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The Software Factory

Computer, 1975
This papers describes an effort to develop an integrated set of software development tools to support a disciplined and repeatable approach to software development. This effort, which is really part of a larger program currently underway at System Development Corporation to increase software reliability and control software production costs, is ...
Harvey Bratman, Terry Court
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A Bernoulli factory

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 1994
Necessary and sufficient conditions on a function f(p) are given for the existence of a simulation procedure to simulate a Bernoulli variable with success probability f(p) from independent Bernoulli variables with success probability p, with p being constrained to lie in a subset P of [0,1] but otherwise unknown
M. S. Keane, George L. O'Brien
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Factory Girls After the Factory

Gender & Society, 2015
Many scholars of gender and migration assume that migration increases women’s household bargaining power, but this article argues that migration recreates and relies on patriarchal expectations that women return to household domestic labor. It draws on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork with migrant factory women in China’s export processing zones as ...
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The Dream Factory

IEEE Pulse, 2011
Applying for research funding in the European Union (EU) can be a lengthy, arduous process littered with bureaucratic hurdles and paperwork. Under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the projects need to involve partners from several different European countries, and there is a lot of paperwork for the principal investigator.
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THE WHITE FACTORY:

2021
Thomas Grisaffi’s chapter focuses on coca cultivation and cocaine paste production in the Chapare region of Bolivia. Grisaffi explains that the coca leaf has myriad traditional uses in indigenous Andean culture but the bulk of the local crop ends up in the maceration pit to be transformed into cocaine.
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Factory Futures - The Factory as a Spectacle

2022
<p><b>Currently, in New Zealand, pipfruit processing factories typically adopt the vernacular farm shed-like typology, which makes the business’s identity invisible to the surrounding community. The architecture presents itself as anonymous facades sprawled across large sites, expressing no association with the surrounding community, the ...
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The Justice Factory

2023
Spend time at the International Criminal Court, and you will hear the familiar language of anti-impunity. Spend longer, and you will encounter the less familiar language of management – efficiency, risk, and performance, and tools of strategic planning, audit, and performance appraisal.
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A Factory is Not a Factory: An Essay on a Promise

2012
We’re writing in the summer of 2011. The Tabakfabrik, a former tobacco factory, wants to be a more famous factory building than it really is — a thoroughly understandable ambi tion. Efforts made in this direction, culminating in the 2009 purchase of the property by the City of Linz, have come to fruition during recent months: in addition to ...
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A VIRTUAL FACTORY

International Journal of Shape Modeling, 1996
This paper describes a virtual factory in which almost any manufacturing process can be defined, modelled, and then carried out. The results of this are designs of the components manufactured (in the form of geometric models) and part programs and process plans for their manufacture.
Adrian Bowyer   +3 more
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The Factory Question

1973
CHILD labour was not the creation of the Industrial Revolution. Many a medieval tapestry, depicting children at work, gives the lie to the idea of a ‘Merrie England’ of feudal times when children laboured not at all. Behind closed doors the domestic system hid much unseen exploitation of children, for in many ways parents were the severest taskmasters ...
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