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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"Rationalization"”.
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The rationalization of load factors
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, 1932
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Product SKU Analysis, Rationalization, and Optimization
… as a practical example to perform a SKU rationalization project using a deterministic model for strategic decision making which resulted in a “Standard Offerings List” of just 230 product offerings (130 manufactured by IronCraft and 100 sourced through its partner company, CID). When …
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Explainable Neural Claim Verification Using Rationalization
… for explainable claim verification using NLP rationalization. We demonstrate that our approach can predict a verdict for the claim but also justify and rationalize its output as a natural language explanation (NLE). We extensively evaluate the system using statistical and Explainable AI (XAI) …
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Soul models: rationalization and the art of subjectivity.
… of knowledge and experience in the processes of rationalization. As a differential in knowledge, art is explored as the practice of composition making differences out of established rationales - the discrete disciplines that find stability in economic, pedagogic and scientific discourse. As a …
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Rationalization of bathroom service sub-systems in high-rise public housing
Because of the increasing demand for a large quantity of public housing in Taiwan, construction productivity has become an important issue. Among those building elements, the bathroom has been accused as presenting one of the more severe bottlenecks in production, due to the great number of so …
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The Anxiety-Reducing Efficacy of Distraction, Catharsis, and Rationalization in Two Personality Types
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:01:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6500881.pdf: 2288475 bytes, checksum: e40b3b8bf5557cfa943c235bbf13aa4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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A data-driven approach to vendor rationalization and engagement for sustainable supply chains
… develop a data-driven approach for vendor base rationalization and vendor engagement as part of a larger initiative within the company to move from transactional vendor relationships to ones of greater collaboration and support. The primary contribution of this project is to provide Li & Fung …
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Intensification versus rationalization: industrial disputes in Japan and the United States, 1961-1980
This study looked at the effects of the labor process on the occurrence to industrial disputes. In Marx's view, changes in the capitalist labor process result in an increase of industrial disputes. However, Dahrendorf envisioned that there is a decrease of industrial disputes, especially a decrease …
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The classification and analysis of terrace houses and the rationalization of their design process
… levels; A general level of structural-methodical rationalization problems of the planning and design process. This general level was related mainly to the building types which respond to extreme external conditions (such as topography,climate or social economic conditions) The specific level of …
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Girard Desargues, the architectural and perspective geometry: a study in the rationalization of figure
Girard Desargues (1951-1662) was a key figure in the transformation of architectural geometry from its ancient and venerated status as transcendental knowledge and supreme reality to a mere technological instrument for the control of building construction practice. As a friend of Rene Descartes and …
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Using natural language to predict bias and factuality in media with a study on rationalization
Fake news is a widespread problem due to the ease of information spread online, and its ability to deceive large populations with intentionally false information. The damage it causes is exacerbated by its political links and loaded language, which make it polarizing in nature, and preys on …
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Murder! But How Foul? Determination, Existentialism and Rationalization in Twentieth-Century American Novels with Transgressive Protagonists
Humans tend to blunt the horror of transgressive violence by "containing" it in a potentially explicatory system. This thesis investigates whether a range of transgressive protagonists from canonical twentieth-century American novels are "contained" in this way by reference to philosophical or …
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Monitonicity-based consensus state for the Monometric rationalization of ranking rules with application in decision making
De ciencias sociales a matemáticas, pasando por ciencias de la computación, económicas y biológicas, la toma colectiva de decisiones es un problema que ha sido sistemáticamente abordado por la comunidad investigadora, cubriendo un amplio espectro de disciplinas científicas. Cuando una decisión …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… failure to attain the highest level of world rationalization, a rigorously Taylorized shop floor combined with a workforce willing to lend their practical expertise to management for the sake of modernizing production. From the end of World War I through the period of deindustrialization after …
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A management science approach for developing a decision model for portfolio rationalization of consumer personal computers
Commoditization of the PC market has led to a shift in strategy at Dell away from customization towards defining specific consumer configurations ahead of time. This shift creates new planning and decision processes around which configurations to select. Given configurations are defined before true …
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Achieving and sustaining an optimal product portfolio in the healthcare industry through SKU rationalization, complexity costing, and dashboards
… develop a process for stock-keeping-unit (SKU) rationalization to reduce SKU complexity while maintaining sales volumes. We, also, implement operational models to compute complexity costs associated with SKU complexity and employ SKU portfolio dashboards to monitor SKU development and govern SKU …
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Dependency models as a basis for analyzing software product platform modularity : a case study in strategic software design rationalization
It is broadly accepted among software managers and architects that maintaining the integrity of software designs is important for the long-term health and viability of software product platforms. The use of modular, information-hiding architectures is considered beneficial in this regard, because …
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