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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Operational strategies"”.
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Econometric Analysis of Pricing and Operational Strategies
… inventories. Our results also show that platform strategies can reduce production costs and that a broader product line can provide a hedge against changes in demand conditions.
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The impact of operational strategies and new technologies on railroad capacity
… Consequently, railroads need to understand how operational practices and new technologies may affect rail line and network capacity. A comprehensive literature review of previous work on railroad capacity was conducted and the various metrics used to measure it described. An assessment of the …
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Characteristics and operational strategies of African immigrant owned SMME'S in Thulamela Local Municipality
… the entrepreneurial characteristics and operational strategies within the African immigrant-owned enterprises context. A mixed method approach was adopted as it facilitates extensive reporting and comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon under study. A pragmatism paradigm was adopted …
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Assessment of a global contrail modeling method and operational strategies for contrail mitigation
… This thesis provides a model to assess operational options for reducing contrail coverage. This model couples realistic flight performance and best-available global meteorological data assimilations. Comparisons were made between satellite-identified contrails and contrail persistence …
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Assessing selected technologies and operational strategies for improving the environmental performance of future aircraft
… This work assesses selected technologies and operational procedures aimed at improving the environmental performance of future airplanes. Two different studies are presented: estimating turbine durability benefits from jet engine water injection and evaluating improvements in fuel burn and …
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Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of business operational strategies that enhance competitive advantage for facility management companies : a case study of ten (10) facility management companies in Gauteng, South Africa
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2019.
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DYNAMIC DECISION MAKING IN AN AUTOMATED CONTAINER YARD BLOCK VIA OPTIMIZATION-EMBEDDED DISCRETE-EVENT-SIMULATION
… crane operations. This model is used to compare operational strategies addressing the storage allocation and job scheduling problems. In particular, an optimization model is embedded in the simulation model to perform dynamic scheduling. A rolling horizon heuristic is used reduce computing time. …
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A simulation study of tooling effects in automated manufacturing.
… more thoroughly into other planning and operational issues of these systems. In this research effort a discrete events simulation model has been developed to analyze the system performance under different operational strategies. These strategies include three tool configurations; …
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Using mathematical models to track phosphorus in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant
… and water shortage, resulted in the need for strategies towards cost effective recovery of nutrients from waste types fed to wastewater treatment systems, to forms that are usable and possibly marketable, while ensuring maintenance of good effluent quality from the plant. To address these …
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Multi-parametric Programming for Microgrid Operational Scheduling
… management in microgrids. The algorithm creates operational strategies for efficient and tractable coordination of distributed energy sources in a residential level microgrid. The hybrid energy system comprises of renewable (solar photovoltaic and wind turbine), conventional systems (microturbine …
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HAS THE SUN SET ON THE GOLDEN HOUR?
… shaped the U.S. military's medical and operational strategies since 2009 and perhaps longer. The objective of this study was to explore the effectiveness of the golden hour as a strategic guideline for saving lives in combat operations and to compare it to the use of Tactical Combat …
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Down and Out on the Kaw: An Examination of Emergency Shelters in Lawrence, Kansas.
… shelters and how they affected the shelter's operational strategies. "Theories on Homelessness" outlines the two discourses I identify as primary. Chapter Three traces those discourses through American history. The final chapters present my data and findings, offer some conclusions, and …
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RELIABILITY-BASED MODELING FOR MISSOURI RIVER DAM SYSTEM
… causes (such as system nature of incidents) to operational risk. These failures occur because of unforeseen combinations of usual conditions. Since the operational components have complex internal and external interactions, we take them into an integrated system. Moreover, the Monte-Carlo …
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Managing Vietnamese newsrooms: the role of internal communication
… ethnographic research seeks to understand the strategies Vietnamese news media employ to cope with the subsidy cuts and increasing competition while still under close political control. A particular focus is on the newsroom operational strategies to improve efficiency. It is found that …
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Improving customer service level through centralized supply flexibility
… systematic methodology of data mining to guide operational strategies that will provide incentives to encourage customers to order more accurately with Intel. Through this exercise, the supplies can be virtually centralized at Intel instead of being committed out to each customer in a …
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A Computer Model to Estimate Benefits of Data Link Mandates and Reduced Separations across North Atlantic Organized Track System
… Organization (ICAO) proposed to introduce new operational strategies across the North Atlantic (NAT) airspace. This includes Minimum Navigation Performance Specifications (MNPS) airspace to increase the capacity and efficiency of the North Atlantic Organized Track System (NAT OTS). A numerical …
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Simulation and optimization tools to study design principles of biological networks
… and to evaluate relative fitness of networks operational strategies. In particular, we studied the ability of an enzymatic cycle to produce dynamic properties such as responsiveness and transient noise filtering. We discovered that non-linearity of the enzymatic cycle allows more effective …
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Development and estimation of traffic data-based operational measures for effective winter snow management
… requires an efficient assessment of the operational strategies with the data that can be directly measureable from the field. While there have been various types of operational measures used in the state DOTs in the US, the traffic data-based operational measures that can quantify the …
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