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Beck, Daniel S. "Microelectronic obsolescence management." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Jun%5FBeck.pdf.
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Holmberg, Daniel. "Obsolescence - affordable adaptive reuse." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279047.
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This thesis departures from the urgency to reinterpret the role of the architect. Our job’s main mission can no longer be to supply ideas for cradle to grave type of production. The only way to harmonize our needs with the planetary limits is through a paradigm shift towards reshaping existing materials, infrastructure, and constructions. How could architects better inform and convey their expertise regarding construction, material qualities, and cultural values, in a constructive, forward-looking way? By working hands-on with preexisting contexts and buildings we want to learn the craft of adaptive reuse. This thesis has resulted in a case study of a former hardware store, called Järnbolaget, in the small urban outpost Torsby in the north of Värmland.
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Pustina, Petter. "Obsolescence - affordable adaptive reuse." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280717.
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This thesis departures from the urgency to reinterpret the role of the architect. Our job’s main mission can no longer be to supply ideas for cradle to grave type of production. The only way to harmonize our needs with the planetary limits is through a paradigm shift towards reshaping existing materials, infrastructure, and constructions. How could architects better inform and convey their expertise regarding construction, material qualities, and cultural values, in a constructive, forward-looking way? By working hands-on with preexisting contexts and buildings we want to learn the craft of adaptive reuse. This thesis has resulted in a case study of a former hardware store, called Järnbolaget, in the small urban outpost Torsby in the north of Värmland.
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Nejedlá, Jana. "Planned obsolescence: Understanding the reality of durable goods obsolescence and consumers' disposal behaviour." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-71875.
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Planned obsolescence is the term used to describe incentives of companies to make durable goods faster obsolete. The aim of the study is to make a big picture and real situation about planned obsolescence practising and consumer disposal behaviour. First part addresses the theoretical background and provides comprehensive overview through different aspects of the good's durability issue and planned obsolescence characteristics and influences. Second part in further reference to the information provided in theoretical part examines the situation of specific durable products - laptops. From survey's results on consumer attitudes towards durability of laptops and real case study on Apple Inc. and its reliance to planned obsolescence, recommendations to the more sustainable consumption of consumer electronics are presented.
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Rajan, Ranjani, and Ying Wang. "Obsolescence reduction through product segmentation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107511.
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Thesis: M. Eng. in Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Supply Chain Management Program, 2016.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-72).
The Hershey Company faces a risk of obsolescence across its supply chain as it follows the First In First Out (FIFO) technique at its manufacturing plant distribution center instead of distributing goods based on either the demand at each retailer's end or the useable shelf life of the goods being distributed. The two different stages at which a product can turn obsolete are a) when it reaches expiry and b) during the end of a season or promotion run for a specialty product. The existing picking strategy does not differentiate between orders based on the type of products or the volume served by destination/retailers. This could lead to the risk of obsolescence or return of products in some retailers as the products reach expiry before sales at the retailer's end due to insufficient remaining shelf life. Through this project, we aim at reducing the total obsolescence of a product by proposing a new picking strategy based on the sales volume at each distribution channel and the remaining shelf life of products at the manufacturer's site. The cut-off value or the ratio of volume served by fast moving customer distribution centers to the total volume at which the obsolescence within the supply chain would be minimal was determined for a set of products using an excel simulation model. Hierarchical clustering was performed on all products to form two clusters of distribution centers based on the shipped order quantities and the fractional volume served by both the clusters was determined. The new model was proposed for those product-distribution center combinations with fractional volumes greater than the cut-off as they are most likely to benefit with reduced level of obsoletes.
by Ranjani Rajan and Ying Wang.
M. Eng. in Logistics
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Anderson, Stephanie Louise. "Footsteps into the forgotten : consuming obsolescence." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2016. http://digitool.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28808.
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Musso, Patrick. "Obsolescence du capital, productivité et croissance économique." Nice, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NICE0057.
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Mcgahan, C. M. G. "Language obsolescence and language death in Southeast Ulster." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517445.
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Baum, Andrew Ellis. "An analysis of property investment depreciation and obsolescence." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329097.
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Lyberg, Katarina, and Anthony Bomboma. "Planned Obsolescence The propensity to replace a cell phone due to physical versus technological obsolescence and the role of attitude functions :." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-42662.
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Botkins, Gabriel M. "Consuming Apple: Conformity through Rebellion and Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337950286.
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Romero, Rojo Francisco Javier. "Development of a framework for obsolescence resolution cost estimation." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2011. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/6854.
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Currently, manufacturing organisations worldwide are shifting their business models towards Product-Service Systems (PSS), which implies the development of new support agreements such as availability-based contracts. This transition is shifting the responsibilities for managing and resolving obsolescence issues from the customer to the prime contractor and industry work share partners. This new scenario has triggered a new need to estimate the Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) cost of resolving obsolescence issues at the bidding stage, so it can be included in the support contract. Hence, the aim of this research is to develop an understanding about all types of obsolescence and develop methodologies for the estimation of NRE costs of hardware (electronic, electrical and electromechanical (EEE) components and materials) obsolescence that can be used at the bidding stage for support contracts in the defence and aerospace sectors. For the accomplishment of this aim, an extensive literature review of the related themes to the research area was carried out. It was found that there is a lack of methodologies for the cost estimation of obsolescence, and also a lack of understanding on the different types of obsolescence such as materials and software obsolescence. A systematic industrial investigation corroborated these findings and revealed the current practice in the UK defence sector for cost estimation at the bidding stage, obsolescence management and obsolescence cost estimation. It facilitated the development of an understanding about obsolescence in hardware and software. Further collaboration with experts from more than 14 organisations enabled the iterative development of the EEEFORCE and M-FORCE frameworks, which can be used at the bidding stage of support contracts to estimate the NRE costs incurred during the contracted period in resolving obsolescence issues in EEE components and materials, respectively. These frameworks were implemented within a prototype software platform that was applied to 13 case studies for expert validation.
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Zheng, Liyu. "Knowledge Representation and Decision Support for Managing Product Obsolescence." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30178.
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Fast moving technologies have caused high-tech components to have shortened life cycles, rendering them obsolete quickly. Technology obsolescence creates significant problems for product sectors that use components that are only available for a short period of time for manufacture and maintenance of long field-life systems. Technology obsolescence can make design changes of systems prohibitively expensive, and results in high life cycle costs of systems. While the impact and pervasiveness of obsolescence problems are growing, existing tools and solutions are lacking the needed information and knowledge to do much more than focus on reactively managing obsolescence. Current methods and tools are limited by data conflicts and data inexplicitness, incompleteness, and inconsistency.
In response to the drawbacks of current tools, comprehensive knowledge representation that allows information sharing, reuse, and collaboration on obsolescence issues across different organizations is required. Further, decision making tools that can support proactive and strategic obsolescence management are needed. The purpose of this research is to establish an ontology-based knowledge representation scheme for information sharing, reuse, and collaboration on obsolescence issues, and develop decision making models to support proactive and strategic management for overall cost savings in managing obsolescence.
Three primary aspects of this research are investigated. First, ontologies for obsolescence knowledge representation are developed in a systematic way with the use of UML diagrams. The generality of the developed ontology is demonstrated with distinct examples. Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) obsolescence provides the basis for this study. Second, an ontology-based hybrid approach for integrating heterogeneous data resources in existing obsolescence management tools is proposed. Third, decision support models are developed and formalized, and include the obsolescence forecasting method for proactively managing obsolescence, and the mathematical models to determine the optimal design refresh plan to minimize the product life cycle cost for strategic obsolescence management. Finally, the design of the obsolescence management information system is provided along with a system evaluation methodology.
