crown's dominions by settlement." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234395.
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García, Antonio. "Parallel time varying volume rendering on tile displays." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1135801433.
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Garcia, Antonio. "Parallel time varying volume rendering on tile displays." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1135801433.
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Khan, Shahbaz. "Reappraisal of steady state and time-variant analysis of tile drainage systems." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.690128.
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Grelsson, David. "Tile Based Procedural Terrain Generation in Real-Time : A Study in Performance." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för kreativa teknologier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5409.
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Context. Procedural Terrain Generation refers to the algorithmical creation of terrains with limited or no user input. Terrains are an important piece of content in many video games and other forms of simulations. Objectives. In this study a tile-based approach to creating endless terrains is investigated. The aim is to find if real-time performance is possible using the proposed method and possible performance increases from utilization of the GPU. Methods. An application that allows the user to walk around on a seemingly endless terrain is created in two versions, one that exclusively utilizes the CPU and one that utilizes both CPU and GPU. An experiment is then conducted that measures performance of both versions of the application. Results. Results showed that real-time performance is indeed possible for smaller tile sizes on the CPU. They also showed that the application benefits significantly from utilizing the GPU. Conclusions. It is concluded that the tile-based approach works well and creates a functional terrain. However performance is too poor for the technique to be utilized in e.g. a video game.
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Lo, Kui-Yip. "Tile-based surface modeling /." View abstract or full-text, 2007. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?CSED%202007%20LOK.
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Lippincott, Richard Hysler. "Rookwood architectural faience tile." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/865963.
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The Rookwood Pottery Company was one of the most outstanding American pottery producers in the early 20th century. Rookwood produced a line of significant architectural facing tiles, unlike anything else produced in the Arts and Crafts tile industry. This thesis is an assimilation of all the primary product. Rookwood's catalogues, commissions, and artisans are discussed to illustrate the design and production significance Rookwood's product. The analysis will be valuable for the documentation and identification of tile installations produced by the Rookwood Pottery Company from 1903-1931.<br>Department of Architecture
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Soongkitkarn, Amornrat. "Marketing plan for Neustile roof tile for CPAC Roof Tile Co., Ltd. (Thailand)." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2417.
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Kowalewski, Barbara. "Frauengestalten in Geschichtswerk des T. Livius /." München : K. G. Saur, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39086069p.
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Reynolds, Elaine P. "An Automated Method of Identifying the Location of Agricultural Field Drainage Tiles in Northwest Ohio." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1404730697.
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Serdar, Tatjana. "Automatic datapath tile placement and routing /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6110.
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Bernard, Jacques-Emmanuel. "Le portrait chez Tite-Live : essai sur une écriture de l'histoire romaine /." Bruxelles : Latomus, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38844288f.
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Levene, D. S. "Religion in Livy /." Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E.J. Brill, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35587002z.
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Snapp, Cooper. "EVALUATION OF SPACE SHUTTLE TILE SUBNOMINAL BONDS." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3038.
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This study researched the history of Space Shuttle Reusable Surface Insulation which was designed and developed for use on the United States Orbiter fleet to protect from the high heating experienced during reentry through Earth's atmosphere. Specifically the tile system which is attached to the structure by the means of an RTV adhesive has experienced situations where the bonds are identified as subnominal. The history of these subnominal conditions is presented along with a recent identification of a subnominal bond between the Strain Isolation Pad and the tile substrate itself. Tests were run to identify the cause of these subnominal conditions and also to show how these conditions were proved to be acceptable for flight. The study also goes into cases that could be used to identify subnominal conditions on tile as a non-destructive test prior to flight. Several options of non-destructive testing were identified and recommendations are given for future research into this topic. A recent topic is also discussed in the instance where gap fillers were identified during the STS-114 mission that did not properly adhere to the substrate. The gap fillers were found protruding past the Outer Mold Line of the vehicle which required an unprecedented spacewalk to remove them to allow for a safe reentry through the atmosphere.<br>M.S.A.E.<br>Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering;<br>Engineering and Computer Science<br>Aerospace Engineering
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Sloan, Brandon Patrick. "Hydrologic impacts of tile drainage in Iowa." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5060.
