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Weger, John. "An overview of direct push technology." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26145.
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Bishop, Gregory Loren. "A Comprehensive Model for Technology Push Product Development." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd394.pdf.
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Boström, Stellan. "Integrating Push Technology with the Ericsson Mobile Positioning Center." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik och datavetenskap, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5878.
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Push is an Internet technology, which allow people to subscribe to a content- or service provider that automatically update the subscriber?s computer or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) with the latest information without having the subscriber to first request for new information. The Ericsson Mobile Positioning Center (MPC) is a gateway that provides geographical positions of mobile stations to various applications. This Master Thesis gives the reader an overview of these technologies and presents an alternative way in integrating a third part Push-solution with the MPC. The integration proposal is also evaluated against the current Push functionality that Ericsson has developed and integrated into the MPC.Push är en Internetteknik som ger Internetanslutna användare möjlighet att abbonnera på automatisk nyhetsuppdatering från olika informationskällor direkt till deras dator utan att användaren behöver efterfråga densamma upprepade gånger. Ericsson Mobile Positioning Center (MPC) är en gateway vilken förser olika nyhetstjänster den geografiska positionen av en mobiltelefon. Denna Magisteruppsats ger en översikt inom båda dessa områden samt presenterar ett förslag på hur dessa tekniker kan integreras. Integrationsförslaget jämförs även med den lösning Ericsson själva har valt att implementera.
Stellan Boström Adress: Vendesgatan 1B Tel: 044-218793 / 0733-228105 E-mail: stellan_bostrom@hotmail.com
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Louis, Björn, and Quentin Felice. "Dynamics of Market Pull, Technology Push and legislation for eco-innovations." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-5475.
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Hopkinson, Aaron John. "Evaluating the Application of Modularity to Reduce Market Risk in Technology Push Products." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1720.pdf.
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BARON, FLORIAN. "Konsten att balansera "push" och "pull" strategier i utvecklingen av kylare." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-192533.
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Detta examensarbete handlar om utvecklingen av kylare med inriktning på nyutveckling. Det relevanta behovet av patent för kylare, att undersöka vad kunden behöver vid sida av hur integration ska ske samt kombinationen av market pull och technology push är de fyra huvudområden som behandlas i studien. Bortsett från inkrementella förbättringar, har mycket lite utveckling gjorts inom kylare på senare tid, vilket återspeglas i några nämnvärda förändringar. Dessutom har lite tidigare arbete utförts på utvecklingen av kylare, vilket förklarar varför en utforskande metod har använts. Kvalitativa data har samlats in från åtta olika kunder med målet att fastställa behoven och de huvudsakliga tendenserna på marknaden, en studie användes som ett exempel för att stödja de olika resonemangen. En grundlig litteraturstudie och analys av marknaden har genomförts för att bättre förstå syftet för utveckling av kylare. Patent har visat sig vara relevanta för kylare, eftersom patenterade inkrementella innovationer ger produktdifferentiering i en starkt konkurrensutsatt marknad. Däremot kan kostnaderna bli ett problem för genomförandet. Faktumet att kunderna vill kylare med ett lägre pris och en förbättrad kylkapacitet är den viktigaste slutsatsen av de utförda intervjuerna. Komplexiteten i strukturen som förbinder företaget och dess kunder, och det faktum att marknaden inte är helt medveten om sina behov resulterar i en obetydlig marknadshänsyn inom utvecklingsprocessen. Bristen på marknadsintegration tillsammans med insikten att avsaknaden av grundlig nyutveckling kan försämra utvecklingen av kylare vilket har lett till en ny ram av utveckling. Baserat på integrationen av marknadens pull and technology push, är målet att utveckla mer nyutveklade kylare.Air-oil coolers are hydraulic products whose purpose is to cool down the temperature of oil in a hydraulic system. This thesis project deals with their development with an emphasis on innovation. Apart from incremental improvements, very little innovation has been developed for coolers in recent times, which is reflected in few notable changes. Additionally, very little previous work has been conducted on the development of coolers, which explains why an explorative method was implemented. Qualitative data was collected from eight different customers with the purpose of determining the needs and the main tendencies, and a case study was used as an example to support the various reasonings. A thorough literature review and the market analysis have been carried out to better understand the context in which coolers are developed. The relevance of patents for coolers, the uncovering of the customer needs along with their integration as well as the combination of market pull and technology push concepts have been addressed. Thus, patents are proven to be relevant for coolers, because the patented innovations provide product differentiation in the highly competitive environment. However, their low added value can be an impediment to their exploitation. The fact that customers want coolers with a lower price and an improved cooling capacity is the major finding of the performed interviews. The complexity of the structure connecting the company and its customers, and the fact that the market is not completely aware of its needs, result in market considerations insubstantially integrated in the development process. Finally, the deficiency of market integration, in addition to the lack of radical innovation led to a suggested framework. Based on the integration of market pull and technology push approaches, it pursues the objective of fostering innovation in the development of coolers.
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Souza, Mauro Caetano de. "Método de mapeamento de tecnologia considerando a estratégia technology push e adoção de parcerias." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18140/tde-09082010-084457/.
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A literatura sobre métodos de mapeamento de tecnologia tem como foco a aplicação em empresas que orientam a inovação para mercados e produtos previamente determinados, adotando a estratégia market pull de integração tecnologia-produto. Organizações de pesquisa, como institutos e laboratórios independentes, também necessitam de métodos similares, entretanto, nelas predomina-se a estratégia technology push, com inovações orientadas por descobertas científicas. Aplicações de métodos de mapeamento para esse tipo de estratégia são pouco analisadas pela literatura. Os métodos atualmente existentes carecem ainda da sistematização na incorporação de parcerias no processo de inovação, conforme tendência ditada pelo paradigma da inovação aberta. Revisões de literatura sustentam as duas afirmativas, evidenciando a lacuna na teoria. Empregou-se uma pesquisa-ação, realizada durante um ano junto a um laboratório de pesquisas, pertencente a um instituto de pesquisa brasileiro com cerca de 40 anos. O resultado da tese se constitui em um método de mapeamento de tecnologia, considerando a adoção de parcerias e específico para a estratégia technology push de integração. Identificado como MTP, o método preenche as lacunas apresentadas. Seus diferenciais são a inicialização a partir de uma idéia ou oportunidade de tecnologia, um processo para escolha de mercados potenciais e uma sistemática para identificação e planejamento de parcerias. O método foi avaliado sobre dois aspectos: o diferencial e ineditismo frente aos métodos propostos na literatura, e em relação à percepção de usuários sobre a sua viabilidade de aplicação na organização estudada. A primeira avaliação foi realizada através de uma revisão bibliográfica final para a comparação teórica do método com similares disponíveis na literatura. A segunda avaliação foi realizada junto a um grupo de onze pesquisadores pertencentes à organização, que responderam a um questionário previamente estruturado com questões sobre a viabilidade de operacionalização do método. Os resultados das análises indicam o caráter inédito do MTP e a possibilidade de aplicação na organização. Sugerem-se aplicações do método em mais organizações no sentido de aprimorá-lo e validá-lo, possibilitando sua ampla utilização por organizações que apresentem uma estratégia technology push de integração tecnologia-produto e adotem parcerias.The literature about technology roadmapping method presents a focus to enterprises, which has it innovation process oriented to the market and product predetermined, using the market pull strategy to technology-product integration. The research organizations, like institutes and independent laboratory, also need similar methods, however they have predominance to technology push strategy to integration, with their innovation process oriented to the scientific discovery. The application of mapping method to this kind of strategy has little analysis by the literature. The existing methods presents a lack to systematize the partnership at the innovation process, trend dictated by the open innovation paradigm. Literature reviews support these affirmations, evidencing the lack in the theory. The results of reviews were applied in an action research, conducted during one year in a research laboratory, belonging to a Brazilian research institute with nearly 40 year old. The results of this thesis are a method to technology roadmapping, considering the partnership adoption and specific to the technology push strategy. Identified as MTP, the method fills the gaps presented. Is differentials is the starting from an idea or technology opportunity, a process to choose potentials markets and a systematic to identify and plan partnerships. The method was assessing from two aspects: the differential and originality comparing to another methods proposes at the literature, and related to perception of users about is application feasibility at the organization analyzed. The first evaluation was made by a final bibliographic review to theory comparing the MTP with another ones available at literature. The second one was made at a group with eleven researches from the organization, which answered a structured questionnaire previously with questions related the method operation feasibility. The results of these analyses show the unprecedented nature of the MTP and the application possibility at the organization. Application of this method are suggested in most organizations to improve it and validate it among the scientific community, making possible its utilization from organizations which presents a technology push integration strategy and adopt partnerships.
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Errabi, Khalid. "« Demand-Pull » ou « Technology-Push » : survey de la littérature récente et nouveaux tests économétriques." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO22005/document.
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Cette thèse s’inscrit au croisement de plusieurs domaines de la recherche économique de l’innovation. Notre démarche fait appel à des résultats empiriques issus de l’économétrie de l’innovation. Pour étudier la relation entre innovation et demande, l’outil le plus adapté nous semble être le modèle de la croissance endogène fondé sur l’innovation par opposition au modèle de la croissance exogène. La nature et la direction de cette relation ont été explorées par différents courants économiques qui peuvent être classés selon deux grandes écoles. Les premiers sont les tenants de la thèse dite de la poussée technologique de l’innovation (« Technology-Push Innovation ») que l’on peut considérer très globalement comme « tirés » par les travaux de Joseph Schumpeter. Les seconds sont les tenants de l’approche dite de l’impulsion par la demande de l’innovation (« Demand-Pull Innovation ») dont les travaux pionniers ont été baptisés par Jacob Schmookler. Les travaux de Kleinknecht et Verspagen (1990) nous ont fortement inspiré pour démarrer cette thèse. Notre démarche constitue un prolongement et une complexification de leur analyse. En effet, l’objectif de cette thèse est double : monter que la relation entre innovation et demande n’est pas unidirectionnelle et, ce constat vérifié, examiner la possibilité d’étudier l’hétérogénéité des industries au sens de ces deux approches en fonction de leurs niveaux technologiques.Il nous semble que notre travail contribue à la compréhension des déterminants de l’innovation tels qu’ils ressortent de la controverse « Demand-Pull » versus « Technology-push », de trois façons :1) En proposant un survey problématisé de la littérature sur l’innovation,2) En présentant de façon originale des données sur la R&D et la productivité des industries des pays de l’OCDE,3) En suggérant que les modèles à correction d’erreur, maintenant très bien maîtrisés, peuvent apporter d’utiles éclairages à la question des modèles d’innovation (« Demand-Pull » versus « Technology-push »)This thesis is at the intersection of several fields of economic research of innovation. Our approach uses empirical results from the econometrics of innovation. To study the relationship between innovation and demand, the most suitable seems to be the endogenous growth model based on innovation as opposed to the exogenous growth model. The nature and the direction of this relationship have been explored by various economic flows that can be classified into two major schools. The first are the proponents of so-called “Technology-Push Innovation” which may be regarded very broadly as “learned” by the work of Joseph Schumpeter. The latter are the proponents of the approach “Demand-Pull Innovation”, whose pioneering works have been baptized by Jacob Schmookler.The works of Kleinknecht and Verspagen (1990) have greatly inspired us to start this thesis. Our approach is an extension of this analysis. The purpose of this thesis is twofold: 1) showing that the relationship between innovation and demand is not unidirectional, 2) and this finding verified, examining the heterogeneity of industries within the meaning of these two approaches based on their technology levels.It seems to us that our work contributes to understanding the determinants of innovation as they emerge from the controversy “Demand-Pull” versus “Technology-push”, in three ways: 1) By offering a problematized survey of the literature on innovation, 2) By presenting, in an original way, data on R&D and productivity of industries in OECD countries, 3) By suggesting that the error correction models, now very well controlled, can provide useful insights to the issue of innovation models (“Demand-Pull” versus “Technology-push”)
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Nelson, Andrew. "A Detailed Approach for Concept Generation and Evaluation in a Technology Push Product Development Environment." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1146.pdf.
