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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"planning application"”.
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A concurrent architecture for a travel planning application
… a concurrent architecture for a travel planner application. The main idea behind this architecture is the division of the travel planning problem into task and subtask objects that solve distinct aspects of the problem in parallel. These objects collaborate with one another, eliminating …
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Microcomputer communications & planning
Contemporary planning literature is comprised of many different sub-sections, including one that considers the application of computer technology. Within this sub-section, topics such as expert systems, geographic information systems and database management have all been covered. One subject yet to …
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Power and wind power: exploring experiences of renewable energy planning processes in Scotland.
… A detailed, multi-method case study of one planning application for a wind power development was conducted in order to explore how the planning process is experienced and perceived by various different actors involved (i.e. representatives of the developers, local objectors, local …
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Designing for Shareable Interfaces in the Wild
… of how to develop and evaluate tabletop applications to be deployed in real world settings. This dissertation reports on two systems designed through a process that incorporated ethnography-style observations, iterative design and in the wild evaluation. The first study focused on …
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The value and meaning of significance in the planning system for the protection of historic parks and gardens in England
… which the principal protection mechanism is the planning system. Since 2010, that protection has relied primarily on the application of a policy predicated on the identification and conservation of a historic asset’s ‘significance’, or special interest. This research evaluates the concept of …
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Social-ecological systems resilience in changing rural landscapes of the Midwestern United States
Regional conservation planning is challenged by the complexity of cross-scalar interactions and the limited sphere of influence to deliberately affect social-ecological systems. Human and natural processes are interlinked, non-linear, and emergent. This dissertation has explored the application of …
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A morphological analysis of redundant farm steadings on Deeside.
… Council - South) made available their files for planning application for the period 1986-91. The procedure of analysis followed to select suitable cases for study is explained and a subsequent comparative analysis of 19 applications identified is described. The methodology of ‘Space Syntax’ was …
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A "stupendous attraction" : materialising a Tibetan Buddhist contact zone in rural Australia
… of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT). I approach the planning, promotion and construction of the stupa as an instance of the transplantation of religious material culture, arguing that Atisha Centre and particularly the stupa play a constitutive role by acting as a contact zone (Pratt 1992). Since the …
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Neighbourhood Level Master-Planning - ‘A Strategic Value-Based Decision-Making Perspective’
The master-planning of large-scale neighbourhood development has become a central part of strategies to stimulate changes in local urban economy and property markets in Britain. However, the 2007-08 economic crisis severely disrupted urban development and created uncertainty affecting market …
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Knowledge engineering techniques for automated planning
Formulating knowledge for use in AI Planning engines is currently some-thing of an ad-hoc process, where the skills of knowledge engineers and the tools they use may significantly influence the quality of the resulting planning application. There is little in the way of guidelines or standard …
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The development of strategic planning concept process model for small medium enterprise (SME) in the construction industry
… organisation to shift the current short term planning to more strategically planning method such as strategic planning. SME construction organisations should engage in strategic planning activities to enhance their chances of survival and success due to this concept forces organisation to …
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Collaborative Interaction in Virtual Environments
… were evaluated in the context of an urban planning application, where proposed developments could be modelled in 3D and evaluated by members of the public (and potentially clients, architects) to decide if they support or object to the designs (e.g. [30]). Synchronous collaborations were …
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An evaluation of the quality management system of transnational undergraduate programmes in a Vietnamese university
… programmes in the VNU, and follow through planning, application, and final judgement processes. The findings propose that the TNUPs of University A have positive features that should be maintained, such as enrolment requirements, output standards, the recruitment process, the enrolment …
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Examining English planning as a barrier to the thermal improvement of conservation properties
This dissertation examines why planning is perceived as a barrier to the thermal improvement of conservation properties, and considers ways in which this might be addressed. The focus on thermal improvement is derived from a survey of UK scenario literature for energy management up to 2050. A …
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Local and regional controls of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) metapopulation dynamics within a complex Appalachian riverscape
… are equally important for appropriate management planning. Application of landscape ecology theory has indicated that some brook trout populations may demonstrate linked metapopulation structure, where productivity and population dynamics operate at the watershed scale. Contrasting views on the …