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Agricultural tile drainage is an integral part of Iowa's landscape, with nearly 30% of Iowa's cropland being drained (Schilling & Helmers, 2008). Tile drainage allows for efficient crop production in Iowa's nutrient rich soils by removing excess water from frequently inundated fields through subsurface pipe networks. These tile systems are suspected of altering the hydrologic regime of Iowa, but the extent of the problem remains unknown. A literature review is performed to assess the current understanding of tile drainage and to help create a framework of analysis to address this problem. The deterministic field-scale model DRAINMOD is used in both a field and catchment scale analysis of the hydrologic impacts of tile drainage in conditions typical to Iowa. The field-scale study explores the influence of soil type, surface storage, rainfall characteristics, and drainage spacing on how tiling impacts the hydrologic response . A range of metrics, including the mean annual peak flow, flow duration curves, and the Richard Baker Flashiness Index are used for the analysis. Subsurface drainage was observed to have no impact on the mean annual peak flow. This is because the largest storms of the year are almost always dominated by surface runoff, rendering the additional storage created by the tiles inconsequential. Metrics that captured the entire flow regime were, however, affected significantly by tiles. The flashiness index of less permeable soils, typical of Iowa, reduced with tile drainage, due to a change from surface dominated to subsurface dominated flow. The reduction varied spatially as a function of rainfall percentiles, and at 25th percentile rainfall, increases were observed in certain areas. A saddle shaped behavior was observed between tile spacing and flashiness index, demonstrating the existence of an optimal spacing minimizes the effect of drainage. The field scale DRAINMOD results are then used in conjunction with a simplified routing equation to analyze the impact of tile drains on the Clear Creek Watershed (CCW) in Iowa. It was found that adding drained fields to the densest portion of the CCW width function leads to the greatest reduction of peak flow at the outlet, as long as the percentage of the watershed drained is maintained constant.
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Maung, David. "Tile-based Method for Procedural Content Generation." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461077485.
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Gutberlet, Dagmar. "Die Erste Dekade des Livius als Quelle zur gracchischen und sullanischen Zeit /." Hildesheim : G. Olms, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb349220847.
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Dickinson, Michael Design Studies College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Design of a Static Concentrating Photovoltaic Roof Tile." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Design Studies, 2001. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18229.
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The aim of this document is to investigate through industrial design the potential of a high efficiency photovoltaic concentrator theory. The investigation directs a proposed layout for the design of a device, which specifically addresses the incorporation of the concentrator theory into the design of a photovoltaic ????????roof tile????????. The focus of the investigation has been the integration of theoretical constructs and physical realities. The objective is to facilitate this transition from theory to reality: to contribute to the quest of creating viable manufacturable designs for the generation of clean low cost electrical power. The use of a roof tile as the focus of the incorporating device served two purposes. Number one: it provided a sensible, existing platform, which is under utilised, presented potential and fitted within established building practices. It was not the objective of this thesis to argue that tile integration is the best, only or even the most financially viable direction to pursue; it was one option among many. This brings us to the second purpose; the consideration of existing roofing tiles forced the theory to be applied within set limitations, in particular existing size restrictions. The imposition of a framework to work within highlighted the design issues, which would have to be addressed in the actualisation of the theory. The theory????????s broad strategy for economic viability has been to reduce the actual silicone cell content of panel designs by approximately one third. This is achieved by the use of numerically fewer cells in combination with a concentration method, which does not cost more than the savings gained by the use of fewer cells. This document records the design process undertaken and presents the findings so that further development can be undertaken.
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Wright, Patrick B. "Chemical erosion of DIII-D tokamak tile samples." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58733.pdf.
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Ortiz, Sean C. "High Power Spatial Combiners: Tile and Tray Approaches." NCSU, 2001. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-20011119-214207.
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<p>Spatial power combining is a method of coherently combining the power of manyamplifying devices using free space as the power dividing/combining medium in contrastto traditional circuit based combiners. The spatial combiner is formed from anarray of amplifying unit cells, with each cell receiving a signal, amplifying it, and thenradiating it into free space. Two methods of spatial powercombining, tile and tray, are investigated in this thesis.The tile-based spatial combiner consists of a thick groundplane with receiving microstrip patch antennason one side and transmitting microstrip patch antennas on the other. In addition, amplifiers are placedon both sides of the thick groundplane, which provides efficient heat removal.This research is focused on the optimal array spacing, biasing,and feeding of tile-based arrays to achieve high output power levels atKa-band (Lockheed Martin was specifically interested in achieving greater than 25 Watts ofradiated power under a DARPA MAFET-3 program). Several arrays were developed, consisting of13, 45, and 98 elements. Noteworthy results were obtained from theexperiments with this design approach. A tray-based approach is also investigated in this thesis. This approach differsfrom the tile-based approach by having multiple groundplanes (trays) containingamplifiers stacked to form an array of amplifying unit cells. In addition,microstrip patch antennas are placed at the ends of the trays and radiate in an end-fire pattern with respectto the tray containing the amplifiers. For this purpose, an approach has been developedfor the feeding of the microstrip patch antennas. This feeding mechanismallows the amplifiers and radiating elements to be isolated. Thus moreroom is allowed for the amplifiers, while minimizing coupling that may causespurious oscillations. An X-band and Ka-band array have been developed,consisting of 25 and 49 elements, respectively. Both arrays provide efficientheat sinking through thick metal groundplanes. In addition, an experimentalanalysis on the array tolerance to device failure has been performed on both tray-basedarrays. This study examines the effect of device failure on the gain, power output, and radiationpattern.<P>
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Bernard, Jacques-Emmanuel. "Le portrait chez Tite-Live." Paris 4, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040193.