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Zhao, Zhengjian. "Mediating updates using a web based service." Thesis, KTH, Kommunikationssystem, CoS, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-91994.
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The European Commission had approved the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) regulations in the year 2006, and will begin to implement it form 1 June 2007. This regulation greatly increases safety of protection for the users of chemicals, but it also brought a problem for the manufactures as well as downstream users. That is they have to generate and distribute much more Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) then before. This work is difficult for most companies since this job usually was done manually. The new regulation requires a much more efficient method to generate and distribute them. This thesis project addresses the problem of automatically distributing MSDS and the corresponding metadata. It presents the underlying technology selected for this project. It gives a brief introduction of this project, the underlying technologies used, along with the methods used to deliver relevant and up to date materials safety information. At last an HTTP web application approach was selected to solve the problem, the resulting application can efficiently notify a downstream user of the newly updated MSDS and transport the corresponding file and metadata. It is truly data driven, therefore the downstream user does not need to check for updates everyday, instead will be notified when there is an available update.Den Europeiska kommissionen antog 2006 en ny bestämmelse för informationsspridning av kemikalier, Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH), och den kommer att tas i bruk från första juni 2007. Bestämmelsen innebär ett starkt ökat skydd för användare av kemikalier, men den ställer även till problem för både tillverkare och användare. Exempelvis, de måste generera och distribuera betydligt fler materialsäkerhetsföreskrifter, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), än tidigare. Detta arbete är krävande för de flesta företag eftersom arbetet ofta sker manuellt. Den nya bestämmelsen kräver mycket effektivare metoder att generera och distribuera MSDS. Det här examensarbetet fokuserar på problemet att automatiskt distribuera MSDS och den korresponderande metadatat. Rapporten presenterar den underliggande teknologin för examensarbetet. Därutöver ges en kort introduktion till examensarbetet, den underliggande teknologin, tillsammans med de metoderna som används för att skicka relevanta och aktuella materialsäkerhetsföreskrifter. Som avslutning väljs en HTTP Web applikationslösning för att lösa problemet. Den lösningen kan effektivt underrätta en användare att det finns en nyare MSDS och sedan skicka den korresponderande filen och dess metadata. Den är data driven, vilket gör att en användare inte måste kontrollera för uppdateringar varje dag, utan kommer att bli informerad när det finns en ny tillgänglig.
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Zhang, Xin, and 张昕. "Gossip-based publish-subscribe systems in peer-to-peer networks." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/208013.
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm, for its scalability and low cost management, is widely used in today’s network. Based on the typical designs for request/response services, a lot of efforts have been made to support publish-subscribe services in P2P networks. Gossip-based publish-subscribe system, which is commonly used in unstructured P2P networks, can provide great flexibility in query language and does not require special efforts on maintaining topology. The purpose of our work is to investigate effective and efficient mechanisms to build gossip-based publish-subscribe systems in unstructured P2P networks. Specifically, the probabilistic bi-quorum system (PBQS), for its assurance in effectiveness, becomes the object of our study.
Uniform sampling is a fundamental tool to construct PBQS. By adopting uniform sampling, PBQS provides a bound on the likelihood that data messages will find a copy of the subscription. A random walk of length O(log n) is commonly used to gain a uniform sample on an expander graph of size n. To obtain a multitude of uniform samples thus requires an equivalent number of random walks of length O(log n) each. A number of works have relied on the Chernoff bound to analytically reduce the overhead needed to obtain a multitude of uniform samples. Besides, researchers have also shown that it is not necessary to replicate both data and query on uniformly chosen nodes. Alternatively, BubbleStorm performs controlled flooding on a constructed overlay to build PBQS. BubbleStorm does not require nodes forming a bubble to be uniformly chosen at random, and the probabilistic bound computed by BubbleStorm is different from uniform sampling based PBQS.
In this thesis, we first show that the Chernoff bound on the statistical properties of samples collected from a random walk does not help in selecting uniformly random nodes. We then re-examine the role of uniform sampling in PBQS, and found that when multiple data answer a single subscription, it is sufficient and necessary for each data to be distributed uniformly at random. Looking into BubbleStorm, we examine more closely the probabilistic bound provided by this system. We found that, unlike uniform sampling based PBQS, the bubble intersection in BubbleStorm is distance dependent. Given a specific pair of publisher-subscriber, the data may never find the subscription. We further investigate the topology construction and found that re-creating topology prior to each controlled flooding or keeping topology with high degree of churn can help alleviate the distance dependency problem. We arrive at the conclusion that BubbleStorm construction is equivalent to caching of random walks. We show that re-using this cache to obtain samples over time leads to degradation of uniformity of the samples. We evaluate topology re-wiring as a simple method to keep the cache fresh, thereby benefiting from the low latency of controlled flooding without degrading the uniformity of samples over time.published_or_final_version
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Nyang'au, Isaac Mbeche [Verfasser]. "Boundary work and agricultural innovation systems : Stakeholder interaction and learning using an example of push-pull technology in Ethiopia / Isaac Mbeche Nyang'au." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1218301139/34.
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Lampi, Rebecca. "Mobila kuponger: Tillräckligt attraktivt eller bara pinsamt? : En studie om människors uppfattning och användning av mobila kuponger." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29511.
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Dagens smartphones är utrustade med GPS, vilket har blivit en användbar information för externa aktörer. Detta har skapat möjligheter för företag att kommunicera med sina användare, bland annat med hjälp av mobila kuponger. Det har tidigare funnits hinder för att utveckla mobila kuponger, som tekniska begränsningar, men nu är utmaningen att få förståelse för sina användare. Den här uppsatsen har undersökt hur användningen och uppfattningen av mobila kuponger ser ut idag, vilka faktorer som kan påverka användningen, samt hur dessa faktorer skulle kunna förbättras för att fler börjar använda tjänsten. Frågorna har besvarats med en enkätundersökning av 50 respondenter, samt en fokusgrupp med 6 deltagare. Resultatet visade att användningen av tjänsten inte är särskilt hög, men detta berodde främst på att man inte kände till att mobila kuponger fanns. Några viktiga faktorer som påverkade användningen var att man glömde bort att utnyttja kupongerna, en större ansträngning kändes mer pinsamt, samt att det kunde kränka integriteten.The smartphones of today are provided with GPS’, which has created valuable opportunities for external actors. This in turn has created opportunities for companies to communicate with their consumers, by the use of mobile coupons for example. There have previously been technical obstacles for these kind of services, but now the challenge is to understand the consumer. This paper investigates the usage and the conceptions of mobile coupons at present, which elements that can affect the utilization and how these elements could be improved to spread the distribution of this service. The questions have been answered through a survey of 50 respondents and a focus group of 6 participants. The result proved that the usage of mobile coupons is not particularly high, however this was mainly due to bad awareness of the availability of the service. Some important factors affecting the utilization was forgetting to use the coupons, a bigger commitment was seen as awkward, or to intrude on the integrity.
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Wiklund, Ida. "A Recommendation system for News Push Notifications- Personalizing with a User-based and Content-based Recommendation system." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172275.
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The news landscape has changed during recent years because of the digitization. News can nowadays be found in both newspapers and on different sites online. The availability of the digital newspapers leads to competition among the news companies. To make the users stay on one specific platform for news, relevance is required in the content and oneway of creating relevance is through personalization, to tailor the content to each user. The focus of this thesis is therefore personalizing newspush notifications for a digital newspaper and making them more relevant for users. The project was made in cooperation with VK Media, and their digital newspaper. The task in this thesis is to implement personalization of push notifications by building a recommendation system and to test the implemented system with data from VK. In order to perform the task, a dataset representing reading habits of VK’s users was extracted from their data warehouse. Then a user-based and content-based recommendation system was implemented in Python.The idea with the system is to recommend new articles that are sufficiently similar to one or more of the already read articles. Articles that may be liked by one of the most similar users should also be recommended. Finally, the system’s performance was evaluated with the data representing reading habits for VK’s users. The results show that the implemented system has better performance than the current solution without any personalization, when recommending a few articles to each user. The results from the evaluation also show that the more articles the users have read, the better predictions are possible to make. Thus, this thesis offers a first step towards meeting the expectations of more relevant content among VK’s users.
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Blomkvist, Sebastian. "Competition or Cooperation? : Using push notifications to increase user engagement in a gamified smartphone application for reducing personal CO2-emissions." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279464.
