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Bordoloi, Sanjeev K. "Flexibility, adaptability and efficiency in dynamic manufacturing systems /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Forster, Wayne Peter Michael. "Flexibility and adaptability in factory buildings : a comparative study of buildings use." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248414.
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Peters, Jason Christian. "Web information systems : a study of maintenance, change and flexibility." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5460.
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Information Systems (IS’s) have provided organisations with huge efficiency gains and benefits over the years; however an outstanding problem that is yet to be successfully tackled is that of the troublesome maintenance phase. Consuming vast resources and thwarting business progression in a competitive global market place, system maintenance has been recognised as one of the key areas where IS is failing organisations. Organisations are too often faced with the dilemma of either replacement or the continual upkeep of an unwieldy system. The ability for IS’s to be able to adapt to exogenous influences is even more acute today than at any time in the past. This is due to IS’s namely, Web Information Systems (WIS’s) increasingly and continually having to accommodate the needs of organisations to interconnect with a plethora of additional systems as well as supporting evolving business models. The richness of the interconnectivity, functionalities and services WIS’s now offer are shaping social, cultural and economic behaviour on a truly global scale, making the maintenance of such systems and evermore pertinent issue. The growth and proliferation of WIS’s shows no sign of abating which leads to the conclusion that what some have termed as the ‘maintenance iceberg’ should not be ignored. The quandary that commercial organisations face is typically driven by two key aspects; firstly, systems are built on the cultural premise of using fixed requirements, with not enough thought or attention being paid to systems abilities to deviate from these requirements. Secondly, systems do not generally cope well with adapting to unpredictable change arising from outside of the organisations environment. Over the recent past, different paradigms, approaches and methods have attempted to make software development more predictable, controllable and adaptable, however, the benefits of such measures in relation to the maintenance dilemma have been limited. The concept of flexible systems that are able to cope with such change in an efficient manner is currently an objective that few can claim to have realised successfully. The primary focus of the thesis was to examine WIS post-development change in order to empirically substantiate and understand the nature of the maintenance phase. This was done with the intention to determine exactly ‘where’ and ‘how’ flexibility could be targeted to address these changes. This study uses an emergent analytical approach to identify and catalogue the nature of change occurring within WIS maintenance. However, the research framework design underwent a significant revision as the initial results indicated that a greater emphasis and refocus was required to achieve the research objective. To study WIS’s in an appropriate and detailed context, a single case study was conducted in a web development software house. In total the case study approach was used to collect empirical evidence from four projects that investigated post-development change requests in order to identify areas of the system susceptible to change. The maintenance phases of three WIS projects were considered in-depth, resulting in the collection of over four hundred change requests. The fourth project served as a validation case. The results are presented and the findings are used to identify key trends and characteristics that depict WIS maintenance change. The analytical information derived from the change requests is consolidated and shown diagrammatically for the key areas of change using profile models developed in this thesis. Based on the results, the thesis concludes and contributes to the ongoing debate that there is a discernable difference when considering WIS maintenance change compared to that of traditional IS maintenance. The detailed characteristics displayed in the profile models are then used to map specific flexibility criteria that ultimately are required to facilitate change. This is achieved using the Flexibility Matrix of Change (FMoC) tool which was developed within the remit of this research. This tool is a qualitative measurement scheme that aligns WIS maintenance changes to a reciprocal flexibility attribute. Thus, the wider aim of this thesis is to also expand the awareness of flexibility and its importance as a key component of the WIS lifecycle.
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Nicholson, Stephen David. "Cognitive Organization, Interpersonal Flexibility and Psychological Maladjustment." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331172/.
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Recent research on the contribution of cognitive and social factors to psychopathology has been narrowly focused on isolated cognitive-social aspects of adjustment. This study takes a broader perspective by examining a) cognitive structure in addition to cognitive content and b) general aspects of interpersonal style rather than isolated social behaviors. Maladjustment was. examined with respect to premorbid history as well as current adjustment. The hypotheses were that cognitive integration interacts with cognitive complexity to influence psychological disturbance; that a positive relationship exists between interpersonal flexibility and psychopathology; and that a positive relationship exists between the proportion of ambiguous constructs which they employ and a person's level of psychopathology.
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Silvey, Jonathan K. "The Importance of Flexibility and Adaptability in Writing Centers: Interviews with Three Writing Center Directors." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1396865452.
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Salgueiro, Nuno Miguel Marques da Silva. "Projecto de um equipamento adaptavel em entrecampos." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/4716.
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Tese de Mestrado em ArquitecturaDurante séculos, a prosperidade e o crescimento das cidades estiveram inteiramente relacionados com o sucesso das actividades comerciais. Os mercados são edifícios importantes a nível urbano, com um lugar central na vida de um bairro, impulsionam a interacção social, possibilitam o desenvolvimento e o reavivar da economia local e funcionam ainda como instrumentos eficazes para a reabilitação de zonas urbanas degradadas. Todos os edifícios evoluem e poderão ao longo da sua vida acolher funções distintas das que lhes deram origem. A bem da preservação de recursos que se justifica no sector da construção, é desejável a criação de estratégias de projecto / construção que permitam aos edifícios acompanharem a (s) vivência (s) do lugar ao longo do tempo. Com o progresso e diversidade dos métodos de construção, é hoje possível criar uma arquitectura mais adaptável e flexível sem perder pertinência e reconhecibilidade. Este trabalho procura desenvolver um edifício que aborde o conceito de mercado tradicional e o dinamismo social associado, com a capacidade de se adaptar consoante as necessidades da sociedade e capaz de reter uma identidade que se prolongue no tempo independentemente das alterações de função que possa vir a sofrer no futuro.
ABSTRACT - For centuries the prosperity and growth of cities were entirely related to the success of the commercial activities. The markets are important buildings at an urban level, with a central place in the life of a neighbourhood they provide social interaction, enable the development and revival of the local economy and also work as effective tools for rehabilitation of urban degraded areas. All buildings evolve and throughout their life can acquire distinct functions from the ones that originated them. For the sake of preservation of resources which is justified in the construction sector, it is desirable the creation of strategies in project / construction that allow the buildings to keep pace with the experience (s) of the site over time. With the progress and diversity of construction methods today it is possible to create an architecture more adaptable and flexible without losing relevance and recognizability. This work seeks to develop a building that aproches the concept of traditional market and the social dynamism it provides, with the ability to adapt as the needs of society and capable of retaining an identity that extends over time regardless of the function changes that it may suffer in the future.
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Schmalz, Jonathan E. "Development and Validation of a Measure of Religious and Spiritual Flexibility." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700031/.
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Religion and spirituality are vital aspects of many people’s lives both in the United States and across the globe. Although many constructs and measures exist to describe and assess the experience of pursuing the sacred, the complexity of religious and spiritual experience leads to mixed results in relation to well-being and psychopathological traits. However, in broad terms, the relationship appears positive. Over the past 30 years the need for more refined and useful approaches to the study of religious and spiritual behavior has been repeatedly acknowledged. Although authors wisely caution development of further measures without due cause, extant constructs and measures do not provide clear and consistent results for understanding the influence of one’s relationships to religion and spirituality upon behaviors of clinical interest. The present project drew from the functional contextual concept of psychological flexibility, which provides clarity to understanding the encouragement and maintenance of psychological well-being. A new construct of religious and psychological flexibility is explicated as a functional approach to understanding religious and spiritual behavior in a manner that is useful in research and clinical settings alike. The development and evaluation of the Measure of Religious and Spiritual Flexibility (MRSF) is described. The MRSF evidenced adequate internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Confirmatory factor analysis results were positive, but indicate further refinement. Analyses suggested good construct validity of the MRSF in relation to psychological well-being and psychopathology; construct validity in relation to extant constructs in the psychology of religion was varied. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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Wittkugel, Andrew E. "From static to dynamic: an investigation of flexible architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337286972.
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Moodley, Byron. "Envelopes of adaptation - an architecture of social thresholds and flexibility: investigating the socio-technical relationship between the built edge and social surface." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28062.
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The concept of adaptability in architecture is one that very often bears technical rather than social connotations. What are the mechanisms and systems that allow buildings to adapt to fluctuating environmental and climatic conditions? These responses are often the driving force behind design considerations, placing emphasis on the manner in which the technical resolutions facilitate appropriate adaptability and environmental response. This adaptability is generally addressed through the building envelope, which acts as the mediator between the interior conditions of a building, and the exterior conditions of its environment (Lovell, 2010). However, beyond addressing these environmental conditions, there are greater urban and social conditions that bear equal weight within any design inquiry. Building adjacencies, ethnographics, social development and imageability of spatial ordering are all fundamental factors that need to be addressed within building envelope design (Lovell, 2010). The design dissertation inquiry explores the multi-faceted nature of building envelopes as well as an architecture of internal and external thresholds. The inquiry examines ways in which building envelopes respond to both the environmental and social complexities of a context, as well as how internal and external threshold and edge conditions can be design generative and communicative; expressing spatial organisations, conditions of privacy and mechanisms of adaptability. This topic of adaptive envelopes and defining thresholds in relation to social complexities has been explored in an architectural design project, which aims to practically address social and environmental issues. This exploration yields a set of key findings into an architecture of thresholds and adaptability in response to the sociotechnical conditions of a context where the lines between the formal and informal are blurred.
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Fu, Fang, and 付芳. "Flexibility and psychological well-being of adolescents: the case in 512 Sichuan earthquake." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50899740.
