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    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2023-2024

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    Mobile heritage practices. Implications for scholarly research, user experience design, and evaluation methods using mobile apps.

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    Mobile heritage apps have become one of the most popular means for audience engagement and curation of museum collections and heritage contexts. This raises practical and ethical questions for both researchers and practitioners, such as: what kind of audience engagement can be built using mobile apps? what are the current approaches? how can audience engagement with these experience be evaluated? how can those experiences be made more resilient, and in turn sustainable? In this thesis I explore experience design scholarships together with personal professional insights to analyse digital heritage practices with a view to accelerating thinking about and critique of mobile apps in particular. As a result, the chapters that follow here look at the evolution of digital heritage practices, examining the cultural, societal, and technological contexts in which mobile heritage apps are developed by the creative media industry, the academic institutions, and how these forces are shaping the user experience design methods. Drawing from studies in digital (critical) heritage, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and design thinking, this thesis provides a critical analysis of the development and use of mobile practices for the heritage. Furthermore, through an empirical and embedded approach to research, the thesis also presents auto-ethnographic case studies in order to show evidence that mobile experiences conceptualised by more organic design approaches, can result in more resilient and sustainable heritage practices. By doing so, this thesis encourages a renewed understanding of the pivotal role of these practices in the broader sociocultural, political and environmental changes.AHRC REAC

    Southern Adventist University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

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    Southern Adventist University\u27s undergraduate catalog for the academic year 2023-2024.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/undergrad_catalog/1123/thumbnail.jp

    Dataflow Programming and Acceleration of Computationally-Intensive Algorithms

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    The volume of unstructured textual information continues to grow due to recent technological advancements. This resulted in an exponential growth of information generated in various formats, including blogs, posts, social networking, and enterprise documents. Numerous Enterprise Architecture (EA) documents are also created daily, such as reports, contracts, agreements, frameworks, architecture requirements, designs, and operational guides. The processing and computation of this massive amount of unstructured information necessitate substantial computing capabilities and the implementation of new techniques. It is critical to manage this unstructured information through a centralized knowledge management platform. Knowledge management is the process of managing information within an organization. This involves creating, collecting, organizing, and storing information in a way that makes it easily accessible and usable. The research involved the development textual knowledge management system, and two use cases were considered for extracting textual knowledge from documents. The first case study focused on the safety-critical documents of a railway enterprise. Safety is of paramount importance in the railway industry. There are several EA documents including manuals, operational procedures, and technical guidelines that contain critical information. Digitalization of these documents is essential for analysing vast amounts of textual knowledge that exist in these documents to improve the safety and security of railway operations. A case study was conducted between the University of Huddersfield and the Railway Safety Standard Board (RSSB) to analyse EA safety documents using Natural language processing (NLP). A graphical user interface was developed that includes various document processing features such as semantic search, document mapping, text summarization, and visualization of key trends. For the second case study, open-source data was utilized, and textual knowledge was extracted. Several features were also developed, including kernel distribution, analysis offkey trends, and sentiment analysis of words (such as unique, positive, and negative) within the documents. Additionally, a heterogeneous framework was designed using CPU/GPU and FPGAs to analyse the computational performance of document mapping

    Proceedings of the 10th International congress on architectural technology (ICAT 2024): architectural technology transformation.

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    The profession of architectural technology is influential in the transformation of the built environment regionally, nationally, and internationally. The congress provides a platform for industry, educators, researchers, and the next generation of built environment students and professionals to showcase where their influence is transforming the built environment through novel ideas, businesses, leadership, innovation, digital transformation, research and development, and sustainable forward-thinking technological and construction assembly design

    Multidisciplinary perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the law

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    This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the most transformational technological breakthroughs of this age. The importance of AI stems from both the opportunities that it offers and the challenges that it entails. While AI applications hold the promise of economic growth and efficiency gains, they also create significant risks and uncertainty. The potential and perils of AI have thus come to dominate modern discussions of technology and ethics – and although AI was initially allowed to largely develop without guidelines or rules, few would deny that the law is set to play a fundamental role in shaping the future of AI. As the debate over AI is far from over, the need for rigorous analysis has never been greater. This book thus brings together contributors from different fields and backgrounds to explore how the law might provide answers to some of the most pressing questions raised by AI. An outcome of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law and its interdisciplinary working group on Law and Artificial Intelligence, it includes contributions by leading scholars in the fields of technology, ethics and the law.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

    1st Design Factory Global Network Research Conference ‘Designing the Future’ 5-6 October 2022

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    DFGN.R 2022 -Designing the Future - is the first research conference organised by the Design Factory Global Network. The open event offers the opportunity for all like-minded educators, designers and researchers to share their insights and inspire others on education, methods, practices and ecosystems of co-creation and innovation. The DFGN.R conference is a two-day event hosted on-site in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. The conference is organized alongside International Design Factory Week 2022, the annual gathering of DFGN members. This year's conference is organized in collaboration with Aalto University from Helsinki Finland and hosted by the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences

    LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volume

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    LIPIcs, Volume 251, ITCS 2023, Complete Volum

    Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Manufacturing Companies' Supply Chain Management in Finland

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    The COVID-19 outbreak shocked the whole world in 2020. As the pandemic quickly spread across the globe, only during its first year, over 75 million positive cases and 1,6 million deaths were reported worldwide, and in November 2022, the same numbers were over 634 million and 6,6 million. The world’s economic system and global markets were greatly affected, and many countries tried to counter the pandemic’s spread by implementing strict lockdowns, which further caused turbulence on the markets. Countless manufacturing companies across the globe were faced with massive global supply chain disruptions, and they were felt even in companies operating in Finland. Managers and scholars alike have been working very hard for the past three years to find out what were (and are) the best countermeasures to combat the pandemic’s effects and disruptions, but a consensus of an answer is still missing. This thesis aims to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on manufacturing companies operating in Finland, and to examine what kind of ways or methods these companies adopted to counter the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland compared to the rest of the world. These two topics form the two main research questions of this thesis, and they are answered from the basis of a qualitative systematic literature review and a mostly qualitative semi-structured interview study to which interviewees from six different manufacturing companies take part in. The literature review consists of supply chain management theory and a look into the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on manufacturing companies operating outside of Finland. The literature review is also used to build a theoretical framework, which is used in the end to analyse the results of the interview study and compare them to the findings of the literature review. The results of this thesis offer insight into the differences of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on the supply chain management of manufacturing companies operating in Finland and outside of Finland, and the different supply chain management related countermeasures taken by these companies. From the literature review, it was discovered that global supply shortages, large-scale fluctuations in demand, consumption shocks, and increases in material prices and lead times were some of the most recognizable effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the manufacturing companies operating outside of Finland, often affecting directly to their operations and Tier 1 suppliers. The interview results reflected similar results, only the companies operating in Finland mostly experienced the pandemic’s effects through their suppliers’ suppliers’ problems, which were usually operating outside of Finland. Also, the companies that were located in countries that went into lockdowns had their own challenges as well. To counter the global supply chain disruptions, both the interview study and the literature review provided similar findings: the realization of the necessity of evolving the existing supply chain management from lean thinking to a more agile and resilient system became evident for those that hadn’t already done so. Differences in the ways of attempting to accomplish this were found, but the goal was still very similar for most of the companies
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