Ultimately, the research contributes to the field of knowledge representation as well as design for managing product obsolescence.Ph. D.
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Callaghan, John. "Slavery and Major Power Warfare: Similar Paths to Obsolescence?" University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1291051347.
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Ge, Tianyu. "Encyclopædia Mundi: A digital experience." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/103645.
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Encyclopædia Mundi is an interactive software experience that questions the relationships between the authority of authorship, knowledge, and artificially generated text. The software presents itself as a genuine 90s digital encyclopedia, but the absurdity of the generated text, which is syntactically correct but semantically dubious, subverts the audience's expectation and reveals its true nature as an artwork. In this context, the audience is prompted to reflect on how we socially attribute authority to existing encyclopedic models, as well as the future role of artificial intelligence in contributing to our understanding of knowledge, truth, and reality.Master of Fine Arts
What does knowledge and the authority of authorship mean in a society where artificial intelligence is becoming more involved with our lives? Encyclopædia Mundi is an interactive software experience that takes the form of a genuine 90s digital encyclopedia, but the absurdity of the generated text, which follows correct English grammar but has little or no sensible meaning, subverts the audience's expectation and reveals its true nature as an artwork. In this context, the audience is prompted to reflect on how we socially attribute authority to existing encyclopedic models, as well as the future role of AI in contributing to our understanding of knowledge, truth, and reality.
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Orsel, Imir Isik. "Progressive Obsolescence And Product Non-use In Electrical Kitchen Appliances." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611850/index.pdf.
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The aim of this study is to find out the reasons of progressive obsolescence and product non-use in small kitchen appliances and to examine the relation between the consumer&rsquos pre-purchase expectations and post-purchase experiences with these products to understand the deficiencies of kitchen appliances which cause consumer to stop using them. The reasons of progressive obsolescence and product non-use might be informative for further studies on this subject. Throughout the study, the general issues of need, want, purchase motivations, pre-purchase consumer expectations and post-purchase experience, satisfaction/dissatisfaction were discussed through the literature survey. Progressive obsolescence and product non-use were analysed both through literature survey and a field study which was conducted as in-depth-interviews among kitchen appliance users. It has been seen that progressive obsolescence and product non-use is mostly affected by usability of products, by the changing needs and changing life style and by the emerging of new technologies.
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Rudnicka, Karolina [Verfasser], Christian [Akademischer Betreuer] Mair, and Bernd [Akademischer Betreuer] Kortmann. "The statistics of obsolescence: purpose subordinators in Late Modern English." Freiburg : Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1184198705/34.
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Ren, Zhijie, and 任智劼. "The effects of flexible housing on urban housing obsolescence inChina." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47185399.
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The rapid socio-economic development in China has given rise to the problem of housing obsolescence. The reduction of housing obsolescence and the increase in housing service life are important from the perspective of sustainable development. In extant literature, flexibility has been introduced as an important method to reduce housing obsolescence. However, no empirical evidence exists to illustrate the effects of flexibility on reducing housing obsolescence. Therefore, by correlating knowledge on flexibility and housing obsolescence, this study attempts to explore the effects of flexibility on reducing urban housing obsolescence with special focus on Chinese flexible housing practices during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
The research question which this study attempts to address is whether housing obsolescence can be obviously reduced by flexibility in Chinese flexible housing practices during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. First, the theoretical framework of this research explains Chinese flexible approaches within the context of Chinese housing development since 1949. Second, it explores the mechanism of obsolescence in flexible housing practices during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The internal and external threat of housing obsolescence is discussed. A cross-national comparison is also made to understand the context of these practices. Third, theoretical framework suggests two scenarios and three theoretical propositions, and it specifies three key factors for analyzing the effects of flexibility on the reduction of housing obsolescence: changeability, housing obsolescence, and changing behavior by dwellers. Finally, it establishes a methodology for empirical investigation. Six Chinese neighborhoods built during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s which contain both flexible houses and similar ordinary houses are selected as cases according to screening criteria. Data are obtained by survey among households, interviews, analysis of archival records, and on-site observation. The main unit of analysis is a type of flat. The data analysis revolves around the three propositions put forward.
The results of the empirical study indicate that the six cases do not agree with the three propositions. First, only a small number of households use the pre-set changeability in flexible flats. Second, flexible flats do not have a much lower score in housing obsolescence than similar ordinary flats. Third, the score on housing obsolescence for households who use changeability is not obviously lower than that for households who do not. These findings are discussed within the theoretical framework. In general, this research does not support the notion that flexibility in the flexible housing can reduce housing obsolescence obviously in the given context.published_or_final_version
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MARQUES, RENATO DE MIRANDA. "OBSOLESCENCE AND PLEASURE: ELEMENTS FOR A CONTEMPORARY THEORY OF ALIENATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15297@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOEste trabalho tem como objetivo estudar a alienação contemporânea a partir de dois de seus elementos: a obsolescência e o prazer. O primeiro, a obsolescência, decorre da condição a que foram submetidas não só as mercadorias produzidas, mas também o próprio trabalhador, a partir da desregulamentação dos direitos trabalhistas operada pela acumulação flexível. Deste modo, é possível pensar que o advento desta nova forma de gestão de força de trabalho intensificou o mal-estar e as condições alienantes experimentadas pelo trabalhador hoje pois, gradativamente, está deixando de ser mercadoria durável, dono de direitos e garantias, para se tornar uma mercadoria consumível, facilmente substituída, posto que cada vez mais desprovida dos referidos direitos e garantias. Contudo, esta intensificação do mal-estar e da alienação não resultam imediatamente numa igual intensificação do seu desprazer, tendo em vista que o que se assiste hoje é também um crescente desenvolvimento do consumo, possível, entre outras razões, graças à estética da mercadoria (sua embalagem e técnicas de propaganda), cujo único objetivo é a produção incessante de desejos consumistas para uma reprodução cada vez mais rápida do circuito da mercadoria. Portanto, é possível pensar numa alienação que nasce da acumulação flexível, a alienação flexível, efeito, por sua vez, não apenas da falta de estabilidade nas condições de trabalho e da falta de durabilidade das mercadorias, mas também por articular, com incrível flexibilidade, o seu mal-estar com o que aparentemente o contradiz, o prazer, invólucro que oculta e entorpece este mal-estar, marca da alienação contemporânea.
This work aims to study contemporary alienation on the basis of two of its elements: obsolescence and pleasure. The first originates from the conditions to which are submitted not only the produced commodities, but also the worker, in face of the abolishment of worker’s rights legislation operated by flexible accumulation. It is possible to suggest that the advent of this new way of managing labour power intensified both discontent and the alienating conditions experimented by workers who are gradually being transformed from durable commodities, possessing rights and securities, into consumable, easily replaceable commodities, increasingly bereft of the afore-mentioned rights and securities. However, this intensification of discontent and alienation does not result immediately in an intensification of displeasure, given that consumption can be seen to be on the rise nowadays. This is made possible, in part, by the aesthetics of the commodity (packaging and marketing devices), whose only aim is the incessant production of consumerist desires for an increasingly faster reproduction of the commodity circle. Therefore, it is possible to think of alienation as being a consequence of flexible accumulation. The flexible alienation that thus arises is, on its turn, an effect not only of the lack of stability as concerns the conditions of work and the lack of durability of commodities, but also of the incredibly flexible articulation between its own discontent and what apparently contradicts it: pleasure, the packaging that obscures and dulls the specific discontent that characterises contemporary alienation.
