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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"measuring performance"”.
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Measuring performance of transportation carriers
… used to evaluate the key measurements of carrier performances for various customer segments and make recommendations. The thesis proposes a comprehensive set of performance measurement criteria to select transportation carriers and presents a carrier selection process for ChemiCo. This process is …
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Measuring performance in supply chain networks
… supply chain networks sets new demands for performance analysis. Performance analysis needs to look beyond the narrow perspective of the focal firm and measure performance not only from a financial perspective. This thesis illustrates how the network position of a focal company in the supply …
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Measuring Performance in Complex Adaptive Systems: An Agent-Based Approach to Managerial and Technological Change
… This dissertation explores how organizational performance can be better understood and measured by viewing the organization as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS), a dynamic network of socio-technical systems including people, teams, and technologies that continuously evolve and respond to change. …
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Strengthening and expanding the Citizen Corps
… purpose of creating Target Capabilities Lists, measuring performance, and including volunteers in operations plans. This thesis posits that to achieve adequate civilian preparedness, the CC's roles and functions need to be restructured to align with the certification systems of the professional …
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Optimal versus naive diversification : do different loss functions improve portfolio choice?
I estimate the out-of-sample performance of the equal weight, minimum variance and mean-variance model portfolios in different settings. In each setting, I vary the loss function used when estimating returns and covariances, length of the estimation window, and number of factors used in our …
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An outcome-based statistical framework to select and optimize molecular clustering methods for infectious diseases
… through cross-validation of predictive models, measuring performance through the loss of Akaike's information criterion, a metric which indicates the benefit of predictive variables given a threshold. I compare thresholds which maximize this loss between clustering methods and data sets, …
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Dynamic reconfigurable battery systems via graph-based deep reinforcement learning
… open-source battery simulation platform PyBaMM, measuring performance in terms of voltage balancing and State of Charge (SOC) uniformity. Overall, this work establishes a foundation and offers insights for the development of future intelligent reconfigurable battery systems.
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Does Poverty Really Impede Cognitive Function? Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Fishers
… impacts cognition and productivity through measuring performance on problem solving tasks. The study also creates an index of distractions to test how existing problems in an individual’s life, which contribute to limited attention, relates to cognitive function and productivity. …
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Additive Lebesgue-Type Inequalities for Greedy Approximation
… that we will be mostly concerned with is of measuring performance of these algorithms (specifically, Pure Greedy Algorithm and Orthogonal Greedy Algorithm). We will compare several ways to describe the quality of the dictionary; some of them more fit for the our purposes than others. We will …
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A Framework for Developing and Evaluating Comprehensive Urban Forest Management Plans: An Analysis of Washington State Plans
… plans lack a written strategy for monitoring and measuring performance. Plan content varies depending on municipalities' unique management objectives, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all approach is not appropriate in the development of an urban forest management plan. However, the results suggest …
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The Validity of The VmaxPro during Countermovement Jump and Back Squat Performance
… determine the validity of the VmaxPro device for measuring performance variables in the back squat and countermovement jump (CMJ) against a gold standard force plate. Squat variables assessed included mean concentric velocity (MCV), mean concentric power (MCP), depth, and duration while CMJ …
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An assessment of performance and efficiency of team-based organizations: empirical evidence of English premier league (EPL) using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and naturalistic approach (NA), 2005 to 2016
… and Touché, 2008). A critique of issues about measuring performance and efficiency of sports resource to justify ranking in the EPL is presented in this study. This thesis addressed the changing focus in football management and many unresolved questions relating to Performance and Efficiency …
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Measuring Family Business Performance: A Holistic, Idiosyncratic Approach
<p>For any type of organization, performance represents the measure of outcomes, goals, and aspirations vital to various organization stakeholders; thus performance is an important research variable (Seijts, Latham, Tasa, & Latham, 2004, Simon, 1964). Family businesses are different from non-family …
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Construct Validity Evidence Based on Internal Structure: Exploring and Comparing the Use of Rasch Measurement Modeling and Factor Analysis with a Measure of Student Motivation
… on internal structure with multi-item scales measuring middle and secondary students' achievement goal orientation and academic self-efficacy. 1054 complete responses were received to 18 items measuring mastery, performance-approach, performance-avoidance, and self-efficacy. Items in each …
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The thermal energy performance of domestic dwellings in the UK
… is concerned with the understanding of the real performance of domestic retrofit measures in terms of whole house energy efficiency. The researcher has undertaken studies in a whole house test facility in a climate controlled chamber, which has allowed for work to be undertaken that challenges …
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The Effect of Model Formulation on the Comparative Performance of Artificial Neural Networks and Regression
… noise, and input vector size on the comparative performance of these two modeling techniques. However, research has also shown that a mis-specified regression model or an incorrect neural network architecture also contributes significantly to poor model performance. This dissertation compares the …
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Custeio baseado em atividades e balanced scorecard em um estudo de caso na área de assistência médica domiciliar
… business tools, it is presented a way of measuring performance and and cost. Then results are presented and, from them, management fact based suggestions, different from the current ones, are pointed out. Above ali, the biggest contribution brought with this work is based on business …
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A component task analysis of stereoscopic displays
… stereoscopic (3D) viewing allows improved viewer performance for tasks that involve three-dimensional information. Taken as a whole, such previous research indicates that the potential stereoscopic advantage may be dependent on the nature of the task being examined. This task dependency makes it …
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Evaluating Colleges and Universities: A New Model for Institutional Rankings
… independently and lack the wherewithal of measuring performance areas of effectiveness, efficiency or quality. The United States Department of Education maintain a number of subsidiary organizations and external sources that provide public statistical data for analysis, yet an institutional …
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An Assessment of Personal Characteristics, Job Satisfaction and Semantic Descriptors of Virginia Acute and Tertiary Care Hospitals' Chief Executive Officers
… and hospital demographics; (2) self rated performance; (3) a semantic scale measuring the concept of Hospital CEO; and (4) The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire. A survey was mailed to 119 CEO's. The response rate was 50%. The mean age of the respondents was 47 years and mean educational …
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