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La thèse aborde les problèmes littéraires et épistémologiques soulevés par le portrait dans l'œuvre de Tite-Live. La première partie étudie l'ensemble des procédés stylistiques et rhétoriques qui permettent d'élaborer formellement le portrait historique : narration, représentation dramatique, discours. La technique utilisée par Tite-Live aboutit à un type de portrait d'une grande cohérence, où se reflète le dessein didactique et persuasif de son œuvre. La seconde partie élabore une typologie des 2000 personnages de l'Ab Urbe condita étudiés en fonction de trois catégories majeures : référence familiale, référence à la fonction sociale, référence ethnique. L'idéologie morale et politique qui sous-tend la caractérisation de tous les personnages, tant barbares que romains, s'explique par le désir de créer un seul portrait, celui du peuple de Rome, populus princeps, unifié autour des valeurs nationales qui furent celles de la république. La troisième et dernière partie de la thèse montre comment l'auteur a réussi a dépasser sa propre vision idéale des romains et les lieux communs des portraits pour rendre compte de la singularité historique des personnages, et de l'évolution de Rome. L'on voit en particulier que la description des protagonistes oscille entre une conception collective de l'héroïsme, conforme au mos maicrum, et une conception hellénistique, davantage centrée sur l'individuel. L'esthétique du portrait, à la fois tragique et sublime, fondée sur un équilibre fragile entre la vérité et la vraisemblance, et entre l'histoire et la poésie, permet de réduire l'opposition entre le lieu commun et le singulier : en mettant en relief l'influence de l'homme dans le devenir historique, la beauté des portraits devient l'expression d'un humanisme qui s'est voulu universel<br>This thesis deals with the literary and epistemological problems raised by the historical portrait in the work of Livy. The first section studies all the stylistic and rhetorical figures and methods that constitute an historical portrait: narration, dramatic portrayal, speeches. The technique of Livy produces a consistent kind of portrait, in which the didactic and persuasive aim of his work is reflected. The second section proposes a typological classification of the 2000 people in his Ab Urbe condita, according to three main categories: family, social role, ethnic group. The moral and political ideology that lies behind the characterization of all these people, whether barbarian or roman, is readily understandable. Livy's wishes to create a unique portrait, that of the romans, populus princeps, united around national values which are those of the republic. The final section of this thesis demonstrates how Livy has succeeded in going beyond the common traits of the portraits and that of his own idealistic vision of the romans, and has given us a description of the historical uniqueness of these people and of the true evolution of Rome. In particular, it can be seem that the description of the protagonists vacillates between a collective notion of heroism, according to the mos maicrum, and a Hellenistic concept, which centers more on the individual. The esthetic value of these portraits, which at the same time are both tragic and sublime, is founded on a delicate balance between truth and verisimilitude, and between history and poetry. This makes it possible to reduce the antagonism between the common traits and that is
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Van, Zandvoort Alisha. "The Effect of Control Tile Drainage on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Fields in the South Nation Watershed of Ontario." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34567.
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Controlled tile drainage (CTD) is an agricultural management practice with well-documented water quality and agronomic benefits, however, by virtue of its effect upon soil hydrology, CTD could potentially impact soil greenhouse gas (GHG: CO2, CH4, N2O) emissions. This study aimed to determine whether: (1) CTD affects soil GHG emissions throughout a dry (2012) and a wet (2013) growing season for corn, soybean, and forage fields in eastern Ontario, and (2) the location in a field with respect to a tile drain (over tile (OT) versus between tile (BT)) is important in GHG emissions. Non-steady state chambers were used for sampling soil GHG emissions in order to analyze GHG fluxes, the δ13C of soil-respired CO2 (RT), and for separating total soil respiration into its rhizosphere and soil components. There was no significant difference in average GHG emissions from CTD and UTD fields (except for 1/5 field pairs studied for N2O) and from OT and BT locations. The means of δ13C of RT were not statistically different (p>0.05) between 4/5 CTD and UTD field pairs, and between OT and BT locations in 4/5 CTD fields. The mean contributions from rhizosphere respiration and soil respiration did not differ (p>0.05) in 3/4 CTD and UTD field pairs. This lack of difference in GHG emissions is believed to have resulted from their being no difference in surface soil water contents among CTD and UTD fields and among OT and BT locations. It is believed that surface soil moisture did not vary because: (1) the water table was too low in 2012 for effective water table control, and (2) significant precipitation created equally wet surface soil in 2013. In 2013, the surface soil moisture was approximately 10% greater and this may be why there was an approximate 5 kg C/ha/day greater CO2 flux from soybean fields in 2013 than in 2012. δ13C was useful for distinguishing the source of CO2 emissions (rhizosphere versus soil respiration) in CTD fields when the crop and plant δ13C signatures varied. The results are useful for helping to capture the carbon footprint of tile drainage management practices imposed at field-scale.
