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Showing 1 to 20 of 197 for “"Re-Use"”.
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PLED Enhancement and Re-use
Polymer light emitting diodes (PLEDs) represent new technology for display applications. However, these polymer based devices could benefit from increased efficiency and material longevity. This thesis examines how preprocessing PLED indium tin oxide (ITO) anodes and reprocessing previously used …
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Re-Use as a Means of Preservation
People are often attracted to an image painted for them by history, fiction, and romantic novels. Artists have tried to construct these images for centuries, often exaggerating the past in order to make a more attractive narrative. I propose an architecture that works in the same way. The architect …
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The adaptive re-use of residual built form.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1972. M.Arch.
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Protein potentials and domains : re-use and composability
Protein-protein interactions are one of the cornerstones of biological processes throughout the cell. Unfortunately, lack of available data precludes many possible approaches to modeling these fundamental interactions at scale. This thesis focuses on a specific set of protein domains, known as …
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Geotechnical centrifuge model testing for pile foundation re-use
In recent years development is at premium in many European cities. With life cycles of 25-30 years of buildings in financial cities and about 40 years in regional centres the ground is becoming more and more congested with redundant foundations. As the underground development of services and …
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TransformScout : finding compositions of transformations for software re-use
As organizations collect and store more information, data integration is becoming increasingly problematic. For example, nearly 70% of respondents to a recent global survey of IT workers and business users called data integration a high inhibitor of new application implementation. A number of …
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Adaptive Re-use of Abandoned Structure - A Holistic Urban Experiment
… issue for most U.S. citizens. Nowadays most are well housed and the problems confronting those who are not- except in the case of the homeless- are not highly visible. During the last decade, old warehouses in downtown Richmond, Virginia have been converted to new uses as restaurants, …
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The re-use of vacated commercial sites in downtown Boston
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1958.
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Emerging patterns of adaptive re-use : the new American House Hotel
… to develop a design solution for the adaptive reuse of the American House Hotel that answers an architectural design challenge with technical responses. The process of actualization has been pushed a bit farther than has been done in the preservation/rehabilitation field. The intent is not only …
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Integration of public access : the adaptive re-use of Alcoa's waterworks
This thesis is about the re-use of Alcoa's Waterworks. The exciting spatial attributes of the buildings which compose the plant, along with the views they offer to Manhattan, inspired the design of a journey through the complex. To create the journey, a system of access was combined with the …
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Re-use of the carbon fiber woven prepreg cut-outs: a multidisciplinary study
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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In search of order : the transformation and re-use of midwestern grain elevators
We filter the reality of the world through our perceptions, gaged by memories of past experience. It is the task of art, and therefore architecture, to bring us closer to the reality of the world--to somehow raise our level of awareness. Through the abstracted situations an artist creates, we are …
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Memory through re-use : food, fuel, fossils, filth and a few filling stations
… items deemed unusable, obsolete, unfashionable, repugnant, toxic, or otherwise dirty are used as a resource and as a means to access collective memory. In this way the project will redefine for itself that which is useful and that which is wasteful, thereby identifying untapped resources of …
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Practical Exploit Mitigation Design Against Code Re-Use and System Call Abuse Attacks
… consequences, as large scale cyber-attacks are now a common occurrence in society. One major obstacle that stands in the way is practicality, the quality of being designed for actual use or having usefulness or convenience. For example, an exploit mitigation design may be considered not …
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Mill and mercantile conversions : a case study analysis of residential adaptive re-use projects
Three case studies are used as a qualitative tool to analyze the successful conversion of these types of buildings. Analysis will consider physical dimension, building structure, capital structure, and project costs, including acquisition, development, and construction cost data. Tax or other …
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The Riverside Press: a proposal for the re-use of an urban industrial structure.
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1972
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Development of Self-Archiving Tools to Support Archiving, Analysis and Re-Use of Qualitative Data
The potential to share and re-use qualitative archived data has garnered much interest in recent years. This increased attention can be attributed mainly to advances in both data documentation standards and digital archiving technologies, which provide users with the ability to archive, share and …
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Development of self-archiving tools to support archiving, analysis and re-use of qualitative data
The potential to share and re-use qualitative archived data has garnered much interest in recent years. This increased attention can be attributed mainly to advances in both data documentation standards and digital archiving technologies, which provide users with the ability to archive, share and …
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Architectural planning and behavioural conventions in the re-use of spiritual properties in sixteenth-century London
This thesis examines the relationship between architectural arrangements and behavioural conventions in the sixteenth century. It tests this relationship through the modifications that were made when London properties originally designed for spiritual purposes were transferred for secular use. …
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