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Sharaf, Saud Anwar. "MEGAPORT : architecture in infrastructural environments." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38607.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007."February 2007." Many pages folded. Even-numbered pages are numbered only.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-[121]).
Site: Arabian Sea, major region for container shipping bulk breaking. World trade is growing at a rate twice the world's economy. The assembly and customization of traded goods are increasingly decentralized around the globe. The frequency of their transportation and exchange is increasing. The phenomenon is of container freights, specifically: transshipment. Trans-shipment ports are no portals to cities, but are increasingly becoming autonomous global entities. The ports are mere switchboards, an exchange mechanism between ships. Transshipment is the fastest growing shipping market. Ships are getting bigger. Ports are expanding and dredging deeper, as they struggle today with overcapacity. New terminals are built, as economies of scale reach saturation in existing ports. The form of the global infrastructure is changing. In response, a new infrastructural move is necessary: a Megaport for transshipment. The Megaport is a transshipment port solely for ultra large containerships. It affords an economy for such transoceanic ships to remain in sea, and for local ports to be served through feeder ships. The Megaport is self-sufficient, autonomous and off-shore. In this colony of globalization, an infrastructural architecture is absolutely necessary.
by Saud Anwar Sharaf.
M.Arch.
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Wiegering, Spitzer Alexander(Alexander David). "An infrastructural ecology for Lima." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122829.
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Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-149).
Lima is facing an infrastructural crisis. Its infrastructure has reached the limits of elasticity, capacity and implementation. Its systems are ecologically challenging and are ecologically challenged. Born as top down system, they currently require too much investment from institutions in order to be governed and managed. We should rethink the conventional understanding of infrastructure as the hidden physical organizational structure of urban development, and favor a multi-scalar shared social approach to infrastructural production. Infrastructure needs to be civic and social, 'micro' and 'macro', hard and soft. Housing, the single, most powerful drive of Lima's growth needs to be reconsidered as an essential component of this infrastructure. This thesis proposes to analyze the set of elements that can constitute a new ecology of infrastructural pieces, in order to foster a new form of development and solidification of the peripheral informal settlements in the city of Lima.
The questions of open ended infrastructure in Lima, and the relationship between the limitations of 'hard' and 'soft' are on the table today: 46% of its citizens have resorted to informal housing for a place to live, most of which have no access to basic services1. Paired with population increase, immigration, and the unpreparedness of governments to provide infrastructure and services, this pressure is challenging risk management and governance capacities. The limitations to achieve the next generation of infrastructure in Lima are neither technical nor financial; they are spatial, social and political2. This thesis challenges conventional understandings of infrastructure by looking at it through the lens of ecology (which implies the study of the interaction between the elements of a system, beyond their independent development) and uses this lens to propose a new infrastructural system.
First, it catalogues the infrastructural pieces at play, defines their relationships, and documents how infrastructure is implemented throughout the region. Second, it proposes new pieces and partnerships of this system that encourage negotiations, develop new and existing relationships, and define operations and rules oriented towards a processes of urban solidification. These rules consist of physical, spatial and social interactions, moving energy, economy, and labour through the territory. These rules can mobilize dialogue between the built and unbuilt, objects and territories, organisms and environments. The thesis addresses the specific relationship between informal settlements and their geography, and proposes a dialogue between solidification and impermanence.
The goal of the thesis is to define a system capable of supporting and expanding itself while producing a legible project in the territory: an infrastructural ecology that enables different lifestyles, new interactions, and civic dialogue.
by Alexander Wiegering Spitzer.
S.M. in Architecture Studies
S.M.inArchitectureStudies Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Haim, Walter Christopher. "Architecture of Urban Infrastructural Residue." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79994.
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Urbanization is the process of limitless expansion of that which is urban, the built essentials that constitutes a civilization, beyond the limits of what can be recognized as the city. Infrastructure is the method by which urbanization is possible. Certain infrastructure has created residual spaces where urbanization does not occur. There is an opportunity for architecture to employ elements of the specific city as well as elements of the local urbanized area as a means to separate from and confront the infrastructural and urban conditions surrounding these residual sites.Master of Architecture
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Zamanzad, Ghavidel Alireza. "Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Development and Research: An infrastructural study." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för informatik (IK), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-45871.
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McDonnell, Sean. "Building infrastructural piers in East Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68745.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123).
The thesis is an inquiry into the urban waterfront and access to it. In particular, it is about the waterfront of Boston which ought to be more accessible, more public, and more present in the life of the city. The project is then an exploration or discovery of the issues related to the making of a waterfront. I have diverged (for longer than I anticipated) into waterfront infrastructures and spent time looking at existing and preexisting waterfront structures, ail of which informs a design proposal for East Boston's waterfront. The design proposal is intended in its process to illustrate observations, discoveries, and conclusions.
by Sean McDonnell.
M.Arch.
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Sinopoli, Luke C. "Energy in Architecture: An Infrastructural Approach." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397477500.
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Frem, Sandra. "Nahr Beirut : projections on an infrastructural landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49720.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.Vita.
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A century ago, Nahr Beirut was a riparian river which flowed from a mountainous valley to a coastal plain, the Beirut Peninsula, before entering the Julian Beinart Mediterranean Sea. After being for centuries the distant edge of Beirut, Nahr Title: Professor of Architecture Beirut today is the central spine of the Metropolitan Area, coinciding with a major transport corridor linking the coast with the hinterland. In 1968, the river was converted from a riparian river to a concrete canal and eventually, it mutated into an open sewer. The highway built on its right bank completed this conversion into an infrastructural conduit of sewage and transport. Informed by the notions of infrastructural landscape in Kathy Poole's article, Infrastructure in the ecological city, the thesis investigates Nahr Beirut through an urban and ecological analysis, and proposes measures for restoring the river, creating public space and enhancing the quality and management of water. In doing so, Nahr Beirut acts as a cultural catalyst which addresses citywide concerns of water supply, urban fragmentation and lack of public space. An overall plan addresses the ecological continuity of the river, flood mitigation, water management and treatment cycles. The plan proposes new navigational paths along the restored corridor, and sequences of public instances which respond to specific physical, infrastructural and urban conditions. Smaller scale proposals include public nodes and a series of land formation strategies that respond to the environmental and infrastructural situations.
(cont.) Each strategy is manifested by formal manipulation leading to a new constructed ground (river + banks+ public space) which corresponds to the hydrological mutations of the river across the different seasons. Advancing that rivers as infrastructural landscapes can become urban, social and ecological structures which sustain amid political and aesthetic fluctuations, the thesis posits Nahr Beirut as a new cultural and ecological spine in the city, which mediates its infrastructural functions with its civic and environmental roles.
Sandra Frem.
S.M.
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Williams, Laura (Laura Lynne). "Infrastructural opportunism inhabiting the Los Angeles hinterland." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106426.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-165).
Los Angeles is a vast, dense, and notorious city that overshadows the individualities of its outlying territories. California is likewise divided between urban center and middle land, with inland acting as producer and collector, and coast as consumer. However, there is the potential in this middle zone, stuck between the urban and rural, to re-imagine the way that cities develop and function based on infrastructural opportunities. North of Los Angeles over the San Gabriel mountains, Palmdale, Victorville, and Bakersfield operate together as the production and logistics staging grounds for Los Angeles, a collective back of house to the largest city on the west coast. Of these, Palmdale is used as the testing ground for infrastructural opportunism and edge expansion; but while Palmdale acts as producer, staging ground, and dormitory for Los Angeles, it will not be defined by this adjacency. Instead, Palmdale and its neighbors are re-imagined as a collective of edge cities that signify a new region both in service of and independent from Los Angeles: The High Desert Triangle. To address the edge region, this thesis proposes a new typology for expansion that identifies infrastructural overlaps between road, rail, and water as opportunities to link across fragmented city fabric. This method of aggregation and stitching operates at an urban scale within Palmdale, a territorial scale between cities, and site-specifically in bridging the scalar gap between humans and logistics. By operating opportunistically with infrastructure, this thesis proposes that 1] concentrating infrastructure and logistics development at multi-modal intersections reduces redundancy and de-fragments city fabric, 2] demographic segmentation can be altered by mixing communities and improving access to transit both locally and regionally, and 3] the cost efficiency of bundling infrastructures allows for iteration and experimentation at the architectural scale to address changing programmatic and demographic needs. The aim of this thesis is not to imitate existing city fabric, but instead to design the typological tools for urban edge development and re-imagine how essential logistics spaces can be integrated with living spaces. It does not propose to segment, buffer, or zone out the overlaps between logistics and people, but rather seeks out those intersections as infrastructural opportunities with inherent value.
by Laura Williams.
S.M.
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Goslar, Anthony. "Strategic risks to sustainability in infrastructural megaprojects." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28424.
