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Baumgaertner, William E. "Tracking the Project Budget." Journal of Management in Engineering 2, no. 2 (April 1986): 125–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)9742-597x(1986)2:2(125).

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Cavallanti, Giovanni, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, and Claudio Gentile. "Tracking the best hyperplane with a simple budget Perceptron." Machine Learning 69, no. 2-3 (February 2, 2007): 143–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10994-007-5003-0.

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Awwad, Sari, and Massimo Piccardi. "Prototype-based budget maintenance for tracking in depth videos." Multimedia Tools and Applications 76, no. 20 (October 22, 2016): 21117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-4053-3.

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Sahare, Janhvi A. "Planning and Scheduling of Nagpur Metro Project using Smart-sheet tool." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. 8 (August 31, 2021): 1032–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.37525.

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Abstract: Smart-Sheet is a project management software product, developed and sold by Smart consultancies. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analysing workloads. Smart sheet can be used as a standalone tool for tracking project progress or it can be used for tracking complex project distributed in many geographical areas and managed by a number of project managers. Smart Sheet is designed to assist a project manager in: 1) Developing a plan, 2) Assigning resources to tasks, 3) Tracking progress, 4) Managing budget and 5) Analysing workloads. In this study an effort is made to estimate the changes in overall cost and time required to execute the phase 1 work of Nagpur metro rail project when done by conventional execution approach and when done by project management software tool of smart sheet Keywords: Project management, Smart sheet, Conventional construction execution, Cost optimization, Time optimization, Resource optimization.
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Rogelj, Joeri, Piers M. Forster, Elmar Kriegler, Christopher J. Smith, and Roland Séférian. "Estimating and tracking the remaining carbon budget for stringent climate targets." Nature 571, no. 7765 (July 17, 2019): 335–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1368-z.

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Barth, Matthias G., William F. McDonough, and Roberta L. Rudnick. "Tracking the budget of Nb and Ta in the continental crust." Chemical Geology 165, no. 3-4 (April 2000): 197–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0009-2541(99)00173-4.

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Ongwae, Joshua. "Family planning financing: tracking domestic family planning budget allocations at national and sub-national level in Kenya and Uganda." Gates Open Research 3 (December 13, 2019): 1723. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.12995.1.

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Background: The Abuja Declaration committed African Union countries to allocate at least 15% of their budget to improving the health sector. Consequently, Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) has been undertaking annual budget studies in Kenya and Uganda to track financial allocation for health and family planning (FP). Methods: This study, carried out between the months of May and October 2017, involved budget analysis of general health and FP funding at national and sub-national level. The study covered the fiscal year 2017/18. However, for comparison purposes, fiscal years 2015/16 and 2016/17 were included in the analysis. Results: In Uganda, during the 2017/18 fiscal year, the government allocated 0.73% ($3.7 million) of its health sector budget ($506.7 million) to FP; of which 98.8% ($3.6 million) was allocated to National Medical Stores (NMS), mainly for the supply of reproductive health commodities. Analysis of four districts shows that only 0.5% ($7,966), 0.8% ($10,046), 0.9% ($9,663) and 1.9% ($35,395) of the health sector budget was allocated to FP in Kamuli, Mityana, Mukono and Tororo, respectively, during the 2017/18 fiscal year. In Kenya, the FP budget allocation at the national level reduced from $6.05 million in 2015/16 to $2.93 million in 2017/18. At the subnational level, there were combined increases in the estimated sub-national FP budget allocations in all eleven counties of 21.8% ($2.1 million), from $9.6 million (2016/17) to $11.7 million (2017/2018). Conclusions: The findings indicate an overall increase in FP allocations over the last three years in the two countries of study. Advocacy personnel should be enlightened on the budget making process, as it provides an excellent platform for advocating for budgetary increases.
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Carlin, Sean, and Kevin Curran. "An Active Low Cost Mesh Networking Indoor Tracking System." International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence 6, no. 1 (January 2014): 45–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijaci.2014010104.