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Salem, Mahmoud. "Investigation of materials based on pulverized fuel ash and sodium silicate solutions." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303855.
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Hickson, Frances V. "Roman prayer language : Livy and the Aneid of Vergil /." Stuttgart : B. G. Teubner, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37093995x.
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Texte remanié de: Diss.--Chapel Hill, N. C.--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986. Titre de soutenance : Voces precationum : the vocabulary of prayer in Livy and the Aeneid of Vergil.<br>Bibliogr. p. 183-193. Index.
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Stein, Peter. "Untersuchungen zur Verbalsyntax der Liviusübersetzungen in die romanischen Sprachen : einVersuch zur Anwendung quantitativer Methoden in der historisch-vergleichenden Syntax /." Tübingen : M.Niemeyer, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37684026p.
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Betts, Ian M. "A scientific investigation of the brick and tile industry of York in the mid-eighteenth century." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2690.
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Petrological and neutron activation analysis of bricks and tiles from York and neighbouring sites with discussion of the analytical and documentary evidence for their production in York up until AD 1750.
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Sutton, Kathleen Rose Creagh, and res cand@acu edu au. "A Study of the Mater Children’s Hospital Tile Project." Australian Catholic University. School of Arts and Sciences, 2005. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp105.11092006.
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This thesis examined the relationship between children’s visual art and hospital contexts. It specifically focused on children’s art in the Tile Project within the Mater Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. This ethnographic study consisted of interviews with the creators of the Tile Project as well as interviews and a survey with parents, staff, and children within the Mater Children’s Hospital. The interviews were informed by a review of literature in the areas of art in health settings. The study made observations of the community interacting with the tiles and collected images of the tiles used in the hospital and employed the framework of Bourdieu’s (1993) fields of cultural production and Abbs’s (1987) aesthetic field and dimensions, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of Beardsley (1982), Eisner (1985), and Csikszentmihalyi (1990). The study investigated the aesthetic characteristics of the tiles and their health outcomes in relation to the hospital community. This study is significant because the Mater Children’s Hospital Tile Project was a project that reflected art in healthcare settings involving Community Arts, art in design, and art in public buildings. The research identified the unique nature of the Tile Project which saw the hospital as a children’s space with artworks for children by children. The study reflected on the value of the tiles in having a healing and distracting quality for parents and children alike and that engagement with the tiles through touch, imagination, and playful games improved the atmosphere of the hospital.
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Caron, Bryan Lawrence. "Simulation of the scintillating tile endcap detector of OPAL." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0001/MQ28921.pdf.
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Lesser, Jonas. "Development and Test of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter Digitizer." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-306.
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Waskow, Samuel Justo. "Aprendizado por reforço utilizando tile coding em cenários multiagente." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/28349.
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Atualmente pesquisadores de inteligência artificial buscam métodos para solucionar problemas de aprendizado por reforço que estão associados a uma grande quantidade de recursos computacionais. Em cenários multiagentes onde os espaços de estados e ações possuem alta dimensionalidade, as abordagens tradicionais de aprendizado por reforço são inadequadas. Como alternativa existem técnicas de generalização do espaço de estados que ampliam a capacidade de aprendizado através de abstrações. Desta maneira, o foco principal deste trabalho é utilizar as técnicas existentes de aprendizado por reforço com aproximação de funções através de tile coding para aplicação nos seguintes cenários: presa-predador, controle de tráfego veicular urbano e jogos de coordenação. Os resultados obtidos nos experimentos demonstram que a representação de estados por tile coding tem desempenho superior à representação tabular.<br>Nowadays, researchers are seeking methods to solve reinforcement learning (RL) problems in complex scenarios. RL is an efficient, widely used machine learning technique in single-agent problems. Regarding multiagent systems, in which the state space generally has high dimensionality, standard reinforcement learning approaches may not be adequate. As alternatives, it is possible to use techniques that generalize the state space to enhance the ability of the agents to learn through the use of abstraction. Thus, the focus of this work is to use an existing reinforcement learning technique, namely tile coding, that is a better form of state representation. This kind of method is key in scenarios where agents have a high number of states to explore. In the scenarios used to test and validate this approach, our experimental results indicate that the tile coding state representation outperforms the tabular one.
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Mathai, Manish. "A Tile-Based Approach for Photo-Realistic Volume Rendering." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23836.
