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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Monitoring performance"”.
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A Framework for Monitoring Performance-Based Road Maintenance
… agencies around the world considered performance-based specifications as an alternative to improve the efficiency of the services provided to the public. These initiatives are better known as Performance-Based Road Maintenance (PBRM). PBRM calls for performance-based work, in which a …
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The Effects of Operator Trust, Complacency Potential, and Task Complexity on Monitoring a Highly Reliable Automated System
… number of potential concerns including degraded monitoring skills. The present investigation consisted of two studies that assessed the impact of system reliability, complacency potential, monitoring complexity, operator trust, and system experience on monitoring performance. In both studies, …
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Nonlinear dynamic process monitoring using kernel methods
The application of kernel methods in process monitoring is well established. How- ever, there is need to extend existing techniques using novel implementation strate- gies in order to improve process monitoring performance. For example, process monitoring using kernel principal component analysis …
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Monitoring Computer Systems: An Intelligent Approach
<p>Monitoring modern computer systems is increasingly difficult due to their peculiar characteristics. To cope with this situation, the dissertation develops an approach to intelligent monitoring. The resulting model consists of three major designs: representing targets, controlling data …
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Novel anomaly detection algorithms for major and critical items of plant
… thorough maintenance and comprehensive condition monitoring. The condition monitoring techniques available to a utility are related to the quality and quantity of data present. In order to capture the dynamics of complex systems, high frequency data is preferred. Lack of a sufficiently high …
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Fixed-wing Classification through Visually Perceived Motion Extraction with Time Frequency Analysis
… has increased need for airspace awareness. Monitoring solutions such as drone detection, tracking, and classification become increasingly important to maintain compliance for regulatory and security purposes, as well as for recognizing aircraft that may not be so. Vision systems offer …
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Episodic Memory Precision and Reality Monitoring
… to keep track of reality known as ‘reality monitoring’ may depend on the qualitative characteristics of underlying mnemonic representations, such as the precision with which we remember details of past experiences (Johnson et al., 1993). To test this notion, experiments reported in the …
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Compliance with securities and contractors’all risk insurance regulations among key Zambian construction industry stakeholders in Lusaka.
… About half of the participants had systems for monitoring performance of securities; the majority of the systems were said to be effective.
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The Relative Efficacy of Comparatively Weak and Strong Reinforcement Contingencies During Self-Evaluation
… under which training occurred was measured by monitoring performance when all of the obtrusive contingencies were withdrawn. Findings. In three successive maintenance conditions dramatic reductions in the percentages of items cleaned according to the defined criteria occurred across seven of …
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Identification of shift variation in bivariate process using pattern recognition technique
… accuracy percentage (RA) were used as the performance measures. In monitoring performance, the MEWMA-MLP provided a longer run of ARL0 (386.8 ~ 606.9) and ARL1 (2.76 ~ 9.63) compared to the SF-MLP (ARL0 = 160.8 ~529.3, ARL1 = 2.25 ~ 8.91). This result suggests that the MEWMA-MLP is better …
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Airborne monitoring system for in-season agriculture : operational considerations and image processing for wide-area sensing
… and geospatial workflow to develop the Airborne Monitoring System for In-Season Agriculture (AMSISA) and make remotely sensed crop health data accessible and useful for small-plot farmers. A simulation of platform performance characteristics shows that manned aircraft are the better aerial remote …
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The impact of two spatial strategies on entorhinal and hippocampal involvement in visual path integration
… strategy elicited more accurate path integration performance than the other, and that gender/sex moderated strategy use. Specifically, male configural updaters outperformed female configural updaters on almost all types of path integration errors, and female continuous updaters outperformed female …
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Performance determinants of foreign currency bonds issued by JSE-listed companies? An indexation approach
… data and a representative index to assess performance. This thesis constructs hard-currency non-Rand denominated corporate bond indices using both traditional and fundamental indexation strategies to critically investigate the performance of the investable opportunity set. The constructed …
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Performance measurement and management within construction firms in Saint Lucia
… construction firms to implement contemporary performance measurement and management (CPMM) systems and frameworks to generate comprehensive information on their performance, and for benchmarking. The information from the CPMM framework is essential for the effective management of construction …
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Investigating the effectiveness and efficiency of forensic pathology practice in Western Cape, South Africa
… output of forensic laboratories, so as to assess performance to meet such challenges. Aim: This pilot project aimed to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of forensic pathology practice at Salt River Mortuary (SRM) by applying lean six sigma principles (define, measure, analyse and …
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Towards a multidimensional approach to measure quality and safety of care in maternity units in Oman
… five dimensional Patient Safety Measurement and Monitoring Framework (PSMMF) which include measuring "past harm" and "anticipation and preparedness”. The three monitoring approaches used in this research are: (1) measuring the patient safety culture (2) measuring patient satisfaction (3) and …
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An evaluation of the effectiveness of performance management system in the South African Navy
Performance management is a human-resources practice that institutions, both public and private, have equally undertaken. Organisations implement performance management systems as a mechanism for managing and developing employees' capacity, aligning employees' behaviour with organisational core …
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Application of data mining techniques to predict the performance of matured Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands Systems treating urban wastewater
… treatment. In this study, over three years of monitoring performance data from 03rd December 2014 to 28th March 2018 (thirty-nine months) of the vertical flow vertical wetlands system, receiving and treating domestic wastewater, were collected and utilised to assess and investigate the …
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