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Showing 1 to 20 of 5561 for “"Manage"”.
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Manage illegal dumping of solid waste
… It has become a global concern to properly manage illegal dumping. Illegal dumping is a kind of behaviour. Therefore, unlike other waste management issues, managing illegal dumping requires both the timely detection of existing illegal dumping to minimize its impacts and avoid its recurrence …
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Methodology to manage process technology innovation
The research conducted for this thesis was performed at "Company X", a U.S.-based engineered goods manufacturer. This project focused on the company's Advanced Manufacturing group and its process technology development methodology. The newly founded Advanced Manufacturing group started multiple …
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Hedging strategies to manage commodity price risk
… The purpose of this thesis is to use risk management strategies and derivatives to hedge risks faced by an Icelandic manufacturer that uses gold as an input. Fluctuating gold prices and foreign exchange rates are causing changes in cash flows and affecting the company’s profitability. To …
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Spartan Morale: social practices to manage combat stress
This paper examines social practices to manage combat stress in Spartan hoplites in the 5th century. By utilising a modern multi-layered psychological profile designed by Jason Crowley, it considers the role of specific elements of Spartan society (its social structure, education system and its …
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Peer Influence: A Method to Help Manage Stress
… project was to find a difference between middle managers’ and blue-collar workers’ episodic non-work related and work related stress events. The information that was found was to be developed into a “peer influence” program to help prevent the workers from experiencing chronic stress …
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Supporting Children to Recognise and Manage their Anxiety
… to use vital life skills to recognise and manage anxiety with the involvement of their parents and class teachers. I was concerned with children not having the skills to recognise and manage ‘normal’ anxiety which if left untreated could lead to mental health problems. I was driven by my …
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Exploring psychological strategies to manage fatigue in endurance sport
The purpose of the study is to examine psychological interventions and their contextual validity in endurance-based sporting events. Over the course of three studies the work examines interventions for coping with fatigue in both laboratory and real-world settings. Participants range in ability and …
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Public sector managers' readiness to manage change during mergers
… purpose of the study was to investigate whether managers had been prepared and ready for implementing a merger (change) within the North West Provincial Government as part of a planned change process. One of the most important traits in any organisation that ensures successful change is the state …
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Targeting protein kinases to manage or prevent Alzheimer’s disease
<p>Due to the pressing need for new disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), new treatment strategies and alternative drug targets are currently being heavily researched. One such strategy is to modulate protein kinases such as cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1), cyclin-dependent kinase …
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Cultivating Creativity in Aerospace Systems Engineering to Manage Complexity
… methods for facilitating creativity to manage complexity. These two new methods designed to improve the Waterfall methodology are as follows: the formation of a Parallel Systems Engineering group that functions analogously to how linear and nonlinear information are coordinated in …
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Implementing a new organization to manage manufacturing technology innovation
The purpose of this research is to provide an academic, external perspective to facilitate the implementation and development of a new internal organization for Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) with a focus on strategy and the organization. The new organization, named the Advanced Manufacturing …
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“AgiLean PM” – A UNIFIYING STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO MANAGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
… expectations. Such scenarios require management methods that are characterised by being flexible and able to react to change. The aim of this thesis is to introduce a method that has such characteristics. Project Management, Lean and Agile paradigms are merged through the application …
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Smart Solutions to Manage Peak Electricity Demand in Saudi Arabia
… renewable energy technologies and smart grid management options. It proposes promising and practical solutions for mitigating the electricity peak demand of the residential sector that will conform to national strategies and policies. Firstly, the deployment of PV panels, whose slope and …
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CONGRESS Y: How Party Leaders Manage The House Of Representatives
How do party leaders manage Congress? Congress (specifically, the U.S. Houseof Representatives) provides a limiting case of differing theories of public management,since Congress is populated by highly motivated members (employees) who do not needconstant urging from their party leaders (bosses) to …
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An ontology-based approach to define and manage B2B interoperability
… problem is that related with the supply chain management. In order to really allow the SMEs to improve their business and to fully exploit ICT technologies in their business transactions, there are three main players that must be considered and joined: the new emerging ICT technologies, the …
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Applying a MEIO approach to manage Intel's VMI Hub Supply
… service levels, Intel implemented Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) hub process for its Central Processing Unit (CPU) Finished Good (FG) inventory, which allows Intel's customers to pull inventory directly from the hubs. However, this process change resulted in increased inventory in Intel's …
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