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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Emergent technology"”.
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Viscous streaming-enhanced inertial particle transport
… We envison such transport applications in the emergent technology of miniature robots, capable of traversing our blood stream to deliver payloads of therapeutical drugs.
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Extensible business reporting language: an interpretive investigation of the democratisation of financial reporting
… Business Reporting Language (‘XBRL’) is an emergent technology that is purported to ‘democratise’ financial reporting. This investigation of whether XBRL democratises financial reporting is undertaken from a constructivist perspective. An interpretive research framework is regarded as …
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Licensure and the dental market
… crunch for the private practitioner. Meanwhile, emergent technology has created a market outside of the traditional political hierarchy, that threatens the authoritative structure of the profession. The processes of a simultaneous scientific and economic revolution poses an enormous threat to the …
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Design and manufacturing of an ion electrospray propulsion system package and passively-fed propellant supply
… or pose a threat to primary launch payloads. An emergent technology, electrospray propulsion, is inherently scalable, benign, applicable to a wide range of mission types, and resource efficient. Research in the MIT Space Propulsion Laboratory over the past decade has been focused on developing …
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A stakeholder-grounded evaluation of the seven functions model of technological innovation systems theory in UK offshore wind and marine renewables.
… renewables sector - including project and technology developers, policy makers, supply chain, support organisations and other stakeholders - the thesis examines whether the seven functions provide a "necessary and sufficient" framework, to characterise the emergence of offshore wind and …
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THE CHALLENGE OF DOMAIN SHIFT IN REAL-WORLD ROBOTIC VISION: TOWARD SCALABLE, UNSUPERVISED, AND CLOUD-BASED ADAPTATION
Mobile robots are an emergent technology more and more present in contexts such as homes, offices, and hospitals to assist humans in daily life activities. Given the complexity of human-centric environments, robotic vision, namely computer vision embedded in mobile robots, has become an essential …
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The emergence of the network supply-chain: a study of co-operation and performance in supply-chain relationships in the UK fibre-optics industry
… this change and, in particular, on the impact of technology on the development of co-operative forms of governance. The second objective of the research is to test the linkage between governance forms in the supply-chain a nd organisational. Performance, particularly efficiency and innovation. …
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HOW DO TEACHERS IN A MID-ATLANTIC SUBURBAN SCHOOL DISTRICT USE TECHNOLOGY TO INTERACTIVELY ENGAGE THEIR STUDENTS?
Interactive whiteboards have become an emergent technology in K-12 education in the United States as well as other countries throughout the world (Johnson & Türel, 2012). There have been studies conducted on the perceived effectiveness of the SMART Board® (Beauchamp & Prakinson, 2005; Brown, 2004; …
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Large-scale grid-connected renewable energy in Australia: Potential barriers, strategies and policy support mechanisms that may affect RE development from the perspective of energy specialists at a leading consultancy operating in the built environment in Australia
… energy mix, but will be dependent on price and emergent technology. Pumped hydro power is expected to be an important compliment to renewable energy in future, to assist in addressing the technical barriers associated with high levels of non-synchronous generation in the network. A reform of the …