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Rendall, Stacy Michael. "Minimum Energy Transport Adaptability." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Mechanical Engineering, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7242.
Full textHawarny, Michael. "Adaptability, structural expression, tectonic condition." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
Full textSchmidt, Robert. "Designing for adaptability in architecture." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16211.
Full textBudiakova, O. "Adaptability in the digital economy." Thesis, National Aviation University, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/53377.
Full textAdapting and functioning well in today's world can only be achieved by mastering and constantly developing key competencies in this area. The best companies – the so-called «digital elite» (Digirati) – combine digital activism and strong leadership, making the transition from simply using information technology to transforming the business. This is what is known as «digital maturity». Organizations vary significantly in this attribute, and those that are more digitally mature outperform their competitors in business. Analysts from Capgemini Consulting and the MIT Sloan School of Management analyzed more than 400 large companies from different industries to understand what digital business means to them. The results of the study showed that financial performance depends on the use of new technologies and management techniques in the following ways: Organizations that actively use technology and new management techniques are, on average, 26% more profitable than their competitors; organizations that invest heavily in digital technology, but pay little attention to management, have financial performance 11% lower; more conservative companies that improve only management gain plus 9% in profit, but could potentially acquire three times more with digital technology; those that have not yet chosen a growth strategy have negative financial performance compared to other market players – According to the results of the study, the conclusion is clear that today we need people who can not only conduct digital transformation, but also develop new business models for digital enterprises
Elshenawy, Eman Lotfy. "The situational activation of personality traits and its effect on adaptability : a theory for negotiation adaptability." Online access for everyone, 2007. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Summer2007/E_ElShenawy_070907.pdf.
Full textvan, der Veen S. M. J. "Adaptability of gait in stroke survivors." Thesis, University of Salford, 2018. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/48208/.
Full textMouilek, Sabrina (Sabrina Marie). "Design for adaptability and deconstruction (DfAD)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53070.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 58-60).
Buildings are static elements in a dynamic environment characterized by fast changing needs and evolving environmental, social, and economic standards. Thus, today challenge for structural design through Design for Adaptability and Deconstruction (DfAD) is to create buildings that are flexible enough to answer these needs. This thesis analyses DfAD for building structures and presents three case studies: a tent, a structure with prefabricated panellised systems, and a container building. The key arguments that justify DfAD are the negative environmental impact of the current structures; the life cycle of a building; the changes expected from buildings; and the cost incentive of this design. DfAD is a combination of design approaches that deal with the different scales of a structure. The fundamental tools to achieve DfAD are the connections, the type of structure, and the use of prefabricated systems. This thesis shows that standardization and layer-and-module modelling are essential to achieve a sustainable structural design. Three case studies present the structural features and the applications of this design approach.
by Sabrina Mouilek.
M.Eng.
Manewa, R. M. A. S. "Economic considerations for adaptability in buildings." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2012. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9457.
Full textRapavi, Paulina E. "Making Moves: Exploring Adaptability in Makerspaces." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103638.
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Adaptability is defined as having the capacity to be modified for a new use or purpose; the quality of being able to adjust to new conditions. This thesis explores ways in which architectural design can be adaptable. To have the quality of being able to adjust to new conditions, in this case the people that will use the space and the purpose of the spaces. Baltimore city is home to a large variety of local artists and creators working on their craft. The three major arts districts in the city, Bromo, Highlandtown and Station North cultivate a community of people that create and consume artistic and innovative projects. In order to most successfully create, an artist should have access to a work environment that is not a hindrance but an asset to their process. The arts community of Baltimore could greatly benefit from a place that offers suitable work environments to a community which does not typically have a designated place. This thesis uses the building type: Makerspace which is a facility used as a tool for creators or "makers" to enter with an idea and facilitate a project. A makerspace can provide access to communal equipment that would otherwise be expensive for the individual maker to own, private and/or public work spaces to use for the maker's individual needs and a sense of community. The Makerspace was chosen as the vessel for exploration into adaptable design because of the nature of the building's purpose. The people that will inhabit and use the spaces will have a variety of specific needs in a work space. I wanted to explore how the designs of spaces could become flexible to accommodate those specific needs. The primary objectives of this thesis are to: 1. Explore some of the various definitions of adaptability and how those meanings can be incorporated into design solutions 2. Identify spaces in the project that can be adapted for their specific purpose 3. Determine the methods of adaptability suited to the building typology and its users 4. Discuss adaptable design in terms of fixed and kinetic characteristics 5. Design spaces that are responsive to the site, the project's purpose and the unique needs of each user.
