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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"conceptual system"”.
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A fuzzy set paradigm for conceptual system design evaluation
A structured and disciplined system engineering process is essential for the efficient and effective development of products and systems which are both responsive to customer needs and globally competitive. Rigor and discipline during the later life-cycle phases of design and development …
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A methodology to capture, evaluate and reformulate a firm's supply chain strategy as a conceptual system
… phase, 'capture', proposes steps to reveal and conceptualize a firm's supply chain strategy to render it explicit and tractable as a conceptual system. The output of the first phase, the 'Functional Strategy Map,' will serve as platform or the next two phases. The second phase, 'evaluation', …
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Instructional Change in Engineering Education: A Conceptual System Dynamics Model of Adoption of Research-Based Instructional Strategies in the Classroom
… study was to better understand how the academic system affects change in instructional practices, referred to as instructional change, in engineering education. To accomplish this goal, and acknowledging the complex nature of academia, I used a technique designed to understand complex systems …
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A multi-attribute approach to conceptual system design decisions based on Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
… evaluation activities necessary for completing conceptual system design. An indicator was developed for the overall performance of an organization's product and its competitors’ products using the information in a QFD matrix. In addition, a methodology was developed to determine if essential …
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Comparative System Analysis of Reusable Rocket and Air-Breathing Launch Vehicles
A conceptual system design study was performed to assess and compare the parameters of single- and two-stage reusable air-breathing and rocket launch vehicles to identify configurations which improve space access and merit further developmental emphasis. Investigated air-breathing configurations …
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Telematics industry dynamics and strategies for converging technologies
… factors are related to openness of telematics systems and establishment of standards, network externalities effects and attractiveness of complementors, customer's willingness to pay, telematics services pricing, and consumer knowledge of newer technology. Based on an in-depth analysis of the …
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An expert system based advisor for the quality function deployment method
A structured and disciplined Systems Engineering process is essential for the effective and efficient design and development of products and systems which are both responsive to customer needs and competitive in the global economy. The emphasis of this research is on the conceptual design phase of …
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Between Hull and a Hard Core: Varying Patterns in the Evolution of the Darwinian Research Tradition
… David Hull argues that the protean character of conceptual systems is explained by their nature as historical entities which evolve. If they evolve as biological species do, Hull argues, then they cannot have an "essence" — a set of tenets that all and only instances of the conceptual system has …
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Galápagos Sea Lion (Zalophus wollekaeki) Play Behaviors on San Cristóbal Island, Ecuador
… about play and types of play, elaborate the conceptual system of projects and routines in play, and provide a brief description of sea lion taxonomy and forms of play specific to Galápagos sea lions. Observing approximately 713 minutes of videotapes, I coded approximately 161.5 minutes of …
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Strategies for the Development of Integrated Career and Technical Education Program Evaluation Systems
… the policy analysis, organizational and systems viewpoints were consistently used in determining the intent of the legislation and then how to structure a program evaluation system to fulfill the policy goals. The research methodology is a hybrid interdisciplinary method that combined …
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On the feasibility of generating and storing winter ice to meet water demands in the summer
… in the Great Plains. This thesis proposes a conceptual system and outlines its feasibility for the production of large masses of ice in the winter within or in the vicinity of existing water reservoirs, thereby increasing their effective capacity without the need for an extensive or permanent …
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Modelling sustainable ecotourism development on the Coromandel Peninsula in Aotearoa / New Zealand; a holistic systems approach based on the idea of chaos and complexity in a human-activity system
… from an integrative perspective by designing a conceptual system model. The field work consists of an empirical inquiry placed in the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand/Aotearoa. By employing a regional case study to test the hypotheses of the thesis, the research attains an insight in the …
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A Compatible Modulation Strategy for Embedded Digital Data Streams within High Quality Video Signal Transmissions
… upon High and Enhanced Definition Television systems, for at least the past few decades. From the initial analogue approaches, which concentrated on purely television enhancements, the focus continues to fade more towards fully digital multi-program distribution and ultimately to multimedia …
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Challenges and opportunities in the reuse of abandoned urban space.
… to knowledge through the presentation of a conceptual system of mutual collaboration between the main authorities and institutions within the city of Aberdeen, and proposes a framework for delivering workshops in partnership. On the one hand, the academy may significantly influence the urban …
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Human concept cognition and semantic relations in the unified medical language system: A coherence analysis.
… needs improvement. As core component of an IR system, improvement of the knowledge representation system has so far involved manipulation of this component based on principles such as vector space, probabilistic approach, inference network, and language modeling, yet the required improvement is …
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Implementing a treated wastewater recharge technique and reverse osmosis unit system for water sustainability
The aim of this dissertation was to design a conceptual system to provide a sustainable water source at a feasible cost. The conceptual design system was developed to address the problem of water scarcity and sustainability in general, and specifically to represent the Kuwaiti water quality and …
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A conceptual framework for supply: supply chain systems architecture and integration design based on practice and theory in the North Wales slate mining industry
… case study and action research methods to pursue conceptual validity from the process of investigating the supply chain strategy formulation in a specific situation and presented the data collection and analysis process. The thesis derived a conceptual framework for investigating and identifying …
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An analysis of Total Quality Management implementation in Mexican large industry
… have introduced TQM into their management systems. Since there was no previous knowledge on how to do that in Mexican organisations, they have had to follow the strategies used in other countries for this purpose. However, because some companies have reported some trouble in this endeavor, …
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Narrative structures in body related crafts objects
… the body related crafts object at PhD level. It conceptualises the narrative methodology necessary to make the creative work and theoretically examines its intention. Because the theoretical work on narrative structures has been largely done outside the crafts/art context, the research adopts and …
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Patients Safety Culture: A Baseline Assessment Of Nurses' Perceptions In A Saudi Arabia Hospital
… the need to understand both individual and system contributions to error events. However, in Saudi Arabia, little is known about nurses' perceptions of patient safety culture.</p> <p>The purpose of this research is to identify the systems factors that Registered Nurses (RNs) perceive as …
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