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Increasing Competitiveness Through The Application Of Product Design As Knowledge Creation Management., Jurie Groenewald

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The business environment in the new millennium is becoming more competitive because of the new globalised economy and the resultant increase in customer expectations. In response, companies are increasing their competitiveness through more efficient and effective Knowledge Management (KM). Increasing a company’s competitiveness there-fore means increasing its knowledge base through inter alia innovation. The problem is that most existing KM systems are dependent on ad hoc occurrences of innovation. In contrast, the design process can systematically produce innovation and can therefore be used as a Knowledge Creation Management tool. The process whereby New Product Design systematically uses existing knowledge and …

Chance Moves In The Gridded Garden: Experimental Investigations In Chinese Scholar Garden Design., Greg Missingham

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper discusses experiments in rule-governed, though chance-based approaches to the design of contemporary Chinese-styled gardens inspired, in part, by contemporary minimalist landscape architectural design tactics. The results are compared both with other versions of rule-based understandings of the design of traditional Chinese scholar gardens and with such gardens, themselves. While inherent contradictions in the rule-governed approaches are exposed, their utility is demonstrated through discussion of a first and then a later version of the design of the Gridded Garden.

The Idealist Practice Of Reflection: Typologies, Techniques And Ideologies For Design Researchers., Cameron Tonkinwise

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The following will attempt clarify and complexify the notion of reflective practice. Ironically, invocations of reflective practice are often themselves not at all reflective of the consequences associated with where this practice comes from. (Ecclestone 1996) Ignorance of the genealogy of reflective practice risks the practice of reflective practice being insufficiently reflective. Awareness of that geneaology opens reflective practice to more effective techniques that are otherwise missed, whilst also limiting claims about the effectivity of reflective practice more generally. To put this another way, Donald Schon’s notion of reflective practice is appealing because of its pragmatism. Developed from American pragmatist …

Innovation For Added Value: Experimentation With Aluminium In The Fine Crafts And Design., Suzette Worden

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Aluminium is often described as a 'material of accents'. Although an essential component of everyday life, it has never overwhelmed the design landscape but has been associated with multiple attributes including preciousness, versatility, economy, strength and lightness. In the 19th Century aluminium failed, unlike plastics, to pass itself off as a substitute material. When accepted on its own terms aluminium made its reputation based on its aesthetic neutrality. It is also popular for its lightness, malleability and ability to be recycled and ability to be transformed through printing and colouring. More recently aluminium has become part of aesthetic statements about …

Research Through Design: Observational Research For Sustainability., Abby Mellick Lopes

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The aim of this paper is to develop an effective observational research method that will foster a practical sense for sustainability in student designers. It brings together the social science derived research method of observing material culture with the ergonomic method of heuristics, whereby the physical object guides self-learning. It takes an action-research approach to the theory/practice divide, arguing that theory best makes sense for the form-focussed designer in ‘concrete’ situations in which the designer is engaged. It also reflects upon the experience of teaching this form of observational research to industrial design students. The presentation will use a series …

New Knowledge In Design: A Hermeneutic Perspective On Design Activity And The Production Of Knowledge., Sally Mclaughlin

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Most definitions of research refer to the concept of adding to, or developing, the knowledge of a domain. Activities and outcomes are recognised as research based on assumptions about what constitutes knowledge. The relationship of design to the production of knowledge can be problematic if we adopt what Heidegger referred to as a metaphysical view of the world. From a metaphysical point of view the scientist is a finder, a discoverer, while the designer is primarily a maker. The scientist uncovers truths about the world that complement existing representations of reality. The maker, on the other hand, applies knowledge and …

Design Research In Sweden: Findings From A National Survey., Jan Bodin

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper presents findings from a national survey carried out in Sweden during the fall of 2003. At the time, no systematic study had been made in order to gather information about current design research among the Swedish academic society as a whole. A survey was sent out by e-mail in September 2003 via the newly formed network named Swedish Industrial Design Research and Education Agenda (SWIDREA). Due to the dynamic growth of the network additional responses will be added until the end of the year, which means that it is not possible to present the findings at present time. …

They Shoot Single People, Don't They?, Dianne J. Smith

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

They Shoot Single People, Don't They? is a romantic comedy of errors set in Boston about Lexie, a twenty-five year old pediatric nurse with still perky breasts and lightly dimpled thighs who can figure out pediatric drug dosages, but is so severely relationship-challenged that she can't make any choice at all when it comes to men. Her life becomes a convoluted mess that includes two guys and a tangled web of lies.