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Traumatic events such as natural disasters and violence are still happening around the world. While most of the studies on traumatic events focus more on the pathological end of the continuum, research related to their impact on more generic aspects, such as the psychological well-being of individuals, is comparatively less. Furthermore, flexibility has been posited to play a crucial role in the development of psychological well-being in adolescents but its significance has seldom been examined in the context of traumatic events. In addition, the construct and characteristics of flexibility have never been discussed before and no self-report measurement of emotional flexibility exists. Therefore, this thesis attempts to fill these gaps and extend our understanding of both the knowledge of flexibility and its role in the psychological well-being of Chinese adolescents.
The nature of study 1 represents the ground work of this research, with the purpose of developing and validating a qualified self-report measurement of emotional flexibility in order to lay the foundation for answering the main research question of this study. A panel meeting was used at the very beginning to generate an item pool consisting of an inventory of emotional flexibility subscales: Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis were employed to test the subscale structures as well as for the total scale of emotional flexibility. A three-factor model for match, the subscale of emotional flexibility and the total model comprising one higher-order factor of emotional flexibility derived from the 5 first-order factors, with 10 and 30 items respectively, have all been confirmed.
The purpose of study 2 is to clarify the construct of flexibility by investigating the relationships connected to flexibility in cognitive, behavioral and emotional aspects, as well as the relation between flexibility in these three aspects and coping flexibility. The participants in study 2 were 941 adolescents recruited from three middle schools with different levels of earthquake exposure in Sichuan. The results show that cognitive flexibility mediates the relationship between emotional flexibility and behavioral flexibility. Moreover, coping flexibility was found to be related to flexibility in three aspects in different manners.
Study 3 has been designed to answer the main research question of this study: what role does flexibility play in the psychological well-being of adolescents with earthquake experiences. A cross-sectional survey was performed to test the effect of flexibility in cognitive, behavioral and emotional aspects on the relationship between earthquake exposure and psychological well-being. The data in this study was the same as for those in study two. The results show that emotional flexibility and cognitive flexibility had moderating effects between earthquake exposure and psychological well-being.
The thesis has developed a measurement tool, clarified the construct and summarized the characteristics of flexibility as well as explored the role of flexibility in the psychological well-being of adolescents. The implications and limitations as well as future directions are proposed as well.published_or_final_version
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Gorgoglione, Matteo. "Analyse et construction de codes LDPC non-binaires pour des canaux à evanouissement." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CERG0578/document.
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Au cours des 15 dernières années, des progrès spectaculaires dans l'analyse et la conception des codes définis par des graphes bipartites et dé-codables par des algorithmes itératifs ont permis le développement de systèmes de correction d'erreurs, avec des performances de plus en plus proches la limite théorique de Shannon. Dans ce contexte, un rôle déterminant a été joué par la famille des codes à matrice de parité creuse, appelés codes LDPC (pour « Low-Density Parity-Check », en anglais), introduit par Gallager au début des années 60 et décrits plus tard en termes de graphes bipartites. Négligés pendant de longues années, ces codes ont été redécouverts à la fin des années 90, après que la puissance du décodage itératif a été mise en évidence grâce à l'invention des Turbo-codes. Ce n'est qu'au début des années 2000 que les techniques nécessaires à l'analyse et l'optimisation des codes LDPC ont été développées, techniques qui ont permis ensuite la construction des codes avec des performances asymptotiques proches de la limite de Shannon. Cette remarquable avancée a motivé l'intérêt croissant de la communauté scientifique et soutenu le transfert rapide de cette technologie vers le secteur industriel. Plus récemment, un intérêt tout particulier a été porté aux codes LDPC définis sur des alphabets non-binaires, grâce notamment à leur meilleure capacité de correction en « longueur finie ». Bien que Gallager ait déjà proposé l'utilisation des alphabets non-binaires, en utilisant l'arithmétique modulaire, les codes LDPC non-binaires définis sur les corps finis n'ont étés étudiés qu'à partir de la fin des années 90. Il a été montré que ces codes offrent de meilleures performances que leurs équivalents binaires lorsque le bloc codé est de longueur faible à modérée, ou lorsque les symboles transmis sur le canal sont eux-mêmes des symboles non-binaires, comme par exemple dans le cas des modulations d'ordre supérieur ou des canaux à antennes multiples.Cependant, ce gain en performance implique un coût non négligeable en termes de complexité de décodage, quipeut entraver l'utilisation des codes LDPC non binaires dans des systèmes réels, surtout lorsque le prix à payer encomplexité est plus important que le gain en performance.Cette thèse traite de l'analyse et de la conception des codes LDPC non binaires pour des canaux à évanouissements. L'objectif principal de la thèse est de démontrer que, outre le gain en performance en termes de capacité de correction, l'emploi des codes LDPC non binaires peut apporter des bénéfices supplémentaires,qui peuvent compenser l'augmentation de la complexité du décodeur. La « flexibilité » et la « diversité »représentent les deux bénéfices qui seront démontrées dans cette thèse. La « flexibilité » est la capacité d'unsystème de codage de pouvoir s'adapter à des débits (rendements) variables tout en utilisant le même encodeuret le même décodeur. La « diversité » se rapporte à sa capacité d'exploiter pleinement l'hétérogénéité du canal de communication.La première contribution de cette thèse consiste à développer une méthode d'approximation de l'évolution de densité des codes LDPC non-binaires, basée sur la simulation Monte-Carlo d'un code « infini ». Nous montrons que la méthode proposée fournit des estimations très fines des performances asymptotiques des codes LDPCnon-binaires et rend possible l'optimisation de ces codes pour une large gamme d'applications et de modèles de canaux.La deuxième contribution de la thèse porte sur l'analyse et la conception de système de codage flexible,utilisant des techniques de poinçonnage. Nous montrons que les codes LDPC non binaires sont plus robustes au poinçonnage que les codes binaires, grâce au fait que les symboles non-binaires peuvent être partialement poinçonnés. Pour les codes réguliers, nous montrons que le poinçonnage des codes non-binaires obéit à des règles différentes, selon que l'on poinçonne des symboles deOver the last 15 years, spectacular advances in the analysis and design of graph-basedcodes and iterative decoding techniques paved the way for the development of error correctionsystems operating very close to the theoretical Shannon limit. A prominent rolehas been played by the class of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, introduced inthe early 60's by Gallager's and described latter in terms of sparse bipartite graphs. In theearly 2000's, LDPC codes were shown to be capacity approaching codes for a wide rangeof channel models, which motivated the increased interest of the scientific community andsupported the rapid transfer of this technology to the industrial sector. Over the past fewyears there has been an increased interest in non-binary LDPC codes due to their enhancedcorrection capacity. Although Gallager already proposed in his seminal work the use ofnon-binary alphabets (by using modular arithmetic), non-binary LDPC codes defined overfinite fields have only been investigated starting with the late 90's. They have been provento provide better performance than their binary counterparts when the block-length issmall to moderate, or when the symbols sent through channel are not binary, which is thecase for high-order modulations or for multiple-antennas channels. However, the performancegain comes at a non-negligible cost in the decoding complexity, which may prohibitthe use of non-binary LDPC codes in practical systems, especially when the price to payin decoding complexity is too high for the performance gain that one can get.This thesis addresses the analysis and design of non-binary LDPC codes for fadingchannels. The main goal is to demonstrate that besides the gain in the decoding performance,the use of non-binary LDPC codes can bring additional benefits that may offsetthe extra cost in decoding complexity. Flexibility and diversity are the two benefitsthat we demonstrate in this thesis. The exibility is the capacity of a coding system toaccommodate multiple coding rates through the use of a unique encoder/decoder pair. Thediversity of a coding system relates to its capacity to fully exploit the communicationchannel's heterogeneity.The first contribution of the thesis is the development of a Density Evolution approximationmethod, based on the Monte-Carlo simulation of an infinite code. We showthat the proposed method provides accurate and precise estimates of non-binary ensemblethresholds, and makes possible the optimization of non-binary codes for a wide range ofapplications and channel models.The second contribution of the thesis consists of the analysis and design of flexiblecoding schemes through the use of puncturing. We show that the non-binary LDPCcodes are more robust to puncturing than their binary counterparts, thanks to the factthat non-binary symbol-nodes can be only partially punctured. For regular codes, we showthat the design of puncturing patterns must respect different rules depending on whetherthe symbol-nodes are of degree 2 or higher. For irregular codes we propose an optimizationprocedure and we present optimized puncturing distributions for non-binary LDPC codes,iiiwhich exhibit a gap to capacity between 0.2 and 0.5dB , for punctured rates varying from0.5 to 0.9.The third contribution investigates the non-binary LDPC codes transmitted over aRayleigh (fast) fading channel, in which different modulated symbols are affected by differentfading factors. In case of one-to-one correspondence between modulated and codedsymbols, deep fading can make some coded symbols totally unrecoverable, leading to apoor system performance. In order to avoid this phenomenon, binary diversity can beexploited by using a bit-interleaver module placed between the encoder and the modulator.We propose an optimized interleaving algorithm, inspired from the Progressive Edge-Growth (PEG) method, which ensures maximum girth of th
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Tinfors, Stefan. "Den flexibla bostaden : Verktyg för hantering av dagens och framtidens bostadsbehov." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för energi-, miljö- och byggteknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-85680.
