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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Performance Framework"”.
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Sales and Operations Planning: A Performance Framework
… developing empirical pathways predictive of S&OP performance. The purpose of this study is to test a model of S&OP performance grounded in group effectiveness theory. Using a survey-based approach, perspectives were captured from S&OP team members across a wide cross-section of industries …
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A high-performance framework for analyzing massive complex networks
… of entities. We present SNAP, a new high-performance computational framework for efficiently processing graph-theoretic queries on massive datasets. Graph analysis is computationally very different from traditional scientific computing, and solving massive graph-theoretic problems on …
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A Safety-Performance Framework for Computational Awareness in Autonomous Robots
… the analysis and optimization of safety and performance-critical computational tasks for autonomous robots, operating in unknown and unstructured environments with complex objectives under strict computational and power constraints. Our primary contribution is a novel safety-performance (SP) …
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Bank Market Concentration, Advertising Intensity, Price-Cost Margins, and Costs of Production: An Empirical Approach
… bank market concentration and interest rate performance measures has been established, but the systematic influence of market structure on costs of production, advertising intensity, and profit margins has received little attention. The purpose of this study is to extend the …
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Toward a large-scale environmental performance
… be limited by the confines of a conventional performance space if it is to continue being fresh, lively and spontaneous. Today the developments in electronic imagery systems have broadened the language in the theatrical arena. As a result, performance can even reach beyond earthly …
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School Facet Through Surrounding Factors: A Geospatial Analysis of Community Social Capital Impacting Elementary Schools
<p>School performance rating is an important factor which not only provides a quick snapshot of how the students are performing on various measurement indicators but also decides a school’s future course of actions, strategies, resources, and its existence. Despite its significant importance, the …
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A General Framework for the Control of Nonlinear Systems
… processes is the lack of a nonconservative framework for analyzing the closed loop stability and performance of generic nonlinear dynamical systems. Such a framework can be developed for systems consisting of interconnections of linear systems and bounded nonlinear operators. The use of the …
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Evaluation of facilities performance on students’ satisfaction in Northern Nigerian Universities
Performance evaluation of academic facilities of HEIs is very critical to educational effectiveness. Presently, there is limited or no research/data in Nigeria to assess how extensively the use of or lack of academic facilities benchmarking practices. The aim of this research was to develop a …
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Evaluation of the Design, Development, and Implementation of the School Performance Network Portal and Communication Institute
The School Performance Network (SPN) Portal was envisioned during the formation stage of SPN as the primary mechanism for K-12 educators and SPN partners, to communicate and to collaborate. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the design, development, and implementation of the SPN Portal and …
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Assessing the Performance of Public-Private Partnership Highway Projects: From Anecdotes to Comprehensive Evidence
… various aspects of P3s when considering their performance. In general, the current research landscape related to P3 performance includes two major areas: (1) the identification and implementation of critical success factors (CSFs) and key performance indicators (KPIs), and (2) the development …
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An exploration of the care needs of frail older persons in Namibia: perspectives and experiences of formal and informal caregivers
… the needs of this group are prioritised, that a performance framework should be implemented to ensure delivery and that all stakeholders should be mobilised. The study has contributed to these outcomes by suggesting a model for needs assessment of frail older persons, especially during the …
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Automated real-time machine learning for IOT for manufacturing a cloud architecture and API
… to be analyzed. Current IoT architectures and frameworks propose Cloud Computing (CC) and Centralized Training (CT) as the addressing solutions for BD and collaborative Machine Learning (ML) models. These solutions, however, have limitations such as Internet dependency and requiring expensive …
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Corporate governance in the Australian Football League: a critical evaluation
… governance attributes and processes have on club performance. The objectives of this study were to firstly, identify governance practices in AFL clubs, secondly, determine club performance, thirdly, examine potential links between governance and performance, and finally, to identify common …
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Recycling initiatives in UK shopping centres, factors critical to success
… shopping centres must contend with operational performance, variable levels of landlord or corporate financial support, escalating costs of recycling programs and disposal charges for landfill. Recurrent critics challenge the economic prudence and environmental benefit of recycling, which has …
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A study of intellectual capital in the hospitality industry in the Caribbean
… the impact of IC and its components on firm?s performance. However, theoretical questions remain concerning the synergistic, dynamic and contextual nature of the IC construct. A better understanding of these aspects of the IC construct is needed to better argue that IC is a firm's capability …
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Modelling public transport mode choice for low-income residential suburbs in Harare, Zimbabwe
… developed under the random utility maximisation framework and compared to identify the best model. The model is used to evaluate the willingness to pay indicators for public transport service improvements and outline the contributions of the findings to possible policy directives. The results …
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The role of the health system in women's utilisation of maternal health services in Sudan
… and qualitative data sets, guided by a new framework, the Maternal Health System Performance framework (MHSP) developed as part of this work in order to assess both the three objectives and four functions of the health system on both macro and micro levels. Findings: The study findings …
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Making Coding Practical: From Servers to Smartphones
… represents the first attempt towards a high-performance design and implementation of network coding. The objective of this work is to explore the computational limits of network coding in off-the-shelf modern processors, and to provide a solid reference implementation to facilitate commercial …
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HOSX: Hospital operations excellence model
Hospital performance can be evaluated in four categories: (i) quality of care, (ii) process of care (iii) financial and (iv) operations productivity. Of these, 'quality of care' is the most widely reported and studied measure of performance, and focuses primarily on the clinical outcomes of the …
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Contextual factors impacting on research performance at a young Australian university
High-quantitative and quality research performance is critical to the reputation and success of a university and plays a vital role in developing the socio-economic status of a country. There is, however, limited knowledge about the contextual factors that impact on research performance, especially …
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