Dissertations / Theses: 'Technology Resource'

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Konchenko, Ekaterina. "Resource saving technology in metallurgy." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2007. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/12836.

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The consumption of coal and coke in the blast furnace is met on the one hand by the market or on the other hand by the own production. It depends on the conditions of the market and the availability of production facilities. World-wide the production of hot metal and crude steel via the blast furnace/converter route is regarded as the dominant process line also in future. Consequently, after their successes in the past, the ironmaking and steelmaking industry have joined their efforts with the cokemaking industry to exploit still more development potentials for hot metal production. When you are citing the document, use the following link http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/12836

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Nopparat, Nanond, and Babak Kianian. "Resource Consumption of Additive Manufacturing Technology." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3919.

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The degradation of natural resources as a result of consumption to support the economic growth of humans society represents one of the greatest sustainability challenges. In order to allow economic growth to continue in a sustainable way, it has to be decoupled from the consumption and destruction of natural resources. This thesis focuses on an innovative manufacturing technology called additive manufacturing (AM) and its potential to become a more efficient and cleaner manufacturing alternative. The thesis also investigates the benefits of accessing the technology through the result-oriented Product-Service Systems (PSS) approach. The outcome of the study is the quantification of raw materials and energy consumption. The scope of study is the application of AM in the scale model kit industry. The methods used are the life cycle inventory study and the system dynamics modeling. The result shows that AM has higher efficiency in terms of raw material usage, however it also has higher energy consumption in comparison to the more traditional manufacturing techniques. The result-oriented PSS approach is shown to be able to reduce the amount of manufacturing equipment needed, thus reducing the energy and raw materials used to produce the equipment, but does not completely decouple economic growth from the consumption of natural resources.

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Grabbe, Mårten. "Marine Current Energy Conversion : Resource and Technology." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala University, Electricity, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-113365.

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Grabbe, Mårten. "Hydro-Kinetic Energy Conversion : Resource and Technology." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Elektricitetslära, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-195942.

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The kinetic energy present in tidal currents and other water courses has long been appreciated as a vast resource of renewable energy. The work presented in this doctoral thesis is devoted to both the characteristics of the hydro-kinetic resource and the technology for energy conversion. An assessment of the tidal energy resource in Norwegian waters has been carried out based on available data in pilot books. More than 100 sites have been identified as interesting with a total estimated theoretical resource—i.e. the kinetic energy in the undisturbed flow—in the range of 17 TWh. A second study was performed to analyse the velocity distributions presented by tidal currents, regulated rivers and unregulated rivers. The focus is on the possible degree of utilization (or capacity factor), the fraction of converted energy and the ratio of maximum to rated velocity, all of which are believed to be important characteristics of the resource affecting the economic viability of a hydro-kinetic energy converter. The concept for hydro-kinetic energy conversion studied in this thesis comprises a vertical axis turbine coupled to a directly driven permanent magnet generator. One such cable wound laboratory generator has been constructed and an experimental setup for deployment in the river Dalälven has been finalized as part of this thesis work. It has been shown, through simulations and experiments, that the generator design at hand can meet the system requirements in the expected range of operation. Experience from winding the prototype generators suggests that improvements of the stator slot geometry can be implemented and, according to simulations, decrease the stator weight by 11% and decrease the load angle by 17%. The decrease in load angle opens the possibility to reduce the amount of permanent magnetic material in the design.

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Wyeth, Peta. "Electronic blocks : a new resource for technology education /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17576.pdf.

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Keeley, Peter Michael. "Sustainable resource management via D.C. thermal plasma technology." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8107/.

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The recovery of metals from secondary resources is increasing to alleviate supply risks associated with primary sources. Thermal plasma is widely used for platinum group metal recovery from automotive catalysts, but the mixing of various catalyst types makes their processing difficult. It was found that it was possible to separate silicon carbide based catalysts from cordierite based catalysts by a combination of magnetic and electrostatic separation processes resulting in a cordierite fraction of over 98 % purity, which would result in a more consistent feed material to the plasma process enhancing metal recovery. The flexibility of plasma means that the operational conditions in the furnace can be controlled to suit the chemistry of less noble metals such as rhenium and drive gas phase reactions. The technology was used to recover platinum and rhenium from spent petrochemical catalysts via a novel pyrometallurgical process with over 98 % recovery efficiencies of both metals. The plasma process produces a large amount of slag as a by-product which can be used in higher value applications to avoid waste and improve business models. Plasma derived slag was shown to be an effective, low carbon cement replacement which can potentially obtain a market value of £50/tonne.

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Harding, Rebecca Adrienne. "Technology and human resource strategy in their national context." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259960.

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Harrison, Ruth Evelyn Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "GIS as an enabling technology: a natural resource example." Ottawa, 1994.

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Lindblom, Johannes. "Resource Allocation on the MISO Interference Channel." Licentiate thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Communication Systems, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-55102.

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The need for wireless communications has increased during the last decades. To increase the data rates of the communication links there is a need of allocating larger frequency bands. These bands are strictly regulated and the majority of the frequencies are allocated to licensed systems. The splitting of the bandwidth is orthogonal, which mean that the different systems are not interfering each other. But, orthogonal splitting is inefficient since it does not exploit all degrees of freedom in the wireless channels.

There are also unlicensed bands where different systems co-exist and operate simultaneously in a non-orthogonal manner and interfere each other. This interference degrades the performance of each system. This motivates the use of so-called spectrum sharing techniques for interference management.

The spectrum sharing can be modeled via the so-called interference channel (IFC). This consists of at least two transmitter (TX)-receiver (RX) pairs. These pairs can share resources such as frequency, time, power, code, or space. Here, the focus is on the sharing of spatial resources. By employing multiple antennas at the TXs, spatial diversity is obtained and it is possible to steer the power in any spatial direction. Assuming a single antenna at each RX we get the so-called multiple-input single-output (MISO) IFC.

