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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Platforming"”.
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Platforming Hate: An Analysis of Incel Ideology on Reddit’s r/Braincels
Involuntary celibates, or ‘incels’, are a community of antifeminist extremists who have recently risen to prominence within the Manosphere (Ribeiro et al. 2020), which is defined as a loose coalition of websites, blogs, and social media groups where men congregate to air their grievances with …
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Challenges and rewards of mechanical platforming strategy within wireless handset industry
… competitors' approaches to mechanical platforming and the relationship to product differentiation and quality. This study can also help to clarify Motorola internal definition of platform and of innovation, and facilitate better communication within different groups. The competitive …
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Benefits and applications of commonality and platforming in the oil and gas industry
Platforming, the sharing of parts, processes, knowledge, and technologies, across products and projects has proven to be an effective way for firms to reduce their costs. While platforming is now common in many consumer and industrial products, the use of platforms is a relatively new practice in …
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A methodology for determining engineering costs and their effects on the development of product families
… selection of components and subassemblies for platforming can have wide ranging effects on both product performance and cost. This thesis addresses the latter by presenting a methodology to assess product development costs, the amount of part sharing in a product family, and the effects of …
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Mobilising restless radicals: the #AmINext movement and the formation of feminist digital counterpublics against gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa
… links between the use of social media and the platforming of women's rage as a form of mobilising protests against GBV and femicide. However, less analysis has focused on the political significance of affects such as rage within feminist hashtag activism against GBV and femicide in South …
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Costing commonality : evaluating the impact of platform divergence on internal investment returns
Platforming has become an important means of cost-sharing among industrial products. However, recent research has shown that many firms face systemic downward pressure on commonality, with the result that many platforms realize less commonality than intended. This research was chartered to evaluate …
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Incorporating flexibility into system design : a novel framework and illustrated developments
… system's flexibility was adapted from the art of platforming. A flexible system would enable the customer to exchange the obsolete components used for an old mission, for the components needed for a new mission (termed the frame), at a sufficiently low cost, and sufficiently short downtime.
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An Investigation into the Roles of Trustee Board Members of Students’ Unions Within Wales
… and a focus of the media on negative tales of no-platforming, poor leadership and toxic environments, the good governance of students’ unions is of great importance. With a lack of research into students’ unions generally and even fewer studies focused specifically on their governance, this thesis …
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An Investigation into Machine Learning Techniques for Designing Dynamic Difficulty Agents in Real-Time Games
… therefore more popular.</p> <p>A first-person platforming game where the player dodges attacks from AI-controlled turrets was created to gauge player’s perceptions of difficulty and measure how much their perceptions could be changed through the use of machine-learning backed DDA systems. …
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Democratizing innovation in the Department of Defense : a model for improving innovation in an era of fiscal tightening
… development, hardware modification, and "platforming" initiatives. Our findings reveal environmental factors that, at times, stunt the naturally occurring user innovation processes and distort the democratized innovation construct formulated by von Hippel and his colleagues. Following the …
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Reconciling biodiversity preservation and local sustainable development : the role of the "MAB biosphere reserves" in the South-Eastern European countries
… may generate additional 'territorial value', by platforming innovative and flexible management practices able to support the negotiation of 'territorial pacts', better adaptable to the rapidly changing socio-economic scenarios of the SEEcs.
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Návrh a implementace 2D hry v Unity
Cílem této práce je vytvořit 2d rougelike platformovací hru se základním chováním nepřátel a skládáním úrovní z modulů. Hra bude tvořena v herním enginu Unity.