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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Industrial Infrastructure"”.
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Layering Connections: Reclaiming Abandoned Post Industrial Infrastructure
Industrial Infrastructure fueled the birth and growth of countless small towns and cities throughout the United States. In many instances, the railroad served as the main source of employment. Local economies were often tied to the continued success of the railroad industry and mirrored their …
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Derelict to Dynamic: Examining Socioecological Productivity of Underutilized/Abandoned Industrial Infrastructure, and Application in Baltimore, Maryland
… America’s formerly most economically and industrially powerful cities (Open Baltimore GIS [Vacancies Shapefile], 2017; “Harbor Water Alert” Blue Water Baltimore, 2017). Impending environmental threats in the “Anthropocene” (Crutzen, 2004) and increased attention to societal injustices …
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Utopia and Oblivion
… the possibility of expropriating the industrial infrastructure of a now defunct oil refinery for the bioremediation of toxic soils, restoration of functional riparian ecologies, and reinhabitation of the site by human and non-human life. The context of the project is based on the …
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Designing buildings for disassembly : stimulating a change in the designer's role
Today's industrial infrastructure in the building field results in specific types of problems with current design strategies. Here, the potential of Design for Disassembly (DfD) is explored as a solution for a new type of architecture that allows for both recyclability of material and space. …
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The economic and political significance of Russia's RBMK reactors
… as an important component within a weakened industrial infrastructure. By analyzing the safety concerns of the RBMK reactors in conjunction with the reactors' economic and political contributions to the country, a conclusion as to whether or not Russia should continue operating the reactors …
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Development of a connected platform for industrial equipment monitoring to enable predictive maintenance using supervised machine learning methods
… is the world leader in ultra high pressure industrial waterjet systems for cutting and cleaning with applications from metal to food. Although SHAPE is the technological leader in this space, SHAPE must continuously look toward developing new capabilities to differentiate its products. SHAPE …
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China’s soft power investment in African nations
… Confucius Institute, and iconic social infrastructure buildings, may be working to produce positive perceptions of China in African nations. However, few studies examine the causal link between China’s soft power investments and public perceptions of China (i.e. the effectiveness of …
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The New York Crystal Palace: an international exhibition of goods and ideas
… success of the London Crystal Palace. America’s industrial infrastructure, politics, government, and geographic size, as well as youthful and limited global status, made financial success for the New York venture elusive. The New York display did make a large cultural impact, as evidenced by …
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The Philosopher's Plutonium Stone: the Dounreay Fast reactor and the fall of Britain's Atomic Empire
… whilst the United States built a substantial industrial infrastructure laying the basis for a nuclear industry. Post war the US refused to share nuclear secrets and when British government decided to push ahead with building its independent atomic arsenal they did so with extremely limited …
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A study of the Corporate Coaching Culture Cultivation approach in meeting change management needs for organisations in China
… this position, it has encouraged investment in industrial infrastructure and technology, requiring organisations to continuously adapt and transform. Cultivating a coaching culture is an effective solution to meeting their change management needs in talent agility, but there is only limited …
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Preserving the ethos of industry at the Carrie furnaces: the redevelopment of an industrial heritage site and the interpretation of manufacturing culture
… County intends to redevelop this 168-acre former industrial site in the near future. In anticipation of this regionally important redevelopment project, this thesis considers the philosophical commitments of historic preservation, weighs economic growth imperatives, explores how the Carrie …
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Design, Modeling, and Analysis of Microscale Pneumatic Valve Architectures to Simplify Integration of Small Displacement Actuators
… technology that underpins modern societal and industrial infrastructure. The performance of the majority of fluid power systems hinges on proper control valve function. Despite the importance, the core actuator technology used in control valves has remained largely unchanged for decades with …