There is a conflict inherent in the IFC since the TX-RX pairs optimize conflicting objectives, e.g., the data rates. To analyze this conflict we use game-theoretic concepts. In general, the situation where the TXs transmit in the directions which are optimal for their objective is inefficient. That is, it is possible increase all rates of some (or all) TX-RX pairs without decreasing the rate of any of the pairs. To do so, the TXs change their strategies such that interference is decreased.

We define several rate regions, which depend on the channel model and channelstate information at the transmitters. Also, some of the most important game-theoretic operating points are described.

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Eden, Robert David. "Water hyacinth as an energy resource." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1993. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/104807/.

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Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes, (Mart) Solms), a floating aquatic plant, has long been recognised as a potential commercial resource but, despite many attempts, its conversion from a nuisance into an asset has not been achieved on a significant scale. The thesis is an analysis and assessment of the options for overcoming the many difficulties encountered in the use of water hyacinth. Following a literature survey, from which a process flow path for optimum use of water hyacinth is devised, the thesis leads to an evaluation of the key components of the proposed system for use of water hyacinth as a large-scale energy resource. The principle component of a system to produce energy from water hyacinth is the anaerobic digester. Trials with high-rate anaerobic digesters were conducted in Bangladesh and Thailand. In Bangladesh, with the assistance of senior personnel from the Department of Chemistry of Dhaka University, an 8.3 cubic metre, multi-stage, upflow anaerobic digester was built within the grounds of the Housing and Building Research Institute in Dhaka. Trials with this unit, and associated laboratory work, demonstrated and quantified both the need and the scope for pre-treatment of raw water hyacinth prior to anaerobic digestion. Initial experimentation in Bangladesh laid down the foundations for an understanding of water hyacinth and led to the experimental programme performed in Thailand. In Thailand, following an extensive search and selection of suitable juicing apparatus, a series of batch reactors were run with juice made from separate parts of the whole plant. These results were compared with each other and with a reactor running on juice made from whole plant. The conclusion drawn from this experimentation was that, when mechanically pre-treated, the root section of the plant will contribute more to gas production than will the stem portion. In many previous trials the root has been discarded because of its resistance to anaerobic digestion in a raw form. A multi-stage upflow anaerobic digester was conceived with inclined weir plates, intended to resist blocking of the flow paths by insoluble solids in water hyacinth juice. A series of four of these units were built on a laboratory scale and trials carried out over a period of one month. These trials demonstrated that the proposal to juice water hyacinth prior to low-solids, high-rate anaerobic digestion is one that is technically feasible. The final sections of the thesis use an economic model of the proposed system to conclude that small-scale (3 m3 biogas per day) and medium- scale (1,000 m3 biogas per day) utilisation of water hyacinth will be difficult to achieve in a commercial setting. Large-scale (above 100,000 m3 biogas per day) utilisation of water hyacinth, however, is concluded to be of significant commercial potential.

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Pope, Ellis Abel. "Integrating technology into a grade five resource-based weather unit." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0029/MQ47468.pdf.

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Zisiadis, Miltiadis. "Human Resource Management with Information Technology: A Systematic Literature Review." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-105023.

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Information Technology (IT) systems have greatly impacted organizations and HumanResource Management (HRM) is no exception. In this context, IT is often introduced withthe rationale that it could offer benefits such as cost reduction, time savings and strategictransformation. Many organizations have invested in e-HRM systems in hope oftransforming the Human Resource department (HR) into a strategic ally. Extant research,however, shows that many organizations fail to achieve intended effects from their ITinvestments and as result beliefs around the strategic value of e-HRM vary. This thesisaims to critically examine the link between e-HRM investments and strategic value. To thisend, we ask the following research question: “why does E-HRM systems fail to effectuate astrategic transformation of the HR department given their perceived capabilities to thecontrary? “. To answer this question we conducted a systematic literature review of e-HRMresearch published between 2009-2014. The review focused on perceptions about e-HRMsystems within organizations and sought to unearth how perceptions shape the route of ITimplementation towards a strategy outcome. Our findings indicate that the majority of thestudies are not guided by a leading theoretical paradigm. Furthermore strategic barrierssuch as implementation problems and limited use of the system that does not reflect itspotential are identified and discussed. By examining some common factors that have beenidentified to shape the translation of e-HRM systems from initial perception to actualizeduse we lay the foundation for more nuanced theorizing of HRM use within contemporaryorganizations.

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Fleck, Vivian Christine. "Growth and human resource management in small high technology companies." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292782.

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Koch, Jeremy W. "Paleoindian Chronology, Technology, and Lithic Resource Procurement at Nesquehoning Creek." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/462184.

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Anthropology
Ph.D.
Nesquehoning Creek (36CR142) is a stratified, multicomponent site situated on a late Wisconsin age terrace in Lehigh Gorge State Park, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Cultural occupations represented at Nesquehoning Creek include Colonial (late 17th-early 18th century); Late, Middle, and Early Woodland; Transitional, Late, Middle and Early Archaic; and Paleoindian. The Paleoindian component is deeply buried, contextually secure, and produced a Crowfield fluted point with associated radiocarbon dates of 12,422 ± 164, 12,255 ± 177, and 11,398 ± 110 cal BP. This dissertation focuses on: 1) assessing the Paleoindian occupation history at Nesquehoning Creek, 2) analyzing the organization of Paleoindian lithic technology, and 3) examining Paleoindian residential mobility patterns in the Middle Atlantic and Northeast regions. The history of research at Nesquehoning Creek, Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene environmental data, and Paleoindian culture history are reviewed in order to provide background information. By examining the stratigraphy and geomorphology at the Nesquehoning Creek site, this study was able to propose a model of landscape evolution and determine excavation areas with the greatest potential for stratified Paleoindian occupations. A lithic refitting and artifact distribution analysis of these excavation areas was able to identify a single Crowfield Paleoindian occupation zone. The Crowfield component lithic assemblage displayed production and reduction strategies similar to Clovis and later Paleoindian complexes. Lithic raw material types represented in the Crowfield toolkit suggest a relatively small territorial range on the order of 50 km. An evaluation of Early and Late Paleoindian residential mobility patterns in the Middle Atlantic and Northeast showed continuity in the relative occupation span of sites from both periods. This suggests that although Late Paleoindian groups had smaller territorial ranges, they appear to have moved from site to site within those territories about as frequently as Early Paleoindians in the Middle Atlantic and Northeast regions. Detailed analysis of contextually secure Paleoindian assemblages are crucial to identifying similarities and differences between archaeological complexes. This research demonstrates the importance of lithic refitting studies in the assessment of stratified, multicomponent archaeological sites. Detailed examination of the Crowfield lithic assemblage improved our understanding of Paleoindian technological organization in the Middle Atlantic region. The evaluation of Paleoindian residential mobility patterns has complimented previous studies and presented data that may be updated and reassessed in the future.
Temple University--Theses

