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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"project design"”.
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Teamwork behaviors at mesoscale : meaningful explorations of tradespace during project design
… individuals and teams (the microscale) or total projects and portfolios (the macro-scale), this research aims to better detect and understand the teamwork behaviors at the meso-scale, the behaviors and interactions amongst the team of teams. Using the Project Design approach, Design Groups …
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Valuing investments in agile project design : example for upstream oil and gas development
… in the early stages of system architecture design. In industry, definition of subsystem requirements is an influential step in project development, setting up the costlier and time intensive detailed engineering, procurement and construction. Practicality is demonstrated through application …
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The Free Haven Project : design and deployment of an anonymous secure data haven
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
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Reducing duration in new product development through project design models with real world constraints including portfolio planning
… new product development to have a portfolio of projects at all times. The planning for the execution of these projects is usually done at an individual project level using traditional project planning tools that were developed in the early half of the 20th century to handle work in factories, …
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Addressing Rural Health Access Inequity by Assessing Potential and Organizational Readiness for Antifragile Electronic Health Project Design in Rural Communities
… can address that gap, but intervention pilot projects rarely scale to other contexts, or sustain in their original settings. Antifragile design and complexity informed principles can improve pilot project lifespans, where antifragile entities gain stability from uncertainty, rather than lose …
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Developing a Method of Teaching Architectural Project Design: A Case Study of Third Year Studio Project, Faculty of Architecture, Sriburapha University, Thailand
… of a Third Year Architecture subject, ‘Studio Project Design’. The four steps of Action Research – plan, act, observe and reflect – were used to make judgements and recommendations about this new approach. The respondents of this study were forty-six students – of whom twelve were also …
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Architectural Project Design of "The Seat of the African Criminal Court": In French, Projet D'Etudes Architectural Du "Siege De La Cour Penal Interafricaine"
… public building through the architectural design of an international African Criminal Court in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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Crowdsourcing Scientific Work: A Comparative Study of Technologies, Processes, and Outcomes in Citizen Science
<p>Citizen science projects involve the public with scientists in collaborative research. Information and communication technologies for citizen science can enable massive virtual collaborations based on voluntary contributions by diverse participants. As the popularity of citizen science …
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Comparison of Discounted Cash Flow, Decision Analysis, and Flexibility in Design for handling uncertainty in Oil and Gas Capital Projects
… gas companies face multiple uncertainties when designing and implementing capital projects. Capital heavy projects with long-time horizons face various uncertainties that are difficult to predict and mitigate. Numerous ways of dealing with these uncertainties exist: decision analysis, real …
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A case study of the EIA for the Cape Town Film Studio : factors that undermine or underpin EIA effectiveness
… effectiveness in which all the EIA stages from project design to follow up were revisited and analysed against criteria for effectiveness.
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Sensual Architecture: Project for a Thermal Bath at Warm Springs
This thesis investigation an project design were driven by the desire to develop an understanding of how architecture addresses the senses. Guided by the practice of a craft, the vestige of art, architectural history and precedent, and the physiology of the five senses, an idea for a thermal bath …
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Conservation Agriculture as an adaptation strategy to drought in Chivi District, Zimbabwe
… the Logical Framework of CA to establish the project design. Questionnaires, key informant interviews and Focus Group Discussions were used to characterise the nature of CA in Chivi and to assess the socio-economic impact of the project. Official records were used to compare food crop …
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Social equity and sustainability considerations in the planning of Nature-based solutions in Southern African Water Towers
… funding from the Global North for NbS projects in developing countries. However, concerns have arisen around how suitable these interventions are in local contexts where local communities are heavily reliant on natural resources given the potential for social, economic, and …
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Tourism projects for community development : Influences of tour operators and development organisations.
… in three differently funded and operated tourism projects in Ecuador. Additionally, the study identifies links between micro level livelihood outputs of the projects, the meso level operational contexts, and macro level influences. The study reviews general assumptions that the tourism private …
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All that glitters is not gold : unexpected lessons from a slum upgrading program in Brazil
… World Bank and Cities Alliance as an exemplary project. The paper aims at understanding the areas in which it was successful, and illustrate how - despite important shortcomings - the project has become to be considered exemplary. The paper first shows that the project is not as participatory as …
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Teacher Preparation: Implementing Theory Into Practice
… preparation program were implementing the PBL project design in their first year of teaching after receiving scaffolded instruction of the educational theory. The researcher explored which factors the graduate perceived allowed them to use PBL in their classroom. Using qualitative interviews, …
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The impact of project flexibility on project choice and capital structure
… a process in the evaluation of an oil extraction project in Sub-Saharan Africa. It shows the benefits it can bring to not only the final project evaluation but also to the project design selection process. The research then extends the application of ROA by developing and applying a framework …
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Equipping the Leaders of the Central Seventh-Day Adventist Church in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, in Evangelism Follow-Up
The purpose of this project was to equip leaders of the Central Seventh-day Adventist Church, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, in evangelism follow-up. Chapter 1 presents the purpose, goals, context, rationale, definitions, limitations, delimitations, and research methodology of the project. Chapter 2 …
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Exploring environmental communication : discussing systems concepts with communicators in Banff National Park
… of ecological or living systems this research project introduced selected systems concepts to a purposely-selected sample of environmental communicators within Banff National Park. Participants’ individual reflections and collective discussions of the systems concepts led them to develop an …
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An Illustrative Approach to Understanding the Developmental Processes of Atrial and Ventricular Septation of the Heart During Embryogenesis and How Errors in These Processes Lead to Congenital Septal Heart Defects
The main objective of this thesis project is to visually communicate, through the use of two-dimensional animations, the normal developmental processes of atrial and ventricular septation, as well as the abnormal development of these processes that result in both atrial and ventricular septal …
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