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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"EPC"”.
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Productivity improvement in downstream EPC projects using value streams based organization
… such large-scale projects. Lummus is an EPC contractor providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for building manufacturing plants. EPC projects run for few years and involve coordination of efforts by hundreds of engineering staff. There are inherently many …
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Measuring the Effects of a Step Change in the EPC Process
… to develop and quantify a step change to the EPC process that will bring the supplier into the circle of cooperation between the owner, engineer, and contractor. The result was a step change entitled PEpC (Procure, Engineer, procure, and Construct). This research also sought to provide …
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Contracting Out in a Complex Network: An Effectiveness Analysis of EPC Program I
… through its Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) programs that contract out its work and operate in broad and complex network. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which AHRQ's EPC Program I was effective in supporting the translation of evidence reports and disseminating …
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Optimal pathway towards building EPC rating improvements align with building energy performance certificate programme
… to improve their Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings by efficiently adopting Energy Efficiency Measures (EEMs). With buildings contributing approximately 40\% of global energy consumption and 36\% of carbon dioxide emissions, enhancing energy performance is critical. EPCs have been …
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Passive EPC Class 1 Gen 2 UHF RFID sensor tag For health monitoring applications
… discusses a discrete prototype of a passive EPC Class 1 Gen 2 UHF RFID sensor tag which is a preliminary step in realizing such a monitoring device. The prototype is capable of collecting 8-bit sensor (temperature, inertial, etc) data and transmits it in real-time through a RFID backscatter …
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Exploring architectural transformation to improve value of plant EPC business : case study of LNG production plant
Plant EPC projects, typically for LNG production plants, are the most expensive types of facilities in the world. While many of them have been built in the last several decades, the EPC cost did not decrease, and rather a significant cost increase in the last decade was observed. The most …
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Choosing a Project Team: The Effects of Interdependence and Prior Transacting in Engineering, Procurement and Construction (Epc) Projects
This dissertation produces several important findings. First, I find that one needs to treat two key activities/transactions of a customized project---design and manufacturing---on a discrete basis. In specific, technological and architectural uncertainties, typically associated with customized …
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Differenzielle transkriptionelle Regulation der humanen Telomerase in einem zellulären Karzinogenese-Modell am Beispiel des Plattenepithelkarzinoms des Ösophagus
… Normale humane <br>Ösophagusepithelzellen (EPC), in denen jeweils Cyclin D1 (EPC-D1), dominant <br>negatives p53 (EPC-Dp53) oder hTERT (EPC-hTERT) retroviral überexprimiert <br>war sowie die Tumorzelllinie TE-12 wurden als fünfstufiges Modell der <br>malignen Transformation verwendet. Die …
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A Critical Role Of Cxcr2 Pdz Motif-Mediated Interactions In Endothelial Progenitor Cell Homing And Angiogenesis
… marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) participate in postnatal vascularization in response to growth factors, cytokines, and chemokines. Chemokine receptor CXCR2 and its cognate ligands are reported to mediate EPC recruitment and angiogenesis. CXCR2 possesses a consensus …
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DIABETES IMPAIRS THERAPEUTIC EFFECT OF ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL EXOSOME-MEDIATED MYOCARDIAL REPAIR
… marrow-derived endothelial progenitor cells (BM-EPCs) promote cardiac neovascularization and attenuate ischemic injury in animal models. Lately, emerging evidence supports that exosomes (Exo), a family of extracellular vesicles, mediate stem cell therapy by carrying cell-specific biological cargo …
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An analysis of physical object information flow within Auto-ID infrastructure
… of two components: Electronic Product Code (EPC) and Physical Markup Language (PML). On the other hand, software architecture components consist of four components: readers, Savant, EPC Information Server (EPC-IS), and Object Name Service (ONS). EPC-IS. which defines the interface of the …
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Interplay between Ephaptic and Gap Junctional Coupling in Cardiac Conduction
… focus on one such mechanism, ephaptic coupling (EpC). The purpose of this work is twofold, 1) to identify ionic determinants of EpC, and its interactions with gap junctional coupling (GJC) and, 2) to investigate the possible role of serum ion modulation in cardiac arrhythmia therapy. First, the …
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Computational and biological studies of mechanical prophylaxis against deep venous thrombosis
… against DVT is external pneumatic compression (EPC). In spite of its wide acceptance as an effective means of prophylaxis, its mechanism remains poorly understood and optimal compression conditions have not been defined. Understanding the biological consequences of EPC is an important goal for …
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Synthese eines Polymerskeletts in Liposomen über pH-abhängige Membranadsorption von Monomeren
… innerhalb von Ei-Phosphatidylcholin (EPC) - Liposomen zu platzieren, die über ein Ankermolekül (1,2-Distearyl-3-octaethylenglykolglycerolether-methacrylat / DOGM) mit dem inneren Monolayer verbunden sind. Käufliche Monomere und ein selbst synthetisiertes wurden auf ihre Eignung zur …
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Interoperable internet-scale security framework for RFID networks
… supply chains where the Electronic Product Code (EPC) and associated business event data are transmitted through RFID networks. Security and privacy issues are critically important in RFID networks because EPC data and their associated business events are valuable assets. Companies need to share …
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Security approaches for Radio Frequency Identification systems
… to the security of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) class of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and associated data. RFID systems can be used to improve supply chain performance and automate asset management. However, an antagonist could use the functionality of the RFID tags and the EPC …
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The Peloton Approach : forecasting and strategic planning for emerging technologies : a case for RFID
… have been done on different facets of the RFID/EPC industry like the market size or the possible financial returns. However, the forecasts to date are not based on a collective view on the evolving, dynamic and inter-relating nature of such technology covering Retailers, Suppliers and Industry …
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