After Marcus dumps her with a post-it note taped to her refrigerator door, Lexie thinks that her five-year plan to get married and have a baby are back …

Murray Ledger And Times, November 17, 2004, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Lillian Brock Flemming Oral History, Lillian Brock Flemming, Courtney Tollison

Furman University Oral Histories

Video interview with Dr. Lillian Brock Flemming, one of the first two African American females to graduate Furman University. Dr. Flemming enrolled at Furman in 1967 as one of the university’s first African American women. She graduated in 1971, and earned her Masters of Education from Furman in 1975. In 1981, she became the first African-American woman to serve on the Greenville City Council, and in 1989 she was elected Mayor Pro Tempore. In 1995, she became Furman’s first female African-American trustee, and in 2014 Lillian was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Furman University. Dr. Flemming begins …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Flu Season in Full Force
• Campus
• National
• Opinions
• OpEd
• Classifieds, Etc.
• Sports

The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

From Wounded To Woman: The Demasculinization Of Hemingway’S Wounded Male Characters, Myla B. Morris

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

During his time of service in the Italian Army in World War I, Ernest Hemingway was injured. He received a non-life-threatening wound and was forever changed. In his article, "Ernest Hemingway: The Life as Fiction and the Fiction as Life," Jackson J. Benson proposes the idea of Hemingway's "wounding what if?" that follows this course of thought: "What if I were wounded and made crazy?, what would happen if I were sent back to the front? I was only wounded in an accident, what do the really brave ones think of me? (351)" Shortly following the war, Hemingway was wounded …

Mexico Seeks Immigration Accord In Second Term Of U.S. President Bush, Ladb Staff

SourceMex

No abstract provided.

2004-11-17 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2004

No abstract provided.

Michelle Wright Performance To Benefit Adoption Organization, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Michelle Wright is one of Canada’s hottest country stars – so why is she descending south to University Park, Illinois, in the middle of a popular Canadian Christmas concert tour? It’s because she believes in children.

“Every now and then something comes along, and you have to say, let’s do it,” Wright said of her upcoming performance at Governors State University’s Center for Performing Arts.

Academic Senate - Meeting Minutes, 11/16/2004, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Choice Of Monitoring Mechanism For Optimal Nonparametric Functional Estimation For Binary Data, Nicholas P. Jewell, Mark J. Van Der Laan, Stephen Shiboski

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Optimal designs of dose levels in order to estimate parameters from a model for binary response data have a long and rich history. These designs are based on parametric models. Here we consider fully nonparametric models with interest focused on estimation of smooth functionals using plug-in estimators based on the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator. An important application of the results is the derivation of the optimal choice of the monitoring time distribution function for current status observation of a survival distribution. The optimal choice depends in a simple way on the dose response function and the form of the functional. …

Bard Observer, Vol. 18, No. 5 (November 16, 2004), Bard College

Bard Observer - All Issues (1956 - Current)

No abstract provided.

11-16-04 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 22, Issue 9)

2004 -- 2005

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, November 16, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 55

William C. Cramer And The Emergence Of The Modern Republican Party In Florida, November 16, 2004, John Husfield

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

Announcement for a conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of the election of Congressman William C. Cramer with plans to "examine the factors leading to the partisan transformation of Florida from a solid one-party Democrat state to a state now dominated by the Republican Party."

Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. V. City Of Golden

Colorado Supreme Court Records and Briefs Collection

No abstract provided.

The Bates Student - Volume 134 Number 09 - November 16, 2004, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 21 [No. 22], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Reed, Lindsey. Remedial Courses Get New Policy
• Bruggemann, Marlene. Standing Tall – Quinton Head
• Richardson, Kelly. Trial Set for Alleged Peeper – Reginald Calhoun
• Coulter, Amber. Shantytown Raises Money for Habitat for Humanity
• Richardson, Kelly. Aneurisms Claim Life of Western Employee – Nancy Ausbrooks
• Wilberding, Beth. Student Government Association to Present Evaluation Plan
• Richardson, Kelly. Man Arrested for Computer Theft – William Simmons
• Ingram, Brooks. Editorial Cartoon re: Charles Moose
• North, Amber. Is Gay the New Communism?
• Casagrande, Michael. Somebody Save Private Ryan
• Buckman, Josh. …

11/16/2004 - Weiu-Tv Awaits Bot Approval.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications

2004

No abstract provided.

Kerux - Vol. 39, No. 4, Calvin Theological Seminary

Kerux

Inside This Issue

• Schedule of Events Page 2
• Letter to the Editor Page 2
• Joining In- The Elephant of Being Single Page 2
• Did you know... Page 3
• Computer Announcement Page 3
• Joining in the Conversation Page 4

The New Hampshire, Vol. 94 [95], No. 18 (Nov. 16, 2004), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 94, but it is the 95th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Martz Cancels Speech At Um Reception, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Griz Honor Butte Friends, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.