USER-CENTRED MACHINERY DESIGN FOR A SMALL SCALE AGRICULTURAL-BASED COMMUNITY USING QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT

User-centred machinery design for a small scale agricultural-based community using Quality Function Deployment

ABSTRACTDesign Thinking is a user-centred framework that captures unmet needs of users and generates ideas for sustainable solutions.Quality Function Deployment is a tool that translates the voice of customers into engineering attributes required for product and process design.Both concepts are globally adopted in various fields including but not l

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Gardening the menace!

Biodiversity across the globe are facing major threats to their ecological balance as a result of invasion by non-native species.In an endeavour to beautify our gardens with exotic species, several alien plants have been imported to the areas beyond their natural geographical range.Many of them are highly invasive and have deleterious impact on the

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Health service brokerage to improve primary care access for populations experiencing vulnerability or disadvantage: a systematic review and realist synthesis

Abstract Background Individuals experiencing disadvantage or marginalisation often face difficulty accessing primary health care.Overcoming access barriers is important for improving the health of these populations.Brokers can empower and enable people to access resources; however, their role in increasing access to health services has not been wel

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