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The proponents of the infrastructural megaprojects promise much but often fail to deliver. These projects are complex interactions of numerous stakeholders often providing technical solutions to many end-users. The extent to which megaprojects identify and adequately address risks to sustainability is of concern to the societies employing the megaproject framework for investing in infrastructure. The goal of infrastructural engineering is to design and build infrastructure that supports society. Sustainability in megaprojects is concerned with the delivery of products and services that benefit society over the long-term. Failure to do so can result in social pushback such as protests seeking accountability and a refusal to pay. The result is a burden on society who do not reap the benefits promised to them by the project proponents. This paper seeks to establish the strategic risks which have an impact on sustainability in megaprojects. The research has emerged from interviews with professionals and documented sources. The study uses a qualitative research approach of grounded theory to investigate how megaprojects can better stay on track to deliver the infrastructure they promised for the benefit of society, both now and for future generations. A model was developed using a theory building process based on a concern variable and the seven core categories that emerged during data collection and analysis. The model likened the strategic risks to sustainability to those of the semi-generic archetype of Shifting the Burden. The model was then applied to the case of the Gauteng Freeway Improvements Project to test for practical adequacy. Recommendations for further research are to investigate government guarantees, risk allocation, and responsibility as they relate to sustainability. Of importance is the lack of resilience in megaprojects, which prevents stakeholders from adapting to a changing world. Building resilience in mega-projects would allow for better adaption in the face of uncertainty.
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Schwei, David. "The Empire Strikes: The Growth of Roman Infrastructural Minting Power, 60 B.C. – A.D. 68." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1468335463.
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Fornäs, Johan. "Advancing Cultural Studies in Sweden : An Infrastructural Initiative." Linköpings universitet, Filosofiska fakulteten, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-30485.
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Societal changes make culture increasingly central but also problematise it. New per-spectives are needed to meet these challenges. The international field of cultural studies is a promising effort to answer these challenges and vitalise cultural research. Sweden may make a significant and indeed unique contribution to this effort, but im-portant steps remain to be taken with this purpose. One such step would be to install a new national-international research institute on a higher level, in order to connect disciplines, universities and regions, and push innovative developments forward. Against such a background, this report leads up to an outline of a proposed new Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS). This is yet only a proposal, writ-ten at a time when ACSIS yet only exists as an imaginary utopia – though living with an extraordinary vitality in the minds of a wide intellectual network of committed scholars. Funding is presently being sought for, but it is not yet decided in what exact manner the ideas presented here will eventually be made real. The formulation of tasks, organisation and budget is thus yet a hypothetical model. Still, this bold adventure has reached a long way since its first inception. The ACSIS has long been an attractive dream for me and for many of my colleagues among cultural researchers. It is a very great pleasure to see the plans crystallised thus far, as the journey towards an ACSIS has reached its last and decisive phase. The report results from a committee work funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercen-tenary Foundation (Riksbankens jubileumsfond), and the Swedish Council for Re-search in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Humanistisk-samhällsvetenskapliga forskningsrådet). I had the great pleasure to work together with Svante Beckman, Ulf Hannerz, Lisbeth Larsson, Britta Lundgren, Orvar Löfgren, Ove Sernhede and Ulf Lindberg, and was reliably assisted by Åsa Bäckström. The group started working in January 2000, with a series of working meetings. Each member of the group has also had intense discussions of the basic ideas with other Swedish and international scholars, in meetings and by personal communication. Many therefore deserve warm thanks for making this report possible. The material and mental support by the two research funding bodies was essential, as was the generous and always stimulating collaboration in the committee. Linköping Univer-sity and the City of Norrköping have been overwhelmingly supportive towards this unique proposal, further strengthening our faith in its potential. We are also grateful to all those many Swedish and foreign researchers with whom these ideas have been discussed. The National Institute for Working Life programme for Work and Culture in Norrköping was a most hospitable host for this whole planning project.
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Luther, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Marie) 1976. "Embracing the shadows : inhabitation of an infrastructural landscape." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28325.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 75).
This thesis embraces the slots of space left behind by regional transportation infrastructure: It proposes an inhabitation of the places over, under and within existing enclaves and impasses, through an engagement of the specific, inherent forces of the site, both physical and sociological. The site, a Community of Industrial Arts in Philadelphia, PA, is a multi-layered intersection of three functioning, but currently independent, entities: A live/work industrial arts neighborhood, the approach to the Delaware River Bridge, and the elevated 1-95 Expressway. The inserted programs are site-specific, symbiotic, and catalysts for connection on a local scale: The School of Industrial Arts and Building Technology, which is modeled on collaborative research and development groups, supplements the existing workshops and emerging galleries of the neighborhood; the adjacent Public Transit Interchange becomes a hub for the school and community, and connects independent, multi-level rail lines. Through an architecture that is responsive to site-specific challenges such as light and shadow, acoustic vibration, wind load, water flow, and multiple cross-grain circulations, programmatic and experiential layers are woven into the existing infrastructure to create a system of mutually reinforcing connective tissues.
by Rebecca M. Luther.
M.Arch.
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Campos, Robert Timothy M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The infrastructural complex : a return to big design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39301.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007."June 2007."
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A new pattern of territorial settlement is proposed for the 70 mile-long strip straddling the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana (here termed the "South Louisiana-Mississippi River Corridor"). Current urban design paradigms at work in the area are ill-equipped to deal with the complex and competing systems within which the city of New Orleans-and any city sufficiently understood-is situated. It was a historical failure to engage with these big systems in the first place that resulted in the disaster of 2005. Such a truly big meshwork of competing interests as exists in the region can only be managed by a radically big re-definition of the scale and magnitude of the area in which design can intervene, harkening back to the territorial plans of the Russian avant-garde or the Tennessee Valley Authority. In South Louisiana, territorial infrastructure has always been the interface between systems and complexes, and it is only through a rapid redeployment of new infrastructures across a sufficiently big scale that a viable, long-term vision for the region can be realized, and only by applying architectural thinking.
(cont.) Along the (relatively) terra firma of the river's natural levee, rapidly-constructed long-distance sediment-transport pipeline become the "spines" for new program in the region, re-situating the significance of earth and water-control infrastructures to the urban form and civic life in the region. These spines absorb the future growth program of the region-whatever it may be. And outside the developed areas along the spines, fields of sugarcane are transformed to fields of cypress trees-tended by the citizen-foresters of the region-ready to be transplanted when mature into the wetlands. Their roots, and the mud coming through the spines of the new human settlements, artificially rebuild the natural buffer between this territory and an even bigger one-the rising, warming ocean.
by Robert Timothy Campos.
M.Arch.
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Adams, Francis Kofi. "The management of risks in international infrastructural projects." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26257.
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This thesis aims to conduct a review and survey to establish the appropriateness of the types of risk management techniques currently used in the construction industry, to investigate risk perception in construction and its impact on project performance, and to develop a procedural model for the elicitation of expert opinions about risks that minimises the adverse effects of risk perception on individual estimates of risk, and provides these opinions as input variables to the rigorous and probabilistic analysis of contractual risks. The work is a cross-cultural study, applying mail questionnaire surveys, interviews, Delphi and Vignette techniques, and analysing risk management approaches and applications of the elicitation model developed by the study in both United Kingdom and Ghana. The data generated by the elicitation model are analysed using relative likelihood methods to develop subjective prior probability distributions for use as input variables in the Bayesian analysis of contractual risks in construction. The study concludes that although relative frequency data are often unavailable for contractual risks, existing predominant practices for contractual risk analysis are inappropriate for the nature of contractual risks. Furthermore, individual perceptions about risks significantly affect expert judgements about risks (and consequently project performance) in spite of their expertise. Using the expert elicitation model developed by the study and the analytical approaches applied, it is possible to capture, encode and aggregate the knowledge and experiences of a group of relevant experts to derive probability distribution functions of contractual risks to be applied as input variables to a Bayesian analysis of contractual risks, and thereby achieve a more appropriate, systematic and rigorous approach to contractual risk analysis. Evidence from the study also indicates that this approach need not involve any significantly high costs as the analysis can be done using standard spreadsheet software and add-in programmes that companies already have on their computer systems.
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Adams, Jonathan Mark. "It Goes Without Saying: Infrastructure as Rhetorical Theory for Navigating Transition in Writing Program Administration." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103941.
