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Showing 1 to 20 of 274 for “"Management Practice"”.
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Learning systemic management practice
… proposed as an answer to the question of how management practitioners can best equip themselves to tackle the complexity of management practice. As a body of work intended to transcend disciplinary silos, systems thinking pursues the ideal of generating comprehensive descriptions of real …
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Improved Management Practice for Freight Savings
… uses three different databases for contract management (Lotus Notes), sales quotes (Salesforce), and shipments/billing (SAP). Customer master data is not completely synchronized among the three platforms. Correcting misalignments among these databases would help Waters collect more freight …
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Denitrification in a best management practice bioretention system
This study investigates the occurrence of denitrifying soil bacteria in a bioretention system located in Singapore and containing a saturated anoxic zone intended to facilitate denitrification. Soil samples were collected from six depths within the rain garden, four of which were within the …
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Application of porous pavements in stormwater management practice
… contribute to environmentally-sound stormwater management practice. The hydrological impacts of conventional urban land development are examined. New legislative directions in stormwater management are examined and a brief sun1Inary of currently used sound stormwater management practices is …
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Weed management practice selection among Midwest U.S. organic growers
… harvestability while simultaneously increasing management expenses. Restriction of synthetic herbicide use in organic agricultural systems increases the complexity of weed management, leading organic farmers to cite weed management as the greatest barrier to organic production. Integrated Weed …
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Malleability of Cognitive Style and its Implications for Management Practice
The study examined the extent to which cognitive style is fixed or malleable. It involved a comparison of cognitive styles between the Chinese and British nationals to determine the effect of culture on cognitive style. The study also sought to explore the effect of acculturation on the way …
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Executive wisdom: a study of phronesis in modern management practice
The prominence of executive management failures brings to the fore concerns with a perceived lack of management scholarship impact. Executive managers should be better prepared for a complex world of work and there is a growing scholarly awareness that this requires more focus on practical …
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Performance Analysis of an Urban Stormwater Best Management Practice Retrofit
… primary objective of traditional stormwater best management practices (BMPs) was to attenuate peak runoff discharges from urban areas. There has been growing demand to construct BMPs that improve stormwater runoff quality to reduce pollutant loading into downstream water bodies. A BMP located in …
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Water management practice for maize production in Chinchimane, Zambezi region, Namibia
… needs of the irrigated crops for better water management. However, there is little scientific literature on crop water and irrigation requirements in Namibia. Therefore, this study intended to contribute to the body of knowledge on water needs for crops in general and maize in particular, since …
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Evaluating the Two-Stage Ditch as a New Best Management Practice
… ditch in a hydrologic model as a conservation practice, comparing the model outputs with observed water quality from the two-stage ditch that was part of this study, and 4) simulate the dominant mechanisms controlling nutrient retention in the two-stage ditch at the watershed scale using the …
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Sustainable firm performance of green supply chain management practice at petrochemical industry
… it is a need to have Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) model toward petrochemical industry sustainability in line with the Green Industry Long Run Strategic Plan in Indonesia. This study aimed at exploring the relationship between internal and external GSCM practices on sustainable …
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Investigating project management practice in Nigerian government construction organisations: a systems thinking approach.
The differences between management in government organisations and private ones are well recognised in the literature, and these variances reflect in how project management is practiced in both organisations. Consequently, the difficulties of developing Project Management in government …
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Analysis of an Urban Stormwater Bioretention Management Practice in Prince William County, Virginia
… performance of an urban stormwater bioretention management practice in the Kingsbrooke Subdivision of Prince William County, Virginia was examined over a one-year period. Bioretention is a relatively new urban stormwater best management practice (BMP) intended to mimic the pollutant-removal …
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Best Management Practice Use and Efficacy for the Virginia Nursery and Greenhouse Industry
Best management practices (BMPs) are used in the nursery and greenhouse industry to increase production efficiency, and also serve to help meet clean water limitations on contaminants entering waters such as the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Research is lacking on which BMPs are most widely used or …
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Application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process Optimization Algorithm in Best Management Practice Selection
The efficiency of a best management practice (BMP) is defined simply as a measure of how well the practice or series of practices removes targeted pollutants. While this concept is relatively simple, mathematical attempts to quantify BMP efficiency are numerous and complex. Intuitively, the …
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Children found to be in need of care : a study of current management practice
… to one of four types of placement, or management resource. (Children's Act, 1960 Sections 1(X) and, 31(1)).The study here reported is an investigation designed to determine which features of the children, their families and previous management are differentially associated with the …
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The impact of institutional stock ownership on a firm's earnings management practice: an empirical investigation
… inhibit firm managers from engaging in earnings management practice. It investigates the empirical association between discretion/flexibility available to managers in managing abnormal non-cash working capital accruals and institutional stock ownership for a sample of 386 New York Stock Exchange …
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND EXTERNAL AUDIT ON CONSTRAINING EARNINGS MANAGEMENT PRACTICE IN THE UK
… and external audit on constraining earnings management practice in the UK. In this thesis, earnings management is measured using the magnitude of discretionary accruals as estimated by the performance matched discretionary accruals (Kothari et al., 2005) model. A review of the corporate …
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Effect of cutting as a fen management practice on the invertebrate biodiversity of the Norfolk Broads
… to identify any specific level responses to management. All the groups studied were shown to be habitat specific and sensitive to management at the species level, for some, but not all species. Overall biodiversity and similarity, in terms of presence and absence of species within each group, …
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Modeling and analysis of non-point source runoff and best management practice devices in Acton, MA
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.
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