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A helpful tool in forming, breaking, and maintaining habits and behaviors is a digital behavior change intervention (DBCI). These are interventions that leverage digital technologies to help their users to either take on or avoid certain behaviors. A common problem is a lack of user engagement with the interventions’ content, which is key for its effectiveness. It has however been shown that gamified content and using prompts—such as push notifications—may have the effect of increasing user engagement, for both DBCIs and other applications. Furthermore, two commonly occurring game concepts are competition and cooperation, each with different influences on engagement which in turn may vary depending on the context and the user. Therefore, this thesis set out to examine how push notifications can be used to increase user engagement with a gamified DBCI by making its gamified elements more salient. Additionally, it will investigate if there is any difference in influence on engagement of notifications that either promote competition or cooperation. This was evaluated by deploying two different push notification strategies on Deedster—a gamified mobile DBCI with the aim to get its users to reduce their personal CO2-emissions—and tracking user behavior. The results of the evaluation showed that users who received push notifications were more engaged—started more sessions and spent more time—with the application than users who did not receive any. They also performed a significantly higher amount of target behaviors. There was no difference in the influence on performed target behaviors between the notifications promoting competition or cooperation, and only one significant difference—usage of intervention features—regarding user engagement. The gender of the user was also found to be a considerable factor in the influence of the push notifications. Competition increased engagement more than cooperation for male users, but not for female users.Ett effektivt verktyg för att forma, bryta eller bibehålla vanor och beteenden är en så kallad digital beteendeförändrings-intervention (eng. digital behavior change intervention eller DBCI). Dessa interventioner använder digital teknik för att hjälpa deras användare att antingen påbörja eller undvika särskilda beteenden. Ett vanligt problem med dessa är att användarna ofta inte är särskilt engagerade i interventionernas innehåll eller funktioner, vilket är viktigt för deras effektivitet. Emellertid har det visats att spelifierat innehåll och användandet av notiser—såsom push-notiser—kan ha en ökande effekt på engagemanget. Två vanligt förekommande spelkoncept är tävling och samarbete, båda med sina olika effekter på engagemang vilket också skiftar beroende på kontexten och användaren. Därför ska detta examensarbete undersöka hur push-notiser kan användas för att öka användar-engagemanget i en spelifierad och mobil beteendeförändrings-intervention genom att göra dess spelifierade element mer framträdande. Dessutom kommer det även undersökas om det är någon skillnad i effekt mellan notiser som antingen främjar tävling eller samarbete. Detta var utvärderat genom att använda två olika push-notis-strategier på Deedster—en spelifierad, mobil intervention som syftar till att minska dess användares CO2-utsläpp—och sedan följa användarnas beteende. Resultaten visade att användare som fick push-notiser var mer engagerade—startade mer sessioner och spenderade mer tid—inom applikationen jämfört med användare som inte fick några notiser. De utförde också signifikant fler önskade beteenden. Det var ingen skillnad i effekt på antalet önskade beteende utförda mellan att främja tävling eller samarbete och endast några få skillnader i engagemang. Dock visade det sig att användarens kön var en betydande faktor i effekten av notiserna. Notiserna som främjade tävling var mer effektiva för manliga användare jämfört med de som främjade samarbete. Denna effekt syntes inte bland kvinnliga användare.
Designing digital technologies for supporting energy-related behavior change in the kitchen
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Ringaby, Erik. "Geometric Computer Vision for Rolling-shutter and Push-broom Sensors." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Datorseende, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-77391.
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Almost all cell-phones and camcorders sold today are equipped with a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) image sensor and there is also a general trend to incorporate CMOS sensors in other types of cameras. The sensor has many advantages over the more conventional CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) sensor such as lower power consumption, cheaper manufacturing and the potential for on-chip processing. Almost all CMOS sensors make use of what is called a rolling shutter. Compared to a global shutter, which images all the pixels at the same time, a rolling-shutter camera exposes the image row-by-row. This leads to geometric distortions in the image when either the camera or the objects in the scene are moving. The recorded videos and images will look wobbly (jello effect), skewed or otherwise strange and this is often not desirable. In addition, many computer vision algorithms assume that the camera used has a global shutter, and will break down if the distortions are too severe. In airborne remote sensing it is common to use push-broom sensors. These sensors exhibit a similar kind of distortion as a rolling-shutter camera, due to the motion of the aircraft. If the acquired images are to be matched with maps or other images, then the distortions need to be suppressed. The main contributions in this thesis are the development of the three dimensional models for rolling-shutter distortion correction. Previous attempts modelled the distortions as taking place in the image plane, and we have shown that our techniques give better results for hand-held camera motions. The basic idea is to estimate the camera motion, not only between frames, but also the motion during frame capture. The motion can be estimated using inter-frame image correspondences and with these a non-linear optimisation problem can be formulated and solved. All rows in the rolling-shutter image are imaged at different times, and when the motion is known, each row can be transformed to the rectified position. In addition to rolling-shutter distortions, hand-held footage often has shaky camera motion. It has been shown how to do efficient video stabilisation, in combination with the rectification, using rotation smoothing. In the thesis it has been explored how to use similar techniques as for the rolling-shutter case in order to correct push-broom images, and also how to rectify 3D point clouds from e.g. the Kinect depth sensor.VGS
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Freitas, Miller Nunes de. "Desenvolvimento, caracterização e avaliação de um sistema osmótico do tipo bicamada." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/9/9139/tde-27022009-170513/.
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Os comprimidos osmóticos do tipo bicamada ou \"push pull\" são sistemas reservatórios constituídos de um núcleo bicamada, circundado por uma membrana semipermeável e com um orifício de liberação perfurado a laser que permitem a liberação do fármaco através da cinética de ordem zero. Este sistema possui a vantagem de apresentar uma liberação controlada e não influenciada pelos fatores fisiológicos do trato gastrointestinal, permitindo aplicações terapêuticas para novos fármacos e inclusive para fármacos já existentes. O presente projeto contemplou as etapas de desenvolvimento, caracterização e avaliação de um sistema osmótico do tipo bicamada ou \"push pull\", para veiculação do atenolol, um beta bloquador de grande importância na terapia antihipertensiva. Após a padronização e validação da metodologia analítica, estudos de compatibilidade entre o fármaco e os excipientes através da análise calorimétrica e espectroscopia no infravermelho (pré-formulação), a produção, a caracterização da membrana de revestimento e, por fim, a avaliação do desempenho dos núcleos osmóticos foram realizados. Assim, três lotes, com 4kg cada, foram produzidos para determinação do peso médio e do ferramental adequados, além da proporção entre os excipientes da formulação. O processo de compressão deu origem aos núcleos osmóticos do tipo bicamada que foram submetidos à avaliação físico-química como determinação do peso médio, da dureza, da friabilidade e da espessura. Além disso, padronizou-se o processo de revestimento dos núcleos com membrana semipermeável e avaliou-se o perfil de captação de água dos núcleos resultantes (\"Swelling\"). A membrana de revestimento foi submetida à microscopia eletrônica de varredura (MEV), análise por adsorção de nitrogênio e porosimetria de mercúrio para verificação da distribuição e tamanho médio dos poros. Para a obtenção do orifício de liberação padronizou-se a quantidade de radiação a laser suficiente para perfuração da membrana semipermeável que envolve os núcleos. Após a perfuração a laser, os núcleos foram submetidos então ao estudo de liberação in vitro para avaliação da influência do diâmetro de orifícios, do número de orifícios, da espessura da membrana semipermeável, da hidrodinâmica do meio de dissolução e da influência térmica na velocidade de liberação do fármaco. A cinética do tipo ordem zero e o controle da liberação do fármaco ao longo do tempo foram alcançados com sucesso a partir dos núcleos osmóticos produzidos no lote 03.The push pull osmotic release tablets are bilayer core reservoir systems surrounded by semi permeable membrane and with one delivery hole where the drug is released through, following zero order release kinetics. This system has many advantages and two of them are the controlled drug release and independence of physiologically factors allowing many therapeutic applications to new one and known one drugs. This exclusive work proposed the development, characterization and evaluation of atenolol push pull osmotic system that is very important to antihypertensive treatment. After analytical standardization and validation activities, the pre-formulation studies using calorimetric and infra red spectroscopy techniques, manufacturing, semi permeable membrane characterization and finally osmotic tablets performance evaluation were performed. Batches about 4 kg each one were manufactured and tablets average weight, by-layer proportionality and suitable punches were chosen. Thus the osmotic tablets obtained by bi-layer press were physical and chemical evaluated (average weight, hardness, friability, and thickness). After that the tablets were submitted to a coating process with semi permeable membrane and the uptake water profile (Swelling) was observed to characterize the membrane permeability. The semi permeable membrane was submitted also to scanning electron microscopy (SEM), nitrogen adsorption and mercury porosimetry techniques in order to characterize the porous average diameter and distribution. To produce the delivery hole in the drug layer semi permeable membrane the sufficient laser radiation amount was studied and determined. So the perforated osmotic tablets were submitted to in vitro drug release studies to evaluate the influence of hole diameter, hole number, coating thickness, medium hydrodynamic and temperature stress responsible for drug release modifications. Finally the controlled delivery and the zero order drug release kinetics were achieved successfully from osmotic tablets developed and produced in the third bath. This third bath was the result of the factors comprehension and the optimization of the early ones.
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Sarja, J. (Jari). "Developing technology pushed breakthroughs:defining and assessing success factors in ICT industry." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2016. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526214474.
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Abstract The main task for most development-intensive organisations is to create, develop and commercialise new products and services. The technology push (TP) concept is considered an important competitive advantage for companies trying to create breakthrough products. Because development processes are risky and failure rates are high, especially in the case of technology pushed projects, defined success factors are valuable knowledge for the management of development-intensive firms. The prime objective of this study is to present a compact set of TP project success factors in an information and communication technology (ICT) context. Because the literature on new product development and innovation has presented many success factors for developed products, but has done so in a way that presents the factors as having a nebulous nature, the specification of TP success factors is also presented. The success factors are also empirically validated. The goal of the validation was to determine the relevance of the success factors introduced, and potentially define new ones. The validation was performed through an empirical study with semi-structured company interviews. As a result of this study we concluded that one success factor defined through the literature review should be removed due to a lack of relevance, that the other twelve success factors were validated, and three new success factors were identified during the empirical study. Eventually fifteen TP success factors are defined and presented. The practical relevance of this study is to help firm management to recognise the real actions needed to reduce product development risks. The theoretical relevance is in helping scholars to focus on key issues when studying the key factors of breakthrough development casesTiivistelmä Tuotekehitystä harjoittavien yritysten päätehtävänä on luoda, kehittää ja kaupallistaa uusia tuotteita ja palveluita. Yritysten pyrkiessä luomaan läpimurtotuotteita, ”Technology push” -konseptia pidetään niille tärkeänä kilpailuetuna. Koska tuotekehitysprosessit ovat riskialttiita ja epäonnistumisen mahdollisuudet suuret erityisesti teknologiatyöntöisillä projekteilla, tarkasti määritellyt menestystekijät ovat arvokasta tietoa yritysten johdolle. Tämän työn päätarkoituksena on esitellä yhtenäinen ja tiivis joukko teknologiatyöntöisten projektien menestystekijöitä ICT toimialalla. Uusien tuotteiden kehittämistä ja innovaatioita käsittelevä lähdekirjallisuus esittelee lukuisia menestystekijöitä. Ne on kuitenkin esitelty vaikeasti selitettävällä tai monimerkityksellisellä tavalla, joten olemme esittäneet myös niiden tarkat määrittelyt. Menestystekijät ovat validoitu myös empiirisesti. Validoinnin tarkoituksena oli löytää esiteltyjen menestystekijöiden relevanssi ja löytää mahdollisesti uusia menestystekijöitä. Validointi toteutettiin puolistrukturoiduilla yrityshaastatteluilla. Työn tuloksena esitetään kirjallisuuskatsauksen ja empiirisen validoinnin avulla määritellyt 15 teknologiatyöntöisten projektien menestystekijää. Tutkimuksen käytännöllinen merkitys on auttaa yritysjohtoa tunnistamaan tärkeät toiminnot tuotekehitysriskien madaltamiseksi. Tutkimuksen teoreettinen merkitys on auttaa tutkijoita keskittymään avainasioihin ja tunnistamaan menestystekijät läpimurtotuotetutkimuksessa
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Ning, Xufei. "Push-based low-latency solution for Tracked Resource Set protocol : An extension of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration specification." Thesis, KTH, Radio Systems Laboratory (RS Lab), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-213126.
