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Showing 1 to 20 of 374 for “"Technological Advancements"”.
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Technological advancements towards paper-based biomolecular diagnostics
… tools. In this dissertation, I present several advancements to this diagnostic platform that are geared towards improving the system’s clinical tractability. In the context of developing a diagnostic for Zika virus that could be deployed in low-resource settings, I demonstrate improvements to …
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Impact of Technological Advancements on Food Supply Chains
In the backdrop of challenging business environments and sustainability imperatives, the beef supply chain contends with multifaceted obstacles. This research explores the potential of RPA to address sustainability concerns in this sector. With a focus on identifying risks to RPA adoption and its …
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How Technological Advancements and Digitalization Impact Both Organizational Behavior and Work Structures
Organizations are in a constant state of flux, making transformations an inevitable aspect of their evolution and adaptation (By, 2005; Kotter, 1995). Transformations in organizations take many forms. These include sustainability transformations intended to make organizations more sustainable and …
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Embracing Technological Advancements: Blockchain as a Driver for Innovation and Dynamic Capability Development
… by offering novel perspectives, theoretical advancements, and empirical findings that enhance our understanding of the strategic implications of emerging technologies for organisational development and innovation.
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Reexamining advertising creativity : a qualitative examination of copywriters' perceptions of creativity in advertising
… factors into such perceptions and what impact technological advancements have had upon said perceived levels of creativity. The study found that copywriters do not unanimously agree that creativity has increased, though a majority believes it has remained constant or slightly increased. …
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Controlling the Physico-Chemical Microenvironment for Low-Density Neuronal Analysis in Cultures and Microfluidics
From the inception of neuron cultures, in vitro, technological advancements have emerged to improve access to developing cells and tissues. The fundamental technological shifts in the ability to culture neurons over the past century are addressed, beginning with the first cultures in the hanging …
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An investigation of potential business and technology opportunities of IoT digital transformation in construction industry
… The industry has been slow to the digital technological advancements in general and IoT advancements in particular. As a result, the Construction Industry has not been able to address the business pain points in the same effective manner as other industries who have embraced technological …
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The impact of tecchnological advancements on intermediaries in the motion picture industry.
… of the media industry that are triggered through technological advancements and have an impact on intermediation. Intermediation is an economic concept, which has proven its usefulness in the analysis of certain industries such as the trade or the financial service sector. However, the …
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Are Fingerprints Really Individualized Evidence? A Meta-Analytic Study
… that focus on the foundation, evolution, and technological advancements of fingerprinting.</p>
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Advancing Industrial Decarbonization: Evaluating the State of Organic Membrane Technology for Class-Based Hydrocarbon Separation
… separations. The objective is to showcase technological advancements that address the existing limitations of semi-permeable membrane systems in organic liquid hydrocarbon separation processes. Then this work presents a first-order thermodynamic screening method to determine the suitability …
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Needs related to marriage and family living of twelfth-grade pupils in ethnically diverse communities of Iowa
… among young people, mobility of families, and technological advancements and specialization which have contributed to the complex problems which young people face today.</p>
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Pursuing the common good : overcoming barriers to collective action through transboundary water negotiation along the Blue Nile River
… are headed towards a global water crisis. While technological advancements may help reduce this gap, achieving global water security will also require establishing self-enforcing agreements negotiated among countries that share transboundary rivers. At its core, transboundary water governance is …
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Security councils have feelings, too : applying an old tool in a new setting can help bridge the research-practice gap in Arctic geopolitics
… but polic-makers are also struggling with new technological advancements and their impact on day-to-day interactions that shape policy. This paper works towards a more predictive theory for Arctic Geopolitics by applying Edgar Schein’s Model of Organizational Culture and Leadership to US and …
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A 233Km Circumference Tunnel for E+E-, Pp{Bar}, and Mu+Mu- Colliders
… the proposal, taking into consideration the technological advancements in all the aspects of construction cost analysis. I would also propose that the implementation of a multipurpose collider could be introduced in light of new advancements in design parameters surrounding such collision …
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HIV/AIDS Frames in African-American Media
… 2000 to August 2010. During this period, new technological advancements were made in the plight against the epidemic, specifically in regards to the African-American community. This study found that coverage of the disease was present, but not prominent and regular included in the magazine. …
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Meta-modeling and Optimization of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis in thermal comfort for energy-efficient Chilled Beams-based Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems
… rise in the use of air conditioning systems and technological advancements, there is an ever-increasing need for optimizing the HVAC systems for energy efficiency while maintaining adequate occupant thermal comfort. HVAC systems in buildings alone contribute to almost 15% of the overall energy …
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Electrochemistry of room temperature ionic Liquids with applications to electrospray propulsion
… properties that have opened new doors for technological advancements in space-based micropropulsion, focused ion beam, energy storage, and other research and industrial applications. As a family of concentrated electrolytes, RTIL electrochemical properties deviate from classical theories …
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Societal and technical issues in the industrial development of Saudi Arabia and Egypt
… has been an impetus for economic growth and technological advancements for the past several decades, in addition to being a major contributor to poverty reduction. This thesis focuses on the underlying societal and technical issues regarding large-scale project implementation and industrial …
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Steps that count! : the use of pedometry for physical activity and health promotion in South Africa.
… these developments in steps/day recommendations, technological advancements in pedometry afford the opportunity to provide information on intensity-based steps/day. We therefore use this application to provide further insight into the association between pedometer-based physical activity and …
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A Novel Statistical Procedure Towards the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
… force. However, it took almost 50 years of technological advancements until its discovery was empirically announced in 2012 [6]. The discovery was statistical in nature and relied on analyzing huge amounts of data provided by the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN. In this thesis, we …
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