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Writing program administrators (WPAs) work in constant negotiation with institutional forces outside of individual control, where the concerns of infrastructure impact writing programs continuously. In periods of transition, where new WPAs are entering a program, or the institution itself is shifting around the established program of a seasoned WPA, the ability to understand and rhetorically act in concert with one's infrastructure can often determine the success of a writing program. In this dissertation, I conduct a mixed-methods examination of the phenomenon of WPA infrastructure, situating infrastructure as a rhetorical lens for understanding writing program administrators' work as they face moments of transition in their career. Through a combination of meta-analysis of a subcorpus of WPA lore and stimulated recall interviews with current WPAs in the field, I form a picture of the phenomenon of infrastructural rhetoric and promote its use as a holistic lens to rhetorically engage with complex institutional systems.Doctor of Philosophy
A writing program administrator (WPA) is an individual who oversees, manages, and implements a writing program on a college campus. Whether they are the organizer of a writing center or the administrator for a first-year writing program, often their job is to direct the vision and resources of the college to achieve goals in writing knowledge. Throughout their operations, WPAs must work within the constraints set down by their institution, colleagues, and physical space. However, while WPAs are often well prepared by their training and education to deal with teaching and writing issues, interactions with these surrounding "infrastructural" constraints often leave WPAs feeling blindsided. In this dissertation, I explore moments of WPA breakdown in their engagements with larger institutional forces. I do this both through a detailed examination of a wide range of personal accounts from WPAs, as well as a series of interviews with members of the field. After finding patterns in these breakdowns and gaining a deeper understanding of WPA work, I work within the accounts of these WPAs to conceptualize the term infrastructural rhetoric to understand institutional forces as relational components essential to persuasion.
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Bergdahl, Emil, and Markus Kvarnlöf. "Infrastructural Assessment : A Quantitative Tool within Business & Economics." Thesis, Örebro University, Swedish Business School at Örebro University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-7837.
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Traditional theories, models, and methods often address a general view of the environment including sociocultural, technological, political, and economic factors. However, there is a lack in infrastructural attention in these concepts which this thesis intends to contribute with by analyzing how regional specific infrastructural variables can be aggregated to one comparative measure and what that measure’s scope of use could be in the market analysis? Hence, the purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the strategic planning process research with a supporting quantitative tool, based on statistical metrics, for determining the market potential.
This thesis has an inductive approach and is primary based on documentary secondary data and the strategic planning process is the main theory of concern when evaluating the possibilities of infrastructural assessment. As a complement, the infrastructural concerns in the economics are also dealt with.
The empirics are compiled and calculated in a manner which allows an indexing and the finalized result is presented as an Infrastructural Status Index (InfraStat Index). Some of the utilities of this index are that it can be a complementary part of the PEST- and SWOT-models and a supporting tool in companies’ strategic planning processes. The index has both business and macroeconomic scopes of use and one of the summarizing conclusions is that further research within this concept should incorporate more variables in order to retrieve a more comprehensive result.
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Giansiracusa, Michelangelo Antonio. "A Secure Infrastructural Strategy for Safe Autonomous Mobile Agents." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16052/.
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Portable languages and distributed paradigms have driven a wave of new applications and processing models. One of the most promising, certainly from its early marketing, but disappointing (from its limited uptake)is the mobile agent execution and data processing model. Mobile agents are autonomous programs which can move around a heterogeneous network such as the Internet, crossing through a number of different security domains, and perform some work at each visited destination as partial completion of a mission for their agent user. Despite their promise as a technology and paradigm to drive global electronic services (i.e.any Internet-driven-and-delivered service, not solely e-commerce related activities), their up take on the Internet has been very limited. Chief among the reasons for the paradigm's practical under-achievement is there is no ubiquitous frame work for using Internet mobile agents, and non-trivial security concerns abound for the two major stake holders (mobile agent users and mobile agent platform owners). While both stake holders have security concerns with the dangers of the mobile agent processing model, most investigators in the field are of the opinion that protecting mobile agents from malicious agent platforms is more problematic than protecting agent platforms from malicious mobile agents. Traditional cryptographic mechanisms are not well-suited to counter the bulk of the threats associated with the mobile agent paradigm due to the untrusted hosting of an agent and its intended autonomous, flexible movement and processing. In our investigation, we identified that the large majority of the research undertaken on mobile agent security to date has taken a micro-level perspective. By this we mean research focused solely on either of the two major stakeholders, and even then often only on improving measures to address one security issue dear to the stake holder - for example mobile agent privacy (for agent users) or access control to platform resources (for mobile agent platform owners). We decided to take a more encompassing, higher-level approach in tackling mobile agent security issues. In this endeavour, we developed the beginnings of an infrastructural-approach to not only reduce the security concerns of both major stakeholders, but bring them transparently to a working relationship. Strategic utilisation of both existing distributed system trusted-third parties (TTPs) and novel mobile agent paradigm-specific TTPs are fundamental in the infrastructural framework we have devised. Besides designing an application and language independent frame work for supporting a large-scale Internet mobile agent network, our Mobile Agent Secure Hub Infrastructure (MASHIn) proposal encompasses support for flexible access control to agent platform resources. A reliable means to track the location and processing times of autonomous Internet mobile agents is discussed, withfault-tolerant handling support to work around unexpected processing delays. Secure,highly-effective (incomparison to existing mechanisms) strategies for providing mobile agent privacy, execution integrity, and stake holder confidence scores were devised - all which fit comfortably within the MASHIn framework. We have deliberately considered the interests - withoutbias -of both stake holders when designing our solutions. In relation to mobile agent execution integrity, we devised a new criteria for assessing the robustness of existing execution integrity schemes. Whilst none of the existing schemes analysed met a large number of our desired properties for a robust scheme, we identified that the objectives of Hohl's reference states scheme were most admirable - particularly real - time in - mission execution integrity checking. Subsequently, we revised Hohl's reference states protocols to fit in the MASHIn framework, and were able to overcome not only the two major limitations identified in his scheme, but also meet all of our desired properties for a robust execution integrity scheme (given an acceptable decrease in processing effiency). The MASHIn offers a promising new perspective for future mobile agent security research and indeed a new frame work for enabling safe and autonomous Internet mobile agents. Just as an economy cannot thrive without diligent care given to micro and macro-level issues, we do not see the security prospects of mobile agents (and ultimately the prospects of the mobile agent paradigm) advancing without diligent research on both levels.
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Duyser, Mitchell S. "Hybrid Landscapes: Territories of Shared Ecological and Infrastructural Value." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277139665.
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Profeta, Daniele. "Mongrel Geometries : Train Station in Torregaveta, a new INFRASTRUCTURAL plaza." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-34703.
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The thesis project wants to research the concept of Mongrel Geometries, the development of a spatial system that considering the processes of Form Finding as a design tool and their tight relationship with the model of efficiency and structural optimization, start questioning their problem/solving based procedure with the purpose of understanding which are the potentials of these methods to introduce within the built environment new atmospheric and programmatic qualities.The intervention consists in the re-design of the Train Station and of the incorporated Bus Terminal, resolving the general connective tissue, and stimulating the public activity towards the sea side. The Terminal wants to be intended not only as a place of departure but also as an attractive place itself.
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REIS, MARCELLO CARVALHO DOS. "INFRASTRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION IN THE BRAZILIAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=35198@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROO objetivo desta dissertação é contribuir para o avanço do conhecimento sobre a capacidade de inovação e os obstáculos à inovação enfrentados pelas empresas de serviços de tecnologia da informação, destacando-se o papel da Tecnologia Industrial Básica (TIB) no fortalecimento dessa capacidade. Particularmente, a dissertação busca responder como as empresas deste setor percebem a importância das funções da TIB - metrologia, normalização, regulamentação técnica e avaliação da conformidade - em seus ciclos de inovação, na perspectiva de destacar os benefícios oriundos da consolidação da infraestrutura nacional de serviços tecnológicos de suporte à capacidade inovadora dessas empresas. A metodologia compreende: (i) revisão bibliográfica e documental sobre os temas centrais da dissertação; (ii) definição do objeto do estudo e seleção da fonte primária de dados - Pesquisa de Inovação 2014 (Pintec 2014), do IBGE; (iii) elaboração do plano tabular para solicitação ao IBGE de tabulação especial da Pintec 2014; (iv) análise e discussão dos resultados; e (v) formulação das conclusões da pesquisa e de sugestões para a próxima edição da Pintec e estudos futuros. Destacam-se como resultados: (i) a identificação de itens da Pintec diretamente associados às funções da TIB; e (ii) a análise da percepção das empresas de serviços de tecnologia da informação sobre a relevância das funções da TIB em seus ciclos de inovação.
The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the advancement of knowledge about innovation capacity and obstacles to innovation faced by information technology service companies, with emphasis on the role of infrastructural technologies (Portuguese acronym, TIB) in strengthening this capacity. In particular, the dissertation seeks to answer how the companies in this sector perceive the importance of the TIB functions - metrology, standardization, technical regulation and conformity assessment - in their cycles of innovation, with a view to highlighting the benefits derived from the consolidation of the national infrastructure of technological services to support the innovative capacity of these companies. The methodology includes: (i) bibliographic and documentary review on the central themes of the dissertation; (ii) definition of the study object and selection of the primary source of data - IBGE s Innovation Research (Pintec 2014); (iii) preparation of the tabular plan for requesting a special tabulation of the Pintec 2014 to IBGE; (iv) analysis and discussion of the results; and (v) formulation of research findings and suggestions for the next edition of Pintec and future studies. The results are as follows: (i) the identification of Pintec 2014 items directly associated with the TIB functions; and (ii) the analysis of companies perception of information technology services on the relevance of TIB functions in their innovation cycles.