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Devereaux, Jaime E. (Jaime Erin). "Obsolescence : a systems engineering and management approach for complex systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59233.
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Thesis (S.M. in System Design and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Obsolescence mitigation is an increasingly important aspect of large systems development & maintenance that has often only been considered once obsolescence is imminent. For long lifecycle systems, this has become a major concern as the lifecycles of the components that are encompassed within these systems are often far shorter - up to ten times shorter - than the overall system lifecycle. Many defense systems can be characterized in this manner and therefore require obsolescence mitigation approaches to ensure the continuing ability for the system to perform and evolve. Current system-level obsolescence mitigation practices make recommendations for designing new systems to slow the onset of obsolescence and make the system more flexible when change for obsolescence is required. However, currently fielded systems were often not designed with this in mind. Other obsolescence mitigation techniques focus only on the approach to mitigating component-level obsolescence locally without examining the impact of the change on the system as a whole. This thesis combines the recommended approaches for obsolescence mitigation, the experience and lessons learned for obsolescence mitigation on a real-world case study system gained from interviews with key subject matter experts, along with systems engineering techniques for dealing with engineering change in systems to develop a robust systems engineering and management approach for obsolescence in large complex systems. The thesis provides the reader with a flow chart and a clustered DSM of the tasks along with a checklist that could be used with this obsolescence engineering and management approach.
by Jaime E. Devereaux.
S.M.in System Design and Management
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Leichnitz, Henning [Verfasser]. "Bewertungsverfahren von Produktportfolios im Rahmen des Obsolescence Managements / Henning Leichnitz." Aachen : Shaker, 2010. http://d-nb.info/108188696X/34.
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Nicodemos, Monise. "Obsolescence et réinvention du cinéma argentique à l’âge du numérique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCA017.
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Depuis les années 1990, face à l’expansion du numérique, le cinéma argentiqueest confronté aux enjeux économiques, politiques et poétiques de l’obsolescence.Notre étude vise à explorer les ambiguïtés, les ambivalences et les potentialitésde l’obsolescence qui ouvre des nouveaux champs de possibles à la réinventiondu cinéma argentique. Nous nous intéressons notamment à cette période de réinventiondu médium-film à partir de la fabrication de l’émulsion-maison, de la réactivationdu sténopé et de l’exposition de la machinerie du cinéma argentique.Conçu comme une articulation entre esthétique et technique, comprenant une viséehistorique, ce travail propose une systématisation théorique de la pratique du laboratoire,de la camera obscura, du sténopé et de la machine avec l’analyse d’un corpusd’oeuvres actuelles réalisées avec ces outils argentiques. Dans le parcours esquissé,qui s’appuie sur des entretiens avec les artistes, nous tentons d’élucider lestechniques impliquées dans les oeuvres et le processus créatif des artistes. Nousverrons enfin comment, à partir de ces liens entre théories et pratiques, des artistesréinventent aujourd’hui, grâce à l’obsolescence, le cinéma argentique à l’âge dunumérique et entretiennent une mémoire de toute sa technicité et machinerieSince the 1990s, in the face of digital expansion, analogue cinema has been confrontedwith economic, political, and poetic issues of obsolescence. Our study aimsto explore the ambiguity, ambivalence and potential of obsolescence, which opensup new fields of possibilities for the reinvention of analogue cinema. We are particularlyinterested in this period of reinvention of medium-film from the manufactureof the handmade emulsion technique, the reactivation of the pinhole, and theexhibition of analogue cinema machinery. Viewed through a historical lens andconceived as an articulation between aesthetics and technique, this work proposesa theoretical assessment of laboratory practices, the camera obscura, the pinholeand the machine, and an analysis of a body of current work realized using thesefilm tools. Through interviews with artists, we aim to illuminate their creative processesand reveal the techniques involved in the artworks. Finally, we will showhow thanks to obsolescence, artists today are reinventing analogue cinema in thedigital age and maintaining a memory of all its technicality and machinery
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Polansky, Nicholas W. (Nicholas Wilkes). "Inhabiting cycles of maritime obsolescence : redirecting the National Defense Reserve Fleet." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87547.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Defense is in a state of obsolescence. The metrics of risk have changed from threat of military invasion to that of weather. Infrastructure is in a state of transition. The Maritime Administration's National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) has dwindled from 2,700 ships in 1946 to only 140 in 2013. Now, along with closure of over 350 military installations and their related infrastructures in the continental US, the 140 remaining sea-lift merchant vessels are deemed obsolete, no longer needed for global defense operations. This cycle of infrastructural obsolescence offers an opportunity to realign coastal sites of maritime service and production, within regional seaport operations, to mitigate the inevitable threat of a seismic and/or flood catastrophe while contributing valuable social utility through industrial ingenuity. Waterfront development must now be coupled with appropriate metrics of defense and redundancy, projecting a long term phasing for the future occupation of the post industrial estuary. This thesis proposes a strategic redevelopment of obsolete maritime infrastructures that programs a regional sea-lift defense program for the San Francisco Bay as a prototype for inland bay regions. It realigns one of three remaining sites of the NDRF to serve a region with a 63% chance of experiencing an earthquake with magnitude of 6.7 or greater in the next 30 years resulting in the loss of water, power, and shelter for 60,000 people in 27,000 buildings. The project proposes reprogramming the remaining NRDF merchant vessels as floating water, power, and food utilities and staging strategic coastal port infrastructures on an entirely ship powered waterfront, beyond the grid. These proposed hybrid landscapes work together as a strategic urban model for phasing resilient seaports in highly vulnerable coastal regions. They invert the "hard," land-borne conduits of power and water in favor of multiplied and thus redundant, "soft," distributed, waterborne infrastructure delivering power, water, and food to support emergency urbanism.
by Nicholas W. Polansky.
M. Arch.
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Chabot, Véronique. "Le théâtre de l'extrême contemporain dans la société : Obsolescence et légitimité." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030106.