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Schwind, Michael. "Dynamic pricing and automated resource allocation for complex information services : reinforcement learning and combinatorial auctions /." Berlin : Springer, 2007. http://www.netlibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=197100.

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Karvonen, Niklas. "Activity recognition in resource-constrained pervasive systems." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Datavetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26136.

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There is an increasing need for personalised and context-aware services in our everyday lives and we rely on mobile and wearable devices to provide such services. Data collected from these devices includes important information about users’ movements, locations, physiological status, and environment. This data can be analysed in order to recognise users’ activities and thus provide contextual information for services. Such activity recognition is an important tool for personalising and adapting assistive services and thereby increasing the usefulness of them.This licentiate thesis focuses on three important aspects for activity recognition usingwearable, resource constrained, devices in pervasive services. Firstly, it is investigated how to perform activity recognition unobtrusively by using a single tri-axial accelerometer. This involves finding the best combination of sensor placement and machine learning algorithm for the activities to be recognized. The best overall placement was found to be on the wrist using the random forest algorithm for detecting Strong-Light, Free-Bound and Sudden-Sustained movement activities belonging to the Laban Effort Framework.Secondly, this thesis proposes a novel machine learning algorithm suitable for resource-constrained devices commonly found in wearable and pervasive systems. The proposed algorithm is computationally inexpensive, parallelizable, has a small memory footprint, and is suitable for implementation in hardware. Due to this, it can reduce battery usage, increase responsiveness, and also make it possible to distribute the machine learning task, which enables balancing computational costs against data traffic costs. The proposed algorithm is shown to have a comparable accuracy to that of more advanced machine learning algorithms mainly for datasets with two classes.Thirdly, activity recognition is applied in a personalised and pervasive service for im-proving health and wellbeing. Two monitoring prototypes and one coaching prototype were proposed for achieving positive behaviour change. The three prototypes were evaluated in a user workshop with 12 users aging between 20 and 60. Participants of the workshop believed that the proposed health and wellbeing app is something people are likely to use on a permanent basis.By applying results from this thesis, systems can be made more energy efficient andless obtrusive while still maintaining a high activity recognition accuracy. It also shows that pervasive and wearable systems using activity recognition have the potential of relieving some problems in health and wellbeing that society face today.
Godkänd; 2015; 20151021 (nikkar); Nedanstående person kommer att hålla licentiatseminarium för avläggande av teknologie licentiatexamen. Namn: Niklas Karvonen Ämne: Distribuerade datorsystem/Pervasive Mobile Computing Uppsats: Activity Recognition in Resource-Constrained Pervasive Systems Examinator: Professor Kåre Synnes, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik Avdelning: Datavetenskap, Luleå tekniska universitet Diskutant: Professor Chris Nugent, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland Tid: Tisdag 15 december 2015 kl 15.00 Plats: D770, Luleå tekniska universitet

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Eriksson, Kristoffer. "Dynamic Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks." Thesis, Linköping University, Communication Systems, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-56776.

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In this thesis we investigate different algorithms for dynamic resource allocation in wireless networks. We introduce a general framework for modeling systems whichis applicable to many scenarios. We also analyze a specific scenario with adaptivebeamforming and show how it fits into the proposed framework. We then studytwo different resource allocation problems: Quality-of-Service (QoS) constraineduser scheduling and sum-rate maximization. For user scheduling, we select some“good” set of users that is allowed to use a specific resource. We investigatedifferent algorithms with varying complexities. For the sum-rate maximizationwe find the global optimum through an algorithm that takes advantage of thestructure of the problem by reformulating it as a D.C. program, i.e., a minimizationover a difference of convex functions. We validate this approach by showing that itis more efficient than an exhaustive search at exploring the space of solutions. Thealgorithm provides a good benchmark for more suboptimal algorithms to comparewith. The framework in which we construct the algorithm, apart from being verygeneral, is also very flexible and can be used to implement other low complexitybut suboptimal algorithms.

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Lalander, Emilia. "Modelling the hydrokinetic energy resource for in-stream energy converters." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala University, Electricity, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-113597.

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Hydrokinetic energy, referring to the energy contained in moving water, is a renewable energy source that has gained much attention the past years. The energy is found in all moving water masses, but is only economical to convert for water masses moving with high velocity, i.e. likely around 1 m/s and above. This energy can for example be found in tidal, ocean and river currents which flow through narrow straits and channels. Along the west coast of Norway, there are many sites where kinetic energy conversion would be possible due to the strong current present. The driving force behind the currents is the tidal wave that progresses northward along the coast and increases in strength. The models that so far have been used for estimating the resource in Norway have been shown to be uncertain since they do not account for the fact that the velocities and the water levels are altered when energy is extracted. These effects can be simulated with numerical models. A channel in the Dal river, the Söderfors channel, is situated downstream a hydropower plant and was simulated with the numerical model MIKE. The water level alteration due to turbines was simulated. It was shown to be a lot less than the water level alteration caused by the level change in the downstream lake. Velocity profiles measured at several different locations were used to estimate how the power coefficient was changed. Four turbine configurations were studied and it was shown that changes in the power coefficient were prominent only for a vertical shear profile with a strong gradient. At the Division of Electricity, studies have been conducted on how to convert hydrokinetic energy to electricity since 2003. The main idea has been to use a system that limits the need for maintenance. The concept studied is a vertical axis turbine directly coupled to a permanent magnet generator. The Söderfors channel has, due to aspects such as the flow properties and velocity, been chosen as a site for an experimental station.

