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Consumer Perceptions Of Rebranding: The Case Of Logo Changes
(Business Administration, 2007-09-17)This dissertation explores the topic of rebranding, an important topic that has mostly been covered by practitioner journals and the business press. The focus of this research is on a specific type of rebranding - logo ... -
Content, Values, And Environment: Applicant Reactions To Job Descriptions
(Psychology, 2011-03-03)The research on job descriptions is limited and information regarding applicant reactions to job descriptions is even scarcer. The current research hypothesized that after reading job content information, an applicant's ... -
Context Aware Energy Conservation In Pervasive Computing Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Extending battery lifetime is one of the most critical and challenging problems in mobile systems. When the mobile device sounds a low battery alarm, the user is given an ultimatum to quickly find a power source or suspend ... -
Context Reasoning Under Uncertainty Based On Evidential Fusion Networks In Home-based Care
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2011-03-03)Pervasive computing technologies use embedded intelligent systems to enable various real-time applications. Some of these applications are: continuous healthcare monitoring, autonomous diagnosis and treatment, and remote ... -
Context-Aware Gaze-Based Interface for Smart Wheelchair
(2023-05-22)Human-Computer Interfaces (HCI) is an essential aspect of modern technology that has revolutionized the way we interact with machines. With the revolution of computers and smart devices and the advent of autonomous vehicles ... -
Context-aware Inference System To Capture Design Rationale From Legacy MCAD
(Mechanical Engineering, 2008-04-22)There exist numerous design rationale systems that convert captured information into structured design rationale while providing rationale representation and retrieval. These systems woefully neglect the design rationale ... -
A Context-aware Learning, Prediction And Mediation Framework For Resource Management In Smart Pervasive Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2008-09-17)Advances in smart devices, mobile wireless communications, sensor networks, pervasive computing, machine learning, middleware and agent technologies, and human computer interfaces have made the dream of smart environments ... -
A Contextual Analysis Of A Preclassic Problematic Deposit At Blackman Eddy, Belize
(Anthropology, 2008-09-17)This thesis examines Problematic Deposit #3 from two operations in Plaza B at Blackman Eddy, Belize through a detailed contextual analysis. Due to the ambiguous nature of problematic deposits, several methods of analysis ... -
Continuing Narratives Of The Pharmakos: Trans-ethical Perspectives Through The Liminal Performativity Of Material Agencies In Drug Genre Film
(English, 2014-12)In American film and television, the drug user or producer is often associated with narratives of the pharmakos, or "scapegoat," seemingly serving to expel the contamination of American identity and ethics. By analyzing ... -
CONTINUITY AND GIVEN-NEW STATUS OF DISCOURSE REFERENTS IN ADZERA ORAL NARRATIVE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-12)This thesis analyzes the encoding of discourse referents in oral narratives in Adzera, an SVO Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. First, it classifies overt referents on a given-new continuum according to Prince's ... -
CONTINUOUS AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION WITH ENGLISH SPEECH SYNTHESIS USING ENCODER-DECODER APPROACH
(2021-05-09)Interaction between human beings brings about improvements in science and technology. However, the interaction is limited for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, as they can only communicate with others who also know ... -
CONTINUOUSLY RENEWED COPPER ELECTRODE FOR AMPEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF CARBOHYDRATES
(2021-08-05)Currently the benchmark method for carbohydrate analysis in a variety of application areas involves anion exchange chromatography followed by electrochemical detection at a gold electrode. The gold electrode surfaces foul ... -
Contracting Institutions And Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence From The U.S. Mulitnationals
(Economics, 2011-07-14)Development Economics studies have highlighted the importance of both property rights and contracting institutions for attracting foreign direct investment. However, to the best of our knowledge, none of the previous studies ... -
A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE EMPLOYED IN ENGLISH TEXTS BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND NATIVE SPEAKERS OF SPANISH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-08)It has often been observed that students of English as a second language not only speak with a foreign accent but write with a distinctively foreign accent as well. Two apparently conflicting theories have been proposed ... -
The Contribution Of The Dorsal Root Reflex And The Sympathetic Nervous System In Formalin-evoked Neurogenic Inflammation
(Psychology, 2008-09-17)The present study investigated the role of dorsal root reflex (DRR), which is characterized as antidromic firing via primary afferent fibers towards the periphery, and the sympathetic nervous system in neurogenic inflammation. ... -
The Contributions Of NGOs To Health In The Developing World
(Social Work, 2009-09-16)This study investigated the contributions of NGOs to health in the developing world and well investigated the influence of organizational factors on an NGOs contribution to health. The researcher examined the health ... -
Control And Simulation Of Relative Motion For Aerial Refueling In Racetrack Maneuver
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)This thesis addresses the problem of controlling the receiver aircraft to achieve a successful aerial refueling. For the performance verification of the controller, a new set of nonlinear, 6-DOF, rigid body equations of ... -
Control Framework Dynamic Walking Of A Bipedal Robot
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2013-03-20)Despite significant progress in recent years, the capabilities of today's Humanoid robots still lack behind the walking abilities of humans in terms of competence, robustness, flexibility, and speed. Furthermore, unknown ... -
Control Of A Teleoperating Robotic Arm Subject To Time Delays
(Mechanical Engineering, 2013-07-22)Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS) can be explored to its full potential if there is complete transparency between the surgeon and the virtual environment. In the setup, haptic device which conveys force from ... -
Control Of Airship Motion In The Presence Of Wind
(Aerospace Engineering, 2012-07-25)This research effort develops a guidance and control system for a small airship to fly through assigned waypoints in the three dimensional space with a desired speed in the presence of wind and wind gust. In the control ...