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Au crepuscule du xxe siecle, a l'ere technologique de l'interconnexion, de la mediatisation et de l'internationalisation, quels sont la place et le role du theatre dans la societe ? sur bien des aspects, le theatre apparait comme un art du passe qui ne repond pas aux exigences de l'homme d'aujourd'hui et son public est tres minoritaire. Mais, ne suivant pas les caracteristiques generales de l'evolution de la societe, il peut presenter une alternative aux valeurs qu'elle nous impose et trouver sa legitimite. La recherche porte sur le theatre des dix dernieres annees et s'appuie sur une connaissance directe de spectacles appartenant au champ esthetique que l'on peut qualifier, apres georges banu, d'extreme contemporain. Il s'agit d'artistes qui, comme jan fabre, reza abdoh ou francois-michel pesenti, ont cherche a remettre en cause et a renouveler les codes du theatre. La societe est etudiee a partir des analyses des philosophes contemporazins, notamment jean baudrillard, felix guattari et gilles lipovetsky. A l'ere de la production "machinique" de subjectivite et de la societe du spectacle, le theatre propose une experimentation de la perception et une decouverte de l'extreme subjectif. Contre la predominance de l'image, il oppose l'experience emotionnelle de la reception. Par son existence meme, il constitue un espace de resistance au nivellement de l'imaginaire social. Dans une societe qui a perdu ses racines et son centre, on redecouvre la fonction mythologique du theatre. Cet art est l'endroit de l'insatisfaction, de l'insoumission, de la critique et de la vigilance. Au niveau politique, l'engagement contemporain est loin de l'engagement bruyant des annees soixante et soixante-dix. Le theatre engage ne sort plus du champ artistique. Il ne charche plus a prendre la place du politique mais a reveiller les consciences et a attiser le desir d'etre au monde dans le respect de l'alteriteAt the twilight of the xxth century, in an era of technological interconnectioins, mediatisation and internationalisation, what are the place and the role of theatre in society ? on many levels, theatre appears as an art belonging to the past, not fitting man's current requirements. Its public is a tiny minority. But, as theatre doesn't adopt society's evolutionary characteristics, it can propose alternatives to the values society imposes on us. Here it finds its legitimacy. This research is about theatre over the last ten years and is based on first hand knowledge of performances belonging to the aesthetic field that georges banu calls "extremely contemporary". It concerns artists like jan fabre, reza abdoh or francois-michel pesenti, who have tried to question and to renew theatre's codes of conduct. A study of society is made through the analyses of contemporary philosophers, especially jean baudrillard, felix guattari and gilles lipovetsky. At a time of machine-like production of subjectivity and in the era of the "spectacle society", theatre experiments with the perception and offers the chance to discover the extreme subjectiveness. To the predominance of the image, it opposes the emotional experience of reception. Its own existence leaves room for resistance to a levelling out of social imagination. In a society that has lost its roots and its centre, one can discover anew the mythological function of theatre. This art is a place for dissatisfaction, insubordination, criticism and vigilance. On a political level, today's commitment is very far from the tumultuous commitment of the sixties and the seventies. Nowadays, commited art doesn't wander from the artistic field. It doesn't aim to change places with politics but aims to awake counsciousness and a desire to be in a world where "otherness" is respected
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Stone, John. "The decline of the main battle tank : a case study in the relationship between military doctrine and technology." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364252.
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Camporesi, Enrico. "Reconstruction, Performance, Transmission. Esquisse d’une méthodologie de la restauration du film expérimental et du film d’artiste." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA066.
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Ce travail vise à questionner les outils méthodologiques et les fondations théoriques de l’activité de restauration afin de les appliquer à un corpus d’œuvres souvent laissé aux marges des discours de ce champ disciplinaire : le film d’artiste et le film expérimental. On se focalisera sur les années 1960-1980 pour traiter, entre autres, du travail de Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Anthony McCall, Paul Sharits. Conçu et organisé comme un dialogue possible entre les exigences de systématisation théorique et les spécificités des œuvres, ce travail défend une méthodologie ouverte et dynamique, à l’instar des objets considérés. Dans le parcours esquissé, qui s’appuie sur des recherches en archives, on traitera de questions de reconstruction textuelle (à partir de la philologie d’auteur), de la performance et de l’installation, de l’intervention sur la matière des œuvres (en problématisant les positions du théoricien de la restauration Cesare Brandi), ou encore de l’obsolescence technologique. En mobilisant des concepts issus de champs différents mais qu’on aimerait considérer ici comme complémentaires (histoire de l’art, esthétique, histoire technique du film), cette recherche tente de décrire l’activité herméneutique sous-jacente à toute entreprise de restauration. C’est à partir de cette hypothèse des liens entre théorie et pratique que l’on envisagera les enjeux spécifiques qui accompagnent la transmission des objets filmiquesThis dissertation aims to question the methodological tools and theoretical foundations of the practice of restoration in order to apply them to a body of work often left at the margins of this disciplinary field: experimental and artists’ film. Focusing on the years 1960-1980, it will examine works by Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Anthony McCall, and Paul Sharits, among others. Conceived and organized as a possible dialogue between theoretical assessment and the practical necessities of specific works, this research defends an open and dynamic methodology of restoration much like the objects herein considered. Through archival research, this dissertation will confront issues of textual reconstruction (starting from literary philology), performance and installation, scholarly debates concerning the materiality of artworks (problematizing the positions of restoration theorist Cesare Brandi), and the question of technological obsolescence. Mobilizing concepts from different fields considered as complementary (art history, aesthetics, the technological history of film), this dissertation seeks to describe the hermeneutical activity underlying any restoration process. It is starting from this hypothesis, which links theory and practice, that it will consider the specific issues accompanying the life of filmic objects
Il lavoro si propone di mettere in discussione gli strumenti metodologici e le basi teoriche dell’attività di restauro, al fine di volgersi a un corpus spesso considerato come marginale nella letteratura scientifica inerente alla disciplina: il film d’artista e sperimentale. Ci si concentrerà in particolare sugli anni 1960-1980 per analizzare, tra gli altri, la produzione di Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Anthony McCall, Paul Sharits. La tesi, concepita e costruita come un possibile dialogo tra l’esigenza di sistematizzazione teorica e le caratteristiche specifiche delle opere, promuove una metodologia aperta e dinamica, adattandosi dunque agli oggetti considerati. In un percorso che si vuole teorico, ma ugualmente frutto di ricerche in archivio, si tratteranno problemi di ricostruzione testuale (basandosi sulla filologia d’autore), questioni riguardanti la performance e l’installazione, interventi sulla materia delle opere (sulla scorta di una rilettura critica della Teoria del restauro di Cesare Brandi), o ancora il problema dell’obsolescenza tecnologica. La ricerca tende a includere e adattare concetti provenienti da diverse discipline (storia dell’arte, estetica, storia tecnologica del film, qui considerate come complementari), per poter infine descrivere l’attività di restauro come operazione ermeneutica. Muovendo da un’ipotesi di lavoro che unisce teoria e pratica, la ricerca affronta i problemi specifici relativi alla “trasmissione al futuro” delle opere filmiche
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Ford, S. J. "Integrating technological obsolescence into innovation theory : the case of the PC sector." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599105.
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In his famous account of ‘creative destruction’, Josef Schumpeter described how innovation was the engine of the capitalist process, with new technological forms and industries emerging to displace the old. While the importance of novelty creation has been recognized and seized upon in generations of further study, comparatively little attention has been paid to the process of this displacement, technological obsolescence. This thesis seeks insights into the processes through which technological obsolescence arises and the subsequent patterns of change it causes in the socio-economic system. As an exploratory study, an inductive approach to theory construction is pursued, with a focus on the PC sector as a case exemplar. Drawing on relevant prior literature in innovation, evolutionary theory, complexity theory and technological obsolescence, two distinctive dimensions of technological obsolescence are identified: the market obsolescence of technology and the physical obsolescence of technology. Insights into the former are gained through study of the early and mature stages of the PC industry, discontinuities in the hard disk drive industry and a disruptive threat to the PC. Exploring the physical obsolescence dimension sees insights derived through analysing change in the reverse supply chain for PCs, at the market’s adaptive response to the growth of waste PCs and to policy intervention from the European Parliament. This focus on technological obsolescence highlights the fact that innovation is not a linear process but one that involves many interlinkages between the end of the technology lifecycle and the initiation of subsequent cycles. In beginning to unpack these interlinkages, this investigation reveals how as a co-evolutionary process, obsolescence creates and reflects asynchronies between supply and demand, giving rise to new opportunities for entrepreneurial response and value creation, which in turn brings about market self-organization and the emergence of new industries.