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Elkotob, Muslim. "Efficient and systematic network resource management." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Datavetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-17190.

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The demand for network resources (e.g. forwarding capacity, buffer space) by increasingly used real-time multimedia applications is growing. Moreover, their stringent performance requirements (e.g. delay and jitter bounds) pose challenges on network resource management (RM). RM determines how available resources are modeled and distributed to achieve a performance goal such as assuring forwarding quality to real-time multimedia applications. Improvements to existing RM mechanisms can avoid performance limitations of networks by facilitating more efficient use of scarce resources. For example, in a vehicular to infrastructure (V2I) communication scenario that uses IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) lacking RM support for multicast, the 3G downlink quickly becomes a bottleneck although some information is addressed to multiple receivers. The main goal of this thesis is to develop RM algorithms and protocols that improve forwarding capacity utilization and remove performance bottlenecks. An additional goal is to improve the scalability of existing RM mechanisms. Three architectural paradigms are covered to demonstrate the advantages of efficient and systematic network RM: open access networks (OAN), next generation networks (NGN), and heterogeneous access networks (HAN). For OAN, a cross-layer signaling technique called parameter injection was developed. It reduces the signaling overhead and update time for real-time multimedia sessions over Wi-Fi while autonomously selecting the format and CODEC that best match the current resource settings. Within NGN, a resource management protocol is proposed for extending unicast signaling in IMS with multicast capabilities. The contribution uses adaptive and dynamic group size selection to improve resource utilization on the 3G downlink for the signaling and data planes. For HAN, an algorithm is proposed that predicts the best access network for achieving the highest QoE of a real-time multimedia session with the available QoS resources based on regression and statistical learning. In all three paradigms, the provided core contributions serve the common goal of achieving a performance edge in terms of efficiency and systematic operation with a limited amount of network resources.

Godkänd; 2011; 20110207 (ysko); DISPUTATION Nedanstående person kommer att disputera för avläggande av teknologie doktorsexamen. Namn: Muslim Elkotob Ämnesområde: Mobila system/Mobile Systems Avhandling: Efficient and Systematic Network Resource Management Opponent: Professor Anna Brunström, Institutionen för datavetenskap, Karlstads universitet Ordförande: Docent Christer Åhlund, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, Luleå tekniska universitet Tid: Fredag den 18 mars 2011, kl 10.00 Plats: A1514, Luleå tekniska universitet

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Brodhun, Carl Phillip. "Prioritization of Information Assurance (IA) technology in a resource constrained environment." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2001. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion.exe/01Dec%5FBrodhun.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Information Technology Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2001.
Thesis Advisor(s): Cynthia E. Irvine, Raymond R. Buettner, William J. Haga. "December 2001." Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-100). Also available in print.

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Feldman, Anna. "Portable language technology a resource-light approach to morpho-syntactic tagging /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1153344391.

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Chepko, Ariane (Ariane Brooke). "Technology selection and architecture optimization of in-situ resource utilization systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50605.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).
This paper discusses an approach to exploring the conceptual design space of large-scale, complex electromechanical systems that are technologically immature. A modeling framework that addresses the fluctuating architectural landscape (an inherent feature of developing technology systems) is applied to the design of a lunar in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) oxygen plant. Four optimization methods using genetic algorithms are compared on both a quadratic-based test function and the ISRU plant design with the goal of balancing the resources spent on exploiting individual architectures and exploring a broad selection of architectures. These include two dual-level approaches that address the discrete architecture design space differently from the continuous sizing design space and two combinatorial approaches that address both the discrete and continuous simultaneously. It was found that the single-level, combinatorial approaches worked better on the real-world ISRU case study, providing a balance between computation time spent on optimizing sizing and performance of each architecture and time spent searching a large number of architectures. For the ISRU architecture search, the single-level approaches on average covered ~300 architectures with ~5000 function evaluations. A heuristic-based dual-level approach covered ~266 architectures with ~5,500 function evaluations.
(cont.) A nested dual-level approach with gradient-based optimization of internal continuous variables nested within a heuristic search of discrete architecture variables would have required on the order of 300,000 function evaluations. The ISRU plant architecture search found that a 300 kg mass ISRU oxygen plant can produce around 1500 kg O₂/year, which is about the amount needed to sustain a crew of four for one year on the lunar surface. These preliminary results also indicate that ISRU plants exhibit an economy of scale of .78, implying that fewer, larger plants would be less costly than many smaller plants in building up a high production capacity.
by Ariane Chepko.
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Feldman, Anna. "Portable language technology: a resource-light approach to morpho-syntactic taggin." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1153344391.

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Angell, Mark S. "Technology integration through teacher empowerment : a teacher's resource web page project /." [Rohnert Park, Calif.], 2002. http://riebli.mwusd.k12.ca.us.

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Aslam, Haris Bin. "An Analysis Framework for Distributed Resource-Aware Scheduling in Multicore Architectures." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-90229.

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The most signi cant challenge in using platform based designs is to optimally map a set of communicating tasks on the available set of resources, which are present in the form of processing units and communication channels. Additional levels of challenges arise in multicore platforms when considering shared resources that are competed for access by multiple tasks, mapped on possibly different processing units. Thus, subtle changes in the choice of scheduling algorithms, resource access mechanisms and blocking methods have significant effects on the overall behavior of the system. This thesis proposes a simulation based approach, in the form of an analysis framework, to visualize the effects of shared resources on the overall behavior of the system. The early analysis is done before the cycle accurate system design, and thus disallowing any late changes in the system design flow. Scheduling algorithms, resource access mechanisms and blocking methods are treated as orthogonal concerns, hence allowing much greater exibility to the system architect. The proposed framework allows semaphore-based shared resources as well as nested resource accesses. Moreover, it also allows the addition of new scheduling algorithms, resource access mechanisms, blocking methods and even new orthogonal concerns. The proposed framework is evaluated in terms of expressiveness, usability and extensibility. The main limitation of the proposed framework is the consideration of only the type of shared resources which are located outside any processing unit.