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Bhatia, Neeraj 1980. "The infrastructural space of appearance : the re-formed public library." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41566.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227).
This thesis examines the dilemma of the common object in a liberal pluralist society. Situating the arguments in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition, the thesis investigates the notion of the Space of Appearance in the contemporary city as providing a common platform for exchange. This Space of Appearance is conceived of through the linking of two public and democratic infrastructures -- mass transport lines and the public library. By symbiotically linking the two infrastructures, a space for action and speech emerges that creates concern for the collective object, thereby affirming the reality provided by the public realm. Using Toronto, Ontario as a case study of multicultural pluralism, the thesis examines the location of Southern Ontario in North America as a precursor to Toronto's multicultural success. From here, the study zooms into a specific site in the center of Toronto entitled "CityPlace." CityPlace is an island formed and bounded through massive infrastructural separation, while simultaneously situated at the convergence of the city's flows. It is this "neither zone" of both Southern Ontario, and more locally, CityPlace that is believed to strengthen its ability to embrace pluralism. An urban design proposal for this foreign island of CityPlace investigates the common object in pluralism at the scale of the city. Lastly, this thesis investigates the common object in pluralism at the scale of architecture, namely the public library. through situating the discourse of the library in a historic lineage, the current dilemmas of library design are extracted. A new typology is developed which directly addresses these problems, the CityPlace island, and Arendt's notion of plurality.
(cont.) As the medium of library information increasingly changes to non-spatially bound forms, the primary role of the new typology is repositioned as its ability to provide a common meeting ground for the city. Through an investigation of pluralism, the thesis proposes an Infrastructural Space of Appearance that provides a collective platform for exchange at the scale of the city and building, in the liberal pluralist city of Toronto.
by Neeraj Bhatia.
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De, Wet Andres MG. "Toronto: Linking the Lake - Solutions for an Urban Infrastructural Disconnect." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491557866968756.
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Blood, Jessica, and jessica blood@rushwright com. "Landscape as Infrastructure." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080130.095737.
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This research is an investigation into the phrase 'landscape as infrastructure' and questions the influence of this notion in the design of new housing developments along the Maribyrnong River, Melbourne. The phrase lends itself to a systems based agenda because the word 'infrastructure' implies that it performs some kind of function. It is through this functioning that we can understand the way landscape acts as a stage for activities to occur, not just background to the object. The main question within the research is how landscape can precede housing development and set the parameters for its location, density, and relationship to the river. This is tested through four overriding themes which summarise the key ideas and methodologies for designing with landscape as infrastructure. The themes 'Catalyst', 'Time', 'Cause and Effect' and 'Experience' are tested on four different sites along the Maribyrnong River responding to different site conditions and the influence of geology and topography. The four sites have been named to reflect the primary function they perform within the overall strategy. To establish a framework for this discourse the research has been filtered through seven principals, originally developed by Stan Allen as a series of propositions for infrastructure. These principals question issues of force, process, typology, scale, invisible form, structure, function and change and visible form and set up a mechanism enabling me to challenge the notion of landscape as infrastructure. If the landscape is infrastructure then Allen's principals will also apply for the design of housing developments. This Appropriate Visual Record (AVR) is a selection of research material and design solutions developed over the last three years as part of the Research Masters Degree at RMIT.
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Schmidt, Matthias [Verfasser], and Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] Freisleben. "Infrastructural Security for Virtualized Grid Computing / Matthias Schmidt. Betreuer: Bernd Freisleben." Marburg : Philipps-Universität Marburg, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1016532725/34.
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Helseth, Arild. "Modelling Reliability of Supply and Infrastructural Dependency in Energy Distribution Systems." Doctoral thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Electrical Power Engineering, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-2151.
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This thesis presents methods and models for assessing reliability of supply and infrastructural dependency in energy distribution systems with multiple energy carriers. The three energy carriers of electric power, natural gas and district heating are considered.
Models and methods for assessing reliability of supply in electric power systems are well documented, frequently applied in the industry and continuously being subject to research and improvement. On the contrary, there are comparatively few examples of formal reliability assessment models and methods applied to natural gas and district heating systems. This work aims at contributing to bridge this gap, considering the structural, operational and physical similarities and differences between the systems. A method for evaluating the reliability of supply in natural gas distribution systems is presented, based on state-of-the-art reliability calculations from the electric power domain. Furthermore, a novel modelling approach incorporating pipeline storage in reliability evaluation of high-pressure natural gas pipeline systems is presented.
Parallel energy infrastructures depend on each other at different levels, two of which are addressed in this work. First, by introducing a second energy carrier in an area dominated by electric power, the type of energy end-uses served by the electric power system is affected. An optimisation problem is formulated, finding the optimal allocation of switchgear in an electric power distribution system. It is shown how changes in energy end-uses cause changes in the expected customer interruption costs, which in turn affects the optimisation problem. Second, the dependency of district heating systems on electric power is modelled. Network models for the two systems are coupled, and the consequences of higher-order power system failures are quantified for both systems.
The methods and approaches presented in this thesis are demonstrated by use of simple examples, and applied to test networks and case studies.
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Doyle, James Lawrence. "Accounting for infrastructural assets : perspectives from within New Zealand local government." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Accountancy, Finance and Information Systems, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10428.
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There is no generally accepted accounting practice for infrastructural assets with respect to either their definition or how to account for them. Renewal accounting is an alternative to the generally accepted basis of accounting for fixed assets-traditional depreciation. It assumes that infrastructural networks have indefinite useful lives. Expenditure on maintenance is expensed and no depreciation is charged, provided the network's service potential is maintained. This thesis examines recent developments in accounting for infrastructural assets in New Zealand local government. A survey, comprising 18 senior managers from within 12local authorities, was undertaken with the aim of ascertaining accounting practices and gaining their views on key issues identified from the literature. The survey found that local government managers perceive asset management planning to be very important. Consequently, there is a concerted effort toward collecting information on infrastructural assets and developing asset management plans (AMPs). Developments in these areas will improve both the reliability of information for internal management purposes and for general purpose financial reporting, whether under renewal accounting or traditional depreciation.
It is concluded from the study that infrastructural assets should be defined as a conceptually distinct group which have the characteristics of networks with indefinite useful lives. The study also revealed that renewal accounting has widespread acceptance within New Zealand local government and is, arguably, the preferred alternative for infrastructural assets. This is because it contributes to better asset management; it makes maintenance and deferred maintenance on infrastructure transparent; and it supports the democratic process, where levels of service in AMPs are agreed in consultation with the public.
Following the direction suggested by the interviewees' views canvassed in this thesis, the next stage requires the development of a financial reporting standard which addresses renewal accounting and the circumstances under which it should be applied.
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Eager, Joshua (Joshua Robert Paul). "Re-energized : a new model for suburban housing through infrastructural remediation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106413.
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Isolated houses within secluded subdivisions have been dominating the American landscape for decades. Commonly criticized as energy and resource wasteful, financially vulnerable, and socially unresponsive, few have provided constructive ideas for new methods of development. The goal of this thesis is to provide an alternative model of urbanization by redefining the relationship between infrastructure and urban form. By rethinking the dynamics of this relationship, the thesis will introduce a framework that has the dexterity to address more complex patterns of urban development, a characteristic which is severely lacking in the current model of the American "suburb." This type of urbanization has reached a tipping point at which local governments lack implementable strategies for meeting the demands of their growing populations that are both sustainable and economically viable. Focusing on Denton, Texas, the proposal aims to repurpose oil and gas extraction sites for new housing subdivisions. Taking advantage of the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Zone (ETJ) in one of the fastest growing regions in the country, these new designs will be allowed to experiment in future growth areas that do not abide by conventional regulations of municipal governments and have the flexibility to support more complex forces. By converting resource extraction rights and infrastructures to cleaner energy sources of wind and solar, this new dynamic of development capitalizes on the diversity of a dispersed network while accommodating both economic and environmental expansion in a more sustainable system.
by Joshua Eager.
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Phillips, Amanda Kirsten. "Infrastructural Imaginaries: Highways and the Sociotechnical Production of Space in Baltimore." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/87534.