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McCarty, Andrea Nina. "Toying with obsolescence : Pixelvision filmmakers and the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39180.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-165).
This thesis is a study of the Fisher Price PXL 2000 camera and the artists and amateurs who make films and videos with this technology. The Pixelvision camera records video onto an audiocassette; its image is low-resolution, black and white. Fisher Price marketed the PXL 2000 to children in 1987, but withdrew the camera after one year. Despite its lack of commercial success, the camera became popular with avant-garde artists, amateur film- and videomakers and collectors, sparking a renewed interest in the obsolete camera. An online community has built up around the format, providing its members with information on how to modify the camera to make it compatible with contemporary digital equipment. Although Pixelvision garners little recognition from mainstream culture, the camera's hipster cachet and perceived rarity has driven up prices in the community and in auctions. This thesis examines the position of the PXL 2000 camera within the history of moving image technology, and in the context of today's digital video equipment. How has this obsolete video camera made the transition from analog to digital? The thesis also explores Pixelvision's position in the cultural hierarchy of media, as well as the motivations of artists and users who are creating with the camera today, as it moves further and further into its obsolescence.
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Goswami, Arindam. "Impact of hardware obsolescence on system software for sustainment-dominated electronic systems." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1522.
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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Josias, Craig L. "Hedging future uncertainty a framework for obsolescence prediction, proactive mitigation and management /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/12/.
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Pearce, William S. "Management of microcircuit obsolescence in a pre-production ACAT-ID missile program." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Dec%5FPearce.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Program Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2002.Thesis advisor(s): David F. Matthews, Amy J. Grover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-86). Also available online.
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Greer, Lindsay Patrice. "Summoning the Spirit of Obsolescence in Media and Performance: A Posthuman Sèance." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1460.
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In this dissertation, I explore the fantasies and paradoxical desires belying spiritual medium performances of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries and new media practices of remediation. Forming the organizing construct of this dissertation, spiritual medium performance gives me a medium to explore fantasy as a means of suspending and manipulating audience belief. Through the use of my performance persona, Lucida Fox, I further connect the spiritual medium’s communication with the dead to the practices of remediation meant to summon the influences of obsolete media. Through Lucida, I remediate the past (Chapter 2), future (Chapter 3), and experiment with several spiritualist techniques in the present (Chapter 4). In the final chapter, I address the implications of this research on current discussions within the field of performance studies and conclude by offering future direction of this research.
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Guien, Jeanne. "Obsolescences : philosophie des techniques et histoire économique à l'épreuve de la réduction de la durée de vie des objets." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H207/document.
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La notion d’obsolescence met en jeu notre rapport aux objets et à l’action, nos représentations de l’histoire et du temps. Elle questionne le devenir des techniques, la négativité à l’œuvre dans l’histoire des pratiques. C’est une notion controversée, dont les enjeux sociaux, économiques et écologiques font débat. La controverse actuelle, focalisée sur la notion d’ «obsolescence programmée», tend cependant à réduire l’obsolescence à une pratique dissimulée, sur la base de discours postulant toute sorte de déterminismes historiques. Cette thèse propose d’élargir la réflexion à l’ensemble des produits éphémères et des notions qui les désignent, afin d’étudier l’histoire de leur mise en marché et en discours. Par une enquête historique et philosophique, on montre que la réduction de la durée de vie des objets est depuis deux siècles une pratique courante qui a fait l’objet de théorisations publiques, tantôt critiques, tantôt apologétiques, en Europe et aux États-Unis. L’obsolescence, mise en récit, est traitée tantôt comme une conséquence de l’activité humaine, tantôt comme une loi de l’économie, de la nature ou de l’histoire. Critiquant cette approche, comme celle qui réduit l’obsolescence à un vice caché, cette thèse étudie des objets officiellement conçus, vendus et achetés pour leur durée de vie limitée — les produits jetables — et montre comment la jetabilité a été construite comme une propriété distinctive et valorisante de produits fort divers, et fort utilisés. À partir du cas du gobelet jetable, on analyse la réduction de la durée de vie des objets comme limitation de leur présence au monde, occultation de leur réalité économique, matérielle et environnementaleThe notion of obsolescence adresses our relationship with objects and human action, our representations of history and time. It challenges technological and social change. It is a controversial topic, raising environmental, economic and social issues.However, focused as it is in France on the notion of "programmed obsolescence”, the current controversy tends to confine the debate to concealed practices, on the basis of considerations conveying a deterministic view of history. This dissertation broadens the scope of reflection and discusses all commercial short-lived products and all the notions used to qualify them. Since they have been on the market for two centuries, we argue on the basis of a historical and philosophical inquiry that shortening the lifespan of objects has been a common and open practice in Europe and the United States. Throughout the XIXth and XXth centuries, obsolescence has been theorized, criticized or promoted publicly in various narratives, which often define it as an effect of human activity, or uses it as a law of economics, nature or history. In order to criticize these approaches and reinforce the demonstration that commercializing obsolescent products has been a public and accepted practice, this dissertation examines the case of objects publicly designed with a limited lifespan : disposable products. We argue that disposability has been constructed as a distinctive and positive feature of a wide range of various products. Through the case study of disposable cups, we ultimately consider some pathways for further research on the shortened lifespan of objects, as devices used to conceal their own social, material and environmental reality
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Khalid, Abd Ghani. "Hedonic price estimation of the financial impact of obsolescence on commercial property buildings." Thesis, University of Reading, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333879.
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Harris, Robert J. Jr (Robert Jerrell). "Localized change management in two cases : supply base cost escalation and obsolescence management." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90772.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014. In conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT.
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There are several models for change available to modern organizations based on decades of research. This research tends to focus on broad changes, such as enterprise transformations. This thesis presents a model developed for changes of smaller scope. These smaller changes are typically localized to a specific process or department. The Tactical Change Model is derived from existing change management literature to address these localized change efforts. The phases of the model include: Name a Goal, Investigate the Current State, Develop and "Sell" a Future State, Plan to Get From Here to There, Enact the Plan, and Spread the Knowledge. A final phase, Reflection, is used throughout the change effort. This thesis presents two cases of change at the Aerospace Systems division of United Technologies Corporation. The first case is a change in how escalation in supply costs, or headwind, is forecasted. The goal in this case is a quick, top-down method for forecasting headwind to replace a time-intensive, bottom-up method. The second case is a change in the evaluation method of obsolescence risk mitigation options. This effort is intended to improve the evaluation of these options to develop a more holistic perspective. The Tactical Change Model is used in both of these cases and evaluated using a Three Lens Analysis. The analysis generates improvements to the Tactical Change Model, including explicitly accounting for the Three Lenses throughout the model; removing the Name a Goal phase; emphasizing frequency and structure in the Reflection phase; and allowing for feedback loops.
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Caron, Zoé. "Les stratégies favorisant le maintien professionnel chez les enseignants en formation professionnelle." Sherbrooke : Université de Sherbrooke, 2000.
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Chrimes, Adrian Paul. "A sociolinguistic profile of the Gallo speech community." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27781.