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Liu, Dongyu. "Efficient resource management for heterogeneous devices accessing Internet streaming content." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/5633.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2009.
Vita: p. 127. Thesis director: Songqing Chen. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-126). Also issued in print.

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Hou, Yuen Tan. "Resource management in multimedia communication systems." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2003. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/478.

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Koster, David. "An evaluation of information technology resources and capabilities that influences the customer service process using resource based view theory." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6411.

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Gallopin, Gary G. "Water Storage Technology at Tikal, Guatemala." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1299605660.

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Tobler, Gabriel, and Josefsson Simon. "Product Modularity and its Effect on Resource Efficiency." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-216772.

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Elkotob, Muslim. "Autonomic resource management in IEEE 802.11 open access networks." Licentiate thesis, Luleå : Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 2008. http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1757/2008/38/.

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Villiger, Daniel Edouard. "Information technology and human resource management : a case study of organizational learning." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14537.

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Harris, La Verne Abe. "Dancing with dragons: Social construction of technology during times of resource stress." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290071.

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Today, struggles of higher education--technological change and organizational change--are like dragons--somewhat unpredictable, mystical, altering everyone and everything in its path. Managing technology and the restructuring of the organization is like dancing with dragons. Within the science and technology studies literature, scholars have developed sociotechnological perspectives that are useful for addressing the framing of technology during these fiscally-challenging times for universities. A close look at this literature reveals that Weibe Bijker and Robert J. Thomas have deemed technology worthy of sociological inquiry. These scholars believe that technical artifacts are not neutral, but constructed by older technologies, economic choice, politics, and social factors. This study examines social perceptions of technical artifacts during times of resource stress, specifically how it affects academic support technologists. It addresses the forces that drive and shape electrophotography processes and streaming media in an academic setting. I hope to contribute to the body of knowledge by evaluating electrophotography and streaming media as technical artifacts in higher education, identifying their adoption, implementation, and embeddedness in an organization. By exposing the deep relationship between a technical system and a social system, my intent is to create a link between the philosophy of technology as an intellectual construct and the social framing of a technical artifact.

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Leung, Philip, and Daniel Svensson. "SecuRES: Secure Resource Sharing System : AN INVESTIGATION INTO USE OF PUBLIC LEDGER TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE DECENTRALIZED DIGITAL RESOURCE-SHARING SYSTEMS." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-187348.

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The project aims at solving the problem of non-repudiation, integrity and confidentiality of data when digitally exchanging sensitive resources between parties that need to be able to trust each other without the need for a trusted third party. This is done in the framework of answering to what extent digital resources can be shared securely in a decentralized public ledger-based system compared to trust-based alternatives. A background of existing resource sharing solutions is explored which shows an abundance third party trust-based systems, but also an interest in public ledger solutions in the form of the Storj network which uses such technology, but focuses on storage rather than sharing. The proposed solution, called SecuRES, is a communication protocol based on public ledger technology which acts similar to Bitcoin. A prototype based on the protocol has been implemented which proves the ability to share encrypted files with one or several recipients through a decentralized public ledger-based network. It was concluded that the SecuRES solution could do away with the requirement of trust in third parties for all but some optional operations using external authentication services. This is done while still maintaining data integrity of a similar or greater degree to trust-based solutions and offers the additional benefits of non-repudiation, high confidentiality and high transparency from the ability to make source code and protocol documentation openly available without endangering the system. Further research is needed to investigate whether the system can scale up for widespread adoption while maintaining security and reasonable performance requirements.
Projektet ämnar lösa problemen med oförnekbarhet, integritet och konfidentialitet när man delar känsligt data mellan parter som behöver lita på varandra utan inblanding av betrodd tredje part. Detta diskuteras för att besvara till vilken omfattning digitala resurser kan delas säkert i ett decentraliserat system baserat på publika liggare jämfört med existerande tillitsbaserade alternativ. En undersökning av nuvarande resursdelningslösningar visar att det existerar många tillitsbaserade system men även en växande andel lösningar baserade på publika liggare. En intressant lösning som lyfts fram är Storj som använder sådan teknologi men fokuserar på resurslagring mer är delning. Projektets föreslagna lösning, kallad SecuRES, är ett kommunikationsprotokoll baserat på en publik liggare likt Bitcoin. En prototyp baserad på protokollet har tagits fram som visar att det är möjligt att dela krypterade filer med en eller flera mottagare genom ett decentraliserat nätverk baserat på publika liggare. Slutsatsen som dras är att SecuRES klarar sig utan betrodda tredje parter för att dela resurser medan vissa operationer kan göras mer användarvänliga genom externa autentiseringstjänster. Själva lösningen garanterar integritet av data och medför ytterligare fördelar såsom oförnekbarhet, konfidentialitet och hög transparens då man kan göra källkoden och protocoldokumentation fritt läsbar utan att utsätta systemet för fara. Vidare forskning behövs för att undersöka om systemet kan skalas upp för allmän användning och alltjämt bibehålla säkerhets- samt prestandakrav.

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Mendoza, Diaz Noemi Veronica. "Perceived consequences and concerns in the diffusion of Internet2 at Texas A&M University." Thesis, [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1101.

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Stein, Oliver. "Intelligent Resource Management for Large-scale Data Stream Processing." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-391927.

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With the increasing trend of using cloud computing resources, the efficient utilization of these resources becomes more and more important. Working with data stream processing is a paradigm gaining in popularity, with tools such as Apache Spark Streaming or Kafka widely available, and companies are shifting towards real-time monitoring of data such as sensor networks, financial data or anomaly detection. However, it is difficult for users to efficiently make use of cloud computing resources and studies show that a lot of energy and compute hardware is wasted. We propose an approach to optimizing resource usage in cloud computing environments designed for data stream processing frameworks, based on bin packing algorithms. Test results show that the resource usage is substantially improved as a result, with future improvements suggested to further increase this. The solution was implemented as an extension of the HarmonicIO data stream processing framework and evaluated through simulated workloads.

