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Productive spoils : retooling Detroit's waterfront
With the recent strain of environmental disasters associated with poor environmental planning and the crash of the economic system that had propped up this type of development, it is clear that architecture's relationship to nature needs to be rethought. The thesis uses the waterfront of Detroit as …
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Productive Programming Systems for Heterogeneous Supercomputers
The majority of today's scientific and data analytics workloads are still run on relatively energy inefficient, heavyweight, general-purpose processing cores, often referred to in the literature as latency-oriented architectures. The flexibility of these architectures and the programmer aids …
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Incidental acquisition of productive academic vocabulary
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Portable and productive high-performance computing
Performance portability of computer programs, and programmer productivity in writing them are key expectations in software engineering. These expectations lead to the following questions: Can programmers write code once, and execute it at optimal speed on any machine configuration? Can programmers …
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The Productive Roles of Falsehoods In Science
<p>The use of falsehoods is a common, if rarely recognized, part of many good scientific practices. In many cases, there is no mystery behind the use of a falsehood. For instance, when scientists approximate some physical value - say, that an electron has a charge of exactly 1.6EE-19 coulombs, …
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TRANSITIONAL PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE : REDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IN SINGAPORE
Homelessness in Singapore Despite the official claims that there are no homeless, destitute or starving people (in Singapore), the condition of homelessness in singapore is by no means eradicated. Through the survey of housing typology in Singapore in relationship to their real estate values, …
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Training, assessment, and transfer of productive thinking
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Psychology, 1972
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Student Emotions in a Productive Failure Paradigm
Productive failure is a learning paradigm that reverses the standard order of instruction by asking students to solve problems prior to learning the method to solve them. Despite going against intuitions that instruction should come first, this paradigm has been shown to be effective at engendering …
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Exocompilation for Productive Programming of Hardware Accelerators
High-performance kernel libraries are critical to exploiting accelerators and specialized instructions in many applications. Because compilers are difficult to extend to support diverse and rapidly-evolving hardware targets, and automatic optimization is often insufficient to guarantee …
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A Productive Paradox: Thomas Wolfe and Maxwell Perkins
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Productive Diversity: Which Companies are Active and Why?
Productive Diversity is a government policy that aims to increase Australian business access to, and success in, trading with increasingly diverse domestic and export markets through the productive capacity of Australia's diverse labour market. Since 1992 when the policy was formally launched, …
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Social antecedents and health consequences of productive activity
… social antecedents and health consequences of productive activity. The ideas of productive activity and productive aging are the main concepts guiding the dissertation. The project is innovative by (a) testing how components of capital influence productive activities, (b) replicating analyses …
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Compiler support for productive message-driven parallel programming
Historically, the creators of parallel programming models have employed two different approaches to make their models available to developers: either by providing a library with hooks for common programming languages, by developing a new language and associated infrastructure altogether. Despite …
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Valuing vacancies : Temporal productive revitalisation of neglected land
… with high land value. This model is based around productive landscapes for growing food and has the potential to address some key challenges that cities face, including but not limited to recreational deficits, limited job opportunities and limited education regarding the production of food. The …
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Negative dramaturgies and the development of productive negation
… (which I have preliminarily coined here as Productive Negation), I aim to bring the omniscient negativity of dramaturgy into focus as a mobilizing, dynamic strategy for invention. The act of negation embodies a powerful force of conviction that clarifies muddled subjectivity popular in art …
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Excretal architecture : prototypical and productive urban waste forms
Excretal Architecture comes equipped with a set of design parameters sufficient to grow a regenerative city, while focusing on biomass accumulation as a key program. These structures are scalable and adaptable to any site, but are designed for cities that face ramifications of the industrial eras …
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Picturesque prairies : productive preservation on a petroleum planet
Fires burn bright atop the flare stacks in the distance as bison watch from behind the two-meter high fence of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. In this modern scene, complex geographic formations in North Dakota's badlands have established a unique shared topography between an assemblage of …
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A Complex Adaptive Systems Analysis of Productive Efficiency
… that will be called here the Complex Adaptive Productive Efficiency Method (CAPEM) and employs it to bridge these domains. This research formalizes CAPEM mathematically and graphically. It then conducts experimentation employing using the resulting CAPEM simulation using data of a sample of …
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ADAPTING THE OFFICE WORK CHAIR TO ACCOMMODATE PRODUCTIVE NAPPING
The following thesis offers a unique concept of office furniture design - an office work chair that accommodates the human need for taking short naps. The purpose is to search for opportunities to increase productivity among white-collar workers. The process of design development has been developed …
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