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Previous studies on photo-realistic volume rendering have failed to optimize
for performance with respect to the cache-hierarchy. With this thesis, we consider
a tile-based approach for photo-realistic volume rendering, in an effort to improve
cache performance and decrease overall execution time. We evaluated the algorithm
compared to the traditional approach, with workloads of varying data sizes,
resolutions, samples per pixel. Overall we ran 48 serial experiments, and found
that the tile-based approach is consistently faster than the traditional approach,
including speedups of up to 20%. Additionally we determine that the improvement
does not carry forward directly to parallel platforms like Intel TBB.
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Karpenko, Daria. "Active Tile Self-assembly and Simulations of Computational Systems." Scholar Commons, 2015. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5519.
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Algorithmic self-assembly has been an active area of research at the intersection of computer science, chemistry, and mathematics for almost two decades now, motivated by the natural self-assembly mechanism found in DNA and driven by the desire for precise control of nanoscale material manufacture and for the development of nanocomputing and nanorobotics. At the theoretical core of this research is the Abstract Tile Assembly Model (aTAM), the original abstract model of DNA tile self-assembly. Recent advancements in DNA nanotechnology have been made in developing strand displacement mechanisms that could allow DNA tiles to modify themselves during the assembly process by opening or closing certain binding sites, introducing new dynamics into tile self-assembly.
We focus on one way of incorporating such signaling mechanisms for binding site activation and deactivation into the theoretical model of tile self-assembly by extending the aTAM to create the Active aTAM. We give appropriate definitions first for incorporating activation signals and then for incorporating deactivation signals and tile detachment into the aTAM. We then give a comparison of Active aTAM to related models, such as the STAM, and take a look at some theoretical results.
The goal of the work presented here is to define and demonstrate the power of the Active aTAM with and without deactivation. To this end, we provide four constructions of temperature 1 (also known as "non-cooperative") active tile assembly systems that can simulate other computational systems. The first construction concerns the simulation of an arbitrary temperature 2 (also known as "cooperative") standard aTAM system in the sense of producing equivalent structures with a scaling factor of 2 in each dimension; the second construction generates the time history of a given 1D cellular automaton. The third and fourth constructions make use of tile detachment in order to dynamically simulate arbitrary 1D and 2D cellular automata with assemblies that record only the current state updates and not the entire computational history of the specified automaton.
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Ettema, William Dirk. "Alternative tile intake design for intensively managed agro-ecosystems." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1451.
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The overarching objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness and performance of ATIs. In doing so, this research provides a fundamental understanding of the flow and sediment propagation through a different combination of porous media (pea gravel and woodchips). The research hypothesizes that the theory of advection and diffusion describes the migration of flow and identifies a myriad of depositional networks of sediment. A key hypothesis of the study is that global and local pressure differentiation affects the flow pathways and distribution with intimate effects of sediment trapping efficiency and distribution within the permeameter. A significant goal of this study is to decompose the key mechanisms that affect this migration of sediment under a fixed value for the head and incoming concentration. The nature of the study is experimental and is supported by limited numerical and field analysis. Although the experimental setup is site specific to the conditions encountered in the study location, it offers a generic way of examining flow and sediment intrusion within a permeable bed. The study in that sense hypothesizes that the intrusion by Einstein is valid and it shows the change in the hydraulic gradient that occurs during an event and during a sequence of events. A secondary goal of this research is to understand the cyclicity in the migration of sediment in a sequence of different events, where the initial conditions of each run constitutes the outcome of the final result of the previous runs. The nature of those experiments is to mimic the occurrence of sequential events in nature, although the continuous examined in the laboratory as reflective of conditions representing extreme runs. This research also treats the hydraulic conductivity as a dynamic entity to reflect the effect of localized clogging on the propagation of flow. The experimental design of this research considers a series of experimental runs to address the aforementioned objectives of this research and test the posed hypothesis.
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Poliakov, Vladislav. "Light Performance Comparison betweenForward, Deferred and Tile-basedforward rendering." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-20584.
