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No full textWang Mei."July 2002."Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-233).Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.Mode of access: World Wide Web.Abstracts in English and Chinese
Thinking outside the blocks
No full textThis paper outlines an ongoing PhD research with the aim to develop an alternative fashion design and garment construction process for the initial design stages, using a practice initiated in three dimensions. The paper was partly triggered by views that meanwhile, especially in design education, there is a need to underline more the practical aspects of the design and making process, for example pattern cutting skills. One industry commentator said: “We have often taken on ex-fashion students either as staff or for work experience, and the majority have never been taught pattern-cutting, yet expecting glittering careers in design” (Everett, 2008)
The nature of this design practice research utilizes tacit knowledge. It was therefore necessary to find a method to express such tacit knowledge in a tangible form.
Due to its exploratory nature and the need for substantial iterative practical work, the reflective, practice-oriented approach of Action Research was used as lead methodology
The process of fashion design and garment construction as a practice initiated in three dimensions: are we teaching our designers as much as we could?
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Electrocardiogram application based on heart rate variability ontology and fuzzy markup language
No full textThe electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is adopted extensively as a low-cost diagnostic procedure to provide information concerning the healthy status of the heart. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a physiological phenomenon where the time interval between heart beats varies. It is measured by the variation in the beat-to-beat interval. Based on the HRV analysis, the medical experts can make a health assessment for our body, especially for the heart. This chapter presents a fuzzy markup language (FML)-based HRV ontology to apply to ECG domain knowledge. The ontology technologies are used to construct the personalized HRV ontology, and the FML is used to describe the knowledge base and rule base of the HRV. The ECG signals were collected from the involved students before they took exams and after they finished the exams. Based on the constructed FML-based HRV ontology, the variation in the nervous level between before exams and after exams could be inferred when implementing the proposed approach. An experimental platform has been constructed to test the performance of the ontology. The results indicate that the proposed method can work feasibly
Experimental comparison between markets on dynamic permit trading and investment in irreversible abatement with and without non-regulated companies
No full textThis paper examines the investment strategies of compliance companies in irreversible abatement technologies and the environmental achievements of the system in an inter-temporal cap-and-trade market using laboratory experiments. The experimental analysis is performed under varying market structures: firstly, in a market that is exclusive to compliance companies and subsequently, in a market that is open to both compliance and non-compliance entities. In line with theoretical models on irreversible abatement investment, the paper shows that regulated companies trade permits at a premium. Also, steep per unit penalties for excess emissions prompt early investments in irreversible abatement technologies. Further, the paper shows that by contributing to the permit demand and supply, non-compliance companies (i) enhance the exchange of permits, helping the system to achieve a zero-excess permit position, (ii) increase the price levels, but has no apparent effect on price variability
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