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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Profound Knowledge"”.
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A system of profound knowledge to variation management
The aim of this thesis is the tranformation of thinking about variation and the management of variation in a manufacturing environment. The main contributor to quality, cost and delivery is variation from its different sources. This thesis will try and establish the mindset of understanding, as …
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Total Quality Management: Bridging Theory to Practice
… organizational culture using Deming's System of Profound Knowledge (1993) as a construct that combines the philosophical and methodological dimensions of TQM. As with TeleServices Resources (TSR), the evaluative case study subject for this research, organizations worldwide have adopted TQM to …
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Change Management for Christian Leaders in the Marketplace: A Multiple Case Study
… change management theory he called the System of Profound Knowledge, which includes four interrelated fields (theories of systems, variation, knowledge and psychology). This study, demonstrates that successful organizational transformation in the marketplace by Christian leaders is applied from a …
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Analysis of American Curricular Materials on Japanese Music, K Through 8: Rethinking the Images of the Koto, Sakura, and Kimono
… emphasize the involvement of scholars who have profound knowledge of a particular culture throughout the process of developing curricular materials.
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Utilizing Improvement Science to Advance a Stem Improvement Effort: Increase the Number of Underserved and Underrepresented Students Who Pursue A Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic Education by Building Collective Capacity
… effort. Improvement Science uses the theory of Profound Knowledge, which combines research with practical knowledge. The methods and approaches can and should be adjusted to local needs and provide a framework to reduce barriers through collaborative and focused efforts.
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Modelling the marine boundary layer for offshore wind power utilisation
… planning and operation of offshore wind farms a profound knowledge of the meteorological conditions is indispensable. This thesis is concerned with modelling the structure of the marine atmospheric boundary layer, with focus on effects, which are important for wind resource assessment. Data from …
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Supplier-customer relationships: a study of the application of quality management in the federal government
… to accomplish such improvements. His "System of Profound Knowledge" is a robust, theoretically based framework which provides the means to analyze these processes using data and facts and advances an interdependent set of activities designed to liberate and use human capital to effect continuous …
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Opportunities and Challenges in African Real Estate Markets: Perceptions of Institutional Investors
… market. This study contributes to the body of knowledge by examining the primary opportunities and barriers perceived by institutional investors active in the African real estate market. The research is a qualitative, exploratory study into the perceptions of institutional investors on the …
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Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
… exchanges that informed black religious knowledge. My work draws from Inquisition cases, ecclesiastical records, and confraternity constitutions to show how the Catholic Church shaped by the Tridentine reforms of the early modern era offered a space for multigenerational blacks to pursue …
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Analysing the Influence of Digital Marketing on Consumer Perceptions and Actions Within the UK’s Mobile Technology Sector
… present the online survey data gained in-depth knowledge about the selected research phenomenon more accurately and appropriately. It surveyed 50 marketing professionals with 12 close ended questions. The collected data were analysed using SPSS software that derived descriptive statistics, …
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LIFE EVENTS, STRESS AND COPING
… the general aim of the thesis is to gain a profound knowledge of the suicidal individual, and hence to find and ensure a preventive strategy. This will be accomplished by finding and trying new methods for evaluation of suicide risk. The Suicide Assessments Scale, SUAS, and a new self-rating …
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Life skills program for women in transitional living
… a significant and multifaceted challenge that profoundly impacts numerous individuals on a global scale. It is noteworthy that approximately one third of the homeless population comprises women, and alarmingly, roughly 90% of single parents experiencing homelessness are women. Moreover, among …
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Exploitation of underexplored physiological, metabarcoding and evolutionary aspects to enhance invasive insect pest management
… affect the surrounding environment. Therefore, a profound knowledge of pest biology and ecology is necessary to afford this task. During my PhD, I delved into three underexplored approaches that hold the potential to unveil crucial biological information and develop more effective pest management …
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Self-Reversal of Remanent Magnetisation of Basalts - Origin, Mechanisms and Consequences
… especially for palaeointensity determinations, a profound knowledge about the stability, magnetomineralogical character and the domain state of the carriers of remanence is imperative. The emphasis of the present work was placed on the investigation of basalts exhibiting partial or complete …
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Poetical vocabulary in Dante's Commedia: imitation, emulation, superseding and redemption of the classics
… literature in the Commedia, which suggest a profound knowledge of the auctores despite the little evidence for Dante’s actual education. Previous studies have focused on the modality and quality of classical reception in Dante as the work of a man living in a world that interpreted most pagan …
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Application of FTIR microscopy to cultural heritage materials
… heritage artefacts. In fact, only through a profound knowledge about the nature and conditions of constituent materials, suitable decisions on the conservation and restoration measures can thus be adopted and preservation practices enhanced. The study of ancient artworks is particularly …
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Optimization of cDNA microarray image analysis methods
… levels potentially serves as source of profound knowledge, genes quantification (i.e. extraction of the genes expression levels) is confounded by various types of noise originating both from the microarray experimental procedure (e.g. sample preparation) and the probabilistic …
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Crystalline-core micelles based on triblock terpolymers with polyethylene middle blocks
… crystalline-core micelles (wCCMs). Obtaining profound knowledge of the parameters controlling the self-assembly process allowed the production of a variety of complex one-dimensional micellar architectures with many potential applications, such as adaptive surfactants. At first, the basic …
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A 7000 yr runoff chronology from varved sediments of Lake Mondsee (Upper Austria)
… intensification of the hydrological cycle. The profound knowledge of past natural variability of floods is of utmost importance in order to assess flood risk for the future. Since instrumental flood series cover only the last ~150 years, other approaches to reconstruct historical and …
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Reproductive traits, identity and host preferences of two genetic lines of the seedcorn maggot, Delia platura (Diptera : Anthomyiidae)
… on accurate pest species identification and a profound knowledge of the biological traits of such targeted species. One such alternative is the sterile insect technique which consists of releasing sterile individuals that mate with the targeted population but produce infertile eggs, effectively …