Suleiman, Yasmeen. "Adaptability in a State of Flux." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4137.
Full textCook, Clare Taube. "Is adaptability of personality a trait?" Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/is-adaptability-of-personality-a-trait(c7b497c7-79f0-47d2-8b3b-7295dccda13d).html.
Full textBader, Thomas Karl. "Adaptability and structural design of stadia." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008. http://d-nb.info/988777428/04.
Full textMugunthan, Vaikkunth. "Improving the adaptability of differential privacy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122763.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-56).
Differential privacy is a mathematical technique that provides strong theoretical privacy guarantees by ensuring statistical indistinguishability of individuals in a dataset. It has become the de facto framework for providing privacy-preserving data analysis over statistical datasets. Differential privacy has garnered significant attention from researchers and privacy experts due to its strong privacy guarantees. However, the lack of flexibility due to the dearth of configurable parameters in existing mechanisms, the accuracy loss caused by the noise added, and problems with choosing a suitable value of the privacy parameter, E, have prevented its widespread adoption in the industry. In this thesis, I address these issues. In differential privacy, the standard approach is to add Laplacian noise to the output of queries. I propose new probability distributions and noise adding mechanisms that preserve ([epsilon])-differential privacy and ([epsilon], [delta])-differential privacy.
The distributions can be observed as an asymmetric Laplacian distribution and a generalized truncated Laplacian distribution. I show that the proposed mechanisms add optimal noise in a global context, conditional upon technical lemmas. In addition, I also show that the proposed mechanisms have greater adaptability than the Laplacian mechanism as there is more than one parameter to adjust. I then demonstrate that the generalized truncated Laplacian mechanism performs better than the optimal Gaussian mechanism. The presented mechanisms are highly useful as they enable data controllers to fine-tune the perturbation necessary to protect privacy to use case specific distortion requirements. The second issue addressed in this thesis is to identify an optimal value of E and specify bounds on it. E is used to quantify the privacy risk posed by revealing statistics calculated on private and sensitive data.
Though it has an intuitive theoretical explanation, choosing an appropriate value is non-trivial. I present a systematic and methodical way to calculate e once the necessary constraints are given. In order to derive context-specific optimal values and an upper bound on E, I use the confidence probability approach, Chebyshev's inequality, and McDiarmid's inequality.
by Vaikkunth Mugunthan.
S.M.
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Hollander, Harm. "Construction flexibility and adaptability inside hospitals." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/201651/1/Harm_Hollander_Thesis.pdf.
Full textPrevatt, Bruce C. "Family adaptability and cohesion in remarried families." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49927.
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Nguyen, Thi Van Ha. "Development of Reverse Logistics – Adaptability and Transferability." Phd thesis, TUprints, 2012. https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/3220/1/NguyenHa_Dissertation_2012.pdf.
Full textFernandez, Martin Ismael. "Valuation of design adaptability in aerospace systems." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22584.
Full textCommittee Chair: Dr. Mavris, Dimitri; Committee Member: Dr. Hollingsworth, Peter; Committee Member: Dr. McMichael, Jim; Committee Member: Dr. Saleh, Joseph; Committee Member: Dr. Schrage, Daniel.
Taylor, Aaron. "Shelf life addressing consumption, permanence through adaptability /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2006. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
Full textUpdike, Michelle M. "Affordable spatial adaptability of single-family homes." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0041291.
Full textsantilli, sara. "Life Design, Career Adaptability, and Life Satisfaction." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3426772.
