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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"innovative framework"”.
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AN INNOVATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING LEAN CONSTRUCTION MATURITY
… to knowledge in the form of avalidated innovative organisational framework to measure the current state of LC maturity,which is called Lean Construction Maturity Model (LCMM). This framework provides andsupports organisations towards the development of greater maturity and …
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Toward a New Psychological Model for Literary Analysis Illustrated by Contemporary Spiritual Self-Help Texts in Emerson's Tradition
… used as a tool for literary analysis, offers an innovative framework through which not only spiritual self-help texts that have a similar purpose but creative literature in general can be examined. The core assumption in ACT is that humans suffer based on the rigid ways in which they approach …
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Deconstructing Michael Jordan: Popular Culture, Politics, and Postmodern America
… such an interpretive space exhumes an innovative framework for deciphering Jordan's relationship to the techno-discursive vectors of Reaganism. Appropriated by Nike, and a multitude of other promotional interests, these reactionary cultural logics enveloped Jordan and molded him into an …
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How does identity influence creative photography
… in education in order to contribute to an innovative theoretical approach for reading, understanding and analysing a photograph. The study’s aim has been to identify significant connections between the photographer’s identity and his/her photographic work and develop an innovative framework …
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Anthropomorphic Model for Medical Image Quality Assessment
… model builds upon foundational visual search frameworks and employs a two-stage approach: candidate selection and decision-making. Thresholding during the candidate selection stage dynamically refines regions of interest, while stage-specific feature usage in the decision-making stage …
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Valuing biodiversity: Decision support for biosecurity response
… risk simulation to account for uncertainty. The innovative framework is demonstrated in a manual developed for Biosecurity New Zealand analysts for use during the early days of an incursion when time is severely constrained and uncertainty abounds. Theoretical approaches to decision making for …
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Expansion despite permanent austerity? Innovative aspects of social policy in Liberal welfare regimes
… a multi-level discursive institutionalist framework the thesis examines the processes underlying EYEC policy innovations in the two cases. Its first major contribution is an innovative framework of six competing and contrasting discursive EYEC frames and the evidence and expertise pivotal …
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Towards Network-Guided Large-Scale Foundation Models on Single-Cell Transcriptomics
… part of this thesis, we propose SCREGNET, an innovative framework that combines scFMs with graph-based learning by incorporating experimentally validated transcription factor-DNA binding data in the form of networks with known regula- tory interactions for the GRN inference task. SCREGNET …
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Conceptual modelling of adaptive web services based on high-level petri nets
… This thesis puts forward an innovative framework based on distributed high-level Petri nets and event-driven business rules. More precisely, we developed a new variant of high-level Petri Nets formalism called Service-based Petri nets (CSrv-Nets), that exhibits the following …
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Machine Learning-Driven Uncertainty Quantification and Parameter Analysis in Fire Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants
… fire severity. This dissertation presents an innovative framework that integrates machine learning (ML) models, particularly neural networks and tree-based algorithms, with uncertainty quantification (UQ) techniques to enhance fire modeling and risk assessment in NPPs. The framework is applied …
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Building trust in autonomous systems with an AI framework for privacy, safety, and reliability in data, software, and robotics
In this research, we propose an innovative framework designed to enhance privacy, safety, and reliability in data science, software development, and AI-empowered robotics, with a primary focus on building trust in autonomous systems. Our approach initially emphasizes the application of deep …
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Reframing Excess: Death and Power in Contemporary Mexican Literary and Visual Culture
… of shared dispossession. My thesis offers an innovative framework through which to theorise these cultural processes by reframing the notion of ‘excess’, a foundational concept in scholarship on death and power that has seen a resurgence in contemporary political philosophy. In dialogue with …
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Measuring equity in access to health care : a case study of malaria control interventions in the Kassena-Nankana district of Northen Ghana
… Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana. An innovative framework and a disadvantage index are developed herein, and are used to analyse the primary factors of access and to measure inequities in such access. A cross-sectional survey of 1880 household heads, focus group discussions, in-depth …
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LEARNING STRUCTURED ALIGNMENT: FROM VISUAL UNDERSTANDING TO ROBOT CONTROL
… the second part of this thesis, we present two frameworks that demonstrate how structured alignment can be extended to robotic applications. We introduce ARDuP, a novel method for video-based policy learning that aligns generated visual plans with language instructions for effective control. …
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Educating for enterprise: exploring the role of the teacher. An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… hermeneutics and idiography provided an innovative framework for a detailed exploration of experiences of lecturers and the way they give meaning to their experiences.<br/><br/>The findings of the study produced a greater comprehension into the differences of individual lecturers’ styles …
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Three Essays on Economic Inequality
… between countries. This chapter presents an innovative framework that incorporates production networks to the Ricardian trade model. It describes the price formation mechanism that occurs along supply chains and how it induces countries to focus on the production of specific goods. Moreover, …
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User perceptions of information quality in world wide web information retrieval behaviour
… data in the context of such established frameworks as Davis' ( 1986, I 989) Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and Wang & Strong's ( 1996) contextual IQ framework that conceptualised dimensions of quality into four IQ categories, namely: intrinsic; representational; contextual; and …
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Place mending: unscripted urban practice, abstract[ed] city and co-creation of urban space.
… records of the environment, revealed an innovative framework to view the surroundings. It emphasised a profound impact of collective intelligence and imagination in urban patching of the built and social fabric. The proposed Place Mending toolkit has potential to augment traditional …
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Data Driven Bridge Deck Deterioration Modeling and Maintenance Intervention Scheduling
… occurs. This research introduces an innovative framework to enhance bridge deterioration modeling by addressing the challenges posed by high censoring in the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) inspection data. Additionally, Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods are explored and compared …
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Development and Testing Of The iCACC Intersection Controller For Automated Vehicles
… presented in this dissertation develops an innovative system that controls the movement of vehicles using cooperative cruise control system (CACC) capabilities entitled: iCACC (intersection management using CACC). In the iCACC system, the main assumption is that the intersection controller …
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