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Showing 1 to 20 of 1331 for “"Early stage"”.
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Six degrees of early-stage ventures
… Valley, who are used to investing in later stages, move upstream to invest in fledgling firms to achieve higher ownership and returns (Clark, 2019a). Despite the high private market liquidity, standing out from the crowd is critical and has become more difficult to achieve, even for …
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Predictive Modeling of Early Stage Parkinsons Disease
Background: Early stage (preclinical) detection of Parkinsons disease (PD) remains challenged yet is crucial to both differentiate it from other disorders and facilitate timely administration of neuroprotective treatment as it becomes available. Objective: In a cross-validation paradigm, dual …
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Engineering management of early stage warship design
… and then derives a methodology for managing early stage warship design. The initial data were gathered at the VT shipyard by interviewing key personnel. The collected data are then analysed using the MS Visio flowchart package to create input/output diagrams for all existing areas of work. …
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Hope and stigma in early stage dementia
This portfolio thesis consists of three parts:Part one is a systematic review of the literature relating to perceived stigma and support amongst family caregivers of people with dementia. Numerous studies have suggested stigma is associated with negative outcomes in various mental and physical …
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In-operando techniques for early-stage corrosion
… to capture the initiation and nucleation of early scale. It is not well understood but may provide avenues to modify the scale to be an effective anti-corrosion, passivating layer. Ex-situ characterisation fails to capture dynamic chemical reactions. Corrosion products also alter upon removal …
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Technology Venture Assessment for Early-Stage Decisions
… effective assessments for three important early-stage decisions, namely: (1) whether to pursue a business opportunity, (2) which process to follow to define the launch product to get the business off the ground in the short term, and (3) how to strategically align technology and market …
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Early stage innovation ; matching opportunities with inventions
… and technological inventions during the early stages of breakthrough innovations in technology. Hypothesizing: a technological innovation is primarily a match between a new business opportunity and an invention. The literature review redacts the recent developments regarding ways of …
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Eco-innovation: Tools to facilitate early-stage workshops
… out into the use of creative tools at the early stages of eco-innovation. Eco-innovation is a practical approach aiming to develop new products and processes which significantly decrease our impact on the environment. Designers are trained to develop profitable products that increase …
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Spark Breakdown Voltage Sampling During Early Stage Compression
This thesis proposes a novel methodology to enable cycle by cycle control of a two-stroke cycle type engine. These engines are well known for offering high specific power density solutions, however, this advantage cannot be fully exploited without new technologies enabling significantly reduced …
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Positive experiences in older people with early stage dementia
… experience of hope in older people with early-stage dementia and explores factors that facilitate or hinder hopefulness in this population. Ten participants were each interviewed and interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to identify themes within their accounts. The study …
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Business model change in early-stage university spin-offs
… explores the process of business model change in early-stage university spin-off firms, and how it impacts their performance. This thesis asks: (1) How does the process of business model change unfold in early-stage university spin-offs?, (2) How does business model change link to performance in …
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Karyopherin alpha subtypes and porcine early stage embryo development
… localization in all nuclei through the 4-cell stage of development, while only a subset of blastomeres in 8-cell stage embryos possess nuclear BRN2. Octamer-binding transcription factor 4 (OCT4) adopts a nuclear localization in all nuclei prior to the 2-cell stage of development, whereas OCT4 …
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A novel view on the early stage of crystallization
This thesis provides a novel view on the early stage of crystallization utilizing calcium carbonate as a model system. Calcium carbonate is of great economical, scientific and ecological importance, because it is a major part of water hardness, the most abundant Biomineral and forms huge amounts of …
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Early-stage drug discovery of HIV-1 frameshifting modulators
Human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) is a global health issue affecting approximately 35 million people worldwide. Despite the success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), drug resistant viruses and adverse drug reactions raise the need for new classes of antiretroviral drugs. …
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Quantum computational chemistry methods for early-stage quantum computers
One of the first practical applications of quantum computers is expected to be molecular modelling. Performing this task would profoundly affect areas such as chemistry, materials science and drug synthesis. Modelling of molecules, which are classically intractable, can be achieved with just over …
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Open architecture framework for improved early stage submarine design
… current disparate methods improve efficiency in early stage submarine design? Does the lack of transparency between current design methods hinder the effectiveness of early stage submarine design? This thesis proposes that coordinating data and design methods from current disparate sources would …
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Cooling system early-stage design tool for naval applications
… architects and engineers to better illustrate, early in the design process, the requirements and characteristics for the Chilled Water system components. Utilizing both Excel and Paramarine software, the CSDT rapidly creates a visual model of a Chilled Water system and conducts pump, damage, …
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Early-stage technology ventures in India : opportunities and issues
High-technology Entrepreneurship has been a key driver of innovation and economic growth in the US. Aided by factors such as the success in IT and IT-enabled services industries and a booming economy, India has seen a sharp increase in activity in technology entrepreneurship. This thesis explored …
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Resistance and wake prediction for early stage ship design
… computational times for the preliminary design stage. The tool developed uses a potential flow solution coupled with an integral boundary layer solver to predict the viscous resistance and propeller wake. The wave drag is calculated using a modified linear theory, thus eliminating the need to …
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