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Showing 1 to 20 of 121 for “"SSM"”.
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Integrating project management and change management to reduce information and technology (it) project failure. A soft systems methodology (ssm) enquiry into a failing it project at UNHCR, South Africa.
… a participant, using Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) to investigate the problem situation. The study deals with a fuzzy, non-linear problem with unclear objectives and users with different perspectives to the situation hence the appropriateness of SSM to the study. This is an Interpretive study …
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Assessing the Impacts of a Special Safeguard Mechanism for Agriculture in the Doha Development Agenda
… for a specific Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) for developing countries that will protect agricultural producers from import surges or price declines, and could potentially add stability to domestic markets. While most of the parameters of this SSM have been decided upon, the DDA …
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Nuclear Smuggling in a Terrorist Midget Submarine: Impeding the Operation
… the United States in a midget submarine (or SSM, as the U.S. Navy designates it). If determined nuclear smugglers think the United States will uncover their plan and try to stop them, they will likely look for a delivery vehicle to elude interdiction. Terrorists may believe that, given the …
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The Positive Functioning of Post-9/11 Student Service Members/Veterans as a Predictor of Academic Performance
… post-9/11 student service members'/veterans' (SSM/Vs) positive functioning (i.e., the building blocks of well-being) as a predictor of their academic performance. Positive psychology through Seligman's (2010) PERMA model and Ecological Systems Theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1993) were used as the …
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Development of a statistical shape and appearance model of the skull from a South African population
Statistical shape models (SSMs) and statistical appearance models (SAMs) have been applied in medical analysis such as in surgical planning, finite element analysis, model-based segmentation, and in the fields of anthropometry and forensics. Similar applications can make use of SSMs and SAMs of the …
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Assessing the Impact of Femur Morphological Variations on Pediatric Hip Joint Biomechanics Using Statistical Shape Modeling
… estimation errors. A shape statistical model (SSM) of decedent infant femurs from the Ortolani collection was created using ShapeWorks, capturing key morphological features, such as variations in the femoral neck-shaft and anteversion angles. Seven synthetic femurs were generated from the SSM …
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Three essays on the market microstructure of the Saudi stock market
… of the microstructure of the Saudi Stock Market (SSM) under the computerized trading system, ESIS (Electronic Securities Information System). We study the interaction between the order book and order flow, limit order execution, trading by limit versus market orders, order performance, and the …
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A social and economic impact assessment of the South African mineral and petroleum resources development act on the small-scale diamond mining sector
The small-scale mining (SSM) sector in South Africa has been overshadowed by the wealth generating capacity of the formal mining industry. To address the disparity between the SSM sector and the large formal mining industry, a number of government initiatives have been introduced, the latest being …
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Mechanical properties of laser welded semi-solid metal cast A356 alloy
… to heat treat and weld. Semi solid metal (SSM) forming has the potential to produce near-net-shape components with high integrity. Due to laminar filling characteristics of SSM HPDC, low porosity or porosity free castings can be produced. This offers the opportunity to apply heat treatment …
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State-space modeling of MEG time series
… can be easily formulated as a state-space model (SSM) problem, the high dimension of the resulting state-space makes this approach computationally impractical. In this thesis we use a SSM to characterize from MEG recordings the spatiotemporal dynamics of underlying neural activity. We use the …
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Influence of Weight Loss on Metabolic and Mitochondrial Function in the Mature Horse
… Skeletal muscle contains subsarcolemmal (SSM) and interfibrillar (IFM) mitochondria, which respond differently to physiological stimuli, impacting tissue and whole body oxidant status. We hypothesized that 8 light-type horses would display improvements in skeletal muscle mitochondrial …
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Bendro priežiūros mechanizmo teisinis reglamentavimas ES /
… As a result, the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) project was implemented in the European Union (EU), which became one of the pillars of the Banking Union. The SSM, based on all fundamental principles of EU law, was enshrined in law in a Council Regulation empowering the institution of the …
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Exploring Indonesia's Capital City Relocation As a Model for Multidimensional Conflict Resolution
… survey data, land-use/land-cover change assessment, and Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). SSM tools, including rich picture analysis, CATWOE, Root Definition, a Conceptual Activity Model, and 3E indicators, were employed to compare normative governance assumptions with empirical conditions in …
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Parameterizing transport maps for ensemble data assimilation
… particularly in the case of state space models (SSMs). We begin by reviewing established methods for filtering in SSMs, and by examining the graphical model structure of a parameterized SSM. Then we discuss established methods for estimating the parameters of such an SSM, making use of its …
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Bayesian Time Series Learning with Gaussian Processes
… on the Gaussian Process State-Space Model (GP-SSM): a Bayesian nonparametric generalisation of discrete-time nonlinear state-space models. We present a novel formulation of the GP-SSM that offers new insights into its properties. We then proceed to exploit those insights by developing new …
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Enterprise Performance Management in High-Tech Engineering: Developing a Holistic Model
… the thesis uses Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). This is an approach to system analysis that is suitable for dealing with complex phenomena that involve people. By using the approach of SSM, this research provides a different perspective on EPM than that found in the existing literature. …
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Contribution à l'étude de la propagation dans les composants passifs à fibre optiques
… technique appelée la méthode en deux étapes (SSM). Cette dernière est une solution numérique à la célèbre équation de Schrödinger non linéaire (NLSE). La méthode en deux étapes prend en compte divers phénomènes qui se produisent dans le composant, tels que la dispersion de vitesse de groupe, …
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Defining the human resource processes required to support world class manufacturing
… project was to use soft systems methodology (SSM) in an industrial environment to tackle an unstructured problem. An agreement was made with a local company that the project would be of benefit both to them and the author. Whilst the aims of the project were initially defined (see Appendix 1), …
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Identificação dos requisitos informacionais para o projeto de um sistema de apoio à decisão : o caso da Secretaria Municipal da Fazenda do município de Porto Alegre
… A metodologia utilizada foi a soft systems (SSM). A SSM é uma metodologia adequada ao tratamento de questões que em geral não se apresentam de forma estruturada. Isto é particularmente importante quando se opera em níveis acima do meramente operacional, em que a questão não é tanto ‘como …
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The Persistent Involvement of Chinese Migrants in Small-Scale Mining in Rural Ghana: Role of the “Men” and the “Boys”
… and the impacts of their involvement in Ghana’s SSM, there is relative dearth in examining the factors that sustain Chinese participation, and the responses of Ghanaian actors to Chinese miners’ involvement in the small-scale mining sector. This thesis explores the persistent issue of Chinese …
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