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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"mid scale"”.
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Designing user-centered IoT solutions for small-scale and mid-scale farmers
… however, are inaccessible to millions of small-scale farmers who need them the most because of their prohibitive costs and design intended for large-scale farming businesses. To address this technological gap, social enterprise SoilSense delivers affordable and robust IoT soil sensor systems to …
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Stratigraphic evolution of Las Vegas Bay, Lake Mead, Nevada: 1935--2002
Las Vegas Bay in Lake Mead, NV provides a unique mid-scale natural laboratory to study the effects changes in lake level, sediment supply, fluvial discharge and basin physiography have had on stratigraphy of the basin. Mapping, seismic, sidescan sonar and bathymetry surveys, in conjunction with …
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Rebuilding local food systems: marketing and economic implications for communities
… as one of the most successful ways for small and mid-scale distributors, focused on providing locally sources foods to structure their businesses. The concept of value chains is still relatively new, so by conducting case studies of successful value chains this thesis provides insight into the …
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Using Lidar Data to Predict Photo Interpreted Attributes
… Lidar predicted attributes using watershed scale spatial pattern metrics to evaluate the substitutability of the datasets in a mid-scale analysis scenario. Models of photo interpretation attributes describing Overstory Canopy Cover performed better than those describing characteristics of …
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A planning paradigm for electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa : a case study of Tanzania
… to electrification - centralized, large-scale grid systems conceived through least-cost-planning; and decentralized, small-scale off-grid systems administered through entrepreneurial pilots. My thesis offers a new paradigm, a mid-scale opportunistic and pluralistic planning paradigm, to …
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Moche social boundaries and settlement dynamics at Cerro Castillo (c. AD 600-1000), Nepeña Valley, Peru Volume 1
… and the secondary role attributed to small to mid-scale communities in their own development and in the regional affairs. This investigation relies on an archaeological approach and methodology on analysis of contextual data obtained from excavations at Cerro Castillo. This information is …
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The power to flourish: Unearthing the roots of Kenyan flower producers' market access strategies
… dominated by a few vertically integrated, large scale flower farms (>100 ha), mid-scale (20-80 hectares) and small-scale (>0.25 hectares) flower farms which are the focus of the thesis, face a unique set of challenges in terms of navigating access to the more stable direct markets. The overall …
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Credit card fraud detection using incremental feature learning
… approach using two of the existing datasets: A mid-scale dataset consisting of two days of European cardholders’ transactions in September 2013 and A large-scale dataset consisting of 6 months of transactions in 2019. We have separated each dataset into a different number of chunks to be able to …
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The transition towards becoming an analytics-driven bank: an action research investigation into the users’ perspective to the end of enhancing the adoption of interactive analysis applications
… organisation, in the context of a mid-scale private Bank, which is a member of a major international financial services group, in Turkey. The focus of the exploration is on the changes related to the implementation and adoption of visual analytics applications as the new means of …
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Aging and Barkhausen noise in the relaxor ferroelectrics
… whose polar order is limited to mesoscopic-scaled nanodomains. There is no ferroelectric phase transition, but a faster than Arrhenius cooperative freezing into a glassy relaxor regime instead. It is not understood how the random fields and random interactions present in these dielectrics …
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Coastal Overwash: Processes and Modelling
… spreading and anthropogenic influences. New, mid-scale laboratory experiments of runup overwash were conducted to gain an understanding of back barrier flow hydrodynamics. The laboratory data were supplemented with field data to derive relationships to estimate overtopping depths and wave …