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Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture
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How high tech companies create new categories of products
Full text linkThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-85).In the last 15 years, several high tech companies successfully developed revolutionary products that were not based on completely new base technology. Instead, the companies used existing technologies to create products with attractive user experiences. The products appealed to customers and made their manufacturers leaders in their corresponding market segments. The approach to innovation taken by these companies could be called the "radical innovation of user experience." In this work, I will look for common patterns in customer research, product development, and the organizational management of successful user-experience innovation companies. As a result, I will create an asset of recommendations that could be used by product managers and general managers of technology companies to assess their innovation strategy.by Mikhail Turilin.S.M
Synthesis, reactivity and antimicrobial properties of boron-containing 4-ethyl-3-thiosemicarbazide derivatives
Full text linkThe addition of 4-ethyl-3-thiosemicarbazide to benzaldehyde and boronic acid-containing derivatives afforded the corresponding thiosemicarbazones (1-3) or benzodiazaborines (4-6) depending on the position of the boronic acid within the ring. All compounds have been characterized fully including an X-ray diffraction study of the methoxy-containing benzodiazaborine 6. Attempts to coordinate thiosemicarbazones 2 and 3 to palladium(II) acetate were unsuccessful, however, addition of the non-boron-containing derivative 1 to palladium afforded complex 7 whose molecular structure was determined by an X-ray diffraction study. The initial bioactivities of compounds 1-7 were examined against two fungi, Aspergillus niger and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and two bacteria, Bacillus cereus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author
Race and becoming: the emergent materialities of race in everyday multiculture
Full text linkThis thesis draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Keighley, West Yorkshire, to interrogate the turbulent sociality of everyday multicultures and the temporary, but recursive fixings of race on the ground in interaction. Arguing that the routine framing of race as a social construct in the social sciences has had a 'deadening effect' on our academic talk about race, this study takes a line of flight from social constructionist and abolitionist arguments by addressing the underside of intercultural relations in Keighley through questions of experimentation. Repeatedly questioning what race does and how race functions, this research develops a non-determinist, non-essentialist conception of race that continuously takes form through heterogeneous processes of differentiation in moments of intercultural encounter. The thesis develops an ontology of race that grasps how race is simultaneously fluid and fixing, as it momentarily takes form through arrangement bodies, things and spaces. Coupling this conception of race with theorisatdons of thinking as a layered, practical and distributed activity, I assemble a conception of race thinking as thought-in action. Here race thinking is an outcome of, and distributed across, an entanglement with the world and opens up the half-second delay as a space of prejudice during which the push of race sorts bodies, things and spaces, and coordinates thinking and action. Three empirical chapters each take a different materiality as a point of entry into the dynamic socialities of intercultural relations. A chapter on bodies examines the tendencies and distributions of differently raced bodies on the ground in Keighley. This chapter argues that bodies do not have race, but they become raced as the heterogeneous elements that constitute bodies emerge as sites of intensive difference in interaction. A chapter on the car questions how race rides on the car to examine the force of things in race thinking, and track how suspicion and innuendo stick to, and circulate through, particular objects. The final empirical chapter constructs a topographical approach to urban multiculture to evoke the life， passion and intensities of living with difference. The momentum accumulated through these perspectives works towards a distinct understanding how race is done in Keighley. Through the cumulative force of these chapters I begin to reconstruct understandings of urban multiculture from below, emphasising how urban multiculture in Keighley is practised, visceral and felt
Leaky bodies and boundaries : feminism, deconstruction and bioethics
Full text linkThis thesis draws on poststructuralism/postmodernism to present a feminist investigation into the human
body, its modes of (self)identification, and its insertion into systems of bioethics. I argue that, contrary to
conventional paradigms, the boundaries not only of the subject, but of the body too, cannot be secured. In
exploring and contesting the closure and disembodiment of the ethical subject, I propose instead an
incalculable, but nonetheless fully embodied, diversity of provisional subject positions. My aim is to valorise
women and situate them within a reconceived ethics which takes account of the embodied feminine.
My project entails an analysis and deconstruction of the binaries of those dominant strands of
postEnlightenment thought that shape epistemology, ontology, and ethics, which in turn set the parameters
of modern bioethics. More importantly, it goes on to reclaim a radical sexual difference beyond the binary,
in which the female is no longer the other of the male. My enquiry, then, is strongly influenced by the
discursive approach offered by both Foucault and Derrida in differential ways, but I counter their
indifference to feminist concerns by qualifying their insights in the light of strategies developed by Irigaray
and Spivak, among others.
The main method of investigation has been through library research of primary and secondary sources in
mainstream and feminist philosophy, and in bioethics. In addition, archival work in both textual and
iconographic collections was carried out at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
The contribution made by this thesis is to go beyond modernist feminisms - which would simply revise and
add women into existing paradigms - to radically displace and overflow the mechanisms by which women are
devalued. And in developing a postmodern critique around some issues in bioethics, I have suggested a new
ethics of the body which precedes the operation of moral codes
