Dissertations / Theses: 'Time and movement'

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Lord, Patrick Jean. "Real-time analysis and display of human movement." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79450.

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Gustin, Thomas W. "THE FABLE OF “REAL-TIME” TELEMETRY DATA MOVEMENT." International Foundation for Telemetering, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612935.

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International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / November 04-07, 1991 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
This paper presents an exciting new concept in real-time information distribution that can be easily integrated into existing and future telemetry reception and data dispersal systems. After briefly examining the evolutionary path and various perceptions of the concept “real-time”, a variety of techniques are explored in achieving the expedient movement of real-time information. Many non-telemetry application environments are now using real-time shared-memory networking techniques to obtain large, highspeed integrated sharing of common information. The phenomenal results are partially attributable to high reliability, extremely low latency, and ease of use. This paper attempts to present various telemetry applications and scenarios with descriptions of benefits achieved by simply changing existing data movement techniques to those using shared-memory networking techniques.

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Edens, Jared M. "Time-Slicing of Movement Data for Efficient Trajectory Clustering." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1560760.

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Spatio-temporal research frequently results in analyzing large sets of data (i.e., a data set larger than will reside in common PC main memory). Currently, many analytical techniques used to analyze large data sets begin by sampling the data such that it can all reside in main memory. Depending upon the research question posed, information can be lost when outliers are discarded. For example, if the focus of the analysis is on clusters of automobiles, the outliers may not be represented in the sampled dataset. The purpose of this study is to use similarity measures to detect anomalies. The clustering algorithm that is used in this thesis research is DBSCAN. Synthetic data is generated and then analyzed to evaluate the effectiveness of detecting anomalies using similarity measures. Results from this study support the hypothesis, "If similarity measures can be developed, then DBSCAN can be used to find anomalies in trajectory data using time slices." Synthetic data is analyzed using DBSCAN to address the research question -"Can DBSCAN be used to find anomalies in trajectory data using time slices?"

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Grigsby, Mary. "Buying time and getting by : the voluntary simplicity movement /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9974635.

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Jaegal, Young. "Measuring Similarity of Network-Time Prisms and Field-Time Prisms." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1606838396056339.

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O'Connor-Dreher, Ryan. "Effects of force feedback on distractor navigation strategy and movement time in an aimed movement task." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1587305.

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Implementation of effective onboard computer technologies into commercial cockpits will alter the current role and actions taken by pilots. These new technologies will require precise and efficient input methods due to the unstable nature of a cockpit environment. The benefits of haptic force feedback input devices have been shown in previous research. The present study investigated the effects of force feedback distractors on movement time, movement path, and workload. Results demonstrated that in the presence of distractors, resistive spring force levels most strongly influenced all dependent variables. Attractive gravitational force levels had no impact on movement times and minimal impact on distractor navigation strategy. The mouse, which had no force feedback, consistently showed the fastest movement times. Since prior research has demonstrated the benefits of attractive gravitational force feedback, and participants preferred to avoid distractors with high resistive spring force, significant design implications are discussed.

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Odekar, Anshula. "Using eye-movement indices to capture semantic priming effects /." View abstract, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3220615.

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Parton, Alison. "Bayesian inference for continuous-time step-and-turn movement models." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20124/.

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This thesis concerns the statistical modelling of animal movement paths given observed GPS locations. With observations being in discrete time, mechanistic models of movement are often formulated as such. This popularity remains despite an inability to compare analyses through scale invariance and common problems handling irregularly timed observations. A natural solution is to formulate in continuous time, yet uptake of this has been slow, often excused by a difficulty in interpreting the ‘instantaneous’ parameters associated with a continuous-time model. The aim here was to bolster usage by developing a continuous-time model with interpretable parameters, similar to those of popular discrete-time models that use turning angles and step lengths to describe the movement process. Movement is defined by a continuous-time, joint bearing and speed process, the parameters of which are dependent on a continuous-time behavioural switching process, thus creating a flexible class of movement models. Further, we allow for the observed locations derived from this process to have unknown error. Markov chain Monte Carlo inference is presented for parameters given irregular, noisy observations. The approach involves augmenting the observed locations with a reconstruction of the underlying continuous-time process. Example implementations showcasing this method are given featuring simulated and real datasets. Data from elk (Cervus elaphus), which have previously been modelled in discrete time, demonstrate the interpretable nature of the model, finding clear differences in behaviour over time and insights into short-term behaviour that could not have been obtained in discrete time. Observations from reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) reveal the effect observation error has on the identification of large turning angles—a feature often inferred in discrete-time modelling. Scalability to realistically large datasets is shown for lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) data.

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Johnes, Jonathan R. "Human movement the transition of people through space and time /." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2008. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/378.

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Bettinger, Samantha Sue. "ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION, BRAKING REACTION TIME, MOVEMENT TIME, AND SIMULATED DRUNK DRIVING THE MORNING AFTER ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1543598079338643.

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Hussein, Amr Abbas Mohamed Adel Abbas Aly. "Bilateral investment treaties treatment of international capital movement : time for reform?" Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2514.

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While the freedom to move capital is necessary for foreign investors, the power of the state to regulate capital transfers is necessary to prevent volatile capital from causing financial crises as well as to mitigate such crises when they occur. Thus, in regulating international capital movement, a balance should be made between the right to transfer funds and the state’s right to protect the stability of its economy. It is in relation to achieving this balance that this thesis argues that bilateral investment treaties’ (BITs) regulation of capital transfers is deficient, both substantively and procedurally. On substance, this thesis identifies three substantive defects that affect obligations under BITs: absoluteness, immediacy, and breadth. First, many BITs adopt an absolute approach in liberalizing capital that does not permit any restrictions or exceptions, nor does it distinguish between different kinds of capital, or between the right to import capital and the right to repatriate capital. Second, the obligation to permit transfers is immediate and does not allow for a gradual liberalization of capital. Third, many BITs’ terms and obligations are broad and therefore vague, such as the broad definition of investment, or the obligation to grant fair and equitable treatment, which is also broad and interpreted in a manner that restricts the regulatory powers of the host state. Such results could have been partly mitigated if there were a dispute settlement mechanism with the power to create precedent and with it a clearer and more coherent body of rules. But BITs’ investor-state arbitration is also deficient since it consists of ad hoc tribunals, which are not bound by precedent; and their decisions are not generally subject to substantive review. This leads to an inconsistent and incoherent body of law that protects neither the state’s regulatory powers nor the legitimate expectation of investors

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Lin, Juintow 1973. "Shaping time light and movement : a modern rail station for Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68359.

