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Do alliances improve customer satisfaction?
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Strategies to Improve Industrial Energy Efficiency
… are missing out on exceptional opportunities to improve not only their environmental record but also save considerably on fuel costs. This study investigates the broad topic of energy efficiency within the context of the industrial sector by means of a thorough review of existing energy reduction …
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A Method to Improve Cartilage Integration
One major barrier that prevents cartilage integration following mosaic arthroplasty is the presence of a zone of chondrocyte death (ZCD) that is generated upon osteochondral graft harvest, which can extend up to 400 μm into the cartilaginous portion of the graft. In order for cartilage integration …
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Enhanced Tools to Improve Situational Awareness
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Commonly shared situational awareness is essential to the success of almost any team endeavor. Many information networks and processes in the military environment are specifically designed to collect, filter, package, and provide information. The mismanagement of time critical …
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Educating Nurses to Improve Patient Care
… prep patients for their visits. The goal is to improve patients’ expressed satisfaction in their care from nurses through individualized care in this manner.</p> <p>Pre-assessment surveys were administered to all nursing staff to obtain baseline of their knowledge in diabetes care. The education …
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Leveraging organisational energy to improve performance
… to leverage organisational energy in order to improve and measure organisational performance, thereby creating a sustainable competitive advantage.
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RECONSTRUCTION MODELS TO IMPROVE IMAGE QUALITY
… used in image processing and computer vision to improve the quality of the image. Many algorithms have been proposed to fuse multiple low-quality images in order to get a single high-resolution image, or to train the model on the training images and to use that model to improve the quality of the …
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Load Mixing to Improve Container Utilization
<p>The under utilization in trucking leads to nearly 5 billion gallons of wasted fuel annually. One way to recapture part of this waste is to use collaborative logistics. This research focuses on one specific aspect of collaborative logistics: load mixing. Load mixing is the idea of mixing two or …
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Interactive visualizations to improve Bayesian reasoning
… the interactive visualization substantially improved their reasoning performance above that of previous debiasing methods for common, academic elementary Bayesian problems. Experiment 2 suggests that some measure of this improvement is retained for more complicated chains of reasoning …
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Improve Energy Efficiency Through Industrial Symbiosis
… left iron and steel enterprises no choice but to improve energy efficiency as well as make the most effective use of waste energy as secondary energy sources. This dissertation explores the potential for Energy Efficiency (EE) improvement through Industrial Symbiosis (IS) for the iron and steel …
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Using analytics to improve delivery performance
… the area that has the most opportunity for improvement and therefore needs the most focus. The first step in quantifying the areas with the most opportunity was to identify a framework of the supply chain. The framework includes the target dates that must be met in order to supply product to …
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Static Analysis to improve RTL Verification
… graphs are used to perform relation mining to improve the test generation process in terms of speed, branch coverage and number of test vectors generated. The generated control flow graph gives valuable information about the flow of information through the circuit design. We are using this …
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Carbon Nanotubes Attenuate Cancer and Improve Healing
… Resection of the primary tumor can greatly improve the prognosis, but if any of the cancerous cells remain, the patient is still at risk. This work investigates the ability of high aspect ratio nanoparticles to both heal injured tissue and attenuate cancer cells' aggression.
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Does Acute Aerobic Exercise Improve Executive Functioning?
… study examined whether acute aerobic exercise improves performance on either inhibitory control or updating tasks or both. Using a 2x2 design, participants were randomly assigned to an exercise (stationary bike) or no-exercise (reading) control condition and completed inhibitory control (Stroop …
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Coordinating knowledge to improve optical music recognition
… This thesis describes how OMR can be improved by modifying the recognition process from a sequence of linear tasks to a collection of modules that coordinate the information extracted from the data. Methods for_ data representation and controlling the system's flow of execution are …
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Utilizing TIGER Competencies to Improve Informatics Practice
… the pace of technology. This project seeks to improve the NI competency of the nursing workforce at a pediatric hospital through an educational course using NI competencies identified by the Technology Informatics Guiding Educational Reform (TIGER) Initiative (2009). The value of this project …
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Switching to Celsius to Improve Patient Outcomes
… currently is a true patient safety deficit. Improved patient safety and outcomes is the main goal of this project. With a strong team effort using a patient safety-first focus, this switch to Celsius should be a seamless integration of a safer and more efficient measurement protocol for …
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Improving Interdisciplinary Communication to Improve Patient Satisfaction
… diverse patient population. The goal was to improve interdisciplinary communication to decrease the frequency of missed or postponed therapy sessions. A review of literature revealed that this preventable issue could be the most significant factor resulting in an extended length of stay and …
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Dedicated Education Units: Dothey Improve Student Satisfaction?
<p>The nursing profession is facing today, and in the future, a severe shortage of registered nurses and nurse educators. Currently hospitals and universities are experiencing difficulty in filling nurse educator positions. Students are applying to nursing school and are being turned away due to …
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