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Indoor radio frequency tracking systems are generally quite expensive and can vary in accuracy due to interference, equipment quality or other environmental factors. Due to these limiting factors of the technology, many businesses today find it hard to justify investing in RFID tracking technologies to improve the safety, efficiency and security of their working environments. The aim of this project was to provide a budget RFID tracking system that was capable of tracking a person or object through an indoor environment. To minimize the cost of the RFID tracking system, the components of the system were built from existing electronic equipment and hardware. The software was also written to minimize licensing and support fees allowing a cost effective budget RFID tracking system to be developed. The tracking system consists of a tag, reader nodes and a PC reader which utilize synapse RF 100 engines with python scripts embedded on to the chips. The tracking system software operates through a web portal utilizing web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript and PHP to allow the tags location to be represented on a two dimensional map using scalable vector graphics. During development of the system a new trilateration algorithm was developed and used convert the signals received from the tag to a virtual position on the map correlating to the actual physical position of the tag. A unique contribution of this system is the low cost of building which we estimate as less than £200 UK sterling for a five node system.
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QUESADA, LUIS, and ALEJANDRO J. LEÓN. "UNSUPERVISED MARKERLESS 3-DOF MOTION TRACKING IN REAL TIME USING A SINGLE LOW-BUDGET CAMERA." International Journal of Neural Systems 22, no. 05 (September 26, 2012): 1250019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129065712500190.

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Motion tracking is a critical task in many computer vision applications. Existing motion tracking techniques require either a great amount of knowledge on the target object or specific hardware. These requirements discourage the wide spread of commercial applications based on motion tracking. In this paper, we present a novel three degrees of freedom motion tracking system that needs no knowledge on the target object and that only requires a single low-budget camera that can be found installed in most computers and smartphones. Our system estimates, in real time, the three-dimensional position of a nonmodeled unmarked object that may be nonrigid, nonconvex, partially occluded, self-occluded, or motion blurred, given that it is opaque, evenly colored, enough contrasting with the background in each frame, and that it does not rotate. Our system is also able to determine the most relevant object to track in the screen. Our proposal does not impose additional constraints, therefore it allows a market-wide implementation of applications that require the estimation of the three position degrees of freedom of an object.
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Turner, Erica O., and Angeline K. Spain. "The Multiple Meanings of (In)Equity: Remaking School District Tracking Policy in an Era of Budget Cuts and Accountability." Urban Education 55, no. 5 (November 10, 2016): 783–812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042085916674060.

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How do school district administrators make sense of educational equity as they undertake reform? This study examines tracking policymaking in two urban school districts. Using case studies and an interpretive approach, the study highlights school district leaders’ shifting ways of making sense of tracking and (in)equity while facing achievement gaps, accountability pressures, budgets cuts, and support for tracking. Even after the emergence of powerful opposition, we find that district administrators continued to rethink the meaning of equity in relation to tracking and they pursued policies that expanded access to high-track classes and gifted education. While potentially widening educational opportunity, these moves fundamentally reinscribed the inequity of tracking in their schools.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Budget tracking"

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Vainigli, Lorenzo. "Un'applicazione Android per la gestione ed il monitoraggio dei flussi monetari personali." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/13262/.

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Tenere traccia delle proprie entrate e delle proprie uscite monetarie può risultare molto utile se si vogliono avere degli indicatori sulla qualità della gestione del proprio denaro. In questo testo viene presentata un'applicazione per dispositivi Android con la quale l'utente può salvare tutti i suoi movimenti monetari, con la possibilità di condividerli con altri utenti e di effettuare previsioni su eventi futuri.
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Domingues, Catia Motta, and Catia Domingues@csiro au. "Kinematics and Heat Budget of the Leeuwin Current." Flinders University. SOCPES, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20060612.211358.