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This study investigates the role of the speech community in maintaining obsolescent languages in general, and Gallo in particular. A questionnaire was designed to elicit information from the Gallo speech community in three key areas: speakers’ beliefs regarding their own use of language, speakers’ attitudes towards Gallo and its status, and speaker’s own proficiency in Gallo. The sample for this study was obtained through Gallo social networks which were identified and contacted thanks to the support of Gallo organisations based in Rennes. The questionnaire was administered to a mixture of older native speakers, employed semi-speakers and student-aged learners of Gallo. The results show that level of education remains the main factor affecting speaker attitudes and language use. Speakers with higher levels of education tend to be the ones engaged in revitalisation efforts while speakers with less education maintain a distance from such activities as well as a strong allegiance to the national language. The study also highlighted the division within the speech community concerning orthographic convention. Although a highly distinct written form is viewed by some as essential to distancing Gallo from French, it would seem that the majority of the speech community prefers accessibility over distanciation. This study provides insight into the impact which a speech community can have on the vitality or obsolescence of a variety. In the case of Gallo, it shows how a group of determined individuals can be influential in maintaining an obsolescent variety despite strong and continued pressure from official institutions.
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Chesneau, Isabelle. "Obsolescence architecturale et régénération urbaine : renouvellement du parc de bureaux en Ile-de-France." Paris 10, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA100144.
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Devenue aujourd'hui un facteur essentiel de régénération urbaine, notamment dans le secteur de l'immobilier de bureaux, l'obsolescence contribue à révéler les difficultés actuelles attachées à la gestion et à la fabrication des villes. Dans un premier temps, l'analyse s'est attachée à identifier les diverses approches de l'obsolescence et à en mesurer les effets réels. Il s'est alors agi d'étudier la démolition des immeubles tertiaires à partir de la constitution d'une base de données recensant les opérations de démolition réalisées dans huit communes tertiaires d'Ile-de-France de 1989 à 1999. A l'issue de cet examen, l'objectif "d'ajustement" entre morphologie spatiale et morphologie sociale est apparu central pour comprendre la dynamique de la dépréciation spatiale. L'analyse, dans un second temps, a porté sur les logiques de "mise en récit" qui accompagnent ce processus et le justifie. Le modèle interprétatif avancé, s'appuyant sur les cadres de la théorie de la réception des oeuvres, montre que l'obsolescence architecturale et urbaine est le résultat d'un processus d'économie temporelle de la production des immeubles de bureaux.
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Hubbard, Cheryl J. "Organizational development: an investigation into the knowledge obsolescence of engineers in the electronics industry." PDXScholar, 1986. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/825.
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Purpose. This study investigated organizational development climate within the context of an organization experiencing rapid change in its environment resulting in employee knowledge obsolescence. Secondary purposes were: (1) determine current development methods and behavior; (2) identify preferred development methods; (3) examine the influence of educational background on development; (4) examine the influence length of service on development and (5) investigate reward preferences and their link to development. Procedure. The data were collected through a sample of 550 nonmanager engineers. The questionnaire consisted of individual background information and a modified version of the Work Description Questionnaire for Engineers (WDQE). Environment factors investigated were: (1) organization; (2) management and (3) peer support; (4) communication and involvement and (5) work assignments. Responses were obtained from 320 nonmanager engineers. A chi-square analysis tested hypotheses for education and length of service groups. Summary of Findings and Conclusions. (1) The engineering population differed significantly in their education and length of service backgrounds. (2) Knowledge foundation requirements for entry in the organization in the past five years have increased. (3) Non-degree development is more important for the majority, while degree development is important to bachelor-degreed and shorter length-of-service employees. (4) Reported non-degreed development averaged one course/seminar per year, 2-4 hours of independent reading per week and discussions within the immediate work group. Education groups reported significant differences in internal course/seminar participation and reading behavior. (5) The most effective development methods included a challenging job, reading, an advanced degree, courses/seminars, interdisciplinary teams and internal networking. Education groups showed significant differences for reading and interdisciplinary terms. (6) Primary barriers to development included time, cost, management and workload. (7) The work environment climate for development in the organization was moderate. Peer support received the highest rating; organization, management, and work assignments were rated moderately. (8) The most preferred rewards included salary/merit increases, achievement, advancement, recognition and challenging work. Education groups reported differences in preferred rewards. (9) Moderate opportunity for rewards occurred independent of development behavior. Education groups showed differences in opportunity for challenging work with improved development. Length of service groups reported differences for opportunity of rewards even with increased development.
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Duhart, Emile. "Aéroport et ville : obsolescences aéroportuaires dans les villes capitales du cône sud de l'Amérique latine." Thesis, Paris Est, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PESC1190.
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L'infrastructure aéroportuaire est devenue en ce début de XXI siècle le pivot des croisements de flux de personnes et de marchandises dans notre monde « globalisé », son évolution constante et particulièrement rapide depuis le transport aérien de masse, nous questionne sur l'objet « aéroport », à travers ses caractéristiques urbaines, architecturales et de design, en relation à sa ville d'accueil et à son devenir dans le futur. L'un des aspects significatif de la relation ville et aéroport est la confrontation territoriale entre ces deux entités, elle peut mener dans certains contextes à l'obsolescence de la plateforme aéroportuaire face à l'expansion urbaine et au refus de l'infrastructure par les riverains. Cette thèse fait une recherche sur ce phénomène dans le cadre géographique du Cône Sud de l'Amérique Latine. Elle se développe dans un plan en trois parties : une première analyse l'infrastructure aéroportuaire d'un point de vue mondial, afin de la caractériser dans ses dimensions territoriales et ses évolutions récentes par rapport à la ville d'accueil. Elle s'attache à détecter des exemples d'obsolescences aéroportuaires dans l'hémisphère nord. Une seconde partie se focalise sur les villes capitales du Cône Sud de L'Amérique Latine et leurs aéroports, en décelant les cas d'obsolescences réels ou en devenir, ceci sur deux fronts, Atlantique et Pacifique, dont les caractéristiques géomorphologiques sont totalement différentes. Enfin une troisième partie s'interroge sur le devenir des infrastructures aéroportuaires qui tendent à devenir des méga-aéroports, conjurant ainsi leur obsolescence. Ces échelles considérables ne sont pas nécessairement adaptées aux pays en voie de développement du Cône Sud de L'Amérique Latine. Existe-t-il une taille intermédiaire transformant l'aéroport en autre chose qu'une gigantesque machine à gérer des flux ? Peut-il se faire que la plateforme aéroportuaire devienne un ensemble de bâtiments cherchant une relation harmonique avec la ville qui l'entoure ?The airport infrastructure has become the twenty-first century the pivot of flows crossing of people and goods in our "globalized" world, its constant evolution and particularly rapid since the mass air transportation, questions us on the subject "airport ", through its urban, architectural features and design in relation to its host city and its fate in the future. One of the significant aspects of the city airport is relationship and territorial confrontation between these two entities, it can lead in some contexts to obsolescence of the airport platform faced with urban expansion and the refusal by the infrastructure residents. This thesis did research on this phenomenon in the geographical framework of the Southern Cone of Latin America. It develops in a plane in three parts : a first analysis of the airport infrastructure of a global perspective in order to characterize its territorial dimensions and recent developments in relation to the host city. It seeks to identify examples of obsolescence airport in the northern hemisphere. The second part focuses on capital cities of the Southern Cone of Latin America and their airports, by detecting cases of actual or future obsolescence, this on two fronts, Atlantic and Pacific, whose geomorphological features are totally different. Finally a third part examines the future of airport infrastructure which tend to become mega-airports and conjuring obsolescence. These considerable scales are not necessarily adapted to the developing countries of the Southern Cone of Latin America. Is there an intermediate size transforming the airport into something other than a gigantic machine to manage flows? Can it be that the airport platform becomes a complex of buildings seeking a harmonic relationship with the city that surrounds it ?
