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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"mission readiness"”.
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Reset Aviation Maintenance Program Study of U.S. Army Aviation
… Because of the presumed safety, reliability, and mission readiness created by RESET, this thesis appraised the RESET maintenance program as a permanent addition to U.S. Army Aviation maintenance programs. <br /> The hypothesis was that RESET does improve safety, reliability, and mission readiness …
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Exploring Health in Military Families: Does Continuity of Care Influence Patient Satisfaction?
To ensure mission-readiness for military members, support for their families is essential. Military family health and health care satisfaction has been a neglected area of study in this population. Satisfaction can be defined in terms of patient-, provider-, and practice-level factors and is …
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Examination of a Nomological Network of Team Leadership: A Construct Validation Study
… among team members, and maintain superior mission readiness. The hypotheses were tested with performance appraisal data from 900 Commanders, Lieutenant Commanders, and Lieutenants from aviation, surface, and subsurface warfare communities. The relationships between the constructs were …
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Model-Centric Interdependent Critical Infrastructure System Recovery Analysis and Metrics
… structure that simplifies integration and uses mission priority and mission time constraint relationships to reduce the number of system states that must be evaluated to produce a practical solution. New concepts presented include the use of dependency components and automated system model …
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A comparative analysis of key business community characteristics of weapon system sustainment programs and implications for future weapon system programs
… providers, either organic or contractor, have mission readiness, translated into warfighter capability, as their long-term overarching priority. To this end, the business community (financial management and contracting) must develop a strategy that complements and satisfies the warfighters …
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Pay Me in Equity: Can Equal Opportunity Climate Attenuate Counterproductive Work Behavior?
In the military, force readiness is essential to mission readiness. To this end, the current study sought to identify how equal opportunity (EO) climate may enhance force readiness by mitigating withholding of effort, a counterproductive work behavior (CWB). Specifically, I assessed how EO climate …
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A Systems approach to planning large training operations for Army Units : visualization and optimization of multicommodity networks
… to build a network of the 4 TH Infantry Division mission readiness exercise conducted in June of 2015, provide graphical depictions of the system itself, and seeks to find an optimum solution for both operating costs and time. Through the application of multicommodity modeling, a decrease of time …
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Experimental analysis of an energy self sufficient ocean buoy utilizing a bi-directional turbine
… a unique gumby hose mooring system. The buoy's mission is to monitor the Massachusetts Bay for Right whale vocalizations. The turbine needed to convert a suitable amount of energy without interfering with the buoy's overall survivability or mission readiness. The turbine was a Babinsten impulse …
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UNDERSTANDING AND ENHANCING SUICIDE PREVENTION STRATEGIES IN THE MILITARY: THE ROLES OF CULTURE, LEADERSHIP, AND COMMAND CLIMATE
… molded to fit a military culture that emphasizes mission readiness and continuous preparedness. Countless hours are spent training for various situations that can arise. Many trainings are geared toward worst-case scenarios that can cause an increase in stressors and traumatic events. They are …
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The P. H. O. S. E. Design A Tool to Pursue Psychological Health during Long Duration Space Missions
… the PHOSE would be able to accurately replicate mission operations as well to allow the crew members to run through tasks for their limited time on the red planet. The biggest factor for space mission success is the crew that is participating in the mission. With so many influences that …
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Exploring employee perceptions of organizational change effectiveness within a United States Navy command : a qualitative single case study.
… of inadequate change management extend across mission readiness, morale, and national security. This study addressed the need to understand how U.S. Navy employees perceive the effectiveness of organizational change, recognizing that their insights are essential to shaping future reform …
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Perception and Reality: An Empirical Assessment of Navy Leadership Styles and Business Process Reengineering Outcomes
Seeking to improve mission readiness and organizational effectiveness while reducing expenditures, the Department of the Navy (DoN) eliminated and reconstructed many of its business practices. Reconstruction of the military's business practices was accomplished through business process …
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Restoring Confidence: A Qualitative Study of the Experience of Interim Commanding Officers in U.S. Navy Operational Units
… officers restored confidence in leadership and mission readiness to the wardroom, the crew and external stakeholders.
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"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis
… including the work of the lobbying organization "Mission: Readiness," the Centers for Disease Control-funded documentary series Weight of the Nation, and the First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign. The analysis of these sites shows that a nationalist rhetoric of obesity has developed as …
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Development and application of a dispersed two-phase flow capability in a general multi-block Navier Stokes solver
… deterioration of the gas turbine decreases the mission readiness of the Air Force and simultaneously increases the maintenance costs. Some of the major factors responsible for the reduced performance are ingestion of debris during take off and landing, distorted intake flows during low altitude …