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The situation of the housing stockin Sweden is at present imbalanced, as has often been the case throughout history, due to thedifficulty of its prediction.Society is constantly changingand thus it ́s economical, social and demographical conditions with itwhich affects the way we build. Swedens housing need is within the next ten years expected to vary between numbers of 592000-664 000 dwellings. A relatively high number. This study is therefore an investigation into the means available for meeting the demands posed by the society of today and of tomorrow on our housing stock. The investigation, conducted via literature studies, in conjunction with an iterative projecting process, has found the means most apt to meet these demands to be a plurality of flexible solutions that can be easily adapted with regards to the very unpredictability of said demands. These means are put together into an analysis-and method tool consisting of a number of criterias to ensure ”the flexible dwelling”. The aim of the study is to investigate the means available and how they are used most effectively in order to develop a housing stock capable of adaptating to current needs and demands. The ability of adaptation would in this case act as an buffer to the unpredictability and inevitabel shortcomings of the market. These dwellings capable of withstanding the tides of time would therefore become more sought after in the long run. These solutions will in turn help to champion a more sustainable housing development. The goal of the study is to be ableto present a functionally flexible floorplan that will simultaneously meet the requirements stipulated by swedish state regulations. The result showcases, with the help of six quality criteria for flexible projecting, three separate alternatives of floorplans and their respective relations and adaptibility visavi the conditions of todays housing situation.Inom Sveriges bostadsbestånd råder idag obalans vilket historien även vittnar om ofta varit fallet på grund av ett behov som är och alltid varit mycket svårt att förutspå. Samhället genomgår ständigt förändring och dess ekonomiska, sociala och demografiska förutsättningar präglar hur vi ser på bostadsbyggandet. Byggbehovet beräknas inom kommande tioårsperiod i Sverige ligga mellan 592 000 och 664 000 bostäder varav ett årligt behov av cirka 60 000, vilket är relativt höga siffror. Arbetet undersöker därför, genom litteraturstudier och en iterativ projekteringsprocess, vilka metoder som finns tillgängliga för möjligheten att tillgodose både dagens och morgondagens krav på våra bostäder. Dessa metoder sammanställs sedan i form av ett projekteringsverktyg bestående av ett antal kriterier för säkerställandet av ”den flexibla bostaden”. Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka hur flexibilitet kan användas och implementeras för att skapa goda bostäder som enkelt kan anpassas och förändras till nya typer och storlekar efter framtidens bostadsmarknadsbehov. Förmågan till anpassning skulle i detta fall kunna betraktas som en buffert mot marknadens tillkortakommanden och ett föråldrat bostadsbestånd. När en bostad kan projekteras för att med enkelhet kunna anpassas efter rådande förutsättningar och därigenom stå emot tidens tand, skulle en stor del av det oförutsedda behovet förebyggas. Fler bostäder skulle, bli mer attraktiva och funktionella, också över tid. Målet är således att presentera ett förslag för en funktionellt flexibel planlösning som samtidigt uppfyller kraven från gällande svenska regelverk. Resultatet redovisar med hjälp av projekteringsverktyget, bestående av sex kvalitetskriterier för flexibel projektering, tre olika planlösningsalternativ för en specifik byggnad. Hur dessa förhåller- och anpassarsig efter tidens förändrade förutsättningar, behov och efterfrågan i syftet att främja en mer hållbar bostadspolitisk utveckling.
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Fernandez, Martin Ismael. "Valuation of design adaptability in aerospace systems." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22584.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.Committee Chair: Dr. Mavris, Dimitri; Committee Member: Dr. Hollingsworth, Peter; Committee Member: Dr. McMichael, Jim; Committee Member: Dr. Saleh, Joseph; Committee Member: Dr. Schrage, Daniel.
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Pires, Marta Pargana Oliveira. "Para um novo habitar." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14248.
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Traguil, Maria Leonor Falcão Murta de Sousa. "A habitação flexível como contributo para a revitalização da cidade." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16683.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.As cidades do interior de Portugal encontram-se perante dificuldades económicas perdendo habitantes para outros centros urbanos situados no litoral. Em Portalegre, uma cidade de assentamento romano, com vários séculos de história e edifícios representantes dos diversos períodos arquitectónicos, o crescimento ocorrido na cidade no do final do século XX foi desorganizado e periférico tornando prioritária a intervenção junto do núcleo histórico da cidade, e o crescimento de diversos tecidos urbanos. Actualmente existem iniciativas que visam desenvolver económica e culturalmente a cidade, e que têm em conta o território de proximidade e as indicações e metas específicas do Plano Director Municipal. Assim, optou-se pelo desenvolver de uma proposta tendo a Habitação como uso principal. Sendo que esta é uma região na qual a Habitação Tradicional assenta sobre princípios de adaptabilidade e evolução, e que estamos perante um período de constantes alterações na sociedade, a cujas realidades é necessário responder, decidiu-se trabalhar a temática da Flexibilidade, concebendo o espaço como adaptável aos seus moradores e às suas necessidades, aliando-as a especificidades locais da arquitectura. Numa primeira fase desenvolveu-se um troço da cidade (bairro) de modo resolver uma zona expectante da cidade e, numa segunda etapa, trabalhando a proposta de habitação através dos atributos da habitação vernacular local.
ABSTRACT: The cities of the interior of Portugal are facing economic difficulties losing inhabitants to other urban centres located in the coast. In Portalegre, a city of Roman settlement, with several centuries of history and buildings representing the various architectural periods, the growth of in the city throughout the end of the 20th century was disorganized and peripheral, making the intervention in the historical nucleus of the city become a priority, connecting the different types of urban fabrics. Currently, there are initiatives that aim to economically and culturally develop the city which take into account the site and the specific indications and goals of the Municipal Master Plan. Thus a proposal was developed with Housing as the main use. Since this is a region in which traditional housing is based on principles of adaptability and evolution and that we are facing a period of constant changes in society that will also change the realities that need to be answered, we decided to work the theme of Flexibility, designing the spaces as adaptable to its dwellers and their needs, combining them with local architectural specificities. In a first phase a section of the city (neighbourhood) was developed in order to solve an expectant area of the city and in a second phase working the housing proposal through the qualities of the local vernacular housing.
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Good, Darren. "EXPLORATIONS OF COGNITIVE AGILITY:A REAL TIME ADAPTIVE CAPACITY." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1247247913.
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Gonçalves, Mariana Pedro. "Time as formgiver in japanese architecture." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10598.
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Abecassis, Maria Bettencourt da Camara. "Flexibilidade da casa." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12149.
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Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitectura.Esta investigação propõe a reflexão sobre a capacidade da arquitectura se adaptar ao uso dinâmico do habitar. A sociedade contemporânea, face à globalização e evolução tecnológica, encontra-se em constante transformação, Verifica-se actualmente, não só uma alteração nos agregados familiares, mas também nos grupos que partilham o espaço da casa. Nesse sentido, torna-se pertinente a abordagem ao espaço doméstico como uma realidade evolutiva, capaz de se adaptar às necessidades de quem o habita. Considerando a instabilidade e disparidade social verificada, pretende-se conceber um modelo habitacional que acompanhe os ciclos de vida dos utilizadores, explorando a sua capacidade de adaptação à mudança. Através de uma investigação pelo projecto procura-se a definição do conceito de flexibilidade nas suas múltiplas vertentes, bem como a identificação de estratégias arquitectónicas capazes conferir flexibilidade e adaptabilidade ao espaço doméstico. O trabalho parte do desenvolvimento de uma casa genérica, na qual se introduzem os conceitos e estratégias de flexibilidade enunciados, e comprova a sua adaptação a um edifício multifuncional inserido no território actualmente ocupado pelo Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, no contexto específico de cidade consolidada que caracteriza a Colina de Sant’Ana.
ABSTRACT: This research proposes a reflection on the architecture’s ability to adapt to the dynamic use of dwelling. Contemporary society, facing globalization and technological evolution, is constantly changing. Presently it can be noted, not only a change in households but also in groups that share the space within the house. In this sense, it seems appropriate to consider the domestic space as an evolutionary reality, able to adapt to their inhabitants needs. Considering the instability and social disparity verified, we intend to conceive a housing model that follows its users lifecycles by exploiting their ability to adapt to change. Through a research by project we seek to define flexibility in its multiple facets, as well as to identify architectural strategies that add flexibility and adaptability to the domestic space. The work starts from the development of a generic house, in which are introduced the concepts and strategies of flexibility enunciated, and verifies its adaptation to a multifunctional building inserted into the territory now occupied by the Santo António dos Capucho’s Hospital, in the specific context of the consolidated city that characterizes Santana's hill.
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Valagão, Joana Martins Lopes. "A flexibilidade na arquitetura." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12417.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Interiores e Reabilitação do Edificado apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.Vivemos hoje num mundo marcado pela instabilidade, pela imprevisibilidade e pela rapidez dos avanços tecnológicos; vivemos numa sociedade complexa, de práticas heterogéneas e em constante mutação, às quais a arquitectura nem sempre tem conseguido responder. Efectivamente, se os modos de vida e as necessidades se alteram, a arquitectura também terá de se alterar; se as pessoas e as práticas são diversificadas, a arquitectura terá de se mostrar versátil e adaptável. Pretende-se, com este trabalho, alertar para a importância de encarar a mudança como factor intrínseco ao projecto arquitectónico, incorporando a flexibilidade no acto de pensamento e concepção. Servindo-se de um vazio urbano no Largo do Intendente, o trabalho reflecte sobre a flexibilidade como uma característica potencialmente qualificadora da arquitectura, capaz de produzir soluções adequadas às exigências, actuais e futuras, dos seus utilizadores. Mais do que isso, explora e analisa estratégias, que permitem a sua aplicação prática e que se reflectem, posteriormente, no caso concreto de projecto.