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Currently, the development of embedded system requires a variety of software and tools. Moreover, most of this software and tools are standalone applications, thus they are unconnected and their data can be inconsistent and duplicated. This increase both heterogeneity and the complexity of the development environment. To address this situation, tool integration solutions based on Linked Data are used, as they provide scalable and sustainable integration across different engineering tools. Different systems can access and share data by following the Linked-Data-based Open Service for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) specification. OSLC uses the Tracked Resource Set (TRS) protocol to enable a server to expose a resource set and to enable a client to discover a resource in the resource set. Currently, the TRS protocol uses a client pull for the client to update its data and to synchronize with the server. However, this method is inefficient and time consuming. Moreover, high-frequency pulling may introduce an extra burden on the network and server, while low-frequency pulling increases the system’s latency (as seen by the client). A push-based low-latency solution for the TRS protocol was implemented using Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) technology. The TRS server uses MQTT to push the update patch (called a ChangeEvent) to the TRS client, then the client updates its content according to this ChangeEvent. As a result, the TRS client synchronizes with the TRS server in real time. Furthermore, a TRS adaptor was developed for Atlassian’s JIRA, a widely-used project and issue management tool. This JIRA-TRS adaptor provides a TRS provider with the ability to share data via JIRA with other software or tools which utilize the TRS protocol. In addition, a simulator was developed to simulate the operations in JIRA for a period of time (specifically the create, modify, and delete actions regarding issues) and acts as a validator to check if the data in TRS client matches the data in JIRA. An evaluation of the push-based TRS system shows an average synchronization delay of around 30 milliseconds. This is a huge change compared with original TRS system that synchronized every 60 seconds.Nuvarande inbyggda system kräver en mängd olika program och verktyg för att stödja dess utveckling. Dessutom är de flesta av dessa programvara och verktyg fristående applikationer. De är oanslutna och deras data kan vara inkonsistent och duplicerad. Detta medför ökad heterogenitet och ökar komplexiteten i utvecklingsmiljön. För att hantera denna situation används verktygsintegrationslösningar baserade på Länkad Data, eftersom de ger en skalbar och hållbar integrationslösning för olika tekniska verktyg. Olika system kan komma åt och dela data genom att följa den Länkad Data-baserade tjänsten Open Service for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC). OSLC använder TRS-protokollet (Tracked Resource Set) så att en server kan exponera en resursuppsättning och för att möjliggöra för en klient att upptäcka en resurs i resursuppsättningen. TRS-protokollet använder för tillfället pull-metoden så att klienten kan uppdatera sin data och synkronisera med servern. Denna metod är emellertid ineffektiv och tidskrävande. Vidare kan en högfrekvensdriven pull-metod införa en extra börda på nätverket och servern, medan lågfrekvensdriven ökar systemets latens (som ses av klienten). I det här examensprojektet implementerar vi en pushbaserad låg latenslösning för TRS-protokollet. Den teknik som används är Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT). TRS-servern använder MQTT för att pusha uppdateringspatchen (som kallas ChangeEvent) till TRS-klienten. Därefter uppdaterar klienten dess innehåll enligt denna ChangeEvent. Vilket resulterar i att TRS-klienten synkroniseras med TRS-servern i realtid. Dessutom utvecklas en TRS-adapter för Atlassians JIRA som är ett välanvänt projekt och problemhanteringsverktyg. JIRA-TRS-adaptern tillhandahåller en TRS-leverantör med möjlighet att dela data via JIRA med annan programvara eller verktyg som använder TRS-protokollet. Dessutom utvecklade vi en simulator för att simulera verksamheten i JIRA under en tidsperiod (specifikt skapa, ändra och ta bort åtgärder rörande problem) och en validator för att kontrollera om data i TRS-klienten matchar data i JIRA. En utvärdering av det pushbaserade TRS-systemet visar en genomsnittlig synkroniseringsfördröjning på cirka 30 millisekunder. Detta är en stor förändring jämfört med det ursprungliga TRS-systemet som synkroniseras var 60:e sekund.
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Albrechtsen, Nathan Bryce. "Identifying Potential Applications for Lamina Emergent Mechanisms and Evaluating Their Suitability for Credit-Card-Sized Products." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2361.
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Lamina emergent mechanisms (LEMs) are a maturing technology that is prepared for commercial implementation into new products. LEMs are defined by three functional characteristics; they (1) are compliant, (2) are fabricated from planar materials, and (3) emerge from a flat initial state. Advantages, design challenges, and design tools are described for each of the functional characteristics. Opportunities for LEMs are discussed, namely disposable LEMs, novel arrays of LEMs, scaled LEMs, LEMs with surprising motion, shock absorbing LEMs, and deployable LEMs. Technology push product development processes were employed to select applications for LEMs. LEM technology was characterized. In a LEM workshop, eighteen industry professionals then helped identify over 200 potential applications for the technology. The applications were evaluated, and the most promising ideas that were identified for each LEM opportunity are described with graphics of possible product embodiments. Of the various product opportunities enabled by LEMs, deployable mechanisms – particularly in the credit card size – are among the most viable. The compactness and portability of credit-card-sized products create a strong motivation for their development. Expanding the capabilities of credit-card-sized mechanisms to include more sophisticated motions and a broader range of tasks may dramatically increase their market potential. A review of the current state-of-the-art in credit-card-sized mechanisms reveals two primary classes of mechanisms most commonly used in this form factor: rigid-body mechanisms and in-plane compliant mechanisms. The limitations of each and corresponding LEM advantages are described. Criteria for determining whether a product is a suitable candidate for using LEM technology to create or improve a credit-card-sized product are established. The advantages of LEMs in credit-card-sized products are illustrated through an example product: a compact lancing device that could be used as a main component for a highly portable epinephrine syringe.
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Oyovwevotu, Joy Sunday. "The social construction of technical innovation in the UK oil and gas industry." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1112.
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Innovation and ‘creative destruction’ should thrive in the competitive, high risk and high cost environment of the North Sea. Paradoxically, uptake of new technology is slow. The focus of this research was to understand how new technology is developed and how end users make decisions about innovation. Innovation process in the literature can sometimes come across like a ‘black box’ without much explanation of what happens inside the box. This study seeks to explicate what transpires inside the ‘black box’ to improve our understanding of the innovation process. The linear models of technology-push and market-pull are too simplistic to account for the complexity of relationships and engagements that affect innovation at small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) level. Subsequent models of innovation are suited to how large corporations manage innovation but neglect patterns of social interactions at the micro level where SMEs operate. These innovation models are incomplete because they relegate the importance of context and how it shapes understanding, action and outcome. This study, rooted in a social constructionist paradigm, takes a process-relational stance on entrepreneurship and innovation, recognising the dynamic relationships between social actors and context. Taking Heidegger’s explication of how we relate to the world, this thesis submits that innovation occurs when actors move into the ‘occurrent’ mode. The happenings and doings in the innovation process are treated as the results of perpetual social constructions. This study is based on extended interviews with eleven individuals in relevant roles and with direct experiences of the technical innovation construction in the oil and gas industry. The purposeful sample of research encompasses a variety of roles including technology entrepreneurs, end users of technology and venture capitalists. This study makes a number of contributions. Firstly, the research improves our understanding of how different social constructions are welded together to develop shared understanding. Secondly, a conceptual framework is presented that bridges a number of theoretical concepts, which allows us to see that innovation cannot be properly understood using simplistic models that ignores the social constructions human actors instantiate. Thirdly, the research claims that problem framing is foundational to innovation construction, where social actors collaborate to develop shared understanding, and mentally represent in the present a future that is not totally knowable. Fourthly, an alternative model of innovation construction is presented that is relational and accounts for the social constructions of process participants. Finally, a number of research implications for academics and insights for practitioners engaged in the technical innovation construction are offered.
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Hjalmarsson, Staffan, and Jonatan Clemens. "Ett IT-konsultföretag och dess relation till kunder." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-35517.