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Background. In this experiment forward, deferred and tile-based forward rendering techniques are implemented to research about the light-rendering performance of these rendering techniques. Nowadays most games and programs contains a graphical content and this graphical content is done by using different kind of rendering operations. These rendering operations is being developed and optimized by graphic programmers in order to show better performance. Forward rendering is the standard technique that pushes the geometry data through the whole rendering pipeline to build up the final image. Deferred rendering on the other hand is divided into two passes where the first pass rasterizes the geometry data into g-buffers and the second pass, also called lighting pass, uses the data from g-buffers and rasterizes the lightsources to build up the final image. Next rendering technique is tile-based forward rendering, is also divided into two passes. The first pass creates a frustum grid and performs light culling. The second pass rasterizes all the geometry data to the screen as the standard forward rendering technique. Objectives. The objective is to implement three rendering techniques in order to find the optimal technique for light-rendering in different environments. When the implementation process is done, analyze the result from tests to answer the research questions and come to a conclusion. Methods. The problem was answered by using method "Implementation and Experimentation". A render engine with three different rendering techniques was implemented using C++ and OpenGL API. The tests were implemented in the render engine and the duration of each test was five minutes. The data from the tests was used to create diagrams for result evaluation. Results. The results showed that standard forward rendering was stronger than tile based forward rendering and deferred rendering with few lights in the scene.When the light amount became large deferred rendering showed the best light performance results. Tile-based forward rendering wasn’t that strong as expected and the reason can possibly be the implementation method, since different culling procedures were performed on the CPU-side. During the tests of tile-based forward rendering there were 4 tiles used in the frustum grid since this amount showed highest performance compared to other tile-configurations. Conclusions. After all this research a conclusion was formed as following, in environments with limited amount of lightsources the optimal rendering technique was the standard forward rendering. In environments with large amount of lightsources deferred rendering should be used. If tile-based forward rendering is used, then it should be used with 4 tiles in the frustum grid. The hypothesis of this study wasn’t fully confirmed since only the suggestion with limited amount of lights were confirmed, the other parts were disproven. The tile-based forward rendering wasn’t strong enough and the reason for this is possibly that the implementation was on the CPU-side.
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Thompson, James. "Identifying Subsurface Tile Drainage Systems Utilizing Remote Sensing Techniques." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1290141705.
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Betts, Ian Michael. "A scientific investigation of the brick and tile industry of York in the mid-eighteenth century." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2690.
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Petrological and neutron activation analysis of bricks and tiles from York and neighbouring sites with discussion of the analytical and documentary evidence for their production in York up until AD 1750.
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Hagenberg, Claus-Detlef. "Der unbekannte Malherbe : Untersuchungen zur Übersetzung des 33. Buches des Titus Livius /." Bonn : Romanistischer Verl, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401683626.
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Flemming, Corey. "Evaluating the Performance of Denitrifying Bioreactors for Removal of Agricultural Nitrate from Tile-Drainage Effluent." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35206.
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The application of nitrogen (N) fertilizers and manure to agricultural soil is essential for crop production, but has in turn introduced environmental impacts including: eutrophication, contamination of groundwater, freshwater acidification, and an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The movement of nitrogen was observed following liquid swine manure applications at six fields in Winchester, ON employing controlled tile drainage and denitrifying bioreactors. The manure was mainly in the form of ammonium during application where it was transformed to other N species including nitrate and nitrous oxide (N2O) by microbial activity in soil. Large soil N2O fluxes occurred in fields throughout 2012 and 2013, and total N of soil in the fields was enriched in 15N, indicating denitrification. Soil nitrate was also leached and collected by drainage tiles, and a portion of the tile water was treated by denitrifying bioreactors. Previous studies have demonstrated that denitrification of nitrate in bioreactors elicits the production of N2O, which is emitted from the overlying soil surface and/or is released as dissolved N2O in tile effluent. In this study, it is found that a decrease in nitrate was associated with decreasing levels of nitrous oxide during a rain event, and no significant N2O flux was recorded above bioreactors throughout either year. The δ15N and δ18O signatures of nitrate did not change significantly following bioreactor treatment and did not exhibit the 15N and 18O enrichment that is characteristic of denitrification. The data demonstrates that the decrease in nitrate through the bioreactors was due to dilution, likely from the accumulation of rainfall in reactor beds employing controlled tile drainage. Further work is needed to examine the conditions under which dilution may occur in place of denitrification.
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Wentzell, Tania E. "Lower bounds from tile covers for the channel assignment problem." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0021/MQ49463.pdf.
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Kay, Paul. "Fate of veterinary antibiotics on macroporous tile drained clay soils." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414673.
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Justus, Amanda N. "Permutation Groups and Puzzle Tile Configurations of Instant Insanity II." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2337.
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The manufacturer claims that there is only one solution to the puzzle Instant Insanity II. However, a recent paper shows that there are two solutions. Our goal is to find ways in which we only have one solution. We examine the permutation groups of the puzzle and use modern algebra to attempt to fix the puzzle. First, we find the permutation group for the case when there is only one empty slot at the top. We then examine the scenario when we add an extra column or an extra row to make the game a 4 × 5 puzzle or a 5 x 4 puzzle, respectively. We consider the possibilities when we delete a color to make the game a 3 × 3 puzzle and when we add a color, making the game a 5 × 5 puzzle. Finally, we determine if solution two is a permutation of solution one.
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"Title IX and the Big Time: Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1950-1992." Doctoral diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.29757.