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Costa, Matteo. "Resource energy efficiency measures for retail sector in Azerbaijan." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-264251.

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The thesis work is part of a larger project financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and awarded by RINA Consulting S.p.A.. Azeri Retail will receive the loan from EBRD in order to refurbish its six new acquisitions in Baku, Azerbaijan. Azeri Retail considers the current Fresco format store a good technological and structural level, therefore Azeri Retail would like to replicate this state also for the new acquisitions. The thesis objective is to understand and analyse the current energy efficiency state and consequently propose some resource efficiency measures in order to replicate this new format for the new acquisitions to have a lower carbon footprint compared to the existing supermarkets belonging to the same brand. The thesis project is an energy audit comprising analysis of historical data, site visit to current Azeri Retail’s stores and consequent proposal of energy saving measures to be applied to the new acquisitions. In order to do this, three case studies have been developed: ATL, Project and REM. The first step has been the literature review about the energy utilization and carbon footprint of the retails sector, past energy audits, current and future policy framework in Azerbaijan. During this phase, it turned out that Azerbaijan doesn’t have a dedicated law for energy efficiency and therefore the construction phase doesn’t consider energy efficiency a primary target. Furthermore, in average the refrigerators represent the 40% of the total energy consumption of the supermarket. The site visit in Baku highlighted huge differences between the two brands’ buildings owned by Azeri Retail: Fresco brand belongs to high structural and technological level supermarkets, while Sebet doesn’t have any insulation on the envelope and the technical equipment is rather old. Microsoft Excel have been used in order to create the tool to perform the calculations. The thermal losses considered are the transmission losses, due to the building envelope, and the ventilation losses, due to the temperature difference between the exhaust indoor air and outdoor air. The internal gains are included in the model, in particular occupancy and solar loads. Furthermore, every case study considers different technical equipment according to what it is representing. All three built case studies refer to the geometry of the Fresco 2 building, since the comparison is more valuable if the buildings considered have similar geometry and activity inside. The ultimate aim of the modelling phase is to achieve good savings through measures in the REM case, since it is supposed to represent a useful list of saving measures to carry out during the actual refurbishment of the new stores. The measures proposed are: refurbishment of the envelope, purchase of a heat recovery heat exchanger, the exploitation of daylight through solar tubes and installation of LED bulbs, the refurbishment of cold rooms and the installation of double air curtains in the open refrigerated display cabinets. Great and positive results have been achieved during the modelling phase: ➢ Fresco stores can show very good structural properties and technological equipment and for this reason, each saving measures is additional to the already existing Fresco’s buildings status. ➢ Although Fresco stores’ buildings are better than Sebet stores’ ones and better than average practice in Azerbaijan, huge savings have been identified and this means that the new acquisitions could perform even better than the existing ones, mostly considering medium-low cost measures. The report closes with the overall comparison between the three case studies’ energy consumption and international benchmarks about food driven retails.

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Cook, Casey J. "EXPLORING THE USE OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCE IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS OF NORTHWEST OHIO." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1143487641.

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Kurdziolek, Margaret Angela. "Classroom resources and impact on learning." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28687.

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In the past, educators and policy makers believed that by providing more resources they could directly improve student-learning outcomes. To their frustration, this turns out not to be entirely true. Resources may be necessary but they are not sufficient. Resources themselves are not self-enacting, that is, they do not make change inevitable. Differences in their effects depend on differences in their use. This is also true in the case of educational technologies. As developers of these technologies we need to understand how resources fit within the classroom environment as enacted and how they can be effectively used to increase student learning. I report on four case studies conducted within the context of the Scaling-Up SimCalc study. In the study, â treatmentâ teachers were given a set of new resources to use: a combination of curriculum, educational software, and teacher professional development. â Delayed treatmentâ (control) teachers were asked to use their usual curriculum. Year-one study results demonstrated by randomized controlled testing the successful use of technology in class settings; however, there was little information on how the students and teachers actually interacted with the resources. Case study classrooms were selected to examine the effects of variation of computational resource arrangements: one utilized a computer lab, two used mobile laptop carts, and one used a laptop connected to a projector. The first round coding and analysis shows that the observed classrooms varied not only in their classroom set-ups but also in how teachers and students interacted with the software, the workbooks, and with one another. The variety of resource interaction points to the robustness of the SimCalc project: students and teachers can interact with the SimCalc resources in a variety of ways and still achieve student-learning gains. However, through subsequent review and analysis of the observation data five themes emerged. These themes suggest commonalities in classrooms practices surrounding the use of resources. Two new theoretical constructs, â socio-physical resource richnessâ and â resource use withitnessâ , help describe (1) physical and social arrangements of resources and (2) how teachers and students manage resource use.
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Vargas, Roslyn. "Adoption Factors Impacting Human Resource Analytics Among Human Resource Professionals." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/5.

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In today’s fast paced, ever-changing world, one cannot help hearing the terms Big Data and analytics. The Internet holds vast amounts of data and this data, for example in retail, is being used to predict shopping habits, current needs, trends, and more. Why should this be limited to the retail side of an organization? Today, there is a more significant push for Human Resource (HR) professionals to be strategic business partners, and, therefore, HR professionals need to work on leading, not lagging, in the area of measurements and analytics. Some organizations that have adopted the use of analytics in their HR departments have been extremely successful. If this is the case, why are not more HR professionals adopting the use of human resource analytics (HRA)? The purpose of this study is to gain insight as to the reasons why more HR professionals are not using HRA to improve organizational performance and to gain and maintain a competitive advantage. An exploration of prior research was performed and resulted in the development of a model representing factors that impact the adoption of HRA. The model was then tested for content validity and reliability using Partial Least Squares of Path Modeling. Results of the study of 302 HR professionals, currently working in the field of HR, suggest the hypotheses testing social influence, tool availability, effort expectancy, performance expectancy, and quantitative self-efficacy as factors impacting the adoption of HRA were all significant. Conversely, the factors data availability, fear appeals, and general self-efficacy were not significant. Findings indicate that the factors impacting the adoption of HRA are not only in the hands of the HR professional but, to some extent, the organization as well. If organizations truly want to adopt HRA, they must make available to the HR professionals the tools, data, resources, and support necessary. This study contributes to the literature on individual-level adoption, specifically of HRA. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, as well as further research.