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Soltane, Amel. "Méthodes et outils pour la conception de produits/systèmes en tenant compte de l’obsolescence et la raréfaction." Electronic Thesis or Diss., CY Cergy Paris Université, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021CYUN1045.
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Les entreprises doivent être en mesure d'améliorer la conception de leurs produits pour s'assurer qu'ils continuent à répondre aux besoins évolutifs des clients. Les changements de système peuvent également être induits par les progrès de la recherche et du développement ou par les réglementations imposées par des organismes nationaux ou internationaux qui amènent les entreprises à modifier leurs conceptions. Parmi les différents types de changements, notre travail se concentre sur l'étude de ceux générés par l'obsolescence. Un produit ou un système est obsolète lorsqu'il ne répond plus aux fonctionnalités attendues par les clients. Le concepteur doit être alors capable de concevoir des systèmes de telle sorte qu'un problème d'obsolescence ait le moins de conséquences indésirables possibles. Le fait qu'un système reste peu sensible aux changements imposés par la résolution de l'obsolescence est appelé résilience. Nos travaux visent à contribuer à la prise en compte de l'obsolescence dès les premières étapes de la conception d'un système. Les problèmes consistent alors à cartographier, à caractériser et à quantifier les effets possibles d'une obsolescence initiale et les obsolescences dérivées qu’elle génère. Pour ce faire, nous proposons une méthodologie de conception résiliente à l’obsolescence pour les systèmes, appelée « Obsolescence Resilience By Construct, ORByC ».La toute première étape consiste à expliciter les dépendances internes de l'architecture du système. Nous avons choisi l'une des méthodologies d'ingénierie système les plus établies, ARCADIA. Les modèles obtenus par l’application de cette méthodologie fournissent suffisamment d'informations, et cela à un niveau de détail souhaité, pour être en mesure de cartographier les différents types de dépendances entre les composants et/ou les fonctions. Ces dépendances sont représentées par des matrices DSM (Design Structure Matrix) et DMM (Domain Mapping Matrix) pour construire un graphe de dépendance unique. Celui-ci est ensuite transformé en un graphe orienté probabiliste, i.e. le réseau Bayésien, qui appartient à la famille des modèles graphiques probabilistes. La particularité de ces réseaux est liée à leur capacité à modéliser des connaissances imparfaites entachées d’incertitude. Ces réseaux offrent la possibilité de mener diverses études quantitatives (diagnostiques ou pronostiques par exemple). Celle-ci permet aux concepteurs d’étudier la résilience du système face aux divers scénarios d'obsolescence et ainsi de mettre en œuvre les choix judicieux de conceptionCompanies must be able to improve the design of their products to ensure that they continue to meet the evolving needs of customers. System changes can also be driven by advances in research and development or by regulations imposed by national or international bodies that cause companies to modify their designs. Among the different types of changes, our work focuses on the study of those generated by obsolescence. A product or a system is obsolete when it no longer meets the functionalities expected by the customers. The designer must then be able to design systems in such a way that an obsolescence problem has the least possible undesirable consequences. The fact that a system remains insensitive to changes imposed by the resolution of obsolescence is called resilience. Our work aims at contributing to the consideration of obsolescence at the early stages of system design. The problems then consist in mapping, characterizing and quantifying the possible effects of an initial obsolescence and the derived obsolescences it generates. To do so, we propose an obsolescence resilient design methodology for systems, called "Obsolescence Resilience By Construct, ORByC".The very first step is to make explicit the internal dependencies of the system architecture. We have chosen one of the most established system engineering methodologies, ARCADIA. The models obtained by the application of this methodology provide enough information, at a desired level of detail, to be able to map the different types of dependencies between components and/or functions. These dependencies are represented by DSM (Design Structure Matrix) and DMM (Domain Mapping Matrix) matrices to build a single dependency graph. This is then transformed into a probabilistic directed graph, i.e. the Bayesian network, which belongs to the family of probabilistic graphical models. The particularity of these networks is linked to their capacity to model imperfect knowledge tainted by uncertainty. These networks offer the possibility of conducting various quantitative studies (diagnostic or prognostic for example). This allows designers to study the resilience of the system in the face of various obsolescence scenarios and thus to implement judicious design choices
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Burges, Joel. "The uses of obsolescence : historical change and the politics of the outmoded in American postmodernity /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Singh, Pameet. "Forecasting technology insertion concurrent with design refresh planning for COTS-based obsolescence sensitive sustainment-dominated systems." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1973.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Mechanical Engineering. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Dubos, Gregory Florent. "Stochastic modeling of responsiveness, schedule risk and obsolescence of space systems, and implications for design choices." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43656.
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The U.S Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration continue to face common challenges in the development and acquisition of their space systems. In particular, space programs repeatedly experience significant schedule slippages, and spacecraft are often delivered on-orbit several months, sometimes years, after the initially planned delivery date. The repeated pattern of these schedule slippages suggests deep-seated flaws in managing spacecraft delivery and schedule risk, and an inadequate understanding of the drivers of schedule slippages. Furthermore, due to their long development time and physical inaccessibility after launch, space systems are exposed to a particular and acute risk of obsolescence, resulting in loss of value or competitive advantage over time. The perception of this particular risk has driven some government agencies to promote design choices that may ultimately be contributing to these schedule slippages, and jeopardizing what is increasingly recognized as critical, namely space responsiveness.
The overall research objective of this work is twofold: (1) to identify and develop a thorough understanding of the fundamental causes of the risk of schedule slippage and obsolescence of space systems; and in so doing, (2) to guide spacecraft design choices that would result in better control of spacecraft delivery schedule and mitigate the impact of these "temporal risks" (schedule and obsolescence risks).
To lay the groundwork for this thesis, first, the levers of responsiveness, or means to influence schedule slippage and impact space responsiveness are identified and analyzed, including design, organizational, and launch levers. Second, a multidisciplinary review of obsolescence is conducted, and main drivers of system obsolescence are identified. This thesis then adapts the concept of a technology portfolio from the macro- or company level to the micro-level of a single complex engineering system, and it analyzes a space system as a portfolio of technologies and instruments, each technology with its distinct stochastic maturation path and exposure to obsolescence. The selection of the spacecraft portfolio is captured by parameters such as the number of instruments, the initial technology maturity of each technology/instrument, the resulting heterogeneity of the technology maturity of the whole system, and the spacecraft design lifetime. Building on the abstraction of a spacecraft as a portfolio of technologies, this thesis then develops a stochastic framework that provides a powerful capability to simultaneously explore the impact of design decisions on spacecraft schedule, on-orbit obsolescence, and cumulative utility delivered by the spacecraft. Specifically, this thesis shows how the choice of the portfolio size and the instruments Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) impact the Mean-Time-To-Delivery (MTTD) of the spacecraft and mitigate (or exacerbate) schedule risk. This work also demonstrates that specific combinations/choices of the spacecraft design lifetime and the TRLs can reduce the risk of on-orbit obsolescence. This thesis then advocates for a paradigm shift towards a calendar-based design mindset, in which the delivery time of the spacecraft is accounted for, as opposed to the traditional clock-based design mindset. The calendar-based paradigm is shown to lead to different design choices, which are more likely to prevent schedule slippage and/or enhance responsiveness and ultimately result in a larger cumulative utility delivered. Finally, missions scenarios are presented to illustrate how the framework and analyses here proposed can help identify system design choices that satisfy various mission objectives and constraints (temporal as well as utility-based).
