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In silico engineering of Pseudomonas metabolism reveals new biomarkers for increased biosurfactant production [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Rhamnolipids, biosurfactants with a wide range of biomedical applications, are amphiphilic molecules produced on the surfaces of or excreted extracellularly by bacteria including Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Annalisa Occhipinti +4 more
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Theory and practice in the field of foresight [PDF]
, 2007 Purpose – The paper aims to explore the gap between theory and practice in foresight and to give some suggestions on how to reduce it. Design/methodology/approach – Analysis of practical foresight activities and suggestions are based on a literature ...
Hideg, Éva
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Games as speculative design:allowing players to consider alternate presents and plausible futures [PDF]
, 2016 As games are inherently about exploring alternative worlds this paper proposes the utilisation of games as a medium for speculative design through which players can explore scenarios that represent plausible alternative presents and speculative futures ...
Burnett, Dan +2 more
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Mechanical Engineering, 2008 This article focuses on developing a pen-like device that is expected to soon take the place of the computer mouse. John Hirschtick of SolidWorks expects to see touchscreens and other means of communicating with computers—now familiar in ATM machines, iPhones, and Wii game systems—make their way into more computer interfaces, including those for CAD ...
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Speculative Machines and Technical Mentalities. A philosophical approach to designing the future [PDF]
, 2015 ‘Beyond their instrumental functions,’ writes Rivka Oxman in an article about design, creativity and innovation (2013), ‘advanced digital and computational environments are also becoming tools for thinking design’.
Brassett, Jamie
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The future of tourism: interview with Ian Yeoman about the Journal of Tourism Futures [PDF]
Journal of Tourism FuturesPurpose – As the Journal of Tourism Futures celebrates its 10th anniversary, Dr. Albert Postma (NHL Stenden University) interviews Professor Ian Yeoman (NHL Stenden University) as co-editor of the Journal of Tourism Futures and expert on scenario ...
Albert Postma, Ian Seymour Yeoman
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Designing a Nano-Safe Future [PDF]
, 2018 A short position paper on how we can preemptively anticipate and design nanotechnology-safe ...
Umbrello, Steven
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Future Users, Future Cities: Dweller as Designer
eCAADe proceedings, 2010 As technology advances, users get more detached from the way things work and are produced. Users end up being pure consumers and leave their positions as decision makers behind. Before the architecture and buildings processes were industrialized, most practitioners of the so-called vernacular architecture were in fact the dwellers of what they built ...
Germen, Murat, Kavlak, Ahmet Emrah
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Treatment Decision‐Making Roles and Preferences Among Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Decision‐making (DM) dynamics between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer, parents, and oncologists remain underexplored in diverse populations. We examined cancer treatment DM preferences among an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of AYAs and their parents.
Amanda M. Gutierrez +14 more
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Troubling futures: can participatory design research provide a generative anthropology for the 21st century? [PDF]
, 2015 This essay argues there is value in considering participatory design as a form of generative anthropology at a time when we recognise that we need not only to understand cultures but to change them towards sustainable living.
Light, Ann
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