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Chen, Guo. "Implementation of WCDMA Multi-Finger Correlation Pool in Dynamically Recon gurable Resource Array." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-90240.

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Dynamically Recon gurable Resource Array (DRRA) is a coarse-grained recon gurable architecture (CGRA) platform for multiple, complete radio and multimedia applications, which emphasise on digital signal processing. It is designed at Department of Electronics Systems of KTH. DRRA de- ploys pools of small, simple and agile resources for computation, storage and interconnect and create runtime partitions customised to the needs of applications. In this thesis project, we implemented a correlation module (named \Corre- lation Pool") for WCDMA code generation and scrambling, in DRRA platform. The technical speci cations are based on 3GPP standard [2]. This thesis report covers detailed description of DRRA platform, the design and implementation of \Correlation Pool", as well as the veri cation of the system. In the end, the synthesis and simulation results are summarised and analysed. This project achieved the speci cations and met the requirements, proving the capability of the platform.

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Hayzelden, Alex Louis Gill. "A multiple-agent systems approach for resource configuration in communications network." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322799.

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Moline, Julia N. (Julia Nessa). "Data-driven resource allocation decisions : FEMA's disaster recovery centers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90058.

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Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2014.
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Resource allocation decisions in post-disaster operations are challenging because of situational dynamics, insufficient information, organizational culture, political context, and urgency. We propose a methodology to create a data-driven decision process for post-disaster resource allocation that enables timely, transparent and consistent decision-making during crisis. Our methodology defines the decisions that must be made, identifies relevant historical, initial, and trending data sources, and develops numerical thresholds, quantitative relationships, and optimization models to support decision making. The general process also offers flexibility to consider non-quantitative factors and spans multiple review periods. We apply this methodology to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) program for establishing and managing Disaster Recovery Centers (DRCs) after a disaster. A detailed case study of one disaster response and relevant historical data provide the basis for DRC decision making thresholds, relationships, and optimization models. We then apply the newly developed process to several recent disaster response scenarios and find that FEMA could have reduced cost by 60-80% while providing sufficient capacity for survivors. Finally, we discuss the generalizability of the methodology to other post-disaster programs along with limitations and potential future work.
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Proksch, Dorian. "The development of German new technology-based firms from a resource-based view." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-162886.

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The author analyzed three different perspectives of the development of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) from the resource-based view. The first article discusses how the resource base impacts the internationalization behavior of German NTBFs. Some companies go international early, some internationalize only after a few years. We argued that the resource base is a substantial factor determining if a NTBF will internationalize or not. In the second article, we analyze how the resource base impacts the survival of German NTBFs. We argued that a lack of sufficient resources can lead to early business failure. We further state that the different resources are necessary to fulfill the requirements within the development phases of the NTBF. To broaden our perspective we combined the resource-based view with the market view. In the third article, we analyzed how the resource base impacts the business model innovation of NTBFs. The business model for NTBFs must often be tailored to fulfill the requirements of potential customers or to further grow the business. A sufficient resource base is necessary to be able to change the business model and buffer the transition phase.

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Pretorius, Jacob v. R. 1969. "Resource allocation in applications research : challenges and strategies of small technology developing companies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30056.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, February 2004.
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This is a study into the allocation of resources in the early stages of research in a small commercial entity that develops innovative technologies. The premise is that resource allocation must focus on the implementation of the technology from a broad, end-to-end, systems viewpoint rather than purely on the inventive or scientific research. Only by understanding and addressing issues early in a development process can technology be efficiently developed. This thesis examines in depth the approach to the development of technologies taken by eight small innovative research companies in the New England Area. These companies all received funding through the government's Small Business Innovative Research program. Half of the companies received additional funding from external entities and qualified for Fast Track funding from the Department of Defense. The study was conducted by means of a questionnaire and in person interviews to identify how companies identify, evaluate and allocate resources to challenges. The strategies that were followed, problems encountered, collaborations with other entities and the outcomes of their programs were examined. This process set up a natural experiment between companies that received Fast Track and thus external funding on the basis of augmented external communication. The main conclusions of the research are that the Fast Track program, for the small sample studied here, did not influence the processes followed by the companies. Rather the long-term strategies of the companies dictated how they dealt with adversity. Moreover, in contradiction to previous studies that examined these same companies immediately after the SBIR work was completed, the fast-track companies showed no greater commercialization
(cont.) success than the comparison companies. The diminished differentiator of the Fast Track program can be attributed to a) the great deal of uncertainty that is inherent with applications research and b) the short time and limited funding of the SBIR program, which in itself limits the probability of success independent of the Fast-Track mechanism.
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Wong, Brandon. "System Engineering Analysis of Terraforming Mars with an Emphasis on Resource Importation Technology." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/888.

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This project uses System Engineering principles to delve into the viability of different methods for Terraforming Mars, with a comparison between Paraterraforming, Terraforming and Bioforming. It will then examine one subsystem that will be integral to the terraforming process, which is the space infrastructure necessary to import enough gases to recreate Earth’s atmosphere on Mars. It will analyze the viability of Chemical Rockets, Nuclear Rockets, Space Elevators, Skyhooks, Rotovators, Mass Drivers, Launch Loops and Orbital Rings for this subsystem and provide recommendations for an implementation plan.

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Langenhoven, Candice. "User experiences of learners in technology-facilitated learning in a resource deprived context." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52939.