Full textL’approccio Life Design rappresenta un nuovo paradigma per il career counseling nel 21° secolo, volto al superamento dei modelli teorici del 20° secolo, fondati sulla ‘corrispondenze persona – ambiente’. Esso si sviluppa dal lavoro di un gruppo internazionale di studiosi, al fine di spiegare la complessità del lavoro e delle carriere professionali, considerando il contesto socio economico attuale caratterizzato da crisi, globalizzazione e rivoluzione digitale (Savickas et al., 2009; Nota & Rossier 2015). In considerazione di ciò, le recenti riflessioni in materia di progettazione professionale, enfatizzano che non si può più pensare che il futuro sia anticipabile, prevedibile e ricco di possibilità e promesse come si credeva in passato. Sono più frequenti cambiamenti, transizioni e forme di lavoro a tempo determinato (Savickas, Nota, Rossier, et al., 2009). Inoltre, l’approccio Life Design, pone l’accento sulla necessità di supportare le persone nel diventare esperte nei processi di co-costruzione e progettazione della vita, di anticipare e gestire le transizioni professionali, e di considerare la speranza, l'ottimismo, l'orientamento futuro, e la resilienza, quali variabili importanti alla pianificazione dei comportamenti futuri dell’individuo e, l’adaptability, quale risorsa essenziale per gestire le frequenti transizioni di carriera e di vita. All’interno dell’approccio teorico del Life Design si sviluppa il presente progetto di ricerca che si articola in tre fasi. Durante la prima fase si è proceduto alla validazione e allo sviluppo di strumenti al fine di valutare le variabili sopra descritte. A questo riguardo sono stati sviluppati due questionari:’Vision about Future’, per valutare la speranza, e l'ottimismo verso il e ‘Design My Future’, per valutare la resilienza e l'orientamento al futuro in un gruppo di giovani preadolescenti. Analisi esplorative e confermative (EFA e CFA) sono state utilizzate al fine di analizzarne la struttura fattoriale e la validità convergente e discriminante degli strumenti. Analisi multi-gruppo sono state inoltre condotte al fine di verificare la struttura fattoriale nel genere. La seconda fase del progetto è stata finalizzata all’analisi dei rapporti tra career adaptability, variabili positive (speranza, ottimismo, orientamento futuro, e resilienza) e soddisfazione di vita. Durante questa fase sono stati sviluppati diversi progetti di ricerca al fine di testare il ruolo di mediazione delle variabili positive considerate nel rapporto tra adaptability e soddisfazione di vita. 1. Nel primo studio, un lavoro interculturale, in collaborazione con l'Università di Losanna, 537 giovani adolescenti svizzeri e 727 giovani adolescenti italiani sono stati coinvolti, al fine di valutare il ruolo di mediazione della speranza e dell’ottimismo nel rapporto tra career adaptability e soddisfazione di vita nei due paesi. 2. Nel secondo studio sono stati coinvolti 120 adulti con disabilità al fine di indagare il ruolo di mediazione della speranza nella relazione tra career adaptability e soddisfazione di vita. 3. Un altro studio è stato sviluppato al fine di studiare il ruolo di mediazione della resilienza nella relazione tra career adaptability e la soddisfazione di vita in un gruppo di 152 genitori (62 padri e 90 madri) con figli con disabilità. Modelli di equazioni strutturali (SEM) sono stati condotti nei diversi studi per testare i modelli sopra descritti e per definire la struttura delle relazioni tra le diverse variabili considerate. Nella terza fase del progetto è stato messo a punto un intervento online fondato sui principi teorici del Life Design. L'efficacia dell’intervento è stata valutata attraverso uno studio condotto con 200 studenti delle scuole medie: 100 dei partecipanti sono stati assegnati al gruppo di intervento tradizionale e 100 sono stati assegnati al gruppo di intervento on-line volto ad incrementare i loro livelli di adaptability e soddisfazione di vita. Un'analisi della varianza a misure ripetute è stata effettuata al fine di valutare le differenze pre e post-test tra i due gruppi di intervento sui livelli di adaptability, soddisfazione di vita e desideri verso il futuro. I risultati hanno messo in evidenza che gli studenti che hanno preso parte al gruppo di intervento on-line hanno mostrato livelli più elevati di preoccupazione, controllo, curiosità e soddisfazione di vita rispetto agli studenti che hanno preso parte all’intervento ‘più tradizionale’ di vocational guidance. In generale i risultati ottenuti dal presente progetto di ricerca hanno messo in evidenza l’importanza di mettere a punto degli interventi di career guidance che possano rafforzare l’adaptability delle persone, la quale a sua volta può sostenere lo sviluppo di aspettative positive verso il futuro e aumentare i livelli di soddisfazione di vita di giovani e adulti.