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119).
After a century of neglect, due to investment in worldwide road construction and enlargements of airports, there is a renewed incentive to revive rail travel within the continental US. This motivation is derived from both the environmental benefits of the electric train as well as the ease of urban travel from regional city centers. The topic of the thesis is to investigate a new major rail stop at the site of Boston's North Station. The new station will be developed as a stop on a future high-speed rail line connecting Portland, Maine to Washington D.C. and to points beyond. On the local level, the station will serve as an urban gateway organizing the complex convergence of lines including subway, commuter, and long-distance railways. These factors should be actively controlled and made visibly and functionally comprehensible to the visitor. The incentive lies in creating a functionally simplistic pedestrian experience enhanced by a conscious recognition of the underlying historical and programmatic complexity. This thesis will embrace modern concepts of space-time in the practice of architectural design. This involves sensitive consideration of the perception of space relative to position and speed, light and movement. The design of a modern train station will be exploited as a means to making explicit the above issues in an architectural context. The goal is to create both organizational clarity as well as a dynamic aesthetic based on an explicit recognition of the movement of time through physical space. As the station will be located underground, a heavy emphasis must be placed on creating a strong connection between interior and exterior spaces. Much of the design is concentrated on the introduction of light to deep concourses and waiting platforms at all times of day with the intent to create temporal diversity of vibrant spaces for dynamic users. At the urban level, the building will attempt to convey a legible reading to the complex network of tunnels beneath the city street level. A building that acts much as urban sculpture will serve to bind a severed neighborhood and provide a public space that North Station deserves. In addition to being urban landmarks, rail stations are often the place of arrival and departure for visitors and residents alike, they are complex places where diverse functions and people intermingle, organize and get orientated. The thesis strives to resolve all these purposes in an architectural expression of space, light, structure and movement.
by Juintow Lin.
M.Arch.

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Bachmaier, Sebastian. "Performance evaluation of time-based and movement-based location update schemes." [S.l. : s.n.], 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-33432.

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Wilhite, Katrina Louise. "Understanding movement behaviour time-use in youth from different socioeconomic backgrounds." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2023. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/bdabe180509e5c4dc4b41db96ab874f76f62ea7cb9937f0a64e869d47127ea25/7289828/Wilhite_2022_Understanding_movement_behaviour_time_use_in.pdf.

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Understanding the associations of movement behaviour time-use (i.e., physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep) and youth’s physical health, psychological health, and education-related outcomes has become increasingly popular in public health research. However, little is known about the differences in movement behaviour time-use across youth from different socioeconomic positions and how these differences may affect specific outcomes. This thesis furthers our knowledge of movement behaviour time-use and socioeconomic position through three studies. In the first study, a systematic review, I found that the combination of “high” levels of physical activity and sleep with “low” sedentary behaviour provided children and adolescents are generally associated with the best outcomes. In the second study I aimed to identify general and domain-specific movement trajectory profiles and whether socioeconomic position could predict profile membership. For general movement behaviours, males from different socioeconomic positions did not differ in their movement trajectory profiles, but females from lower socioeconomic position were a combination of being less physically active and more sedentary than their higher socioeconomic peers. For domain-specific movement behaviours those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, regardless of sex, tended to spend a combination of more time in recreational screen activities and less time in education-related sedentary behaviour than their higher socioeconomic peers. In the final study I aimed to test if combinations of domain-specific movement behaviours mediated the relationship between socioeconomic position and socio- emotional outcomes in youth. Recreational screen activities had a mediating effect but combinations of domain-specific movement behaviours did not. These findings will help us better cater programs and guidelines to children from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

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Leguerrier, Alexandra R. "Investigating Differences in Reaction Time and Preparatory Activation as a Result of Varying Accuracy Requirements." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38410.

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The preparation and initiation of movement has previously been described using a neural accumulation model; this model involves an increase of neural activation in the motor cortex (M1) from baseline to a subthreshold level following a warning signal, which is maintained until presentation of an imperative stimulus (IS). Activity then increases until reaching movement initiation threshold. This model predicts that variability in activation during preparation may influence reaction time (RT) and its variability. The purpose of this thesis project was to determine whether differences in RT/variability of RT during the completion of tasks with varying levels of complexity may be attributable to differences in neural excitability in M1. To test this prediction, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) delivered concurrently with an IS was used to determine neural excitability for movements with different accuracy demands. It was hypothesized that higher accuracy demands would result in lowered amplitude and/or greater variability of neural activation, and consequently slower/more variable RT. Fifteen healthy participants completed a simple RT task involving a targeted wrist extension movement under three different accuracy conditions (easy, moderate, difficult). TMS was delivered concurrently with the IS on 50% of trials during each condition. While pilot testing showed RT differences between accuracy conditions (Appendix A), the data presented here failed to detect significant differences in RT latency (F(2, 28) = .074, p = .929) or variability (F(1.432, 20.053) = .633, p = .538) between conditions . Similarly, no difference in MEP amplitude was observed between difficulty conditions (F(2, 28) = 2.439, p = .106). However, a subset of participants (n = 7) did show significant RT increases between easy and hard conditions (t(6) = 2.531, p = .045), but this subset still failed to show differences in MEP amplitude (t(6) = 1.157, p = .291) or variability (t(6) = 1.545, p = .173), suggesting that preparatory levels at the IS may be similar for movements involving both high and low accuracy demands.

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Sell, Andrea J. "The influence of movement on the directionality of space-time representation mappings." Tallahassee, Florida : Florida State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-10302009-134713/.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2009.
Advisor: Michael Kaschak, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Psychology. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed on May 14, 2010). Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 25 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

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Groom, J. "How are special effects utilised to convey movement through time in film?" Thesis, University of Salford, 2011. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26698/.

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This dissertation will explain how films utilise technological development to create special effects that portray the past, present and future and how time travel is conveyed to the audience. Several of the films to be discussed will show how the changes from old technology to the use of new special effects have affected the audience and that, as more advances are made, the audience then expects more. However, it will be noted that special effects can also take attention away from the story. When audiences watch a film, they link the meaning, story, narrative, and experience to other films that have similar styles. Genre critics recognise that films are watched within the context of other films ... (Newbold in Boyd-Barrett + Newbold (eds) 2007 p.442). Genre refers to a style or type of film and these are exemplified in the following examples within the context of time travel.

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Hassan, Salem Kadhem. "Time, tense and structure in contemporary English poetry : Larkin and the Movement." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1985. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3902/.

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Papadopoulos, Marios. "Motion in music : a study of movement and time through musical interpretation." Thesis, City University London, 1996. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7769/.