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Technology is infiltrating our lives and the classroom can therefore be no exception. The purpose of this study is to determine how the user experiences of learners are influenced by the use of tablets in teaching and learning in a rural school in the Eastern Cape Province. The emphasis on ICT and education has predominantly focused on the teacher and issues relating to the teacher. The focus of this study is on the learners as the receivers of technology-facilitated learning and considers their emotions, attitudes and motivation as a result of their interaction with the technology. The main research question encompasses how learners experience technology-facilitated learning in a resource deprived environment. A qualitative case study was conducted with an inductive approach from an interpretivist philosophy. Data collection included the creation of physical artefacts, interviews and observations. Data was analysed by means of thematic analysis. The foundation of the study is built upon the Activity Theory and User Experience as frameworks, which were integrated and applied as the conceptual framework. The Activity Theory was applied to determine the interaction which occurred between the learner, the teacher and the mobile tablet. User Experience was applied to define the emotions, attitudes and motivation of learners when interacting with the tablet. The main findings signified that learners experienced both positive and negative emotions when learning was facilitated by technology. Learners attitudes improved as a result of their interaction with the tablet. The technology greatly enhanced learners motivation to learn. The interaction with the tablet included capturing and accessing information, reporting back and recording information, as the key uses of the tablet.
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Science, Mathematics and Technology Education
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Steins, Krisjanis. "Discrete-Event Simulation for Hospital Resource Planning : Possibilities and Requirements." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-56556.

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The delivery of health care services has been under pressure due to limited funding and increasing demand. This has highlighted the need to increase not only the effectiveness but also the efficiency of health care delivery. Discrete-event simulation has been suggested as an analysis tool in health care management to support the planning of health care resources. The overall purpose of this thesis is to investigate the possibilities and requirements for using discrete-event simulation in analyzing and planning the use of hospital resources. This is achieved by three case studies that focus on improvements in patient flow of emergency patients that require a radiology examination, intensive care unit capacity planning and operating room allocation strategies, respectively. The first case investigates the current stage of digitization and process orientation in hospital care as a prerequisite for efficient process simulation and analysis. The study reveals an emergency-radiology patient flow process that is not very well measured and uncovers disparate information systems storing incompatible and fragmented data. These results indicate that the current degree of process orientation and the current IT infrastructure does not enable efficient use of quantitative process analysis and management tools like simulation. In the second case the possibilities to develop generic hospital unit simulation models by building and validating a generic intensive care unit (ICU) model are explored. The results show that some of the modeling approaches described in literature cannot replicate the actual behavior observed in all studied ICUs. It is important to identify patient groups for different admission priorities, to account for over-utilizations in the model logic, and to discover and properly model dependencies in the input data. The research shows that it is possible to develop a generic ICU simulation model that could realistically describe the performance of different real ICUs in terms of occupancy, coverage and transfers. The value of simulation modeling in health care management is examined in the third case through the development and use of a simulation model for optimal resource allocation and patient flow in a hospital operating department. The goal of the simulation modeling in this case was to identify bottlenecks in the patient flow and to try different alternatives for allocation of operating room capacity in order to increase the utilization of operating room resources. The final model was used to evaluate four different proposed changes to operating room time allocation.

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Krumbholz, Marina. "The implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in different national and organisational cultures." Thesis, City University London, 2003. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8506/.

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ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) packages provide generic off-the-shelf business and software solutions to customers. However, these packages are implemented in companies with different organisational and national cultures, and there is growing evidence that failure to adapt ERP packages to fit these cultures leads to projects which are expensive and overdue. This thesis investigates this impact of national and organisational cultures on the efficiency of ERP implementations. A theory of culture for ERP implementations is proposed. It draws on key theories and models of social and management science. The theory also includes a meta-schema of culture - a meta-model of the critical elements of national and organisational culture and ERP implementations. It provides the reader with a generic definition and model of culture. The theory was evaluated by two studies. The first study was conducted at the finance department of a higher educational establishment. The second study was conducted at 3 subsidiaries of a large multi-national pharmaceutical organisation in the UK, Germany and Scandinavia. Results provided evidence for the impact of organisational and national culture on the efficiency of ERP implementations. Furthermore, the results validated the theory of culture. They demonstrated that the culture-related problems arise because the changes associated with an ERP implementations, violated the employees' expectations (norms). The thesis also presents a method called CAREs (Culturally Aware Realisation of ERP systems) that aims to help ERP implementation teams to identify, explain and predict potential culture-related problems. Three experts evaluated the CAREs method. They were presented with a series of SAP implementation scenarios and were asked with a number of questionnaires to provide feedback on its utility, usability and effectiveness. The results demonstrated that the method is potentially useful to ERP implementation teams. Moreover, the results provided suggestions on how to improve the CAREs method. The thesis concludes with a review of the research hypotheses and a discussion of future work and future directions.

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Alghamdi, Mazen. "Success Factors of Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems in North American Organizations." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10933348.

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a single set of software applications that include finance, sales, and human resources and it is used to integrate business functions into a single computer system application, which allows different systems to work together. The quantitative correlation research study is to determine to what extent, if any, there is a correlation between the critical success factors (independent variables) (IV) and the successful implementation of ERP systems (dependent variable) (DV) in the Western region of the United States (specifically Washington, Oregon, and California). The IVs are the critical success factors (CSFs) (clear goals and objective, top management support, business process re-engineering, use of the consultant, effective communication, ERP vendor selection, ERP customization, ERP vendor support, and user training). The DV is the successful implementation of ERP. The study was to predict successful ERP system implementation using various technical and managerial constructs controlling for other demographics in a sample of Information Technology (IT) leaders working in Washington, Oregon, and California. The population of this study included a current 90 IT leaders from the Western region of the United States including Chief Information Officer (CIO), Project manager, consultant, and developer. According to the correlation results, none of the subscales was a significant predictor of successful ERP implementation, but four out of five of the technical success factors (ERP package selection, ERP customization, vendor support, and user training) had a moderate effect in increasing the likelihood of successful implementation.

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