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A Heuristic Model for Predicting Bridge Construction Requirements
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Adoption of Electronic Health Records by Admitting Physicians: A Heuristic Model
… <p><em>Results:</em> The Logistic Regression model predicted significant proportions of variation in adoption of CPOE (66%), EH&P (34%) and EDS (40%). CPOE adoption was more likely (p < .05) for physicians who were male, had a high inpatient ratio, lower patient volume and community hospital …
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Modeling Human Planning in Maze Orienteering Problems
… we need to develop algorithms that build models of human planning given their past decisions. In this thesis project, I focused on modeling human planning in Maze Orienteering Problems (MOP), an optimization problem with the objective to maximize collected rewards within a time limit in a …
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Estimating and Optimizing Throughput in an Aluminum Rolling Mill Using Capacity Modeling and Optimization Techniques
… continuous line (CCL). The analysis includes a heuristic model to determine the throughput and identify key performance indicators (KPIs) that impact throughput improvement the greatest. This model will recommend a roadmap to achieve a sustainable operations plan and sales forecast that will …
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The Effect of Emotionally Arousing Negative Images on Judgments About News Stories
… Consistent with predictions of the affect heuristic model of judgment formation, the addition of emotionally arousing pictures had an effect on people's support for the war in Afghanistan and their support for famine aid. Additionally, effects were observed in broader attitudes concerning …
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Particle motion in the near bed region of a turbulent open channel flow: Implications for bedload transport by saltation and sediment entrainment into suspension
… with this aim. A Lagrangian approach is used to model both saltation and particle entrainment into suspension. In the former case, the interaction between saltating particles and the bed is modelled stochastically, and the effect of turbulence on saltation is investigated separately by means of a …
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Offense-defense balance in cyberspace: a proposed model
… been a study conducted. In this thesis, I use a heuristic model to show what the current theoretical balance point is, and what it was for two different case studies, Estonia in 2007 and Stuxnet. Based on the data, the cost of one dollar by the attacker spent on offense, the defender spends …
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Alliances and Preferences: Party System Institutionalization's Potentially Intervening Role on Pre-Election Cooperation in Australia, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea
… necessitated by multi-member district list PR models. Despite similar incentives, the cases differ in the type and number of pre-electoral alliances. Using party system institutionalization as an intervening variable, the thesis constructs a heuristic model to assess whether cooperation is …
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Automating Data-Driven Decisions to Improve Key Financial and Operational Metrics in Semiconductor Manufacturing
… inform those decisions. Next, we create a heuristic model that we hypothesize will improve the fab’s performance. Although not completely optimal, the heuristic prioritization model was found to have significant process, performance, and visual management improvements. With the heuristic, …
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Confidence and Accuracy in Concurrent and Predictive Judgments of Performance
… low. The results are interpreted in light of a heuristic model of subjective uncertainty in judgment, and implications for performance prediction and decision making in organizations are discussed.
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A management science approach for developing a decision model for portfolio rationalization of consumer personal computers
… imposed substantial complexity costs on Dell. Modeling this selection process as a Newsvendor "life-time buy" includes this variability while optimizing for profit. Estimated costs of overage, costs of underage, and complexity costs are used as inputs. This thesis seeks to develop a framework …
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Exploring Experiences of Unofficial Actors in the Farm to School Policy-Making Process
… In this qualitative, case-study, the Stages Heuristic Model was used as a theoretical framework to explore unofficial actors' experiences as they participate in the agenda-setting and policy formulation stages of policy cycle in the Northern Virginia Region. The findings uncovered experiences …
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Mapping and analysis of the Rio Chama landslide and evaluation of regional landslide susceptibility, Archuleta County, Colorado
… findings to create a regional susceptibility model for similar failures. Based on the classification scheme proposed by Cruden and Varnes (1996), the Rio Chama landslide is an active multiple rotational debris slide and flow complex with observed activity since 1952, located near the …
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Reducing the demand forecast error due to the bullwhip effect in the computer processor industry
… until the last minute. Intel's current demand models provide little guidance for judging customer orders when the market changes. As a result, during the economic downturn of Q3 and Q4 '08, Intel's model could not predict how much billings would decrease. The demand forecast had large amounts …
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Asset management optimization for generation, transmission and energy storage in electric power systems
… paper introduces three distinct optimization models that aim to enhance asset management and energy storage systems. The first model takes into consideration asset aging, end-of-life, and decommissioning while focusing on generation and transmission expansion planning. The second model …
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An Investigation of Micro-Hydro Power Generator Characteristics
… coincides with 50% Voc and 50% of Isc. A novel heuristic model for hydroelectric power generator is then derived and validated through MATLAB-Simulink simulation. In pursuit of MHPG maximum utilisation efficiency, a new Seesaw maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller is presented. The …
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A Historical Constitutional Approach to The King Can Do No Wrong: Revisiting Crown Liability
… chapter 1. Considering these understandings, a heuristic model of crown liability is developed to facilitate the analysis of the evolution of the king can do no wrong in legal thinking. The model is based on the premise that two dimensions – substantive and procedural – underpin crown liability …
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Speaking The Subject: A Discourse Analysis Of Undergraduate Seminar Practice
… processes at work in the seminar events.An heuristic model of the seminar as a socio-pedagogic space, a site of hegemonic struggle, was used to aid concept development. <br></br><br></br> A number of issues emerged within an interpretative framework of the cognitive, interpersonal and …
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Predicting Future Locations and Arrival Times of Individuals
… the future. Sequence predictors based on Markov models have been shown to be effective predictors of someone's next location. This dissertation applies a Markov model to two-dimensional, timestamped location information to predict future locations. This dissertation also predicts when someone …
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