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The Volkswagen Junior World Masters 2010 - film series
This paper describes my involvement in the Volkswagen Junior World Masters film series for 2010. A three-DVD box set is being submitting for review. In the latter sections of this document, I outline the efforts that went into writing, directing and editing these films for broadcast on …
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Incumbentes vs. challengers na indústria automóvel: o caso Volkswagen
… competitivo. Esta dissertação analisa o caso da Volkswagen no início da década de 2020: a forma como reagiu às mudanças de mercado e as estratégias que implementou para estabelecer vantagens competitivas. Esta análise permitiu criar uma proposta de metodologia de reação, com a qual as …
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Public health impacts of excess NOx̳ emissions from Volkswagen diesel passenger vehicles in Germany
In September 2015, the Volkswagen Group (VW) admitted the use of "defeat devices" designed to lower emissions measured during VW vehicle testing for regulatory purposes. Globally, 11 million cars sold between 2008 and 2015 are affected, including about 2.6 million in Germany. On-road emissions …
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Volkswagen Cars, Politics, and Culture in the Post-1978 China: The Social Construction of Success
Volkswagen (VW) is one of the first foreign carmakers that made direct investments in China after 1978. From its entry in the Chinese market to the year of 2009, VW enjoyed popularity, high reputation, and undisputed leadership in the Chinese passenger car market, and achieved a great commercial …
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The role of LEED certification in consumer major purchase decisions: a case study of the Chattanooga Volkswagen manufacturing facility
… a large-scale survey of regional owners of the Volkswagen Passat, which is manufactured in the world's first automobile plant to achieve LEED Platinum status. Results suggest that manufacturing facility LEED certification does not influence product purchasing decisions regardless of knowledge of …
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Transculturalidade entre fronteiras no continente norte-americano: The tortilla curtain, de T. C. Boyle, e Volkswagen Blues, de Jacques Poulin
… (1995), do escritor estadunidense T. C. Boyle, e Volkswagen Blues (1984), do escritor quebequense Jacques Poulin, com o objetivo de delinear os recursos linguísticos e literários que tais autores utilizam para representar as fronteiras entre o Canadá, os Estados Unidos e o México. Para tanto, …
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To what extent can the different responses of the United States and the European Union to the Volkswagen Scandal be explained by their different applications of performance-based regulation?
The revelation that Volkswagen had employed an illegal “defeat device” to comply with regulation, but fundamentally side-step some emission controls during realworld driving, has thrust the issue of regulatory non-compliance into the spotlight. A growing base of evidence has indicated that one of …
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NOISE MEASUREMENTS AND EVALUATION OF SOUND SOURCES OF ROAD VEHICLES
… mitigation strategies, and compares ICE (Volkswagen SUV) and EV (Renault) noise at 10, 30, 50 km/h via SoundCam 2.0 acoustic imaging on a quiet road.
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The development of a road profile measuring device with reference to endurance testing of motor vehicles
… qualities of the test tracks at present used by Volkswagen SA (Pty) Ltd for endurance testing of their products, and the Synthetic Road used on their new hydraulic road simulator.
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A review of the theory and practice of life-cycle assessment in the car manufacturing industry
… exemplary practitioners of LCA: DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen, Volvo and BMW who becomes the subject of a detailed scan. Only 4 of the 21 companies surveyed in the broad scan are practising LCA. A greater proportion of car manufacturers must practise LCA if the industry hopes to achieve the UNEP …
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Firms, industries, and technological change : a patent-based approach to studying disruption and disruptors
… the automotive industry with a focus on Toyota, Volkswagen, and GM.
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Electrification of transportation sharing economy business models: the ride- and carsharing cases
… followed four months later by Uber. In 2020 Volkswagen will start a fully-electric carsharing platform, whereas other companies such as BMW already provide such a service. When driven, an electric vehicle garners profit for the platform through transportation. When parked, it can act as a …
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Integrating Lesotho economy into the regional automotive value chain : manufacturing of car-seat covers
… seven Original Equipment Manufacturers namely: Volkswagen, BMW, Renault, Toyota, Daimler Chrysler, Ford and Mercedes Benz. The impact of Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) and Automotive Production and Development Programme (APDP) on the industry was assessed. The impact of the APDP on …
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Real-Time Implementation of Road Surface Classification using Intelligent Tires
… to classify the road surfaces. The instrumented Volkswagen Jetta with intelligent tires was retrofitted with new instrumentation for collecting data and evaluating the performance of the developed real-time system. A comprehensive study on road surface classification was performed in order to …
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Integration eines Fahrzeugniveausensors in ein Gummi-Metall-Lager eines Fahrwerklenkers
… GmbH & Co. KG in Zusammenarbeit mit der Volkswagen AG und der Technischen Universität Dresden ein Fahrzeugniveausensor prototypisch in ein Gummi-Metall-Lager eines Fahrwerklenkers integriert. In diesem mechatronischen System wird mit anisotropen magnetoresistiven (AMR) Sensoren, welche in …
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A group coaching approach to authentic leadership development
… and more recently Toshiba, Volkswagen and even FIFA (http://fortune.com/2015/12/27/biggest-corporate-scandals-2015). Although over this last decade there has been this considerable interest in the idea of Authentic Leadership, both as a construct and an effective form of …
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Techno-economic analysis of hydrogen, electric, and gasoline light-duty vehicles in three carbon tax scenarios
… world's largest vehicle manufacturers: Toyota, Volkswagen, Honda, Hyundai, Chevrolet, Nissan, and tiny Tesla, from three continents are compared. Gasoline, hybrid, electric, and hydrogen-fueled powertrains performance over 12 years demonstrate how non-fossil fueled units offset their higher …
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Mining LEGO data sets to support LEGO design
… LEGO sets of different themes, such as a Volkswagen T1 Camper Van model (in ``Sculpture"" theme) or The Simpsons House model (in ``Town"" theme). LEGO accompanies nearly everyone from youth to adulthood. The age groups of fans range from kids in pre-school to elder people who have …
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The kombi taxi : an alternative mode of transport
… the kombi is a minibus vehicle, typically of Volkswagen, Toyota or Datsun make. In South Africa, the kombi taxi is legally allowed a maximum passenger capacity of eight, whereas the sedan taxi is generally licenced to carry a maximum of five passengers. In terms of patronage, the sedan taxi is …
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