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The highway, its promise of freedom and mobility, stands as a source of intrigue in American culture. Yet, the asphalt and dashed lines that cut across the country conceal the contentious history that accompanied interstate highway construction. This dissertation examines the social and spatial meanings of interstate highway plans in the United States at different historical and geographic scales. This account begins in the late 1930's and travels through the mid 1940's where I discuss Norman Bel Geddes's 1939 Worlds Fair Exhibit, "Futurama" and Robert Moses's 1944 Baltimore Arterial Report. This analysis demonstrates how each man inscribed social values into proposed developments within geographic space. From here I move to Baltimore where from 1944 until about 1979, countless proposals called for the construction of an arterial highway that would cut into the heart of the city. By drawing from the archival records left by Movement Against Destruction (MAD), Relocation Action Movement (RAM), and other groups in that fought against roadway plans in Baltimore, I explore how activists lived, understood, and challenged the new social arrangements embedded in the proposed highway system.
I introduce the term infrastructural imaginaries to account for how the proposal or construction of spatially embedded systems seeks to transform lived material and geographic arrangements. The concept of infrastructural imaginaries expands upon Sheila Jasanoff and San-Hyun Kim's "sociotechnical imaginaries" to address how proposed futures appropriate spatial environments and how people lived, understood, and conceptualize themselves within these emergent spaces. The framework of infrastructural imaginaries utilizes Henri Lefebvre's conceptual triad of spatial practice, representations of space, and representational space to analyze the dynamic interactions between infrastructure planning, lived experience, and articulations of possible futures. To study the infrastructural imaginary, the immaterial form, provides a fertile space from which to isolate places where systems fail to take hold, where alternative understanding emerge, and where new forms social interaction takes place.Ph. D.
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Wong, Kin-por, and 黃劍波. "A study of public engagement in implementing infrastructural projects in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46760052.
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MELO, DANIEL PETERSON CARVALHO DE. "INFRASTRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION IN THE BASIS OF THE BRAZILIAN INDUSTRIAL DEFENSE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=24363@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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O objetivo da dissertação é contribuir para o avanço do conhecimento sobre a capacidade de inovação e os obstáculos à inovação enfrentados pelas empresas da Base Industrial da Defesa (BID), destacando-se o papel da Tecnologia Industrial Básica (TIB) no fortalecimento dessa capacidade. Particularmente, a dissertação procura responder como as empresas da BID percebem a importância das funções da TIB - metrologia, normalização, regulamentação técnica e avaliação da conformidade – em seus ciclos de inovação, na perspectiva de ressaltar os benefícios oriundos da consolidação da infraestrutura nacional de serviços tecnológicos de suporte à capacidade inovadora dessas empresas. A metodologia compreende: (i) revisão bibliográfica e documental sobre os temas centrais da dissertação; (ii) definição do objeto do estudo; seleção da fonte primária de dados – Pesquisa de Inovação (Pintec) do IBGE – e da grade de análise da pesquisa; (iii) elaboração do plano tabular para solicitação ao IBGE de tabulações especiais da Pintec 2011; (iv) análise e discussão dos resultados; e (v) formulação das conclusões da pesquisa e de sugestões para a próxima Pintec e estudos futuros. Destacam-se como resultados: (i) a identificação de itens da Pintec diretamente associados às funções da TIB; (ii) a análise da percepção das empresas da BID sobre a relevância das funções da TIB para a inovação; e (iii) a análise comparativa dos padrões de respostas das empresas da BID que implementaram inovações e das que não implementaram.
The main aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the understanding of basic infrastructural technologies support to innovation activities by firms of defense industry in Brazil. Particularly, this work seeks to answer how defense firms perceive the importance of infrastructural technologies - metrology, standardization, technical regulation and conformity assessment - in their innovation cycles. The methodology comprises: (i) a literature survey to elaborate a theoretical outline to characterize the core subjects of the research: defense innovation system and defense products; sectorial systems of innovation; and infrastructural technologies; (ii) definition of the research scope; selection of the primary data source - the Brazilian Survey of Technological Innovation (Pintec), published by the Statistical Office (IBGE), and the research analytical framework; (iii) data collection and tabulation; (iv) main findings discussion; and (v) formulation of conclusions and suggestions for the next Pintec survey and for future research. The main results can be summarized as follows: (i) identification of PINTEC items directly associated with basic infrastructural technologies; (ii) identification and analysis of Brazilian defense firms perceptions about the relevance of basic infrastructural technologies in supporting their innovation strategies; and (iii) comparative analysis of patterns of response of innovative and non-innovative defense firms.
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Flynn, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Michele). "The sprawl of the wild : a new infrastructural landscape in Silicon Valley." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45969.
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California faces an immediate and dire water shortage. The San Joaquin River Delta water supply system - which provides Silicon Valley with most of its fresh water - periodically draws down water delivery due to drought and environmental degradation. Currently, these policyscale decisions may only be met with very small-scale compensatory measures (on the order of "change your light bulbs"). There are not yet any solutions proposed at a middle, mediating, architectural scale. This thesis asks: how could an architectural intervention provide a solution to regional needs? Fast and furious development in recent decades has brought on and compounded major environmental problems, as well as increased the already high value of land in the region. In Silicon Valley, a growing population and a rapidly expanding high-tech (these days meaning biotech / pharmaceutical) industry pressure its few remaining large vacant parcels to develop. One can see in these sites the quiet but great potential danger of the status quo. They could just be the last large parcels slated for subdivision, and we could continue nostalgically lamenting the drain on and damage to natural resources. Or these sites could be our first chance at something new. This thesis explores a radically positive view of development, proposing an approach to program that multiplies value on all fronts economic, cultural, infrastructural, and environmental - and asks: how can a new infrastructure best perform?
(cont.) In order to directly address the region's multiple needs (infrastructural, economic, civic, and environmental), normative development provides a scaffolding for waste-water treatment wetlands that double as urban wildlife sanctuaries. This combined program capitalizes on a highly valued, increasingly scarce cash crop produced as a by-product when treating waste water. This new cash crop is water. Clean enough to drink, this water be sold back to the neighbors, forming a new infrastructural network of "locally grown" gray water. This infrastructural network reinstitutes wildness - if not wilderness - in Silicon Valley, combating its homogenous regional development patterns by proposing a new network " of un-settlement. A new homestead, for the new cash crop.
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Ray, Kirsten. "Infrastructural Development’s Effects on Rural Women’s Livelihoods in Tehri-Garhwal, Northern India." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23820.
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This thesis investigates the effects of change and modernization on rural women’s livelihoods in northern India. Infrastructural development projects have been identified by research agencies and scholars as beneficial to people in rural areas. I reconceptualize infrastructural development – which here consists of a road, electricity, and irrigation – to act as a lens in which to define and understand the processes of change and modernization. Grounded in feminist methodology, this research is based on interviews with fifty women from six different villages in Tehri-Garwhal, India. I found that while infrastructural development did increase the quality of life for women, women did not experience empowerment. Rather, I argue that the changes brought upon by infrastructural development restructure and redefine the gender inequalities that exist in a region. Infrastructure development acts as a catalyst in a liminal space.
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Zuo, Ting. "Synthetic Modeling Analytics of Bike-Transit Integration Over Auto-Dependent Infrastructural System." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1613751016160793.
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Ducie, Gregory Justin. "Financial viability of sustainable infrastructural development at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1015063.
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Sustainable environmental practices need to be integrated into a university's infrastructural operations. Universities are entities that function within financial constraints with varying priorities across both administrative and educational functions. Unfortunately, these financial constraints often imply that a university's potential leadership role can only be realised should the viability (business case) of a proposed intervention be determined. This study focuses on the determination of a relational sustainable indicator and a relational cost factor. A relational sustainable indicator demonstrates how a university can collectively determine the contribution made to sustainability by various sectors of infrastructure. This is developed by means of a secondary study. Two components are important for calculating the relational sustainability indicator, namely, green infrastructure attributes and the basic elements of sustainability systems, namely, the environmental, economic and social dimensions of sustainability. The determination of a relational cost factor involves the quantification of the costs associated with alternative infrastructure provision. In particular, attention is paid to demand-side management costs, rationalising spatial growth costs, green building development costs, operation and maintenance of existing buildings costs, wastewater infrastructure costs, water infrastructure costs, energy infrastructure costs and transport infrastructure costs. Once the actual costs of each intervention category are determined, a relational sustainable cost factor can be calculated. Utilising the costs in the eight categories identified, a relational sustainable cost factor is determined. A resultant relational cost benefit as per the eight defined categories of sustainable infrastructure provision is derived from the relevant costs of sustainable infrastructure provision, the resultant relational cost factors and, finally, the relational sustainability indicators. It is proposed that that the determination of a budget split between the various interventions based on the resultant relational cost factor occur as follows: - Demand side management interventions: 15.97percent - Rationalising spatial growth: 6.72percent - Construction of green buildings: 24.37percent - Operations and maintenance: 21.85percent - Wastewater: 7.56percent - Water: 1.68percent - Energy: 12.61percent - Transport: 9.24percent. This study provides a platform to guide how and where to invest in sustainable infrastructure and provide direction in determining a budget split between various categories of sustainable infrastructure development.
