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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Pushback"”.
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Analysis and uncertainty of airport pushback rate control policies
… to a broader class of control policies called Pushback Rate Control (PRC) policies that calculate a pushback rate for departing aircraft based on the state of the airport surface congestion. During times of congestion, these algorithms limit the amount of aircraft on the airport surface while …
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Analysis of potential implementations of pushback control at LaGuardia Airport
… This thesis considers the implementation of pushback control policies at LaGuardia Airport in New York. This class of control policies regulate departure pushback rates by holding aircraft at their gates during congested periods, in a manner that maintains the departure throughput of the …
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Analysis, modeling and control of the airport departure process
… using operational data. Using the aircraft pushback schedule as input, the model predicts the expected runway schedule and the takeoff times. It also estimates the expected queuing delay and its variance for each light, along with the congestion level of the airport, sizes of the departure …
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Robust decision-support tools for airport surface traffic
… quantitative models and techniques for computing pushback forecasts are developed. These are tested against a dataset of 17,344 real-world airline ground operations covering 3 months of Lufthansa flights transiting Frankfurt International Airport. The Lufthansa dataset includes detailed timing …
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Just Another PR Tactic?: Discourse, Expertise, and Social License in the “License to Farm” Campaign
… License to Farm campaign responds to the public pushback regarding industrial farm practices, and claims to educate the public on Canadian farming. in I analyze the campaign to reveal the discursive reproduction of power in the campaign materials. I seek to answer: How are representations of …
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Study of scrum framework usage in non-software systems
… at workplace. But there has been a constant pushback in the non-software industries against adopting some of these Agile development methodologies citing various reasons. The scope of this thesis is to identify few scenarios from non-software industries to evaluate how the Scrum framework, …
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Staff Perceptions of Standards-Based Grading Prior To Implementation
… key themes: fear of loss of rigor, community pushback, lack of SBG practices knowledge, lack of supporting infrastructure, and extra time and work required. Recommendations that flow from these results are that, prior to implementing SBG, comprehensive data be collected regarding staff beliefs …
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Producing the Revive Youth Festival : navigating resistance within the Revive Youth Producer Program
… responses to resistance— through negotiation, pushback, and acceptance— serve as catalysts for transformational learning. Using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis methodology, the author analyzes data from intern interviews, work samples, and other artifacts. In doing so, they propose a new …
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Safe injections sites as a solution to the opioid crisis : a policy analysis
… opposition, legal challenges, and community pushback. Possible solutions to overcome these barriers include education and outreach campaigns to increase public awareness and support, partnering with law enforcement and community leaders, and piloting SIS in smaller, more controlled settings …
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The First Life Journey of Many: The Lived Experience of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Individuals Who Were Raised Within the Catholic Church on Their Coming Out Process
… (LGBTQ) adults encounter societal challenges, pushback from religious organizations, and discrimination from lawmakers which interfere with their ability to come out as their true selves. This qualitative, phenomenologically oriented study explored the LGBTQ identity and practicing Catholic …
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The ICC-African union relationship: in the interest of justice, or a continuation of politics by other means?
… Kenya, while also addressing the AU’s growing pushback against the ICC's focus on African leaders. Key themes explored are the principle of complementarity, the legal and political tensions surrounding head of state immunity, and the AU’s demands for reforms. The research adopts a qualitative …
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Intractable Intra-Ethnic Conflicts: The Case of Offa-Erinle Conflict, Kwara State, Nigeria.
… Furthermore, these recommendations ask for a pushback on the continued dominance of endogenous knowledge, especially in the scholarly discourse of transitional justice.</p>
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Strategic risks to sustainability in infrastructural megaprojects
… long-term. Failure to do so can result in social pushback such as protests seeking accountability and a refusal to pay. The result is a burden on society who do not reap the benefits promised to them by the project proponents. This paper seeks to establish the strategic risks which have an impact …
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Queuing dynamics and control of departure operations at Boston Logan Airport
… scenarios: the overall departure process between pushback and takeoff, departure sub-processes between controller/pilot communication events and under the effect of downstream restrictions. Passing was used as a manifestation of the control behavior, where passing results mainly from sequencing of …
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Authentic Learning with Portfolios: A Combination that K-12 Education Needs
… government mandates. These mandates could face pushback, however, from families concerned that the proposal would hurt their student's college options. I also interviewed colleges to establish what changes to the proposal were needed to ensure their support and thus satisfy parents' concerns. My …
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Mitigating Negative Perceptions Due to Gender Norm Violation Through Adherence to Another Prevalent Gender Norm
… any shift in a cultural norm, there has been pushback from society for those women violating these naming conventions. Individuals who violate gender norms are viewed more negatively than those who adhere to them (e.g., Koenig, 2018), with recent evidence suggesting similar evaluations …
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Exploring whiteness in the context of antiracist psychotherapy education: a narrative inquiry into therapists’ experiences
… of compromise, assimilation, ambivalence, and ‘pushback’ are associated with hopelessness. It follows, therefore, that the importance of ending the violence that colleagues of the global majority experience cannot be overstated. Specific recommendations for psychotherapy education are offered.
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Airport surface traffic optimization and simulation in the presence of uncertainties
… SIMMOD, various sources of uncertainty, such as pushback times, runway exit times, taxi speeds, and runway separation times, are evaluated using flight schedules at DTW. The simulation results show that ground delays increase with an increase in uncertainty levels for most scenarios. However, the …
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George Whitefield's Preaching: An Evangelical Response to the Enlightenment
… for specific content related to evangelical pushback against Enlightenment thought. Key propositions of the Enlightenment regarding authority, morality, and ultimate truth are answered within the preaching of Whitefield. Each are examined thoroughly. Chapter 6 presents a conclusion regarding …
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Research on the Performance of JP-8, Single Fuel Concept, in Diesel Engine Application for Airport Ground Support Equipment
… rpm to simulate an everyday application of a GSE pushback tractor. The results showed that JP-8 and ULSD had ignition delays ranging from approximately 1.0-1.2ms. Cylinder maximum heat flux values were found to be between 1.7 and 3.2 MW/m2 , with radiation flux increasing much faster than …
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