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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"machine age"”.
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Steaming Erratically Towards the Dreadnought: The British Navy in the Era of Gladstone and Disraeli
… after 1860 the British Navy was thrust into the machine age as the fruits of the Industrial Revolution impinged on the design and construction of ships of war with dramatic suddenness. Within the space of these twenty years the battlefleet was transformed from wooden walls armed with smoothbore …
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Human-machine teaming for intelligent demand planning
The second machine age is reshaping the way we work, do business, and collaborate. Today collaboration is switching from just among humans to between humans and machines. Mundane and repetitive tasks will be done by machines automatically, while humans can develop insights and make wise decisions …
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How and why robotics automate work : analyzing automation of tasks using machine learning suitability assessment metric
As we are at the beginning of the Second Machine Age, where Al, Machine Learning, and Robotics technologies are increasingly influencing this revolution, we are experiencing significant automation changes in many industries such as warehousing and distribution centers. Many of the jobs in these …
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Machine learning and cognitive computing : a proposed framework to navigate the opportunities
Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing universe is buzzing again. Recent significant events are special. There is also talk about beginning of a general purpose "Smart Machine Age" Advances in computing power, storage capacity and machine learning / cognitive computing technologies have a gained …
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A Statistical Analysis Of Construction Equipment Repair Costs Using Field Data & The Cumulative Cost Model
The management of heavy construction equipment is a difficult task. Equipment managers are often called upon to make complex economic decisions involving the machines in their charge. These decisions include those concerning acquisitions, maintenance, repairs, rebuilds, replacements, and …
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Modern in St. Louis: 1930's Architects and Their Clients
… to the rapidly changing conditions of the machine age. 1 1n St. Louis, architectural works that even now appear startling in their departure from the prevailing styles of the time, illustrate that the practice of modern ideas was far more varied in St. Louis than is commonly acknowledged. …
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Towards a post-industrial architecture : design and construction of houses for the information age
… came into critical focus by architects of the Machine Age, continues to be a priority in the architectural discourse. For Modern architects, the desire to relate the house to industrial processes was an aesthetic and social imperative that never gained popular acceptance. Today, mention of an …
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Design and construction of a mechanical oscilloscope
… ingenuity of engineers and scientists of this machine age would be almost possible if not very difficult without a method of dissecting the phenomena which take place. Most or nearly all physical phenomena may be resolved into two elements or directions, one of these being proportional to …
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Evaluate innovative strategies leveraging existing USPS capabilities and resources to advance as a vital 21st century service organization
… providing universal delivery service. The Second Machine Age has ushered in a new digital economy, which is transforming the way the world communicates and conducts business. Consequently, USPS faces unprecedented challenges, including nearly a decade of declining mail volume and inflexible …
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Tensions between abstraction and replication in early-twentieth-century design : Norman Bel Geddes' designs for Broadway's The Miracle
… but also as a prime exemplar of New Stagecraft style. Based on both secondary and primary research material, I contend that the cathedral setting was neither indicative of Geddes’ fundamental aesthetic principles, nor of the aesthetic principles of the New Stagecraft. I firmly establish …
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Dissipative urban space
… spontaneous ones. Since the 18th century. the Machine Age is geared towards the perfection of the machine. Within this frame of development. it took no more than 200 years for the trend of "machine perfection" to be explicitly applied. at the microscopic level. upon the urban environment. At …
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Moksha--design of disposable objects for second uses as construction components
… living being. This thesis seeks a Moksha of the Machine Age. It attempts to explore the possibility of building value into "waste". The thesis looks at one of the most common items that makes up "waste" - the "disposable" container, and the design changes which if incorporated, can ensure a …
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Toxic urbanism : hearth, heimatlosigkeit, home
In an increasingly toxic world where the average person's body contains 29/35 of the toxins listed on the restricted and hazardous substance list, toxicity is unavoidable. This thesis asks how toxins can re-imagined to become active agents in design. Through the negotiation between hard and soft …
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A reliability analysis of feller-bunchers in use in the South
… time between failures (TBF) does decrease with machine age with the possible exception of an increase when the machine is first put into service. The TBF seemed to decrease rather rapidly during some initial operating period after which they still decreased, although at a much lower rate. During …
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Recycled Modernity: Google, Immigration History, and the Limits for H-1B
… argument about H-1B. The Google argument for manageable resources connected to corporate priorities of Industrial Modernity, a habit of control, more than to democratic communities of technology. In this outcome, there are concerns for information technology and the Industry of Knowledge Work. By …