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Showing 1 to 20 of 266 for “"ASSURED"”.
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Assured decison-making for autonomous systems
… dissertation provides a systematic approach to assured decision-making in this dissertation that is agnostic to the specifics of the implementation details of the autonomous systems. Such an approach avoids having to assure systems case-by-case and will facilitate certification and deployment of …
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The impact of assured supply inventory policies
A case study is presented of a successful quick serve fast food restaurant chain that uses inventory throughout the supply chain as a buffer against uncertainty in supply and demand. This is a common operational strategy in many industries, but it limits options for the supply chain to become more …
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Towards Safety-Assured Environments of Autonomous Robots via Intent Expressive Autonomy
This work focuses on improving the safety of human-robot coexistence via intent expressive autonomy. Intent expression between robots and humans is crucial for developing autonomous robots and will enhance human safety. Our research investigated intent expressive autonomy with …
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Proficiency-based progression training: quality assured preparation for the practice of surgery
Purpose: Investigate the effectiveness of proficiency-based progression (PBP) training coupled with simulation for the acquisition of surgical skills and to define the essentials for the development of a comprehensive, validated, PBP training curriculum. Methods: Task deconstruction of an …
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Rapid, assured planning for safe operation of integrated power, propulsion, and thermal systems
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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An investigation into buffer management mechanisms for the Diffserv assured forwarding traffic class
… the service classes offered by Diffserv is the Assured Forwarding (AF) class. Because of scalability concerns, IETF specifications recommend that microflow and aggregate-unaware active buffer management mechanisms such as RIO (Random early detecLion with ln/Out-ofprofile) be used in the core of …
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Recovering from Distributable Thread Failures with Assured Timeliness in Real-Time Distributed Systems
… from failures of distributable threads with assured timeliness. When a node hosting a portion of a distributable thread fails, it causes orphans—i.e., thread segments that are disconnected from the thread's root. A termination model is considered for recovering from such failures. In this …
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The impact of "Never Run Out" policy assured supply chain with dual reorder point expediting
Managing a big supply chain for one of the largest quick service restaurant companies, especially when the company has a policy called "Never Run Out," is very challenging. A traditional way of managing inventory requires high level of safety stock if high level of uncertainty is involved. Sources …
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The menace of piracy and its effects on the marine insurance industry
… comprised of the relationship between the assured (shipowner/cargo owner) and the insurer, and the nexus which creates the relationship between these parties lies in the marine insurance policy which is taken out by the assured and underwritten by the insurer.
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A paper-based, smartphone assisted assay for detection and quantification of iron in fortified foods
… to be used in low-income countries known as ASSURED. The overall objective is to design, develop, and validate an ASSURED-designed, paper-based assay which interfaces with a smartphone to quantify iron in fortified foods. The dissertation will accomplish the aforementioned objective using …
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Hypersonic Glide Vehicles: Implications for Strategic Stability in the Coming Hypersonic Era
… future, ensuring the continued survival of an assured destruction capacity for the three great powers. Hypersonic glide vehicles foster a stable strategic balance; it should be no surprise that these weapons will most likely be neither controlled nor abandoned by the three great powers. It is …
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Development and analysis of a homogeneous long-term precipitation network (1850-2015) and assessment of historic droughts for the island of Ireland
… cycle. Given the paucity of long-term quality assured precipitation records in Ireland this thesis expands the existing catalogue of long-term monthly precipitation records for the Island by recovering and digitising archived data. Following bridging and updating, 25 stations are quality …
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Parent-child sexuality education in families with sons or daughters with autism or Down syndrome: A phenomenological study
… into two categories, tentative parents and assured parents. Tentative parents based the sexuality education they provided on concerns about embarrassment or safety of their son or daughter in public, found few or no resources available to help them teach, and seemed to have some difficulty …
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Assurance of CSR Reports and Its Association With CSR Disclosure and Company Financial and Sustainability Performance.
… companies even choose to have their CSR reports assured by an independent, external auditor. In theory, CSR assurance should enhance the credibility of the companies’ CSR reporting. Using a sample of 251 companies from the S&P 500 that have their CSR reports assured and a matched sample of …
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A Continuous-Time Nonlinear Observer for Estimating Structure from Motion from Omnidirectional Optic Flow
… field. Exponential stability of the observer is assured provided the persistency of excitation condition is met. Persistency of excitation is assured by altering the direction of motion sufficiently quickly. An equal convergence rate on the entire viewable area can be achieved by executing …
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Processing and microstructure of standard and modified macro-defect-free cements
… of constituents in the composite was assured at the early stages in the shear mixing step. With increasing mixing time, mechanically induced chemical reactions triggered an interplay of network formation and simultaneous network degradation.
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Network level performance of differentiated services (diffserv) networks
… have been defined: Expedited Forwarding (EF), Assured Forwarding (AF) and Best Effort (BE). In this dissertation, the performance of DiffServ networks at the network level, such as end-to-end QoS, network stability, and fairness of bandwidth allocation over the entire network have been …
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Light gage steel folded plates
… along adjoining longitudinal edges would be assured. The experimental and theoretical results were in good agreement.
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Specification and verification of the Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol
… signaling function, in turn, makes use of an assured data delivery service. This service is provided by the Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol (SSCOP), which resides in the ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL). A specification of the SSCOP has been developed in Estelle. In addition, testing …
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Perceptions of service delivery by the Philippi Trust to the HIV/AIDS support groups in the Helderberg Region
… conducted using thematic analysis. Anonymity was assured but complete confidentiality was not possible as the investigator had knowledge of the HIV status of the study population, however no names appeared in the research report.
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