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Showing 1 to 20 of 694 for “"quantitative approach"”.
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Comparative development: a quantitative approach.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1969. M.C.P.
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A quantitative approach to data base design
… the operational portions of the system. This approach suffers from the drawback that the processing in the application programs is restricted by the design of the database. A far better approach to the entire process would be to define the data requirements of application programs and then use …
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Quantitative Approach and Departure Risk Assessment for Unmanned Aerial Systems
The usage of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), also called drones, has grown at an increasing rate, with expectations of the number of unmanned aircraft (UA) to triple between 2019 and 2023 as commercial and government usage of UAS increases as per the Federal Aviation Administration. As the usage of …
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Quantitative Approach and Departure Risk Assessment for Unmanned Aerial Systems
… well as improve upon an existing software tool: Quantitative Approach and Departure Risk Assessment (QUADRA). The primary focus is upon the incorporation of building information to determine the protection offered to sheltered populations, reevaluate the probability of fatality models used in …
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A quantitative approach for continuous improvement in process safety and reliability
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1995.
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Quantitative Approach to Select Energy Benchmarking Parameters for Drinking Water Utilities
… The goal of this research is to develop quantitative approach to select energy benchmarking parameters of the water system, so the drinking water utilities can use those parameters to improve their energy efficiency. In addition to a typical benchmarking of drinking water utilities, the …
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS ON CASH MANAGEMENT : A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH
… of electronic payment on cash management by a quantitative approach. The evaluation of the impact is based on the cost involved in the cash management activities. There are three types of cost considered in the evaluation: cost of transactions, demand for cash, processing cost and float …
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RECONSTRUCTING CLIMATE ON THE GREAT PLAINS FROM BURIED SOILS: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH
The Great Plains, U.S.A. lack quantitative paleoclimatic data for the late Quaternary largely because two common sources of paleoclimatic data, tree ring and pollen records, are rare in the region. Sequences of buried soils, however, are commonly preserved in eolian and alluvial sediments on the …
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Effects of economic transition policies on Yugoslavia's agricultural sector: A quantitative approach
The optimal level of state ownership of the agricultural land in Yugoslavia is determined under policy scenarios including food security, price support, trade commitments or quotas, and employment levels. These policies are evaluated with reference to their price (cost) implications, consumers' and …
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Evaluating High School Church Curricula via the Danielson Framework for Teaching: A Quantitative Approach
The purpose of this qualitative study was to evaluate current evangelical small group or Sunday school curricula for high school students using the Danielson Framework for Teaching (FFT). The literature review revealed large-scale problems with Christianity in the U.S., problems in Christian …
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Evaluating High School Church Curricula via the Danielson Framework for Teaching: A Quantitative Approach
The purpose of this qualitative study was to evaluate current evangelical small group or Sunday school curricula for high school students using the Danielson Framework for Teaching (FFT). The literature review revealed large-scale problems with Christianity in the U.S., problems in Christian …
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POLYMETALLIC NODULE ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION USING SIDESCAN SONAR: A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
… published work to elaborate on a data-driven approach in estimating PMN abundance using SSS seabed backscatter data. The trained ANN model yielded an average accuracy performance of 85.36%, demonstrating that it can be an effective tool in estimating PMN abundance from SSS seabed backscatter …
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The effect of early season soil temperatures on corn canopy development: A quantitative approach
Corn leaf area and the geometry of the canopy determine the percentage of solar radiation intercepted. Early season soil temperatures have been reported to affect corn ontogeny. A two year field experiment was conducted to evaluate the growth and developmental characteristics of corn under …
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A quantitative approach to patient risk assessment and safety optimization in intensive care units
… improve care quality and patient safety. Our approach is based on theories regarding the underlying causes of human errors and a system engineering as well as analytics perspectives. We use various statistical methodologies to output rigorous but clinically intuitive insights. The core concept …
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Pair trading in Bovespa with a quantitative approach: cointegration, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck equation and Kelly criterion.
Pair trading is an old and well-known technique among traders. In this paper, we discuss an important element not commonly debated in Brazil: the cointegration between pairs, which would guarantee the spread stability. We run the Dickey-Fuller test to check cointegration, and then compare the …
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A study of the role of the manufacturing sector in Zambia’s economic growth – a quantitative approach.
… software and made use of quarterly time-series quantitative secondary data from 2014Q1 to 2021Q4 that was analysed using the ARDL model through regression analysis. The study found a long-run relationship that exists between the dependent and the independent variables using the ARDL bounds …
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Investigating the Impact of Employment and Demographic Factors on Health Among Bereaved Adults: A Quantitative Approach
… retrospective, exploratory, correlational quantitative study used the 2019 and 2022 Georgia BRFSS datasets to examine self-reported health among bereaved and non-bereaved adults ages 18 to 64. Analytic samples included employed adults and students (2019 n = 2,203; 2022 n = 2,690). The …
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Telling the Stars: A Quantitative Approach to Assessing the Use of Folk Tales in Science Education.
… locations in the United States. Because few quantitative studies have been conducted to examine the use of stories in science education, the development of an instrument to assess students' attitudes toward science and stories forms a major part of this research. During the final stage of …
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Exploring intersectional influences of race and gender on student leadership capacity development: a critical quantitative approach
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Pharmacometrics of dolutegravir and tenofovir: a quantitative approach to characterise drug-drug interactions, pharmacogenetics and optimise treatment
Africa houses more than 50% of the 37 million people estimated to be living with HIV (PLWH). Although great strides have been made in increasing access to antiretroviral therapy, the number of new HIV infections remains high. In sub-Saharan Africa, co-infections of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria …
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