Essays about: "The Crowd"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 214 essays containing the words The Crowd.
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1. THE USE OF ELEVATORS FOR EVACUATION IN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : This study focuses on the human factors associated with elevator use during evacuation in residential buildings. An online survey is conducted to explore seven factors that may influence people’s choice of elevators in China and the United Kingdom, including floor height, waiting time for elevators, crowd density in front of elevators, mobility limitations, instructions, fire location concerning people’s current location, and information about reliability of elevators during evacuation. READ MORE
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2. Global Crowdsourcing for Climate Change: Citizen engagement in environmental monitoring : An exploratory case study of breaking a world record with drones
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : The rise of crowdsourcing practices has revolutionized the way in which organizational tasks can be performed. One application of crowdsourcing that has been receiving growing attention over the past decade is using the crowd to collect environmental data that is needed to monitor, manage and predict environmental events. READ MORE
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3. Advanced Hardened Registration Process for Mobile Crowd Sensing
University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Abstract : Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) or Participatory Sensing (PS) are two emerging systems as smart mobile devices become ubiquitous. One of the advantages of such a sensing system is that almost anyone with a mobile device can become a moving "sensor". READ MORE
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4. Unreal Investments : How cheap credit is used when rates are already low, and opportunities for financial investments are present.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This study explores the possibility that cheep credit, provided to firms when profit opportunities on real investments are low, and when opportunities of financial investments are present, will loose some of it’s stimulus effect due to a crowding out effect of financial investments on real investments. Analyzing the changes in debt, and it’s channels of use during the recession of the covid19 pandemic, between firms with a history of stock buybacks, and firms without such a history, the study finds a significantly higher increase in debt for firms with a history of doing stock buybacks. READ MORE
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5. Mescape - A probabilistic mesoscopic model for fire evacuation in large gatherings
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för BrandteknikAbstract : This study presents a mesoscopic model that predicts pedestrian evacuation in large gatherings with probabilistic methods. The model is based on a coarse network representation of buildings, where occupants are treated at a different scale according to their location. READ MORE