Belaggoun, Amel. "Adaptability and reconfiguration of automotive embedded systems." Thesis, Paris 6, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA066252/document.
Full textModern vehicles have become increasingly computerized to satisfy the more strict safety requirements and to provide better driving experiences. Therefore, the number of electronic control units (ECUs) in modern vehicles has continuously increased in the last few decades. In addition, advanced applications put higher computational demand on ECUs and have both hard and soft timing constraints, hence a unified approach handling both constraints is required. Moreover, economic pressures and multi-core architectures are driving the integration of several levels of safety-criticality onto the same platform. Such applications have been traditionally designed using static approaches; however, static approaches are no longer feasible in highly dynamic environments due to increasing complexity and tight cost constraints, and more flexible solutions are required. This means that, to cope with dynamic environments, an automotive system must be adaptive; that is, it must be able to adapt its structure and/or behaviour at runtime in response to frequent changes in its environment. These new requirements cannot be faced by the current state-of-the-art approaches of automotive software systems. Instead, a new design of the overall Electric/Electronic (E/E) architecture of a vehicle needs to be developed. Recently, the automotive industry agreed upon changing the current AUTOSAR platform to the “AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform”. This platform is being developed by the AUTOSAR consortium as an additional product to the current AUTOSAR classic platform. This is an ongoing feasibility study based on the POSIX operating system and uses service-oriented communication to integrate applications into the system at any desired time. The main idea of this thesis is to develop novel architecture concepts based on adaptation to address the needs of a new E/E architecture for Fully Electric Vehicles (FEVs) regarding safety, reliability and cost-efficiency, and integrate these in AUTOSAR. We define the ASLA (Adaptive System Level in AUTOSAR) architecture, which is a framework that provides an adaptive solution for AUTOSAR. ASLA incorporates tasks-level reconfiguration features such as addition, deletion and migration of tasks in AUTOSAR. The main difference between ASLA and the Adaptive AUTOSAR platform is that ASLA enables the allocation of mixed critical functions on the same ECU as well as time-bound adaptations while adaptive AUTOSAR separates critical, hard real-time functions (running on the classic platform) from non-critical/soft-real-time functions (running on the adaptive platform). To assess the validity of our proposed architecture, we provide an early prototype implementation of ASLA and evaluate its performance through experiments
Belaggoun, Amel. "Adaptability and reconfiguration of automotive embedded systems." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 6, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA066252.
Full textModern vehicles have become increasingly computerized to satisfy the more strict safety requirements and to provide better driving experiences. Therefore, the number of electronic control units (ECUs) in modern vehicles has continuously increased in the last few decades. In addition, advanced applications put higher computational demand on ECUs and have both hard and soft timing constraints, hence a unified approach handling both constraints is required. Moreover, economic pressures and multi-core architectures are driving the integration of several levels of safety-criticality onto the same platform. Such applications have been traditionally designed using static approaches; however, static approaches are no longer feasible in highly dynamic environments due to increasing complexity and tight cost constraints, and more flexible solutions are required. This means that, to cope with dynamic environments, an automotive system must be adaptive; that is, it must be able to adapt its structure and/or behaviour at runtime in response to frequent changes in its environment. These new requirements cannot be faced by the current state-of-the-art approaches of automotive software systems. Instead, a new design of the overall Electric/Electronic (E/E) architecture of a vehicle needs to be developed. Recently, the automotive industry agreed upon changing the current AUTOSAR platform to the “AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform”. This platform is being developed by the AUTOSAR consortium as an additional product to the current AUTOSAR classic platform. This is an ongoing feasibility study based on the POSIX operating system and uses service-oriented communication to integrate applications into the system at any desired time. The main idea of this thesis is to develop novel architecture concepts based on adaptation to address the needs of a new E/E architecture for Fully Electric Vehicles (FEVs) regarding safety, reliability and cost-efficiency, and integrate these in AUTOSAR. We define the ASLA (Adaptive System Level in AUTOSAR) architecture, which is a framework that provides an adaptive solution for AUTOSAR. ASLA incorporates tasks-level reconfiguration features such as addition, deletion and migration of tasks in AUTOSAR. The main difference between ASLA and the Adaptive AUTOSAR platform is that ASLA enables the allocation of mixed critical functions on the same ECU as well as time-bound adaptations while adaptive AUTOSAR separates critical, hard real-time functions (running on the classic platform) from non-critical/soft-real-time functions (running on the adaptive platform). To assess the validity of our proposed architecture, we provide an early prototype implementation of ASLA and evaluate its performance through experiments
Öster, Daniel. "Providing Adaptability in Survivable Systems through Situation Awareness." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17.