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abstract: This project presents an institutional history of women’s intercollegiate athletics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By looking to the individual campus, we learn about the ways in which administrators, coaches, faculty, and students understood the educational value of college sports. The UNC women’s program began in the 1950s as extramural play and quickly transformed into big-time college sports. By the early 1980s, the women experienced the same tension between academics and athletics at the heart of intercollegiate sports as the men. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, colleges, the media, and most Americans strongly associated the Big Time with the revenue-producing sports of football and men’s basketball. In Chapel Hill and across America, however, all sports teams, men’s and women’s, revenue and non-revenue, felt the effects of the increased professionalization and commercialization of the collegiate athletic enterprise. The history of women’s intercollegiate athletics provides a new window into exploring the benefits and challenges of big-time sports in higher education.
Frances Burns Hogan, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, and her colleagues worked hard to expand sporting opportunities for women. They helped create the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, which provided governance and began hosting national championships in 1971. They collaborated with university administrators and athletic officials to implement Title IX compliance during the 1970s. Hogan and many directors eagerly joined men’s athletic conferences to commence regular season play, and by the 1980s, supported the move to the NCAA. Providing the best competitive experiences for Carolina female student-athletes motivated Hogan’s decisions.
Frances Hogan and women’s directors nationwide determined the nature of women’s intercollegiate athletics. Hogan and her colleagues debated whether women’s sports should be inclusive and participatory or competitive and elitist. They struggled over the tension between the drive to expand women’s sporting opportunities and the desire to maintain educational priorities. They grappled with men in the athletic department who resisted their efforts to gain publicity, access to better facilities, adequate operational support, and the legitimacy enjoyed by men’s teams. By 1985, Hogan’s tireless efforts created the premier women’s athletic program in the Southeast.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Doctoral Dissertation History 2015
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Thobakgale, Raphehli Michael. "Tsheka Tsheko ya Dikanegelokopana ka S.N. Nkadimeng (Sepedi)." Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29124.
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In this dissertation, the art of the short story as practised by S.N. Nkadimeng (Mmantshaotlogele) is investigated in accordance with the narratological descriptive model. According to this approach the literary work is divided into three levels, namely, content level, plot level and style level. The level of style, however, is not discussed in detail in this dissertation. In this study, Nkadimeng's art is placed within the framework of a brief discussion of the Northem Sotho short story as an art form. Furthermore, the aim of this investigation is formulated. Thereafter the relevant concepts which are discussed in this dissertation are also illustrated. In the second, third and fourth chapters attention is paid mainly to the analysis of a single short story, that is 0 nyalwa lenyalo mang .. . ; however, the other short stories in this collection, among others Nna nka se je dipute and Thapelo ya pula are referred to as examples. In the last chapter, Nkadimeng's work, particularly with regard to his ironic stories, is compared to Mpepele's and Matsepe's work. Nkadimeng writes with compassion about his people; his irony is delicate and mocking without venom, which differs from that of Matsepe and Mpepele. Whereas Matsepe mocks important figures in the society, such as leaders, kings, the rich and so forth, Nkadimeng's and Mpepele's mocking is aimed at the weaknesses of the ordinary people.<br>Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.<br>Philosophy<br>unrestricted
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Liao, Shu-hsien, and 廖樹賢. "Recycling polished porcelain tile sludge and scraps from tile factory: the feasibilities of fabricating porcelain tile and lightweight tile." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08559899106183175372.
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碩士<br>國立聯合大學<br>環境與安全衛生工程學系碩士班<br>99<br>Ceramic sludges and scraps, especially polished porcelain tile (PPT) sludge generated from PPT grinding process, are the major waste in tile factory. Since PPT sludge contains complex compositions hard for recycling, it is usually disposed for earth embankment and landfill.
In this research, PPT sludge, waste earthenware and stoneware were recycled for producing porcelain tile and four phases were developed for study. The first phase was basic physico-chemical properties analysis of PPT sludge and waste wares. The results show that particle size of PPT sludge ranged 1–700 µm; furthermore, the major components among 4–60 μm was PPT scraps and 100–700 μm was SiC particles. Combustible (wet basis) in PPT sludge was 2.5 ± 0.8wt.% and LOI of TGA (1,100 °C) was 3.3wt.%, revealing that weight losses of PPT sludge coming from the constituents of SiC, S, and Cl. Pretreatments of “screening + ultrasoning” sludge (as US) and “screening + ultrasoning + ozonation” sludge (as OZS) could remove SiC particles size larger than 45 µm and reduce weight losses of 0.7−1.6% in TGA analysis. In waste earthenware and stoneware, combustible in wares and LOI of TGA (1,100 °C) were less than 1wt.%, indicating more refractory CaO and MgO in wares than PPT sludge.
