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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"Obsolescence"”.
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Apropos Obsolescence
Apropos Obsolescence is the title of this PhD in visual art dissertation and exhibition. It is an exploration of how a human mind interfaces with and mediates both proximal space and the larger environment of planet Earth. How is the outside brought inside? What is mediation and how does it operate …
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Obsolescence reduction through product segmentation
The Hershey Company faces a risk of obsolescence across its supply chain as it follows the First In First Out (FIFO) technique at its manufacturing plant distribution center instead of distributing goods based on either the demand at each retailer's end or the useable shelf life of the goods being …
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Diachronous vs. Synchronous Study of Obsolescence
This study is basically a comparison of two ways of measuring obsolescene--synchronous and diachronous--within the subject of human and medical genetics. Synchronous studies are made on records of use or bibliographic references made at one point in time and compare the use against the age dis
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Metabolizing obsolescence: strategies for the dead mall
Landscapes evolve and adapt; yet obsolescence is a unique condition. Obsolescence occurs when such spaces are not used as was originally intended but still maintain some of the original qualities and characteristics. Obsolescence is partially viewed as a tangible repository of memories over time. …
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Knowledge Representation and Decision Support for Managing Product Obsolescence
… rendering them obsolete quickly. Technology obsolescence creates significant problems for product sectors that use components that are only available for a short period of time for manufacture and maintenance of long field-life systems. Technology obsolescence can make design changes of …
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Obsolescence : a systems engineering and management approach for complex systems
Obsolescence mitigation is an increasingly important aspect of large systems development & maintenance that has often only been considered once obsolescence is imminent. For long lifecycle systems, this has become a major concern as the lifecycles of the components that are encompassed within these …
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Inhabiting cycles of maritime obsolescence : redirecting the National Defense Reserve Fleet
Defense is in a state of obsolescence. The metrics of risk have changed from threat of military invasion to that of weather. Infrastructure is in a state of transition. The Maritime Administration's National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) has dwindled from 2,700 ships in 1946 to only 140 in 2013. …
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Hospital efficiency and facility obsolescence; a study of 68 Massachusetts hospitals.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1969. M.C.P.
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Summoning the Spirit of Obsolescence in Media and Performance: A Posthuman Sèance
In this dissertation, I explore the fantasies and paradoxical desires belying spiritual medium performances of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and new media practices of remediation. Forming the organizing construct of this dissertation, spiritual medium performance gives me a …
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The Age of Obsolescence: Senescence and Scientific Rejuvenation in Twentieth Century America
… your youth as long as possible. <em>The Age of Obsolescence: Senescence and Scientific Rejuvenation in Twentieth Century America</em> traces the emergence of these attitudes toward old age back to the turn of the twentieth century when a publicly shared conception of aging was emerging in …
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The Filipino in obsolescence: citizenship and educational policy reform in the Philippines
The K to 12 program implemented by the Philippine government in June 2012 added two years in the then ten-year long basic education curriculum, universalized kindergarten by making it compulsory, and introduced a tracking system that includes academic, technical-vocational, and entrepreneurship …
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Toying with obsolescence : Pixelvision filmmakers and the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera
… today, as it moves further and further into its obsolescence.
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Fugitive Architecture: Obsolescence, Aspiration, and Adaptation in Vancouver's Urbanizing Industrial Areas
… thesis is a new design approach that embraces obsolescence and uses adaptability to prolong building lifespans while anticipating aging. This expands material and temporal notions of transience to include socioeconomic and political factors in the built environment. Fieldwork, including the …
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Localized change management in two cases : supply base cost escalation and obsolescence management
… case is a change in the evaluation method of obsolescence risk mitigation options. This effort is intended to improve the evaluation of these options to develop a more holistic perspective. The Tactical Change Model is used in both of these cases and evaluated using a Three Lens Analysis. The …
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A residual infrastructure. The rise and obsolescence of big satellite television dishes in Colombia
The first satellite dish arrived in the South American country of Colombia in 1970. Two decades later, hundreds of them covered the roofs of apartment buildings, community centers, and town halls all around the country. This dissertation follows the trajectory of big satellite dishes by looking at …
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Overcoming Obsolescence: A Roadmap for Redeveloping Massachusetts Gas Station Real Estate in a post-Gasoline World
There is an inherent tension between the ubiquity of gas station properties and the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change. On the one hand a significant amount of real estate value, with all its appurtenant downstream outputs including local tax …
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A framework for determining the impact of deferred maintenance and/or obsolescence of a highway system
… equipment, are affected by deterioration and obsolescence, obsolescence being the inability to function as designed. Deterioration, defining the physical level of service, comes from the aging of physical materials over time. Obsolescence, defining the functional level of service, comes from …
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Gaining Relevance in the Face of Obsolescence: The USS Texas – a Battleship in the Second World War
<p>Despite the vast material that has been written about the Second World War, most literature mentions battleships in passing, giving little attention to a role that battleships filled- that of naval gunfire support for amphibious landings. The literature regarding the Navy’s older, obsolescent …
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Ship-pack replenishment optimization in a two-echelon distribution system with lost sales and seasonal product obsolescence
… processing costs, transportation costs, and obsolescence costs, among others. An important consideration that is often overlooked is the elevated processing costs related to sending single units, or “eaches”, instead of units packed in full case quantities. Furthermore, for seasonal …
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