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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"scale of production"”.
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The Protection of television formats: intellectual property and market based strategies.
… with Britain alone accounting for nearly half of all format hours broadcast annually worldwide. Yet, there is no such thing as a television format right under copyright law. Any producer is free to develop game, reality and talent shows that are based on similar ideas. This research analyses …
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Growing pains: scale and mission in the fair trade textile sector
<p>This thesis examines the recent incorporation of factory production into fair trade textile production via a new fair trade certification program called the Apparel and Linens Program, launched by FairTrade USA. I argue that this expansion in the scale of production results in a dilution of fair …
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An analysis of the production and manufacture of the modified clay pot at the Oriang Women's Pottery Group, the Amilo-Rangwe Pottery Group, and the Kinda E Teko Pottery Group in Nyanza Province, Kenya
… demands for safe water supplies and the absence of a central infrastructure capable of meeting those demands, CARE-Kenya has implemented a safe water storage program at the household level. Central to this program is the modified clay pot, a hybrid of traditional Kenyan pottery and safe water …
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Strandveld Sanctuary Striving for Balance: the role of agriculture in the future urban environment. Can urban agriculture play a role in making our cities more sustainable and resilient?
The study started off in the form of an investigation into the global phenomenon of declining africultural land. Several case studies with different approaces were overlaid onto the project site and from there the concept of a socio-ecological corridor network was born. The idea to create corridors …
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Many is beautiful : commoditization as a source of disruptive innovation
… has great explanatory power for ex-post analysis of many revolutionary changes in business. Unfortunately, this paradigm can rarely be applied prescriptively. The classic formulation of a "disruptive technology" sheds little light on potential sources of innovation. This thesis seeks to extend …
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Starch based systems for the colonic delivery of bioactive peptides
… is an established method for oral delivery of bioactives. However, many current approaches arise from pharmaceutical applications and may be unsuitable for food due to the materials used, cost and scale of production. Therefore, in this project we set out to create a simple and clean-label …
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Towards a theory of the configuration and management of export-dependent land-based value systems: The case of New Zealand
Land-based industries provide the majority of New Zealand's export earnings. The scale of production in the larger industries accounting for this trade creates significant dependency on export markets. The performance of these industries in the international location, therefore, has a marked …
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Economy and authority: a study of the coinage of Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin and Ireland
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between political authority and economic change in the tenth to twelfth centuries AD. This is often interpreted as a period of dramatic economic and political upheaval; enormous growth in commerce, the emergence of an urban network and …
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Graphene Decorated Substrates and Their Interfacial Characteristics
… face the scientific community: (i) Expanding the scale of synthesis and (ii) Integration of different carbon structures for improved functionality. While significant advancements have been made in large-scale synthesis, room for improvement remains. As the scale of production increases, issues …
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Competitive selection and international trade under monoplistic competition
… economics and trade theory literatures of Chamberlinian monopolistic competition generally assume homogeneity of technologies between firms and countries. This assumption clashes with the evidence emerging from even a casual observation of the real world where industries including those …
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Imaging and analysis of natural and manufactured nanoparticles
… which studies design, characterization, production and applications of materials with sizes 1-100 nm, has marked a new breakthrough in technological development. It promises to revolutionise many aspects of modern life. However, with increasing markets and industrial scale of production, …
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Tearing the envelope: from tunnel to tower industrial typology
… significant Maitland/Salt River area of Cape Town, Western Cape. Over time, industrial stock has resulted in ruin due to the unpredictable reality of industry, and competing for business globally. Exploring the possibility of the area to be developed as an industrially significant …
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Assessing the role of Blue Hydrogen in the UK's Net Zero transition: integrated lifecycle, value chain and policy perspectives.
… value-chain efficiency, and the role of supporting policy frameworks. This creates a need for integrated and evidence-based assessment to inform policy and investment decisions. The aim of this PhD research is to evaluate whether, and under what conditions, blue hydrogen can contribute …
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Sorting out ceramics : correlating change in the technology of ceramic production with the chronology of 18th and early 19th century western BaTswana towns
The archaeology of the 18th and 19th century western BaTswana towns in the Rustenbutg·Zeerust region of North West Province, South Africa, is important and complex. This period, the late Moloko phase at the end of the Late Iron Age, was a time of significant upheaval. The colonial frontier was …
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Workplace resistance in a call centre environment
The growth and development of call centres in the UK has been one of the most significant economic trends to emerge following protracted de-industrialisation and the associated decline of the manufacturing base. In the period of this thesis for example (1999-2004), the call centre sector was the …