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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"uncertainty management"”.
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Integrated automotive exhaust engineering : uncertainty management
The global automotive industry has entered a stagnating period. Automotive OEMs and their tier suppliers are struggling for business growth. One of the most important strategies is to improve the engineering efficiency in the product development process. The engineering uncertainties have been …
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Uncertainty management in prognosis of electric vehicle energy system
… and propagate them, and to manage or shrink uncertainty distribution bounds under long-term and usage-based prognosis for accurate and precise results. Uncertainty is an inherent attribute of prognostic technologies, in which we estimate the End-Of-Life (EOL) and Remaining-Useful-Life (RUL) …
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Uncertainty management in reference interactions with pro se law library users
This study applies uncertainty management theory to reference interactions between law librarians and pro se library users. Focus groups were conducted with law librarians to obtain data. The results showed that law librarians assisting pro se library users experienced uncertainty in multiple and …
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The Communicative Experiences of Potential New Members (PNMS) in Greek Life Recruitment
… delves into the communicative experiences and uncertainty management strategies of women participating in primary sorority recruitment. Drawing upon Uncertainty Management Theory and Social Penetration Theory, data were collected through six focus groups comprised of participants who engaged in …
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Cancer Survivorship: Couples' Communication and Adjustment After Treatment Is Complete
… for extended periods of time. Couples' uncertainty management attempts also are complex, as each partner's uncertainty can affect the other's coping; moreover partners' preferences for managing uncertainty may not align. The current study employed a communication perspective to explore …
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A multi-level examination of authentic leadership and organizational justice in uncertain times
… a multi-level model of leadership, justice, and uncertainty. Building upon uncertainty management theory and the nascent research in authentic leadership, I propose a multi-level moderated mediation model wherein authentic leaders influence individual fairness perceptions and create a fair …
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Characterizing uncertainty to manage risk in spacecraft development with application to structures and mass
… over the course of program development. Poor uncertainty management has been identified as one of the leading causes of program cost and schedule overruns. Traditional methods of uncertainty management are deterministic, using industry standards to predict worst-case inputs and designing …
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Managing economic value and uncertainty on software projects : an empirical study with the CASSE framework
… rigour to embrace overall economic value and uncertainty management. In this study. a complex Adaptive Software Engineering Framework which uses the Actor objective Dependency Analysis (AOD) technique is proposed as a feasible option. It is aimed at providing a useful technique for monitoring …
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The Mixed Effects of Procedural Justice in Novel Organizational Policy Decisions
… events. In this persistent, broader context of uncertainty, organizations have had to make numerous challenging decisions that pose additional, unwanted risk to employee attitudes. This dissertation includes two research papers that examine the impact of two unique organizational decisions on …
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Addressing deep uncertainty in space system development through model-based adaptive design
… process. Therefore, the problem exhibits deep uncertainty. Deep uncertainty refers to the condition where the full range of outcomes of a decision is not knowable. A key strategy to mitigate deep uncertainty is to update decisions when new information is learned. NASA's current uncertainty …
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Multi-parametric Programming for Microgrid Operational Scheduling
… programming (MPP) based approach for energy management in microgrids. The algorithm creates operational strategies for efficient and tractable coordination of distributed energy sources in a residential level microgrid. The hybrid energy system comprises of renewable (solar photovoltaic and …
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Flexible product platforms
The research contributes to the uncertainty management of engineering systems by proposing and demonstrating a way to implement flexible platform strategy to respond to future uncertainties. In today's competitive market, where market segments are becoming more fragmented, pressure to develop and …
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Why Can't We Be Friends? Examining the Influence of Social Network Profiles on Initial Interactions
… the primary purpose of this study was to extend Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT) into the Information age by examining the effect that the type of information available on social network sites may have on initial interactions. Thirty strangers were matched with one another to create fifteen …
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Discrete Choice-based Equilibrium Modeling of Supply Chain Network with Conflicting Objectives and Demand Uncertainty
… under conflicting objective decision-making and uncertainty management in a supply chain network. In particular, discrete choice models are introduced into supply chain equilibrium models to bridge the conflicting objective decision-making in supply chains and customer preference. Furthermore, …
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Message Convergence in Information Seeking and Decision Making among Adult Children Regarding their Parent's Diagnosis
… a lens of message convergence framework and uncertainty management. The results show participants engage in information seeking from personal connections to the medical field to retrieve additional information from a more familiar, trusted source. The participants managed uncertainty …
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Assertiveness during condom negotiation among high risk late adolescent/emerging adult couples: The role of relational uncertainty
… with inconsistent condom use. Guided by Uncertainty Management Theory, the current study hypothesized that high-risk youth with high relational uncertainty would demonstrate low levels of assertiveness during a laboratory-based condom negotiation task with their current romantic partner. …
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Juvenile Court Judges and their Concerns about Vulnerability, Experienced Uncertainty and the Law: Extralegal Factors, Legal Considerations and Judicial Transfer Decision-making
… and three categories of variables: (a) terror management and social information-processing, (b) uncertainty management and attributional reasoning, and (c) statutory and nonstatutory sources of influence. Two social theories (i.e., the dual-process theory of proximal/distal defenses and …
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Exploring the "Aha" Moment: The Process of Conscious Awareness During the Early Stages of Relationship Development
… of romantic relationships can be filled with uncertainty. One major cause of uncertainty in the early stages of relationship development is whether or not one has entered into an actual relationship. Furthermore, people who experience uncertainty are generally motivated to engage in …
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Uncertainty in Internet-Based Cancer News
Uncertainty has been defined and studied in many ways; however, no universal message-level coding scheme for dimensions of uncertainty has been developed. A content analysis of 1,120 Internet-based cancer news articles was completed, in which a presence/absence scale for five theoretically derived …
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Dynamic tailoring and tuning for space-based precision optical structures
… in the areas of system dynamics and controls, uncertainty management and testing. The telescope optics must meet stringent positional tolerances in the presence of environmental and on-board disturbances, resulting in heavy demands on structural dynamics and control. In addition, fully …
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