The second phase was reuses of pretreated PPT sludge and waste wares in different recycling ratios. As sludge ratio increased from 10% to 30%, the optimal firing temperature of tile products decreased, porosity increased, and bulk density decreased. It is also noted that pretreatment of PPT sludge could significantly reduce swelling phenomenon and raise strength of tile products. The tile products in operational conditions of 10% sludge fired at 1,120−1,130 °C and 20−30% sludge fired at 1,090−1,100 °C met CNS standards for porcelain floor tile and porcelain wall tile, respectively; moreover, both meeting the requirements of green building material label. In the recycling of waste earthenware and stoneware, the products in operational conditions of 20% earthenware (or pottery ware, as P) fired at 1,140−1,180 °C and 20% stoneware (as S) fired at 1,140−1,170 °C could not only meet some relative standards but also widen their optimal firing temperature range of 30−40 °C.
The third phase was the test of adding nonhazardous dust. A 10% dust addition could improve the strengths of some 20%US tile products, but dust also increased liquid viscosity during sintering process. Thus, tile products increases in swelling, LOI, and water absorption were found. In addition, a 5% dust addition could decrease firing temperature of 20% recycling earthenware, but also raised product swelling and narrowed their optimal firing temperature range.
The final phase was the test of fabricating lightweight tile. A sandwich structure of outer layers containing US30−50% and inner layer containing OS50−70% was attested as the optimal formation. Specially, a floating sample of US50OS70 with bulk density less than 1 g/cm3 was obtained.
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Kao, Bin-Chou, and 高彬倬. "Improve HEVC tile coding efficiency using adaptive tile boundary." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01449460030656368056.
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碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>資訊科學與工程研究所<br>101<br>High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest standard developed by Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC). HEVC includes a coding tool called tile which is a useful tool to achieve high coding parallelism in both encoder and decoder. However, tiles will cause rate-distortion loss that is a serious problem to be solved
In this thesis, a method is proposed to reduce the rate-distortion loss caused by tiles, called Adaptive Tile Boundary. This method simply uses some information to predict the best tile boundary positions before encode the frame. Moreover, we also conduct experiments to know the upper bound of this method. Although the performance improvement of using proposed method is quite limited, the upper bound shows this method still has very good prospects.
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Tsao, Yu-Po, and 曹馭博. "The Circular Tile." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4d47b9.
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碩士<br>國立東華大學<br>華文文學系<br>107<br>I plan to use this collection of poems as my graduation thesis, "The suffering under the shade" is the center of the whole article. We are protected by roof tiles, but the things that protect us (such as power, blood, love) protect us while also hurting us. We are living under some kind of deformed roof tiles, and this kind of Life will continue and return.
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Mlynáriková, Michaela. "Cross-section measurements of the Higgs boson decaying into a pair of tau leptons with the ATLAS detector." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-403984.
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The ATLAS experiment is one of the two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. ATLAS is designed for precision mea- surements of particle properties, the search of the Higgs boson and new physics beyond the Standard Model. The experiment got worldwide atten- tion in 2012, when after the collaborative efforts with the CMS experiment the Higgs boson discovery was announced. After the discovery, the preci- sion measurements of its properties became one of the main objectives of the LHC physics programme, since a potential observation of deviations from the Standard Model predictions might lead to the discovery of new physics. In this thesis, the measurements of the Higgs boson production cross-sections in the H → ττ decay channel are presented. Based on the proton-proton collision data collected at the centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in years 2015 and 2016, the signal over the expected background from the other Standard Model processes is established with the observed significance of 4.4σ. Com- bined with the data collected at 7 and 8 TeV, the observed signal significance amounts to 6.4σ, which constitutes a single experiment observation of the H → ττ decays by ATLAS. All presented results are found to be consistent with...
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Cheng, Chia-Chi, and 鄭佳其. "Application of Real-Time Image Processing on Guide-Tile Recognition of an Automatic Mobile Vehicle." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07004933244668196501.
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碩士<br>國立成功大學<br>工程科學系碩博士班<br>97<br>The goal of this thesis is to design an Automatic Mobile Vehicle (AMV), the automatic mobile vehicle can recognize the guide-tile and help to guide the visually disabled along the guide-tile. To achieve the purpose, a navigation system must be designed for leading the AMV moving in an environment with the guide-tile. The AMV can recognize the guide-tile via real-time image processing techniques.
The AMV makes use of a Netbook Computer (ASUS EEEPC 901) to do the real-time image processing techniques and makes use of PIC16F877 as its control chip. The Human-Machine interface system is achieved by Visual C#.Net 2008. We can send orders to control the AMV by the Human-Machine interface. The AMV is driven by of direct current motors and communicates with the Netbook Computer through RS232.
A CCD Webcam is set on the AMV to capture the images and transmits the images to the Netbook Computer. The images can use to determine if there is any guide-tile here and extract navigational information through the real-time image processing techniques. The navigational information can be the basis to direct the AMV to move, and the AMV can achieve the purpose to guide the visually disabled.