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Showing 1 to 20 of 5855 for “"flexibility"”.
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Strategic flexibility
… to a change of the entity's environment. Flexibility has gathered the attention of academic researchers and industry practitioners as an efficient approach to cope with today's volatile environment. As the environments become more unpredictable and volatile, it is imperative for a flexible …
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Analysis of the Benefits of Resource Flexibility, Considering Different Flexibility Structures
We study the benefits of resource flexibility, considering two different flexibility structures. First, we want to understand the impact of the firm's pricing strategy on its resource investment decision, considering a partially flexible resource. Secondly, we study the benefits of a flexible …
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Enhancing music-compositional flexibility
… certain pedagogical techniques for enhancing flexibility of thinking applied to the task of writing music. The formation of pedagogical strategies was based upon ideas, derived from a review of the literature on creative thinking, which have been successful in enhancing flexibility in …
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Modelling manufacturing systems flexibility.
… rapidly. These drivers have made the need for flexibility within manufacturing systems of great importance. However, there are many types of flexibility and to ensure that organisations correctly target these types of flexibility there is a need to measure fleXlbility, because, measuring …
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Consciousness, Representation, and Flexibility
… other than ourselves, suggesting that behavioral flexibility may play an important role.
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Flexibility in ballpark design
This thesis documents the potential value of using flexible design to implement Major League Ballparks (MLBP). Credible evidence suggests that most ballparks were designed to fixed specifications that do not facilitate improvements after the park opens. By contrast, flexible designs include options …
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Flexibility in Platform Operations
… algorithmic and market design, leverage agents’ flexibility to enhance operational efficiency. The last decade has witnessed the booming growth of such platforms in ride-hailing (e.g., Uber), e-commerce (e.g., Amazon), and hospitality (e.g., OpenTable). A central operational challenge in these …
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Stress, Monoamines, and Cognitive Flexibility
… produced an enduring impairment of cognitive flexibility that was seen in adulthood and occurred selectively in rats that resisted social defeat, further reinforcing the importance of coping style in the consequences of stress. Together these studies demonstrate how CRF modulation of monoamine …
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On Strategy and Manufacturing Flexibility
… thesis focuses on strategy and manufacturing flexibility. It includes a frame of reference and eight papers appended in full, reporting findings in four broad areas: • Manufacturing flexibility, • Manufacturing strategy, • Strategic flexibility, • Strategic manufacturing flexibility. The …
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Psychological Flexibility and Auditory Hallucinations
The Psychological Flexibility Model describes a process-oriented approach to behaviour change that underpins Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a contextual cognitive behavioural intervention. ACT promotes psychological flexibility, which refers to a person’s ability to connect with the …
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Conceptual Flexibility in Grouping Behavior
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Flexibility in object-based selection
A well established finding in the field of visual attention is that attention tends to operate in an object-based manner (i.e., all features of attended objects, including task-irrelevant ones, tend to be co-selected, e.g., O’Craven et al.). However, recent evidence suggests that object-based …
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How to assess supplier flexibility?
… flexible to changing demand. Assessing supplier flexibility is one of the major challenges facing our thesis sponsor company, which is one of the largest oil field services companies in the world. Our project has two primary goals. First we would like to develop a sound understanding of common …
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Developing flexibility in assembly environments
Manufacturing flexibility has been a topic of interest for both researchers and practitioners for several decades. Despite the amount of attention that flexibility receives, it remains a nebulous concept to those in industry trying to develop flexibility within their firms. This thesis attempts to …
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Defining flexibility for information systems
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1988.
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Exploring flexibility in stadium design
… new spatial organizations that allow greater flexibility in stadium's form and function. This flexibility support different scenarios of the stadium life. In the specific case of the Olympic Stadium for London 2012 Games, from 80.000 seats Olympic stadium to 35.000 seats athletic stadium; to …
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Liquid sloshing in containers with flexibility
… Results indicate that intentionally introduced flexibility of the container is capable of producing effective control. The practical application of the proposed research is in the early design stages of engineering systems for which liquid sloshing plays a significant part in structural loading.
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Flexibility in the design of buildings
… investigated the relationship between design and flexibility. Proposals by designers on how to incorporate the ability of buildings to accommodate changes in the requirements of the activities to be housed in buildings over time has led to a diversity of ideas regarding the relationship between …
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Sparse flexibility structures: Design and application
Flexibility is a widely applicable concept in many business areas to help a company to deal with the demanding task of matching supply and demand in uncertain situations, without incurring much cost. Many companies in manufacturing, transportation and service industries have adopted flexibility as …
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