A New Approach Towards Scientific Evaluation and Performance-Related Design of Bituminous Joint Sealing Materials and Constructions

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Drawing on the ancient conception of mousikē, in which words, song, dance, and instrumental accompaniment were closely linked, Naomi Weiss emphasizes the interplay of performance and imagination—the connection between the chorus’s own live singing and dancing in the theater and the images of music-making that frequently appear in their songs. Through detailed readings of four plays, she argues that the mousikē referred to and imagined in these plays is central to the progression of the dramatic action and to ancient audiences’ experiences of tragedy itself. She situates Euripides’s experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousikē within a broader cultural context, and in doing so, she shows how he both continues the practices of his tragic predecessors and also departs from them, reinventing traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage.

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Scientific Management 2.0 – A Design Model for Experimental Research in Production Management

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1018.571 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1018 ◽

pp. 571-579

Author(s):

Günther Schuh ◽

Thomas Gartzen ◽

Felix Basse

Keyword(s):

Experimental Research ◽

Theoretical Basis ◽

Production Management ◽

Production Systems ◽

Scientific Management ◽

Deterministic Models ◽

New Approach ◽

Technical Aspects ◽

The Poor ◽

And Performance

Reliable and accurate predictions on future states of production systems are the objective of production theories. In this paper, the authors determined shortcomings of current deterministic models and traced them back to the poor theoretical basis of scientific research in the area. The observations resulted in the development of the conceptScientific Management 2.0as an appropriate research methodology for production management. This new empirical approach takes into account three requirements to scientifically precise investigations: It expands existing theory by socio-technical aspects, uses embedded experiments as a profound basis for investigation and provides a design that warrants the methodical exactness required. RWTH Aachen’sDemonstration Factoryrepresents an adequate infrastructure to prove feasibility and performance of the new approach.

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A New Approach Using Artificial Substrates for Growth of High-Quality Precipitate-Free HTS Thin Films, Toward Electronic Device Applications

MRS Proceedings ◽

10.1557/proc-868-c4.4 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 868 ◽

Author(s):

K. Endo ◽

P. Badica ◽

H. Sato ◽

H. Akoh

Keyword(s):

Thin Films ◽

Electronic Device ◽

Growth Conditions ◽

Device Fabrication ◽

Artificial Substrates ◽

High Quality ◽

New Approach ◽

Mesa Structure ◽

Device Applications ◽

And Performance

AbstractHigh quality thin films of HTS have been grown by MOCVD on substrates with artificial steps of predefined height and width. The surface of the films grown on the steps having width equal to the ‘double of the migration length' of the atomic species depositing on the substrate is totally free of precipitates: precipitates are gathered at the step edges where the free energy is lowest. The method has several advantages: it is simple, universal (it is independent of the materials, substrates, deposition technique or application) and allows control of precipitates segregates so that the quality and growth conditions of the films are the same as for the films grown on conventional substrates. The method is expected to result in new opportunities for the device fabrication, design and performance. As an example we present successful fabrication of a mesa structure showing intrinsic Josephson effect. We have used thin films of Bi-2212/Bi-2223 superstructure grown on (001) SrTiO3 single crystal substrates with artificial steps of 20 μm.

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A New Approach for Complementing the Earned Value Method for Project Progress Monitoring and Controlling

New Challenges in Accounting and Finance ◽

10.32038/ncaf.2019.02.02 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 11-18

Author(s):

Ali M. Fayad ◽

Bassam Hussein ◽

Mohamad Hajj-Hassan ◽

Amin Haj-Ali

Keyword(s):

Progress Monitoring ◽

Net Present Value ◽

Value Management ◽

Present Value ◽

Earned Value ◽

Earned Value Management ◽

New Approach ◽

Time Value Of Money ◽

And Performance ◽

Value Of Money

The earned value management method is commonly used for monitoring and assessing project budget and schedule performance. Although widely used, this method does not consider the time value of money. This paper suggests the inclusion of inflation as a factor affecting project performance and gives a methodology to do so using the net present value. This is done by adjusting the present value and actual cost of the work packages. The result is more realistic progress measurements and performance indicators.

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Components of Project Management Maturity Impacting Project, Program, Portfolio, and Organizational Success

Developing Organizational Maturity for Effective Project Management - Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3197-5.ch007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 128-152 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robert Chee Choong Gan ◽

Christina May May Chin

Keyword(s):

Organizational Performance ◽

Project Success ◽

Organizational Success ◽

Direct Impact ◽

Project Implementation ◽

Maturity Models ◽

New Approach ◽

And Performance ◽

The Many ◽

Definition Of

Due to alarmingly high failure rates attributed to either a lack of project implementation or if implemented, poor results in organizations, many PM consulting organizations have begun developing their own PM maturity models (PM3) to assess organization maturity level, to identify their clients' PM maturity gap, and to provide a pathway by which their clients could move up the maturity scale and performance. Despite the many claims of PM3 assessment capabilities, the lack of success in market adoption of PM3 models suggests the need for more studies to identify if these are due to the many definition of project success, the lack of consensus of what the components of PM3 should be, or the increasing expectations of the PM community. Thus, this chapter aims to identify the reasons behind differing organizations' views on the dimension of project success, components of PM3's direct impact on organizational performance, and how PM maturity can be measured and correlated to the various level of organizational success with a new approach known as DPM3.

