Stakeholders, issues and the shaping of large engineering projects by Feng, Wen, Lessard, Donald R., Cameron, Bruce Gregory, Crawley, Edward F

“…This chapter extends social network analysis for large projects such as PPPs to consider both direct and indirect, open or closed social and economic value-flows and combines their effects in terms of the utility of each exchange relationship to the focal stakeholder. …”
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Simulating the AM Production Facility: A Configurable Software Tool for Strategic Facility-Level Planning by Shakirov, Eldar, Gee, Kaitlyn, Quinlan, Haden, Hart, A. John, Fortin, Clement, Uzhinsky, Ighor

“…To this end, this work proposes the use of a discrete-event simulation-based software modelling tool to investigate the influences of different facility-level planning decisions on techno-economic characteristics of serial production by AM. …”
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Hillbilly Talkback: Co-Creation and Counter-Narrative in Appalachia by Justice, Elon B.

“…The Appalachian region has been systematically stereotyped in popular media representations for over a century, contributing to many of the structural, economic, and psychological challenges faced by those who live there. …”
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From Rural Ground to Rural Grocery: Designing a local food value chain by Lee, Allison H.

“…Present-day food systems in the U.S. are fraught with challenges that have spillover effects ranging from economic hardship of agricultural communities, inequitable access to nutritional foods, asymmetrical distribution of subsidies, and harsh environmental strains. …”
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How American Adults Obtain Work Skills: Results of a New National Survey by Osterman, Paul

“…<jats:p> Employer-provided training is an important determinant of economic outcomes, yet our understanding of its extent and distribution is well out of date—with the most recent national survey being from 2008. …”
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A Sustainability Planning Framework and Methods for Rural Drinking Water in Satara District, Maharashtra, India by Wescoat, James L., Murty, Jonnalagadda V. R., Singh, Ranu, Verma, Piyush

“…Important hydroclimatic, geomorphological, and socio-economic correlates of the drinking water sustainability index are also examined. …”
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How to Improve the Performance of M&As: from the Cultural Clash Perspective by Cheng, Cheng

“…In parallel, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) growing to be one of the most desirable strategies under the background of technology and economic deepening, more companies decide to purchase or merge with existing companies to increase market penetration than raise the cost of incubation or product innovation. …”
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Sequential Optimization for Prospective Customer Segmentation and Content Targeting by Groszman, Kenny

“…Further, re-aggregation methods are developed and tested in order to transform the outputs of B-SMAC into an economically viable targeting strategy for an online ad platform, leading to improved ad effectiveness when compared to baseline strategies. …”
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Evaluating Strategies for Wide Scale Replacement of Human Inspection with Machine Vision by Sakerka, Lauren

“…However, an ongoing global labor shortage is causing national economic challenges and causing companies to have significant workforce shortages, delaying operations and production activities. …”
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Comparative Assessment of the Societal Cost of PtL and LH₂ as Aviation Fuels by Abel, James M.

“…To determine which of these uncertainties are the most critical to driving this decision, a parametric system-level model of the well-to-wake life-cycle of each fuel was constructed. which combines the economic and environmental cost of flight with each fuel into a single societal cost metric. …”
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Emerging Markets Penetration Strategy in the Deglobalization Era - A Case Study of the NEV Industry in Southeast Asia by Huang, Ningxin

“…In recent years, due to the slowdown in global economic development and shifts in the balance of national strength, the trend of deglobalization has arisen. …”
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Data-driven sustainable ship design using Axiomatic Design and Bayesian Network Model by Fardelas, G, Kim, S G

“…Environmental sustainability, as well as social and economic well-being, must be considered in every stage of a product lifecycle, from conceptual design to its retirement. …”
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Elsewhere in New York City: Seeking Opportunities for Office Conversion by Hong, Nayeon

“…Broadening the scope of these conversion projects to include other boroughs could lead to a more equitable distribution of housing resources, address the city-wide housing shortage more effectively, and stimulate balanced economic growth and community development across New York City’s diverse landscape. …”
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Structural Emergency Control Paradigm by Vu, Thanh Long, Chatzivasileiadis, Spyros, Chiang, Hsiao-Dong, Turitsyn, Konstantin

“…This traditional emergency control results in interrupted service with severe economic damage to customers. Also, such control is usually less effective due to the lack of coordination among protective devices. …”
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Shaping the Future Amid Decline: Integrative Strategies for Aging Koreans and Migrant Workers in South Korea’s Shrinking Regions by Kim, MinJi

“…Ultimately, the study underscores the critical role of inclusive urban development in revitalizing areas facing demographic and economic decline.…”
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building by Spencer, Chelsea Anne

“…Known to legal historians as the age of contract, the nineteenth century gave rise to a constellation of juridical and economic ideas that revolved around a vision of social relations modeled on market exchange and possessive individualism. …”
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Valuing the flexibility of flexible manufacturing systems by Kulatilaka, Nalin

“…It emphasizes the importance of ex ante economic justification of flexible manufacturing systems and proposes a way to modify existing capital budgeting techniques to incorporate the special features of flexibility. …”
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Externality valuation versus systemwide analysis : identifying cost and emissions reduction strategies for electric service by Connors, Stephen R.

“…Using data obtained from a broad based examination of New England's electric service options, this paper compares the externality valuation concepts with the information generally obtained from electric power system simulation and production-costing analyses. While a valid economic concept, the application of externality values is of little use in identifying which strategies are both low-cost and low-emissions, or the specific policy options required to ensure their implementation. …”
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Robust Identities or Non-Entities? Typecasting in the Feature Film Labor Market by Zuckerman, Ezra W., Kim, Tai-Young, Ukanwa, Kalinda, James, von Rittmann

“…We provide a framework for reconciling two seemingly incompatible claims regarding identity in social and economic arenas: (a) that complex, multivalent identities are advantageous because they afford greater flexibility; and (b) that simple, generic identities are advantageous because they facilitate interpretation by key audiences. …”
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An aggregate model of petroleum production capacity and supply forecasting by Adelman, Morris Albert, Paddock, James Lester

“…The relationships between geologic and economic characteristics are analyzed and a system of equations representing the inertial process model are derived. …”
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