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Abstract: Title: An It consulting company and its relationship with customers Level: C-examination Bachelor’s degree in innovation, design and technology. IDT, 15hp. VT 17th Authors: Jonatan Clemens & Staffan Hjalmarsson Handler: Anette Strömberg Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate how a major company meets the users and their needs as well as where and how the interaction with the user is done. Suggestions for areas of change are proposed in connection with the completion of the study. Research questions: -How does a consulting firm work with customers/users? -Are their work methods similar to what is described as successful in research on customer involvement? -Can work processes be improved? Method: The authors have used the qualitative method that has been developed as oral semi-structured interviews. The study is based much on hermeneutic form which means that one summarizes his own interpretations to get a deeper understanding. Conclusion: A conjunction and analysis of theoretical areas dealt with and empirical information led to the conclusion that there are indications that the company largely do not work according to established research the paper deals with. Assignment purpose: The essay should mainly have contributed to a deeper understanding on the subject of customer relations and should contribute beneficial information for a consulting firm regarding their client work.Sammanfattning: Titel: Ett IT-konsultföretag och dess relation till kunder Nivå: C-uppsats: Examensarbete för kandidatexamen i innovationsteknik 15.0 hp. VT 17. Författarna: Jonatan Clemens & Staffan Hjalmarsson Handledare: Anette Strömberg Datum: 2016-11-07 - 2017-01-12 Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur ett större företag möter användare och deras behov samt var och hur interaktion med dessa användare sker. Förslag på förändringsområden föreslås i samband med fullföljd studie. Forskningsfrågor: -Hur arbetar ett konsultföretag med kunder/användare? -Liknar deras arbetssätt vad som beskrivs som framgångsrikt i forskning om kundinvolvering? -Kan arbetsprocesserna förbättras? Metod: Författarna har använt sig av en kvalitativ metod som tagits fram i form av muntliga semistrukturerade intervjuer. Studien Bygger mycket på hermeneutisk form som innebär att man sammanfattar sina egna tolkningar för att få en djupare förståelse. Resultat: En sammanvägning och analys av genomgångna teoretiska områden och empiri gav slutsatsen att det finns indikationer på att företaget till stor del inte arbetar efter etablerad forskning uppsatsen behandlar. Uppsatsens bidrag: Uppsatsen har framförallt bidragit till en djupare förståelse kring ämnet kundrelationer samt ska bidra med fördelaktig information för konsultföretaget gällande deras arbete.
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Muhdi, Rani. "Re-Engineering the Operational System to Enhance the Customer Orientation of a Mid-Size Firm: A Field Study." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0319102-195053/restricted/Muhdir041002a.PDF.
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Rama, Jiten. "The design of a protocol for collaboration in a distributed repository - Nomad." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2007. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07052007-093209.
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Sebelius, Johan, and Jakob Edgren. "Designriktlinjer för platsbaserade pushtjänster för direktmarknadsföring till smartphones : En explorativ studie med smartphoneanvändare." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21446.
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Idag lever vi i ett samhälle där smartphones blivit allmänt förekommande. Som en följd av ökade nätverkshastigheter har möjligheterna att enkelt få tillgång till information aldrig varit bättre. Den ökade användning av smartphones har också skapat möjligheter till en rad olika applikationer såsom platsbaserade applikationer som använder sig av pushtjänster. I vår studie har vi undersökt frågan “Hur kan platsbaserade pushtjänster som ett verktyg för direktmarknadsföring designas för att möta smartphoneanvändares behov?”. Genom en litteraturstudie har vi sammanställt och identifierat designteman från tidigare HCI- och interaktionsdesign forskning. Vår litteraturstudie resulterade i de fem designteman, Användarkontroll, Flexibilitet, Visibilitet, Personlig integritet och Felhantering. Dessa teman har vi sedan utvärderat genom att skapa en prototyp som vi testar mot användare. Resultatet av studien är en uppsättning designriktlinjer inom fyra designteman för hur platsbaserade pushtjänster ska designas för att möta smartphoneanvändares behov.We live in a world were smartphones are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. As a result of increased network speeds the possibilities to easily access information have never been greater. The increase in smartphone use has also created an increase in opportunities to create a range of applications such as location based applications that make use of push services. In our study, we have researched “How location-based push services as a tool for direct marketing can be designed to meet smartphone users’ needs? “. Through a literary review, we have compiled and identified design themes from previous HCI and interaction design research. The review resulted in the five design themes, User control, Flexibility, Visibility, Privacy and Error Handling. We assessed the themes by creating a prototype that we tested with users. The result of the study is a set of design guidelines within four design themes for how location-based push services should be designed to meet smartphone users’ needs.
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Roberts, Christopher. "Energy Policies and Directed Technical Change : How Governments Incentivize Firms to Invests in Renewable Energy innovation." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-264189.
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Policies are regarded as the most important instrument in redirecting invention Policies are regarded as the most important instrument in redirecting invention investments away from fossil fuel technologies towards renewable energy technologies. Despite the importance and urgency in decarbonizing the economy, the literature on how different energy policies effect the development of renewable energy technologies is relatively scarce. A difficulty has been in justifying the operationalizing of policies in as both valid and reliable. This thesis tackles the operationalization difficulty and produces empirical evidence in how effective various policies are in incentivizing the development of renewable energy technologies (RET). The main findings are that government R&D expenditure increases firm innovation across all RET, demand-pull policies either increase the likelihood of firm inventions or has an insignificant effect and carbon taxation does not increase the likelihood of RET invention.Politiska instrument är ansedda som de medel som kan ha störst inverkan att omdirigera innovation investeringar från fossila till förnyelsebara energier. Trots det angelägna och brådskande i att ekonomin blir fossilt oberoende finns det relativt lite litteratur på hur olika energipolitiska medel har för effekt på den tekniska utvecklingen av förnyelsebara energier. En svårighet har varit att berättiga operativiseringen av politiken vilken är både valid och tillförlitligt. Denna uppsats angriper svårigheten av att operativisera poliska instrument och producerar empiriska underlag för hur effektiva olika politiska medel är i att ge incitament till för att utveckla förnyelsebara energier (FE). De frästa resultaten är att statlig forskning och utveckling ökar sannolikheten att företags innovation inom alla FE, efterfråge-stimulerings politik antingen ökar eller har ingen påverkan på FE innovation och att koldioxidbeskattning inte ökar innovation inom FE.
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Silva, Bruno do Vale. "Proposição de um teste de aderência apropriado para controle tecnológico da resistência à compressão do concreto." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/107489.
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Esta pesquisa propõe-se estudar a viabilidade de um ensaio de aderência aço-concreto apropriado (Appropriate Bond Test - ABT) para estimativa da resistência à compressão axial do concreto, objetivando empregá-lo como complemento ao controle de qualidade do concreto armado em campo. Originalmente os autores Lorrain e Barbosa (2008) apresentaram a utilização de um ensaio de aderência apropriado, denominado APULOT, para estimar a resistência à compressão do concreto, aumentando as possibilidades de controle tecnológico do concreto armado em canteiros de obras. Os mesmos propõem uma adaptação do método pull-out test (POT) tradicional, normalizado pela RILEM CEB/FIP RC6:1983, por ser este um ensaio de baixa complexidade e de custo reduzido. Para viabilizar o uso de um ensaio de aderência apropriado como ensaio de controle tecnológico do concreto em canteiro de obras é necessário definir um padrão para o mesmo e adaptá-lo da prática experimental do laboratório para o campo. O presente trabalho buscou avaliar os seguintes parâmetros: (1) Tipo de carregamento do ensaio (pull-out e push-in); (2) Influência do tipo de configuração geométrica das barras de aço; (3) Análises da preparação, moldagem, cura e estocagem dos corpos de prova do ABT; (4) Análises quanto à execução do ABT referentes à idade de ruptura, taxa de carregamento e tipo de ruptura; (5) Implementação do ABT em canteiro de obras, avaliando a sua potencialidade de efetuar estimativas da resistência à compressão a partir dos dados da tensão de aderência. Para tanto, foram ensaiadas 26 composições de concreto de classes distintas, com idades entre 3 e 28 dias. Foram, ainda, testadas 8 configurações distintas de barras de aço com diâmetros nominais de 8 e 12,5 mm. Os resultados obtidos mostram que, sob condições padronizadas de ensaio e adotando os coeficientes adequados, a correlação entre a tensão máxima de aderência e a resistência à compressão do concreto é satisfatória, fortalecendo o propósito de consolidar este ensaio como uma alternativa complementar para controle de qualidade do concreto armado.This research proposes a study on the feasibility of bond test steel-concrete appropriate (Appropriate Bond Test - ABT) to estimate the compressive strength of concrete, aiming to use them as a supplement in the quality control of concrete in situ. Originally the authors Lorrain and Barbosa (2008) proposed the use of a modified bond test, called APULOT to estimate the compressive strength of the concrete, increasing the possibilities for technological control of reinforced concrete on construction sites. They propose an adaptation of the traditional method pull-out test (POT), normalized by the CEB / FIP RC6: 1983, because it is a test of low complexity and low cost. To enable the use of the test as a test technological control of concrete in construction site is necessary to define a standard for yourself and adapt it practice experimental laboratory to the field. This study evaluated the following parameters: (1) Type of load test (pull-out and push-in); (2) Influence of the type of geometric configuration of steel bar; (3) Analyses of preparation, molding, curing and storage of specimens of ABT; (4) Review of the implementation of ABT on age rupture, loading rate and type of fracture; (5) Implementation of ABT in construction site, evaluating its potential to make estimates of compressive strength from the data of bond stress. Therefore, 26 different compositions of concrete classes, aged between 3 and 28 days, were tested. Were also tested 8 different configurations of steel bars with nominal diameters of 8 and 12.5 mm. The results indicate that, under standard testing and adopting the appropriate coefficients conditions, the correlation between the maximum bond stress and the compressive strength of concrete is satisfactory, strengthening the purpose of consolidating this test as a complementary alternative to quality control reinforced concrete.
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Kreickemeier, Udo, and Jens Wrona. "Industrialisation and the Big Push in a Global Economy." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-224689.
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In their famous paper on the "Big Push", Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny (1989) show how the combination of increasing returns to scale at the firm level and pecuniary externalities can give rise to a poverty trap, thereby formalising an old idea due to Rosenstein-Rodan (1943). We develop in this paper an oligopoly model of the Big Push that is very close in spirit to the Murphy-Shleifer-Vishny (MSV) model, but in contrast to the MSV model it is easily extended to the case of an economy that is open to international trade. Having a workable open-economy framework allows us to address the question whether globalisation makes it easier or harder for a country to escape from a poverty trap. Our model gives a definite answer to this question: Globalisation makes it harder to escape from a poverty trap since the adoption of the modern technology at the firm level is impeded by tougher competition in the open economy.
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Jackson, David. "Innovation in Business to Business Payment Services: a contextual approach to future innovation." Thesis, KTH, Industriell Marknadsföring och Entreprenörskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-230617.
