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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"learning from the past"”.
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Curriculum Design in New Zealand Social Studies: Learning from the Past
This thesis is sourced in a practical problem of curriculum design. As part of the current Ministry of Education Curriculum Project, the outcomes of New Zealand social studies are being “clarified and refined” through the development of an “essence statement” and revised curriculum structure. Given …
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Closing the loop : improving technology transfer by learning from the past
… transfer is a significant challenge within the highly regulated pharmaceutical industry. While much focus is put on the logistics and strategy of the process, less attention has been paid to how to change the soft, non-technical aspects of technology transfer program management, even though …
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Implications of the Value of Hydrologic Information to Reservoir Operations -- Learning From the Past
Finally we couple the data mining procedure with conventional reservoir optimization techniques to build an enhanced stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) model. The enhanced SDP model is applied to the Shelbyville Reservoir, IL, and then compared to two classic SDP formulations. From a data mining …
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Strategies for maximizing supply chain resilience : learning from the past to prepare for the future
The terrorist attacks undertaken by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization on the morning of September 11, 2001 ushered in a new era of indiscriminate global terrorism characterized by an unprecedented focus on security, risk management, and business continuity. The probability of future attacks, …
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Sins of the Mother: When the Crazy Just Won't Let Go
After sitting around the kitchen table one night at dinner and listening to older relatives reminisce about the past, I wanted to compile the family stories and legends in story format for future generations. Using casual interview techniques and creative nonfiction storytelling, I wrote a large …
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Re_Imaged: Reimaging architecture through artificially intelligent generated images
Artificial Intelligence is a machine learning technique that exists everywhere in our day-to-day life. From a simple Google search that provides answers to any questions, to autocorrect suggestions provided while writing emails, we encounter AI in every next phase of our life. Humans have developed …
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Green Building in the Mile High City: An Economic and Historical Analysis of the Sustainable Landscape in Denver, Colorado
<p>The goal of this research is to provide a more in depth understanding of the green building landscape in Denver, Colorado than was previously available. The past and present of sustainable structures as well as the vernacular architecture of the region are analyzed in order to make useful …
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Standing on the Toes of Giants: Social Movement Theory and the Case of the Learning Organisation.
The thesis examines two interrelated topics; the perception of management theory in general, and the efficacy of the learning organisation in particular. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to compare the rhetoric espoused in the learning organisation literature with a survey of senior …
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Orthogonal Security Defect Classification for Secure Software Development
… always better to address security issues during the software development phases, rather than developing patches after the security threats are already in place. In line with this, a number of secure software development approaches have been proposed so far to address the security issues during …
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Managing stakeholder needs and expectations in a post-disaster housing reconstruction scenario
The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, which was a result of the fifth largest earthquake of thelast century, caused great devastation in Sri Lanka, making more than 1,000,000 peoplehomeless. The task of reconstruction after the 2004 tsunami was an onerous challenge to adeveloping country like Sri Lanka, …