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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Intelligent Design"”.
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Intelligent design of manufacturing systems.
The design of a manufacturing system is normally performed in two distinct stages, i.e. steady state design and dynamic state design. Within each system design stage a variety of decisions need to be made of which essential ones are the determination of the product range to be manufactured, the …
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Intelligent design of microfluidic components for Newtonian and complex fluid systems
… of fields. However, despite several advances, design of microfluidic devices still relies largely on trial-and-error. This thesis aims to go beyond this approach in favour of a rational design of microfluidic devices based on theoretical and numerical design rules and algorithms. More …
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In silico protein evolution by intelligent design: creating new and improved protein structures
… polypeptides might occupy. The goal of protein design is to identify new free-energy minima in this sequence-structure landscape so as to expand the functional repertoire of polypeptides beyond that observed in nature. The accurate design of new proteins requires an exacting understanding of the …
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From Wedge Strategy to Kitzmiller: Rhetorical Analysis of the Intelligent Design Argument Series
… the lack of science education of the public. Intelligent Design, a much discussed potential theory of biological origins is one of these claims. Intelligent Design offers an array of scientific and probabilistic arguments supporting the concept that an intelligent agency better accounts for …
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Rethinking Edwards v. Aguillard?: The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the Challenge of Intelligent Design
… The main thrust of this movement, known as Intelligent Design (ID), is that intelligent agency, as an aspect of scientific theory-making, has more explanatory power in accounting for the specified, and sometimes irreducible, complexity of some physical systems, including biological entities, …
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A Critique of the Rejection of Intelligent Design as a Scientific Hypothesis by Elliott Sober from His Book Evidence and Evolution
… and rejects Elliott Sober's dismissal of intelligent design as a scientific hypothesis. Sober builds the case for this dismissal in chapter 2 of his 2008 book Evidence and Evolution. Sober's case against intelligent design as science is a philosophical one, emerging from a Bayesian …
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Darwin, Design, and Dysteleology: A Critical Evaluation of William Dembski and Francisco Ayala on the Problem of Suboptimal Design
… of two modern thinkers debating the idea of intelligent design (ID), William Dembski and Francisco Ayala. Specifically, it focuses on Ayala's major theological critique of intelligent design, namely, the problem of dysteleology. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the problem of …
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The definition of a computer-based architecture for collaborative engineering design: Methodology, technology and implementation
… has been implemented as a system called the Intelligent Design Environment for Engineering Automation (IDEEA). For reasoning, IDEEA supports the development of rich product models that interleave declarative and procedural forms of knowledge and data within a seamless environment. Extending …
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Enhancing Quadruped Robot Design With Intelligent Physics-Informed Neural Network-Assisted Dynamic State Estimation and Active Spine Integration
… of Nevada, Reno. It primarily focuses on the intelligent design of quadruped robots and unmanned vehicles. The intelligence in these designs stems from advanced state estimation techniques and the integration of an active spine, combining constraints from physical models with insights from …
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Thermal transport in self-assembled nanostructures
… in nanostructured materials is essential for the intelligent design of next-generation microelectronic and thermoelectric devices. Presented here is the study of the thermal transport properties of model organic-inorganic, nanoscopically layered systems for the purpose of elucidating the …
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'The Doors of Perception': Science, Religion, and Literature in Britain's Long-Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914
… belief itself, specifically as pertains to intelligent design (independently of questions of whether the belief is correct). Here, because people found it difficult, if not impossible, to describe the vastness of time, they also found it difficult to describe the rise of complex natural …
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Here be dragons: exploring the hinterland of science
… and the controversy about supernaturalism and intelligent design. I develop a theoretical framework for analyzing the structure of pseudosciences, based on the concepts of immunizing strategies and epistemic defense mechanisms. The recurrence of these theoretical features, which is illustrated …
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The Apologetics of Thomas Chalmers: The influences, methods, and effects of chalmers’ rebuttals to objections to christianity
… natural theologians, classical apologists and intelligent design advocates.<br/>Additionally, while popular in his day as a Christian author, this research identifies Chalmers’ verbose style of writing, limited technical acumen and the decline of Natural Theology as principal causes for his …
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Dengue Virus Host Factors
… its insect and human hosts will facilitate the intelligent design of specific antivirals to combat the disease and enable the selective breeding of mosquitoes resistant to the virus. Although the genomes of the two primary mosquito vectors have been sequenced, the molecular tools necessary for …
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Automatic facial action analysis
… a research system called aide: automated intelligent design expert that creates graphics from data. It assists users of data who wish to design graphics by combining artificial intelligence techniques with current automated design software paradigms. The work extends previous research in …
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LEVERAGING CONFINEMENT AND SURFACE EFFECTS TO CONTROL POLYMER PHASE BEHAVIOR AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN POLYMER-INFILTRATED NANOPARTICLE FILMS
… several fundamental findings that allow more intelligent design of PINF and blend-PINFs that synergistical combine the aspects of its constituent polymers and nanoparticles, while unlocking novel properties unachievable without the highly loaded nature of the PINFs.
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Explorations of computer-based design tools for urban design projects
… computers, information, and automation in the designing of large-scale environments. It is an attempt to understand the issues at root in developing an "intelligent" design environment which provides tools for handling tasks often too mundane and distracting for sustained design activity. In …
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Elucidating Structure-Property Relationships for Targeted Materials Mechanical Design
… structure and property has allowed for the intelligent design of materials with specific, desired properties. However, this task is immensely non-trivial due to the vast complexity of structure-property space. While nothing theoretically prevents the acquisition of materials with …
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Concurrent process mapping, organizations, project and knowledge management in large-scale product development projects using the Design Structure Matrix method
Sustainable success in product design and development relies not only on technical expertise and creativity within the company but as crucially, if not more, on an intelligent design of the development process, an appropriate and dynamic management of organizations, a realistic and disciplined …
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Structure, magnetism and multiferroicity in self-assembled oxide nanocomposites
… at the nanoscale, this thesis could enable intelligent design and optimization of the multiferroic and magnetoelectric properties in oxide nanocomposites.
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