Essays about: "alternative learning materials"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words alternative learning materials.
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1. Hacking the New Development : Turning a Shopping District into a Garment Manufacturing District
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : Chrisp Street Market in London, the first pedestrian shopping district in the UK, will be redeveloped into a contemporary version of a pedestrian shopping district. The design employs the 'mixed-use' building typology often used to make public life 'active' and 'lively', by attracting the population to participate in consumer society in public space, at a time when the role of overconsumption in the acceleration of climate change within sectors like the fashion industry is becoming increasingly problematic. READ MORE
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2. Machine Learning of Crystal Formation Energies with Novel Structural Descriptors
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Teoretisk FysikAbstract : To assist technology advancements, it is important to continue the search for new materials. The stability of a crystal structures is closely connected to its formation energy. By calculating the formation energies of theoretical crystal structures it is possible to find new stable materials. READ MORE
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3. Designing a Game for Learning About Recycling
University essay from KTH/Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC)Abstract : As the world is getting more crowded, at the same time as people increase their consumption, there is a need for us taking control of our resource consumption and changing our behaviors into more sustainable ones. First of all, our consumption needs to decrease in order to prevent use of resources and prevent the production of waste. READ MORE
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4. Building resilience through food : the case of the Network of Agroecological Peasants' Markets of Valle del Cauca (Red MAC), Colombia
University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and SocietyAbstract : The dominance of conventional (chemical and industrial) agriculture has eroded the ecological, economic and socio-cultural conditions to sustain production for a growing population, undermining humanity´s capacity to feed itself (Gliessman, 2007; Altieri & Toledo, 2011). As a consequence, we have a decoupled global food system: the social is decoupled from the ecological; farmers are decoupled from the land; farmers and consumers are decoupled from each other; and culture is decoupled from agri-culture. READ MORE
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5. Additive Manufacturing in Production - for the Automotive Industry
University essay from Lunds universitet/InnovationAbstract : Additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing and abbreviated AM) opens up for numerous opportunities in increasing business profit while perhaps also improving sustainability. There are some knowledge gaps though in how and when AM could be implemented successfully for production purposes, and as AM is quite information intensive it is also problematic to keep track of advances in technology or even to find possible uses to begin with. READ MORE