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Showing 1 to 20 of 30908 for “"open"”.
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Monotone, monotone open, and light open mappings on manifolds
… conditions for the existence of monotone open and light open maps between p.1. manifolds. These provide the following two results. If f is a monotone map of M<sup>m</sup> onto N<sup>n</sup> and m ≥ 3, then f can be uniformly approximated by monotone open maps of M onto N. If f is an open …
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Open Design and medical products : An Open Medical Products methodology.
This research details the use of Open Design to enable participation in the conceptualisation, design and development of medical products for those who are excluded by their chronic health condition. The research was directed according to the Action Research methodology outlined by Checkland & …
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Innovating Government the Open Way: Modeling the Open Data Ecosystem
<p>Governments around the world are releasing open data with the aim of stimulating innovation, driving economic development, and advancing social good. Despite significant investment in data infrastructure and technology, many open data initiatives struggle to effectively engage stakeholders or …
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Open source hardware
Open source software development models have created some of the most innovative tools and companies in the industry today modifying the way value is created and businesses developed. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze open source hardware in its current state and its potential impact at …
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Detroit : open city
Detroit is often regarded as America's largest city in decline, a metropolis that has failed to recover from an insidious cycle of deindustrialization, racism, suburban flight and laggard politics. This image of the city highlights the tragic aspects of Detroit's urban development and obscures the …
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Open Digital Libraries
… of simple data transfer protocols such as the Open Archives Initiative?s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Open Digital Libraries are an extension of the work of the OAI. It is proposed in this dissertation that the philosophy and approach adopted by the OAI can easily be extended to …
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How open should an open system be? : essays on mobile computing
… of system innovators in mobile computing to "open" development of their systems to outside suppliers and the implications of doing so. The first essay considers this issue from the perspective of which components are retained under the control of the original innovator to act as a "platform" …
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Open Access and Closed Discourses: Constructing Open Access as a 'Development' Issue
This thesis investigates the connection between open access - the free online availability and distribution of scientific and scholarly publications - and the 'developing world' from a postdevelopment perspective. It takes a discourse analytical approach, drawing predominantly on Michel Foucault's …
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The implication of open innovation and open source to mobile device manufacturers
… changing industries, is also forced to adopt the open innovation model in various forms. Recently announced Android platform caused a big stir in the industry. The gradual shift from closeness to openness is inevitable in this industry. A good example of Open Innovation is the open source software …
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Open Chess Game Analyzer
… s'ha dut a terme per desenvolupar el projecte Open Chess Game Analyzer. La finalitat del mateix és desenvolupar un aplicatiu lliure que sigui capaç d'analitzar partides d'escacs a partir d'un fitxer PGN.
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Blogs : open-source diaries
… as well as the collaborative environment of the open source movement.
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Definition and Open Texture
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:07:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6507184.pdf: 5850309 bytes, checksum: bc8c166b41d51dbc75b6270a55dc11f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965
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Old southern open clusters
… of four years spent in the investigation of old open clusters at the SAAO. Each chapter is a preprint of a paper which has been submitted or accepted for publication and is therefore an independent entity with its own list of acknowledgements and references. Since each chapter is intelligible …
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Controlling open quantum systems
… techniques) of new methods for controlling open quantum systems. First, methods that improve coherent control through the use of both strong control fields and detailed knowledge of the system's Hamiltonian are demonstrated. With the aid of numerical search methods, pulsed irradiation …
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Open government information awareness
In the United States, there is a widening gap between a citizen's ability to monitor his or her government and the government's ability to monitor a citizen. Average citizens have limited access to important government records, while available information is often illegible. Meanwhile, the …
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Open wheel racecar steering
The steering system of a rear wheel drive open wheel racecar is the only directional control the driver possesses while driving. Steering linkages must be carefully designed to allow cars to navigate turns without exhausting the driver. Motorsports vehicles are designed to make tight turns while …
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Open source hardware entrepreneurship
… in-house production model of software, open source entered the physical world and started to change physical products' development and commercialization process. Will open source diversify the hardware world as it did in software 20 years ago? Since mid-2000, engineer entrepreneurs were …
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Deposit of open scholarly publications: examining researcher engagement with UCT’s open access policy
… for the low deposit levels of peerreviewed, openly-licensed journal articles into the institutional repository, OpenUCT, by researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The deposit of such materials into OpenUCT, which is managed by UCT Libraries, is mandated by the UCT Open Access …
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Open-IRIS: Low Cost, Fully Open Source In-situ Infrared Inspection of Silicon
… two decades for silicon inspection and imaging. Open-IRIS is a low-cost, fully open-source system for in-situ InfraRed Inspection of Silicon devices (IRIS). It is designed to lower the cost barrier for academic and research users requiring high-precision IR imaging of silicon microelectronics. …
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