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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Grand challenges."”.
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Making a grand challenge: the social-symbolic work of conserving nature
… unwieldy. Scholars are called upon to study how grand challenges like these develop and how organisations respond to them. Scholars and practitioners alike tend to focus on the received and ostensibly objective facts of these challenges, obfuscating the role actors play in socially constructing …
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Shifting the frame: how internal change agents contextualize and co-construct strategic responses to grand challenge issues within and beyond the firm
… business responses to social-ecological grand challenges. Prior research has suggested that problem identification and attribution help to foster meaning and action on societal issues. In particular, framing theory has offered significant insight into individual actors' cognitive …
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Solution-Processed Solar Cells via Nanocrystal Inks and Molecular Solutions
… Academy of Engineering unveiled their fourteen grand challenges of engineering for the 21st century. At the top of the list and voted by the public as the most important challenge was the thrust to make solar energy economical. My research has been dedicated to solving this millennial challenge …
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Sound Sensing and Feedback Techniques for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
… in the field. I close with outlining the future grand challenges in the emerging field of sound accessibility.
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Powderworld: A Platform for Understanding Generalization via Rich Task Distributions
One of the grand challenges of reinforcement learning is the ability to generalize to new tasks. However, general agents require a set of rich, diverse tasks to train on. Designing a ‘foundation environment’ for such tasks is tricky – the ideal environment would support a range of emergent …
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Poverty and child well-being in foster care: Exploring family stress and adolescent behavior in Washington State
… Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare’s 12 Grand Challenges.
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Identification of barriers and least cost paths for autonomous vehicle navigation using airborne LIDAR data
… Projects Agency (DARPA) has sponsored two Grand Challenges, races among autonomous ground vehicles in rural environments. These vehicles must follow a course delineated by Global Positioning System waypoints using no human guidance. Airborne LIDAR data and GIS can play a significant role in …
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Heterogeneous Entrepreneurial Action: A Knowledge Problem Approach
… in entrepreneurship corresponds to the societal grand challenges faced by policymakers around the world. Subsequently, by providing a novel theory and empirical treatments of the causes of heterogeneity of entrepreneurial action, the dissertation signifies the continued relevance of the …
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Inside The Lines: Essays on the Performance of Whole Organizational Networks
… many of society’s most complex problems and Grand Challenges require the concerted efforts of organizations towards shared goals, which may not always coincide with local (organization level) incentives. As such, I use the context of healthcare reform in the United States to examine how …
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IDENTIFICATION OF NEUROMARKERS USING STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING
<p>"One of the grand challenges in science is understanding the human brain. Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging have opened unmatched opportunities to demystify neural circuitry. In this research, the spatially and temporally complex neuroimaging data were used to identify neuromarkers …
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Neuroscience for Engineering Sustainability: Measuring Cognition During Design Ideation and Systems Thinking Among Students in Engineering
… that requires new ways of thinking. To solve grand challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, and poverty, engineers cannot rely on the same models of thinking that were used to create these problems. Engineering education is therefore critical to advance sustainable …
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Intellectual Property Management in Innovation Ecosystems: Developing Visual Methods for Mapping Dynamics, Uncertainties, and Risks
… plays a key role in addressing society’s grand challenges, such as poverty, climate change, and pandemics. To be effective, it requires the collaboration of heterogenous actors, the orchestration of dynamic innovation systems, and openness towards sharing and accessing knowledge and …
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The Effects of Concept Mapping on Design Neurocognition: An Empirical Study Measuring Changes in the Brain when Defining Design Problems
Grand challenges in engineering are complex and require engineers to be cognizant of different systems associated with each problem. The approach to think about these systems is called systems thinking. Systems thinking provides engineers with a lens to identify relationships between multiple …
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Social change: The influence of ecosystem change and the business sector
The Social Work Grand Challenges have drawn attention to the fact that problems facing people across the world are typically complex and need collaborative practices to be addressed. Cross-sector social partnerships are being used across the globe to engage multiple sectors to improve communities. …
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Organizing in times of global displacement and refugee crises
This dissertation examines the challenges of organizing in times of global displacement in three different studies. The papers are based on an ethnographic case study of an international aid organization and its operations in Rwanda. Each paper investigates a distinct aspect of responding to one of …
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Three-Dimensional Passivated-Electrode Insulator-Based Dielectrophoresis (3D-PiDEP)
… of waterborne pathogens which are one of the grand challenges to human health, costing the lives of about 2.5 million people worldwide each year. The aim was to develop new microfluidic techniques for selectively concentrating and detecting waterborne pathogens. Detection of microbes in water …
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Processing-surface integrity-fatigue relationship in electrical discharge machining of nitinol shape memory alloy
… and good biocompatibility. However, the grand challenges for manufacturing Nitinol components are manifested in two aspects: (i) Nitinol is exceedingly difficult to machine by mechanical cutting due to the very high material strength, high ductility, low temperature of phase …
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Continental-scale isotope hydrology
… population of 7 billion people is one of the grand challenges of the 21st century. This dissertation outlines several applications of isotope hydrology to address four previously unknown questions involving surface- and ground-water resources at regional- to continental-spatial scales over …
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Structural Analysis of Carbohydrates by Mass Spectrometry
… sequence, and branching location. One of the grand challenges limiting the advance of glycosciences is the lack of sensitive tools for detailed glycan structural analysis. Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a powerful tool for structural analysis of carbohydrates with its high sensitivity and …
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