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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"traditional performance"”.
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EVA and shareholder value creation: an empirical study
… with shareholder wealth and firm values than are traditional performance measures. Two commonly used value-based performance metrics namely, Total Shareholder Return (TSR) and Tobin's Q are also considered to highlight the valuerelevance of EVA vis-a-vis these measures in predicting shareholder …
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Neo-onnagata: professional cross-dressed actors and their roles on the contemporary Japanese stage
… and demonstrate how the neo-onnagata challenge traditional performance and sex roles. Particularly, I seek to showcase neo-onnagata as expanding opportunities for male actors and as new gendered models for men.
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Quantifying Consistency: Developing New Metrics for MLB Player Valuation
This study investigates how performance consistency during a player’s pre-arbitration years in Major League Baseball (MLB) influences their first-year arbitration salary, offering novel insights for player valuation. Consistency is quantified based on three categories: short-term volatility, …
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Returns on capital of the private equity asset class : an alternative methodology and comparative analysis
… equity asset class by presenting an alternative performance measurement methodology and applying this methodology to a sample population of 60 private equity limited partnerships. The limited partnerships comprising the sample population covered the time period of December 1978 through December …
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The development and validation of a paper and pencil achievement test in automotive mechanics
… mechanics using this instrument rather than the traditional performance test. It involved: 1) the selection of a number of accepted performance task items agreed upon by a jury of experts as valid for testing automotive mechanics students; 2) the formulation of each accepted performance task into …
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Techniques in scalable and effective parallel performance analysis
Performance analysis tools are essential to the maintenance of efficient parallel execution of scientific applications. As scientific applications are executed on larger and larger parallel supercomputers, it is clear that performance tools must employ more advanced techniques to keep up with the …
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Empowering Place: Unlocking Value for Investors by Integrating Indigenous Values in Luxury Hospitality
… in the luxury hospitality sector by leveraging traditional performance metrics alongside a complementary framework designed to uncover underexplored opportunities and enhance collaboration among stakeholder groups. Through the analysis of two case studies—Salterra Resort & Spa in South Caicos, …
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Educators’ Understanding of Child Development in Successful Schools that Face Challenging Circumstances
… Further, these educators have expanded the traditional performance-based construct of student “success” to include a range of success that includes child social-emotional developmental success, and in expanding their understanding of student success, have arrived at an innovative, …
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Exploration and assessment of the environmental design space for commercial aircraft and future technologies
… ability exists to consider environmental and traditional performance objectives of aircraft concurrently. This context of multi-disciplinary system design is named the Environmental Design Space (EDS) and is studied in this thesis with an integrated aircraft-engine conceptual design framework. …
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Managing Memory for Power, Performance, and Thermal Efficiency
Extraordinary improvements in computing performance, density, and capacity have driven rapid increases in system energy consumption, motivating the need for energy-efficient performance. Harnessing the collective computational capacity of thousands of these systems can consume megawatts of …
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Application of the production system design framework in the automotive components industry
… are studied. The analysis is performed using traditional performance metrics as the evaluating criteria. In addition, this analysis is contrasted to an analysis made using the MSDD. The similarities of the results validate the importance of the MSDD. Furthermore, the MSDD is used to identify …
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An integrated logistics performance measurement system for logistics management
… was a revolution that changed the nature of traditional performance measurement systems. Since then there has been an explosion in the number of scholars and practitioners seeking new and better ways of measuring organizational performance. Performance measurement systems (PMS) specialized …
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Lithium Storage Mechanisms and Electrochemical Behavior of Molybdenum Disulfide
… that RGO notably improves the electrochemical performance, rate capability, and durability of the electrodes. These findings are supported by experimental observations and are crucial for advancing the understanding of MoS2 as a high-capacity anode material. The implications of this research …
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Reducing communication in sparse solvers
… many scientific applications. In parallel, the performance and scalability of these operations is limited by irregular point-to-point communication. Multiple methods are investigated throughout this dissertation for reducing the cost associated with communication throughout sparse matrix …
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A case study of the balanced scorecard in public hospitals
… The BSC takes a multi-dimensional approach to performance management providing a link between organisational strategy and operational performance. Australian public sector reforms have lead to corporatisation of many government-owned entities, which now have the autonomy to decide their own …
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Miguel Yuste: His Works for Clarinet and His Influence on the Spanish Clarinet School of Playing in the Twentieth Century, A Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Bax, Mason, Khachaturian, Chausson, Bozza, Beethoven, and Others
… students provides invaluable insight into the traditional performance practice of the works and the extent to which Miguel Yuste influenced Spanish clarinetists in the twentieth century. Chapter four presents an annotated bibliography and brief discussion of the extant works for clarinet by …
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A stochastic multi-criteria assessment of security of transportation assets
… project evaluation and prioritization use traditional performance measures including travel time, safety, user costs, economic efficiency, and environmental quality. The project impacts in terms of enhancing the infrastructure resilience or mitigating the consequences of infrastructure …
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Adding Mystery to the Table Games Department: A Strengths-Based Mystery Shopping Feedback Intervention for Casino Blackjack Dealers
… the team members being observed. It a unique performance metric in that it evaluates employees from the perspective of a customer, who is by nature a non-biased observer, and it is an alternative to the traditional performance review that is completed by a manager or agent of the company. The …
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Towards a Theatre for Gamers : a new paradigm of practice in contemporary live performance as a response to games and interactivity in digital media and performance culture
… of play, be applied to the design of live performance and engage the new game playing audience within contemporary society? To investigate this I have carried out a practice-as-research project within an ethnographic framework and informed by action research methodologies. This study has …
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