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Failure to adapt; Intelligence Failure and Military Failure as Functions of Strategic Failure?
The following paper looks at intelligence failures and military failures through the lens of adaptation failure. This paper asserts that there is reason to believe that certain causal elements of alleged intelligence failures reside more so in the province of politics, than in the collection and …
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A system failure detection method -- failure projection method
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982.
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Systems Failure
<p>“Systems Failure” is a substantial array of digitally created images centered on many social and ethical issues that go undetected for numerous people. Many within our society live in silent anguish, something that remains unseen and undiscussed by others. “Systems Failure” shows the outsider a …
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Failure avoidance techniques for HPC systems based on failure prediction
… computing systems is wasted due to failures and recoveries. Moreover, it is expected that high performance computing will reach exascale within a decade, decreasing the mean time between failures to one day or even a few hours, making fault tolerance a major challenge for the HPC …
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Failure-directed reformulation
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and, Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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State Failure in Venezuela
<p>The role of the state is to provide political goods such as security and an environment conducive to economic growth. The Venezuelan state is failing to provide both security and conditions capable of producing economic growth. The government has exacerbated both by enacting failed policies. I …
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Slope Failure Remediation Design
… design project analyzes and remediates a slope failure that occurred in Bismarck, North Dakota. The failure emerged along River Road on the Eastern bank of the Missouri River less than a half mile north of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad Bridge. The failure took place the week of June …
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A history of failure
A history of failure implies several things. It can point to a chronology of the concept of failure, like so many contemporary history books that chart a minute aspect of culture. It could refer to a personal record, like a criminal having a history of violence. The implication is also there that …
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Failure in the Writer's Journey: How New College Composition Instructors Experience Failure as Writers
The value of failure is often reduced to a mere learning opportunity, especially in writing, but as composition scholar Allison Carr has argued, this narrative masks the complex emotional landscape that renders failure a profoundly affective and transformative experience for writers. This …
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BUSINESS FAILURE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THREE ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE COST OF FAILURE
<p>When entrepreneurs encounter business failure, they have to bear the financial, emotional, and social cost of failure. Prior research on the effects of these costs has focused mainly on entrepreneurial exit context or on the quantity of new firms. Moreover, these studies suggest to policy makers …
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The Phenomenon of Failure Sharing
… in organizations are often confronted with failure. Failure can be costly for organizations and may stigmatize individual careers and organizations reputations. Failure can, however, be a valuable opportunity that allows individuals and organizations to learn from it to improve performance. …
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Failure Diagnosis for Datacenter Applications
Fast and accurate failure diagnosis remains a major challenge for datacenter operators. Current datacenter applications are increasingly architected around loosely-coupled modular components: each component can scale and evolve independently. However, when application failures occur, they become …
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Gender Aspects on Heart Failure
… differences between men and women with heart failure (HF). These differences may be so profound that they warrant differences in management and treatment. Furthermore women have been greatly underrepresented in clinical HF treatment trials. The major aim of the studies in the present thesis …
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Gut failure: Diagnosis and management
… Inadequate gut function (IGF) or intestinal failure (IF) is common, particularly in surgical patients and the critically ill. It is difficult to measure objectively, and as a consequence its effects on outcome are contentious and treatment options are limited. Because of the gut's numerous …
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British Eugenics Failure and Success
… lack of contribution to eugenic thought and its failure to pass eugenic legislation. Founded by Francis Galton, the originator of the philosophy of eugenics, the British Eugenic Educational Society should have been successful given it’s reputation and the numerous scientific, political and …
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A Failure Theory for Concrete
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:37:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6402956.pdf: 5810189 bytes, checksum: 33f8bb005305006da6a01e77e3ceb59f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1963
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Failure diagnosis in distributed systems
Failures in computing systems are unavoidable. Therefore, it is important to detect and diagnose failures early to improve the reliability of systems. In this dissertation, new approaches on root-cause diagnosis for two notorious types of failures in distributed systems are introduced. This …
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Failure detection by human observers.
Thesis. 1977. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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