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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"challenging environment"”.
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The colour of courage
Set in the challenging environment of a road construction project in Benin, West Africa, this is a story about three women and their intertwined lives. Each woman has a different personal reason for being in Benin. Each woman needs the courage to make a decision that will have far-reaching …
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Collaborative Localization Enhancement to the Global Positioning System using Inter-Receiver Range Measurements
… Unfortunately when a GPS receiver is in a challenging environment, such as an urban or indoor scenario, the signal quality often degrades causing poor accuracy in the position estimate or failure to localize altogether due to satellite availability. Our goal is to introduce a new solution …
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Vulnerability and resilience in crisis : urban household food insecurity in Harare, Zimbabwe
… adopt to enhance their resilience in this challenging environment. Harare is the study site, providing an acute example of a city (and country) 'in crisis', and a context in which formal food markets have failed to meet the needs of the urban poor, within a generalized collapse of the …
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Ranking CubeSat communication systems using a value-centric framework
… and multiple stakeholders. This already challenging environment is compounded by the fact that CubeSats often operate with minuscule budgets on reduced timelines. So, in order to aid the decision maker while maximizing value, we show that MATE can be applied as a first-order analysis tool.
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Ultra-wideband radar for robust inspection drone in underground coal mines
… drone must be highly robust to the harsh environment of an underground coal mine, with high levels of coal dust and humidity that can obstruct many conventional sensing methods. For high functionality, the drone must sense and avoid potential obstacles and as well as inspect and map the …
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IT-enabled cultural retooling: Identifying value and routine discrepancies during enterprise systems pre-implementation
… achieve competitiveness and sustainability in a challenging environment, cultural retooling also enables competing organizations to translate external cultural resources into their own repertoire. To understand cultural retooling, we chose an ES pre-implementation in a Chinese state-owned …
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Analyzing Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Coevolution in Cybersecurity Simulations
… network samples. We apply coevolution to this challenging environment, and, in a novel modeling approach for this problem, interpret each population as a distribution over fixed strategies to form a mixed strategy Nash equilibrium. We compare the results to solutions generated by multi-agent …
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Innovation enabling manufacturing processes
… companies today pose a particularly challenging environment for maintaining fluid knowledge transfer and effective communication methodologies. In a continuous drive for product innovation, process development often takes on lower priority to other initiatives that directly affect the …
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Changing the way of doing business : electronically enabled organizations
Several forces are forging a new business environment. Among them are dramatic increase in communications, globalization of markets and supply chains, focus on customer needs, increased speed and competition. Companies adapt to this new, more challenging environment by changing their business …
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Marine dock optimization for a bulk chemicals manufacturing facility
… petrochemical manufacturers operate in a very challenging environment on account of the recent economic crisis, volatility in crude oil prices, rising capacity in the Middle East, etc. Recently, there has been a focus on logistics costs and, in particular, capacity utilization as a means to …
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Modeling supply chain benefits of efficient assortment
… recent developments in retail industry created a challenging environment for companies in the sector and their trade partners. Retailers' focus on recovering their financial results through eliminating unproductive inventory and reducing unnecessary complexity has led to an increased pressure on …
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Optimizing the Design of Robot Environments via Interleaved Optimization and White-Box Motion-Planning
… a different utility function, the robot’s environment is consistently the key factor affecting said utilities. Furthermore, in many scenarios (such as an assembly line) this environment is under human control. Enter our first key insight: rather than treating a motion planner simply as a …
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Control and estimation strategies for autonomous MAV landing on a moving platform in turbulent wind conditions
… reliable control strategies that account for the challenging environment present in the vicinity of moving ground vehicles, as well as techniques to estimate these conditions. This thesis presents a novel planning and control strategy that allows a fast, autonomous landing of a micro aerial …
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Experiences of children heading families at Makhado Municipality in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
… and turns, and a lot of support to face the challenging environment is needed. The path is not easy as compared to children with parents in terms of support and guidance. The purpose of the study was to determine the experiences of children heading families at Makhado municipality of Limpopo …
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Non-line-of-sight imaging using multi-bounce light
… implementation of this technique in a challenging environment. This will be followed by an analysis of a number of challenges that are commonly encountered in active, occlusion-assisted imaging scenarios, including single-bounce light rejection, inter-reflections, and asymmetries in …
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The Effectiveness of Human Resource Strategies in Local Government Authorities: A Case of Babati District Council.
Local government authorities are operating in a challenging environment where providing services is not the only goal that preludes their existence. It is evident that competition is not only the features of the private sectors, but also local government are now days competing themselves in the …
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Relationships Between Teacher Perceptions Of Principal Leadership And Student Achievement In Kentucky Appalachian High Schools
… and career readiness for all students in this challenging environment. </p> <p>This correlational research examines principal leadership as determined by teacher responses on Kentucky's 2011 TELL survey and its relationship with student achievement as defined by school level performance on 2011 …
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How can we best support registered nurses transitioning into emergency nursing?
… year. The emergency department is a dynamic and challenging environment, which requires nurses to have advanced assessment skills and clinical-reasoning. There is no universal approach in New Zealand to supporting registered nurses transitioning into emergency nursing. There is limited available …
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A Platform for Microbial Evolution and Characterization
… our model we show that there exists an optimally challenging environment as well as optimal population size for single evolutionary steps. We also use insights gained from our model to develop a control strategy for accelerated evolution in parallel turbidostats and demonstrate it’s utility in a …
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Evaluation of Physical Fitness Tests and the Usefulness of an Internal Crew Questionnaire to Predict Job Readiness in Hotshots
… the wildfire creates a dangerous and physically challenging environment for those attempting to stop its advance. Hotshot wildland firefighters must be conditioned to perform the tasks associated with their job and to avoid injury. Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to evaluate …
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