Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"leading indicators"”.
-
Leading Indicators of Safety in Nuclear Energy
… research was to attempt to determine the key leading indicators of safety in the nuclear energy generation industry. A leading indicator is a metric of safety performance that is not dependent on trending injuries or incidents. This study was conducted by sending surveys to individuals working …
-
How to Identify leading indicators for scenario monitoring
… the business environment using appropriate indicators and understand their implications. This research specifically aims to develop a systematic, quantitative approach to identifying potential leading indicators for scenario monitoring. This approach is a framework that calculates …
-
Leading indicators of United States oil and gas drilling activity
Includes bibliographical references.
-
The Effect of Student Characteristics on Leading Indicators of Academic Success
… the effect of race/gender/income status on five leading indicators of academic achievement outlined by Annenberg Institute for School Reform researchers at Brown University. Results showed that for each leading indicator, outcomes for students varied based on race/gender/income. Correlations …
-
An examination of leading indicators in the apartment and office markets
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1988.
-
Identification of leading indicators for producibility risk in early-stage aerospace product development
… Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) is invoked for leading indicator derivation from assumptions underlying causality of inadequate producibility control. Indicator integration with risk management processes is outlined, and a combination of expert-assessments and quality loss correlation are used …
-
Leading indicators of currency crisis : an application to the 1996 South African currency crisis
… on policy discussions that involve identifying indicators of currency crisis. The process involves setting up early warning systems by monitoring the behaviour of certain key indicators.
-
Characterizing manufacturing activity in the United States of America : composite index of leading indicators
… report or indicator. A Composite Index of Leading Indicators (MCI) was created for the domestic manufacturing activity, exclusively based in official data from the US Census Bureau and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The MCI was benchmarked against the US Manufacturing Gross Domestic …
-
Developing system-based leading indicators for proactive risk management in the chemical processing industry
… analysis addresses systemic aspects and leading indicators enable the detection of ineffective controls and degradation of the system. Together, they could enable taking needed actions before an incident or a loss event. To develop process safety indicators, the chemical processing …
-
The development of leading indicators for the South African building industry using qualitative and quantitative data
… the industry and society at large. In this study leading indicators are developed for the South African building industry to assist in forecasting future demand levels. Use is made of qualitative survey data and quantitative time series. The quarterly qualitative data emanate from the Bureau for …
-
Forecasting future economic growth : the term structure of interest rates, volatility and inflation as leading indicators
… or even recession. Some instances of slope's misleading signals were recorded in 2006 (the term structure was flat, indicating decline in economic activity when high growth continued) and 2008 (the term structure was very steep, predicting economic growth when recession continued and took a deep …
-
Time Series Analysis and Indicators of Economic Activity (Forecasting)
… bivariate time series models with the index of leading indicators as the input variable are used to forecast a coincident indicator of interest. The weights assigned to the elements of the index of leading indicators are found by constructing and minimizing the variance of forecast error …
-
A leading indicator approach to safety: a case study of Nigeria’s construction sector
… construction industry by exploring safety leading indicators (SLIs). Unlike most studies that focus on post-incident analysis, this research takes a proactive approach by identifying and examining SLIs that can help predict and prevent construction accidents. The study began with a …
-
Monitoring safety during airline operations : a systems approach
… through assumptions identification and leading indicators. STPA is a new hazard analysis technique that allows taking into account not only hardware failures, but also human behavior, requirement flaws, organizational aspects and non-linear component interactions. Once hazard scenarios …
-
Linking the balanced scorecard to human resource management
… effective deployment of strategic HCMPs act as leading indicators of corporate performance. The possible moderating and intervening relationships among four constructs — strategic HCMPs, persormel control mechanisms, employee capability and customer loyalty — are considered. Propositions …
-
Empirical analysis of software refactoring motivation and effects
… refactoring effort performed at a world-leading software development organization. DSM architectural representations of software pre- and post-refactoring were compared using core-periphery analysis, and various quantitative metrics were identified and compared to identify leading …
-
The impact of customer-related strategies on shareholder value
… measures of customer satisfaction might provide leading indicators with the ability to predict a firm's future financial performance; but empirical research has thus far failed to establish the existence of a consistent causal relationship between increased customer satisfaction and a firm's …
-
A predictive approach for identifying high performance factories
… supply chain, data analytics is used to explore leading indicators for firm survival in the garment industry. This project seeks to identify the major drivers of factory success through the lens of current factory performance metrics (quality, delivery, and compliance) and through a qualitative …
-
An integrated framework for the vulnerability assessment of complex supply chain systems
… (TSN) analysis are taken into consideration, and leading indicators are utilized to provide a greater understanding of security concerns and impacts to a supply chain focusing on electronics for the defense industry. The model, adaptable to a diversity of systems and capable of recognizing …
Page 1 of 2