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Nordlöf, Kathrin. "Facing Gentrification? : Investigating social consequences of infrastructural changes in Yalı Mahallesi, Istanbu l." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-158824.
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Xu, Wenfei. "Networked enclaves of Los Angeles : infrastructural strategies for the immigrant enclaves of Koreatown." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106362.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-191).
Racial and ethnic segregation has always been physically embedded into Los Angeles. The history of planning within the LA metropolitan area, the development of its highway infrastructure, and the demographic mix are all deeply inter twined. While the construction of the highway system, at its height in the 1940s and 50s, allowed those who had the means to do so freedom to self-segregate, it also reinforced the racial divisions that were created with redlining practices and, thus, created a space of forced enclavization for the inhabitants near the center of the city. The causes of the tensions between the growing Korean community and the black and Latino in this area were myriad and long-simmering, however, much of it was due to growing income inequality, racial biases, cultural and language barriers. Thus, while these ethnic and racial groups lived in physical proximity, enclave behaviors nevertheless prevailed. In the Los Angeles of the present, racial animosity is less directed towards a disenfranchised black population, as many have now moved to the suburbs, but more and more toward immigrant populations with varying degrees of legality. Officially, Los Angeles' Koreatown has a population of 115,000 people, according the 2010 U.S. Census, in its 2.7 square miles, but its size, population, and influence, much like Los Angeles itself, is amorphous and fluid. Despite official boundaries, however, enclaves of ten struggle to form a definite identity and make strong roots. Central to these struggles is most of ten the low income of the people within the community and the inability to develop an economic engine that can form the basis for a strong cultural identity. Through the lens of Koreatown, this project proposes a flexible infrastructural network of links, which aim to connect and strengthen the region as a whole through the legitimization of informal commerce prevalent throughout the area, and nodes, which act as programmatic crossings between one enclave and another.
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Chung, Wing-hong, and 鍾永康. "An evaluation of the role of highways infrastructural development policy in the 1990's." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31965192.
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Van, Vuuren Karien. "The role of infrastructural development and economic growth in spatial planning / Karien van Vuuren." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9726.
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This study is about the influence that infrastructure development can have on the economy. In the current age of globalisation it is necessary to develop constantly to prevent becoming insignificant in the world economy. It is not enough to let development take its own course anymore, the government and private investors must cooperate to accelerate development or else stand the risk of falling behind. South Africa is trying to move from a Third World country to a First World country. Although some of the regions have developed successfully and show the characteristics of a First World country, large parts of the country are still examples of a Third World country. The reason that the Western Cape Province, for example, is moving forward so rapidly and showing an-ever increasing Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is the fact that they have realised the importance of infrastructural investment. Without investing in infrastructure, the economy will be unlikely to grow. This is because there is a positive correlation between infrastructure expenditure and the GDP. While a part of South Africa is focusing on Strictly Social Overhead Capital (SSOC), which entails the development of people, the Western Cape has put more emphasis on Economic Overhead Capital (EOC) such as building roads, bridges. It is argued in this research document that investing in EOC will increase economic growth that will help the region become more developed. If the whole country inherits this approach, it is probable that South Africa remains relevant and even become more competitive in the world economy. When investing in infrastructure the region will maintain their agglomeration advantages and create more comparative advantage ensuring that agglomerations form. Agglomerations form because it is more advantageous to locate at a certain location due to cheaper total costs at these locations. One of the greatest factors influencing an investor’s locational preference is transport costs and therefore transport costs must be held to a minimum. Spatial planning must be adjusted in order to ensure that EOC receives the necessary attention. This study will show how this can be achieved.Thesis (MArt et Scien (Urban and Regional Planning))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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Chung, Wing-hong. "An evaluation of the role of highways infrastructural development policy in the 1990's." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18596848.
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Masuku, Mandla Mfundo. "The effects of infrastructural and institutional services on food security in Ntambanana rural area." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1342.
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Dissertation submitted in the fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters of Arts in Development Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2013.The aim of this study was to explore how food security at household level is affected by lack of infrastructural and institutional services. This study particularly looks at how these constraints affect access to food and assess the availability institutional services such as the availability of extension services in Ntambanana. The study recommends that improved rural infrastructure and support services sustains food security as well as contributes to the improvement in the living conditions of rural households. The availability of infrastructure and institutional support in rural areas regarded as means of rural development which eliminate problems of access to food and other services. The study concluded that lack of infrastructural services such as poor storage facilities, roads, irrigation system and transport facilities that creates food insecurity in Ntambanana. The general findings of the study reveal that assessment and evaluation of policies that are based on rural development and food security is very important. These include improving communication amongst various stakeholders, creating an enabling environment for local businesses, ensuring the availability of facilities such as storage, communication and transport facilities. This study concludes that the cost effective ways to improve access to food is to assist local small scale businesses to earn cash through creating market for them and invest in infrastructure that lead to improving food security. The results reflect that socio – economic conditions play an important role in accessing food by looking the level of purchasing power in the community.
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Reiss, Jeffrey. "STUDENT DIGITAL PIRACY IN THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM:AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON ITS INFRASTRUCTURAL EFFECTS." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3537.
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Digital piracy is a problem that may never disappear from society. Through readily available resources such as those found in a university, students will always have access to illegal goods. While piracy is a global phenomenon, an institution s resources combined with the typical college student s lack of funds makes it more lucrative. Students use a number of methods to justify their actions ranging from previewing media to bringing justice to a corrupt company. While trying to understand the mindset of pirates is one route to deal with piracy, corporations attempted to alleviate the situation using added software encoding. These messages are not always effective, and in some cases caused further damage to consumer morale. Furthermore, students such as Joel Tenenbaum, who continued to pirate music despite warnings from his parents and the recording industry, exemplify the type of person that is unfazed by legal threats, leading to a question of ethics. Students may not feel that downloading is stealing despite numerous warnings from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other major media organizations. The predominant solution used by universities involves monitoring the students network connection to detect Peer-to-Peer (P2P) connections or other connections that involve the transferring of copyrighted goods. Unfortunately, the current tools contain flaws that a crafty student may easily circumvent, undermining any attempts a university s IT department may use to deter piracy. This study explored the nature of piracy prevention tools used by IT departments in the Florida State University System in order to determine their relative effectiveness. The study also looked into the opinions of the Information Security Officer in terms of alternative piracy prevention techniques that do not involve legal action and monitoring. It was found that most institutions do not use a formal piece of software that monitors for infringing data. They also stated that while their current techniques can do its required task, it was not perfected to a point where it could run autonomously. Furthermore, institutions agreed that students lack proper ethics and concern over the matter of copyright, but were not fully convinced that other preventions methods would be effective. The study ultimately considered monitoring techniques a short-term solution and that more research should be put into finding long-term solutions. It also implied that IT departments should be better funded in order to keep up with the technological gap.Ed.D.
Department of Educational Research, Technology and Leadership
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FERREIRA, FERNANDA VILELA. "INFRASTRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY-BASED MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE FIRMS IN BRAZIL." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32962@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROINSTITUTO MILITAR DE ENGENHARIA
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O objetivo da dissertação é contribuir para o avanço do conhecimento sobre a importância das funções da Tecnologia Industrial Básica (TIB) no ciclo de inovação das micro, pequenas e médias empresas (MPMEs) de base tecnológica no Brasil. Reconhecendo que essas empresas têm um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento econômico e social do país, a motivação da pesquisa é responder como elas percebem a importância das funções da TIB para o ciclo de inovação, na perspectiva de ressaltar os benefícios oriundos da consolidação da infraestrutura nacional de serviços tecnológicos de apoio a MPMEs de base tecnológica. A metodologia utilizada compreende: (i) revisão bibliográfica e documental para a elaboração do referencial teórico sobre os temas centrais da dissertação: MPMEs de base tecnológica; TIB; e inovação tecnológica; (ii) definição do objeto de estudo; da fonte primária de dados – Pesquisa de Inovação Tecnológica (PINTEC) do IBGE; e da grade de análise; (iii) solicitação ao IBGE de tabulações especiais da PINTEC; recebimento, formatação e análise dos dados; e elaboração e análise dos resultados; (iv) formulação das conclusões da pesquisa e de sugestões para a próxima PINTEC e estudos futuros. Destacam-se como resultados: (i) identificação de quatro itens da PINTEC diretamente associados às funções da TIB; (ii) análise da percepção das MPMEs brasileiras de base tecnológica sobre a relevância das funções da TIB para a inovação; (iii) análise comparativa dos padrões de respostas das MPMEs de base tecnológica inovadoras e não inovadoras. Como conclusão, tais resultados permitem afirmar que, em geral, essas empresas consideram as funções da TIB relevantes para suas atividades inovativas. A comparação entre as respostas das empresas inovadoras e não inovadoras reforça essa percepção: as inovadoras percebem melhor a importância de algumas funções da TIB do que as não inovadoras.
