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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"COMMERCIAL COMPANIES"”.
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Strategic sealift: decisions today to ensure tomorrow.
… U.S. government, the other owned and operated by commercial companies and often chartered by the U.S. government. The most recent studies on the status of strategic sealift in the United States, have all indicated that our present capabilities, both fleets, are insufficient to handle anticipated …
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"Machine-independent ""and"" and ""or"" parallel execution of logic programs"
… increasingly cheap and more easily available. Commercial companies have already announced MIMD machines with more than 8000 processors. This prompts three questions: Should the programmer have to rewrite existing software for each new machine that comes along? Should it be necessary for the …
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How Complexity Drives Long Lead Times: A Queueing Theory Space Industry Application
… major transformation. In today’s space industry, commercial companies compete in the market for customers and resources; no longer the exclusive domain of government agencies and legacy aerospace giants. Companies are forced to develop new technology and find ways to reduce costs in ways not seen …
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Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) Satellite Constellation Handover Cost Analysis
… network. This issue is becoming more relevant as commercial companies building their own satellite networks must figure out an efficient handover strategy to reduce unnecessary data transmissions and handover overhead. In this thesis, I estimate the satellite handover cost by quantifying the …
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Agricultural knowledge transfer in Devon 1919 - 1933
… numerous, mostly farmers but including staff of commercial companies. The foremost have been identified as fundamental, with both leadership and, in some cases, financial assistance. The inter-connectedness of the various bodies providing knowledge and of the organisations receiving it is …
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Agricultural knowledge transfer in Devon 1919 - 1933
… numerous, mostly farmers but including staff of commercial companies. The foremost have been identified as fundamental, with both leadership and, in some cases, financial assistance. The inter-connectedness of the various bodies providing knowledge and of the organisations receiving it is …
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Exploring the Influence of structural variation on the solution and solid-state behaviour of cyanine
… Lab Notebooks (ELN) have become successful in commercial companies but less so in academia. An ELN package designed primarily for use in a university research environment has been newly developed. This project involved trailing this product to test the system and provide feedback about the use. …
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System Dynamics Modeling and Analysis of Continuous Production Agility: Policies and Enablers for Resilient Satellite Constellations
… proliferated with satellite constellations from commercial and government actors, the ability to deploy and sustain these critical assets on-orbit grows in importance. The traditional risk-adverse approach for space systems trended towards longer development cycles and highly optimized payload …
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Evaluating Flight Crew Decision-Making Through Part 121 Taxi Operations
… (ADS-B) going into effect at the start of 2020, commercial companies have been able to log and store information on aircraft identification, airspeed, heading, and altitude all in one database.to Now, anyone can access previously hard-to-obtain flight data for analysis using a commercially …
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A Subject Based Methodology for Measuring Interclass Bias in Facial Recognition Verification Systems’
… the interclass bias for skin tone and gender, in commercial facial verification algorithms. Using a dermatologist-approved classification for skin tone system and a simple masculine and feminine classification for gender presentation, thirteen commercial-off-the-shelf facial verification …
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Viability of nodule forming bacteria on stored inoculated leguminous seed
Batch inoculation of legume seeds by commercial companies would remedy many of the difficulties encountered in getting proper and uniform inoculation by all planters. From the results of this investigation, which was to test the feasibility of commercial inoculation, the following statements appear …
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Professional secrecy and the auditor
… changed the role of local auditors as both the Companies Act, 1995 and the Financial Services related legislation contain various instances which compel auditors to disclose certain which they come across to the authorities. These duties are more evident in the financial services legislation, …
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Packet filter performance monitor (anti-DDOS algorithm for hybrid topologies)
… attacks will not be going away anytime soon. Commercial companies are not effectively providing mitigation techniques against these attacks, considering that major corporations face the same challenges. Current security appliances are not strong enough to handle the overwhelming traffic that …
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Measuring Compliance to the International Telecommunication Union’s Geosynchronous Orbital Assignments
… of compliance more often than those operated by commercial companies. Military satellites, which may be exempted from ITU coordination processes, follow the rules as often as civil government satellites. Among the largest state operators in GEO, China and the United States exhibit higher …
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Ultra-wideband technology for short-range wireless communication
… ultra-wideband is being championed by several commercial companies, this technology has not followed the conventional path where commercial interest is preceded by years of academic research. This work attempts to fill in some of the gap by studying fundamental properties of communications with …
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Innovative Supply Chain Cyber Risk Analytics: Unsupervised Clustering and Reinforcement Learning Approaches
… level of cyber maturity. Moreover, several commercial companies provide cyber ratings using information about the organization accessible by outside parties, often called outside-in ratings. However, merely focusing on the enterprise’s own cyber maturity may be insufficient given the …
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An investigation of diet management strategies for the culture of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae
… many of the I 00 or so species of abalone are commercially and recreationally exploited. The continuing demand for abalone has resulted in the overexploitation of wild stocks throughout the world. ·Most commercial abalone fisheries are characterised by high yields at the beginning of the …
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Cost Optimized Logistics for Commercial Operations in Low Earth Orbit and Cislunar Space
… is necessary to establish a profitable commercial market and support a robust space economy. It is the goal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to establish such an economy in low Earth orbit (LEO) through the implementation of commercial LEO destinations and to …
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European Construction Companies as Global Players Towards the New Millennium
… globalisation became the 'Zeitgeist', with commercial companies striving to become "global players". Under these globalising influences, European construction companies have to respond to a significant reorientation of their markets, which range from the Domestic to the European and the …
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