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This study investigates the upper ocean circulation along the west Australian coast, based on recent observations (WOCE ICM6, 1994/96) and numerical output from the 1/6 degree Parallel Ocean Program model (POP11B 1993/97). Particularly, we identify the source regions of the Leeuwin Current, quantify its mean and seasonal variability in terms of volume, heat and salt transports, and examine its heat balance (cooling mechanism). This also leads to further understanding of the regional circulation associated with the Leeuwin Undercurrent, the Eastern Gyral Current and the southeast Indian Subtropical Gyre. The tropical and subtropical sources of the Leeuwin Current are understood from an online numerical particle tracking. Some of the new findings are the Tropical Indian Ocean source of the Leeuwin Current (in addition to the Indonesian Throughflow/Pacific); the Eastern Gyral Current as a recirculation of the South Equatorial Current; the subtropical source of the Leeuwin Current fed by relatively narrow subsurface-intensified eastward jets in the Subtropical Gyre, which are also a major source for the Subtropical Water (salinity maximum) as observed in the Leeuwin Undercurrent along the ICM6 section at 22 degrees S. The ICM6 current meter array reveals a rich vertical current structure near North West Cape (22 degrees S). The coastal part of the Leeuwin Current has dominant synoptic variability and occasionally contains large spikes in its transport time series arising from the passage of tropical cyclones. On the mean, it is weaker and shallower compared to further downstream, and it only transports Tropical Water, of a variable content. The Leeuwin Undercurrent carries Subtropical Water, South Indian Central Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water equatorward between 150/250 to 500/750 m. There is a poleward flow just below the undercurrent which advects a mixed Intermediate Water, partially associated with outflows from the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Narrow bottom-intensified currents are also observed. The 5-year mean model Leeuwin Current is a year-round poleward flow between 22 degrees S and 34 degrees S. It progressively deepens, from 150 to 300 m depth. Latitudinal variations in its volume transport are a response to lateral inflows/outflows. It has double the transport at 34 degrees S (-2.2 Sv) compared to at 22 degrees S (-1.2 Sv). These model estimates, however, may underestimate the transport of the Leeuwin Current by 50%. Along its path, the current becomes cooler (6 degrees C), saltier (0.6 psu) and denser (2 kg m -3). At seasonal scales, a stronger poleward flow in May-June advects the warmest and freshest waters along the west Australian coast. This advection is apparently spun up by the arrival of a poleward Kelvin wave in April, and reinforced by a minimum in the equatorward wind stress during July. In the model heat balance, the Leeuwin Current is significantly cooled by the eddy heat flux divergence (4 degrees C out of 6 degrees C), associated with mechanisms operating at submonthly time scales. However, exactly which mechanisms it is not yet clear. Air-sea fluxes only account for ~30% of the cooling and seasonal rectification is negligible. The eddy heat divergence, originating over a narrow region along the outer edge of the Leeuwin Current, is responsible for a considerable warming of a vast area of the adjacent ocean interior, which is then associated with strong heat losses to the atmosphere. The model westward eddy heat flux estimates are considerably larger than those associated with long lived warm core eddies detaching from the Leeuwin Current and moving offshore. This suggests that these mesoscale features are not the main mechanism responsible for the cooling of the Leeuwin Current. We suspect instead that short lived warm core eddies might play an important role.
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Boitrelle, Benjamin. "Development of a double-sided ladder for tracking in high-energy physics." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAE033/document.

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Le projet PLUME développe des échelles ultra-légères inspirées par le cahier des charges du détecteur de vertex pour le futur e+e- International Linear Collider (ILC). Nos travaux montrent que, pour une énergie de 350 GeV et une luminosité de 250 fb-1, l’ILC donnera accès à des états finals comme Hνν. Les modules PLUME exploitent le concept d’échelles double-face recouvertes de capteurs CMOS afin d’atteindre un budget de matière de 0,35 % en longueurs de radiation. Les tests effectués ont montré que les performances électriques des 12 capteurs intégrés sur ces échelles ne sont pas dégradées. La surface des échelles présente des déformations, mais nous avons mis au point un algorithme spécifique qui permet de corriger leurs effets lors du traitement des données. Finalement, une mesure de la longueur de radiation d’un prototype moins avancé a été réalisée avec un faisceau test au DESY. La valeur obtenue de 0,47±0,02 % en longueurs de radiation correspond au budget attendu
The PLUME project develops ultra-light pixelated layers with specifications driven by the design of a vertex detector at the future e+e- International Linear Collider (ILC). The ILC will give access to final states like Hνν, as this work demonstrates for centre-of-mass energy 350GeV and a luminosity of 250 fb-1. PLUME devices exploit the concept of double-sided ladder spaved with thinned CMOS pixel sensors in order to reach a material budget of 0.35 % of radiation length. The present study validated that simultaneous operation of the 12 CMOS sensors integrated on such light ladders do not impact their electrical behaviour. Surface deformations were observed but a specific algorithm during the off- line analysis was proposed and successfully tested to preserve the native sensor spatial resolution. Finally, a measurement of the material budget of a less advanced ladder prototype has been performedat DESY test beam and yield 0.47±0.02 % of radiation length, matching the expected value
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Smith, Nita Jane. "An ASTER Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the Darwin-Hatherton Glacial System, Antarctica." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1480.

