Elaboration of Energy Balance: A Model for the Brazilian States by Denilson Ferreira, João O. P. Pinto, Luiz E. B. da Silva, Marcio L. M. Kimpara, Luigi Galotto

“…The energy balance constitutes a powerful management instrument for government agencies, as it offers an overview of the energy situation of the country (or region) and serves as a guide for energy policies and monitoring of these policies. …”
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State of the Art of Lean Six Sigma and Its Implementation in Chemical Manufacturing Industry Using a Bibliometric Perspective by Francisco José Alarcón, Mónica Calero, Salvador Pérez-Huertas, María Ángeles Martín-Lara

“…The combination of both techniques constitutes a powerful management model known as Lean Six Sigma (LSS), whose application has been unevenly spread across the different services and industrial sectors. …”
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Collaborative duty cycling strategies in energy harvesting sensor networks by Long, James, Buyukozturk, Oral

“…In this article, we propose a novel reinforcement learning (RL) agent, which acts as a centralized power manager for this system. We develop a comprehensive simulation environment to emulate the behavior of an energy harvesting sensor network, with consideration of spatially varying energy harvesting capabilities, and wireless connectivity. …”
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A numerical modelling of seawater intrusion into an oceanic island aquifer, Sipadan Island, Malaysia by Mohd Harun Abdullah, Sarva Mangala Praveena, Ahmad Zaharin Aris

“…This study showed that the model is useful in demonstrating the mechanism and movement of freshwater-seawater interface in the island, and thus provide a powerful management tool for such an aquifer.…”
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A numerical modelling of seawater intrusion into an oceanic island aquifer, Sipadan Island, Malaysia by Abdullah, Mohd Harun, Praveena, Sarva Mangala, Aris, Ahmad Zaharin

“…This study showed that the model is useful in demonstrating the mechanism and movement of freshwater-seawater interface in the island, and thus provide a powerful management tool for such an aquifer.…”
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Risks in bank lending activity by Nadiya Doroshenko

“…Today, commercial banks have a powerful management system, high-level automation tools, a rigid system of external control and developed risk-management. …”
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System dynamics and process improvement : can the U.S. Navy acquisition community learn from industry behavior? by Brougham, William J. (William John), 1965-

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The Importance of Being Political: Emergence of a Multi-stakeholder Forum at the Lake Malili Complex, South Sulawesi by Nurhady Sirimorok, Eko Rusdianto

“…However, participation in the multi-stakeholder platform is not enough to push for decision making at the district level, where more powerful management decisions take place. We therefore note that outcomes of community-based resource management are limited when they are not backed by more political approaches to influence decision making…”
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Antitrust regulation of price shifts: problems, paradoxes and prospects by A. V. Kovalev, L. N. Orlova

“…At the same time prices as a flexible tools are very powerful management lever of economic. Pricing processes are certain algorithms for generating prices, when various environmental factors are inconsistent and irregular. …”
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The use of light-emitting diodes (LED) in commercial layer production by R Borille, RG Garcia, AFB Royer, MR Santana, S Colet, IA Naas, FR Caldara, ICL Almeida Paz, ES Rosa, VAR Castilho

“…Artificial lighting is one of the most powerful management tools available to commercial layer producers. …”
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Role of high school brand in the formation of brand-oriented national economy by Galina Studinska

“…Brand provides increased competitiveness for each branding object: personality, events, organizations, national economy as a whole. Branding is a powerful management tool that requires constant use, control and personal responsibility for its implementation.…”
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ANALYSIS OF ECONOMICS OF QUALITY IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES by A. Sailaj, K.G. Viswanadhan, P.C. Basak

“…Economics of Quality analysis which is also termed as cost of quality or quality cost analysis has emerged as a powerful management tool for assessing the present quality level of the organization and to identify the improvement opportunities and also supports in decision making. …”
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Application of a rule extraction algorithm family based on the Re-RX algorithm to financial credit risk assessment from a Pareto optimal perspective by Yoichi Hayashi

“…Our findings suggest that Continuous Re-RX, Re-RX with J48graft, and Sampling Re-RX comprise a powerful management tool that allows the creation of advanced, accurate, concise and interpretable decision support systems for credit risk evaluation. …”
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Decision support system for selecting optimal construction bid price by Yasser M.R. Aboelmagd

“…Construction contractor can be prequalification using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) as powerful management technique. Prequalification contractor aims at eliminating in competent contractors in the bidding process. …”
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Resources, attitudes and culture: an understanding of the factors that influence the functioning of accountability mechanisms in primary health care settings. by Cleary, S, Molyneux, S, Gilson, L

“…For example, meeting the expectations of relatively powerful managers further up the system may crowd out efforts to respond to citizens and patients. …”

Abnormal accounting accrual Management by internal and external Market Discipline: The case of Tunisian banks in the context of the ‘Arab Spring’ by Mohamed Sadok Gassouma

“…To circumvent the shareholders’ supervisory power, managers manipulated credit portfolio values, offering a low level of credit risk, and circulating false beliefs for shareholders and depositors. …”
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PENDISIPLINAN DAN PENGAWASAN TUBUH MELALUI TATA RIAS WAJAH BAGI PEKERJA PEREMPUAN by , Indah Wenerda, , Dr. Wening Udasmoro, DEA, M.Hum.

“…The company as power manage uses make-up standard for its women workers at work. …”

Real-Time Alpine Measurement System Using Wireless Sensor Networks by Sami A. Malek, Francesco Avanzi, Keoma Brun-Laguna, Tessa Maurer, Carlos A. Oroza, Peter C. Hartsough, Thomas Watteyne, Steven D. Glaser

“…Combined with existing systems, these WSNs can better detect precipitation timing and phase in, monitor sub-daily dynamics of infiltration and surface runoff during precipitation or snow melt, and inform hydro power managers about actual ablation and end-of-season date across the landscape.…”
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Assessing the state of New Zealand's garden birds from national to local scales by Catriona J. MacLeod, Peter Green, Simon Howard, Andrew M. Gormley, Angela J. Brandt, Eric B. Spurr

“…Our case study highlights how citizen science can address biodiversity information gaps and make powerful management contributions at scale by delivering metrics that are robust and comparable across time and space, showing decisionmakers how to readily access and interpret information of interest, building trust and value and highlighting how spatially hierarchical assessments can facilitate multiple end‐user benefits.…”
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Measuring innovation culture: Application at four case studies by Manuel Ramón Tejeiro Koller

“…Organizational Theory has come to understand corporate culture –a group of shared values and philosophies– as a powerful management tool and it is due to this that me intent to measure it.…”
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