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'Motion in Music' is a study of movement and time through musical interpretation. It looks at ways in which motion, both physical and conceptual, is featured in the musical performance and it is, therefore, written with the performance of music in mind. As such, it provides us with a fresh approach to music-making. The study is based on a series of definitions and a distillation of personal experiences rather than a summation of experimental observations. In view of the author's musical background, the piano is featured most prominently in this study. In Chapter I, we examine the background on the subject and, so as to determine to what extent such motion is virtual and to what extent real, we look at it in its aesthetical, psychological and philosophical contents. The act of music-making is then analysed in four stages: from the preparatory, to the moment contact is made with the instrument and to the passage through time from one note to the onset of the next. The concept of the 'sphere', as representing the musical tone, is introduced in order to trace the course of this sonorous body through tonal space. In the ensuing chapters, we examine the forces which initiate sound - the mechanisms of the instrument and the mechanics of the body - and see how the tonal body reacts when these are applied. Such an investigation permits us, however loosely, to relate musical phenomena tothe laws of motion and to show how the sonorous body, once set in motion, undergoes changes to its speed, shape and direction - changes we refer to as 'speed of music', 'mass of music' and 'direction of music'. As the perception of movement in music involves directly or indirectly the participation of all our sensory system, both in the creative process of expressing the musical line and in its apprehension in the first place, we examine its effect on our tactile, auditory and visual channels of communication. In order to enhance our understanding of musical growth and musical progression further, we impart to it a visual perspective based, amongst others, on melodic contour and bodily movement as well as on the gestures of the conductor or those commonly used in the world of pedagogy. Thus, in Chapter V, a series of free hand-produced graphic representations emerge which represent such musical activity. By way of conclusion, we seek out various degrees of motion and their relationships. We identify these as being of paramount importance in producing aesthetically pleasing musical textures and propose further study as to the precise nature of such relationships.

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Modir, Shanechi Maryam. "Real-time brain-machine interface architectures : neural decoding from plan to movement." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69773.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-135).
Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) aim to enable motor function in individuals with neurological injury or disease, by recording the neural activity, mapping or 'decoding' it into a motor command, and then controlling a device such as a computer interface or robotic arm. BMI research has largely focused on the problem of restoring the original motor function. The goal therefore has been to achieve a performance close to that of the healthy individual. There have been compelling proof of concept demonstrations of the utility of such BMIs in the past decade. However, performance of these systems needs to be significantly improved before they become clinically viable. Moreover, while developing high-performance BMIs with the goal of matching the original motor function is indeed valuable, a compelling goal is that of designing BMIs that can surpass original motor function. In this thesis, we first develop a novel real-time BMI for restoration of natural motor function. We then introduce a BMI architecture aimed at enhancing original motor function. We implement both our designs in rhesus monkeys. To facilitate the restoration of lost motor function, BMIs have focused on either estimating the continuous movement trajectory or target intent. However, natural movement often incorporates both. Moreover, both target and trajectory information are encoded in the motor cortical areas. These suggest that BMIs should be designed to combine these principal aspects of movement. We develop a novel two-stage BMI to decode jointly the target and trajectory of a reaching movement. First, we decode the intended target from neural spiking activity before movement initiation. Second, we combine the decoded target with the spiking activity during movement to estimate the trajectory. To do so, we use an optimal feedback-control design that aims to emulate the sensorimotor processing underlying actual motor control and directly processes the spiking activity using point process modeling in real time. We show that the two-stage BMI performs more accurately than either stage alone. Correct target prediction can compensate for inaccurate trajectory estimation and vice versa. This BMI also performs significantly better than linear regression approaches demonstrating the advantage of a design that more closely mimics the sensorimotor system.
(cont.) While restoring the original motor function is indeed important, a compelling goal is the development of a truly "intelligent" BMI that can transcend such function by considering the higherlevel goal of the motor activity, and reformulating the motor plan accordingly. This would allow, for example, a task to be performed more quickly than possible by natural movement, or more efficiently than originally conceived. Since a typical motor activity consists of a sequence of planned movements, such a BMI must be capable of analyzing the complete sequence before action. As such its feasibility hinges fundamentally on whether all elements of the motor plan can be decoded concurrently from working memory. Here we demonstrate that such concurrent decoding is possible. In particular, we develop and implement a real-time BMI that accurately and simultaneously decodes in advance a sequence of planned movements from neural activity in the premotor cortex. In our experiments, monkeys were trained to add to working memory, in order, two distinct target locations on a screen, then move a cursor to each, in sequence. We find that the two elements of the motor plan, corresponding to the two targets, are encoded concurrently during the working memory period. Additionally, and interestingly, our results reveal: that the elements of the plan are encoded by largely disjoint subpopulations of neurons; that surprisingly small subpopulations are sufficient for reliable decoding of the motor plan; and that the subpopulation dedicated to the first target and their responses are largely unchanged when the second target is added to working memory, so that the process of adding information does not compromise the integrity of existing information. The results have significant implications for the architecture and design of future generations of BMIs with enhanced motor function capabilities.
by Maryam Modir Shanechi.
Ph.D.

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Van, Dokkum Elisabeth Henriëtte. "Unfolding movement in time and space : defining upper-limb recovery post-stroke." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON14004/document.

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Plusieurs champs de recherche ont été combinés - mettant en évidence l'utilité de l'analyse cinématique, non seulement afin d'évaluer le comportement moteur, mais aussi afin de contribuer à la compréhension de la récupération motrice post-AVC. Au travers d'analyses cinématiques, les mouvements du membre supérieur hémiplégique ont été décomposés dans le temps et l'espace, afin d'en extraire l'échelle et les composantes structurelles. Cette décomposition systématique, d'abord connue pour son bien-fondé clinique, nous a permis d'identifier les marqueurs les plus pertinents du contrôle du membre supérieur parétique : i.e., la fluidité, la rectitude et la vitesse. Subséquemment, il a été démontré que i) les changements cinématiques se stabilisent au cours de la phase de rééducation, indiquant potentiellement la nécessité de modifier la stratégie thérapeutique; ii) les patient post-AVC sont capables de percevoir la fluidité du mouvement en réalité virtuelle, cette perception étant meilleure lorsque le feedback visuel ne concerne que le point du travail du membre; iii) l'espace de travail post-AVC n'est pas isotrope pour un patient hémiplégique; iv) chez les patients post-AVC, le niveau de ‘bruit neuromoteur' est augmenté; et v) la cinématique reflète la conséquence des stratégies d'adaptation à l'augmentation du bruit, ces stratégies étant basées sur un compromis entre des modes de contrôle d'erreur en feedforward et en feedback des actions motrices. Ainsi, il peut être conclut que la décomposition du mouvement dans le temps et l'espace est un moyen simple et efficace d'appréhender contrôle moteur chez l'Homme en situation normale et âpres AVC. L'enjeu est maintenant d'implémenter ces méthodes d'analyse cinématique dans les protocoles de rééducation post-AVC quotidienne afin de développer de larges bases de données permettant, à l'aide de méthodes de modélisation, de définir des profils de récupération et ainsi personnaliser de façon optimale la rééducation à chaque patient particulier
Multiple research fields were combined – highlighting the value of kinematic analysis, not only to evaluate motor behaviour, but also to contribute to the understanding of motor recovery post-stroke. By means of kinematics, hemiplegic upper-limb movements were unfolded in time and space, to extract the scaling and structural components of the movement. This systematic decomposition, first proven to have clinical relevance, allowed us to identify the most pertinent markers of paretic upper-limb control: i.e. smoothness, directness and velocity. Subsequently it was shown that i) change in kinematics levels off over rehabilitation, possibly indicating that treatment may profit from change; ii) people post-stroke are able to perceive movement fluency in virtual realities, whereby simple end-point displays facilitate perception; iii) the workspace post-stroke is heterogeneous; iv) stroke patients have increased levels of neuromotor noise; and v) kinematics reflect the outcome of adaptation strategies to the increased noise in relation to the automaticity of error-corrections on the trade-off between feedforward and feedback based motor control. It may thus be concluded that unfolding the movement in space and time, is a simple and powerful way to define human motor control. The challenge is to implement kinematic analysis in daily post-stroke practice to develop a large database enabling the definition of recovery profiles contributing to provide each individual patient with the right therapy at the right time

