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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"design flexibility"”.
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A real options analysis of Olympic Village development : how design flexibility adds value
… answer to whether a developer should implement design flexibility into a project like the Chicago Olympic Village, but rather provide a tool for which to analyze the project and areas of uncertainty. Real Options Analysis (ROA) is presented as a set of specific steps that correlate with more …
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Using design flexibility and real options to reduce risk in Private Finance Initiatives : the case of Japan
… a delivery system for public works projects to design construct, manage and maintain public facilities by using private capital, management skills, and technical abilities. It was introduced in Japan about 10 years ago to encourage the stagnant Japanese economy and provide public services with …
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Integrable and Integrated Optoelectronic Devices Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
… crystal growth. The emphasis is on device design and fabrication using crystal growth techniques to minimize post-growth processing and add design flexibility.
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A technical and economic analysis of structural composite use in automotive body-in-white applications
… materials technologies promise increased design flexibility, improved damage resistance and lighter weight (among others) over the steel designs that are currently in production. To understand why such features are desirable and why a composite intensive vehicle may become an attractive …
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Flame Assisted Additive Manufacturing for the Synthesis of High-Temperature Materials
… offers several key advantages, including design flexibility and the ability to create complex geometries during the manufacturing process.</p> <p>In recent years, additive manufacturing has emerged as a novel technique for producing high-temperature materials, offering a promising …
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Mitigating Investment Risks in Nature-Based Solutions: A Strategic Approach Towards Sustainable Project Implementation
… showcases the application of engineering design flexibility through a case study on an existing reforestation project, demonstrating the benefits of adopting a progressive investment approach with scale optionality.This approach proves advantageous, particularly when dealing with policy …
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A theory of product-based competition
… a dynamic theory which integrates product design, product manufacturing, and firm strategy. Second, it develops a methodology for calculating real measures of a firm's manufacturing and design flexibility from the components that are used to create products. Third, it tests the assertion …
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Superdirectivity and the Application of Complementary Split Ring Resonators in Directivity Enhancement of Millimeter-Wave Antennas
… superdirectivity for millimeter wave antenna designs. Superdirectivity happens when a radiating body exceeds its maximum theoretical directivity limit. Based on a comprehensive literature review, a recent redirection away from reactive loading and towards geometric optimization of array …
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BULK TITANIUM WAVEGUIDE- A NEW PLATFORM FOR UNIPLANAR MICROWAVE CIRCUITS AND RFMEMS
… from large circuit size, high dispersion, poor design flexibility, and the necessity of large via holes. CPW improves upon microstrip by bringing the ground to the same level as the signal, therefore providing low dispersion, smaller circuit size, high design flexibility and no via holes. …
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Modelling and simulation based assessment in sustainable bioprocess development
… of process alternatives. Ideally, the process design team should bring together these tools in early stages of development when design flexibility is greatest. In the present study, such a simplified approach to bioprocess design is demonstrated using a case study for the large-scale production …
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Transmit Precoder Design for Dual-Function Radar-Communication Systems
… Multiple optimization approaches for precoder design are developed based upon combinations of radar detection and communication receiver performance metrics. The methods guarantee a level of radar surveillance performance while maximizing communication system performance, or vice-versa. The …
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Roanoke municipal air terminal building
… investigates the main issues to be considered in designing an airport for the present and the future. Points for consideration include a review of the: • Changes in airport design and their effect on airport planning and air transportation • Effects of the airline industry on a community; for …
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The mother(land) through narrative and nostalgia : the role stories play in the crafting of imagined (exiled) communities
… […] based on notions of eclecticism, emergent design, flexibility and plurality'. My thesis makes use of autobiography as case study and creative practice as research to illuminate the personal experiences of mothers and daughters separated by global movement and to study the role that the …
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Spatial Accelerator Generation and Optimization for Tensor Applications
… frameworks suffer from the trade-off between design flexibility and productivity of RTL generation: either limited to very few hand-written templates or cannot automatically generate the RTL. To address this challenge, we propose the LEGO framework, which automatically generates and optimizes …
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Tomorrow's manufacturing facilities : the design of a car assembly plant for the 21st century
… by architects and engineers in charge of the design. Flexibility, and a deep concern about protecting future design possibilities, in order to make the best adaptation to the market, lead these thoughts. Because a car assembly plant involves a wide range of different techniques, in the …
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Physics-Based 3D Multi-Directional Reloading Algorithm for Deep Burn HTR Prismatic Block Systems
… high fidelity automated neutronics model allows design flexibility and metric tracking in spatial and temporal dimensions. Reduction of TRUs in DB-VHTRs utilizing full vectors of TRUs from light water reactor spent nuclear fuel has been demonstrated for both a single and two-fuel composition …
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Precision location of additively manufactured components using integral kinematic couplings
… a component. The benefits of AM include immense design flexibility, the ability to fabricate freeform geometries inaccessible to conventional techniques, and minimal setup and tooling costs, enabling economic production in low quantities. However, all manufacturing techniques have process …
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Applying set based methodology in submarine concept design
Early stage ship design decisions continue to be a challenge for naval architects and engineers. The complex interactions between the different elements of the ship and the broad spectrum of disciplines required in ship design make it difficult to fully realize the effects and limitations early …
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Exploring Strategies to Break Adsorption-Energy Scaling Relations in Catalytic CO Oxidation
… but also imposes serious constraints on design flexibility. Therefore, how to circumvent scaling constraints is crucial for advancing catalytic science. It has been shown that hot electrons can selectively activate the chemical bonds that are not responsive to phonon excitation, thus …
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Cohesive Zone Modelling of Fiber–Matrix Interface in Composite Materials
… to their high specific strength, stiffness, and design flexibility. Their mechanical performance is critically governed by the fiber–matrix interface which controls stress transfer and directly influences damage initiation, crack propagation, and fracture behaviour. The interface properties are …
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