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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Repurpose"”.
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PERCEPTIONS OF OPEN-ENDED ART BY FOURTH-GRADE STUDENTS AND THEIR TEACHER
… She challenged fourth-grade students to each repurpose a phonebook, thus inviting students to be an active participant in constructing reality and not just a passive recorder of one’s environment (Elkind, 2004). Rather than being told what to do with the materials, students had to make a plan …
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Drug Repurposing Using Gene Expression Data Mining
… An alternative approach to drug discovery is to repurpose an existing drug that has been used to treat some medical conditions. Drug repurposing is considered a promising method due to its accelerated the process of drug discovery and lower overall cost and risk.</p> <p>Drug-perturbed gene …
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Unwanted Project: Speculative Design for Circularity
… This thesis firstly investigated material repurpose and reusing from multiple levels, from official recycling action to grassroots global plastic recycling community, and then dug into the communities and individuals to evaluate the potential of closing the material flow loop, enhancing …
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Assessing technological feasibility of an on-shore circular-economy treatment plant for recycling ship-generated oily waste in Peru
… establishing a treatment facility to recover and repurpose such waste into usable fuel. A laboratory-scale process involving decantation, distillation, and condensation was designed and tested using mixed oily samples collected from maritime operations. The resulting product was evaluated based on …
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Siderophore-Based Drug Repurposing of Platinum Anticancer Agents as Targeted Antibiotics and Investigation of Pt-Induced DNA Damage in Gram-Negative Bacteria
… (Ent), a native triscatecholate siderophore, to repurpose platinum (Pt) anticancer agents as targeted antibiotics against Gram-negative bacteria, involving four Ent-based conjugates incorporating Pt(V) prodrugs (Ent–Pt(IV)). Chapter 1 introduces the fundamental concepts and background relevant to …
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Drug repurposing : design, emulation and analysis of synthetic in-silico clinical trials using electronic health records and modern data analytics
… Specifically, we take a data-driven approach to repurpose anti-diabetic drugs for several types of cancer incidence and mortality risks among the aging population, through the lenses of optimization, statistics, and machine learning. We start by introducing background knowledge for this study …
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The South According To Quentin Tarantino
… narratives on their head to reimagine and repurpose generic tropes, making him a pioneer of postsouthern cinema.
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A Local Solution to Plastic Pollution
… we can take post-consumer plastic waste and repurpose it into new products. But there is more work to do like improvements to the machines and optimized processes that future Texas State students can tackle in the next three-to-five years.
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Reduce, reuse, redefine: An interactive framework for repurposing packaging materials through a sustainability-focused craft kit system using traditional and digital methods
… on sustainability-focused tools and resources to repurpose consumable materials. Investigations into material utility and repurposing were conducted through traditional crafting techniques, as well as the development of supplemental instruments and digital learning tools. A multi-modal learning …
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The reconsidered river : strategies for connections in post-industrial Buffalo
… Each urban element within the plan can either repurpose, construct or deconstruct features along the river. One of these proposed elements is the Ice Boom Room which both repurposes a site and constructs a new building by using a seasonal and industrial process of the controlled melting of the …
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End-User Customization by Direct Manipulation of Tabular Data
… inside their applications, and can more flexibly repurpose that data as part of everyday software usage.
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Adaptive Reuse Co-living for Virginia Tech's WAAC (Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center)
… designed for students. This project aims to repurpose existing structures to address the scarcity of student housing while fostering a sense of community. Situated less than eight miles from Washington, DC, WAAC offers a unique professional learning environment for Architecture and Urban …
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Self-amplifying degradable polyurethanes and their upcycling application
… the ability to degrade and recycle or repurpose these materials has attracted considerable attention. For example, chemical recycling methods such as glycolysis can recover the starting polyol for further polymerization. However, most of the chemical recycling methods that have been …
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Recommissioning REDDI: Reviving a Doppler Asymmetric Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer for Observing Thermospheric Winds
… project to redesign the input optics of REDDI to repurpose the instrument from a demonstration unit to a long duration instrument. Integration of REDDI into the INSpIRe (Investigating Near-Space Interaction Regions) trailer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), Daytona Beach, began in …
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COVID-19 Therapeutics – A landscape analysis using systematic reviews and clinical data
… therapeutics. We first discuss efforts to repurpose old drugs and to discover novel drugs against COVID-19. We then evaluate the clinical evidence of the most promising drug candidates that are approved or recommended for emergency use by relying on high quality systematic reviews as guided …
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Development and Characterization of sustainable Materials from invasive brown Seaweed Ruguopteryx okamurae
… disrupts local ecosystems, prompting efforts to repurpose this biomass into environmentally friendly materials. The main objective is to develop and characterize sustainable materials using this seaweed. Two pathways were explored: the first involved the production of bioplastics and …
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Pax Ecclesia: Globalization and Catholic Literary Modernism
… authors who identify with this tradition but repurpose it for literary visions of the global future that arise from particular locations and interests. It argues for Graham Greene's concern with expansive moral horizons in two novels from his early "Catholic cycle," <italic>The Power and the …
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Teaching AIs to Reason and Code, Confidentially
… preserve user privacy. To sustain performance, I repurpose Tensor Processing Units as cryptographic accelerators, cutting the latency of homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs by an order of magnitude. The resulting stack keeps every model invocation auditable while sensitive data stay …
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Re-energized : a new model for suburban housing through infrastructural remediation
… Focusing on Denton, Texas, the proposal aims to repurpose oil and gas extraction sites for new housing subdivisions. Taking advantage of the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Zone (ETJ) in one of the fastest growing regions in the country, these new designs will be allowed to experiment in future …
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SERenaDE: Hardware Acceleration of Cloud Serialization Frameworks
… serialization to hardware. Specifically, we repurpose the Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), an accelerator engine offering fast compression, to enable fast and transparent to the user serialization and deserialization, completely removing software serialization from the execution …
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