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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Performance targets"”.
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Performance targets for electric vehicle batteries
… research, several organizations have created performance targets for batteries, including the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and the US Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC). The goal of this thesis is to assess these performance targets based on real-world vehicle …
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Design of automotive joints: using optimization to translate performance criteria to physical design parameters
In the preliminary design stage of a car body, targets are first set on the performance characteristics of the overall body and its components using optimization and engineering judgment. Then designers try to design the components to meet the determined performance targets and keep the weight low …
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Design-Oriented Translators for Automotive Joints
… of consumer products. First, a manufacturer sets performance targets for the whole system according to customer surveys and benchmarking of competitors' products. Then, designers cascade these targets to the subsystems or the components using a very simplified model of the overall system. Then, …
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Design of Automotive Joints Using Response Surface Polynomials and Neural Networks
… constituent components of the car body by their performance characteristics, is used to optimize the overall car. The determined optimum performance characteristics of the components are used as performance targets to design these components. Since designers do not know the relation between the …
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The ‘Productive Community Services’ Programme: Implementing Change in a Community Healthcare Organisation
… implementation varied widely, and that pay-for-performance targets contributed towards staff perceiving that the programme was irrelevant. Stock value was reduced by over £42,500, the time taken to find patient information was reduced by 62%, and services spent on average 36% of their time with …
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Why do firms disclose performance compensation targets?
This paper analyzes the decision to disclose performance compensation targets that contain information about future profitability. I test the effect of factors expected to influence the decision to provide other expectation disclosures, e.g. management forecasts, as well as that of factors …
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Antecedents and consequences of fairness in performance evaluation processes.
… the antecedents and consequences of fairness of performance evaluation processes (procedural fairness) in the context of performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems; and (2) to investigate the behavioural effects of reliance on multiple performance measures (RMPM) in evaluating …
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Development of a Performance Assessment System to Improve Water Services Sector in Iraqi Kurdistan
… the quality of the water services sector and the performance efficiencies of the water utilities’ functional components. Without effective performance assessment over time for the water services delivery, any efforts carried out by the water utilities to improve performance levels have remained …
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Metrics, Models and Methodologies for Energy-Proportional Computing
… appropriate power constraints to meet specific performance targets and then present the effects of our runtime system on energy proportionality, average power, performance and instantaneous power consumption of enterprise applications. We then make the following contributions at the …
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Design and Analysis of a Monocoque Chassis for an Electric Formula SAE Vehicle
… is fundamental to unlocking the maximum vehicle performance by supporting the applied external loads with a low-mass, high-stiffness structure. Thus far, MIT’s Formula SAE team has developed and utilized welded steel tube chassis designs for their racecars due to their relative simplicity and …
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Beliefs and attitudes in judo coaching: toward a new model of coaching
… should be based on players having specific performance targets including technical and tactical skills, psychological, and physiological, aligning judo more closely with the structure used in other Olympic sports. Coaches should also be given targets related to developing emotional control …
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Assessment of Dynamic Maintenance Management
… plays an important role in achieving higher performance targets. In order to manage maintenance activities in more informed and rational manner, it is very important to understand the inherently complex and dynamic structure of the system. Traditionally maintenance policies are derived from …
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Investigating the role of performance incentives in driving performance in a faculty from a comprehensive university in KwaZulu-Natal
Rewarding employees for meeting the organisation targets is crucial in order to motivate staff members to improve their performance. This is supported by Landry, Schweyer, Whillans (2017) that rewards such as monetary and non - monetary rewards are omnipresent and essential in today's workforce. …
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Fire fighting in aerospace product development : a study of project capacity and resource planning in an aerospace enterprise
… projects to meet desired cost, schedule, and performance targets for their customers produce higher levels of customer satisfaction and also a significant source of competitive advantage. Continually meeting the needs of the customer through effective project execution allows a company to …
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Performance Management, gaming and police practice: a study of changing police behaviour in England and Wales during the era of New Public Management.
… to which it distorts policing priorities and performance measures. Performance Management, which formed an integral part of New Public Management, was introduced gradually to the police service in England and Wales during the 1990s. The Police and Magistrates Court Act 1994 gave Chief Officers …
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Employee perceptions of Transnamib holdings' financial performance and corporate image
… Limited corporate image and the financial performance results of internal opinion survey. In order to achieve this aim, the following specific objectives were formulated: to determine the relationship between financial performance and corporate image TransNamib Holdings Limited employees …
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An Assessment on the Impacts of Employees Ethical Conducts to Organization Performance
… of employees ethical conducts to organization performance. For quite some time now, public organizations have been viewed as a liability to the tax payers rather than an asset. This is because of low productivity, erosion of work ethics, indiscipline, blatant violation of rules, regulations and …
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Two Papers on "How Perceptions of Fairness and Influences of Social Capital and Source Credibility Matter to Compensation Committees And Investors"
… of revising executive incentive pay financial performance targets mid-compensation cycle.</p> <p>I find outcome fairness to shareholders and management significant influences on compensation committee member judgments. In addition, I found more experienced compensation committee members had …
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Digital Business Strategising in the context of Regulatory Uncertainty - the case of a Financial Services Provider in South Africa
… need to effectively compete and achieve performance targets. A qualitative, interpretive case study of a South African based global organisation is undertaken to explore and understand how organisations navigate the macro-environmental landscape while forging a digitally transformed …
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Modeling and Control of a Six-Switch Single-Phase Inverter
… and it is difficult to satisfy both cost and performance targets. High expectations coupled with extreme cost cutting to compete with traditional technologies make converter design difficult. As power electronics mature more opportunities arise for entry into this lucrative area. An excellent …
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