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Showing 1 to 20 of 441 for “"Streamline"”.
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Prediction and optimization techniques to streamline surgical scheduling
… have created a set of decision support tools to streamline the surgical case scheduling process by allowing surgical wait list cases (elective cases that cannot be assigned a slot on the operating room schedule at the time of booking) to be confirmed onto the operating room schedule up to three …
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Leveraging flexible manufacturing to streamline new product launch processes
Johnson & Johnson Vision (JJV), manufacturer of the ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses, is committed to launching new contact lens products every year to maintain competitive edge and long-term relevancy. However, manufacturing lines currently operate at high utilization rates to satisfy steadily growing …
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Natural Product Discovery from a Streamline Environment-to-Bioassay Pipeline
Natural products (NPs) have long been central to drug discovery as sources of new therapeutics and drug leads. Despite major advances in microbial NP discovery over the past century, the earliest stages of the workflow—from sample collection to library generation—have remained largely unchanged. …
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elphi: a business plan to streamline the mortgage lifecycle through blockchain
The mortgage industry is the largest debt market in the U.S. entailing ~$10 trillion. The average processing time from mortgage application to closing is 45 days. More than 10 different stakeholders contribute to the process of mortgage origination, and they all use different types of technology to …
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Using the design structure matrix to streamline automotive hood system development
… the design structure matrix (DSM) methodology to streamline the automotive hood subsystem development process, addressing the development phases from upstream product strategies to manufacture and assembly. In this analysis, a two-dimensional index called task volatility is used to describe the …
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Construction of a classification hierarchy for process underspecification to streamline life-cycle assessment
Concerns over global warming potential and environmental degradation have created a demand for accurate assessment of the impact of various products and processes. Life cycle assessment (LCA), a quantitative assessment method, has been employed primarily to products, analyzing the energy inputs and …
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An Improved Streamline Curvature Approach for Off-Design Analysis of Transonic Compression Systems
A streamline curvature (SLC) throughflow numerical model was assessed and modified to better approximate the flow fields of highly transonic fans typical of military fighter applications. Specifically, improvements in total pressure loss modeling were implemented to ensure accurate and reliable …
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A streamline model application for the waterflood performance of NZ-OF-HRL carbonate reservoir
… performance history was simulated using the streamline model. Three prediction cases were made for different water injection schemes. Each of these predictions were studied in order to design the optimum oil recovery program for future operations. The purpose of drilling new wells would be to …
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A triage approach to streamline environmental footprinting : a case study for liquid crystal displays
… incorporating uncertainty. Current methods to streamline LCA may amplify uncertainty, undermining robustness. Despite high uncertainty, effective and efficient streamlining approaches may be possible. A methodology is proposed to identify high-impact activities within the life cycle of a …
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Innovating Pet Adoption Services To Improve the User Experience and Streamline Applications within Rescue Organizations
The purpose of this research and design is to better understand the application process for pet adoption as well as how animal rescue organizations track, approve, and communicate with applicants. This thesis is grounded in the published literature around pet (mostly dog) ownership, animal control, …
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Applying the design structure matrix to streamline the development process: lessons from marine renewable development
Tailoring a project development process that balances internal and external requirements is difficult for project managers. One specific difficulty is satisfying stakeholders with significant influence and misaligned process requirements. In this thesis, a federally funded marine renewable energy …
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Creation of a care coordination tool to streamline care for children with complex medical care needs
Children with complex medical care needs require extensive resources, and their families face significant challenges in coordinating care, managing insurance, and integrating various care plans. Pediatric Palliative Care has proven effective in filling gaps in care coordination, but access to …
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The development and requirements of a body force database from two-dimensional and streamline curvature calculations
… two-dimensional blade element calculations and a streamline curvature procedure to calculate the axisymmetric flow, although it can be extended to use three-dimensional calculations where available. The methodology is demonstrated by assembling the body force database and using it for a stability …
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Ground access to domestic airports : the creation of a federal program to streamline enhancement and modernization projects
With few exceptions, airport ground access tends to be an issue that is overlooked by airlines, airport operators, and metropolitan planning organizations. Given the current structure of federal aviation and surface transportation funding, little incentive is provided for these organizations to …
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Redesigning the documentation process to streamline the process flow in the field and improve the overall customer experience
Waters Corporation is a leading company in analytical instruments that has been continuously growing and expanding for the past several years. With the number of installed instruments increasing, the company is dealing with more and more data and failures information that it needs to manage and …
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A Streamline Upwind/ Petrov-Galerkin FEM based time-accurate solution of 3D time-domain Maxwell's equations for dispersive materials
… equations for dispersive materials in a Streamline Upwind/Petrov-Galerkin framework is investigated. For this purpose the permittivity associated with a material is expressed as a matrix, enabling the solution of anisotropic material models with multiple poles. Here diagonally isotropic …
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Prandtl-Meyer expansion of an ionizing monatomic gas
… that the pressure distribution along a streamline and the shape of a streamline in a non-equilibrium Prandtl-Meyer flow are the same as for an equilibrium flow with the same initial conditions, the governing flow equations were reduced to two, coupled, ordinary differential equations in …
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Multiphase extensions to ODE models for detonations of non-ideal explosives
Two streamline, ordinary differential equation (ODE) models for detonation, the Chan-Kirby model and the straight streamline approach of Watt et al., are extended to a multiphase system of equations. These multiphase equations, with realistic equations of state, are used to better capture the …
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Laminar and turbulent convective heat transfer over bodies at an angle of attack
… presented for determining the surface inviscid streamline geometry and coordinate scale factors, which are required in the axisymmetric analogue. This method requires the surface pressure distribution to be known, whether theoretical or experimental. A theoretical pressure distribution is …
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An analytic investigation for solutions of flow properties inside the shock layer of a supersonic flow past a circular cylinder
… that it uses the properties along the stagnation streamline as initial conditions. However, the method can still be classified as one of the direct type. A potential flow solution along the stagnation streamline is used to approximate the initial conditions. The results are compared with existing …
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