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Nuttall, Charles Steven. "Home ownership and housing obsolescence : an investigation of household and institutional investment and management decision making." Thesis, London South Bank University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334637.
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Chasey, Allan D. "A framework for determining the impact of deferred maintenance and/or obsolescence of a highway system." Diss., This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-160445/.
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Oestreicher, Klaus. "Innovations stratégiques des industries en déclin : l’industrie des disques optiques en face de la technologie de rupture." Thesis, Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100152/document.
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L’industrie des réplicateurs des disques optiques est menacée dans son existence et se trouve en face d’un déclin permanent. Son produit cœur, CD et DVD, est remplacé par des services virtuels. L’Internet facilite la dématérialisation de ces produits physiques : Une technologie, qui a créée des formes de consommation différente. Cette recherche par étude de cas présente le cas des firmes européennes de cette industrie et de leurs innovations dans l’effort de fuir la menace de l’obsolescence. Le but de cette dissertation est de trouver une réponse aux questions centrales, « comment » et « pourquoi » les réplicateurs des disques optiques innovent pendant le déclin et si leurs innovations sont efficaces pour faciliter la survie. Les découvertes de cette recherche qualitative sont catégorisées dans plusieurs façons : Elles sont étudiées sous les concepts de la logique conventionnelle vs la logique d’innovation de valeurs, le transilience map et un corps d’autres théories (Kim et al. 2005, Abernathy et al. 1984). Le système des géométries de la stratégie sert comme grille d’analyse des résultats (Keidel. 2010). Le résultat principal résultante est, que si cette industrie ne peut pas survivre dans sa structure présente, la majorité de ses innovations subit un effet de lock-in multiple : Technologie, liaisons au marché et motivation/qualification des managers manquante, qui empêche de renverser la donne majoritairement à n’être qu’incrémental. L’innovation nécessaire en phase du déclin et ici étoufféeThe replication industry of optical discs is threatened in its existence and confronted with permanent decline. Its core product, CD and DVD, is replaced by virtual services. The Internet facilitates the dematerialisation of the physical product: A new technology has shaped a different form of consumption.This research by case study presents the case of European firms of this industry and their innovations in the effort to escape the threat of obsolescence. The objective of this research is to find an answer to the central questions, “how” and “why” the replicators of optical discs innovate during decline and whether their innovations are effective to enable the firms’ survival.The discoveries of this qualitative study are categorised in various ways: They are studied by the concepts of conventional logic vs logic of value innovation, the transilience map and further relevant theories (Kim et al. 2005, Abernathy et al. 1984). The system of geometries of strategy is used as analytical structure (Keidel. 2010). The main result is that this industry cannot survive in its present structure, since the majority of its innovations is subject to the effect of a multiple lock-in: Technology, market linkages and the lack of managerial motivation/qualification are the main reason that this industry’s innovation is by its majority incremental. The necessary innovation during decline is eliminated here
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Pierson, Mickaël. "De la salle obscure à l'exposition et au-delà : appropriation et réinterprétation du cinéma par les artistes plasticiens 1986-2016." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H313.
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Dans les années 1980-1990, le cinéma devient une stratégie majeure dans les pratiques artistiques autant pour des raisons de changements technologiques que des effets de génération. Des questions, dès lors, se posent, notamment celle de savoir ce que le cinéma fait à l'espace d'exposition. Le cinéma et l'exposition sont des espaces différents, régis par des règles de fonctionnement distinctes. À l'appui d'un corpus international couvrant la période 1986-2016 et en revenant sur l'historiographie de ces pratiques, la thèse se propose d'étudier les effets de ce déplacement du cinéma dans les pratiques artistiques. Des modifications portées à l'espace d'exposition par l'importation du dispositif cinématographique (écran, projecteur, salle de cinéma, séance) aux changements opérés dans le passage d'un spectateur de cinéma à celui du visiteur d'exposition, on remarque qu'il ne s'agit pas de reproduire le cinéma à l'exposition, mais au contraire de s'en servir pour reconsidérer le rapport à l'œuvre. S'observe enfin, chez ces mêmes artistes, après un déplacement du cinéma vers l'exposition, un mouvement vers l'espace public : le développement d'un travail hors de l'institution culturelle, vers un public différent, posant la question de la portée sociale de l'œuvre. L'enjeu est aussi de replacer ces travaux dans une histoire interdisciplinaire de l'art au croisement des pratiques performatives, des travaux des premiers vidéastes, mais aussi du cinéma expérimentalDue to technological changes and the rising generation of the 80s and 90s, cinema became a main strategy in visual arts, while impacting and transforming the exhibition space. Then some questions may be asked. Particularly, what cinema does to the exhibition space? Cinema and exhibition are two different spaces with distinct ways of functioning. This thesis, focusing on an international corpus from 1986 to 2016, goes back over the historiography of this subject and analyses the effects of the gradual bursting of cinema in the visual arts, such as modifications in the exhibition space (and the moving of the cinematic device - screen, projector, movie theatre, screening, etc.), changes of the viewer's outlook (from spectator to visitor), etc. These artists do not try to reproduce cinema in the exhibition, but on the contrary, intend to question its relationship to the artwork. In the end, the shift from cinema to exhibition reveals a desire to reach the public space, and, outside the cultural institutions, to enthrall a different audience. Such practices lead to consider the social impact of the artwork. This thesis also aspires to replace the works of these artists into an interdisciplinary history of art, at the junction of performing arts, the works of the first video artists and experimental cinema
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Jonsson, Johanna. "Reforming Consumption Habits Through Product Design : Design for Sustainable Development through prolonging product lifetime." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44804.
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This study, that is a research and product development process, is based on sustainable development and the negative impacts of the growing consumption, and wear-and-tear habits of today’s society. The way we handle our resources, from mine to landfill cause devastating effects on the climate. LAST, is a multi-functional table made from wooden waste materials, that represents product design that allows the user to build a strong, long-lasting relationship with the product. The table is versatile, allows easy dismantling and incorporates qualities that create an incentive for the user to build an attachment to it to increase its lifetime. This has been done through applying different strategies within emotional design, product attachment and design for sustainability as well as applying knowledge within timeless design, aesthetic nourishment. The Japanese philosophy of Wabi Sabi has acted as inspiration to help navigate the projects design proposal that could allow for the user to appreciate their product for longer and indorse product longevity. The research question for the study is as follows: How can you promote product longevity by means of product design for sustainable development?
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Weisenbach, Keller Eileen. "Anatomy of disruptive technologies analyses and comparison /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1133196965.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2005.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 25, 2006). Advisors: William L. Shanklin, Marvin Troutt. Keywords: disruptive technologies, radical technological change, incremental technological change, case study methodology, strategic response. Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-149).