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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Performance tools"”.
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Working theory : an analysis of the use and misuse performance tools
… faculties of the brain, voice and body in performance articulation, advocating for their de-conventionalisation within theatrical modes, and indicating a more diverse range of possibilities for these performance tools. I then describe the three primary examples I will be using in my …
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Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Cis-Trans Photoisomerization --- a First Principles Study
… of using video game consoles as low cost, high performance tools for the study of photochemistry and scientific computing in general. These various methods are applied to study the photochemistry of two isomerizable molecules: 1,3-butadiene and stilbene.
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A Study Of Performance Based Budgeting Reforms In The National Park Service And Their Effects On Agency Management And Operations
<p>This is a case study of performance-based and budgeting reforms in National Park Service (NPS). The study examines the effects of reform initiatives on the agency’s administration, budgeting, and management. Previous research suggests that current reform initiatives are more effective than those …
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Techniques in scalable and effective parallel performance analysis
Performance analysis tools are essential to the maintenance of efficient parallel execution of scientific applications. As scientific applications are executed on larger and larger parallel supercomputers, it is clear that performance tools must employ more advanced techniques to keep up with the …
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Low-Impact Profiling of Streaming, Heterogeneous Applications
… computer scientists to accelerate application performance. As feature-size continues to shrink, architects of commodity processors are designing increasingly more cores on a chip. While additional cores can operate independently with some tasks: e.g. the OS and user tasks), many applications …
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Performance analysis and optimization of a CFD application
… fluid dynamics (CFD) application (PlasComCM). Performance bottlenecks were identified using performance tools and hardware counters. The performance analysis of PlasComCM showed that the quantity of memory accesses and the lack of vectorization inhibited optimal serial performance on a …
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Characterization of Cooled Turbine Efficiency for Off-Design Performance Models
<p>Gas turbine performance modeling is essential for predicting engine behavior across design and off-design conditions. Yet the treatment of cooling or service flows remains inconsistent, as these streams interact with the main flow in complex ways and their contribution to turbine work depends on …
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Animate Structures: The Compositions and Improvisations of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
… experimental music as well as free jazz, their performance practice differs in many respects from the practices of American forms of jazz. Whereas most accounts of improvisation emphasise orality and creative interaction in opposition to the performance of composed music, 'instant composition' …
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Modeling performance and noise of advanced operational procedures for current and future aircraft
… a new method combining aircraft sizing and performance tools with NASA's Aircraft NOise Prediction Program (ANOPP) has been developed to capture those noise impacts. ANOPP is used because of its capability of computing noise received at ground observers due to both engines and airframe of …
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Parallel implementation and application of particle scale heat transfer in the Discrete Element Method
Dense fluid-particulate systems are widely encountered in the pharmaceutical, energy, environmental and chemical processing industries. Prediction of the heat transfer characteristics of these systems is challenging. Use of a high fidelity Discrete Element Method (DEM) for particle scale …
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Performance Analysis of Program Executions on Modern Parallel Architectures
… consideration of these features may lead to poor performance on such architectures. First, multi-threaded programs can suffer from performance degradation caused by imbalanced workload, overuse of synchronization, and parallel overhead. Second, parallel programs may suffer from the long latency to …
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Case Study on the Development of Engineering Design Modification Projects for U.S. Nuclear Power Plants: A Knowledge Retention Tool in Support of the Longevity and Resilience of the Nuclear Power Industry
… for each activity, causes of failure, human performance tools that can help prevent or detect the failures, and recommends actions to address and mitigate the risks identified. The results of this case study demonstrate how, with the correct knowledge, engineering design modification risks …
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Raising the Profile of Facilities Management (FM) in Healthcare – Managing Performance of Infection Control
… that HAIs can occur because of, inter alia, poor performance of Healthcare Maintenance (HM) services. Despite this link, HM has not received the level of attention it deserves from healthcare authorities. As a result, some HM managers do not measure the performance of HM services in infection …
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Analysis and Management of UAV-Captured Images towards Automation of Building Facade Inspections
… are known to have an impact on various building performance aspects, e.g., thermal, energy, moisture control issues. Current research efforts mainly focus on the design of drone flight schema for building inspection, 3D building model reconstruction through drone-captured images, and the …
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Studies of steered arc motion and macroparticle production in PVD processing.
… industry has constantly strived to improve performance and cut costs, this has been aided by the development of high performance tools. The advancement of these tools has been accomplished by the application of hard wearing, low friction, coatings. A key process in the production of such …
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Proof theory and algorithms for answer set programming
… range of applications, demanding for high-performance tools able to solve complex problems. ASP integrates ideas from a variety of neighboring fields. In particular, automated techniques to search for answer sets are inspired by Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solving approaches. While the …
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A Framework To Improve A Nation's Competitiveness Through Quality Awards And Performance Improvement Tools
… governments have established quality awards (or performance excellence awards) to improve their organizations in different industries and to help these organizations to become more competitive. However, these two facts lead to the question: how can a quality award model help nations to improve …
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Development of PVD coating processes informed by plasma diagnostics.
… to meet demands for special materials and performance tools. The ever increasing complexity of the required coating microstructure and chemical composition can be achieved only by the development of PVD technology and in particular plasma sources for vapour generation that can provide the …
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Structure-Preserving High Performance Computational Methods for Transport in Porous Media
… and memory systems, the need for improving the performance of subsurface flow and transport simulations has become an area of active research. Two of the most well known numerical deficiencies that the pop- ular formulations and existing simulation packages suffer from are the inability to meet …
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Performing the (un)inherited language, identity, performance
… construction informs my approach to creating performance. I use this paper to offer a frame as to how a relationship to language is socially and historically constructed in post-apartheid South Africa, how this construction affects questions of cultural and linguistic identity, and finally how …
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