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2013-01-01

Ali Jazayeri, Mahdi Tavakoli

A teleoperation system consists of a teleoperator, a human operator, and a remote environment. Conditions involving system and controller parameters that ensure the teleoperator passivity can serve as control design guidelines to attain maximum teleoperation transparency while maintaining system...

2013-07-17

Howery, Darryl, Institute for Public Economics

2013-04-14

Ali Jazayeri, Matthew Dyck, Mahdi Tavakoli

A bilateral teleoperation system includes a human operator and an environment, which make the system stability analysis complicated due to their unknown, time-varying and nonlinear nature. Unable to have exact models for the human operator and the environment, it is typically assumed that they...

Fall 2013

Sydora, Laura E

This thesis will engage with a multitude of critical theories, sociological studies, and political legislation in an attempt to demonstrate the role female-centered literature is playing in the cultural revision of the Irish nation at the turn of the twenty-first century. In an effort to...

2013

Paton, P., Chiu, Y., Mumtaz, Z., Higginbottom, G. M., Safipour, J., Pillay, J.

Background Evidence suggests that immigrant women having different ethnocultural backgrounds than those dominant in the host country have difficulty during their access to and reception of maternity care services, but little knowledge exists on how factors such as ethnic group and cultural...

Spring 2013

Lawlor, Carmen G

ABSTRACT Advances in computer technology have created powerful opportunities for learners to engage with others, producing very different contexts for learning, and for negotiating our very way of being. Yet, engagement in these virtual learning environments also raises many questions around how...

Fall 2013

Millar, Carolyn A

My purpose in this research was to examine women contemporary dancers’ positive experiences. While previous research in women’s dance experiences exit, it tends to focus on the negative outcomes of dance participation. Using a phenomenologically inspired approach I sought to answer the following...

Spring 2013

Spinu, Eugeniu

In this thesis we study operator ideals on ordered Banach spaces such as Banach lattices, $C^*$-algebras, and noncommutative function spaces. The first part of this work is concerned with the domination problem: the relationship between order and algebraic ideals of operators. Fremlin, Dodds and...

Fall 2013

Cwikla, Anna

One of the Dialogue of the Saviour’s most prominent features is the female character Mary who participates with other disciples in a discussion with Jesus. Most texts in the Nag Hammadi codices including the Dialogue of the Saviour have been traditionally labeled as Gnostic. This study...

2013-04-02

Zvyagintseva, Lydia

If the 19th century was witness to a shift in awareness of time as a concept, and the 20th century revealed awareness in the power of language, then the 21st century will be characterized by keen spatial awareness. Despite the assumption that space would become insignificant in the digital age,...