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Beyond crime rates and community surveys: a new approach to police accountability and performance measurement

Crime Science ◽

10.1186/s40163-019-0108-x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tarah Hodgkinson ◽

Tullio Caputo ◽

Michael L. McIntyre

Keyword(s):

Performance Measurement ◽

Organizational Performance ◽

Performance Assessment ◽

Current Approach ◽

Police Performance ◽

New Approach ◽

Networked Governance ◽

Police Organizations ◽

Police Accountability ◽

And Performance

Abstract In this conceptual piece, we argue that the current approach to police performance measurement typically based on the use of traditional police metrics has failed to achieve the desired results and that a different strategy is required. Traditional police metrics have a narrow focus on crime and the police response to it. They provide little information on how well police organizations are performing. Importantly, traditional police metrics do not incorporate input from police stakeholders in goal identification, nor do they use specifically designed indicators to assess progress towards achieving these goals. Following an analysis of the criticisms levelled at the use of traditional police metrics, and subsequent attempts to address these issues, we argue that a networked governance approach represents a more promising foundation for undertaking police organizational performance assessment. Such an approach would engage stakeholders more directly in goal identification and performance assessment, and potentially lead to more successful, responsive and accountable policing.

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Attracting European Funds in the Romanian Economy and Leverage Points for Securing their Sustainable Management: A Critical Auditing Analysis

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12135458 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (13) ◽

pp. 5458 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Valentin-Marian Antohi ◽

Monica Laura Zlati ◽

Romeo Victor Ionescu ◽

Mihaela Neculita ◽

Raluca Rusu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Management ◽

Structural Fund ◽

Analysis Model ◽

New Approach ◽

Literature Reviews ◽

And Performance ◽

Audit Reports ◽

Error Risk ◽

Flexible Model ◽

The Eu

Against the backdrop of Romania’s successive negative performance in attracting European funds (coming last in the EU top), as indicated by audit reports for projects that have been funded so far, this paper proposes a new approach in relation to analysis and performance improvement in securing EU funds, while identifying viable solutions for the betterment of the current situation. Furthermore, the authors develop a new audit performance analysis model (NOP), described as a dynamic and flexible model, based on reducing the fraud and error risk in the structural fund management of European-funded projects. The analysis methods encompass literature reviews, observational studies, database management, statistical analysis, and the synthesis of the whole findings. The main conclusion of the analysis is the critical necessity of integrity improvement in the context of managing the non-reimbursable funds through audit activities based on ISA805, the international standard on auditing European-funded projects.

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A Status Report on the ILRS Contribution to ITRF2020

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7218 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Vincenza Luceri ◽

Erricos C. Pavlis ◽

Antonio Basoni ◽

David Sarrocco ◽

Magdalena Kuzmicz-Cieslak ◽

...

Keyword(s):

A Priori ◽

Pilot Project ◽

Systematic Errors ◽

Status Report ◽

New Approach ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Ground System ◽

Space Geodetic Techniques ◽

Preliminary Version ◽

And Performance

<p>The International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) Analysis Standing Committee (ASC) plans to complete the re-analysis of the SLR data since 1983 to end of this year by early 2021. This will ensure that the ILRS contribution to ITRF2020 will be available to ITRS by February 2021, as agreed by all space geodetic techniques answering its call. In preparation for the development of this contribution, the ILRS completed the re-analysis of all data (1983 to present), based on an improved modeling of the data and a novel approach that ensures the results are free of systematic errors in the underlying data. The new approach was developed after the completion of ITRF2014, the ILRS ASC devoting almost entirely its efforts on this task. A Pilot Project initially demonstrated the robust estimation of persistent systematic errors at the millimeter level, leading us to adopt a consistent set of a priori corrections for data collected in past years. The initial reanalysis used these corrections, leading to improved results for the TRF attributes, reflected in the resulting new time series of the TRF origin and scale. The ILRS ASC will now use the new approach in the development of its operational products and as a tool to monitor station performance, extending the history of systematics for each system that will be used in future re-analysis. The new operational products form a seamless extension of the re-analysis series, providing a continuous product based on our best knowledge of the ground system behavior and performance, without any dependence whatsoever on a priori knowledge of systematic errors (although information provided by the stations from their own engineering investigations are always welcome and taken into consideration). The presentation will demonstrate the level of improvement with respect to the previous ILRS product series and give a glimpse of what is to be expected from the development of a preliminary version of the ITRF2020.</p>

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A New Approach for Helper Selection and Performance Analysis in Poisson CoopMAC Networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications ◽

10.1109/twc.2017.2757022 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (12) ◽

pp. 8105-8117

Author(s):

Homa Nikbakht ◽

Amir Masoud Rabiei ◽

Vahid Shah-Mansouri

Keyword(s):

Performance Analysis ◽

New Approach ◽

Helper Selection ◽

And Performance

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