ABSTRACT: We live today in a world defined by instability, unpredictability and the speed of technological advances; we live in a complex society, of heterogeneous practices and constantly changing, to which the architecture has not always been able to respond. Indeed, if the lifestyles and the needs change, the architecture will also need to change; if people and practices are different, the architecture must prove versatile and adaptable. It is aimed, with this work, alert to the importance of embrace change as an intrinsic factor to architectural production, incorporating flexibility in the act of thought and design. By taking an urban void in Largo do Intendente, the work reflects about flexibility as a potentially qualifying characteristic of architecture, capable of produce appropriate solutions to the demands, current and future, of its users. More than that, it explores and analyzes strategies, that enable its practical application and which are reflected later in the case of project.
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Cigagna, Karina Cabernite. "Community Service Through Architecture: Social Housing with Identity." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003182.
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Schilke, Matthis Niklas. "Exploring financial decisions in Swedish commercial real estate : How the question of added flexibility in the real estate product is handled in practice." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-276772.
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This thesis explores how the question of added flexibility in the real estate product is handled by Swedish commercial real estate developers. Theoretically this problem can be solved with a real options approach. Traditionally the use of real options analysis in practice in commercial real estate has been limited. The results indicate that the use of real options analysis is limited also in the Swedish commercial real estate market. Traditional investment methods coupled with rules of thumb that determine appropriate flexibility levels continue to dominate. The results highlight some of these rules of thumb. The commercial developers do argue in favor of flexible designs in locations where there is higher uncertainty, this result is in line with real options theory. Future research is needed to assess how effective this rule of thumb approach is to determining the appropriate level of flexibility in a real estate product compared to a real options approach.Detta examensarbete utforskar hur kommersiella fastighetsägare hanterar vilken nivå av flexibilitet som byggs in i nya projekt och hur man tar beslut kring nivån utifrån ett investeringsperspektiv. Teoretiskt sätt så kan detta problem lösas med real optionsanalys. Historiskt sett har real optionsanalys inte använts särskilt utbrett i den kommersiella fastighetsbranschen. Resultatet indikerar på att användningen av real optionsanalys på den svenska kommersiella fastighetsmarknaden är fortsatt låg. Traditionella investeringsmetoder kombinerat med tumregler som bestämmer graden av flexibilitet verkar dominera. Resultatet belyser några av dessa tumregler. De kommersiella fastighetsaktörerna resonerar kring flexibilitet och osäkerhet på ett sätt som är i linje med real optionsteori. Vidare forskning behövs för att bedöma hur väl tumregel-förfarandet i förhållande till real optionsanalys fungerar när man ska bestämma graden av flexibilitet.
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Martins, Inês de Noronha. "A flexibilidade no interior doméstico." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12035.
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Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitetura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitetura.Habitamos hoje numa sociedade onde as práticas contemporâneas se regem cada vez mais pela imprevisibilidade e heterogeneidade; modos de vida complexos e em constante mutação, aos quais a arquitectura naturalmente, nunca responde na totalidade, principalmente nas grandes cidades, onde existe um maior cruzamentos de culturas e realidades distintas. Em A Flexibilidade no Interior Doméstico são apresentados os resultados de uma procura e reflexão, de conceitos e estratégias que combinados consigam produzir soluções flexíveis na arquitectura. Estão associados a uma ideia de ruptura com os modelos desajustados e insensíveis ao contexto. De facto se os modos de vida e circunstâncias da mesma se alteram constantemente, o desafio passa por tornar a arquitectura num objecto versátil e adaptável. A aplicação dos métodos estudados ganha vida através do desenvolvimento prático de uma estratégia de intervenção, que passa pela revitalização do Bairro da Ajuda, mais precisamente num vazio urbano junto ao Palácio da Ajuda. Procura-se para além da aplicação de estratégias implementadoras de flexibilidade, apresentar uma solução capaz de abranger novas formas de habitar e que potencie a vida, inesperada e imprevisível, tal como ela deve ser, com todas as suas mudanças, próprias do decorrer do tempo.
ABSTRACT: We live today in a society where contemporary practices are ruled increasingly by unpredictability and diversity; complex and constantly changing lifestyles, to which architecture has not yet fully responded, especially in the cities where there is a larger intersections of cultures and different realities. The Flexibility in the Domestic Interior presents the result of a search for concepts and strategies, which combined are able to produce flexible solutions in architecture. Associated with an idea to break with the misfits and insensitive models to the context. In fact, if the lifestyles and own circumstances change constantly, the challenge is to let architecture become a versatile and adptable object. The application of the studied methods, it happens through the develompment of a practical strategy of intervention. which envolves the revitalization of Bairro da Ajuda, more precisely in urban void next to Palácio da Ajuda. Edding beyond the application of implementing flexibility strategies, we are looking for a solution that can approach to new ways of living and that improves life, unesxpected and unpredictabel, as it should be, with all its changes, through the course of time.
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Soares, Catarina Nunes dos Reis Garcia. "(Re)viver Alcântara industrial." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/16780.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.Numa cidade caracterizada por uma grande componente história que ainda hoje é visível na paisagem urbana, encontra-se Alcântara, uma área urbana resultante da expansão de Lisboa. A necessidade de consolidação deste território, advém de um longo passado industrial, que com o passar do tempo levou ao gradual abandono destes espaços, que hoje em dia se encontram obsoletos, e a uma demarcada fragmentação do tecido urbano. O tema de projeto desenvolve-se em torno desta problemática, para a qual se elaborou uma reflexão que procura compreender e encontrar uma possibilidade para evolução urbana, sem que a cidade perca o seu carácter identitário. A proposta vem concretizar um programa funcional, destinado à criação de um conjunto de elementos, que pretende dar uma resposta a aspectos sociais e urbanos, através da regeneração do espaço urbano, associado a um lógica de vida em comunidade e de uma arquitetura direcionada a responder a uma contínua mudança da sociedade contemporânea. Cada vez mais surge a ideia de que um edifício, capaz de lidar com a mudança de uso e de um contínuo evoluir do contexto urbano, responde melhor a questões de nível urbano e de satisfação das necessidades de cada indivíduo. Neste sentido surgem os conceitos de adaptabilidade e flexibilidade, como consciencialização de um novo modo de pensar a arquitetura para uma cidade resiliente.
ABSTRACT: In a city, characterized by a great historical component, which nowadays is still visible in the urban landscape, we can find Alcântara, and urban area that is a result from the expansion of Lisbon. The need to consolidate this territory comes from a long industrial past, which over time has gradually led to the abandonment of these, now obsolete, spaces and to a demarcated fragmentation of the urban fabric. The theme of the project is developed around this problem, for which a reflection has been expounded, in order to comprehend and find possible solution for an urban evolution that allows the city never to lose it’s unique character. The proposal comes to materialize a functional program, directed to the creation of several elements, which aims to respond to social and urbanistic aspects, through a regeneration of urban space, connected to a logic of a community life and an architecture with a purpose to respond to a continuous change of a contemporary society. Progressively, arises the idea that a building, capable of dealing with a change of use and a continuous evolution of the urban context, responds more accordingly to issues concerning urban aspects and satisfaction of each individual’s needs. With this in mind, the concepts of flexibility and adaptability take form, such as the awareness about a new way of thinking architecture for a resilient city.
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Wagner, Sven, Susanna Nocentini, Franka Huth, and Marjanke Hoogstra-Klein. "Forest Management Approaches for Coping with the Uncertainty of Climate Change: Trade-Offs in Service Provisioning and Adaptability." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-147145.
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The issue of rapid change in environmental conditions under which ecosystem processes and human interventions will take place in the future is relatively new to forestry, whereas the provision of ecosystem services, e.g., timber or fresh water, is at the very heart of the original concept of forest management. Forest managers have developed ambitious deterministic approaches to provide the services demanded, and thus the use of deterministic approaches for adapting to climate change seem to be a logical continuation. However, as uncertainty about the intensity of climate change is high, forest managers need to answer this uncertainty conceptually. One may envision an indeterministic approach to cope with this uncertainty; but how the services will be provided in such a concept remains unclear. This article aims to explore the fundamental aspects of both deterministic and indeterministic approaches used in forestry to cope with climate change, and thereby point out trade-offs in service provisioning and adaptability. A forest owner needs to be able to anticipate these trade-offs in order to make decisions towards sustainable forest management under climate change.
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Rodrigues, Adriana Miranda. "Novas formas de habitar nos aterros industriais da Frente Ribeirinha." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13616.
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Angles, Renaud. "V-BPMI : une approche pour la conception, l'organisation et l'adaptation de processus flexibles : Cas d'application : la sécurisation du circuit du médicament au sein de l'AP-HM." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM4344.
