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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"Greenfield"”.
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Designing a supply chain for a foreign Greenfield facility
… of inventory management guidelines for the Greenfield facility's supply chain. Additionally, the document details the practical challenges associated with implementation including customs clearance, business plan development, supplier involvement and packaging strategy.
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From Greenfield to Warfield: A survey of African-American concert singers
My father, Henry L. Nettles, is the possessor of a deep, rich bass voice. If given the chance he would have dedicated his life to the world of song. To a certain extent he has. However, he never achieved the acclaim and just rewards a person with his talent truly deserves. To whom do you turn to …
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Heavy Metal Concentrations in Stream Sediments Adjacent to the Greenfield Sanitary Landfill, Dade County, Missouri
… Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) the Greenfield Sanitary Landfill located in Dade County, Missouri was opened in early 1968 and closed in April of 1973. Many substances placed in sanitary landfills contain heavy metals believed to be toxic or cause environmental degradation. The …
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Implementing various lean methodologies and creating a business development plan at an ABB Greenfield site
As part of its strategic initiatives, ABB inaugurated a 100,000 sq-m campus for an Engineering, Sourcing, and Manufacturing Operations center in San Luis Potosi (SLP), Mexico in May 2008. The ramp-up of the SLP site encompassed two focus areas that are the topics for this thesis. The first area of …
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A comparative in vitro analysis of the Mobin-Uddin, Kimray Greenfield and Nitinol blood clot filters
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1982.
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Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide dating applied in glacial stratigraphy and transportation studies on a greenfield exploration project in Kaarestunturi, Finnish Lapland
This study reviews the glacial history and the glacial transportation history in Kaarestunturi, Sodankylä in the Finnish Central Lapland interlobate region. The study is conducted on the Aamurusko prospect, where gold bearing quartz vein boulders have been discovered. The local glacial …
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A conceptual framework for supply: supply chain systems architecture and integration design based on practice and theory in the North Wales slate mining industry
… evaluation criteria, specific to the context of greenfield project architecture and integration design. This study addressed the aim and objective by synthesising existing methods and techniques which are outlined into a research framework of supply chain strategy problems. The study applied the …
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Organizational and Risk Characteristics of Emerging Public-Private Partnership Models
… projects categorized as a Greenfield model. A case-study based approach helps to identify the organizational structure, nature of the key participants and risk characteristics of these Greenfield-Brownfield P3 models. The four cases identified for study include, the …
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Proposed centralized traffic control on the Boston and Maine : a study of the feasibility of a centralized traffic control system on the Boston and Maine Railroad between Springfield and Greenfield, Massachusetts
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, 1959.
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Integrated quantitative interpretation of multiple geophysical data for geology differentiation
… brownfield exploration areas reach maturity and greenfield exploration faces increasingly deeper targets and targets hidden under cover, geophysics is becoming the primary exploration tool. When little a priori geological information is available, such as in greenfield exploration, multiple …
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Effect of existing building on tunneling-induced ground movements
… has an important influence on the prediction of greenfield ground settlement. The HSS model with the selected set of stiffness parameters provides a reasonable fit with the PJ model and matches closely the greenfield settlement trough expected from empirical models. Numerical analyses are carried …
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Experiments in tunnel-soil-structure interaction
… length reduces the alteration of the theoretical greenfield settlements, in particular the trough width. Moreover, the impact of varying the building layout is discussed in detail. For several building-tunnel scenarios, building distortions are quantified and the crucial role of building features …
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Four studies on antitrust enforcement and foreign investment activities
… – affects cross-border non-horizontal M&As and Greenfield FDI. The finding in support of a substitute relationship between cross-border horizontal M&As and Greenfield FDI suggests that when facing the deterrence effect of merger-policy enforcement, MNEs are more likely to keep market-power …
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Managerial Limits to International Expansion by Acquisitions and Greenfields: An Empirical Examination of Japanese Direct Investments in the United States
… had lower growth than those that employed greenfield strategies in three cases: (1) when the industries entered were characterized by tacit knowledge, (2) when they were highly unionized, and (3) when the firms transferred firm-specific technology. On the other hand, they were likely to …
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The Celebrity Scientists
… writers, Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Susan Greenfield and James Lovelock, are portrayed in mass media as celebrities. It finds that the scientists’ private and public lives merge in their representations, their images commodified and marketed by the cultural industries, their mediated …
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The Strategic Rationale for Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
… wholly-owned subsidiaries and joint ventures, or greenfield investments and acquisitions. The order of entry (first-entrant vs. late-entrant, and the speed of a rival's competitive response to a first-mover) has been frequently mentioned in previous international business research, but not …
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Foundation response to ground movements induced by tunnel excavation
… on single piles, pile groups and piled rafts. Greenfield displacements are critical input parameters in a two-stage analysis of tunnel-structure interaction. An improved empirical method for the prediction of near-surface tunnelling-induced horizontal displacements in fine-grained soils was …
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The Effects of Corporate Culture on the Value of Performance Appaisals
… Aluminum Inc. and used this team management greenfield site as a basis for looking at results from other organizations. Results of the study found strong evidence to support the theory that the corporate culture of an organization has a direct effect upon the value of performance appraisals …
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The Multinational Enterprise
… two alternative modes are distinguished: Greenfield investment, i.e. investment in a new facility, or acquisition of an existing company. In chapter 2 the effect of competition on the entry mode choice is concerned. Chapter 3 also examines the optimal entry mode and places particular …
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International Investments Flows: The Role of Cultural Preferences and Migrants Networks
… cultural patterns in the analysis of bilateral Greenfield FDI. An example clarifies what I mean: consider South Korea and Latin America. The so called Korean Wave, consisting of soap operas and Korean pop music has become extremely popular in Latin America since the mid 2000s, despite of …
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