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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"specific service"”.
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Exploring the Impacts of Service Guarantee Strategy in the Casual Restaurant Sector
This study examined the impacts of service guarantees in terms of consumers' perceived risks, loyalty, and word-of-mouth intent in the casual dining restaurant segment. In addition, the study investigated what type of service guarantee consumers preferred. A total of seven research hypotheses were …
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Systems architecting approach to towing and salvage ship recapitalization
… The DoD has shifted defense planning from the specific service requirements generated system (RGS) acquisition to the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) approach that focuses more on how adversaries fight rather than whom they are fighting. This thesis explores how to …
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Towards formalisation of situation-specific computationsin pervasive computing environments
… secures the delivery of situation and domain specific services to their users. The proposed model is a user centric model, materialised as a software engineering solution, which uses the computations generated from the FCM, stores them within software architectural components, which in turn …
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Optimizing the use of dedicated and contract transportation assets to maximize total system profit
… FC needs to both maximize profit and preserve service quality. FC's existing decision framework focuses on fronthaul profit for each delivery while its heuristics do not reflect specific service or cost strategies. Additionally, the existence of backhaul revenue, late returns of containers, …
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Optimizing the content and gradation of recycled tyre rubber particles to improve cracking resistance of concrete mortars
… structures are designed to be sustained for a specific service life time. When some of these structures age, they undergo deterioration due to their exposure to harsh environmental conditions and thus their structural and aesthetic functionalities get compromised. In order to restore such …
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Organizations, labor control processes, and emotional labor: the case of the retail grocery trade
… labor suggests that the labor process within the service sector is fundamentally different from that of the manufacturing sector because the incorporation of a customer into the labor process necessitates an additional type of labor — namely, emotional labor — to facilitate the interaction. This …
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Online Review Analytics: New Methods for discovering Key Product Quality and Service Concerns
… monitoring and classifying product quality and service concerns. We develop various text classification methods for finding key concerns across a diverse set of product and service categories. Additionally, we generalize our results by testing the performance of our methodologies on online …
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Work-based subjectivity and identity: assisted self-service in contemporary British retailing
… of particular work-based subjects in a specific service industry. The organization of the thesis reflects this two-fold division. Part one (chapters two, three and four) explores certain limitations in traditional approaches to the analysis of work identity within sociology and attempts …
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Refugee Resettlement and Peacebuilding: Exploring the Roles of Human and Social Capital of Caseworkers in Fulfilling Grassroots Refugee Needs
… challenges for both the refugees and their service providers. Refugee caseworkers must meet their clients’ needs and provide certain services to their clients within a limited time period. This makes helping refugees gain economic self-sufficiency a daunting task. Often, failure to achieve …
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SLO-aware optimization and stateful orchestration for LLM systems
… aggregate throughput—fail to meet application-specific Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Furthermore, as workloads evolve into multi-agent systems (MAS), the lack of robust state management and error recovery in current runtimes creates a bottleneck for reliable orchestration. This thesis …
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Service design for heavy demand corridors : limited-stop bus service
… transit agencies run both limited-stop and local service along some of their heavy ridership corridors. The primary benefit of limited-stop bus service is higher speed which results in reduced running time and thus reduced travel time for passengers. This reduced travel time can improve the …
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An Empirical Examination of Service Dominant Logic: The Theory of the Network
… a new dominant logic for marketing called service-dominant logic (S-D Logic) has been proposed. However, not all scholars are supportive of S-D Logic. Still nescient, S-D Logic lacks a theoretic model, operationalized constructs, and relationships between those constructs. This study …
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A Unified Mobile Payment Transaction Exchange Service (UMTES) for Next-Generation Mobile Networks
… proliferation is largely for contactless wallet services. Most such services are closed loop payment services provided by specific service providers. Even after a decade of trials, proliferation is limited to closed loop systems (Eg: Starbucks) and card based wallet services for contactless …
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Planning Logistics in Healthcare Networks: Analysis and Resolution
… range of public and private entities (hospitals, specific service units, healthcare professionals, …) at local or regional level that seek for management effectiveness, decisional efficacy and coordination. This thesis analyzes the problem statement: "How can those organizations integrate their …
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Connecting to History through Service-Learning: A Qualitative Case Study Investigating Student Engagement in Core History Courses
… with and learn history content by performing a service-learning project that was linked to the course's objectives. The data consisted of project assignments including participant diaries, auto-photograph presentations, and virtual discussion questions. The results of the study found that …
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Investigating repair mortars containing superabsorbent polymers as a method of internal curing to improve concrete patch repair performance
Concrete structures are designed with a specific service life in mind and deteriorate over time due to their exposure to environmental conditions. In order to increase the service life of concrete structures, they can sometimes be rehabilitated and repaired using concrete overlays. However, …
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Labor market channels: perceptions of Vietnamese immigrants on accessing jobs in Chicago
… skills valuation and socialized to work in specific service industries. As a result, many first generation Vietnamese immigrants feel that they have little choice beyond underemployment in low wage jobs while struggling to earn a living. Employment history, education credentials, language …
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W.G. Sebald and the Cinematic Imagination
… throughout his work, most of them stand in specific service to memory. This study thus explores the function of filmic images and intermediality more generally in Sebald's prose fictions. It looks at how his writing about film not only mirrors the workings of memory, but also how it produces …
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Through the Hole in the Wall: ATMs as Strategic Sites for Social Innovation
… in the form of a framework for generating new service design proposals for ATMs and other networked devices. Some specific service design proposals were generated thereby. It produced an original collaborative design method I call generative coscripting, used here to analyse ATM fraud events. …
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Healthcare Utilization, Unmet Service Needs, and HIV Treatment Outcomes among People Living With HIV/AIDS in Nevada
Comorbidity rates and service needs are high among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). The effects of service utilization and unmet service needs on HIV treatment outcomes are not well understood. Furthermore, health disparities among racial/ethnic groups exist across the stages of HIV care …
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