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MacMichael, Conall. "The fire this time : media, myth, memory and the Black Power movement." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707356.

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The dissertation examines the popular memory of the Black Power movement and demonstrates that contrary to the dominant narrative of the 1960s, Black Power was a broad, heterogeneous phenomenon that appealed to a multi-hued chorus of activists in the African American community. By interrogating media narratives surrounding the commemoration of three crucial Civil Rights events -the Murder of Emmett Till, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the March on Washington - and through exploring the media reaction to the upsurge of Black Power in the late 1960s, I reveal the narrow fashion in which both movements are portrayed. The overwhelmingly positive narrative surrounding the Civil Rights movement reaffirms the ideal of American exceptionalism, while Black Power, with its implicit and explicit questioning of this ideal, is rejected and characterized as the preserve of rage and violence. This monochromatic narrative has served to silence the activists that approached and wielded Black Power in a variety of different ways. Lawyers, pastors, activists, athletes, and entertainers all found aspects of Black Power that they believed could be used to exert a positive influence in their community or that they could apply to their personal lives. To paraphrase E.P. Thompson, this dissertation gives voice to those activists whose works have been brushed aside in favour of a simplistic narrative that blurs our understanding of the post-war Black Freedom Struggle.

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Liu, Pan. "Evaluation of the operational effects of u-turn movement." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001638.

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Yu, Chunming 1957. "The Application of time domain reflectometry in solute transport experiments." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/191226.

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Contaminants can enter groundwater through the unsaturated zone as dissolved solutes. To predict the location and extent of these contaminants, transport parameters such as pore water velocity y and dispersion coefficient D are required. These parameters are often obtained through transport experiments. The goal of this study is to determine y and D using time domain reflectometry (TDR) technique. Using TDR for transport experiments under unsaturated conditions, we investigated the effects of volumetric water content θᵥ, distance of flow path, and draining-wetting history on D. TDR was used to measure θᵥ, and salt concentration in twenty-one unsaturated column experiments. The 105 cm-long column was homogeneously packed with silica sand (particle size: 53 to 425 pm). Ten TDR probes at ten depths were used to obtain in situ breakthrough curves and a chloride electrode was used to measure effluent breakthrough curves at the bottom of the column. A 35 mM NaC1 (sodium chloride) was used as the tracer with 20 mM NaC1 as background solution. We developed a three-parameter expression relating θᵥ, to measured dielectric constant Kₐ: θᵥ =aKₐᵅ + b. This calibration expression fits as closely or better than the "universal polynomial" and is also consistent with the well-known mixing model. For an isotropic soil with homogeneous water distribution, this expression is further simplified to two parameters by taking α = 0.5. The effects of temperature, porosity, soil solid and bound water can be taken into account by varying a and b of the two-parameter expression. TDR measurements have been shown to be sensitive to bound water and not particular sensitive to the other factors. To calculate y and D from breakthrough curves of step-input experiments, a new moment analysis method has been developed. The transport parameters obtained from this new method show a little difference from the parameters determined from the convection-dispersion equation using the CXTFIT model (a published computer program for estimating solute transport parameters from observed breakthrough curves). Our results demonstrated that D is dependent on measurement methods and concentrations of experimental solutions.

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Sargent, Lisa M. "A comparative study of inclinometers and time domain reflectometry for slope movement analysis." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1177091627.

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Williams, Stephan. "Time course and magnitude of movement-related gating of tactile detection in humans." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0008/NQ52195.pdf.

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Holdar, Magdalena. "Scenography in Action : Space, Time and Movement in Theatre Productions by Ingmar Bergman." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, Stockholms universitet, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-427.

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白雲開 and Wan-hoi Anthony Pak. "Literature and the masses in China at the time of the MayFourth Movement." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3120885X.

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Aleo, Monteagudo Francisco. "Motion Recognition : Generating real - time feedback based upon movement of a gaming controller." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-48038.

