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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Design trends"”.
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Design trends of tall building in Hong Kong
… limits. This thesis presents an overview of design trends of tall building in Hong Kong from both architectural and structural perspectives. It also provides the design details of a few most famous and challenging structures in the past 20 years.
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Re/framing design trends : a Burkean meta-rhetorical approach
… Kenneth Burke’s theory for interrogating visual design trend dynamics and rhetorics. The investigation originated in response to the perceived unsustainability of accelerated design trend dynamics, as amplified by rhetorically-driven aesthetic obsolescence. The hermeneutic framework developed in …
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Discovering physics and design trends from visual temporal structures
… bottles broken into pieces, or influenced by design trends, such as web pages adopting templates with larger background images. In this dissertation, we build computational models to discover and apply the knowledge of the physics for arrow of time, and the design trends for web pages from …
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"The Bower Yet Remains": Historical and Archaeological Technomic Analysis of Anchor Design Trends in The Long Nineteenth Century
… identifying features lie in an anchor's design. This study attempts to create an avenue through which such anchors tentatively can be dated. Research is specifically aimed to further the study of anchors within the scope of maritime commerce during the "long nineteenth century" …
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Sensitivity Constrained Nonlinear Programming: A General Approach for Planning and Design Under Parameter Uncertainty and an Application to Treatment Plant Design
… Thus SCNLP can be used to generate solutions or designs that are good with respect to modeled objectives, and that also reflect concerns about uncertainty in parameter values. A solution procedure and an implementation based on an existing nonlinear programming code are presented. SCNLP was …
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Curation and privacy in mobile application UI repositories
… be mined for insights into the best performing design patterns, usability problems, and overall design trends. So far, this data has primarily come from automated application exploration or crowdworkers completing smartphone tasks as part of a study. Both of these methods have a primary issue …
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The Evolution and Testing of an Aerovalve Pulsejet Engine
… developed by previous experimenters revealed design trends associated with the engine geometry. These trends were followed in the development of an aerovalve pulsejet engine entitled the <em>Astra</em>. The engine employed variable fuel injection methods, ignition location and exhaust pipe …
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Structural blast design
Blast design is a necessary part of design for more buildings in the United States. Blast design is no longer limited to underground shelters and sensitive military sites, buildings used by the general public daily must also have satisfactory blast protection. Integrating blast design into existing …
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Design of a low power VLSI systems powered by ambient mechanical vibration
Low power design trends raise the possibility of using ambient energy to power future digital systems. This thesis explores the design of such systems for collecting and processing data from sensors. The low throughput requirements of this type of computation allows aggressive scaling of supply …
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The Responsibility of Technical Communicators to Disabled Computer Users: an Analysis of Technology, Processes, and Trends
… and materials of a highly technical nature, the design choices are sometimes left to the ethics of individual technical communicators and fellow team members. This thesis proves the need for technical communicators to produce accessible electronic and information technologies. This need for …
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Dynamic interrelationship between technology and architecture in tall buildings
… constructed based on this concept. Contemporary design practice of tall buildings is reviewed, and design guidelines are provided for new design trends. Investigated in depth are the behavioral characteristics and design methodology for diagrid structures, which emerge as a new direction in the …
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Simplification, debranding, and new marketing techniques: an historical analysis of brand logo design
Marketing and advertising trends, like fashion, go in and out of style with the seasons and the years. In decades past, advertisements were once created entirely out of text. But as cameras got better, printers more detailed, and digital marketing came to the forefront, advertising shifted to a …
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Growing Concerned: How Societal Stress Relates to Plants in the Home
<p> Design trends are constantly in flux, but the reasons why people prefer new trends are not readily apparent. This thesis brought together multiple aspects of interior design to investigate how design has changed. After a review of available studies, the researcher decided to focus on natural …
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Examining the Economic Impact of Anti-Warehouse Development Policies in California: A Case Study of the San Diego Market
… goals, as well as contemporary warehouse design trends and transportation innovations. The conclusions drawn from this research emphasize the complexities of balancing community interests with economic growth and sustainability in the region, as well as the broader economic implications of …
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Concealing the Mechanism: The Addition and Rehabilitation of Roanoke's Norfolk and Western Passenger Train Station
… as well as, implementing the current design trends, life and history is restored. The challenge and goal of my thesis is to illustrate the positive effect this transformation cycle has on an urban space. I propose to renovate the historic Norfolk and Western Passenger Train Station …
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Soft at the Joints
… conditions. Yet, this portion of the design is often relegated to the end of the design process, as a finishing touch. The walls, floors, and roof are meticulously considered, while the spaces between are left blank in order to accommodate the imperfections and unsolved complexities …
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Digital timber for affordable housing: An exploration into flexible spaces
… products and the possibilities of open-source designs, interior walls can come alive as customisable, sustainable, and creative. This thesis shows how design trends and needs are moving towards affordability, sustainability, and flexibility, envisioning a future where housing is designed as an …
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Implications of Consumer Behavior in Retail Operations
… Additionally, consumers also consider product design in their valuation for the product, and are only willing to pay premium prices for products that match design trends and retain value during the product’s lifecycle. In such an environment, retailers should include elements of consumer …
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Assessing sustainable urban forms in Erbil city of Iraq
… considered the analysis of sustainable design and performance of the built fabric over the past two decades with regard to diversity, density and accessibility. They fall short of developing a holistic, systematic and objective assessment system for the analysis of the sustainable urban …
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