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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Technological choices"”.
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The role of technological choices in international nuclear fuel assurance strategies.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Nuclear Engineering, 1979
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The politics of technological choices : business-state relations and nuclear energy policy-making in West Germany
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1982.
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Blended Learning in Higher Education: Exploring Students' Perceptions of Course Design, Pedagogical Approaches, and Use of Technology in an Undergraduate Visual Arts Course
… of current and emerging technologies and technological tools that are transforming the teaching and learning process in visual and performing arts fields in higher education. Literature demonstrates that more studies are needed on the experiences of instructors and students, and the course …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
… in which group practices and the use of online technological platforms are both maintained and evolving. The author argues that the exploration of coteries in previous studies has focused largely on external factors shaping the group, and has left unexplored the influence of technological …
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Understanding the selection and co-existence of tin bronze alloying techniques in Antiquity. An experimental and archaeological approach with Northeast Iberia as case study (2800-200BC).
… using pXRF, OM, SEM-EDS, and LIA to characterise technological choices through time. These choices were considered in relation to their performance characteristics, and subsequently contextualised within the relevant environmental and socio-economic dynamics. It was found that alloying technique …
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Ceramic traditions and ceramic landscapes of the Indus Civilisation: investigating the technologies and socio-economic complexity of rural pottery production in Bronze Age northwest India.
This thesis explores the technological choices made by rural communities of the Indus Civilisation (c.2600-1900BC) by analysing ceramic materials from three villages in north-west India. The Indus Civilisation has typically been characterised as a society that underwent a broadly homogeneous …
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Ceramic production and distribution in protopalatial Crete : technological, economic and social perspectives.
… and how one might go about understanding past technological choices and activities when faced with the finished products alone. The traditional use of typological and stylistic data is in itself inadequate, and has to be supplemented by, and integrated with, technological and compositional …
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Social Interaction, Integration, and Alliances: Yavi-Chicha Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Border Region of Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile, A.D. 1000-1550
… Methodologically, this dissertation merges technological styles and provenance studies (studied through macroscopic, petrographic, and neutron activation analyses) to investigate communities and constellations of practice, and interregional interaction. The dissertation is divided into three …
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From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980
… was intertwined with social, professional, and technological developments at mid-century. The third chapter describes how the specter of automation focused bar associations’ attention on legal research practices. It shows that legal research fit into a social and professional setting. Lawyers …
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Decarbonization of power systems : analyzing different technological pathways
… impacts of different CO2 reduction targets and technological choices on the cost of decarbonization are compared. The average price of electricity is used as a metric for the cost of decarbonization to society. An important requirement of the analysis is to take account of changes in the …
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Modes of feedback in ESL writing: Implications of shifting from text to screencast
… feedback, yet little research to inform their choices. Further, with video potentially requiring substantial investment from institutions through hosting solutions, a research-informed perspective for adoption is advisable. However, few existing studies address SLW feedback given in the target …
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CO AND CO2 HYDROGENATION BY FISCHER TROPSCH SYNTHESIS PROMOTED WITH IRON BASED HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS: DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESS DESIGN
… and LCA provides quantitative guidance to steer technological choices toward genuinely sustainable solutions. Finally, the application of AI-based predictive tools offers new perspectives for accelerating catalyst and process development, uncovering hidden correlations, and directing future …