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Showing 1 to 20 of 235 for “"research institute"”.
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Architecture Against Global Warming: A Research Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
… and extensive food miles.This thesis proposes a Research Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, a facility which allows for the research of alternative methods of sustainable food production, praxis of such ideas and a forum for public awareness and education. The institute will be located on …
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Establishing a successful biomedical research institute : the story of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Biomedical research is enjoying its golden era. It promises improvements to human health in the near future. The field is witnessing a brisk inflow of human and financial capital. In an attempt to capitalize on this growth, biomedical research centers are being established worldwide. There is …
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Work-life balance and stress levels: a case study of indaba agricultural policy research institute (IAPRI) employees.
The Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) is a premier agricultural research and outreach think tank in Zambia. The performance of IAPRI as measured through its outputs in the period 2014 to 2017 was exemplary as on average, output performance exceeded 78 percent of the planned …
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Failure to engage : the Breasted-Rockefeller gift of a new Egyptian Museum and Research Institute at Cairo (1926)
… Jr., proposed to build a New Egyptian Museum and Research Institute in Cairo. The Egyptian government ultimately rejected the proposal and the museum was never built as suggested. The project's failure was attributed to "suspicious" or "irrational" nationalism and "Egyptian vanity." The archives, …
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Technology transfer through R&D organizations--industry interaction : a policy analysis for a public research institute in Mexico
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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An analysis of the Winterveld settlement strategy with special reference to the role of the architects of the National Building Research Institute
… Architectural Branch of the National Building Research Institute (N.B.R.I.) who initiated a community participation pro~ess to formulate an upgrading strategy for the Winterveld settlement, 30 km north of Pretoria. An historical perspective will reveal how the plotowner and tenant communities …
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The role of large-scale government-supported research institutions in development : lessons from Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) for developing countries
… of the role that the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) played in Taiwan's high-technological development and whether developing countries of today can promote such development by creating similar institutional arrangements. Literature on innovation systems was reviewed, …
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Experimental Modelling and Analysis of Three One-Tenth-Scale Reinforced Concrete Frame-Wall Structures
… a full-scale structure tested at the Building Research Institute (BRI) in Tsukuba, Japan.
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The Curl Graphics2d immediate mode rendering API
… graphics and imaging at Morgan Systems, the NEC Research Institute and the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He is currently employed by Curl Corporation as senior architect of the computer graphics group.
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Spatial and temporal scales of the coastal currents in the St. Helena Bay - Cape Columbine Region
… programme undertaken by the Sea Fisheries Research Institute, attempts to identify the important time and spatial scales within the coastal currents and to investigate the relationship between the sub-inertial flow and low frequency variations in the coastal winds.
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Calculation of wind borne debris impact in tornado event
… safe rooms or storm shelters. The national wind institute at Texas Tech University has done extensive impact testing on different types of structural and non-structural components, which are the basis for current design guidelines. This thesis focuses on investigating previously developed methods …
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The design, implementation, and effectiveness of a Farsi word stemmer
… being developed at the Information Science Research Institute at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. The effectiveness of the Farsi stemmer and stopword list on recall/precision was tested.
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Tradition, quality, housing, development : a new paradigm for urban Bhutan
This research examines practices that achieve an urban fabric unique to its cultural heritage by promoting innovation in local building industries while embracing notions of urban livability. Prevailing urban livability theorists argue that built form is a physical manifestation of the expression …
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Development of a Prototype Speech Aid for the Non-Vocal Handicapped.
… report from the University of Wisconsin's Trace Research Institute, there are as many as 500,000 such people in this country. One family in four is at one time or another faced with a communication disorder of some degree of severity (Baker, 1982).
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Portrait of Your Stream: Development and Assessment of a Stream Ecology Program for Middle-School Student
… distributed and administered by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
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Optical development of an ion/electron acceleration facility
… ion/electron accelerating facility at Southwest Research Institute which is currently being used to calibrate the Plasma Spectrometer for the Cassini Mission to Saturn. The optical development involves particle (ion) ray tracing of each element in the facility in order to computationally …
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Rheological characteristics of solvent free nanofluids: Thermal transitions and reactive curing
… by Zhiming Qiu and Kejian Bian at the Coating Research Institute at Eastern Michigan University.</p>
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Ulcus tropicum
… the writer has been stationed at the Medical Research Institute , Lagos. The arrangement in chapters follows a natural sequence and a complete record of fifty clinical cases has been kept which will be found in a condensed form as an appendix. Illustrations of clinical and experimental ulcers …
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Gender and career advancement in the sciences: a Thai case study
… types of organisation: higher education and research institute sectors on gender and academic career progress. In order to understand gender dimensions in Thai academic careers, a multilevel analysis (Layder, 1993) is employed as a guide. With the pragmatic paradigm, the strength of this …
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