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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"user value"”.
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Co-creation and user value in the smart city digital sharing economy: perspectives of expatriates in Dubai, UAE
… of the smart city of Dubai are in relation to value from co-created services and the sharing economy and how value-in-use is perceived. The study addresses gaps in the current body of knowledge relating to value co-creation in the public sector, as much of the current research is focused on …
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Assessment of the Kaikoura amateur fishery for rock lobsters
… of fish resources requires that the needs of all users are fully considered. In New Zealand almost nothing is known of the needs of amateur fishers. Methods for assessing the level of participation, catch and user-value, were tested on the Kaikoura Amateur Fishery for rock lobsters. It was found …
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Transforming user data into user value by novel mining techniques for extraction of web content, structure and usage patterns. The Development and Evaluation of New Web Mining Methods that enhance Information Retrieval and improve the Understanding of User¿s Web Behavior in Websites and Social Blogs.
… contents, creating a serious challenge for any user to find and retrieve the relevant information that he truly seeks to find on the Web. The process of finding a relevant Web page in a website easily and efficiently has become very difficult to achieve. This has created many challenges for …
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Parametric Model for Assessing Factors that Influence Highway Bridge Service Life
… Socioeconomic, technological, regulatory, and user value changes can substantially increase the service expectations of existing facilities. Based on a theoretical framework drawn from prior work, this research develops a new approach to model infrastructure performance and assess factors that …
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Optimizing integrated service for a transit route with heterogeneous demand
… service that minimizes the total cost, including user and supplier costs, of a transit route with heterogeneous demand. While minimizing total cost, a set of practical constraints, such as capacity, operable fleet size and frequency conservation, are considered. The research problem is presented …
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Understanding value in digital humanities: a case study from a community oral history archive
This thesis investigates concepts of value and the ways in which it is assessed in the digital humanities. It does this by examining digital cultural heritage projects created by a community oral history archive. Pressures such as increased oversight, funding cuts and changing audience expectations …
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Optimization of Long Range Major Rehabilitation of Airfield Pavements
… those projects that maximized the sum of the user value weighted structural performance of each project. The mathematical representation of this selection process is a zero-one integer linear programming model. A heuristic developed by Toyoda provides extremely good solutions, resulting in a …
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Efficient capacity allocation in a collaborative air transportation system
… methods of allocating airport capacity to the users of the National Airspace System (NAS) during periods in which demand for the resources exceeds capacity. A metric by which the proposed methods are judged is the value that the users of the N AS are able to realize through the allocation. …
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A Global Solution On Taxing The Digital Economy: "Does Article 12B of the UN MC adequately solve the problems encountered by the adopted unilateral measures (DSTs) to taxing the Digital Economy?"
… apps; secondly, where a digital platform allows users to find and interact with each other in a way that allows or facilitates the supply of goods and services; lastly, where data is collected by digital means and subsequently used to generate revenue. It is evident from the above that the …
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Improving the Sustainability of Rural Electrification Schemes: Capturing Value for Rural Communities in Uganda
… project implementation centring on user-perceived values (UPVs). UPVs capture more than the basic definition of value in the sense that they include benefits, concerns, feelings and underlying drivers that vary in importance and act as the main motivators in the lives of project …