Full textSystem integration, interoperability, just in time delivery, window of opportunity, and dust-to-dust optimization are all keywords of our computerized future. Survivability is an important concept that together with dependability and quality of service are key issues in the systems of the future, i.e. infrastructural systems, business applications, and everyday desktop applications. The importance of dependable systems and the widely spread usage of dependable system together with the complexity of those systems makes middleware and frameworks for survivability imperative to the system builder of the future. This thesis presents a simulation approach to investigate the effect on data survival when the defending system uses knowledge of the current situation to protect the data. The results show the importance of situation awareness to avoid wasting recourses. A number of characteristics of the situational information provided and how this information may be used to optimize the system.
Blakstad, Siri Hunnes. "A Strategic Approach to Adaptability in Office Buildings." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-26.
Full textThis thesis, “A Strategic Approach to adaptability in office buildings”, is the result of a doktor ingeniør-project financed by a NBI project called “Buildings in a life cycle perspective”. The work was carried out at the Department of Building Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Fine Arts at NTNU in the period 1997 - 2001.
The main objective of this work is to develop and present knowledge about adaptability in office buildings and how this knowledge can be enhanced. Adaptability is thought to be important in order to reduce mismatches between buildings and their user organisations. Mismatches will occur in the Building – User Relationship over a period of time. The level of mismatch will vary, but at one point the mismatch exceeds the acceptable mismatch level, and major adaptations in the building, in the use of the building, or in how the user organisation finances and procures real estate, are needed. The acceptable mismatch level will vary from situation to situation, but there will always be some level of mismatch in the Building – User Relationship, and minor adaptations must be carried out continuously.
As opposed to many of the earlier works that have dealt with these issues, this work is mainly focused on adaptability, not only on flexibility. Adaptability is here defined as “the ability to change, responding to internal or external changes”, and it is seen as something that approaches the problem “from the top”. Flexibility, on the other hand, is seen as more solution-oriented, giving possibilities for change within a limited set of alternatives. Flexibility is still seen as important, but as one of several ways to achieve physical adaptability, together with partitionability, multifunctionality, and extendability. This work is also more based on a social-constructivist approach to the problem, and on the socio-technical relationships between buildings and users, rather than on technical solutions.
The main reason to engage oneself in the study of adaptability in office buildings is that we have seen the changes that have taken place in offices during the last 100 years, and that we expect these changes to accelerate. During the history of office buildings there has been a large variety in office layouts and workplace design. The use of the building and the workplace ideals may change, but the actual building is more durable. Thus, most buildings will meet a change in requirements during their lifetime, to which they have to be adapted. Some existing buildings adapt readily to change, others are more difficult to alter. The building will be adapted if the value of adapting the building into new or future use is thought to be greater than the value of the alternatives and the cost of adaptations. This value can be both financial value and value of use.
The value of use is most clearly seen in the Building – User Relationship (BUR). This is a dialectic relationship between buildings and users, where the two sides are believed to mutually affect each other. When the organisation changes, the building must be adapted in response to a new situation. On the other hand, the organisation will adapt itself to the possibilities and constraints in the building. The BUR is not necessarily only concerned with one user. It can also be seen as the relationship between the building and several users or between the user and several buildings. Major and continuous changes and adaptations will happen in both cases, and the same approach, with some adaptations, can be used.
Because the BUR is thought to be constantly changing, there is always a mismatch between supply (what the building can offer) and demand (what the organisation needs). This mismatch must be managed in order to create the best possible fit between the building and the user organisation.
To manage the mismatches, one has to consider planning and decision-making under uncertainty. An understanding of the direction and the future on the demand side (the user organisation), as well as a strategy for developing the supply side (the building) must be developed. The interface between the two has to be managed in a long-term perspective. In order to deal with this, a strategic way of managing the mismatch is chosen, and the Strategic Approach to adaptability is based on a strategic iterative decision-making process. The metaphor of design has been used to explore and explain the iterative decision-making process, which is based on interaction between the phases of awareness, analysis, and action.
