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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"short-term performance"”.
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Impact of curing time on warm mix asphalt short-term performance
… complex modulus to withstand traffic loads. A performance evaluation of WMA over various ‘curing’ periods would determine the evolution of the complex modulus over time. This allows to identify the optimum time for opening WMA paved surfaces to traffic. The effect of curing time on the …
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Has COVID-19 impacted short-term performance of healthcare and technology IPOs?
This research investigates if COVID-19 impacted short-term IPO performance of two sectors, healthcare and technology. The number of IPOs during the pandemic years is the highest in history, indicating a causal relationship between IPOs and the pandemic. The literature on COVID-19 and IPO …
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Monotonic and cyclic short-term performance of nailed and bolted timber connections
This paper presents the results of testing to determine the appropriateness of the seismic load duration factor and to investigate the possible effect of previous load history from cyclic loading on connection reserve capacity and ductility. The single shear nail and bolt connection types tested …
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A Preliminary Study of Trip Recovery Training in Older Adults for Use as a Fall Prevention Intervention
… study was to investigate if older adults exhibit short-term performance adaptation and long-term motor learning with repeated exposures to a simulated trip. While in a safety harness, participants stood on a treadmill that was quickly accelerated to simulate a trip. Improvements in trip recovery …
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Essays on Financing of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
… funding rounds that are less contingent on short-term performance. This strategy requires VCs to rely more on continuous monitoring and liquidation protection, and is restricted to larger funds with specialized experience. My results suggest that, as incumbents have gained greater financial …
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An investigation into performance persistence amongst South African general equity unit trusts funds - for the period 2000 to 2011
… Masters Thesis “Characterising Persistence of Performance amongst South African General Equity Unit Trusts”, in which he tested performance persistence over the period 1980 to 1999. This updated study focuses on testing whether the performance of a unit trust fund in one period can be used to …
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Three essays on modeling dynamic organizational processes
… is therefore central to understanding firms' performance. This essay investigates the role of time delays between taking an action and observing the results in impeding learning. These delays ubiquitous in real world settings can introduce important tradeoffs between the long-term and the …
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Open innovation strategy : a framework for corporate-startup collaboration
… sustaining investment in core assets to ensure short term performance. Open innovation strategies, levering on the internal and external entrepreneurial drive, have been proposed to increase the resilience of corporates while opening the opportunity for nascent ventures to grow in new markets. …
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Computer Monitoring in the Workplace: Performance Effects and Perceptions
<p>Computer performance monitoring (CPM) has become prevalent in modern day as several work functions are now completed on the computer. Under the framework of social facilitation effect (Zajonc, 1965), it is possible that CPM may affect performance because of the feeling of being evaluated. In …
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Comparison of measured to predicted performance of owner-built solar integral collector storage water heater systems
… to predicted values calculated using Annual Performance Methodology (APM). APM is a prediction method developed by Alan Zollner that offers quick and easy comparisons of design option for ICS systems. Several different methods exist today that are meant to predict the performance of this type …
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Das Lichtpulsersystem des elektromagnetischen CsI(Tl)-Kalorimeters des Babar-Detektors
… is inaccessable for repair. In monitoring the short term performance of the light pulser system, the stability over one week is better than 0.15 %. Over six months between February and August 2000 the crystal response, as measured by the light pulser, of the three rings of the endcap that are …
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The Ergogenic Effects of Oxygen Supplementation on Cycling Performance
… was related time trial and time to exhaustion performances, i.e. predominately aerobic activities. However, more recently, oxygen supplementation has also been shown to benefit high intensity short duration activity. This thesis aimed to further examine how oxygen supplementation may offer …
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Learning by self-study of a statistical analysis technique
… rote memorisation in learners and enhance performance and understanding. Traditional teaching methods have long been criticised for encouraging rote memorisation through the importance placed on the accretion of grades and test scores (Ritchhart & Perkins, 2000; Sherretz, 2011) as opposed …
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A lightweight method for improving coordination in distributed, high-variability product companies
… are becoming more technology rich and with shorter life cycles. Improved coordination that enables greater speed, flexibility, and multi-market effectiveness is particularly important as companies shift engineering and commercial responsibilities to formerly production-only centers. This …
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Treatment of contaminated sediments using reactive cap technology: Characterization and modeling of geotechnical, hydraulic and contaminant transport behavior of cap-sediment systems
… caps, even though they define the long and short term performance of the reactive cap. This dissertation presents a detailed study on each of these subjects, and how the interactions affect the efficiency and performance of reactive cap technology.</p>
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Capturing the strategic pivot: Identifying the performance outcomes of new venture pivots
… the causal impact that it has on new venture performance. This is likely due to the methodological challenges that arise when approaching the subject, which include the difficulty of identifying when a pivot has taken place (in real-time, and for a sufficiently large number of ventures that …
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Words and facts: children's fast mapping, retention and extension
… facts was no better than chance, despite good short-term performance. These data suggested that object labels are retained more easily than other word types and facts. Studies 2, 3 and 4 investigated why facts were not retained after one week in Study 1. Studies 2 and 3 explored whether …
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Cropping systems under water-limited conditions: effects of rotation and nitrogen management on yield, resource use efficiency, profitability, and soil properties
… efficiency (NUE), soil properties, and economic performance. A long-term field experiment conducted from 2014 to 2024 under limited irrigation in south-central Nebraska evaluated five corn-based rotations: continuous corn (C), corn-sorghum (C-Sg), corn-soybean (C-Sb), corn-wheat (C-W), and …
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Strategic motivations and performance determinants of the UK International Joint Ventures (IJVs) in China and India: A dual parent perspective
… what extent different location characteristics determine the strategic motivations of IJVs formed by UK MNEs in India and China, and if these location characteristics are assessed differently between UK MNE parents and Indian and Chinese parents and (2) “To what extent dynamic capabilities …
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A hardware and software architecture for efficient datacenters
… current systems are architected to maximize long-term, average performance (e.g., throughput over a period of seconds), and cannot provide the short-term performance guarantees needed by these applications. The stringent performance requirements of latency-critical applications make power …
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