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Today motion recognition has become popular for human computer interaction in areas, such as health care, computer games, and robotics. Although many research projects have investigated this field, there are still some challenges remaining, especially in real-time environments. In real-time environments, the amount of data needed to compute the user’s motion and the time required to collect and process this data are crucial parameters in the performance of a motion recognition system. Moreover, the nature of the data (accelerometer, gyroscope, camera, . . . ) determines the design of the motion recognition system. One of the most important challenges is to reduce the delay between sensing and recognizing the motion, while, at the same time, achieving acceptable levels of accuracy. In this thesis we present a solution using Nintendo’s Wii Remote that solves several problems, such as permitting multiple device interaction and synchronization. In addition, this thesis addresses the performance challenge of realizing motion recognition for such a device. Finally, this thesis introduces a Java architecture which contains a set of interfaces that can be re-used in future projects. One of the most important achievements of this project is enabling interaction among different users and devices in a real-time environment, as, our application deals with multiple devices at the same time, with an acceptable delay. The resulting application provides smooth interaction to the user. As a consequence, our application enables collaborative and competitive activities which in this thesis project were evaluated in a educational process context. In this specific context, the main goal of the researchers with whom I was collaborating was to extend traditional methods of teaching children about some abstract concepts, such as energy. In addition, this thesis shows how to achieve different levels of accuracy and performance, by implementing two different algorithms. The first one is a static algorithm based on heuristics. The second algorithm, called k-Means, is based on data clustering. The heuristics based algorithm provides a result in less than 2 milliseconds, while k-Means takes roughly 4 milliseconds to converge. A comparison of the performance and flexibility of these two algorithms is presented. This project has resulted in a multi-threaded high level architecture based on Java, which enables interaction between Wiimote devices. The Application Programming Interface, can be easily extended for future projects, via several interfaces that provide basic mechanisms, such as an event listener, message delivery, and synchronization module. Moreover, the two different motion recognition algorithms offer different performances and different flexibility features, a crucial parameter closely related with motion recognition accuracy.
Idag rörelse erkännande har blivit populär för människa-dator interaktion områden, t.ex. hälsovård, dataspel, och robotik. även om många forskningsprojekt har undersökt detta område finns det fortfarande några utmaningar som återstår, framför allt i realtid miljöer. I realtid miljöer, behövs den mängd data för att beräkna användarens rörelse och den tid som krävs för att samla in och bearbeta dessa data är avgörande parameter är i utförandet av en rörelse erkännande. Dessutom har typ av data (accelerometer, gyroskop, kamera, . . . ) bestämmer Utformningen av rörelse erkännande. En av de viktigaste utmaningarna är att minska fördröjningen mellan sensorer och erkänna rörelse, medan vid Samtidigt uppnå en acceptabel nivå av noggrannhet. I denna avhandling presenterar vi en lösning med Nintendos Wii Remote som löser flera problem, som tillåter flera enheter samspel och synkronisering. Dessutom behandlar denna avhandling prestanda utmaningen förverkliga rörelse erkännande för en sådan enhet. Slutligen, denna avhandling introducerar en Java-arkitektur som innehåller en uppsättning gränssnitt som kan återanvändas i framtida projekt. En av de viktigaste resultaten av detta projekt gör det möjligt för interaktion mellan olika användare och enheter i realtid miljö som är våra Ansökan handlar om flera enheter på samma gång, med en acceptabel dröjsmål. Den nya ansökan innehåller smidigt samspel med användaren. som en följd av detta gör att vår ansökan samarbete och konkurrens verksamheter som i detta examensarbete utvärderades i en pedagogisk processen sammanhang. I detta specifika sammanhang, det viktigaste målet för forskarna som jag har samarbetat var att utöka traditionella undervisningen barn om några abstrakta begrepp, såsom energi. Dessutom visar avhandlingen hur man kan uppnå olika nivåer av noggrannhet och prestanda genom att införa två olika algoritmer. Den första är en statisk algoritm baserad på heuristik. Den andra algoritmen, kallade K-medel, är baseras på data klustring. Den heuristik baserad algoritm ger ett resultat i mindre än 2 millisekunder, medan k-Betyder tar ungefär 4 millisekunder att konvergerar. En jämförelse av prestanda och flexibilitet för dessa två algoritmer presenteras. Detta projekt har resulterat i en flertrådad hög nivå arkitektur baserad på Java, som möjliggör interaktion mellan Wiimote enheter. Ansökan Programming Interface, kan enkelt byggas ut för framtida projekt, via flera gränssnitt som ger grundläggande mekanismer, såsom en händelseavlyssnare meddelande leverans, och synkronisering modul. Dessutom har två olika rörelser erkännande algoritmer erbjuder olika föreställningar och olika flexibilitet funktioner, en avgörande parameter nära besläktad med rörelse erkännande noggrannhet

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Souza, Jaqueline de. "Mudanças relacionadas à idade nos ajustes posturais compensatórios em crianças com e sem DCD." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/10723.

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O presente estudo investigou as mudanças relacionadas à idade nos ajustes posturais compensatórios em crianças com e sem Desordem Coordenativa Desenvolvimental (DCD). Os ajustes posturais compensatórios foram investigados em 105 crianças (5-12 anos de idade) que foram selecionadas a partir de 538 crianças no sul do Brasil. As crianças com DCD foram definidas como aquelas com escores abaixo do 5º percentil no Teste Movement ABC. As crianças com desenvolvimento típico (DT) foram aquelas cujos escores no teste foram acima do 30º percentil (52 crianças). Os sujeitos foram solicitados a permanecerem em pé ereto sobre uma plataforma de força e a executar um movimento rápido alvo direcionado com o membro superior direito. O tempo de movimento e os erros absolutos do movimento do braço e também a amplitude e direção das mudanças do centro de pressão foram mensuradas. O resultado mostrou mudanças relacionadas à idade nos ajustes posturais compensatórios e, tempo de movimento, significativos em ambos os grupos. As crianças com DT mostraram mudanças com a idade significativas sobre a direção e amplitude do centro de pressão (COPy), sugerindo que eles melhoram suas habilidades para ajustar o equilíbrio quando realizando um movimento voluntário do membro superior com a idade, pelo uso do seu feedback. Crianças com DCD mostraram grandes amplitudes médio-laterais e tempo de movimento, quando comparadas com as crianças com DT. Uma correlação forte e positiva foi encontrada entre a amplitude do centro de pressão e o tempo de movimento em crianças com DCD sugerindo que os atrasos no movimento, frequentemente observados na criança com DCD, poderia ser causada por déficits posturais. Nós concluímos que a tendência desenvolvimental dos ajustes posturais compensatórios nas crianças com DCD é semelhante à criança com DT.
The present study investigated age-related changes of compensatory postural adjustments in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Compensatory postural adjustments were investigated in 105 children (5-12 years old) screened from 538 children in the south of Brazil. Children with DCD were defined as those with scores at or below the 5th (53 Children) percentile on Movement ABC Test. Typically developing children (TD) were those whose scores on the test were above the 30th percentile (52 children). Subjects were asked to stand upright and still on the force platform and perform a quick goal movement directed with the right superior limb. Movement time and absolute error of the arm movement and also amplitude and direction changes of the center of pressure were measured. The results showed significant age-related changes in the compensatory postural adjustments and movement time in both groups. TD children showed significant age-related changes on direction and amplitude of center of pressure (COPy), suggesting that they improve their ability to adjust their balance when performing an arm voluntary movements with the age by using their feedback. Children with DCD showed larger medium-lateral amplitudes and movement times as compared with TD children. A positive and well correlation found between center of pressure amplitude and movement time in children with CD suggests that the movements delays, often observed in children with DCD, could be caused by postural deficits. We conclude that the development trend of compensatory postural adjustments in children with DCD is similar to TD children.

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Maiwandi, Nadia. "Framing Iran| The Islamic revolution and the Green Movement as told through Time magazine." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1541535.