The main ingredients in the Strategic Approach are:
1. A “mindset”, which is a way of thinking about changes in the Building – User Relationship. This mindset includes knowledge about organisations and buildings and how they change and affect each other.
2. Strategic, iterative decision-making based on a process of awareness, analysis, and action. This decision-making process can be applied in different situations. Two situations of special relevance to the Building – User Relationship have been described in this work: The management of BUR mismatches, which is the continuous process of adapting buildings and user organisations to each other, and the Strategic Approach used in the building’s life cycle, from initiative concept, programming, design, and construction, to use and operation.
3. Some tools can be applied within the strategic decision-making process to aid decision-making. For ex. assess uncertainty, for financial analysis, to anticipate the future, to evaluate buildings, to structure planning processes, for visualising, or for problem solving. In this work, two tools have been described in detail: scenarios and layering.
4. Measures are actual solutions that can be applied (a) to the building, (b) to the use of buildings, or (c) in finance and contracts, to enhance adaptability. Actual measures are outside the scope of this work, where the main focus is on strategic decision-making and the Building – User Relationship. They are, however, mentioned when appropriate, i.e. in the description of design strategies and of layering.
This study is mostly explorative, and an interpretative research approach has been used. This means that concepts and theories have been developed during the enquiry. An iterative research process with empirical and theoretical studies was used. The research instruments were interviews, workshops, and case studies, as well as a final example case, which is used to demonstrate the Strategic Approach in practice.
4 cases are presented: Dagbladet, a major retrofit process of a building complex with several buildings of different ages, which focused on a layered and phased retrofit process. Gjensidige, a new corporate headquarters for a large insurance company, which in its new building focused on strategic decisions and end-user involvement.
Office XX, an experimental building with technical solutions that encourages flexibility and give possibilities for easy assembly and disassembly of the building or parts of it. And finally K-bank’s new headquarters, Colosseum Park, which was developed as a commercial multi-purpose office building.
The Strategic Approach is finally applied to an example, in order to show how it could have been used in practice. A description of the real sequence of events is compared to an idealised version of the example; a simulation of the Strategic Approach used in the Consultants Inc. project”. The study shows that Consultants Inc. might have benefited from using the approach. The next step will, however, be to test the Strategic Approach in a pilot case and monitor the long-term effects on adaptability and BUR mismatches.
The main results from this work have been:
- That a Strategic Approach based on an understanding of the dynamics in the Building-User Relationship, and a strategic decision-making process has been developed, as well as some tools and methods which can be applied within a Strategic Approach. Some of this is developed in this project. Other issues are based on previous works, but used within the framework, the Strategic Approach developed in this project.
- That a Strategic Approach has been shown to be important and necessary to improve adaptability in office buildings.
Schrieverhoff, Phillip [Verfasser]. "Valuation of Adaptability in System Architecture / Phillip Schrieverhoff." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1070124230/34.
Full textBocoum, Mounina G. "Acceptance threshold's adaptability in fingerprint-based authentication methods." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0030/MQ64319.pdf.
Full textNilsson, Josefina. "Protein adaptability involved in self-assembled icosahedral capsids /." Stockholm : Department of biosciences and nutrition, Center for biotechnology, Karolinska institutet, 2006. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2006/91-7140-717-0/.
Full textGelow, Amanda. "Environmental adaptability from the extreme to the everyday /." PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2007. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
Full textAbbyad, Marc P. "Examining adaptability of individuals in complex, virtual ecosystems." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99315.
Full textQuinn, Karen E. (Karen Elizabeth). "Improving the feasibility of building deconstruction and adaptability." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60780.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-93).
