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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"performance objectives"”.
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Human walking adaptations to distant limb mass disturbances : investigating biomimetic performance objectives
… to work towards the development of biologic performance criteria that can be utilized in finding solutions to reduced order walking optimization problems. Toward the development of biologically realistic performance criteria, human subjects were inertially-perturbed and the reorganization of …
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Enabling design with rheological complexity: intuition and optimization of viscoelastic materials
… nonlinearity) that can achieve diverse performance objectives (user experience, vibration isolation, etc.). Here, we focus on a specific rheological complexity: viscoelasticity. Viscoelasticity introduces a material time dependence, often referred to as memory. The design process with …
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Autonomic Workload Management for Database Management Systems
… levels of business importance and distinct performance objectives. When the workloads execute concurrently on a database server, interference may occur and result in the workloads failing to meet the performance objectives and the database server suffering severe performance degradation. To …
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State switching in multi-stable systems: control and optimisation.
… to a more efficient one, in order to achieve performance enhancement in real-life engineering systems. Multistable systems have more than one stable state under a set of parameters and the process of switching from an undesired state to a desired state is achieved by the proposed PD-like …
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Strategy and performance in a volatile environment: a study of the electronic computing industry
This study had two objectives. The first was to extend the strategy paradigm by examining the relationship between strategy type and performance objective. The second was to test the idea of a contingency relationship between strategy and performance. The central research question guiding this …
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An investigation into the use of video and performance analysis systems and design in Cycling New Zealand and the Team Pursuit discipline
… to investigate the effective use of video and performance analysis (PA) systems in the Track Cycling Olympic programme in New Zealand. The thesis focused on the Team Pursuit discipline in the Track Cycling endurance squad and used coach driven performance objectives and questions. A Design …
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The Challenges Facing Open Performance Review Appraisal System (OPRAS) in Public Institutions in Tanzania. A Case of Kigoma Ujiji Municipal Council.
… to investigate the challenges facing employees’ performance appraisal system in Kigoma/Ujiji Municipal Council; A Case of Kigoma Ujiji Municipal Council and thereby suggests the transformative approaches to address the situation. The study used questionnaire method, interview guide and …
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Evaluating irrigation system performance: A case study in East Java, Indonesia
… the extent to which these systems are achieving performance objectives. This study develops a methodology to evaluate both operations and distribution rule performance, addressing the problem of efficient and equitable allocation of limited irrigation water across units of large public irrigation …
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Strategic models at the business level: Toward an integrative contingency approach
… have explored strategic models that explain performance in terms of strategy and environment. However, relatively little progress has been made towards developing integrative contingency models of strategy, despite increasing interest in contingency models of strategy research. Also, very …
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Robust Controller Interpolation With Application to Gain-Scheduling
… controller interpolation to meet stability and performance objectives. First, an intuitive definition of the controller interpolation problem is presented. The resulting set of controller interpolation criteria is translated into a parameterization of all stabilizing interpolated controllers …
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Control Design for Long Endurance Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Systems
… tracking, agility, and energy efficient performance. AUVs have many sources of modeling uncertainty that impact the uncertainty in maneuvering performance. A robust control design process is proposed to handle these uncertainties while meeting control system performance objectives. We …
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Hybrid Steel Frames
… building codes generally perform well at severe performance objectives (like life safety) under high earthquake hazard levels. However, the building performance at low performance objectives (like immediate occupancy) under low earthquake hazards is uncertain. The motivation of this research is …
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A decentralized control design approach to a class of large-scale systems
… large number of states, actuators, and control objectives for these systems often restricts the ability to analyze and control the system as a whole. Typically, these large systems are decomposed into multiple smaller subsystems which can be analyzed and controlled separately using a …
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Performance index analysis of control systems synthesized for a counter-current process
… MIMO control system design to meet certain performance objectives are discussed in this dissertation. These performance objectives include: * Input and output rejection of noise and disturbances. * Input and output insensitivity to changes in the process. * Good output regulation and minimal …
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The formative evaluation and revision of an instructional management system for business computer competencies
… Education Suggested Course Competencies and Performance Objectives, published by the Virginia Department of Education in 1989. The taxonomy resulted in the publication of the Business Computer Software Curriculum Series in 1990. This latter publication forms the core of the instructional …
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An evaluation of a multi-unit school foodservice program
… shrinking resources in order to maintain program objectives and avert a decrease in program participation. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the impact of the federal budget cuts on the performance objectives of a multi-unit school foodservice program. In addition, the effects of …
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The development, delivery and evaluation of a harassment awareness training package for a corporate workplace
… and research into flight crew and cabin crew performance. Formative evaluation of the training package was conducted where qualitative data was collected from subject matter and facilitation experts. Two small-group reviews of the modified package were conducted with members of the target …
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Interactive exploration of design space
… simultaneous optimization of conflicting performance objectives: Design variations that improve one performance metric may decrease another performance metric. In these scenarios, there is no unique optimal design but rather a set of designs that are optimal for different tradeoffs (called …
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A finite state machine framework for robust analysis and control of hybrid systems
… engineered systems and pose unique, challenging performance verification and control synthesis problems. Existing approaches either lead to computationally intensive and sometimes undecidable problems, or make use of highly specialized discrete abstractions with questionable robustness …
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Balanced Scorecard for Joint Interagency Task Force South Counter Threat Finance Cell
… authors developed a BSC with 14 organizational performance measures related to three performance objectives and three BSC perspectives linking the cell’s day-to-day activities to their organizational strategies. This project concludes that the BSC is a viable business tool that can assist the …
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