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La modélisation de processus est, depuis plusieurs années, utilisée en entreprise pour représenter et maîtriser l’organisation et les flux d’informations. Parallèlement, la structure et les besoins des entreprises ont évolué : de plus en plus souvent, les mêmes processus métier sont déployés pour une entreprise donnée mais dans des environnements différents.Les organisations ont donc besoin de modéliser et déployer un même ensemble de processus métier dans des environnements divers tout en les adaptant le mieux possible aux spécificités de chacun de ces environnements.La méthode V BPMI s’inscrit dans cette problématique de la flexibilité des processus. Elle préconise notamment d’adopter une double orientation intentionnelle (en caractérisant formellement un processus par l’objectif qu’il permet d’atteindre) et contextuelle (en décrivant formellement les divers environnements dans lesquels un processus peut être déployé et mis en œuvre de façon pertinente). Cette méthode introduit principalement les concepts de lignes de processus, identifiées par des buts, et de variantes de processus, discriminées par des contextes, afin de supporter la flexibilité. Des opérateurs et un langage de modélisation et d'adaptation de processus, V BPMN, sont également proposés. Par ailleurs deux démarches sont définies pour guider la définition et l'adaptation de processus flexibles. De plus, la méthode s’appuie sur un modèle de connaissances et est supportée par une architecture, V BPME et un prototype.Pratiquement, cette méthode, élaborée dans le cadre d’un partenariat avec l’AP HM au sein du projet PERICLES, a été présentée et testée en collaboration avec des pharmaciens de l’AP HMModeling business processes allows enterprises to abstract and understand business workflows from many years. In the same time, business requirements and enterprise behaviors evolved: more and more, business processes are deployed for an organization but in several different environments. Thus, such structures need to model and deploy their business processes in several specific environments and in an adaptive way to care about these specificities. This issue concerns the flexibility of the business processes and their adaptation to the variability of environment in which they are deployed.The V BPMI method considers this purpose of the process flexibility by considering an intentional orientation (with a formal description of the goal a business process reaches) and a contextual orientation (with a formal description of the environment in which it is relevant to deploy and execute an adapted business process). This method introduces the process lines, identified with a business goal, and process variants, discriminated with a formal context, as major concepts for the flexibility support. It introduces too some operators and a process modeling and adaptation language, V BPMN. In addition, two approaches for flexible processes definition and adaptation are proposed. Moreover, the V BPMI method relies on a knowledge model and is supported by an architecture, V BPME, and a software prototype.In fact, this method, developed in collaboration with the AP HM within the PERCILES project, has been introduced and tested with pharmacists, with a focus on the drug circulation process
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Berg, Martin. "Sälgen 4 : Adaptable housing in Stockholm." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146660.
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I have designed a housing project that is an infill to an existing housing block in the city center of Stockholm. When I started this project the themes everydayness and building typology was central for me. That is why I also chose to work with the site Sälgen 4; a corner site and one of few remaining gaps in the block structure of the city center. Today there is a gas station on the site, which I for this project presume could be removed. When working with this project I found interest in what simplified could be called soft flexibility, where measurement, shape and connection to other spaces are dealt with in order to enable for different kinds of usage. This type of flexibility I encountered when studying late 19th century dwellings in Stockholm city center. I have developed similar apartments, often with a size of about 140 m2 with 4,5 rooms and an additional kitchen. Even all the room units are similar with over 4 m width and close to square shapes. This enabled the creation of very generic spaces but also introduced me to an interesting paradox; the on the architectural drawing less dynamic floor plan create on the other hand the most dynamic ways to inhabit the spaces. Also the loggia has been an important feature in my design.Jag har ritat ett bostadshus som är ett infill till ett befintligt kvarter i Stockholms innerstad. När jag började projektet så var temana vardaglighet och byggnadstypologi viktiga för mig. Därför valde jag att arbeta med tomten Sälgen 4; en hörntomt och en av få luckor i kvartersstaden. Idag finns där en bensinmack men jag har sett det som en förutsättning för projektet att den kan tas bort. Under projektets gång har jag intresserat mig för vad som förenklat kan kallas för mjuk flexibilitet, där rummens mått, form och angöring möjliggör för många olika typer av användning. Den typen av flexibilitet upptäckte jag då jag studerade gamla sekelskifteshus i Stockholm Jag har arbetat fram likartade lägenheter på oftast runt 140 m2 med 4,5 rum och kök. Även rumsenheterna är nästan identiska med drygt 4 m i bredd och nära kvadratisk form. På så vis har jag skapat en hög grad av generallitet men också konfronterats med en spännande paradox; de å ena sidan som ritning minst dynamiska planerna, kommer å andra sidan att generera den mest dynamiska och tillåtande användningen av dem. Även loggian har varit ett viktigt inslag i min design.
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Watson, Jason Daniel. "A Multi-Objective Optimization Method for Maximizing the Value of System Evolvability Under Uncertainty." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5598.
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System evolvability is vital to the longevity of large-scale complex engineered systems. The need for evolvability in complex systems is a result of their long service lives, rapid advances to their integrated technologies, unforeseen operating conditions, and emerging system requirements. In recent years, quantifiable metrics have been introduced for measuring the evolvability of complex systems based on the amount of excess capability in the system. These metrics have opened opportunities for optimization of systems with evolvability as an objective. However, there are several aspects of such an optimization that require further consideration. For example, there is a trade-off between the cost of excess capability initially built into complex systems and the benefit that is added to the system for future evolution. This trade-off must be represented in the optimization problem formulation. Additionally, uncertainty in future requirements and parameters of complex systems can result in an inaccurate representation of the design space. This thesis addresses these considerations through multi-objective optimization and uncertainty analysis. The resulting analysis gives insight into the effects of designing for evolvability. We show that there is a limit to the value added by increasing evolvability. We also show that accounting for uncertainty changes the optimal amount of evolvability that should be designed into a system. The developed theories and methods are demonstrated on the design of a military ground vehicle.
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Chivaura, Munashe, and Neto Renato Melillo. "Agility in Post-Merger Integration : A Catalyst to Innovation." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160780.
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Agility is referred to as the ability of a firm to proactively or reactively adapt successfully to rapid changes within the business environment both internally and externally. The Post-Merger Integration (PMI) phase is characterized by rapid organizational changes which require new strategy methods that suit the nature of today’s fast paced business environments. Though characterized by changes, the PMI presents an opportune moment for the transformation of a business by exploring and exhausting the innovation potential of the integrating firms through the use of agile aspects that seek to identify risks and explore opportunities in a nimble manner. These aspects are several, but in this study, we delve into three namely, flexibility, adaptability and customer focus. The aspects of agility originated from fields of Software Development and are fairly new to the discipline of Business Administration but are considered to be evolving and popular across other fields of study. The current era is noted by scholars as the Scaled Agile Framework Development Era which is characterized by an emergence in agile frameworks that aid in large scale programs of an organization, such as the PMI in this case. This era represents a steppingstone to business agility, the future of agility that seeks to transform an organization to be adaptive to changes. The purpose of this study is to develop an agile framework drawing from empirical findings of the use of agility aspects in the context of a merger and acquisition, more specifically, the post-merger integration phase, to act as an innovation catalyst. To obtain insights and a better understanding on what we set ourselves to research, we explore an embedded single case study of a firm operating in a traditional industry, the maritime industry, in order to investigate the following research question:How can agility in the context of a Post-Merger Integration (PMI) contribute toinnovation? Eight semi-structured interviews with senior executives and senior managers of the case company were conducted in order to draw insights on their previous experiences with mergers and acquisitions. Empirical evidence was collected and coded in line with the Gioia methodology and with the aid of references to extant literature we began to build theory thereof. Our findings revealed that agile aspects may be adopted to complement and not necessarily replace existing hierarchical structures, procedures and processes within the PMI. Additionally, all three aspects of agility we sought to investigate prove to be useful to promote innovation in PMIs when adopted. The theoretical contribution of our study is the development of an agile framework that may be utilized in the PMI to identify, exploit and exhaust the innovation potential of the M&A activity. Furthermore, the framework may be validated in a different company or setting other than the company under study.
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Pereira, Susana Fernandes Branco Cavaco. "Flexibilidade no espaço doméstico." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12044.
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Dissertação para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Arquitectura, apresentada na Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Arquitetura.Na presente investigação, é explorada numa visão flexível, a capacidade que o espaço doméstico tem em se transformar. Apurando as transformações ao nível social, laboral e tecnológico nas últimas décadas, são evidentes as alterações na casa, nomeadamente a invasão das tecnologias, no espaço doméstico. As alterações na configuração das estruturas familiares e do próprio ser humano e, consequentemente, na forma de habitar têm levado à transformação e evolução dos espaços habitacionais. Verifica-se portanto, uma fragmentação entre os modelos habitacionais disponíveis e as necessidades actuais, conduzindo ao repensar da lógica interna do espaço doméstico. Nesta óptica, percorre-se a evolução da casa como ponto de partida, explora-se o conceito de flexibilidade em todas as suas vertentes, no sentido de se investigar as estratégicas de flexibilidade arquitectónicas a aplicar no projecto, implicando a comunhão do habitar e do trabalhar no interior doméstico. A metodologia aplicada foi baseada não só no estudo de casos, mas também na investigação pelo projecto, como forma de aplicar as estratégias e os operadores de flexibilidade enunciados. Foi desenvolvido um modelo habitacional flexível que comporta não só o espaço de habitar como um espaço de trabalho - SOHO - que permite uma apropriação diversificada e uma maior adaptabilidade aos ciclos de vida dos utilizadores. Articular a casa com o espaço de trabalho sugere uma resposta às novas necessidades de trabalhar em casa, proporcionando relação com a mesma, sem descurar a vida doméstica e as suas diversas apropriações. A proposta projectual assenta num conjunto de carácter maioritário habitacional, incluindo comércio/serviços, espaços públicos e de lazer como forma de caracterizar e potenciar a zona de Marvila.
ABSTRACT: In this research, is explored in a flexible vision, the ability of the domestic space has in turn. Investigating the changes to the social, technical and technological level in recent decades, the changes are evident in the home, including the invasion of technology in the home. Configuration changes in family structures and the human being and, consequently, in the form of living have led to the transformation and evolution of living spaces. It appears therefore, fragmentation between housing models are available and current needs, leading to rethink the internal logic of the domestic space. To this end, runs through the evolution of the house as a starting point, it explores the concept of flexibility in all its aspects, in order to investigate the strategic architectural flexibility to implement the project, involving the communion of dwelling and work at home inside. It was developed a flexible housing model that includes not only the space to inhabit as a workspace – SOHO - allows a diverse ownership and greater adaptability to the lifecycles of users. Articulate the house with the workspace suggests an answer to the changing needs of working from home, providing relationship with it, without neglecting the domestic life and its various appropriations. The proposal is based on a housing project-majority character set, including trade/ services, public spaces a and leisure as a way to characterize and enhance the area of Marvila.