The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the understanding of some basic infrastructural technologies (TIB acronym in Portuguese) supporting innovation of technology-based micro, small and medium size enterprises (MSMEs) in Brazil. Given the critical role played by these firms in Brazil s social and economic development, the work seeks to answer how they perceive the importance of TIB in their innovation cycle. The methodology comprises: (i) a literature survey to elaborate a theoretical outline to characterize the core subjects of the dissertation: technology-based MSMEs; TIB; and technological innovation; (ii) definition of the object of study, of the primary data source – Technological Innovation Survey (Pesquisa de Inovação Tecnológica-PINTEC), of IBGE (Brazilian Statistical Office), and the analytic framework; (iii) to request IBGE to produce special tabulations; receipt, formatting and analysis of data; and analysis of results; and (iv) formulation of conclusions and suggestions for the next PINTEC survey and for future research. The main results can be summarized as follows: (i) identification of four PINTEC items associated with some TIB functions; (ii) identification and analysis of Brazilian technology-based MSMEs perceptions of the relevance of TIB functions for supporting innovation; and (iii) comparative analysis of patterns of response of innovative and non-innovative technology-based MSMEs. As conclusion, it can be said that, in general, these firms positively respond to TIB functions in innovation cycle. In particular, results show that innovative enterprises perceived better some TIB functions than the non-innovative ones.
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Selamolela, Nokuthula. "The impact of transport infrastruture in the econolic growth of South Africa." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28376.
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This study examines the impact of transport infrastructure on the economic growth of South Africa from the period 1970 to 2015. The researcher adopted a conceptual and theoretical framework related to infrastructure development and economic growth. The Johansen multivariate Co-integration and Granger causality test were adopted, consisting of stationary and directional causality of variables. The findings disclosed a strong unidirectional causality relationship in the long run between economic growth and gross domestic fixed capital formation, which runs from the former to the latter. The results also indicated a causal relationship between economic growth and transport infrastructure in both railway and ports transport. Moreover, there exist links between economic growth and railway transport, which run from the former to the latter. The findings further showed that the correlation between economic growth and ports transport runs from the former to the latter. On the contrary, the findings revealed a non-existence of causal relationship between economic growth and transport infrastructure (roadways and airways), though the theoretical framework demonstrates a link between them. The findings also revealed a non-existence of a causality association between economic growth and transport infrastructure performance. The overall findings demonstrated the existence of a unidirectional causality relationship between economic growth and gross domestic fixed capital formation, and between economic growth and transport infrastructure (both railways and ports transport). Economic growth expands commercial and industrial sectors and as such, there is a need to suggest that transport infrastructure development policies align with it to maintain sustainable economic growth in South Africa.
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Bengtsson, Mattias, and Anders Severinsson. "A study of the need for infrastructural changes due to a runway lengthening at Norrköping airport." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-95272.
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There are only a few larger airports which with a combination of freight and regular passenger air traffic manage to find economic profitability, often due to scale in their activities. Many regional airports in Sweden struggle with financial difficulties due to strong competition on he market and Norrköping Airport is not an exception. In 2006 the municipality of Norrköping overtook the ownership of the Airport from LFV (Swedish Civil Aviation Administration). This change of ownership became reality when LFV presented a request to phase out the airports activities due to low profitability. The municipality and especially the airport manager Mari Torstensson now have to find a way to make the airport profitable in the long run. Due to the airports lack of capacity and other limitations this study is made to determine what infrastructural changes is needed if the passenger- and freight flows are increased. This Master thesis is based on a prestudy of a runway lengthening made by LFV in 2006 and all the results derive from the assumption that the runway lengthening is carried out. The simulation study, made to analyse the passenger flow, tells us that it is possible to have departing flights with the size of Boeing 767-300 (315 PAX) without any major difficulties in check-in or security. This is as long as the number of check-in-queues is balanced with the queue to security. The baggage system has relatively high capacity but demands correct management from both handling agents and the X-ray operator. When an aircraft of that size is arriving to Norrköping airport problems might occur in the baggage claim area or queue to passport control depending on if passport control is necessary or not. With no passport control all passengers will be in baggage claim at the same time which will cause congestion in the passenger flow. Most of the changes will be necessary in baggage claim and the queue area to passport control. To be able to handle air cargo efficiently and according to current regulations extensive investments is necessary. Primarily in areas concerning handling and storing of the goods. Regulations concerning security states that no unauthorized person should have access to goods that are carried by an airplane, something that Norrköping airport today have a problem to fulfil. With the possibility to handle even bigger aircrafts than today the lack of capacity becomes even more obvious and investments in dollies and storage is necessary.Endast ett fåtal större flygplatser har lyckats att med en kombination av flygfrakt och regelbunden flygtrafik finna lönsamhet på den kraftigt konkurrensutsatta marknaden. De flesta mindre flygplatser runt om i landet har idag svårt att bedriva en lönsam verksamhet och Norrköping Flygplats är inget undantag. År 2006 övergick ägandet av flygplatsen till Norrköping kommun efter att tidigare ägaren LFV framfört önskemål om att avveckla verksamheten. Kommunen, med flygplatschefen Mari Torstensson, står nu inför utmaningen att utveckla flygtrafiken för att på sikt försöka få flygplatsen lönsam. Som en del i detta krävs att flygplatsens nuvarande kapacitet undersöks samt vilka investeringar som kan bli aktuella vid såväl ökad passagerartrafik som flygfrakt. Detta examensarbete utgår från en förundersökning om rullbaneförlängning som LVF gjort under 2006. De förutsättningar som en rullbaneförlängning ger används som förutsättningar vid simulering av passagerarflödet på terminalen samt möjlig kapacitet vid flygfrakt. Simuleringen visar att det är fullt möjligt att ha avgående trafik med t.ex. Boeing 767-300 (315 PAX) om antalet check-in-diskar avvägs mot kön i säkerhetskontrollen. Bagagesystemet har hög kapacitet men kräver ett korrekt handhavande från både handlingagenter och röntgenoperatör. Vid ankommande flighter av samma storlek uppstår vissa problem i ankomsthallen. Utan passkontroll kommer samtliga resenärer att befinna sig i ankomsthallen samtidigt vilket skapar stor trängsel. Vid passkontroll blir dock kön dit lång och många tvingas köa utanför terminalbyggnaden vilket inte är att föredra. De största förändringarna krävs således i och i anslutning till ankomsthallen. För att bedriva en effektiv och säker flygfrakt krävs omfattande investeringar. Framförallt i utrymme för hantering och förvaring av godset. Gällande säkerhetsregler gör att flyggods måste förvaras utom åtkomst för obehöriga vilket Norrköping flygplats i dag har svårt att uppfylla. Med möjligheten att hantera tyngre fraktplan än idag blir bristen än mer tydlig och investeringar i bland annat dollies och förvaringsutrymmen är nödvändigt.
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Reiss, Jeffrey. "Student digital piracy in the Florida State University System an exploratory study on its infrastructural effects /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2010. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003131.
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Wareborn, Fredrik. "The Infrastructural Impact on the Swedish Wood Industry : Analysis of profitability, productivity, localization patterns and clustering." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1212.
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In this thesis, I have chosen to analyse the Swedish wood industry and how it has been developing during the last decades. The purpose is to analyse the infrastructural impact on the industrial location patterns and to see to what degree these locational changes can be observed in more or less favourable regions.
Theoretically, all economic activity should take into consideration where to locate the production. This means that the firms should analyse both profits and costs and then consider if they are located in an economically efficient location. If they draw the conclusion from the analysis that their locational situation is not efficient, they should consider relocating production in order to gain higher productivity.
In conclusion, the probability of a firm’s survival in the market, as well as sustaining a positive employment development, is higher in more favourable industrial locations. A more favourable industrial location is a location with a closer proximity to the market or in some cases close proximity to the raw materials used in production.
I den här uppsatsen har jag valt att analysera den svenska trävaruindustrin och dess utveckling under de senaste decennierna. Syftet med analysen är att undersöka den infrastrukturella situationen inom den svenska trävaruindustrin. Har det svenska industriella lokaliseringsmönstret förändrats över tiden, och kan man dessutom se skillnader i omfattning av dessa förändringar i mer eller mindre fördelaktigt lokaliserade regioner.
Teoretiskt sett skulle all ekonomisk verksamhet ta hänsyn till var verksamheten är belägen, d.v.s. företagen kommer att bedöma sina inkomster och utgifter och därefter bedöma om man befinner sig på en ekonomiskt hållbar plats. Kommer man däremot fram till att man inte är effektiv, ska man överväga en ny industriell lokalisering för att kunna öka sin produktivitet.
