Adaptations

Karl Lagerfeld's significance, contributions and original fashion designs are generated by several interrelated factors: perceptive use of historical antecedents, artistic background, love of art and design and the influence of artists and selected fashion designers. These factors had profound effects which provided a personal conceptual base for his own label, the House of Chanel, Chloe and the Fendi sisters. His various designs for these disparate labels reflect the complexity of Lagerfeld's character and display the adaptability of his individualistic talents.

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One of the limitations of the BDI (Belief-Desire-Intention) model is the lack of any explicit mechanisms within the architecture to be able to learn. In particular, BDI agents do not possess the ability to adapt based on past experience. This is important in dynamic environments as they can change, causing previously successful methods for achieving goals to become inefficient or ineffective.

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This thesis addresses important issues about how to make game characters and virtual agents more realistic or believable by using cognitive-social personality theories. We begin motivation by discussing two examples. The first is from a television series and the second is a more concrete example that will be used throughout the thesis to explain concepts and the model. These examples represent the ideal goal of our work.

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In this thesis atomistic level modelling is conducted to investigate the design of an environmentally adaptable self-cleaning polymer paint coating that incorporates biomimetics to remain clean in various environmental setting. This work will be used to aid in the development of stay-clean polymer paint coating.

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The focus of this research is to investigate the tween girls’ fashion segment in Australia and identify and explain the potential for development in the Australian tween girls’ fashion market with a specific focus on Melbourne. The main objective of this research is to understand the characteristics of the Australian tween girls demographic with respect to fashion marketing and consumption.

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In this thesis, focus on the wireless links between devices equipped by deployed operating personnel and intermediary access point infrastructure. We use multi-radio (MR) platforms, wireless devices with multiple and diverse transceiver technologies, to produce robust and reliable links through adaptive control of available transceivers. Primarily, we study the application of intelligent control techniques, namely reinforcement learning (RL), for adaptive control over diverse transceivers to achieve the desired robustness and reliability under dynamic environmental conditions.

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This research sought to uncover the circumstances in which stakeholder interaction around the various perspectives on problem gambling might lead to a socially responsible approach to the management of poker machine gambling in clubs. The study’s methodology adapted a learning history framework of participative action research, and recruited stakeholders to act as “co-researchers” in a transparent-research approach to the exploration of the research question.

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This thesis develops understanding of the appropriation of information technology (IT) artefacts over time. Perceptions that the whole lifecycle of IT use, from pre-use, then initial use through to adaptive and stabilised use is not well understood were evaluated and supported in the initial part of the study. A generic lifecycle model of use, the model of technology appropriation (MTA), was chosen as the foundational theory for this thesis because it covers the entire IT use lifecycle, and it can be contextualised for different technologies, and user cohorts.

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The broad aim of this research project is to optimize planned and emergency maintenance tasks and timings for tram tracks. Consistent with that broad aim, the following specific objectives are identified: Understand the factors affecting the degradation of tram tracks; develop a degradation prediction model for tracks as a function of the influencing factors; evaluate the time and type of maintenance required for deteriorated rail tracks.

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This research integrates two distinct theoretical perspectives, business strategy and climate change adaptation. The primary purpose of this research is to explore MNCs’ strategies in regard to climate change adaptation. By interviewing representatives of MNCs operating in both developed and developing countries, as well as analysing company documents, the research offers significant insights regarding existing and future climate change adaptation strategies by MNCs in distinct country settings.

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The primary objective of this research is to provide an account of the ways in which elite higher education institutions adapt and respond to external institutional logics for social inclusion practices. In particular, it explores and investigates the pattern of elite public universities’ social inclusion practices as a result of government higher education policy frameworks and higher education market features. It also aims to uncover variations between the four selected elite universities in Australia and Malaysia in regard to social inclusion practices.

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This research study aims to examine the question: what challenges are presented, and changes required, to adapt authentic, experiential learning opportunities to the virtual environment in order to develop students’ competencies to communicate interculturally and collaborate effectively in global virtual teams? The research is located within theories associated with experiential learning and authentic learning. It explores how these theories can be extended to student learning in, and for, the global business context, using the virtual learning space.

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The objectives of the study are therefore: (1) to apply the concept of the dynamic capability perspective to the IT–competitive advantage research in order to explicate the strategic role of IT in attaining competitive advantage; and (2) to examine the antecedent capabilities and competences that may lead towards developing adaptive IT capability.

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In this study, two models were proposed: a five-stage SISP maturity model for defining SISP maturity and another one for assessing the degree of SISP maturity. The five SISP maturity levels were defined as: Rudimentary Planning, Ineffectual Planning, Attainable Planning, Sustainable Planning, and Adaptable Planning. The assessment model was structured as a third-order system, where eight first-order dimensions were termed as Form and Content, Collaboration, Policies, Stakeholders' Designation, Knowledge Bank, Technology, Time Dimension, and Viability.

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The primary aim of this research was to further develop the sensing and estimation module of the CHMS framework with an improved multimodal inference model of MWL as needed for the application in aerospace CPHS. Here the focus of this research was on the implementation of a multimodal inference model of MWL that would be developed and experimentally tested. This was done with the purpose of studying the viability of real‐time system adaptation in aerospace systems.

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The objectives of the study are: to extend the literature in several ways. First, the relationship between strategictype and organisational capabilities has been predominately investigated in the context of the private sector, not the public sector; To provide evidence about the comparative impacts of two contemporary control devices adapted by management of GBEs, as organisations that operated in a nexus between private sector market conditions and public sector ownership and oversight conditions; To provide evidence about the mix of congruency factors (i.e.

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With a view of providing investors with a better understanding of the risk and return relationship in the A-share market over the past decade, this thesis adapts several empirical models to the circumstances in China and conducts four empirical analyses. The analysis is undertaken employing the returns on the Chinese A-share market, the Chinese B-share market and the Hong Kong H-share market together with a series of developed stock markets.

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The thesis "Evaluating climate change mitigation and adaptation considerations in the Victorian planning system, Australia" is structured as follows: Chapter one: introduction; chapter two: climate change and the land use planning context: a review of literature; chapter three: policy and institutional framework for land use planning and climate change in Victoria; chapter four: research design; chapter five: assessing the state planning framework for awareness and analysis of climate change; chapter six: assessing local land-use implementation and action on climate change; chapter seven: c...

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Luận văn "Nghiên cứu nâng cao ổn định dao động công suất trong hệ thống điện sử dụng thiết bị SVeC" nghiên cứu để cải thiện sự ổn định dao động công suất của một hệ thống máy phát điện đồng bộ nối với bus vô hạn (OMIB) và trang trại gió. Để nâng cao độ ổn định của hệ thống, một thiết bị bù vectơ nối tiếp (SveC - Series Vectorial Compensator) được đề xuất với bộ điều khiển Nơron-Mờ (ANFIS - Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System) được kết nối vào bus chung (PCC) của hệ thống.

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Luận văn "Nghiên cứu và đề xuất các giải pháp giảm tổn thất điện năng lưới điện phân phối Điện lực Đức Linh – Công ty Điện lực Bình Thuận" trình bày nghiên cứu tổng quan về tình hình tổn thất điện năng của lưới điện phân phối tại Điện lực Đức Linh – Công ty Điện lực Bình Thuận; nghiên cứu và đề xuất các giải pháp giảm tổn thất điện năng của lưới điện phân phối tại Điện lực Đức Linh; nghiên cứu phần mềm PSS/ADAPT để mô phỏng tính toán tổn thất điện năng.

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