Design for Adaptability and Deconstruction (DfAD) is an emerging trend in the construction industry that focuses on the end-of-life aspect of buildings. It is based on the concept that the life of a building or building component ends because it is unable to adapt to change. With proper implementation, DfAD is an important tool to achieve sustainable design for buildings, as it ideally may form a closed materials loop for construction materials by optimizing the amount of materials salvaged at the end of a building's useful life through deconstruction. This thesis focuses on ways to improve the feasibility of deconstruction and material savings, primarily through DfAD. By implementing DfAD principles and guidelines, designing with reusable materials, and planning and implementing a project effectively, the current practical and economic barriers to deconstruction may be mitigated. This thesis presents the essential considerations for deconstruction and materials salvage and presents potential policies to improve its viability. Three case studies present the applications of DfAD approaches and the lessons learned from common challenges associated with deconstruction.
by Karen E. Quinn.
M.Eng.
Shaw, Emily, and Alisha PhD Hardman. "Exploring Family Coherence and Adaptability Among Adoptive Families." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2020/schedule/54.
Full textPresloid, John B. "Characterization of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Strains with Adaptability." University of Toledo Health Science Campus / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=mco1225313889.
Full textBordoloi, Sanjeev K. "Flexibility, adaptability and efficiency in dynamic manufacturing systems /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textNorris, Christine F. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND CAREER ADAPTABILITY." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1912.
Full textPatillon, Thi-Van. "Créativité, adaptabilité et compétences à s’orienter tout au long de la vie." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014CNAM0985/document.
Full textTwo major approaches have emerged in the discipline of career counseling to determine the key factors in career development: the relationship between creative potential and adaptability, and between creative potential and the individual characteristics of personality, motivation, and logical reasoning. This research attempts to integrate these two approaches by evaluating the impact of each of these factors on adaptability. 500 undergraduate volunteers filled out self-assessment questionnaires and performed timed graphic efficiency tests. The results were subjected to statistical analysis. The findings indicate that the individual characteristics of personality and motivation have higher correlation with adaptability than creativity and logical reasoning. Future research should involve different populations and employ non-graphic tests of creativity to confirm these results. If confirmed it would then be necessary to further explore the role of creativity in career development
Danko, Micaela R. "Designing Affordable Housing for Adaptability: Principles, Practices, & Application." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/35.
Full textMedina, Laddaga Alicia. "Elasti-city : a study of adaptability across city scales." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31023.
Full textBurton, B. G. "Visual ecology, biophysics and the adaptability of fly photoreceptors." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597151.
Full textSun, Xu Andy. "Advances in electric power systems : robustness, adaptability, and fairness." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68971.
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The electricity industry has been experiencing fundamental changes over the past decade. Two of the arguably most significant driving forces are the integration of renewable energy resources into the electric power system and the creation of the deregulated electricity markets. Many new challenges arise. In this thesis, we focus on two important ones: How to reliably operate the power system under high penetration of intermittent and uncertain renewable resources and uncertain demand: and how to design an electricity market that considers both efficiency and fairness. We present some new advances in these directions. In the first part of the thesis, we focus on the first issue in the context of the unit commitment (UC) problem, one of the most critical daily operations of an electric power system. Unit commitment in large scale power systems faces new challenges of increasing uncertainty from both generation and load. We propose an adaptive robust model for the security constrained unit commitment problem in the presence of nodal net load uncertainty. We develop a practical solution methodology based on a combination of Benders decomposition type algorithm and outer approximation techniques. We present an extensive numerical study on the real-world large scale power system operated by the ISO New England (ISO-NE). Computational results demonstrate the advantages of the robust model over the traditional reserve adjustment approach in terms of economic efficiency, operational reliability, and robustness to uncertain distributions. In the second part of the thesis, we are concerned with a geometric characterization of the performance of adaptive robust solutions in a multi-stage stochastic optimization problem. We study the notion of finite adaptability in a general setting of multi-stage stochastic and adaptive optimization. We show a significant role that geometric properties of uncertainty sets, such as symmetry, play in determining the power of robust and finitely adaptable solutions. We show that a class of finitely adaptable solutions is a good approximation for both the multi-stage stochastic as well as the adaptive optimization problem. To the best of our knowledge, these are the first approximation results for multi-stage problems in such generality. Moreover, the results and the proof techniques are quite general and extend to include important constraints such as integrality and linear conic constraints. In the third part of the thesis, we focus on how to design an auction and pricing scheme for the day-ahead electricity market that achieves both economic efficiency and fairness. The work is motivated by two outstanding problems in the current practice - the uplift problem and equitable selection problem. The uplift problem is that the electricity payment determined by the electricity price cannot fully recover the production cost (especially the fixed cost) of some committed generators, and therefore the ISOs make side payments to such generators to make up the loss. The equitable selection problem is how to achieve fairness and integrity of the day-ahead auction in choosing from multiple (near) optimal solutions. We offer a new perspective and propose a family of fairness based auction and pricing schemes that resolve these two problems. We present numerical test result using ISO-NE's day-ahead market data. The proposed auction- pricing schemes produce a frontier plot of efficiency versus fairness, which can be used as a vaulable decision tool for the system operation.
