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Showing 1 to 20 of 266 for “"breakthroughs"”.
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Breakthroughs and discoveries in theatre rehearsals: an ethnographic study of Close Quarters
… moments of a text based theatre rehearsal where breakthroughs occur that advance the creative process. This thesis presents an original framework through which text-based rehearsal breakthroughs which concentrate primarily on the dynamic between the actor, director and text can be viewed, …
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Technological breakthroughs, entry, and the direction of scientific progress : evidence from CRISPR/Cas9
Understanding the direction of technical progress is a central issue for the study of innovation. In this paper, I examine how the introduction of a breakthrough research tool affects the trajectory of a scientific field through new entry and project selection. Specifically, I examine the impact of …
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Product design and innovation : exploring breakthrough products (breakthroughs : a method and a madness)
This paper has been an iterative rather than a breakthrough process. we approached the topic of product design and innovation with notions of what it meant and how good designs were created. our purpose here has been to provide some understanding of the complexity of the issues surrounding …
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Resource Efficient Parallel VLDB with Customizable Degree of Redundancy
… relational databases. It leverages two recent breakthroughs in parallel and distributed computing: a) synchronous transaction replication technologies by Justin Y. Shi and Suntain Song; and b) Stateless Parallel Processing principle pioneered by Justin Y. Shi. These breakthroughs enable …
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After-tax equipment replacement analysis with technology change
… appear as gradual changes and as major breakthroughs. Technological forecasting may be accomplished by several different methods including the Delphi method, analogy, and trend interpolation. A discussion of these methods and sources of information are given. The replacement model uses a …
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The Genealogies of 1 Chronicles 1-9
Recent breakthroughs in the study of genealogies have prompted this new study based on 1 Chronicles 1-9. Although the following discourse is by no means a final answer, it should be viewed rather as a step in the right direction.
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Polynomial partitioning and incidence problems in higher dimensions
… patterns of simple geometric objects. One of the breakthroughs in this field is the polynomial partitioning technique introduced by Guth and Katz. In this thesis, I will present two results on incidence problems with high-dimensional objects: an almost tight bound on the number of joints formed by …
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Female Doctors and Educator in Sichuan 1900-1930s
… this thesis analyzes the challenges and breakthroughs of women in medicine, contextualizing their achievements within the broader social and cultural shifts of the era. This work highlights how these female professionals contributed to the modernization of healthcare while redefining …
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Digital games: motivation, engagement and informal learning
… method for categorising game-play breakdowns and breakthroughs (relating to action, understanding and involvement) was developed in order to analyse several hours of gameplay footage. The previous categories and themes were also applied to the data. The findings suggested a relationship between …
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Essays on Innovation, Experimentation, and Discrimination
… firms race to achieve three technological breakthroughs in order to obtain the innovation. At each stage of the race, firms decide on their level of transparency which moderates the likelihood of their technological breakthroughs leaking to their competitors. Our model reveals that full …
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Towards efficient, on-demand and automated deep learning
… past decade, deep learning has achieved great breakthroughs on tasks of computer vision, speech, language, control and many others. The advanced and dedicated computing chips, like Nvidia GPU and Google TPU, largely contributed and broadened this success. However, the requirement of large …
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Mechanisms Underlying Learning Mediated Plasticity in the Adult Mammalian Olfactory Bulb
… of the system. It will then discuss recent breakthroughs in understanding the mechanisms of learning mediated plasticity in the olfactory bulb.
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Single molecule study of weak and transient biological interactions
Over the past decade, major breakthroughs were led in molecular biology with techniques allowing the study of dynamics at the resolution of an individual molecule. We have been expanding this capability by adapting porous vesicle encapsulation to single molecule fluorescence techniques. The porous …
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ADVANCED POROUS MATERIALS IN MIXED MATRIX MEMBRANES FOR CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE
… (MMMs) offer new opportunities to achieve breakthroughs in fabricating high-performance membranes for CO2 capture. In this thesis, several advanced porous materials, including two dimensional metal-organic framework (MOF) nanosheets, MOF@covalent organic framework (COF) hybrid …
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HIV-1 protease as a target for antiretroviral therapy
… of the viral life cycle, a cure remains elusive. Breakthroughs in HIV research have occurred alongside foundational advances of molecular biology, biotechnology, and medicinal chemistry, highlighting the importance revisiting old questions with new approaches. The goal of this thesis is to advance …
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An organoid platform to study alveolar stem cells in lung generation and cancer
… lethal cancer type worldwide. Although recent breakthroughs using a new class of immune-modulatory therapeutics have improved patient survival in the clinic, the majority still invariably succumb to this disease, highlighting the importance of improving treatment strategies. A wide variety of …
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Towards Digital Liminality : computational tools for 'beyond average' creative thinking
… the serendipity that can inspire creative breakthroughs. How can we develop digital tools to augment this liminal period of the creative process and help designers discover unexpected ideas?
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Characterization of Subsurface Heterogeneity Using Transient Hydraulic and Tracer Tomography
… tracers at a selected well and monitors tracer breakthroughs at other wells in a NAPL source zone to detect the distribution of NAPL's. To quantitatively interpret the breakthroughs from the tracer tomography, a joint stochastic estimation technique was developed. The method is an extension of …
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Hybrid body craft
Sensor device miniaturization and breakthroughs in novel materials are allowing for the placement of technology increasingly close to our physical bodies. However, unlike all other media, the human body is not simply another surface for enhancement - it is the substance of life, one that …
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