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Paolo, Paola Paes Di. "Casas para um planeta pequeno." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19828.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.Moradia está diretamente ligada à população, engloba questões econômicas, sociais e barreiras culturais que vão além das formas urbanas e isso reflete nas estratégias e políticas habitacionais das cidades. Londres, desde a época da industrialização (século XVIII) - na qual a cidade passou de rural para urbana e que levou o aumento da urbanização -, até os dias de hoje (século XXI), sofre com as consequências do crescimento acelerado da população. Classificada como cidade global, Londres possui um papel de grande importância no sistema econômico mundial e também é considerada uma megacidade, pois possui mais de 11 milhões de habitantes, incluindo a sua área metropolitana. Como resultado deste adensamento, os residentes sentem com a crise da oferta imobiliária e com a falta de moradias acessíveis, principalmente no centro da cidade, onde muitos acabam por preferir residir em áreas mais afastadas ou em cidades vizinhas. A capital da Inglaterra precisa construir rapidamente mais habitações em pouco tempo para conseguir dar resposta à atual procura. Como forma de suprir o déficit habitacional, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo a criação de habitações modulares e flexíveis, fáceis de serem construídas e ampliadas, capaz de serem adaptadas a diferentes contextos na cidade. Estas unidades habitacionais estão diretamente relacionadas com o conceito de nomadismo urbano, pensadas para um público que está em constante mudança.
ABSTRACT: Housing is directly linked to the population, encompasses economic issues, social and cultural barriers that go beyond urban forms and this reflects in the housing strategies and policies of cities. London, from the time of industrialization (18th century) - in which the city went from rural to urban and that led to the increase of urbanization - to the present day (21st century) suffers from the consequences of accelerated growth population. Classified as a global city, London has a very important role in the world economic system and is also considered a megacity, as it has more than 11 million inhabitants, including its metropolitan area. As a result of this densification, residents feel the crisis with the lack of affordable housing, especially in the city center, where many end up preferring to live in more remote areas or in neighboring cities. The capital of England needs to quickly build more housing in a short time to be able to meet current demand. As a way to fill the housing deficit, the present work aims to create modular and flexible housing, easy to be built and expanded, able to be adapted to different contexts in the city. These housing units are directly related to the concept of urban nomadism, designed for a constantly changing public.
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Tackett, Morgan Wesley Parry. "A Mathematical Model for Quantifying System Evolvability Using Excess and Modularity." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3789.
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An important factor in system longevity is service-phase evolvability, which is defined as the ability of a system to physically transform from one configuration to a more desirable configuration while in service. These transformations may or may not be known during the design process, and may or may not be reversible. A study of 210 engineered systems was performed and found that system excess and modularity allow a system to evolve while in service. Building on these observations, this thesis introduces mathematical relationships that map a system's excess and modularity to that system's ability to evolve. These relationships are derived from elastic potential energy theories. The use of the evolvability measure, and other related measures presented herein, are illustrated with simple numerical examples and applied to the design of US Navy nuclear aircraft carriers. Using these relationships, it is shown that the Navy's new Ford-class aircraft carrier is the most evolvable carrier designed to date. Though the evolvability relationships introduced here are generically derived based on excess and modularity, the aircraft carrier example presented considers only the system excess.
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Krauß, Andreas. "Zustandsgeregelte dynamische Dimensionierung von Produktionssystemen im Kontext des Produktionsmanagements." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-103923.
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Das zu entwickelnde Konzept zielt darauf ab, ausgehend von definierten Produktionsverfahren, -prozessen und den dafür qualitativ bestimmten Maschinen und Anlagen Erkenntnisse zur notwendigen Anzahl und den resultierenden Kosten zu ermitteln. Mit der Entwicklung des Konzepts soll ein Beitrag zur Schaffung eines unternehmensziel- und strategiekonformen Wertschöpfungsprozesses über alle Bereiche des Produktionsmanagements produzierender Unternehmen geleistet werden. Den Kern des Konzepts bildet die dynamische Dimensionierung, die Belastungsänderungen des Produktionssystems über die Zeit berücksichtigt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der Gestaltung eines wirtschaftlich sinnvollen Maßes an Flexibilität und Wandlungsfähigkeit. Weiterhin wird eine Automatisierung des Planungsprozesses in Verbindung mit dem Einsatz von Optimierungstechniken und Kostensimulation angestrebt. Anhand unterschiedlicher Szenarien erfolgt eine Gegenüberstellung des neu entwickelten Konzepts mit bestehenden VerfahrenThe concept which has been developed is based on defined production methods and production processes which are necessary for quality machinery and equipment in order to identify specifically, the number of machines required and the resulting costs. The developed concept contributes to creating a business goal and strategy-driven value creation process in all areas of production management of the manufacturing company. Since the core concept is dynamic dimensioning, it is imperative to take into account the load of the production system and how it changes over time; and is therefore both flexible and adaptable. Furthermore, automation of the planning process in conjunction with the use of optimization techniques and simulation cost is sought. Different scenarios allow the comparison of newly developed concepts with a variety of procedures which already exist
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Perozzo, Reiner Franthesco. "Framework para construção de sistemas supervisórios em dispositivos móveis." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/10700.
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Sistemas supervisórios são sistemas computacionais que permitem a monitoração de informações de processos produtivos ou de dispositivos de automação e de plantas industriais. Neste trabalho é proposto um framework para construção de tais sistemas, direcionada a dispositivos móveis, tais como Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), telefones celulares e computadores de bolso. O framework proposto define uma arquitetura que é implementada gerando sistemas supervisórios com três características principais: (i) as telas de supervisão são construídas com base em um modelo orientado a objetos que utiliza conceitos da área da aplicação, mapeando o mundo real para um modelo computacional; (ii) o projeto de sistemas supervisórios apresenta flexibilidade com relação aos recursos computacionais disponíveis, oferecendo opções para armazenamento local ou remoto de dados multimídia, com o objetivo de não sobrecarregar os dispositivos móveis onde são executados; (iii) os sistemas supervisórios são capazes de se adaptarem dinamicamente às variações na Qualidade de Serviços (QoS) oferecidos pela infra-estrutura de comunicação, ajustando as suas telas gráficas em função de uma especificação de requisitos definidos em tempo de projeto e do nível de QoS obtido na rede em tempo de execução. Duas ferramentas computacionais são propostas e desenvolvidas no âmbito deste trabalho: (i) a primeira responsável pelo ambiente de desenvolvimento dos projetos de sistemas supervisórios, que resulta na geração automática de código em linguagem Java, correspondente à aplicação de supervisão; (ii) a segunda é responsável pela adaptação de mensagens e comunicação de dados entre as aplicações de supervisão projetadas e outros sistemas supervisórios e de controle, disponíveis no mercado. Os conceitos propostos neste trabalho foram validados através de três estudos de caso descritos na presente dissertação.Supervisory systems are computational systems which allow information monitoring of production processes or automation and technical plant devices. This paper proposes a framework for building supervisory systems, targeted to mobile devices, such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), cell phones and Pocket PCs. The proposed framework allows the development of supervisory systems with three main characteristics: (i) supervision screens, which graphically depict the technical plant, are built using an object oriented model that uses concepts of the application area, allowing a direct mapping of real world concepts, such as automation devices to a computational model; (ii) the supervisory systems project presents flexibility about the available computational resources, offering options for local or remote storing of multimedia and graphical data, with the purpose of not overloading the mobile devices where they are executed; (iii) the supervisory systems runtime environment can dynamically adapt to variations in the Quality of Services (QoS) offered by the communication infrastructure, adjusting their graphic displays by comparing required and offered QoS. Two computational tools are proposed and developed in this work: (i) the first one supports the development of supervisory systems and allows, from an object-oriented model of the application, an automatic code generation - in Java language - of the supervision application; (ii) the second one is responsible for the online adaptation of messages and data communication among the projected supervision applications and other control and supervisory systems. The proposed concepts are validated through three case studies described in the present dissertation.
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Almeida, Ricardo Gouveia de. "Habitação colectiva para um habitar imprevisível." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13922.
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Omerovic, Damir, and Amanda Kronkvist. "Standardiserade flerbostadshus - En utredning om en hållbar förtätning av stadskärnan." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Byggnadsteknik och belysningsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-37773.
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Butz, Benjamin. "The Different Lives of Spaces - Reconsidering the City Block as a New Neighborhood in Washington Dc." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34459.
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The city with its urban density, infrastructure, and cultural, social and educational opportunities can be a desirable place to live for all - regardless of age, income or background. The city of today has changed considerably from the city of the 19th century. Neither is it the city of the future. However, it has great potential to anticipate to the challenges we will face in the future. It is a place that constantly changes. It is a living organism!
This constant change is a challenge for architects to develop concepts and design-solutions that can react to shifting uses, zoning requirements, and dweller habits. The constant alteration of lifestyle, residential and commercial use, as well as job-related needs demands a high flexibity and adaptability in architecture and urban planning. Today's life is fast and unpredictable.
Other contemporary issues such as sustainabilty or climate change are becoming key issues of today's discussion - in society, in the media and in world policy. Architects - responsible for our built environment - have to find innovative solutions to such ever-changing problems within their profession - within architecture.
