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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Inflection Point"”.
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Ascertaining The Growth Of A Company A System Dynamics Approach
… change in any business is known as an inflection point. Understanding the nature of its inflection point and responding to that point suitably will help to safeguard a company's growth. So today's managers, when faced with such changes, have to be equipped with the adequate tools to …
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Investigation of Inflection Points as Brace Points in Multi-Span Purlin Roof Systems
… was conducted to evaluate the behavior of inflection points as brace points in multi-span purlin roof systems. Seven tests were conducted using "C" and "Z" purlins attached to standing seam and through fastened panels. These tests were subjected to uniform gravity loading by means of a …
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Parsimonious item response theory modeling with different link functions
… with regard to (1) data distribution shape, (b) inflection point shift, (c) structural similarities, and (d) response behaviors. Importantly, these four properties provide a rationale for how certain parametrically simple alternate-link models can outperform more parametrically complex …
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Topics in shape-constrained inference
… in a non-convex optimisation problem, since the inflection point is unknown. We show that the estimator may nevertheless be regarded as a projection onto a finite union of convex cones, which allows us to propose a mixed primal-dual bases algorithm for its efficient, sequential computation. After …
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Experimental investigation of the effect of spin on traction in elastohydrodynamically lubricated contacts
… slip values ranging between 20 to 100. An inflection point was incurred in the 16 to 20 percent range. The coefficient of traction increased with the rolling velocity after the inflection point. The traction curves also went to a maximum and then decreased as the percent slip was increased.
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Institutional Reform in Support of Xi’s Anti-Corruption Campaign
… campaign represents not merely an institutional inflection point in China’s supervisory architecture substantially enhancing enforcement capacity and elite discipline, but also the enforcement–perception interactive change, reproducing an asymmetry between punishment and public perception under …
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Scaling of Convective Heat Transfer in Laminar and Turbulent Wall Jets With Effects of Freestream Flow and Forcing
… however, at further downstream locations an inflection point is observed in the Nusselt number decay with the streamwise direction which results in a larger Nusselt number value than the one observed in the unforced case. The inflection point is not seen in the presence of a free stream flow.
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The role of feedback and age-related differences in force production accuracy, variability, and shape across oral and manual effectors
… then dividing this value by the number of points. Force variability was assessed using the standard deviation (SD) and coefficient of variation (CV) of impulse, peak force, time to peak force, and peak rate of force production. Force pulse shape was assessed with mean skewness, mean …
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Experiments in tunnel-soil-structure interaction
… demonstrated. Structures spanning the greenfield inflection point experienced more deformation than identical structures positioned in either sagging or hogging, and partitioning a structure either side of the greenfield inflection point is shown to lead to unconservative damage assessments. …
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Topographic classification of digital image intensity surfaces
… hillside}, with hillside having subcategories {inflection point, slope, convex hill, concave hill, and saddle hill}. The topographic classification is based on the first and second directional derivatives of the estimated image intensity surface. Three different sets of basis functions, bicubic …
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Spectator fields and their imprints on the Cosmic Microwave Background
… revealing its consistency with the CMB for inflection point potentials, hyperbolic tangent potentials, and those with a sudden phase transition. In the end, we utilize the spectator scenario to explain the CMB power asymmetry, with a brief tachyonic fast-roll phase.
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Derivation of an Evolution Equation for Two-Dimensional Waves on Thin Films
… the undisturbed state is in the vicinity of an inflection point in the streamwise component of the flux function, the mixed nonlinearity, fourth order dissipation and the transverse modulations interact over time scales on the order of the scaled amplitude to the negative second power. The …
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An analysis of the decision to formally register a new venture in Sub-Saharan Africa
… factors is important because registration is the inflection point where entrepreneurs move from the informal to the formal economy. Registered businesses are more likely to pay taxes, hire employees, access capital for growth, and participate in other activities that contribute to economic …
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BOUNDARY LAYER ON FLAT PLATE WITH LEADING EDGE PATTERNS
… VORTICES ON THE NOTCHED PLATE. AN INFLECTION POINT WAS DETECTED ON THE VELOCITY PROFILE AT UPWASH REGION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE VORTEX FORMATION DUE TO THE NON-LINEAR GR
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Development of a rapid test to determine moisture sensitivity of HMA (Superpave) mixtures
… APA results do not indicate any stripping inflection points. The HWTD results show stripping inflection points. The APA results show wet tests are severe at lower temperatures whereas dry tests show high rut depth at higher temperatures. The HWTD results show improvement in the performance …
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Compressible flows of dense gases in boundary layers
… is subsequently examined using the generalized inflection-point criterion extracted from these equations. Results reveal significant variations from standard ideal-gas predictions including the existence of flows for which neither heating nor cooling of the wall has a stabilizing effect.
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Financing for growth in additive manufacturing
… over the past decade and may be approaching an inflection point in their enterprise adoption. However, several important technological, economic (cost) and business (adoption risk) barriers stand in the way of broader adoption. This research seeks to explore the rich history that has driven the …
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Designing a Make vs. Buy Strategy for Expendable and Attritable Aircraft Engine Development
… production. In this thesis, we propose that this inflection point in aerospace and defense towards agility and affordability will be characterized by time-based competition and its "winners" will be the firms that are most successful in creating agile, innovative development programs and flexible, …
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The Environment and Real Estate: How Boston Developers Are Responding to an Evolving Landscape
… In fact, the real estate industry may be at an inflection point towards a more sustainable and resilient future. Yet, with change comes confusion as stakeholders across the real estate spectrum work to respond to this emerging reality. This paper provides a broad overview of the evolving …
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Welcome to Cambodia Town
Cambodian American communities are at an inflection point as the generation that arrived in the U.S as refugees start to retire, and the younger generation often have other aspirations than to carry on their parents’ businesses. Cambodia Town—as the largest conglomeration of Cambodians in the …
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