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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"contingency plans"”.
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Guidelines for the development of strike contingency plans
… develop guidelines for the formulation of strike contingency plans to assist school administrators and boards of school trustees during a teacher strike. The study was designed to secure and evaluate strike contingency plan items currently being utilized by school administrators as well as ideas …
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Development of a Pre-Impact Environmental Site Characterization for the Bryan Mound, Texas Strategic Petroleum Reserve
… presents a model for developing site-specific contingency plans to be used during spill response, remediation, and post-spill monitoring using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve's Bryan Mound site as a case study. Bird and vegetation observations provide baseline data for biological conditions, …
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Combating terrorism: a guide for U.S. Naval forces afloat
… new anti- and counterterrorist procedures; and contingency plans must be developed to deal wilth potential terrorist incidents. This study provides a guide for the development of effective anti-terrorist and counterterrorist programs for any ship type in the U. S. Navy.
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Application of Big Data Analytics in Agriculture Supply Chain Management
… chain planners in creating and implementing contingency plans, at the right time per given food production location. This risk score can help food manufacturing organizations to have a Business Continuity Plan that alleviate agriculture business supply chain interruptions. An example …
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Modeling influencing factors in a microscopic traffic simulator
… and evaluate the outcome of various response plans and assists in decision making. It is a vital tool for traffic management centers and can be helpful in developing contingency plans to enhance the safety and security of the transportation system. This thesis investigates the current …
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Resiliency and reliability planning of the electric grid in natural disaster affected areas
… projects into account when designing contingency plans for the electric grid. The goal of this thesis is to explore the role of a hybrid decentralized structure of the electrical grid to improve the level of reliability through extraordinary circumstances. In this thesis, I develop …
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The Impact of Load Shedding on the Quality of healthcare Services at a Selected Hospital in Vhembe District Limpopo Province, South Africa
… in reliable backup systems, development of contingency plans, staff training on emergency responses, and improved support systems for healthcare professionals. Findings will be shared with the University of Venda, the Department of Health, and the selected hospital.
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Extensions to the iCalendar Data Model Hierarchical Schedules and Temporally Related Events
… schedules, used in military exercise and contingency plans (e.g., POA and M), are examples of schedules that are highly flexible and reusable. Because of their unique scheduling properties and relationships, however, they cannot be modeled in mainstream computer calendaring tools. As a …
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Low altitude threat evasive trajectory generation for autonomous aerial vehicles
… pop-up threats is required. Predetermination of contingency plans is precluded due to the enormity of possible scenarios; therefore, an on-line vehicle trajectory planner is desired in order to maximize vehicle survivability. This thesis presents a genetic algorithm based threat evasive response …
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Design, installation and testing of a bioremediation-based system for treating regulated medical waste
… in Lewis-Gale hospital. This is presented with contingency plans developed for prolonged system failure. Finally, the operators manual developed for the Lewis-Gale hospital is included.
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Sistema de planificación estocástico de proyectos: Implicaciones en la gestión de riesgos
… about activities' duration, and it includes contingency plans and repetition cycles. Uncertainty about the successful or failed outcome of the project as a whole or of its activities is characterized probabilistically. The random variables bound to activity durations are modelled by …
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The design of a decision support system for supply chain risk management
… pose a risk to the supply chain be conducted and contingency plans developed at strategic, tactical, and operational levels to monitor and mitigate those risks. This thesis will identify all major risks that are likely to disrupt a supply chain; identify the data needed to continuously monitor …
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Strikes by nursing personnel : a challenge for nurse managers in KwaZulu-Natal province
… unwillingly. Patient suffering in spite of contingency plans for patient care was expressed as a concern by many respondents. Recmmendations made highlighted the need for participation of both providers and consumers of nursing care in minimising or preventing nurses' strikes.
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The examination of the traditional femininity and women’s lives in ancient China
… a balance between the permanent principles and contingency plans for the stability and development of the society, which caused women’s humiliation and freedom. In reality, politicians and thinkers in ancient China had been transforming the concept of femininity itself to make it more adaptable …
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Lean project management framework for the entrepreneur : traditional projects management, critical chain, and systems dynamics
… of changes to the project, and 3) develop better contingency plans.
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Not as Planned
… materials are cast as collateral damage to new plans and new ideas. In place of this certainty, we need to accept that more often than not things do not go as planned. The Providence Gas Company Purifier House serves as the physical and conceptual site for this thesis. It has undergone failure …
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An Explorative Study on the Effects of The Fourth Industrial Revolution on Employment in Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises
… sector. Other aims include an examination of the contingency plans to be put in place to prevent or minimise job losses. Overall, the study aims to identify whether the Fourth Industrial Revolution is having a negative or positive effect on employment in SMMEs. The methodology used was a mixture …
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A cost model for testing unmanned and autonomous systems of systems
… nor is there the ability to make effective contingency plans should testing requirements change. Spending too much effort designing goals when causal understandings are still in flux is inefficient. As such, policy making and enforcing policies on the deployment of UASoS becomes very …
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Exploring the facilitators and barriers towards implementation of electronic prescribing, dispensing, and administration of medicines in hospitals in Ireland.
… the eHealth agenda forward. Testing at scale, contingency plans, and ongoing evaluations will assist in determining success or otherwise of system implementation. This research has generated novel findings with many potentially transferable themes identified which extend the evidence base. This …
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Building agrarian infrastructure resilience against climate change impacts : a case of Plateau State, Nigeria
… of future climate change within infrastructure plans. Furthermore, it advocates the development of comprehensive climate risk assessments and mapping in order to improve the preparedness and contingency plans for climate change. Finally, the study suggests expanding the scope of infrastructure …
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