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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"maintenance strategies"”.
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Maintenance strategies affecting equipment performance
Proper maintenance of plant items is crucial for the safe and profitable operation of process plants, The relevant maintenance policies fall into the following four categories: (i) preventivejopportunistic/breakdown replacement policies, (ii) inspection/inspection-repair-replacernent policies, …
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Deterioration of reinforced concrete in a marine environment : repair costs and maintenance strategies
… in order to save sufficient money for future maintenance at a specified date. Life cycle costing and decision models for the maintenance of concrete structures are discussed and guidelines for the establishment of optimal maintenance cycles are included. Based on the results of the life cycle …
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Predicting urban water distribution maintenance strategies : a case study of New Haven, Connecticut
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1985.
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The Effect of Religious Similarity on the Use of Relational Maintenance Strategies in Marriages
… link between religious similarity and the use of maintenance strategies in marriage relationships through the lens of the investment model. Data from 109 heterosexual married individuals was collected. Through a series of multiple linear regression analyses, results revealed that religious …
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The Effect of Religious Similarity on the Use of Relational Maintenance Strategies in Marriages
… link between religious similarity and the use of maintenance strategies in marriage relationships through the lens of the investment model. Data from 109 heterosexual married individuals was collected. Through a series of multiple linear regression analyses, results revealed that religious …
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Development of a Comprehensive Framework for the Efficiency Measurement of Road Maintenance Strategies using Data Envelopment Analysis
For the last two decades, the road maintenance concept has been gaining tremendous attention. This has brought about new institutional changes, predominant of which is the challenge for maintenance managers to achieve maximum performance from the existing road system. Such challenge makes it …
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Relational maintenance: An examination of how gender, relational maintenance strategies, and commitment affect the use of text messages in romantic relationships
… the relation between commitment, relational maintenance strategies, and text message use in romantic partners. This study examines how these three factors are connected through the use of surveys. It was hypothesized that romantic partners who were more committed to one another would use text …
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The effects of introversion/extraversion and relational maintenance strategy preference on marital satisfaction
… investigated the effects of extraversion and maintenance strategy choice on perceived relational satisfaction in marital dyads. Three research questions were addressed in this study. RQ #1 examined the relationship between extraversion and maintenance strategy preference. RQ #2 examined the …
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Developing a maintenance management model for service level optimization: a case study in peruvian heavy goods transport SMES
… proposed research integrated Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) principles and Process Management into a unified maintenance model, emphasizing planned and autonomous maintenance strategies. Key findings revealed measurable improvements: OTIF increased by 7.24%, fuel shortages dropped by 50%, …
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Relationship maintenance differences in close and casual friendships on Facebook
… that a primary use of this technology is the maintenance of relationships with friends and family. The extent to which relationships can be maintained, and the type of relationships that can be maintained, in America, by using social media is an unresolved question. Using the reciprocity …
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Why is MySpace the place for friends? : An ethnographic study on the effects of social-networking site use on socialization
… participants engage in a number of relational maintenance strategies, particularly activities associated with alleviating dialectical tensions, such as autonomy and togetherness. Secondly, the study revealed that MySpace members constantly negotiate their ideal and actual selves through …
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Recovering Capital Expenditures: The Railroad Industry Paradox
… and makes contributions in each area. Railroad maintenance strategies that rely more heavily on capital investment are more cost effective. Infrastructure capital spending is caused by current and future output, and is therefore a short run marginal cost. Railroad marginal cost formulae appear …
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Study of Power Transformer Abnormalities and IT Applications in Power Systems
With deregulation, diagnosis and maintenance of power equipment, especially power transformers, become increasingly important to keep power systems in reliable operation. This dissertation systematically studied two kinds of transformer failure and abnormality cases, and then developed a new …
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Crossing the Chasm: a Qualitative Analysis of Cross-Sex Friendship
… gained in cross-sex friendship, and the maintenance strategies used in order to keep the friendship platonic. While there has been a plethora of studies focusing on relationship genres such as same-sex friendship and romantic love, cross-sex friendship has not been given sufficient …
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Design and development of a LIVE Digital Twin methodology for predictive maintenance of bearings in rotary machine systems
… focus for many predictive and prescriptive maintenance strategies. In maintenance, DT is used for connecting the physical and digital models of a maintenance monitoring system and proactively prescribing maintenance solutions to extend the products life. Many of the failures in modern DT can …
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Predictive Maintenance in Rail Transportation: An Explainable Machine Learning Approach
… yet their reliability depends on effective maintenance strategies that prevent costly disruptions and safety hazards. Traditional fixed-interval maintenance approaches, although widely adopted, are inefficient and fail to capitalise on the predictive potential of modern condition-monitoring …
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Dynamic Fleet Maintenance Management
… this context, new technologies enable predictive maintenance to cover all activities from data acquisition and processing to maintenance decision-making advisory as output. This particularly expands to a wider view of ‘health management’ as opposed to a focus solely on maintenance at the fleet …
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Autonomous control and membrane maintenance optimization of photovoltaic reverse osmosis systems
… fouling, using a self-optimizing condition based maintenance algorithm. Additionally, by exploiting the energy compliance of PVRO elements and actively controlling the individual components of the system, water production can be maximized. The compliance in a PVRO system has been found to …
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