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Showing 1 to 20 of 194 for “"manning"”.
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Manning Analysis in Naval Ship Concept Design
… has prompted particular interest in reducing manning, as this is the largest single expenditure in total ownership cost. Normally ships are designed and then a study is performed to determine their required manning, but manning has a significant design impact and designs can either be too …
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Bob Manning & son: soul, inheritance, and forgotten stories
<p>Bob Manning & Son is a long-form multimedia nonfiction essay based on interviews, historical research, and personal accounts. The essay documents the life of Swedish-American soul singer, Bob Manning, and explores the familial inheritance of his children, primarily through the perspective of his …
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'His own privacý: Frederic Manning: a critical and historical analysis
… sets out to establish the fact that Frederic Manning is a writer whose work, hitherto regarded as too limited in its scope, its quantity and its quality to be exceptional, is actually diverse, productive and highly articulate, therefore justifying him a notable places in literature. The …
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Manning and Automation Model for Naval Ship Analysis and Optimization
The manning of a ship is a major driver of life cycle cost. The U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) has determined that manpower is the single most influential component in the life cycle cost of a ship. Life cycle cost is largely determined by decisions made during concept design. …
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The effects of manning level on task performance and perceived crowding
… Virginia Tech took part in a study concerning manning levels and the perception of crowding and related experiences. A new apparatus was designed and built (an HO-gauge train set) to manipulate manning level, physical constraint (using two different control designs), and cognitive load, …
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MANNING THE TVA: WHITE MASCULINITIES AND ENGINEERING AT THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, 1933-1953
This dissertation seeks to address the use of gender and race in constructing U.S. engineering identity. It analyzes individual and institutional identities at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) between 1933 and 1953 through a model of multiple white masculinities. Predominantly drawing on oral …
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Manning and automation of naval surface combatants : a functional allocation approach using axiomatic design theory
… but also the overall ship effect of each manning and automation decision is readily determined. A case study demonstrating this point is presented.
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Machinery monitoring technology design methodology for determining the information and sensors required for reduced manning of ships
Thesis (Nav.E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
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The Ready Reserve Force: is it capable of performing its mission
… the Ready Reserve Force (RRF) from a personnel manning and supply and logistic support perspective. The history of the RRF and a discussion of its current status are included. Specifically examined is the decline in the number of merchant mariners and in the number of available billets for the …
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A cost comparison of alternative methods for fleet introduction of the CG 47 class
Manning of new construction ships in preparation for fleet introduction requires the utilization of considerable Navy resources, both in terms of personnel lost to the fleet and dollar costs. Criticism by the General Accounting Office and Navy self-evaluation of new construction manning occurred in …
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Geohydrological characteristics of Table Mountain Group aquifer-fed seeps and the plant ecophysiological consequences
… vascular species (Goldblatt, 1978; Goldblatt and Manning, 2002). The region has exceptionally high levels of endemism. Almost 69% of its 8920 species of flowering plants are endemic (Goldblatt and Manning, 2002), and, despite its small area, it is regarded as one of the six global plant kingdoms …
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Codemakers
<p><em>Codemakers </em>is a book of poems by Dawn Manning divided into three sections: "Topophilia," "Goodwill," and "Women's Work."</p>
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OPTIMIZATION OF THE FORCE GENERATION PROCESS OF MARINE CORPS INFANTRY BATTALIONS
… manpower assignment methods do not optimize the manning of Marine Corps infantry battalions to ensure maximum training readiness, manning, and deployability under the FGP. This thesis researches manpower trends, personnel timelines, deployment manpower levels, and unit deployment timelines of …
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Development of hydraulic relationships for estimating in-bank river discharge using remotely sensed data
… The proposed estimation models are based on the Manning and Chezy flow resistance equations, and utilize combinations of potentially observable variables including water-surface width, maximum-channel (or bankfull) width, mean water depth, mean maximum-channel depth, mean water velocity, and …
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Design, evaluation, and validation of a naval ship structural health monitoring tool
… has occurred. However, changes in the Navy's manning philosophy to minimal manning and new ship designs focused on automation encourage a re-evaluation of these structural preventative maintenance procedures. Automation of structural inspection and damage detection would reduce associated …
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NAVAL SURFACE FORCES ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COMBAT SYSTEMS DEPARTMENTS
… systems. This analysis looked at structure, manning, guidance, and procedures used in order to determine why there is misalignment and what is needed in order to provide congruence and allow efforts to mirror each other across the coasts and to provide symmetry. Recommendations, based on our …
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The Determinants of Police-Specific Contract Clauses
… bargaining issues such as mandated equipment, manning, premium pay provisions, officer bill of rights, and residency rules. These specific contract clauses are viewed as central to police officers' feeling of physical and psychological security and are also seen as incursions into managerial …
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Tetraria triangularis (Boeck.) C.B. Clarke and the Cape fold archipelago : an analysis of genetic and morphological variation in a high-altitude species native to the moutains of the Cape floristic region
… (Marloth 1929, Takahatjan, 1986, Goldblatt and Manning 2000, Linder 2003). A small number of clades (33) account for 50% of the species diversity, indicating that much of the diversification has occurred in situ, rendering it reminiscent of island archipelago radiations (Marloth 1929, Linder …
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A darker shade of blue: From public servant to professional deviant; Law enforcement's special operations culture
… many other assumed privileges of brotherhood. Manning (1980) describes the powerful mystification of policing as the “sacred canopy”. He further asserts that “the police role conveys a sense of sacredness or awesome power that lies at the root of political order, and authority, the claims a …
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Destructive Behaviors in Naval Shipyards: A STAMP and System Dynamics Analysis
… of Service, demanding workloads, and critical manning shortfalls create cumulative stress distinct from operational duty. These destructive behaviors severely impact personnel’s well-being, erode force readiness through attrition and morale issues, and indicate systemic contributing factors as …
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