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Simulation of the cost of project risks
No full textManagement of organizations underwent a deep and fundamental change in recent years. Adaptability onto sudden, short-cyclical changes, higher customer orientation, increased need for innovation and increasing complexity are characteristic requirements in the marketplace. The organizations must manage technical progress, increasingly customized customer requirements and the globalization of the competition in order to remain competitive. They must be in the situation to gain new competences and abilities in order to counteract the fast obsolescence of existing knowledge. Successful management systems must guarantee that the production factor knowledge is managed optimally and converted into tangible competitive advantages. In order to reach these objectives and to cope with this complex and challenging objectives, project management is integrated into the organizations management framework. As organizations accept projects as a suitable management approach to achieve the described requirement, it becomes increasingly more important for these organizations to turn over projects within the defined scope, in the planned time and within the estimated budget. The competence, to carry out projects successfully, is a necessity, in order to be able to compete successfully and represents a crucial competitive factor against the competition. In this respect it is amazing that a great number of projects do not end on time or they even have to be ended premature, many projects exceed the planned costs and some don't deliver the expected results. One of the more prevailing reasons for unsuccessful projects is the ignorance of risks associated with projects. Either these risks are never detected or insufficiently managed. The effects of risks during the realization of projects are sufficiently known to industry professionals from experience. In spite of that, practical, quantitative approaches for risk measurement are not as readily available as one might think. This thesis is a draft of a quantitative procedure to the measurement and description of the risk potential in a project.<br /
Assessment of the process flow and data management within engineering departments
No full textThe Master's Thesis is an academic paper which is aimed at deepening the knowledge in the specific subject area of the MSc Program Engineering Management. The objective of this Master Thesis was to examine the work flow in the design and engineering departments of AAG. On one hand there is always a pressure on the design departments from the cost side. On the other hand the complexity of different CAD software tools causes into problems due to different file formats and data exchange options. Thus the drying and ventilation group out of the paper machines department initiated an assessment on the process flow and data management. The main focus has been put on the interaction between the different design and engineering groups.<br /
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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