How can a concept, project or building be designed or constructed to anticipate those future needs, and what are the limits?
To explore these questions and many more that followed I chose a site in midtown Washington DC. My thesis project includes 23 townhouses with partial retail, incorporated along an alley in the interior of a city block. The new development is integrated into the existing structure.Master of Architecture
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Biccard, P., and D. C. J. Wessels. "Problem-centred teaching and modelling as bridges to the 21st century in primary school mathematics classrooms." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-82321.
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Caudron, Sébastien. "Adaptabilité et flexibilité des mécanismes d'intégration sensorielle lors de perturbations propioceptives du contrôle postural." Grenoble, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010GRENS014.
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Le sujet humain doit continuellement s'adapter aux contraintes environnementales changeantes, notamment pour un maintien postural efficient. Afin de réaliser ce but, son système nerveux central évalue en pennanence la pertinence des différentes informations sensorielles (principalement visuelles, vestibulaires et proprio-somesthésiques). La manière dont ces infonnations sont intégrées, sélectionnées et / ou pondérées, en fonction de leur fiabilité, nécessite d'être éclaircie. Plus particulièrement, nous avons souhaité explorer le caractère singulier de l'intégration des afférences proprioceptives. Le premier objectif a consisté à comprendre comment les mécanismes d'intégration sensorielle peuvent être adaptés lors de perturbations proprioceptives du contrôle postural induites par vibration musculon tendineuse. Faire l'expérience des conséquences posturales de ce type de perturbation et / ou pouvoir percevoir plus finement les caractéristiques de la déstabilisation lorsque l'environnement sensoriel est enrichi semblent être les facteurs nécessaires pour que l'adaptation se mette en place. A partir de ces constatations, l'influence de biofeedback posturaux sur des perturbations proprioceptives a été étudié afin d'explorer la flexibilité des mécanismes d'intégration sensorielle. Un biofeedback auditif stéréophonique pennettait de stabiliser la réponse à la vibration chez des sujets sains, cependant, dans des latences longues. Parallèlement, un biofeedback visuel, indiquant la géométrie corporelle dans un dispositif monoculaire de vision tête haute, a été développé afin d'améliorer les troubles d'orientation posturale des patients parkinsoniensHuman being continuously has to adapt to modifications of environmental constraints, particularly to preserve balance efficiently. To achieve this aim, the central nervous system permanently estimates the relevance of sensory infonnation (mainly visual, vestibular and somatosensory infonnation). The way, in which infonnation from sens ory inputs are integrated, selected and/or weighted according to their reliability, requires to be cleared up. More particularly, we wished to investigate the singular character of proprioceptive integration: the various somatensory receptors are located on the whole postural chain and indicate modifications at the muscular or articular level. The first objective consisted in understanding how sens ory integration mechanisms can be adapted, during proprioceptive disturbances of postural control, evoked by muscle-tendon vibration. Experimental results showed that to experience postural consequences of this kind of perturbation and/or to be able to perceive more accurately the characteristics of the destabilization, when sens ory environment is enhanced, seemed to be necessary factors in order that adaptation takes place. From these observations, the impact of postural biofeedback devices during proprioceptive disturbances was studied in order to investigate the flexibility of the sensory integration mechanisms. An audio stereophonic biofeedback device stabilized vibratory evoked responses in healthy subjects, but only in long lasting latencies. Ln the same way, a visual biofeedback device, indicating the body geometry in a monocular head-mounted display, was developed in order to improve the postural orientation deficits in parkinsonian patients
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Lemos, Nayara dos Santos. "Habitações flexíveis e adaptáveis: o estudo da aplicabilidade de soluções espaciais do Solar Decathlon Europe para o Conjunto Habitacional Gervásio Maia de João Pessoa-PB, Brasil." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2015. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/7679.
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Currently in Brazil, it can be see that the housing availability is not keeping up with population growth, and at that point, João Pessoa (Paraíba state, Brazil) is no different. As a solution to reduce the cost for housing and increase the number of buildings, their quality was sacrifice, by reducing the interior space, causing a distortion of the concept of minimal home, which gave users a major dissatisfaction factors: the lack of space, especially when it comes to social housing. In the search for solutions to this problem, spatial flexibility and adaptability comes as a way to provide the user a better quality of domestic space, more dynamic, so that housing can evolve and adapt to a diverse number of situations. Several development projects encouraging initiatives following this line of thought emerged around the world, among them the Solar Decathlon Europe, an international university competition that challenges collegiate teams to design, build and operate efficient prototype homes, with minimum dimensions and present strategies that overcome the space limitations. Therefore, this research aims the analysis of the application of flexibility and adaptability in architecture and highlight some guidelines of these aspects that can improve the interior’s quality of social housing, from Solar Decathlon Europe’s examples. For that presented a practical example of application in a housing typology of social interest in Joao Pessoa: the Gervásio Maia housing complex, built through a partnership between the Municipality of João Pessoa and the Federal Government, recognized in 2008 as a of the top ten housing projects in Brazil, but indicated as a bad example of architectural design reference for housing units in 2009. In this applied research, the methodological process adopted sought to conduct a thematic analysis of the collected material, in order to establish a relation between the collected data and what was intend to learn from the analysis. As expected result, it is believe to be leave a collaboration in the search for improvement of existing architectural problems in Social Interest Housing in Paraíba, using projective strategies more flexible and adaptable in particular to buildings already built.
Atualmente no Brasil, pode-se observar que a disponibilidade habitacional não vem acompanhando seu crescimento populacional, e nesse ponto João Pessoa (estado de Paraíba, Brasil) não é diferente. Como solução à redução de custo habitacionais para o aumento da quantidade de construções, sacrificou-se a qualidade das mesmas, diminuindo o dimensionamento de ambientes internos, causando uma deturpação do conceito de casa mínima, o que deu origem a um dos principais fatores de insatisfação dos usuários: a falta de espaço, principalmente quando se trata de Habitações de Interesse Social. Na busca de soluções para esse problema, a flexibilidade espacial e a adaptabilidade surgem como uma forma de fornecer ao usuário uma melhor qualidade de espaço doméstico, com maior dinamismo, de forma que a habitação possa evoluir e adaptar-se a um número diversificado de situações. Várias iniciativas de incentivo ao desenvolvimento de projetos seguindo essa linha de pensamento surgiram ao redor do mundo, dentre elas o Solar Decathlon Europe, uma competição universitária internacional que desafia equipes colegiais a projetar, construir e operar protótipos de casas eficientes, com dimensões mínimas e que apresentem estratégias que superem a limitação de espaço. Portanto, esta pesquisa surge com o objetivo de analisar a questão da aplicação da Flexibilidade e da Adaptabilidade na Arquitetura e, assim, apontar diretrizes de uso desses aspectos na melhoria da qualidade de interiores em habitações de interesse social, a partir dos processos projetuais do Solar Decathlon Europe. Para tanto apresentou-se um exemplo prático de aplicação em uma tipologia habitacional de interesse social de João Pessoa: o Conjunto Habitacional Gervásio Maia, construído por meio de uma parceria entre a Prefeitura Municipal de João Pessoa e o Governo Federal, reconhecido em 2008 como um dos dez melhores projetos habitacionais do Brasil, mas indicado como referência de mau exemplo de projeto arquitetônico para unidades habitacionais em 2009. Por tratar-se de uma pesquisa aplicada, o processo metodológico adotado procurou realizar uma análise temática do material coletado, a fim de se estabelecerem relações entre os dados e aquilo que se pretendia obter com a análise realizada, dividindo-se em 07 etapas principais: sistematização da pesquisa, seleção de dados, análise dos problemas da tipologia em estudo, definição de diretrizes, cadastro de projetos, análise de dados e apreciação acerca dos resultados. Como resultado esperado, acredita-se que seja deixada uma colaboração na busca por melhoria dos problemas arquitetônicos existentes em Habitações de Interesse Social na Paraíba, por meio do uso de estratégias projetuais mais flexíveis e adaptáveis, em especial, aos edifícios já construídos.
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Ogel, Frédéric. "Dynamically adaptable execution environments." Paris 6, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA066253.
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Pereira, Maria Margarida Aldiano Reis. "A casa de hoje. Reflexão sobre a adaptabilidade no interior doméstico." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa. Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/6691.
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Gorgoglione, Matteo. "Analyse et construction de codes LDPC non-binaires pour des canaux à évanouissement." Phd thesis, Université de Cergy Pontoise, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00778170.