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The Darwin-Hatherton glacial system is an outlet glacial system in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, which drains ice from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Ice Shelf. This research provides remotely sensed data that can be used in modeling research for the Darwin-Hatherton glacial system, which in turn can be used in mass balance research for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Two improved digital elevation models (DEM) are produced to cover the lower Darwin Glacier and to cover the upper Darwin and Hatherton Glaciers. The new improved DEMs are generated from Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) satellite data, with a resolution of 45 m. To produce the two final DEMs, multiple DEMs are firstly adjusted to remove systematic errors and are then stacked and averaged to increase the accuracy and produce the final two DEMs. For the lower Darwin Glacier, 5 DEMs were averaged and in the upper Darwin and Hatherton Glaciers, 6 DEMs were averaged. The accuracy is quantified by a remaining error of + 9 m for the lower Darwin Glacier DEM and + 37 m for the upper Darwin and Hatherton Glaciers DEM. This is a significant improvement from the existing 200 m resolution Radarsat Antarctic mapping project (RAMPv2) DEM which has a remaining error of + 138 m over the lower Darwin Glacier and + 152 m over the upper Darwin and Hatherton Glaciers. The accuracy is assessed by comparing the ASTER and RAMPv2 DEMs to highly accurate ice, cloud and land elevation satellite (ICESat) laser altimetry data. A 15 m resolution, true colour, orthorectified image is provided for the entire Darwin-Hatherton glacial system from ASTER satellite imagery. The DEMs used to orthorectify the ASTER satellite imagery are the two new 45 m resolution ASTER DEMs. Lastly feature tracking was explored as a method for measuring surface ice velocity. This research shows that feature tracking is unsuitable for the Darwin-Hatherton glacial system if using 15 m resolution satellite imagery over a 1 to 4 year time period.
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Books on the topic "Budget tracking"

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Khan, Jehangir. Gender/sex disaggregated budget allocation and actual expenditure tracking District Pishin. Quetta: Strengthening PRS Monitoring Project, 2014.

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Council, Puget Sound Regional. Project tracking-- PSRC funds 2004: Puget Sound milestones. Seattle, WA: The Council, 2004.

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Tracer study on two REPOA training courses: Budget analysis and public expenditure tracking system. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Research on Poverty Alleviation, 2011.

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(Organization), ActionAid-India. Elementary education in Bihar: Budget analysis and tracking for the years 2005-06 and 2006-07. Patna: Actionaid India, 2009.

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Strengthening Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring Project. Tracking trends of pro-poor expenditure and allocation of budget in Balochistan, 2007-08 to 2010-11. Quetta: Strengthening Poverty Reduction Strategy Monitoring Project, 2011.

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Egwuonwu, Josephine. Community mobilization handbook: Step by step approach to community mobilisation (including women) for budget tracking and monitoring in Nigeria. Abuja: Support to Reforming Institutions Programme (SRIP), 2009.

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Office, General Accounting. Defense budget: Tracking of emergency response funds for the War on Terrorism : report to the Subcommittee on Defense, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. General Accounting Office, 2003.

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Krop, Cathy S. Tracking K-12 education spending in California. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1995.

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Rajaraman, Indira. Tracking functional devolution by states to panchayats. New Delhi: Publications Unit, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, 2007.

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Jagoo, Zafrullah. Tracking Solar Concentrators: A Low Budget Solution. Springer, 2013.

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Book chapters on the topic "Budget tracking"

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Cesa-Bianchi, Nicolò, and Claudio Gentile. "Tracking the Best Hyperplane with a Simple Budget Perceptron." In Learning Theory, 483–98. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11776420_36.

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Henkel, Almudena, and Jens Merheim. "Der Leitfaden für eine Bewegtbildplanung: Zielsetzungen, Zielgruppen, Budget, Rolle im Media-Mix, Buchungsformen, Kreation, Tracking und Reporting." In Digitales Bewegtbild im Media-Mix, 29–45. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31963-2_5.

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Sumner, Andy. "Child Poverty Impacts and Public Budgets: Tracking the Global Economic Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa." In Children in Crisis, 187–205. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-37025-8_10.

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Swedlund, Haley J. "Tracking a Craze." In The Development Dance. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501712876.003.0006.