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This framing analysis was conducted to study how Time portrayed Iran and Iranians during the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 and the Green Movement uprising of 2009. In this study, particular attention was given to how the magazine framed the leaders of Iran and their opposition during these times, as well as to any correlation between Time's portrayal and the United States government's positions on these events. The analysis shows that magazine adhered to the United States' strong defense of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ("the Shah"), providing frames that depicted him as the only capable leader in Iran. Time framed the Islamic Revolution as violent, anti-modern, and lacking legitimate grievance, which also correlated with the U.S. government's position. Conversely, the latter period's data showed that Time used negative frames to discuss the Islamic Republic of Iran, depicting the administration as paranoid and out of touch with reality. The uprising of the Green Movement, which threatened the Islamic Republic's stability, received positive frames from Time . The frames on the Green Movement supported the White House's position on Iran, as in the earlier period. This study's findings demonstrate the U.S. media's conformity to official government frames on international events, specifically those depicting Iran.

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Terzian, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Ann). "How color and light change our perception of space, time and movement in architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37188.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.
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This thesis explores the way in which color and light change the way we understand our built environment. The site for this thesis is at the west end of the Esplanade. The Esplanade is a recreational park along the Boston side of the Charles River in Massachusetts. The park has built facilities for sailing, concerts, and eating that detour off to one side or the other of the park's system of paths. The topography of the site is quite flat. Movement through the park is seemingly timeless as one walks parallel to the water, past unremarkable landmarks. The west end of the Esplanade is a long, narrow strip of land between the Charles River and a small lagoon. Through the exploration of color and light, this thesis tries to recover a sense of time at both a large and small scale as one moves through the site. The sense of time is revealed through the constantly changing interaction between light and materials as the sun moves from east to west. It also tries to introduce a new spacial understanding of the site by breaking away from the existing parallel movement both physically and visually. The vehicle for this exploration is a proposal for a recreational building that includes a swimming pool with changing facilities, cafe and community art gallery.
by Deirdre A. Terzian.
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Maneri, Erin 1977. "Time domain characteristics of human force control in rejection of transient disturbances during movement." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28335.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2004.
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Many tasks that humans successfully complete are more naturally represented in terms of their force requirements than their state (position or velocity) requirements. Yet the literature on force and timing is relatively underrepresented. This work was an attempt to clarify whether feedforward and/or feedback force control mechanisms might be available in human motor control. Subjects were trained and tested rejecting simple square pulse disturbance forces perpendicular to concurrent reaching movements. The data was analyzed with the goals of both verifying the feasibility of a proposed control model, and then clarifying the capabilities, limitations and properties of such a controller.
by Erin Maneri.
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Krapp, James Joseph. ""At the Still Point of the Turning World": A Reference to Time and Movement." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31690.

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A Clinic for the study of Sleep Disorders The proposal for a clinic for sleep disorders sited on the edge of Dupont Circle within the District of Columbia. This thesis is a reference to time and movement as it relates to our individual perception. We each experience our environments differently and architecture should be prescribed to the fit the needs of the individual. It is the study of design evolution along a time-line. The science of effect. As we move along a line how does our environment and influence shape the final outcome? In architecture, process is the task of understanding. The following documentation is my personal time-line along that undefined path.
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Sandadi, Sandeepa. "In-situ, near real-time acquisition of particle movement in rotating drum coating equipment." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2003. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2759.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2003.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 137 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-103).

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Romney, Patricia Jean. "The Effects of Cold Water Immersion on Fractioned Response Time." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1848.

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Objectives: Quantify the effects of cold water immersion of the ankle on fractioned response time of the dominant lower limb. Design and Setting: A 2x2x5x5 crossover design with repeated measures on time and treatment directed data collection. The independent variables were gender, treatment, time (pretreatment, and post 15 seconds, 3 minutes 6 minutes and 9 minutes) and trial (5 trials for each time group). Response time (Tresp), reaction time (Treac), trial and surface temperature were measurement variables. Subjects: Thirty-six subjects, 18 females and 18 males were recruited from a physically active volunteer college student population. Measurements: Fractioned response time was tested following a 20 minute treatment. Response time and Treac were recorded by the reaction timer, and Tmov was calculated by taking the difference between Tresp and Treac. For each time/subject the high and low Tresp were discarded and the middle three trials were averaged and used for statistical analysis. A 2x2x5 ANOVA was used to determine overall differences between gender, treatment and time followed by Newman-Keuls multiple comparison tests. Results: Males were faster than females for Tresp, Treac and Tmov. Movement time and Tresp were slower with cold water immersion, but Treac was unaffected. Movement time and Tresp were fastest pretreatment, and slowest during the post 15-second time group. Though both Tmov and Tresp progressively sped up from the post 15-second through the post 9-minute time group, they did not return to pretreatment values when data collection discontinued. Conclusions: Immersing the dominant ankle in cold water for 20 minutes increases Tmov of the dominant lower limb; thereby increasing fractioned response time (Tresp).

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Dorthe, Fanny. "Fractions of an entrance : A study of doors, investigating lines through movement." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5830.

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Abstract The door is a critical element when aiming to construct a boundary that separates space and can make us view the world as divided. The door has the ability to connect and divide spaces. When we open a door we fold one room into another. I have investigated the door, as an object, a boarder and idea. What defines something as closed or open? How long does it take to walk through a door? What happens to the door when I remove the walls around it? In Fractions of an entrance I have used movement and the memory of movement to investigate the door. I investigate the door by moving through, filming both me and the door, sketching and building the sequence into frozen frames. Through my investigation, the door has become a passage of doors that unfold movement and time. The door works as an director, choreographing human movement, deciding how, if and when we enter a space. I have used movement as a method because I believe that it is through movement that we perceive space, we constantly move and experience space from multiple perspectives. I find it strange that the most common way to represent architecture is from a perspective that humans almost never see. Fraction of an entrance is a representation of my perception of the opening of a door, it is not a new door or a door with a new function. It is a representation based on reflections and investigations of the door. The result is in itself a spacial design, with new spacial qualities. That enhances invisible separations in space, create different patterns of movement an usage of space, creates smaller nooks to pause and gives you a possibility to remain in the moment between two rooms. A space in the threshold. One can say that it is a physical stop motion, frozen frames where the order and pace of the opening is determined by the one who moves through it. In this installation time is frozen, you can see both present, past and future at the same time. In Fractions of an entrance - the door’s memory has been made to a physical construction.

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Collins, Philip. "The movement ecology of a breeding seabird : an investigation using accelerometry." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2018. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/The-movement-ecology-of-a-breeding-seabird(e36b8ee9-9f13-498e-93bd-6546910d9ce5).html.

