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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Self-sustainable"”.
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FreeLib: A Self-Sustainable Peer-to-Peer Digital Library Framework for Evolving Communities
… contributed by participating nodes to achieve self-sustainability. A second key contribution of this research is a significant enhancement of search performance by utilizing the novel concept of community evolution. As demonstrated in this thesis, bringing users sharing similar interest …
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Fort Merensky : Abditory & Observatory : Narrating the Botshabelo story through acts of hiding and revealing
… the natural and man-made landscape, this once self-sustainable, flourishing settlement that now stands abandoned and in a state of decay (Langhan, 2000:25). This dissertation research focuses on design within sensitive heritage environments at various scales, through acts of layering. At the …
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FRAC: Design and Implementation of an Advertisement-based Community Network Sharing Framework
… is a challenge as potential solutions must be self-sustainable and provide sufficient financial returns. Framework for Advertisement-based Community Wi-Fi access, called FRAC is a self-sustainable advertisement-based community network sharing framework which has the competence to provide …
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Utilising social entrepreneurship to facilitate the successful transition of foster youth to adulthood in South Africa
… system, often struggle to become productive and self-sustainable adults in society. They are at high risk of being trapped in poverty and unemployment for their entire adult life because they are unable to make a successful transition out of the foster care system to adulthood. The purpose of …
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Agrivale: A Phantasmagorical Project for a Small Town
… land. Agrivale is the story of transition to a self-sustainable town; a speculative proposal that explores food as festivity, celebrating the seasons of growing, and architecture of enjoyment. Exaggerating stereotypical aspects of the small town, Agrivale retells the story of land and river …
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Wireless Information and Power Transfer Methods for IoT Applications
… continues to become more commonplace, demand for self-sustainable and low-power networking schemes has increased. Future IoT devices will require a ubiquitous energy source and will need to be capable of low power communication. RF energy can be harvested through ambient or dedicated RF sources to …
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An analysis on the feasibility of supporting and funding rural education through private education in Argentina
… to solve this problem through a private and self-sustainable initiative in which private education can cross-collaborate and fund rural or marginalized schools in Argentina. My research will focus on determining whether it is feasible to establish a sustainable model of collaboration, and …
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Design and quantification of a tissue type specific genetic circuit in plants
… plant platforms to photosynthetically drive, self-sustainable circuits. Although plants are excellent platforms, issues and unpredictability arise from the innate complexity of multicellularity. The ability to quantitatively control gene expression within specific cell types can address some …
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The impact of government debt on economic growth: An empirical investigation of Namibia
… projects and programs that are well reviewed, self-sustainable and can enhance the productive capacity of Namibia. Moreover, the government should take a firm stand on fiscal consolidation and policies that are pro-growth.
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Efficiency and financial sustainability of sugarcane Farmer Cooperatives in Eswatini
… showed that the sugarcane FCs are operationally self-sustainable, with an average technical efficiency of 83.69% (Translog) and 73.01% (Cobb-Douglas). The study identified operational sustainability, and access to grants and loans as significant contributors to improved technical efficiency. On …
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Institutional Logics and the Double Bottom Line: A Study of Chikum Microfinance Bank Limited
… them with financial services. MFIs can be self-sustainable and even profitable through income generating activities. This twin goal of commercial viability and social mission has generated much scholarly interest in the competition between two seemingly incompatible logics of action. …
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Hydrodynamic and sediment transport modeling of deltaic sediment processes
… observed. The same model was used to determine a self-sustainable adverse slope or sediment ramp that could be used to divert sediments efficiently in a deltaic setting similar to the Atchafalaya Bay. A test slope of 1V to 51H was used in the model. After several simulations, the model tends to …
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Evaluation of patient-centred services by community pharmacists in New Zealand: Focus on cardiovascular disease risk assessment
… CVD preventive strategies that are effective and sustainable under the current healthcare environment. Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the role of pharmacists in providing CVD risk assessment and management services in NZ community pharmacies; and to evaluate the readiness …
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Contested Values of Eco-Developments: Leveraging Private Finance to Integrate Biodiversity into Nusantara’s City Development Framework
… the challenges of rapid growth while seeking a self-sustainable equilibrium. For IKN, private investors hesitate to invest in a project that is situated in an unstable political landscape, while low government expenditure and poor governance structures has marred development progress. Based on …
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Mandatory community-based health insurance schemes in Ghana : prospects and challenges
… designed and managed they can be feasible and sustainable. The successes achieved by such schemes in Ghana motivated the government to make them a mandatory system of health financing. The main objective is that every resident of Ghana shall belong to a health insurance scheme that adequately …
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Energy Harvesting Networked Nodes: Measurements, Algorithms, and Prototyping
… energy harvesting will soon enable energetically self-sustainable wireless devices. Networks of such devices will serve as building blocks for different Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as searching for an object on a network of objects and continuous monitoring of object …
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The Challenge of Education and the Work of Non-Profits in Southeast Asia: Select Case Studies in Cambodia and the Philippines in Modern Times
… improvement—BFT by teaching knowledge leading to self-sustaining enterprises and PR by educating Indigenous People to maintain their forest environment and then to go beyond to develop their talents. This study also provides a description and analysis of the challenges that the Cambodian and …
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A systematic study of enzyme-nanomaterial interactions for application in active surface decontamination
… to Langmuir..;In Chapter 3, the development of a self-decontaminating enzyme-nanosupport hybrid system is presented. This system is based on the generation of the strong decontaminant hypochlorous acid (HOCl) by CPO. Two strategies are investigated. First, the production of the required substrate …
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Wireless sensor networks, actuation, and signal processing for apiculture
… 150 µA. Combined with an external solar panel, self-sustainable operation was achieved. 3,435 unique data sets were collected from five test-bed hives over 513 days during all four seasons. Temperature was identified as a vital parameter influencing the productivity and health of the colony. It …
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Rehabilitation of traditional heritage and local development. The role of the transmission of traditional construction knowledge and the empowerment of local communities in the reactivation of marginal places. A case-study approach
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