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Chapter 6 charts the rise and fall of budget support as a popular aid delivery mechanism. Because budget support promised to reduce donor commitment problems, it opened up the possibility for a new, more favourable bargaining compromise between donor agencies and recipient countries. However, ultimately neither donor agencies nor recipient governments were able to enforce the promises made by the other side. Consequently, the negotiated compromise that enabled the emergence of budget support was not sustainable past an initial period of enthusiasm.
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"Electrical Financial Project Analysis." In Business Strategies for Electrical Infrastructure Engineering, 228–63. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2839-7.ch009.

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A comprehensive contemplation of the essential goals in an organization is essential to evaluate the capital integration problem. The development of cost tracking methods derived as a direct result of the study. The manager’s deficiency in visible dashboards of the project cost and schedule data require immediate attention. The financial details includes the previous year’s results, the median cost, the year-to-date average cost, the long-term average cost, the upper control limit, the lower control limit, the year-to-date cost, the last-year-to-date cost, the variance from last-year-to-date cost, the year-to-date budget, and the variance from the budget. The implementation of the Project Management Financial & Scheduling Optimization Tool in capital planning is required to control the individual project budget and corresponding schedule. The guidelines included checkpoint methodology, responsibility metrics, historical actual spend data, forecasting logic, and process management flow diagramming.
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"Budget balances decomposed: tracking fiscal policy in Austria PETER BRANDNER, LEOPOLD DIEBALEK AND WALPURGA KÖHLER-TÖGLHOFER." In Fiscal Policy Making in the European Union, 97–116. Routledge, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203866450-14.

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Gelbard, Roy, Jeffrey Kantor, and Liran Edelist. "Integrating Software Engineering and Costing Aspects within Project Management Tools." In Software Applications, 1358–74. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-060-8.ch078.

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Currently, there is no integration among CASE tools (computer aided software engineering, also named AMD tools, analysis modeling and design), costing tools, and project management (PM) tools. Not only are there no integrated tools, but there is also no conceptual integration among software engineering (SE) aspects and accounting-costing aspects of software projects within PM tools. PM tools, as well as costing tools are used not only for tracking and controlling an ongoing software project, but also at the very beginning stages of the project, in which critical estimations concerning budget and time frame are made. In order to have a firm, robust, and accurate planning, project planning should be based directly upon raw SE components-objects, that is, upon analysis and design components-objects.
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Charles, Joanna M., and Rhiannon T. Edwards. "To disinvest or invest? The role of programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) for economic evaluation and prioritization between public health interventions." In Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research, 312–40. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198737483.003.0014.

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This chapter describes the application of programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA) as an evidence-based framework to make resource allocation decisions such as whether to invest or disinvest in certain services, products, or interventions. This evidence-based eight-step decision-making process can help decision-makers to maximize the impact of healthcare resources on the health needs of a local population. Programme budgeting is an appraisal of past resource allocation in specified programmes or services with a view to tracking future resource allocation in those same programmes or services. Marginal analysis is the appraisal of the added benefits and added costs of a proposed investment or the lost benefits and lower costs of a proposed disinvestment. This chapter pays particular attention to the use of the PBMA framework to appraise a national health improvement budget as a case study to illustrate the methods practical application in public health.
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de Kervenoael, Ronan, Mark Palmer, and N. Meltem Cakici. "Exploring Civil Servant Resistance to M-Government." In Digital Democracy, 1554–79. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1740-7.ch077.

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The concept of mobility, related to technology in particular, has evolved dramatically over the last two decades including: (i) hardware ranging from walkmans to Ipods, laptops to netbooks, PDAs to 3G mobile phone; (ii) software supporting multiple audio and video formats driven by ubiquitous mobile wireless access, WiMax, automations such as radio frequency ID tracking and location aware services. Against the background of increasing budget deficit, along with the imperative for efficiency gains, leveraging ICT and mobility promises for work related tasks, in a public administration context, in emerging markets, point to multiple possible paths. M-government transition involve both technological changes and adoption to deliver government services differently (e.g. 24/7, error free, anywhere to the same standards) but also the design of digital strategies including possibly competing m-government models, the re-shaping of cultural practices, the creation of m-policies and legislations, the structuring of m-services architecture, and progress regarding m-governance. While many emerging countries are already offering e-government services and are gearing-up for further m-government activities, little is actually known about the resistance that is encountered, as a reflection of civil servants’ current standing, before any further macro-strategies are deployed. Drawing on the resistance and mobility literature, this chapter investigates how civil servants’ behaviors, in an emerging country technological environment, through their everyday practice, react and resist the influence of m-government transition. The findings points to four main type of resistance namely: i) functional resistance; ii) ideological resistance; iii) market driven resistance and iv) geographical resistance. Policy implication are discussed in the specific context of emerging markets.
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de Kervenoael, Ronan, Mark Palmer, and N. Meltem Cakici. "Exploring Civil Servant Resistance to M-Government." In Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries, 134–59. IGI Global, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61692-818-6.ch010.