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Animal movement is a ubiquitous process and can have consequences ranging from an individual’s energy expenditure to ecosystem dynamics. This study uses biologgers, primarily accelerometers, to record and examine the at-sea behaviours of black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) during their breeding period. Accelerometers record the acceleration of an instrumented animal to give an indication of their behaviour and movements, yet their output can be particularly difficult to interpret. As such, this thesis begins with a method developed for the assignation of coarse-scale behaviours to accelerometry data. The method is a simple yet objective approach intended to be widely applicable. Using this method, we construct time-activity budgets for incubating and chick-rearing kittiwakes and apply activity-specific estimates of energy expenditure to these behaviours. We identify how kittiwakes allocate their time and what the energetic consequences of variation in time-allocation are. We present empirical evidence for chick-rearing kittiwakes expending more energy than incubating birds and identify that kittiwakes exhibit behavioural compensation whereby they limit energy expenditure across both foraging trips and days. We also examine the flight behaviour of kittiwakes in relation to extrinsic conditions. We find that wind conditions do not seem to influence broader scale patterns in movements during foraging trips, however kittiwakes do display behavioural plasticity in response to wind conditions by optimising their flight speeds towards maximum range speeds. We also identify that to optimise flight speeds, kittiwakes change the strength at which they flap their wings, rather than the frequency. Finally we present a serendipitous observation of predation of kittiwake chicks by a peregrine falcon. Although not directly related to movement ecology, this study documents novel predatory behaviour and highlights the importance of biological forces other than movement. Overall, the work presented in this thesis demonstrates that by examining the movement of individuals, it is possible to gain insights into various important aspects of their biology.

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Kaldy, David A. "Reactive Boundaries: Movement Informing Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242677314.

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Bevanda, Mirjana [Verfasser], and Björn [Akademischer Betreuer] Reineking. "Animals in space and time : spatio-temporal movement pattern analysis / Mirjana Bevanda. Betreuer: Björn Reineking." Bayreuth : Universität Bayreuth, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1088513395/34.

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Flannigan, Jenna Catherine. "Rapid-Chase Theory: The Influence of the Time of Invisible Stimulus Presentation on Movement Control." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32503.

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In the response priming paradigm, a small briefly presented visual stimulus (i.e., prime) is followed by a larger visible stimulus (i.e., mask) that renders the prime invisible and specifies the target location. According to the rapid-chase theory, the initial portion of the movement is dictated by the prime (initiation criterion) while the later portion is dictated by the mask (takeover criterion) and the prime is initially processed independently from the mask (independence criterion). The purpose of the first experiment was to determine if the processing of the prime and mask fit the predictions of the rapid-chase theory when the prime and mask are presented during an ongoing movement. The second experiment was designed to examine the impact of the prime when it is presented at various times throughout the execution of the movement. Participants initiated rapid pointing movements to a center target. On 1/3 of the trials, participants had to correct their movements to the left (or right) target in response to a left-pointing (or right-pointing) mask arrow, which was preceded by a neutral, left-, or right-pointing prime arrow. In Experiment 1, the prime was presented at movement onset and the mask randomly appeared 33, 50, or 67 ms after prime onset. In Experiment 2, the prime followed movement onset with a delay of 17, 33, or 50 ms and the mask was presented 50 ms after prime onset. In both experiments, participants first modified their movements in the direction indicated by the prime before completing their movements to the correct target in the majority of trials; thus, supporting the initiation and takeover criteria. However, the spatial priming effects did not follow the time course predicted by the independence criterion. Overall, the rapid-chase theory does not seem to apply to movement execution, but the prime is still able to influence the movement despite being presented later in the pointing trajectory.

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LaMonde, Anne-Marie R. "The neuroscience of movement, time and space : an arts educational study of the embodied brain." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/33961.

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This thesis is an exploration of the contributions of contemporary theories in film and literacy with the purpose of understanding how those theories inform an arts-based researcher in education. Additionally, further insights are drawn from cognitive, social, and neurosciences with the purpose of broadening the scope of understanding that stretches across multiple disciplines wherein film and literacy education is found. By engaging in a wide exploration across multiple fields of knowledge, this thesis shows the extent to which the general belief of the incommensurability between the arts, philosophy, cognitive, social and neurosciences has impacted negatively on education. It is believed, however, that knowledge gained through the study of contemporary theories in film and literacy, which is founded upon the philosophical, psychological, and sociological, may achieve greater clarity and insight when framed within the scope of advanced studies in neurosciences. With the interweaving of autobiographical accounts, explorations in the theoretical and experimental lead to a renewed understanding of film, arts, and literacy pedagogy. Finally, it is believed that understanding the convergence of the brain’s cognitive, emotional, and sensorimotor functions and the primacy of movement, is pivotal to understanding the complex issues of brain-body-mind that range from consciousness to learning.

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Buyukkara, Mehmet Ali. "The Imami Shi'i movement in the time of Musa al-Kazim and Ali al-Rida." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.537908.

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Elliott, Esther. "Worship time : the journey towards the sacred and the contemporary Christian charismatic movement in England." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11736/.

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This thesis is an ethnographic description of the Charismatic movement in England as it is to be found in the mainstream denominations. It specifically focuses on the Baptist denomination and uses the life and faith of the Jesus Fellowship Church as a controlling example of a Charismatic group which sits on the boundaries of both denominational and Baptist life. It traces the history, social organisation and framework of understanding of the movement and then highlights the Charismatic practice known as a worship time. It argues that in worship Charismatics become individual axis mundi, or channels for the transitory presence of the sacred on earth. This thesis also traces evidence which suggests that Charismatics represent this transitoriness in their use of physical space to delineate the sacred. They base their use of this space around a model by which they also construct the shape of the universe and organise their social relationships. In the activity conducted in this sacred space Charismatics journey towards the sacred through the use of music, words and ideas which are built into a flow of feeling that moves towards a goal. This ethnographic description is based on the theoretical and methodological programme of cultural anthropologists such as Turner, Bell and Geertz who have emphasised the idea of ritual as a functional process and, in the case of the latter two, the creation of meaning by which to live as a fundamental basis for all social and cultural life. It does so in direct response to other understandings of the Charismatic movement which focus on issues of power and forms of social relationships by using a different theoretical and methodological programme.

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King, Peter Mackenzie. "Fluid movement and motility of the human gastroduodenal region : observations with real-time ultrasonic imaging." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19015.

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Tay, Yi Lin Adeline. "The Slow Food Movement : an étude on commodity, time, ethics and aesthetics in contemporary life." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/f7f2bd57-4cea-418f-b3d0-f5d632cfc896.

