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Showing 1 to 20 of 616 for “"Performance measures"”.
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Performance measures for lean manufacturing
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Analysis and development of manufacturing performance measures
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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Interval Markov chains: performance measures and sensitivity analysis.
… probabilities are used to calculate various performance measures. However, using these point estimates does not account for the associated uncertainty in estimate. If these point estimates are used, then the best outcome possible would be an approximate solution. Hence, it would be beneficial …
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Formation Flying Performance Measures for Earth Pointing Missions
Clusters of low-performance spacecraft flying in formation may provide enhanced performance over single high-performance spacecraft. This is especially true for remote sensing missions where interferometry or stereographic imaging may provide higher resolution data. The configurations of such …
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Performance measures and subjective evaluations for two color displays
The current study investigated the task performance and subjective preference for two color displays with differing image generation technologies, the standard cathode ray tube shadow mask (CRT) display and the newer liquid crystal/cathode ray tube (LC/CRT) display. Six subjects performed three …
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Preferences For Performance Measures: A Study Of A Federal Agency
… who administer the programs in assessing performance measurement systems. Using the general progression of previous budgetary models used in the public sector, the researcher developed the Modified Balance Scorecard (MBSC), a performance measurement model designed specifically for use …
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Developing and testing green performance measures for the supply chain
Performance measurements evolve as new challenges are met and the natural environment is one of the biggest challenges facing society and the evolution of performance measurement today. Consequently, a cross-disciplinary interest in the field of green supply chain management (GSCM) has grown …
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Performance measures for product development utilizing theory of constraints methodology
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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Formulating effective performance measures for systems with multiple quality characteristics
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 1999.
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Successful streets : performance measures, community engagement, and urban street design
… time, a growing number of agencies are using performance measurement, the tracking and reporting of specific transportation-related variables, to evaluate and document their impacts. This report attempts to understand the role that performance measurement plays in design decision-making for …
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The use of performance measures in regional freight transportation planning
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Quantitative performance measures of color transformations in hybrid vector scalar quantization
… the robustness of the color spaces and HVSQ performance. The ten test images that were used can be broken into the following classes of images: computer generated, natural, high frequency, medical, high intensity, and human images. Additionally, multiple bit rates were examined, ranging from …
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Do Investors Over-react to Patterns of Past Financial Performance Measures?
… consistency in growth) of firms' past financial performance influence investors' perceptions about stock values and future performance of these firms. Second, multiple estimation horizons of past performance variables (ranging from one to five years) are used to assess whether the interaction …
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The effects of short duration, combined sprint interval training on performance measures
… a time efficient training modality for improving performance measures such as peak oxygen uptake, incremental time to exhaustion, and power output. Whilst this is beneficial, literature has focussed on the use of lower extremity SIT, despite contributions from both lower and upper extremities in …
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United States Meat Goat Production Economic Performance Measures: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis
The meat goat industry is relatively a newcomer to the U.S. agricultural production and one of the fastest growing livestock industries in the U.S. Despite the growth of the meat goat industry, little is known about meat goat production economics. Information is needed concerning the drivers of …
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Corporate performance measures and stocks' prices returns: the case of Greece, 1992-2001
… ROI, and ROE) and value-based (SVA and EVA®) performance measures, in explaining stock returns’ variation in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). Pooled time-series, cross sectional data on 163 Greek companies listed in the ASE over the period 1991-2001 have been employed to examine this question. …
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Predicting College Graduation: Are Admissions Test Scores and High School Performance Measures Adequate
… based primarily on test scores and high school performance. These measures should properly be used to predict first-year grades; however, their de facto use is in choosing who will most likely graduate. I found the best predictors of college graduation are the number of terms enrolled and the …
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Nonfinancial performance measures and risk-taking: evidence from the oil and gas industry
… study examines the relation between nonfinancial performance measures (NFPMs) and firms’ risk-taking using CEO compensation contracts in the oil and gas industry (SIC 1311). The oil and gas industry provides an ideal setting for my study because firms in this industry are required to disclose …
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Critical Velocity is Associated with Combat Specific Performance Measures in a Special Forces Unit
… provide a unique opportunity to enhance soldier performance assessment. The 3-min all-out run, is a relatively new test that has been recently validated. It provides two performance estimates, critical velocity (CV) and anaerobic distance capacity (ADC). CV provides a measure of the individual's …
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