Slutsatsen som jag dragit är att benägenheten för ett företag att överleva på marknaden såväl som att bibehålla en positiv sysselsättningsutveckling i relation till andra företag inom samma industri är större om företaget är lokaliserat i en mer industriellt fördelaktig region. Med detta menas en region där företagen är mer fördelaktigt lokaliserade i relation till marknaden eller de råmaterial som används i produktionen.
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Walters, Dennis E. "Wagon bridges of the Eastern Cape, c.1840 – 1900 the contribution of engineering to infrastructural development." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63877.
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This thesis examines an aspect of economic and technological history which has been little explored in South African history. It argues that the military subjugation and the economic development of the Cape Colony, and particularly of the Eastern Cape, were contingent upon good transportation. The geography of the country, which included relatively impassable mountains and numerous often flooded rivers, necessitated bridges as well as roads. Both were expensive. As a leader in industrial technology, Britain was well placed to extend bridge-building skills to its colonies. This thesis examines the processes by which a small and undeveloped colony strove to create an efficient technological infrastructure. As wagon traffic increased through progress, delays in crossing rivers became a hindrance leading to agitation for bridges. It will be shown that the construction of wagon bridges over the numerous rivers encountered in the Eastern Cape Colony was imperative for the initial free flow of military forces and for later commercial expansion as new towns were established. The eastward expansion was led by the military during the frontier wars followed by the Royal Engineers who built roads and bridges along the eastern frontier. The new Colonial Secretary John Montagu, who arrived in 1843, boosted the colonial finances by overhauling the administration. He established the Central Road Board, an organisation that would drive the building of mountain passes, roads and bridges. The Public Works Department succeeded the Central Road Board and with the financial intervention of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, carried on with an extensive programme of road and bridge building. From the 1870s wagon bridge building lagged behind the huge railway building enterprise in response to the opening up of the diamond and gold mines. The final quarter of the 19th century saw increased bridge building activity in the Eastern Cape with the construction of many iron lattice girder, stone masonry arch and timber trestle bridges. The surviving bridges remain as mute testimony to the skill and expertise of British engineers such as Lewis, Woodifield, Robinson, Fforde, Wakefield, Berkley, Grier, Newey, Westhoven and others.
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Georgi, Simone, Julia Meyer, and Annika-Valeska Walzel. "Infrastructural funding of digitization and long-term preservation to save the cultural memory of a region." Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A16403.
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To preserve the cultural memory of the Free State of Saxony and to promote the treasures kept in numerous heritage institutions, the government provides additional budget funds to digitize collections of historical importance and outstanding items. The program aims to provide online access to information and objects of cultural and scientific tradition for purposes of research, teaching and for the general public. It is obviously necessary to make historic stocks online available to guarantee the visibility and use in the digital age.
The Saxon State and University Library, Dresden (SLUB) has many years of experience in digitization and offers large digital collections of several media, including books, manuscripts, newspapers and photographs. Smaller libraries and archival institutions very often do not have the necessary infrastructure and resources to accomplish extensive digitization projects. The SLUB uses its long experiences to coordinate the state digitization program and to expand its existing infrastructure for digitization and long-term preservation all over the region. The whole workflow of production and presentation is accomplished with the open source software Kitodo which allows flexible processing of different media types and ensures the transfer to the national aggregator Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB). Also part of the program is the long-term preservation of all digitized material using the existing interface between Kitodo and the SLUBArchiv, which has been expanded to fulfill the growing demands.
After two years a first résumé proofs the success of this strategy. Several special collections are online, the program has helped to build up knowledge in participating institutions, to standardize workflows and to ensure constant high quality of the digital objects.
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Are, Josephine, and Robin Bhola. "Managing misalignments in complex production flows : A way to integrate shared interfaces by adjusting infrastructural decision areas." Thesis, KTH, Industriell Management, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-172363.
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Acceleration of technological development has resulted in increased customer requirements. Momentarily customer demand fluctuates that creates uncertainties, which puts pressure on manufacturing companies to respond and incorporate this into the manufacturing strategy to stay competitive. Additionally, manufacturing companies experience complexities with non-linear production flows that share interfaces. Research in manufacturing strategy is more focused on traditional linear production structures and flows. Thus, the objective of this thesis to analyze integration of shared interfaces between non-linear production flows. Empirical research was conducted in form of a single case study at a production facility of a manufacturing company, to fulfill the thesis objective. The ambition of the case company is to improve the handling of semi-finished products to achieve an increased efficiency. Interviews, observations, analysis in product profiling by Hill et al. (1998) have resulted in that infrastructural misalignments are considered as major aspects affecting integration of shared interfaces. Further, issues regarding the management of infrastructural aspects are found through in-depth interviews, workshop and analysis. Adjustments to these issues have to be considered to achieve an efficient integration of shared interfaces between production flows. This thesis contributes within the area of manufacturing strategy and infrastructural decision areas. A contribution within this area is the extension of the product profiling framework usage with a comparative analysis of production flows with the considered dimension of shared interfaces. The comparative analysis showed that there were misalignments between aspects that were shared interfaces in the complex production flows. Furthermore, integration of shared interfaces is seen as a way for manufacturing companies to decrease production complexity and increase responsiveness to respond to market requirements.En ökad takt av teknisk utveckling har lett till ökade kundkrav. Samtidigt förändras kundernas efterfrågan kontinuerligt, och skapar en osäkerhet. Detta ställer krav på tillverkande företag att reagera och anpassa sin tillverkningsstrategi efter osäkerheter, för att behålla konkurrenskraft. Dessutom kan tillverkande företag uppleva en komplexitet med icke-linjära produktionsflöden som delar gränssnitt. Tidigare forskning inom tillverkningsstrategi är mer fokuserad på traditionella linjära produktionsstrukturer och flöden. Följaktligen är syftet med denna studie är att analysera integrationen av delade gränssnitt mellan icke-traditionella produktionsflöden. För att uppnå syftet har en empirisk studie i form av en fallstudie utförts. Fallstudien innefattade en produktionsanläggning i ett tillverkande företag. Det tillverkande företagets ambition var att förbättra hanteringen av halvfabrikatsprodukter för att uppnå en ökad effektivitet. Intervjuer, observationer och analys genom produktprofilering av Hill et al. (1998) har resulterat i att avvikelser inom de infrastrukturella aspekterna påvisats som de aspekter som påverkar en integrationen av de delade gränssnitten. Vidare har djupintervjuer, workshop och analys resulterat i påvisade problem i hanteringen av de infrastrukturella aspekterna. Justeringar av dessa problem behöver övervägas för att uppnå en effektiv integration av delade gränssnitt mellan produktionsflöden. Denna studie bidrar inom området tillverkningsstrategi och beslutsområdet infrastruktur. Ett bidrag inom detta område är en förlängning av användningsområdet av produktprofilering-ramverket genom en jämförande analys av produktionsflöden, med den ytterligare dimensionen av delade gränssnitt. Den jämförande analysen påvisar skillnader mellan de aspekter som är delade gränssnitt i de komplexa produktionsflödena. Denna studie bidrar därför till forskning i tillverkningsstrategi av icke-traditionella produktionsflöden. Dessutom ses integrationen av delade gränssnitt som ett sätt för tillverkande företag att minska komplexiteten i produktionen och öka lyhördheten att möta marknadens krav.
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Van, Dreason Eric. "Between landschaft and landskip : examining the landscape urbanism discourse through post-infrastructural open space projects in Berlin." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118199.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 82-86).
This research examines how post-infrastructural open space has been approached in contemporary design practice using three urban parks in Berlin as sites for investigation: Tempelhofer Feld, Park am Gleisdreieck, and Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände. These sites are analyzed in juxtaposition with the discourse around "landscape urbanism," as these projects' timelines are dispersed across the beginning, rise, and plateau of that movement. First, I have tracked how landscape urbanism has been discussed in the literature since its coinage -- what terms are used most frequently within the discourse and in what manner, which projects are most often called upon to illustrate central themes, and what theoretical building blocks are used in support of the concept. I then pull out specific themes prevalent in the literature that help to construct a method for analyzing the three aforementioned open spaces: how the historically dichotomized conceptions of "urban" and "nature" are approached in each space by examining edge conditions in relation to their surrounding urban fabric, how time and process are considered in each site's staging of new programmatic interventions, and how the sites incorporate elements of previous infrastructural use, including relics and ruins. This section contains a series of drawings, diagrams, and annotated photographs illustrating this analysis, along with experiential observations and timelines describing the development process in each sites transformation from infrastructure to open space. The critique explores how the theoretical discourse around landscape urbanism has engaged built projects and why such an examination is critical as the larger discipline continues to evolve and reorient.
by Eric Van Dreason.
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