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Task analysis for error identification: A methodology for designing 'error tolerant' consumer products
No full textThis paper presents an approach to the assessment of 'intelligent' consumer products. We assume that a primary reason for the difficulties people encounter in their use of intelligent consumer products is the lack of clear, consistent, and logical task sequences. The approach we have developed aims to illustrate the task sequences required for the purposeful use of 'intelligent' products, in order to indicate points at which errors, problems or confusions may occur. The approach combines two well proven methodologies (hierarchical task analysis and state space diagrams) to provide a description of human product interaction
Rethinking Eurasianism: the Eurasian Union Project of N.A. Nazarbaev
No full textThe article is dedicated to the analysis of basic patterns of the Eurasian Union Project of N.A. Nazarbaev. The author explains the reasons determined absence of interest from the direction of Russian leaders and governments of other CIS’s countries to the initiative of Kazakhstan President in 1990’s and the renewal of Eurasianism in 2000’s. The author also emphasizes the factors defining a special role of Kazakhstan in the processes of integration on the area of Eurasia
Work schedules, wages, and employment in a general equilibrium model with team production
No full textAn analysis of working hours, wages, and employment when production requires coordinating the work schedules of heterogeneous workers. The author shows that this coordination aspect of production can have important policy implications.Hours of labor ; Employment (Economic theory) ; Wages
Do structured methods help eco-innovation: An evaluation of the product ideas tree diagram
No full textThis paper reports on the first test of the Product Ideas Tree diagram (PIT): a structured method aimed to help Eco-innovation. The PIT diagram structures ideas output from chaotic idea generating sessions. This study compared four ways of conducting an Eco-innovation workshop. The results show that structured methods help Eco-innovation by improving the constructive communication between the participants. Further development of the PIT diagram promises to contribute several new approaches to sustainable product and process design
Accurate potential energy curves for Zn+-Rg (Rg = He-Rn): Spectroscopy and transport coefficients
No full textHigh-quality ab initio potential energy curves are presented for the Zn+–Rg series (Rg = He–Rn). Calculations are performed at the RCCSD(T) level of theory, employing aug-cc-pV5Z quality basis sets, with ‘small core’ relativistic effective core potentials being used for Kr–Rn. We present spectroscopic information for the titular species, derived from our potential energy curves, and compare to previous results. We also present calculated ion transport data and show that mobility minima occur for a number of these systems, albeit at low gas temperatures for some of them
PERBANDINGAN KINERJA GENERALIZED WIENER PROCESS DAN PROSES ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK DALAM MEMODELKAN HARGA SAHAM JOHNSON & JOHNSON
No full textJohnson & Johnson (J&J) merupakan perusahaan besar di sektor kesehatan dengan pendapatan yang stabil dan lini produk yang terdiversifikasi. Model Generalized Wiener Process (GWP) dan Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (O-U) dapat digunakan untuk memodelkan pergerakan harga saham J&J, dengan mempertimbangkan fluktuasi jangka pendek dan kecenderungan untuk kembali ke nilai rata-rata dalam jangka panjang. Penelitian ini menggunakan harga saham J&J untuk periode satu tahun, dengan total 248 observasi. Parameter dari kedua proses diestimasi untuk set data menggunakan method of moments, pada perangkat lunak R. Berdasarkan hasil prediksi, nilai MAPE yang diperoleh oleh model GWP dan model O-U secara berurutan adalah 1,9032% dan 1,8895%. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa kedua model dapat memodelkan harga penutupan saham Johnson & Johnson dengan sangat baik, dilihat dari nilai MAPE yang lebih kecil dari 10%. Namun, model O-U disimpulkan sebagai model terbaik dengan nilai MAPE terkecil
Environmental impacts during the operational phase of residential buildings
No full textTo date, the focus in the field of sustainable building has been on new building design. However, existing residential buildings inflict great environmental burden through three causes: continuous energy consumption, regular building maintenance and replacements. This publication analyses and compares these three causes of environmental burden and shows that material resources needed for replacements generally have a limited potential to reduce environmental impact. Reducing energy consumption for climate control and electrical appliances is much more effective. According to the author, sustainable measures should be tested for shifts in the kind of environmental impact caused due to the use of alternative types of energy resources and altered material quantities. The sustainability of the electricity supply is essential to decrease the total environmental impact of the residential building stock.Sustainable and Healthy HousingOTB Research Institut
Animal Blood Sacrifice in Left-Hand Path and Satanic Milieu: Case Study of the Author N.A-A.218
No full textKrvavá zvířecí oběť v Left-Hand Path a satanském milieu: Případová studie autora N.A-A.218 Matouš Mokrý English Abstract: The main aim of this paper was to study the meaning and nature of Chaos-gnostic animal sacrifice in the texts of N.A-A.218, to describe its social functions and to put it in its social and discoursive context, and thus to provide further understanding of its occurrence within the Left-Hand Path and satanic milieu whose dominant actors have rejected the act of animal sacrifice. The work deals in more detail mainly with discourses found in the texts of N.A- A.218 which are expressing the conception of sacrificial blood as magically potent substance constituting the seat of animal's life; do ut des principle; traditionality and duty of animal sacrifice and the conception of sacrifice as gradual killing of one's own ego which constitutes the part of a Chaos-gnostic's personality that is tying him to the demiurgic material world and its society. Whereas the discourses of blood as a magically potent substance and do ut des principle harmonize the Chaos-gnostic animal sacrifice with intuitive conceptions arising in connection with animal sacrifice across individual human cultures, the discourse of compulsory tradition shapes animal sacrifice as a tool of building, maintaining and control of..
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