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Holm, Johan, and Mats Gustavsson. "XML Parsers - A comparative study with respect to adaptability." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-15698.
Full textEzenwoye, Onyeka. "Enabling adaptability in service aggregates using transparent shaping techniques." FIU Digital Commons, 2007. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3402.
Full textCera, Marcia Cristina. "Providing adaptability to MPI applications on current parallel architectures." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/55464.
Full textCurrently, adaptability is a desired feature in parallel applications. For instante, the increasingly number of user competing for resources of the parallel architectures causes dynamic changes in the set of available processors. Adaptive applications are able to execute using a set of volatile processors, providing better resource utilization. This adaptive behavior is known as malleability. Another example comes from the constant evolution of the multi-core architectures, which increases the number of cores to each new generation of chips. Adaptability is the key to allow parallel programs portability from one multi-core machine to another. Thus, parallel programs can adapt the unfolding of the parallelism to the specific degree of parallelism of the target architecture. This adaptive behavior can be seen as a particular case of evolutivity. In this sense, this thesis is focused on: (i) malleability to adapt the execution of parallel applications as changes in processors availability; and (ii) evolutivity to adapt the unfolding of the parallelism at runtime as the architecture and input data properties. Thus, the open issue is "How to provide and support adaptive applications?". This thesis aims to answer this question taking into account the MPI (Message-Passing Interface), which is the standard parallel API for HPC in distributed-memory environments. Our work is based on MPI-2 features that allow spawning processes at runtime. adding some fiexibility to the MPI applications. Malleable MPI applications use dynamic process creation to expand themselves in growth action (to use further processors). The shrinkage actions (to release processors) end the execution of the MPI processes on the required processors in such a way that the application's data are preserved. Notice that malleable applications require a runtime environment support to execute, once they must be notified about the processors availability. Evolving MPI applications follow the explicit task parallelism paradigm to allow their runtime adaptation. Thus, dynamic process creation is used to unfold the parallelism, i.e., to create new MPI tasks on demand. To provide these applications we defined the abstract MPI tasks, implemented the synchronization among these tasks through message exchanges, and proposed an approach to adjust MPI tasks granularity aiming at efficiency in distributed-memory environments. Experimental results validated our hypothesis that adaptive applications can be provided using the MPI-2 features. Additionally, this thesis identifies the requirements to support these applications in cluster environments. Thus, malleable MPI applications were able to improve the cluster utilization; and the explicit task ones were able to adapt the unfolding of the parallelism to the target architecture, showing that this programming paradigm can be efficient also in distributed-memory contexts.
Ashbolt, Debbie Ann. "Adaptability in architecture : designing for structural and programmable change." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6002.
Full textLiu, Yunhui. "Hierarchical modularization and dual-domain formation for product adaptability." Development of an open-architecture electric vehicle using adaptable design, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32027.
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Andresen, Katja. "Design and use patterns of adaptability in enterprise systems /." Berlin : Gito-Verl, 2006. http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz259788961inh.pdf.
Full textMthabela, Rosalia S. "The impact of homelessness on family cohesion and adaptability." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1993. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3689.
Full textKing, Heidi C. "Study Abroad and Self-perceptions of Cross-Cultural Adaptability." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5285.
Full textKnight, Mary Elizabeth L. "Contrasting 'rich' and 'minimal' models of metacognitive regulation exploring the possible role of reversal learning in strategy selection /." Click here for download, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/villanova/fullcit?p1435584.
Full textBUCKER, MATTHEW DONALD. "Flux: adaptable building through the use of prefabrication in juvenile justice." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212167198.
Full textStokes, Charlene K. "Adaptive Performance: An Examination of Convergent and Predictive Validity." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1216044747.
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