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Payments take place every day in exchange for goods and services. There are a large variety of different methods which can be used to make a payment, and multiple scenarios in which payments take place. Recently there has been a significant amount of innovation in the Payment Services sector, however the majority of this innovation has occurred in the Business-to-Consumer (B2C) market, leaving the Business-to-Business (B2B) market relatively devoid of innovations. This raises the question, why are there limited successful innovations in B2B Payment Services? Furthermore, are there areas for innovation in the realm of B2B Payments? To explore this perceived gap in innovation, the payment methods available to small B2B companies were examined to identify key challenges and areas for future innovation in B2B payments. The research contains primary data from semi-structured telephone interviews with five owners or managers in SME (Small or Medium-Sized Enterprise) B2B companies, located in the United Kingdom. It will be concluded that the payment methods available to small businesses are sufficient for their needs, and there were no real ‘pain points’ with the actual payments themselves – and this is posited as one reason why payment services innovation has been limited within B2Bs. However, each business experienced a number of challenges in the bigger-picture payment cycle and business purchasing flow. It is within this space - helping businesses manage payments, not make payments - that opportunities for innovation lie, and a conceptualisation of new business opportunities is discussed.Master of Entrepeneurship and Innovation Management (TEILM)
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Ameziane, El Hassani Chama. "Contribution à la réalisation d’un oscillateur push-push 80GHz synchronisé par un signal subharmonique pour des applications radars anticollisions." Thesis, Bordeaux 1, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010BOR14025/document.
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Ce travail de thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un projet Français « VéLo » qui est une collaboration entre l’industriel STMicroelectronics et plusieurs laboratoires dont les laboratoires IMS-bordeaux et LAAS. Le but du projet est de concevoir un prototype de radar anticollision millimétrique. Dans ce travail un synthétiseur de fréquence est implémenté. Ce dernier sera intégré dans la chaine de réception du démonstrateur. Une étude bibliographique des architectures classiques de système de radiocommunication a été réalisée. Des exemples d’architectures rencontrées dans le domaine millimétrique ont été étudiés.L’objet principal de cette thèse est l’étude des oscillateurs synchronisés par injection ILO. L’objectif est de réaliser un oscillateur verrouillé par injection qui sera piloté par un oscillateur de fréquence plus basse possédant des caractéristiques de stabilité et de bruit meilleures.Dans ce travail de thèse, le mécanisme de verrouillage des oscillateurs par injection a été décrit. Un modèle de synchronisation par injection série, basé sur la théorie de Huntoon Weiss et inspiré du travail de Badets réalisé sur les oscillateurs synchrones verrouillés par injection parallèle, est proposé. La théorie établie a permis d’exprimer la plage de synchronisation en fonction de la topologie utilisée et des composants de la structure. La validité de la théorie a été évaluée par la simulation de la structure. Les résultats présentés montrent une bonne concordance entre la simulation et la théorie et permettent de valider le principe de synchronisation par injection. La faisabilité de l’intégration d’un ILO millimétrique synchronisé par l’harmonique d’un signal de référence de fréquence plus basse a été démontrée expérimentalement. Le synthétiseur de fréquence est réalisé en technologie BiCMOS 130nm pour des applications millimétriques de STMicroelectronics. Ce dernier opère dans une plage de 2GHz autour de la fréquence 82,5GHz. Les performances en bruit du synthétiseur sont satisfaisantes. Le bruit de phase de l’ILO recopie celui du signal injecté. Les équipements de mesures utilisés, le bruit de phase de l’oscillateur atteint des valeurs inférieures à -110dBc/Hz à 1MHz de la porteuseThis thesis is a part of a French project "VELO". The project is collaboration between STMicroelectronics and several laboratories including IMS-Bordeaux and LAAS laboratories. The aim of this project is to achieve a prototype of millimeter anti-collision radar. In this work a frequency synthesizer is implemented. This circuit will be incorporated in the reception chain of the demonstrator. A bibliographical study of classical architecture was completed. Examples of architectures encountered in the millimeter frequency range have been studied. The purpose of this thesis is to study the phenomena of synchronization in oscillators. The objective is to design an injection locked oscillator ILO driven by another oscillator, the second oscillator operates at lower frequency and offers better stability and noise characteristics.In this thesis, the injection locking mechanism of the oscillators has been described. A model of synchronization by series injection is proposed. The model is based on the theory of Huntoon and Weiss and inspired by Badets’ work performed on parallel injection. The theory expresses the synchronized frequency range depending on the used topology and the values of the components. The validity of the theory was evaluated by simulation. The results show good agreement between simulation and theory and validate the principle of synchronization by injection.The feasibility of a millimeter ILO synchronized by the harmonic of a reference signal operating at lower frequency has been demonstrated experimentally. The synthesizer was implemented in BiCMOS technology for 130nm applications millimeter of STMicroelectronics. The oscillator operates at 82.5 GHz and performs a frequency range of 2GHz. The noise performance of the synthesizer is satisfactory. The phase noise of the ILO depends on the reference phase noise, and reaches values of -110dBc/Hz at 1MHz from the carrier frequency
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Szczygiel, David, and Max Rosendahl. "Knapptryckardemokrati : Om synsätt på IT-stödd demokratiförnyelse." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10564.
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With the increased significance of information technology (IT) in today’s society the term ‘electronic democracy’ (e-democracy) has gained much importance within the democracy theory. Naturally, there are several competing views on how the technology should be used for democratic purpose. One aspect of this is the somewhat revitalized claim for direct democracy in accordance with the hypothetical opportunity to finally realize it as a democratic system. The ideal of direct democracy combined with the almost total credence in the potential of technology constitute the idea of a ‘push-button democracy’. The term has to a large extent been used by critics to the idea. However, it does also figure as a generic term describing this ‘new’ claim for direct democracy. This essay seeks in a qualitative normative and theoretical way, to assess the plausibility of the idea of the push-button democracy in relation to classical democracy theory. In excess of the debate of direct versus representative democracy, the analysis seeks to give a normative approach on how information technology should be applied. The result of the analysis consists of a number of predicted implications with the realization of the push-button democracy, especially concerning the democratic process in regard to decision making. Furthermore, it is reasoned whether this utopian system is desirable, even from a principal view. Finally, the discussion concludes with a stance of policy that information technology should be used as a mean for the existing representative democracy, rather than a goal, in order to create a different political system.
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Kiani, Amirkiarash. "Study of Tied-up Capital Level in Supply Chain in Vehicle Sector." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Ingenjörshögskolan, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-16641.
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In vehicle industry, it has been trends towards focusing on pull-basedsystems and elimination of waste (Lean), which decrease the tied-up capitallevel in the focal factory. Research by Holweg & Miemczyk (2002)showed that the relevant supply chain has low inventory level in the focalfactory, but at upstream and especially downstream; the tied-up capitallevel is dramatically higher in comparison to the focal factory.By conducting research and extensive literature reviews, this volatilityof tied-up capital level has been studied and analysed with regard topush and pull systems. As the three main causes of this unevenness; bullwhipeffect, CODP position in supply chain and intensity level of supplierrelationship have been identified and explained.As a practical solution for decreasing the tied-up capital level of finishedvehicles, implementation of centralised warehouse structure hasbeen suggested and discussed.Moreover, as an application of game theory in logistics, iterated prisoners’dilemma has been discussed as the base for a progressive relationshipwith suppliers (upgrading to win-win game) which is requisite for the successof pull-based supply chains.Program: BSc in Industrial Engineering - International Business Engineering
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Mandke, Yashodhan Vikas. "Using Haptics and Vibro-Tactile Technology to Assist Hard-of-Hearing Warehouse Employees." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1524672552749124.
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鍾昆學. "Mobile Agents for Push Technology." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33413701295471031157.
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碩士國立成功大學
工程科學系
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Using traditional pull technology, information retrieval is done in a client-server or request -response style. This means that people who need some specific information have to connect to Internet for searching and downloading needed information. The explosion in the quantifies of the information resources and the web sites on the Internet makes a user difficult to the desired information, not to mention the enormous time spent on searching the net. The PUSH has been seen as a technology for taking this pain away. While still under client-server model, the perspective is reversed. A client issues a request once, and the server serves periodically. For Example, a user may subscribe to a news station for some specific information that is changed on a daily basis. The news server will then automatically push that specific information to the user periodically until the user un-subscribes from the service. While the push technology is promising, the realization of it needs careful thoughts. Implementation using traditional multicast or broadcast methods might worsen the network traffic further. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the push technology can be realized by using mobile agents. The main advantage of using mobile agents is that a single mobile agent, carrying a piece of information, may visit many subscribing sites without increasing the network traffic a lot. The developed technology can be applied to many application areas, such as the emerging convenience-oriented information appliances, news service, commercials, and etc. The implementation of a prototype system is based on the MACE [21](Mobile Agent Carrier Environment). Consequently, the whole skeleton is designed according to structure of the Agentlet-Serverlet protocol of MACE.
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Huang, Yuan-Long, and 黃源龍. "Using Mobile Agents for Interactive Push Technology." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k8ppy6.
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碩士國立成功大學
工程科學系碩博士班
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Recently, the population of Internet increases explosively. There are more and more websites and the bandwidth becomes more and more insufficient day by day. Users are loosing their patience waiting for searching and eventually getting a lot of useless information. Therefore Push Technology emerged. Presently, Push Technology can give timely information to users. But are these information really what users need? Or, it just pushes more useless data to users? This thesis proposes a framework, which uses Data Mining Technologies and Mobile Agent to extend Push Technology. The propose is to let Push Technology fulfill what users need in the long term. It collects user’s behavior when they are reading document, and predicts future direction of pushed documents. According to the collected information, we can improve system performance. This system will enable users to save time and money on searching information. It will also reduce the usage of bandwidth and the load of the information server. The implementation of a prototype system is based on the MACE [WAN2] (Mobile Agent Carrier Environment). Consequently, the whole skeleton is designed according to the structure of the Agentlet-Serverlet protocol of MACE. In addition of Push Technology, this system can use Mobile Agent to gather users' information, interest, reading behavior, and apply the methodology of Data Mining to analyze the record of user’s behavior to modify the Push system. Predict what users are interested in to become an intelligent Mobile Agents for Interactive Push Technology.
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Wu, Zih-Tong, and 吳治同. "An Implementation of Active Push Technology for WLAN." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37650210947550033745.
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碩士國立成功大學
電信管理研究所
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As the increase of the demand of mobile access and the reduction of the cost of wireless access devices, the applications of wireless local network will gain significant benefits in the future. When the number of WLAN users increases, the network traffic load of the WLAN will become heavy. By applying active push technology on the WLAN, the traffic load can be dramatically reduced. Instead of spending considerable time in searching for the wanted information, the WLAN users can simply receive their information through active push technology. Hence, the traffic load between the servers and the mobile devices could be improved dramatically. In WLAN systems, mobile users usually access the Internet through Access Point (AP). In general, the AP can be deployed with or without NAT (Network Address Translation) function. In order to implement an active push technology under different WLAN conditions, we need to overcome some difficulties, such as initializing a pushing connection outside the NAT, and optimizing the push efficiency in accordance with different WLAN conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to design an auto-detecting mechanism to make sure whether the NAT function is built in an AP or not. In this thesis, we take advantage of two available technologies, PushRegistry (a Java package allowing you to register push alarms and connections) and STUN (Simple Traversal of UDP through NAT) protocol, to design our push system, named active push system. Also, we will take some critical issues into consideration to improve the performance of our Active Push System, like the power consuming, flexibility of the service server and the real-time messaging. This implementation of push technology is useful for designing and developing a prototype of the active push system based on a real WLAN.
