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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"design tenets"”.
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Sense of Place and New Urbanism: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Place and Form
… that refers to an increasingly popular set of design tenets that draw upon traditional urban forms in the creation or redevelopment of residential communities. Although design professionals are increasingly adopting these design tenets in the creation of new communities, there is no research …
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Cooling Power Electronic Building Blocks Aboard Navy Ships
… at the interface. This thesis describes the design and analysis of a system for removing up to 10 kW of heat from each PEBB in a stack of four PEBB units, using liquid cooling via a dry interface. This is achieved by hard-mounting cold plates in the electronics cabinet, placing the …
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System analysis and design of a low-cost micromechanical seeker system
… impractical. As a result, the author proposes a design methodology to develop a low-cost system while satisfying stringent performance requirements. The methodology is developed within the context of a strap-down seeker system for tactical applications. The design tenets of the optical sensor, …
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Social Change through Community Innovation: Feminist and Participatory Design Approaches to Organizing Inclusive, Equitable, and Joyful Hackathons
… of gathering for those engaged with technology, design, and innovation work. Over the past twenty years, hackathons have also been embraced by the social change sector as a means of developing possible solutions to social issues. However, skeptics point out numerous shortcomings of hackathons, …
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Understanding and Improving Security of the Android Operating System
… of end-users' needs as well as the system's design tenets. In the case of Android, a system with an open, modular architecture that emphasizes usability and performance, acquiring this knowledge and insight can be particularly challenging for several reasons. In spite of Android's open source …
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Professional dialogues to foster dialogic pedagogy in mathematics: Design and test of a school-run teacher professional development programme
… and hardly scalable. This study aimed to (1) design and trial a programme to promote dialogic pedagogy in mathematics (2) understand its viability, and (3) assess its impact in teachers’ noticing, understanding and practices. The programme had built-in scalable features including …
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Principles for designing a modern Islamic garden - how can new design contain the memory of the past?
Islamic gardens were historically gardens designed and built by Muslims for Muslim patrons, in what is traditionally known as the world of Islam. Today due to the vast immigration of people made possible by the advancement of transportation methods, Muslims have dispersed their religion and culture …