In this thesis, we show that the conventional workflows for tracking objects in a warehouse can be enhanced by a new Augmented Reality (AR) service. In particular, we have designed a Unity implementation of an AR toolkit for the Microsoft HoloLens based on a “indoor greenhouse” …
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У дисертацији је представљен поступак дистрибутивне естимације стања (ДЕС) за модерне дистрибутивне мреже са дистрибутивним енергетским ресурсима (активне дистрибутивне мреже) који је интегрисан у дистрибтивни менаџмент систем (ДМС). Интеграција поступка ДЕС у ДМС се састоји од …
The cinema intermission (or samosa break, in Bombay vernacular) has long been phased out in many parts of the world, but remains a pervasive ritual for audiences in India. This dissertation focuses on a transnational history of the intermission and its role as a multi-sided plat…
In many parts of Lebanon, residents negotiate access to basic services such as electricity and healthcare through a byzantine web of private, public and informal networks run by local political parties organized around ethnicity or sect. My dissertation, based on fieldwork condu…
This dissertation contains three essays on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and different types of public goods. In the first essay, I study how changes in transport infrastructure affect the location decisions of firms by examining how manu…
National infrastructure form the bedrock for economic growth and social security, both of which lowers conflict risks. This encourages states and international organizations to invest heavily in post-conflict infrastructure reconstruction efforts, believing that infrastructure p…
Information technology (IT) is a catalyst for social change and requires frequent re-evaluation and updates to keep pace with current advancements. The Internet has revolutionized the world in a variety of ways, more so in under developed countries than in developing ones. The c…
Many developing countries such as Palestine are simultaneously fiscally limited and acutely water constrained. It is vital that investments in water related infrastructure provide maximum social welfare per dollar spent. Furthermore, infrastructure must be designed to perform we…
At the intersection of East and West lays a conflicted social disjuncture presented physically in the disparate sectors of Beirut, Lebanon, and revealed in the city's divergent infrastructure. The crowded roadways saturated with pedestrians, taxicabs, minibuses, and other commut…
Spending on infrastructure accounts for several percentage points of gross world product, reflecting its perceived importance to growth and development. Previous literature has made limited progress in providing unbiased estimates of its impacts, or causal evidence about policy …
This dissertation focuses on the economics of infrastructure development and public finance. The dissertation is composed of three papers: The first paper analyzes the optimal solutions for supplying electricity to national economies from both domestic as well as distant energy …
The objective of this dissertation is to assess whether the private participation in energy sector through long term contracting, such as Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) type investments, is an efficient way of promoting efficiency in the economy. To this end; the theoretical liter…
During the Kievan era (ca. 900–1240), Novgorod was the leading fur-trade center in western Eurasia. Situated in northwestern Russia, Novgorod lay along key routes connecting Northern Europe with Byzantium and the Islamic East, all of which acted as principle consumers of pelts b…
The first chapter examines, theoretically and empirically, the determinants of collective success in the maintenance of infrastructure projects. The empirical analysis employs primary data collected on 132 community-maintained infrastructure projects in Northern Pakistan. Determ…
Urban exploration is a practice of researching, discovering and physically exploring temporary, obsolete, abandoned, derelict and infrastructural areas within built environments. Through charting the rise to prominence of a London urban exploration crew between 2008 and 2011, of…
The main purpose of this research project is to bridge the existing knowledgegap in the empirical identification and understanding of the most frequentcorrupt actions and the causes behind during procurement of infrastructureprojects in Pakistan, in addition to exploring the way…
The notion of Strategic Fit has been and remains to be one of the most important arguements in the fields of business strategy and strategic management. This research study examines the key concept of ‘strategic fit’ and its associated theories and seeks to investigate the cause…
There is a strong perception that large infrastructure projects (LIPs) implemented in developing economies fail to meet their original estimations and specifications more than those implemented in developed economies. This situation results in weak infrastructural development in…
This thesis examines traffic congestion in twentieth-century London. Ideas about movement, mobility and circulation in the capital's streets intersect with a broad range of discourses and practices, from planning to policing, and from engineering to economics. Within these disco…