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Showing 1 to 20 of 201 for “"Planning and Design"”.
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Telephone Voice Alert: system planning and design
… controller, voice memory, synthesizer, speaker, and power supply subsystems. These all interact together to produce a voice signal whenever a ring signal is detected. By beginning from the system function and analyzing the components as we break the system into subsystems, we find that the …
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Mitigating transit noise through urban planning and design
This thesis examines how urban design techniques can be used for path mitigation of transit noise. Noise problems from rail transit systems persist despite the existence of at-source noise reduction techniques for rail transit systems and substantial research on architectural acoustic solutions. …
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Campus landscape space planning and design using QFD
Millions of people live and work on college campuses everyday. The environment they dwell and interact with is essential to their quality of life and health. There is no doubt that the campus landscape is of great importance to millions of students, faculty, and staff on campus. Surrounding …
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The planning and design of mental health treatment centres
This research thesis was developed as a planning and design reference for mental health treatment centres. This text is intended to assist planners, designers, and health practitioners to optimize patient health and comfort by providing suitable environments to facilitate care and treatment. This …
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A Site Planning and Design Process for Antiterrorism Practices
… a solution to a growing problem involving the landscapes of many prominent landmarks in America. The probability that terrorists will target and attack public and private sites has mandated increased security presence. The initial response was to surround sensitive facilities with barriers and …
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Power-Aware Planning and Design for Next Generation Wireless Networks
… most recently, the fifth generation (5G) mobile and wireless communica- tion technologies are emerging into research fields. The fast growing data traffic volume and dramatic expansion of network infrastructures will inevitably trigger tremendous escalation of energy consumption in wireless …
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Planning and design scenarios for equitable outcomes in managed retreat
Superstorm Sandy hit New York City on October 29, 2012, killing 24 victims on Staten Island. In response, the state of New York founded the NY Rising Buyout Program in order to purchase the homes of residents desiring to relocate after the disaster. The program offered residents the pre-storm value …
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Managing I/S planning and design : a control theory perspective
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1989.
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An integrated computer simulator for surface mine planning and design
… surface coal mining methods, productivity, and costs. This study presents a computer simulator for a mountaintop removal type of surface mining operation. It will permit users to compare the costs associated with different overburden handling and reclamation plans. It may be used to minimize …
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Landscape guidelines for planning and design of access roading to transmission lines
Accompanying map has been scanned separately.
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RISK-BASED MULTIOBJECTIVE PATH PLANNING AND DESIGN OPTIMIZATION FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
… considered several types of UAV risk-based path planning problems and developed techniques for estimating the risk to third parties on the ground. The path planning problem requires making trade-offs between risk and flight time. Four optimization approaches for solving the problem were tested; a …
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The assessment, planning and design of small public spaces in urban areas
… that only Rittenhouse Square was ‘beloved and successful’. Her explanation was its diversity of pedestrian generators. Other theorists, including Hillier (1999) and Gehl (2010), have given equally confident explanations of why some spaces are more popular than others. Small urban public …
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Microgrid planning and design under uncertainty: A case study in Northern Angola
… identifies the need to balance efforts to expand access to electricity in countries with low levels of industrialisation, across the urban and rural spheres. This need is coupled with the urgency of investing in environmentally sustainable technologies responding to local and international …
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Planning and design guidelines for accommodating non-motorized transportation in suburban office parks
… many publications that chronicle suburban sprawl and the associated health risks, pedestrian safety concerns, economic impacts, and transportation consequences. Sprawl can be defined as dispersed, automobile-dependent development typically found along roadways outside of urban downtown …
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Acoustical scale modeling : a planning and design technique for meeting environmental noise standards.
… Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Shrinking gracefully : looking for effective planning and design approaches for small town America
… Small Town America. Public officials, planners and residents often try to "solve" the condition of shrinking, applying the same tool kit used for growth, with little success. A widespread assumption is that shrinking is the opposite of growth and synonymous with decline, and therefore common …
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Urban Brownfield Integration – Site Planning and Design Implementation of the Baltimore Community Center
Many of the mid-west and eastern cities in the United States were first formed through industrial manufacturing which relied on waterways – rivers, canals, and lakes – to ship the necessary raw materials. As industry and manufacturing declined throughout the 19th century, many cities were left with …
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Primary care buildings: government policy, implementation and community involvement in facility planning and design
Between 1979 and 1997, British Conservative governments took the decision to shift the balance of health service delivery away from acute hospitals into an expanded network of primary care services provided from local and community based settings. This had implications for the architecture of …
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