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Stewart-Knox, Barbara, A. Rankin, S. Kuznesof, R. Poinhos, Almeida M. D. V. de, A. R. H. Fischer, and L. J. Frewer. "Promoting healthy dietary behaviour through personalised nutrition: technology push or technology pull?" 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6720.
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YesThe notion of educating the public through generic healthy eating messages has pervaded dietary health promotion efforts over the years and continues to do so through various media, despite little evidence for any enduring impact upon eating behaviour. There is growing evidence, however, that tailored interventions such as those that could be delivered online can be effective in bringing about healthy dietary behaviour change. The present paper brings together evidence from qualitative and quantitative studies that have considered the public perspective of genomics, nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition, including those conducted as part of the EU-funded Food4Me project. Such studies have consistently indicated that although the public hold positive views about nutrigenomics and personalised nutrition, they have reservations about the service providers’ ability to ensure the secure handling of health data. Technological innovation has driven the concept of personalised nutrition forward and now a further technological leap is required to ensure the privacy of online service delivery systems and to protect data gathered in the process of designing personalised nutrition therapies.
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Jundi, Ayman. "60 Watts Broadband Push Pull RF Power Amplifier Using LTCC Technology." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/7954.
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The continuous increase in wireless usage forces an immense pressure on wireless communication in terms of increased demand and spectrum scarcity. Service providers for communication services had no choice but to allocate new parts of the spectrum and present new communication standards that are more spectrally efficient. Communication is not only limited to mobile phones but recently attention has been given to intelligent transportation systems (ITS) where cars will be given a significant place in the communication network. Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET) is already assigned a slice of the spectrum at 5.9GHz using the IEEE802.11p standard also known as Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC); however, this assignment will have limited range and functionality at first, and users are expected to depend on existing wireless mobile channels for some services such as video streaming and car entertainment. Therefore, it is essential to integrate existing wireless mobile communication standards into the skeleton of ITS at launch and most probably permanently.
An investigation was carried out regarding the existing communication standards including wireless local area networks (WLAN) and it was found that frequency bands from 400MHz up to 6GHz are being used in various regions around the world. It is also noted that current state of the art transceivers are composed of several transmitter front-ends targeting certain bands and standards. However, the more standards to be supported the more components to be added and the higher the cost not to mention the limited space in mobile devices. Multimode Multiband (MMMB) transmitters are therefore proposed as a potential solution to the existing redundancy in the number of front-end paths in modern transmitters. Broadband amplifiers are an essential part of any MMMB transmitter and they are also among the most challenging especially for high power requirements. This work explains why single ended topologies with efficiencies higher than 50% have a fundamental bandwidth limit such that the highest frequency of operation must be lower than twice the lowest frequency of operation. Hence, Push-Pull amplifier topology is being proposed as it was found that it has inherent broadband capabilities exceeding those of other topologies with comparable efficiency. The major advantage of Push-Pull power amplifiers is its capability of isolating the even harmonics present in the even mode operation of a Push-Pull amplifier from the less critical odd mode harmonics and the fundamental frequency. This separation between even and odd signals comes from the inclusion of a Balun at the output of push-pull amplifiers. Such separation makes it possible to operate amplifiers beyond the existing limit of single ended power amplifiers. To prove the concept, several Baluns were designed and tested and a comparison was made between different topologies in terms of balance, bandwidth and odd and even mode performances; moreover, to illustrate the concept a Push-Pull power amplifier design was implemented using the multilayer Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC) technology with a bandwidth ratio of more than 100%.
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Lu, Chih-Hao, and 盧志豪. "The study on the source of Innovation─Technology Push or Market Pull." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16509860782006250976.
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碩士長榮大學
經營管理研究所
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Innovation is an indispensable link in the process of sustainable development for the enterprises. The subject whether the innovation is successful or not is the focus of all the business operators. Whether the innovation system in side the enterprise is sound or not can determine the success and failure of the innovation of the enterprise. Therefore, a sound innovation and research system is very important to an enterprise. This research is based on the viewpoint of the innovation and research system and exercises “technology push” and “market pull” to explore the difference between different sorts of innovation sources, “innovation ideal source”, “innovation communication type”, “innovation information source”, “innovation orientation” and “innovation technology source”, to understand the influence on the innovation performance brought by different innovation sources in the different innovation types and product/technology life cycles. This research selected nine industries from the biggest industries in Taiwan as the research target and used the 1000 biggest enterprises of manufacturing industry and the 50 biggest R&D enterprises in Taiwan in 2002 which had been listed in the Common Wealth Magazine as the population parameters. This research is aimed at these nine industries to send 954 questionnaires for an empirical research. There are 116 effective questionnaires and the rate of valid retrieval is 12.15％。The analysis of questionnaire adopted the one-way MANOVA and two-way MANOVA mainly. Beside, it also adopted the cluster analysis and discriminate analysis etc. as the methods of statistic analysis. In this research, it found that: 1.Radical innovation can efficiently improve the innovation performance of the enterprises better than the incremental innovation. 2. In various innovation resources, it can help the enterprises to improve the innovation performance by adopting the following suggestions: (1) Integrate the innovations of “research and development engineering departments” and “marketing departments” on the innovation ideal source. (2) It is suggested to collect more external innovation information on the innovation information source. (3) On the innovation orientation, it is suggested to adopt “market orientation” to create better market performance, to adopt “technology orientation” to create better technology performance, and to adopt “market orientation” or “technology orientation” to create better whole performance. (4) On the innovation technology source, it is suggested to adopt “market trading model” to proceed the innovation; 3. In the course of proceeding innovation, the enterprises, they shall determine the innovation orientation first in consideration of the stages where the product/technology life cycle is, and then choose different innovation sources from the above-mentioned prerequisites according to the result of this research to create better innovation performance for the enterprises.
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Lai, Dong-Chi, and 賴東祺. "Public Disaster Mitigation System Based on Social Network and Information Push Technology." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44489089449513584373.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
營建工程系
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With the increase of natural disasters that have occurred in the past years, Taiwan has been hit with a series of big natural disasters, from 921 earthquake in 1999,Morakot Typhoon in 2009.The government often falls into the information overload and couldn’t response during and immediately after the natural disaster.The rapid developemnt of online social networking services and social media like Twitter, Facebook, Google+,Youtube etc,can act and try to solve many problems during natural disasters. On the other hand, social media has played a significant role in disseminating information about these disasters by allowing people to share and ask for help and turn to social networking sites to contact friends, post photos and share stories. Social media are also becoming vital to recovery efforts after crises. Social Media has become a valuable means of communication in many places affected by a natural disaster, which allows people to keep in touch with family and friends and access important information. Due to natural disasters, there is an increased communication since people seek to contact family and friends in the disasters zone, and seek information regarding food,medical resources,shelter, supplies services,volunteer-services and transportation before the publication arrives by government organizations or news media.The aim of the research is to build a public disaster mitigation information management system based on social network and Location-based service OpenGeoSMS which is an Android application for facilitating SMS delivery with geolocation information and developed by Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan to integrate the following life cycle of natural disaster.Such information include: (1) Preparedness and mitigation (2) Emergency management (3) Supplies services (4) Disaster services (5) Disaster recovery.Each cycle has its status,scope and allow seperate groups of users have access to their own Report to maintain and share resports through social media. This research uses system development, case study, expert interview to achieve the following: (1) Improve the flow of disaster Reports in disaster mitigation system to establish the reverse flow of disaster Reports (2) Combine Location-based services and disaster mitigation group that makes it easier, more efficient to push information (3) Communicate base on social network for promoting sharing to family and friends (4) Let administrator verify the reliability of Reports (5) Establish patterns of disaster life cycles to enhance data management and tracking efficiency.
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SU, MING-HUA, and èæè¯. "Using Mobile Agent's Push Technology for Stock Investment Decision System: Development and Evaluation." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43236997076425759289.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
金融資訊研究所
93
Nowadays, the advancement of mobile technology makes it easier for investors to rapidly grasp the tendency of the stock market through mobile stock traders. However, overabundant pieces of financial information complicate the process of decision-making on investment. Therefore, this study aims at solving the problem with superfluous information and with restriction on bandwidth of wireless network. Based on Mobile Agent's Push Technology (MAPT), integrating association rules of data mining into the Stock Investment Decision (SID), we propose a framework of Stock Investment Decision System (SIDS), which is referred to as “MAPT-based SIDS”. In brief, the framework revolves around agents. Through Apriori algorithm of association rules of data mining, the stock traders thus are able to analyze the correlations of rise among stocks, so that they can set up a database of association rules of different kinds of stocks. Then, Java-based MAPT can immediately offer investors information about investment decision that suits their needs. To intensify the scientification of the study and to consolidate its theory's foundation, the approach we propose in this study, as well as the development and evaluation of the system, exercises “seven guidelines for design science” (by Hevner et al. 2004) to indicate and evaluate the synergy of researches on information system. Academically, on the one hand, this study successfully combines MAPT and Apriori algorithm, and applies them into the investment decision on stock market. On the other hand, it practically provides investors the most valuable information in no time. By virtue of this method offered here, not only the stock traders strengthen the customer relationship management (CRM), but they also become much more competitive.
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chen, yiyuan, and 陳逸元. "The Research of Improving Centralized Monitoring and Control System by WAP and PUSH Technology." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44100804908231959364.
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碩士大葉大學
電機工程學系碩士班
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When WAP was first introduced, it received high anticipation. Everyone wish to access internet by cellular phone, just like using desktop PC at home, to retrieve various content, like audio and video service. But most people was disappointed about its performance due to the limitation of cellular phone display, difficulty of input and low bandwidth. From this point of view, WAP is not satisfactory for web browsing. Perhaps this is the reason why WAP isn't popular. In fact, the advantages of WAP should be it's mobility and convenience. We can only see it's superiority by developing applications base on these aspects. Recently, many operator reinforce their WAP service in this way. Gradually, services such as mobile bank, LIS (Location Information Service), mobile mail are developed. However, these are all applications concerning daily life. The mobility, real-time characteristic and simple interface make it fit more to industrial application. The research in this thesis try to incorporate WAP, SMS, WAP push technology with centralized monitoring and control system, to break the bottleneck of traditional ones via the mobility and real-time characteristic. This enables maintenance persons to have efficient control over machines and take emergency handling if necessary via cellular phone when they are not in control center. As a result, this makes system maintenance more flexible and efficient without lowering maintenance quality.
