Planning a construction project through breaking the project down into smaller individual operations of construction processes relies on an accurate estimate of the operational productivity. A model (based on 212 real construction operations) which is capable of producing such estimates is utilised to experiment with operational performance, through varying the number of resources involved in t...

delivering added value public e-services often requires cooperation between two or more government departments. in general, such cooperation is ensured by implementing interoperability between automated business processes. in spite of the existence of several works interested in public online services in general, only few of them were focused on measuring interoperability degree, whether used o...

UV/H2O2 and UV/peroxodisulfate (PDS) processes were adopted to degrade a typical β-blocker, atenolol (ATL), and the degradation efficiencies under various operational parameters (oxidant dosage, pH, HCO3, humic acid (HA), NO3, and Cl) were compared. Principal factor analysis was also performed with a statistical method for the two processes. It was found that increasing the specific dosage of t...

Numerical models that combine weather forecasting and atmospheric chemistry are here referred to as chemical weather forecasting models. Eighteen operational chemical weather forecasting models on regional and continental scales in Europe are described and compared in this article. Topics discussed in this article include how weather forecasting and atmospheric chemistry models are integrated i...

In order to improve the operational readiness of Naval aviation, the Department of the Navy (DON) is implementing a knowledge management process known as Military Flight Operations Quality Assurance (MFOQA). MFOQA utilizes available flight data from existent onboard data collection systems to provide information that can be used to improve efficiencies in aircraft maintenance and operations, fl...

he Integrated Systems Engineering Team (ISET) is a pragmatic means to integrate government, industry, and laboratory/academic organizations to develop national security space (NSS) systems. To ensure that the government can be an intelligent buyer and industry can be an informed provider of future operational production, including an ISET as part of the technical approach is highly effective fo...

Empirical studies and surveillance projects increasingly assess and address potentially adverse psychological health outcomes from the stress of military operations, but no standards yet exist for common concept definitions, variable categories, and measures. This article reports the consensus recommendations of the federal interagency Operational Stress Working Group for common data elements t...

Today's process manufacturers are faced with a volatile economy, intense competition and rising energy/material costs. Improving operational for margin purposes, but also for long term success. Cost reduction and quality/productivity improvement have now become key levers for gaining competitive advantage. Operational excellence is the pursuit of conducting business in a manner that continuousl...

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