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Au cours des 15 dernières années, des progrès spectaculaires dans l'analyse et la conception des codes définis par des graphes bipartites et dé-codables par des algorithmes itératifs ont permis le développement de systèmes de correction d'erreurs, avec des performances de plus en plus proches la limite théorique de Shannon. Dans ce contexte, un rôle déterminant a été joué par la famille des codes à matrice de parité creuse, appelés codes LDPC (pour " Low-Density Parity-Check ", en anglais), introduit par Gallager au début des années 60 et décrits plus tard en termes de graphes bipartites. Négligés pendant de longues années, ces codes ont été redécouverts à la fin des années 90, après que la puissance du décodage itératif a été mise en évidence grâce à l'invention des Turbo-codes. Ce n'est qu'au début des années 2000 que les techniques nécessaires à l'analyse et l'optimisation des codes LDPC ont été développées, techniques qui ont permis ensuite la construction des codes avec des performances asymptotiques proches de la limite de Shannon. Cette remarquable avancée a motivé l'intérêt croissant de la communauté scientifique et soutenu le transfert rapide de cette technologie vers le secteur industriel. Plus récemment, un intérêt tout particulier a été porté aux codes LDPC définis sur des alphabets non-binaires, grâce notamment à leur meilleure capacité de correction en " longueur finie ". Bien que Gallager ait déjà proposé l'utilisation des alphabets non-binaires, en utilisant l'arithmétique modulaire, les codes LDPC non-binaires définis sur les corps finis n'ont étés étudiés qu'à partir de la fin des années 90. Il a été montré que ces codes offrent de meilleures performances que leurs équivalents binaires lorsque le bloc codé est de longueur faible à modérée, ou lorsque les symboles transmis sur le canal sont eux-mêmes des symboles non-binaires, comme par exemple dans le cas des modulations d'ordre supérieur ou des canaux à antennes multiples.Cependant, ce gain en performance implique un coût non négligeable en termes de complexité de décodage, quipeut entraver l'utilisation des codes LDPC non binaires dans des systèmes réels, surtout lorsque le prix à payer encomplexité est plus important que le gain en performance.Cette thèse traite de l'analyse et de la conception des codes LDPC non binaires pour des canaux à évanouissements. L'objectif principal de la thèse est de démontrer que, outre le gain en performance en termes de capacité de correction, l'emploi des codes LDPC non binaires peut apporter des bénéfices supplémentaires,qui peuvent compenser l'augmentation de la complexité du décodeur. La " flexibilité " et la " diversité "représentent les deux bénéfices qui seront démontrées dans cette thèse. La " flexibilité " est la capacité d'unsystème de codage de pouvoir s'adapter à des débits (rendements) variables tout en utilisant le même encodeuret le même décodeur. La " diversité " se rapporte à sa capacité d'exploiter pleinement l'hétérogénéité du canal de communication.La première contribution de cette thèse consiste à développer une méthode d'approximation de l'évolution de densité des codes LDPC non-binaires, basée sur la simulation Monte-Carlo d'un code " infini ". Nous montrons que la méthode proposée fournit des estimations très fines des performances asymptotiques des codes LDPCnon-binaires et rend possible l'optimisation de ces codes pour une large gamme d'applications et de modèles de canaux.La deuxième contribution de la thèse porte sur l'analyse et la conception de système de codage flexible,utilisant des techniques de poinçonnage. Nous montrons que les codes LDPC non binaires sont plus robustes au poinçonnage que les codes binaires, grâce au fait que les symboles non-binaires peuvent être partialement poinçonnés. Pour les codes réguliers, nous montrons que le poinçonnage des codes non-binaires obéit à des règles différentes, selon que l'on poinçonne des symboles de
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"Transformable community: adaptability and flexibility to a human life cycle." 2010. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5893946.
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Tsang Wai Lok, Jason."Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2009-2010, design report."
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Barulli, Daniel James. "Strategic Flexibility and Age-Related Cognitive Change." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-k9r5-k555.
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This series of projects aims to explore the potential role of strategic flexibility in cognitive aging, and whether this construct can serve as an effective mechanistic proxy for cognitive reserve. Study 1 introduces the task designed for this series, based on stimuli from a classic test of fluid reasoning and formatted as a task-switching paradigm to explore strategic characteristics in a structured way. This study suggests that such a task is subject to age-related effects. Study 2 introduces a redesigned version of this task, matching it more closely to existing paradigms of task-switching, and explores how covariates interact with measured performance. Study 3 draws upon an existing sample of extensive neuropsychological and neuroimaging data, and aims to describe the associations among this set of data and measures of strategic flexibility. Results overall indicate that age negatively affects strategic flexibility, but cognitive reserve may mitigate this impairment.
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Zhu, Zhuoying. "Expressive Flexibility and Affective Flexibility: Relation to Each Other and the Effects of Practice and Feedback Instruction." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D89K4BGM.
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Theory and research on emotion regulation have shifted from an emphasis on adaptiveness of specific regulatory strategies to regulatory flexibility according situational demands. Using the process model of flexible regulation (Bonanno & Burton, 2013), this dissertation reports two studies designed to investigate questions related to regulatory repertoire and responsiveness to feedback (two central components underpinning regulatory flexibility), respectively. In Study 1, participants undertook the Expressive Flexibility Task (EF Task), in which they were instructed to up- and down-regulate their emotional facial expressions, and the Affective Flexibility Task (AF Task), in which they were instructed to up- and down-regulate their subjective feelings. The results showed that the ability to enhance emotional expression, as rated by untrained observers, and the ability to enhance subjective feeling, as measured by facial electromyography (EMG), were moderately correlated, so were the abilities to suppress emotional expression and subjective feeling, suggesting regulation in distinct response systems are separable but also reflect a broader, unified capacity. In Study 2, extra trials (2nd phase) were added to examine the effect of practice and feedback instruction on expressive and affective regulatory abilities. Half of the participants were given predetermined negative feedback about their performance of the EF and AF Tasks and asked to try harder in the 2nd phase of the tasks (feedback group), and the other half were instructed to wait before proceeding to the 2nd task phases (control group). The two groups demonstrated comparable improvement in the ability to further enhance subjective feeling in the 2nd phase of the tasks, as measured by facial EMG. The feedback group also reported more or less emotion in accordance to the regulatory instructions in the 2nd task phases. Furthermore, both the abilities to further enhance and suppress subjective feeling as measured by facial EMG were negatively correlated with depressive symptoms and general distress, regardless of group status. The findings were discussed within the regulatory flexibility framework. Methodological limitations of the study and direction for future research were also discussed.
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Yan, Oscar Hsin-dar. "Loneliness and Emotional Flexibility Deficits in Bereavement." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8BP0FCB.
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The current study investigates whether the ability to enhance and suppress emotional facial expressions display cross-sectional associations with feelings of loneliness among spousal bereaved individuals 1.5 to 3 years after a loss. We compare bereaved individuals to a demographically similar married control group to examine whether the relationship between loneliness and emotional expression regulation is moderated by grief after controlling for the effects of relationship satisfaction and symptoms of PTSD/depression. We evaluate three dimensions of loneliness: emotional loneliness, social loneliness, and collective loneliness.
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Paneduro, Denise. "Effects of bilingualism on flexibility and abstract representations /." 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR51575.
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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Psychology.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-67). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR51575
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Hsu, Hsiao-Tzu, and 許孝慈. "The Impact of Human Resource Management Flexibility on Organizational Innovation and Adaptability—The Moderating Effect of Coordination Flexibility." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/aqekmv.
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碩士國立交通大學
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Facing the challenges of rapid technology advantage and transformational change. Organizational change has become an necessary strategy. As company change, human’s change are more precarious. This study aims to explore the relationships between human resource management flexibility, organizational innovation and organizational adaptability. We proposed a conceptual model hypothesizing that flexibility of human resource practices helps to increase flexibility of employee’s skills and behaviors. And thus, it positively affect organizational innovation and adaptability. Moreover, coordination flexibility of employee’s skills and behaviors plays a moderating role in the relationships. In this research, the sample population base on the Taiwan Top 2000 enterprises that released by CommonWealth Magazine in 2019. Finally we obtained an effective sample of 45 enterprises. Then analyzed our data with SPSS 22.0 statistic software. The research results are as follows: 1. Practices flexibility positively affect resources flexibility. 2. Resources flexibility positively affect organizational innovation and adaptability. 3. Coordination flexibility has no positively moderating effect on the relationship of resources flexibility to organizational innovation and adaptability. Enterprises should be committed to adopting the strategy of human resources management flexibility to strengthen organizational innovation and adaptability. And it also increase overall performance. Furthermore, recruiting and developing employees with flexible skills and behaviors make enterprises more competitive in the industry.
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White, Zoe Louise. "Self-concealment, Psychological Flexibility, and Severity of Eating Disorders." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8H14JWT.
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The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological flexibility, self-concealment, and eating disorder severity. This study also sought to explore the relationship between these variables in a clinical sample. Existing literature has demonstrated that diminished psychological flexibility is likely to play a key role in eating pathology. Additionally, self-concealment has been found to be a common and treatment-interfering aspect of the clinical presentation of eating-disordered individuals. Preliminary evidence has been found linking these variables to severity of eating-disorder pathology. However, this relationship needs further clarification to understand fully the implications for treatment and relapse prevention, for these often treatment-resistant disorders.
Participants were 182 respondents to an online survey including demographic information, the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q), the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-16), and the Self-Concealment Scale (SCS). Data were collected via Qualtrics software and analyzed in SPSS using Hayes PROCESS models.
Findings included the following. Among a sample of eating-disordered individuals, the less (more diminished) psychological flexibility they reported, the more severe the reported eating-disorder symptoms; in other words, an inverse relationship was found. Additionally, the greater self-concealment participants reported, the more severe were their reported eating-disorder symptoms. These findings held up for overall severity of reported symptoms and also for subscale severity for eating restraint, eating concern, weight concern, and shape concern. Additionally, a moderated mediation model found that greater self-concealment, diminished psychological flexibility, and no treatment were all significantly related to increases in eating-disorder severity. This model also found a significant interaction between psychological flexibility and eating-disorder severity moderated by treatment condition. That is, the extent to which someone self-conceals helps to explain the relationship between psychological flexibility and severity. Furthermore, whether a patient has been in treatment significantly relates to the relationship between psychological flexibility and severity.
Implications of these findings are discussed, including a focus on emotion-regulation models of eating disorders and the rationale for adopting a transdiagnostic understanding of eating pathology. Recommendations are proposed for clinical practice, including expanding the utilization of therapies such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) for eating disorders, which specifically target psychological flexibility and self-concealment in the hope of preventing future relapse.