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Lin, Shun-Pin, and 林順斌. "Push-Based Geo-fence Technology Based on Cloud Service – A Case Study of Home Care." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6455ee.
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碩士國立勤益科技大學
資訊工程系
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According to statistics from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Statistics, Nowadays society has entered an aged society, and the family's pattern changes to a small family so the elderly all face the issues of care and safety. Due to the current popularity of smart phones and the maturity of cloud computing technology, we can combine the two as a technical solution for family care and safety. This study utilizes a variety of positioning technologies (GPS、Wi-Fi、cellular data) that are provided in smart phones and plans to use cloud computing services in combination with push-notification technology, geo-map technology, and geo-fence technology for smart phones to propose a family-centric telecare and personal assistant technical solution. This solution uses a smart phone to represent a family member. The family members can plan each other's various activities in their daily lives. After planning, they will push task notifications to each member’s smart phone. Commonly used geographical fence applications, all steps must be set in advance. This study proposes that the method is to push notifications from the system to the device, without prior setting and add, delete, and modify at any time, and take effect immediately.
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WANG, LIN-KAI, and 王琳凱. "Using Cloud Push Services and HTML5 Technology to Design and Construction a Multimedia Messaging Platform." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48139752886957577093.
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碩士樹德科技大學
資訊工程系碩士班
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In this research, we set up the multimedia information delivery platform by using HTML5 and cloud push service application integration. Within the research, we apply IBM Worklight development environment platform and HTML5 to build a program of multimedia information delivery platform, which conduct multimedia message receiving and sending, and content display as well. In the research, we establish Worklight Adapter as the connection between the program and the Server; in this way, the program can execute data transmission and searching operation to the Server. On the multimedia information delivery platform, the system controlling function of HTML5 is impracticable, we, instead, use Apache Cordova’s API kit to function the controlling device of the system. We also put Apache Cordova in use of building a suite of the cloud push service, and apply to the program of the multimedia information delivery platform, including a message notification that can display a notification window upon receiving.
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Chien, Ching-Chung, and 簡敬忠. "Use Technology Readiness to Explore Consumers'Intention of Accept the Push Notifications with Personalized and Intrusive Formula." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ecswbx.
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碩士國立中央大學
資訊管理學系
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Push notifications can deliver messages to target consumers, at specific times, and become a communication bridge among retailers, service providers and consumers. However, not all consumers are willing to accept this service. The study explores how customers' technology readiness influence customers' perception (perceived sacrifice, perceived usefulness, pleasure) and accept notifications when using different personalized (depth ╳ breadth) and intrusive formula. Therefore, the study used cluster analysis regarding technology readiness to categorize into two groups: positive technology readiness (n=77) and negative technology readiness (n=170). And then we conducted a hierarchical regression for each group. The findings show that the negative technology readiness would increase perceived sacrifice of their notifications through a combination of high depth and narrow breadth of personalization. But notifications with low depth would decrease perceived sacrifice, regardless of their personalization breadth. On the other hand, for positive technology readiness would increase pleasure, notifications with high depth and narrow breadth. And invasive push notification would reduce perceived usefulness.
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Hank, Hanhsaing Chang, and 張漢翔. "The Research of Using Push Technology of Podcast in E-Learning, The Case Study of Chinese Learning." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53668919252412595390.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
圖書資訊學研究所
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E-learning has multi-features in Web2.0 era with mobile and open characteristics. The research is aim to develop a platform in order to fit the personal e-learning within Push technology, such as Podcast, by exploring Podcast User experiences, designing the platform ,and evaluating it as well. Research and Development method is taken in the thesis. Research procedure include finding out the user engineering requirements, bringing out the site specification and interface, and assessing the site. This platform features following subjects. Based on user investigation, the research platform is taking concepts from Web2.0 and corresponds with the environment of Chinese Learning. The platform are designing by those functions, such as interactive questions and answers, communities discussions, subscriptions and pushing, mobilabilities and channel publishing. Researcher is focused on the development of mechanism of Channel and Publishing. There are publisher, content user, and system administrator in this system. Publisher can maintain the channel information by website interface with a logged on account. Content User can comment on the channels or learning contents by rating stars or texting messages. The system is providing RSS and Podcast subscriptions which include channel descriptions, URL, Podcast video clips and descriptions etc. The platform took advices by site usage and evaluation. First of all, updated databases of Q&A need keeping maintaining by frequency usage and communities management. Second, strict descriptions of learning objects made leaning activities extended from the platform to the air effectively. Last, keep the Podcast updating frequently.
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PAN, YUN-JU, and 潘韻如. "The Research on the Effect of Applying Instant Response System and Cloud Push Technology in Junior High School Civics Education." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5jt9wc.
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碩士南華大學
資訊管理學系
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This study aimed to investigate the effects of applying Instant Response System and Cloud Push Technology with textbook lessons in civics curriculum in junior high school with respect to examining its influence on students' academic achievements and learning satisfaction. The subjects of this study were 28 eighth-grader junior high school students in central Taiwan. To find out whether the subjects made any gains in learning achievements and satisfaction after treatments, pretests and posttests of achievement tests, satisfaction questionnaires are conducted before and after the treatments. The major findings of this study are summarized as follows: 1. Using Instant Response System and Cloud Push Technology with textbook lessons in civics curriculum helps to promote junior high school students' learning effects and motives. 2. Using Instant Response System and Cloud Push Technology with textbook lessons in civics instruction and evaluation helps junior high school students hold positive attitude toward learning. 3. Using Instant Response System and Cloud Push Technology with textbook lessons in civics curriculum helps to achieve the goal of instant remedial teaching.
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Alam, Md Shahedul. "Technology-Scanning Capability and Market-Scanning Capability as Drivers of Product Innovation Performance." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6137.
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Changing trends in customer preference, competitors’ offerings, new technologies and development techniques may disrupt a firm from its current leading market position and may favor other firms that prioritize innovation. Once a market opportunity is identified (i.e., find an answer to the ‘what to do’ question), firms need to engage in a series of activities and information processing to determine an appropriate way to monetize that opportunity – that is, firms need to find an answer to the ‘how to do’ question. Alternately, a firm may first identify a technological opportunity (i.e. find an answer to the ‘how to do’) and then find a market opportunity (i.e. find an answer to the ‘what to do’ question) to make use of the technological opportunity. Two scales that measure the capabilities of firms to address the following two questions – ‘what to do’ and ‘how to do’ - were reported; these were labelled as market-scanning capability (MktScan) and technology-scanning capability (TechScan); and these two scales were also tested in a broader research model.
In turbulent environments, marketing and R&D become more challenging, since they face an uncertain future. Firms need to learn systemic scanning and decoding of apparently random changes in their business environment and imagine a pattern that makes sense. One cannot plan for uncertainty. A better strategy is to be prepared for it. One way to prepare is to develop the capabilities that would help the firm to become more adaptive. Drucker (1992) also argued that instead of planning for the long term that is uncertain, firms needed to become adaptive to tackle uncertainty. The ability of a firm to adapt to the changes depends on its ability to sense the nature of the changes in its business environment and respond to those. Sense-and-respond framework (Haeckel 1999; Haeckel 2000; Day and Schoemaker 2006) was proposed to emphasize the identification of weak signals (Ansoff 1975) to tackle increased uncertainty in business environment. In current days, effectiveness of firm’s activities often depends on the richness of its sources of information and its capability to process the collected information to identify the patterns of change happening in its business environments. Information processing may happen in two dimensions: in market dimension and in technology dimension. Firms’ capabilities for information collecting and processing in these two dimensions were measured using two firm-level constructs. These are market-scanning capability and technology-scanning capability.
Resource-based theory helped to understand how firms use their tangible and intangible resources to compete in the market. Specific problem-solving aspects of the processes, activities, and cultural norms enable firms to make decisions about engaging the available resources and capabilities in ways that maximize customer value, by realizing the identified opportunities into product and service offerings. This research identified the characteristic strength of this problem-solving approach of firms – collecting information both internally and externally about possible market opportunities and technological options, organization-wide processing of that information, and taking actions to respond using insights gained – as two latent constructs called ‘market-scanning capability’ and ‘technology-scanning capability’.
The concepts of ‘market-scanning capability’ and ‘technology-scanning capability’ were first defined and then, scales were developed to enable researchers and managers to measure these firm-level constructs. Next, the predictive roles of these capabilities on firm performance were examined. Empirical analysis for scale development and validation of the research model were performed with data collected through a web-based survey of Canadian manufacturing firms.
Firm performance was captured in two stages – first, by product innovation performance, and second, by overall firm performance. Product innovation performance was used as an intermediate performance measure to examine the direct influence on it of market-scanning capability and technology-scanning capability, and then, to relate product innovation performance to final business outcome measured using ‘overall firm performance’ scale. The study validated the notion of resource-based theory by supporting the belief that higher levels of market-scanning capability and technology-scanning capability would lead to improved product innovation performance. The role of environmental turbulence was also examined for its possible moderating effect. Two measures of environmental turbulence, namely, technology and market turbulence were used to test the moderation effect. The technology turbulence construct was found to have a moderating effect on the relationship between technology-scanning capability and product innovation performance, indicating that firms needed to focus more attention on the changes in the technology landscape when turbulence in the technological field was perceived to be higher, in order to keep the same level of product innovation performance.
Insight gained from the study contributed to a knowledge-base that might be useful to both practitioners and researchers. The combination of TechScan and MktScan scales could be used as a benchmark tool by managers to assess firms’ readiness to take advantage of the opportunities that existed. On the theoretical side, the study contributed to the understanding by showing that both market-scanning capability and technology-scanning capability had direct and indirect influences on firm performance. Also, it was found that the indirect influence of a certain scanning capability became important when firms were pre-disposed to emphasize the other scanning capability.
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Gonçalves, Ana Sofia Camisa de Moura. "Adequação de fornecedores às tipologias Push e Pull de fornecimento." Dissertação, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/71708.
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Gonçalves, Ana Sofia Camisa de Moura. "Adequação de fornecedores às tipologias Push e Pull de fornecimento." Master's thesis, 2014. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/71708.
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