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CHARACTERIZING ENABLING INNOVATIONS AND ENABLING THINKING
The pursuit of innovation is engrained throughout society whether in business via the introduction of offerings, non-profits in their mission-driven initiatives, universities and agencies in their drive for discoveries and inventions, or governments in their desire to improve the quality of life of …
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Enabling distributed SMEs
A tecnologia pode ser uma força muito poderosa para ajudar empresas tecnologicamente menos evoluídas, que se esforçam para acompanhar seus concorrentes mais avançados e digitalmente capazes. Para evoluir, essas empresas podem abraçar a transformação digital de seus negócios, iniciando uma mudança …
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Enabling Locative Experiences
The appropriate framework to capture and share location information with mobile applications enable the development of interfaces and interface techniques that empower users to obtain and share information on the go. As such, the work in this thesis makes two major contributions. First is the SeeVT …
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CAD enabling smart handtools
CAD (Computer Aided Design) software allows one to describe a design in great detail and at any arbitary scale. However, our interface to CAD is still largely through traditional avenues: screen, keyboard and pointing devices. While these interfaces function for their intended purposes: text entry, …
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Innovation enabling manufacturing processes
Global operations for multinational companies today pose a particularly challenging environment for maintaining fluid knowledge transfer and effective communication methodologies. In a continuous drive for product innovation, process development often takes on lower priority to other initiatives …
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Enabling Vertical Search Over Wikipedia
The massive amount of information on the Web has led to the proliferation of vertical search engines, which are specialized for specific domains. Such engines can offer superior results through gathering and utilizing domain-specific information. In this thesis, we explore the idea of applying …
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Enabling imagination through story alignment
… combination of stories which is a step towards enabling imagination in artificial intelligence. This capability is made possible by reducing the runtime of a previously intractable computational problem to polynomial time. In the course of this research, these algorithms have been applied to a …
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Enabling effective product launch decisions
The present work looks into the question of optimizing the performance of product launch decisions-in particular, the decisions of product development duration and manufacturing ramp-up. It presents an innovative model for measuring product launch performance and optimizing the decisions by …
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Enabling technology for mobile computing
… and organizational examination of the customer enabling effort at Intel Corporation was undertaken. The context of this study was the launch of the first boxed mobile processor in the company's history. The technical component of the work consisted of the design and development of a thermal …
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An urban intervention : enabling frameworks
The relationship between design and the idea of a framework is essentially an attitude about ordering. A framework is an Intellectual proposition which can support a variety ideas, and in doing so, it provides a resolution to these intersections. The framework may be thought of as a mechanism, a …
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Aerosol Processes Enabling Solar Energy Applications
<p>Development of alternative energy sources is essential to satisfy future energy demands. While remaining fossil fuel resources may substantially meet these demands, anthropogenic carbon dioxide: CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions from combustion processes will continue accumulating in the atmosphere and …
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Enabling reliable control with communication constraints
From connected vehicles to smart factories, networked autonomous systems will enable future technological advancements. In many such systems, functional requirements like mobility will require that communication between autonomous agents be wireless. To ensure system reliability, and, most …
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Enabling modern concurrency through program transformations
Concurrency is becoming the norm in modern software because multicores are now everywhere. Developers use concurrency constructs (i) to make their software responsive and scalable via asynchrony and (ii) to increase the throughput of their software via parallelism. Yet, we know little about how …
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Cripping Justice: Enabling Theory on Disability
Disability activism and disability studies have, over the last half-century, evolved theories to understand disability and operationalise justice for disabled people. Historically, the starting point is the Medical Model, where disability is a bodily ‘defect’, and therefore the responsibility of …
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Enabling 'growth mindsets' in engineering students
Student failure is often attributed to a lack of work by students. While this view has some merit, it implies that only students need to change and reduces the incentive for lecturers, curricula, assessment practices to be interrogated. In this thesis, I take a comprehensive look into why students …
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Enabling environments : people, wheelchairs and standards
Designing environments to accommodate people in wheelchairs is far more than ramps and wide toilet stalls built according to the state building code. This study attempts to illuminate the functional imperatives behind certain standards (especially relating to spinal cord injuries) and to show how …
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Enabling process improvements through systems thinking
Manufacturing organizations around the world strive to improve processes with varying degrees of realization. There is no right way or latest and greatest process that can guarantee success, therefore the approach, and not necessarily the process, is critical. Since every process improvement …
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Enabling miniaturized grid-interface power conversion
Many of the most critical challenges of the twenty-first century revolve around energy and its management. Improved performance (efficiency, density) in electrical energy management systems require advancements in a number of areas - semiconductor devices, passive energy storage components, and a …
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Enabling collaboration in the sketching domain
Sketching, although deceptively simple and seemingly primitive, is a powerful paradigm for designing and understanding many types of engineering systems. Many problem domains, such as designing electrical circuits, developing flow charts, and modeling simple mechanical devices, rely heavily on the …
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