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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Analysis of alternatives"”.
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An Ethical Analysis of Alternatives in Childbirth
<p>This discussion concerns the ethical aspects of decisions regarding the various options of place, attendant and method for the actual delivery of infants. It focuses on the moral claims of childbearing women and fetuses and the roles of health care providers and society at large during the …
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Multiattribute analysis of alternatives for Hanford Tanks Remediation System
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1997.
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Economic analysis of alternatives for PC upgrade of OR Department laboratory
… at the NPS plans to upgrade the hardware of the Personal Computer (PC) laboratory. The objective of the thesis is to analyze the potential upgrade paths dependent upon hardware availability, software compatibility, maintenance and initial cost. The alternatives are: (a) to upgrade the …
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Using the principles of set-based design to realize ship design process improvement
… capture. The current fiscal environment of the U.S. Government has obligated the Department of Defense to challenge each service to "do more, without more" by finding efficiencies. Since 2005, the U.S. Navy has self-identified ship design as a process improvement priority and embarked in …
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Systems-theoretic process analysis and safety-guided design of military systems
Increasingly complex software enabled systems demand a new hazard analysis and safety-guided design technique in order to meet stringent safety standards and expectations. System Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) proves to be a powerful tool to identify, describe and help mitigate hazards from the …
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Architecting Joint Command and Control System of Systems Capability Certifications
… been assembled into an interdependent C4I System of Systems (SoS). The C4I SoS continues to evolve, without overarching capabilities-based performance requirements. Without requirements, there is no practical, repeatable, and objective process to assess changes to the SoS. This project applied a …
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Operational energy/operational effectiveness investigation for scalable Marine expeditionary brigade forces in contingency response scenarios
… through the specification, modeling, and data analysis associated with force scale alternatives of a Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) unit operating in the West Africa Area of Responsibility (AOR). A Title 10 war games evolution was elaborated to support a robust …
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Improving situational awareness in the counter-IED fight with the utilization of unmanned sensor systems
… complex problems, such as the utilization of unmanned sensor technologies to provide situational awareness (SA) in the counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) fight. An appropriate systems engineering design process was used to develop such a framework, as the completion of the first …
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Sex-Based Differences in Calcaneal Injury Tolerances Under High-Rate Loading
… across male and female groups. The purpose of this experiment is an analysis of alternatives exploring the importance of sex-based criteria in models representing injuries typical in underbody blast environments. Seventeen (17) right legs were harvested at the knee from cadavers representing …
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Applying model-based systems engineering to architecture optimization and selection during system acquisition
… affordability and technical performance success of a program. There are recognized deficiencies that frequently occur in this step such as poor transparency into the final selection decision and excessive focus on lowest cost, which is not necessarily the best value for all of the stakeholders. …