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This thesis is a study of the Slow Food Movement (SFM), charting the journey of this grassroots organisation from its ideological and material roots in Bra, Italy to its meteoric development in the advanced capitalist landscapes of England and USA as a consumer-driven, 'eco-gastronomy' movement. It takes to heart the movement's promise for a 'revolution of taste', from which was derived four significant themes, namely: Commodity, Time, Ethics and Aesthetics. Fieldwork was carried out in Italy, England and USA, including sixy-four recorded interviews and ethnographic, moment-to-moment research. The thesis argues that the seemingly archaic attitudes held towards the commodity object, relations of time, ethical values and aesthetic pleasures are the very radical and social action that the SFM and its members undertake in their quest to lead, and live a comtemporary life. A 'nesting' approach was employed to demonstate the strength of this assertion. Firstly, a Marxist analysis moved an undifferentiated commodity towards exploring the character and typology of 'slow food'. Secondly, theories on speed and time consciousness urged a rethinking of time's linearity and the affordance of memory. Thirdly, a dialogue engaged Aristotelian virtues with relations of one and an/other. Fourthly, art encountered aesthetics in delineating the movement's sensorium. The SFM speaks to a modem politics of emotions, ideas and timeliness. The materiality of 'slow food' exhibits taste-in-action, a constantly productive knowledge, sensation and expression of palatable bodies. The complexity of time entwines imagination with responsibility. A good, balanced life - eudaimonia - is fashioned from a touching sociality. Geographies of physicality, sociability and sensuality increasingly influence a contentious food world. This thesis demonstrates that the SFM is a force of life. For the members and chosen food matters, the SFM is that which they in name advocate as well as exceed to, in effect, impel its aims and ambitions. This thesis regards an ontology of 'going there', and a philosophy of living creatively.

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Hrynczenko, Iwona. "A periodic table of movements : two reference frameworks for quantifiable emotion, a practice based investigation of human expressive movement and gesture." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2014. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/74fa96d6-d344-40dc-a721-94399ae71468.

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The development of sensor-based technologies has opened up avenues for a dialogue between the body and digital spaces, uncovering new possibilities for cross-disciplinary projects and engagements that demand new methods compatible with the ethos of embodied practices, which, in turn, require new approaches and tools. This research seeks to address this need by examining the quantifiability and visual properties of embodied emotion through a multi-layered study of human movement and gesture. It is an elaboration of scientific and artistic research methods, intended to answer the following principal question and related sub-questions: How can emotions, expressed via whole-body movement be visually documented and archived as a reference framework to stimulate the use and studies of expressive gesture in digital environments? As a consequence the following sub-questions become relevant for this research: The first, ontological in its nature; what is expressed emotion? And the second, methodological; how can bodily expressed emotions be visualised and quantified? To answer these questions, the research is divided into three parts. Drawing on phenomenological interpretative inquiry and heuristic methodology, whole-body emotive expressions are documented and analysed from multiple perspectives: body, expressiveness, time, space volume and their correlations. The first part contains information related to video data collection and the database design. The second part describes silhouette extractions of whole body emotive expressions and an online survey where the visual perception of visual data is measured. The third part of the research contains visual and quantitative data analysis providing the basis for visualisation of the four archetypal emotions: anger, fear, joy and sadness and their relationships. In this process, a multi-method approach was adopted combining both qualitative and quantitative methods adopted from sociology and cognitive science. The contextual review, where virtual embodiment and interactivity are explored build on the aesthetics of performance within new technology, highlighting the adaptability of the methods used in performance art to the field of game design. The results of this research and contribution to knowledge reside within both the ontological and methodological approaches used within this study. The ontological resides within the development of two reference frameworks: a correlation table defined as the Periodic Table of Movements (PTM) and a PTM database. The PTM database is a synthesis of embodied emotion data derived from multiple visual representations such as colour, shape, space, volume, time and intensity, whereas the relationship between expressions is visualised in the PTM correlation table. Within the context of an educational framework, the database also provides visual concepts of emotion as epistemic objects for analysis and experimentation. It is a starting point for future cross-disciplinary studies and research on emotions in the context of embodiment and digital technology. The novel methodology of this research contributes to a number of fields with new methods and models of enquiry, grounded within a hermeneutical interpretation driven by artistic development. This exploration opens up a holistic approach to future studies and research grounded in a multimodal attitude to knowledge acquisition.

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Glennie, Richard. "Incorporating animal movement with distance sampling and spatial capture-recapture." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16467.

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Distance sampling and spatial capture-recapture are statistical methods to estimate the number of animals in a wild population based on encounters between these animals and scientific detectors. Both methods estimate the probability an animal is detected during a survey, but do not explicitly model animal movement. The primary challenge is that animal movement in these surveys is unobserved; one must average over all possible paths each animal could have travelled during the survey. In this thesis, a general statistical model, with distance sampling and spatial capture-recapture as special cases, is presented that explicitly incorporates animal movement. An efficient algorithm to integrate over all possible movement paths, based on quadrature and hidden Markov modelling, is given to overcome the computational obstacles. For distance sampling, simulation studies and case studies show that incorporating animal movement can reduce the bias in estimated abundance found in conventional models and expand application of distance sampling to surveys that violate the assumption of no animal movement. For spatial capture-recapture, continuous-time encounter records are used to make detailed inference on where animals spend their time during the survey. In surveys conducted in discrete occasions, maximum likelihood models that allow for mobile activity centres are presented to account for transience, dispersal, and heterogeneous space use. These methods provide an alternative when animal movement causes bias in standard methods and the opportunity to gain richer inference on how animals move, where they spend their time, and how they interact.

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Mileros, Martin D. "A Real-Time Classification approach of a Human Brain-Computer Interface based on Movement Related Electroencephalogram." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2824.

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A Real-Time Brain-Computer Interface is a technical system classifying increased or decreased brain activity in Real-Time between different body movements, actions performed by a person. Focus in this thesis will be on testing algorithms and settings, finding the initial time interval and how increased activity in the brain can be distinguished and satisfyingly classified. The objective is letting the system give an output somewhere within 250ms of a thought of an action, which will be faster than a persons reaction time.

Algorithms in the preprocessing were Blind Signal Separation and the Fast Fourier Transform. With different frequency and time interval settings the algorithms were tested on an offline Electroencephalographic data file based on the "Ten Twenty" Electrode Application System, classified using an Artificial Neural Network.

A satisfying time interval could be found between 125-250ms, but more research is needed to investigate that specific interval. A reduction in frequency resulted in a lack of samples in the sample window preventing the algorithms from working properly. A high frequency is therefore proposed to help keeping the sample window small in the time domain. Blind Signal Separation together with the Fast Fourier Transform had problems finding appropriate correlation using the Ten-Twenty Electrode Application System. Electrodes should be placed more selectively at the parietal lobe, in case of requiring motor responses.

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Giddings, David Roger. "A probabilistic model for the movement of traffic through a small roundabout using discrete time units." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387416.

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