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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"technical infrastructure"”.
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Integrating geographic information systems with the Level 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment of nuclear power plants to advance modeling of socio-technical infrastructure in emergency response applications
… to NPPs. This research study combines social and technical contextual factors with radiation and contamination hazard characteristics based on a specific NPP in order to advance risk assessment and management for NPP severe accidents. Specific demographic information is integrated into social …
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Transforming musical performance: activating the audience as digital collaborators
… mapping the methodology behind the composition, technical infrastructure, performances and post-performance analysis of a series of musical artefacts. Cook (2001 and 2009) suggests that researchers in this field should “Make a piece, not an instrument or controller” and this dictum has influenced …
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Risk and vulnerability analysis in society’s proactive emergency management: Developing methods and improving practices
… methods for risk and vulnerability analysis of technical infrastructure networks and emergency response systems. Secondly, by aiming to improve practises related to RVA through an evaluation of Swedish municipal RVAs and an empirical study of how various disaster characteristics affect people …
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Increasing operational performance of a Human Resources Department through improving the managing of the relationships and interactions : a systems approach
… dependent on more than simply the provision of a technical infrastructure. It also requires a fundamental change in the way people think and act. This necessitates the restructuring of relationships. As organisations are primarily constituted through the interaction of people within their …
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Determining the Value of Open-Source Intelligence for Public Safety
… regarding legislation, policy, training, and technical infrastructure that must be addressed if OSINT were to remain effective. All this in consideration, the results of this work were impacted by limitations in access to information. Given the sensitive nature of some collection procedures …
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A context-aware collaborative decision making framework for combating terrorism in Africa
… following deductive thematic analysis, the socio-technical nature of the terrorism problem was depicted by postulating a Digital Terrorism Ecology that consists of Open Digital Infrastructure (ODI), Digital Information Ecosystem (DIE), Digital Terrorism Enactment (DTE), Digital Capability and …
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Energy Mobility Network : system design, interfaces, and future interactions
… that led to the creation of the network and the technical infrastructure behind the system. I will be going in depth with the prototyping, the pros and cons, as well as the multiple versions of the system that have been prototyped. Finally, I will discuss the future possibilities the Energy …
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Addressing the influence of context and development in rural international engineering design
… research data indicate engineers who design infrastructure for rural international societies fall prey to the globalization notion of discounting alternately developed societies’ needs and conditions in favor of values and knowledge that most closely aligns with the engineers’ own experience. …
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From Connected Digital Art to Cybernetic Ecologies
… the new digital artworks and the underlying technical infrastructure, are a contribution to knowledge that will be of benefit to artists wishing to create similar connected artworks and for participants and theorists wishing to understand and contextualise such work. In the concluding …
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Evaluating the Feasibility of a Performance Improvement Initiative at BYU Broadcasting
… master control environments by implementing a technical infrastructure that supports a file-based workflow. The system that was evaluated was an Apple Xsan running specialized software, called FORK. Performance gaps were identified and a technical evaluation of the system was conducted. …
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Tagging and identity in the age of social media : a cultural critique
… as a social tool to oppress and marginalise, the technical infrastructure of social networks is contributing to the depoliticisation of identity labels and their repurposing for neoliberal self-branding. This can have empowering effects for individuals, but it also contributes to camouflage and …
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Teaching television literacy in South African secondary schools
… of television messages within the context of the technical infrastructure of television; the internal and external relations of production, and the frameworks of knowledge which determine the form and content of television.
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Socio-technical aspects of concurrent engineering in construction - a German perspective
… in the AEC sector faces barriers deriving from technical and sector specific issues, but also from socio-technical and organisational factors. As socio-technical issues have been neglected in research, this study investigates these socio-technical barriers with regard to performance improvements …
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Rebuilding Theories of Technology Acceptance: A Qualitative Case Study of Physicians' Acceptance of Technology
… individual believes that an organizational and technical infrastructure exists to support use of the system" (p. 453). This organizational case study rigorously follows a positivist approach ("natural-science model" of social-science research (Lee 1989b)).
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Learning from Wildfire: Understanding the Social Dimensions of Community Response
… Canada’s boreal forest focuses on physical and technical infrastructure, largely ignoring the social dimensions that affect communities’ capacity to prepare for and respond to disaster. Additionally, within the four-stage disaster management cycle (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery), …
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Production design in 3D computer animation: multipurpose and polymorphic stages for efficient production frameworks
… facilitate working with an economical technical infrastructure as they enable reducing latencies deriving from the execution of digital processes. Making films with a reduced number of stages enables working with a limited number of project files and with a less fragmented workflow. A …
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Design and implementation of a high-fidelity virtual reality manufacturing planning framework
… This dissertation provides the industry with the technical infrastructure necessary to design a high-fidelity, collaborative virtual manufacturing planning system. It introduces the VR setup, the VR planning process, and the use of integrated hardware and software to produce high-fidelity …
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Issues affecting the introduction and implementation of educational multimedia.
… long term resourcing. However, provided that the technical infrastructure is adequate it was found that the major issues were associated with managing educational innovation in general.
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A review of infrastructure services for the upgrading of South African informal settlements
… and expertise regarding the provision of infrastructure services in these settlements. Those services which are provided are simply a transfer of the same high levels of service used in greenfield low-cost housing projects. This approach ignores that fact that informal settlements are here …
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The Adoption of On-demand Learning in Organizations in the United States
… by available organizational resources, such as technical infrastructure, financial resources for experimental innovations, professional development opportunities, and investment on training and development. But among for-profit organizations or large organizations (i.e., 1,000 employees and …
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