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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Industry Practice"”.
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Managing disruptive technology : a comparison of academic research and industry practice.
… methodology selected to frame issues within an industry milieu. Analysis of the responses indicates that, although a basic inherent understanding exists for both the diffusion and creative management process, significant gaps in understanding the strategic value of these two theories remains. …
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Agile mining : a novel data mining process for industry practice based on Agile Methods and visualization
Current standard data mining processes like CRoss-Industry Standard Process for Data mining (CRISP-DM) are vulnerable to frequent change of customer requirement. Meanwhile, Stakeholders might not acquire sufficient understanding to generate business value from analytic results due to a lack of …
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Industry Practice as a Source of Potential Values for Computing Education – What Can Teachers and Pupils Learn from Industry Professionals
… explores the potential values coming from the practices of computing industry in the UK that could be incorporated in British schools in order to improve the quality of computing education and provide a more engaging experience for pupils and encourage more young people to pursue a career in …
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Designing in creativity: an investigation into the role of creativity in graphic design
Graphic design practice is currently entrenched within a process-driven, formulaic approach to design that is time constrained and closely aligned with the working practices of the business environment. This approach is not conducive to creativity. Although design institutions recognise the call …
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Innovation in medical devices : a case study of the coronary stent
… transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) industry. The industry evolution is analyzed within the industrial life cycle framework developed by Utterback, Tushman and others. The coronary stent was first introduced in 1994, and has passed through all of the industry cycle stages: from a …
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Improving operational efficiency of a semiconductor equipment manufacturing warehouse through effective utilization of Vertical Lift Modules
… to improve material throughput. Common industry practice is to periodically reslot items once an unbalanced workload is obvious. This thesis investigates a method to avoid periodic reslotting by using incoming parts as a means to maintain a balanced workload amongst VLMs. Three different …
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Customer segmentation in the medical devices industry
… increases sales. However it is not a normal industry practice to provide this service free to the customers. Keeping in mind this enormous cost burden, Company X wants to minimize this cost. Medical device sales are non-seasonal and do not show promotional effects. We analyzed data for the …
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Efficient Equivalence Checking in a Modular Design Environment
… of transforming multi-phase designs, a popular industry practice to equivalent one-phase designs to enable the application of the current equivalence checking techniques. We propose an algorithm to compute the steady states of a machine by relaxing the assumption of a designated set of initial …
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Restaurant revenue management
… based methods enhance revenle relative to the industry practice of FCFS by 0.11% to 2.22% for low load factors, by 0.16% to 2.96% for medium load factors, and by 7.65% to 13.13% for high load factors, without increasing and occasionally decreasing waiting times compared to FCFS. The second …
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Strategic framework for real estate investment in emerging markets : the case of commercial real estate in Bogotá, Colombia
… business academic literature and real estate industry practice different decision-making approaches. The purpose of the thesis is twofold. First, by proposing a strategic framework, the work intends to contribute to the development of strategic decision-making literature in international real …
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CHINA’S REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY:IS IT POSSIBLE TO REALIZE SOFT LANDING? —— A REVIEW AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ON THE CREDIT RISK OF THE INDUSTRY
China’s real estate industry played an outsized role in both China and global economy and has experienced a rapid growth during the past 15 years, but it went through a tough period of roller-coaster since the last half of 2021.More and more concerns about the credit stability of the industry arise …
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Volume Mount Devices
… devices (SMDs) remain entrenched in industry practice despite being insufficient for today's computing challenges and sustainability needs. This thesis introduces the volume mount device (VMD), a three-dimensional electronics packaging standard that bypasses the traditional …
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LOST IN TRANSLATION: FINDING THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE IN SUSTAINABLE FASHION TO COPE WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSTACLES IN DESIGNER’S AND CONSUMERS’ ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING
… choices, resulting in a more responsible industry practice. The research results have the potential to influence the ethical fashion discourse and by addressing the emotional and psychological barriers faced by stakeholders, ease the transition to responsible fashion practices. Moreover, …
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SiC-Based High-Frequency Soft-Switching Three-Phase Rectifiers/Inverters
… are demanded. According to the current industry practice, with a power rating between 10 and 30 kW, the power density are limited by silicon (Si) power semiconductor devices, which make the systems operate at only up to around 30 kHz. The emerging wide bandgap (WBG) power semiconductor …
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'Conditions of time and space': a re-enactment experiment with the British TV series Doctor Who.
… work develops the concept of re-enactment as a practice-based augmentation for archive-based textual reconstruction. As such, the thesis offers deeper discussions on the human context missing from current historiographic approaches to broadcast research. The thesis develops a re-enactment …
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Marketing strategy and new product development in the UK credit card industry
… literature, the literature on service marketing practices, and in particular, new service product development, is relatively sparse. The main purpose of this thesis is to examine a number of aspects of new service product development practice with respect to financial services and specifically, …
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Development of an expert system for cutting-off process selection.
… project uses a survey to investigate the U.K. industry practice in the selecting of cutting-off process and machines used in their business and the nature of their business. The survey method, design and survey questionnaires as well as the findings are also reported. From the survey finding …
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Economic, sport development and elite performance consequences of sports events
… works to contemporary academic thinking and industry practice. In doing so, it reveals the capacity of sports events to deliver monetary and non-monetary outcomes and impacts, technical issues and practical challenges associated with their assessment, and the nature of relationships between …
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Train driver scheduling with windows of relief opportunities
… of relief opportunities (WRO), but current industry practice is to consider relieving only at the time the train arrives at the station. This thesis studies an extension of the train driver scheduling problem to exploit relieving drivers within WROs at times other than the arrival. While …
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Art in the mouth: a critical evaluation of the chemical senses in contemporary art
… began with a survey of related literature and industry practice within art. A series of interviews with leading scientists contributed a contemporary understanding of these senses in life sciences. Case studies were developed, with insights from cognitive sciences, which investigated the …
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