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The concept of mobility, related to technology in particular, has evolved dramatically over the last two decades including: (i) hardware ranging from walkmans to Ipods, laptops to netbooks, PDAs to 3G mobile phone; (ii) software supporting multiple audio and video formats driven by ubiquitous mobile wireless access, WiMax, automations such as radio frequency ID tracking and location aware services. Against the background of increasing budget deficit, along with the imperative for efficiency gains, leveraging ICT and mobility promises for work related tasks, in a public administration context, in emerging markets, point to multiple possible paths. M-government transition involve both technological changes and adoption to deliver government services differently (e.g. 24/7, error free, anywhere to the same standards) but also the design of digital strategies including possibly competing m-government models, the re-shaping of cultural practices, the creation of m-policies and legislations, the structuring of m-services architecture, and progress regarding m-governance. While many emerging countries are already offering e-government services and are gearing-up for further m-government activities, little is actually known about the resistance that is encountered, as a reflection of civil servants’ current standing, before any further macro-strategies are deployed. Drawing on the resistance and mobility literature, this chapter investigates how civil servants’ behaviors, in an emerging country technological environment, through their everyday practice, react and resist the influence of m-government transition. The findings points to four main type of resistance namely: i) functional resistance; ii) ideological resistance; iii) market driven resistance and iv) geographical resistance. Policy implication are discussed in the specific context of emerging markets.
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Conference papers on the topic "Budget tracking"

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Cunha, Danilo V., and Fernando Lizarralde. "Real-Time Path-Constrained Trajectory Tracking for Robot Manipulators with Energy Budget Optimization." In 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/coase.2019.8842946.

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Yamauchi, Koichiro. "Incremental learning on a budget and its application to quick maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic systems." In 2012 Joint 6th Intl. Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (SCIS) and 13th Intl. Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/scis-isis.2012.6505244.

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M. Rubio Serrano, Antonio, Paulo H. B. Rodrigues, Ruben C. Huacarpuma, João Paulo C. L. da Costa, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Vera Lopes de Assis, Ararigleno A. Fernandes, Rafael T. de Sousa Jr., Marco A. M. Marinho, and Bruno H. A. Pilon. "Improved Business Intelligence Solution with Reimbursement Tracking System for the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management." In International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing. SCITEPRESS - Science and and Technology Publications, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0005169104340440.

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Chin, Jessica S., Ibrahim Zeid, and Sagar Kamarthi. "Using 3D Modeling and Neural Networks to Predict Time-to-Heal for Chronic, Non-Healing Wounds." In ASME 2013 Conference on Frontiers in Medical Devices: Applications of Computer Modeling and Simulation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fmd2013-16091.

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Chronic, non-healing ulcers are expensive to treat and heal. Approximately 2% of the United States’ general population suffers from non-healing wounds. Conservatively, the cost of treating these chronic wounds is estimated to exceed $50 billion per year. This is approximately ten times more than the annual budget of the World Health Organization. The prevalence of wound healing is similar to that of heart failure and cardiac diseases. However, unlike cardiac diseases little is known regarding the comparative treatments of wounds and their respective outcomes. Additionally, the field of monitoring and tracking wound care lacks the awareness compared with cardiac diseases.
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Andraka, Charles E., Julius Yellowhair, and Brian D. Iverson. "A Parametric Study of the Impact of Various Error Contributions on the Flux Distribution of a Solar Dish Concentrator." In ASME 2010 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2010-90242.

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Dish concentrators can produce highly concentrated flux for the operation of an engine, a chemical process, or other energy converter. The high concentration allows a small aperture to control thermal losses, and permits high temperature processes at the focal point. A variety of optical errors can influence the flux pattern both at the aperture and at the absorber surface. Impacts of these errors can be lost energy (intercept losses), aperture compromise (increased size to accommodate flux), high peak fluxes (leading to part failure or life reduction), and improperly positioned flux also leading to component failure. Optical errors can include small scale facet errors (“waviness”), facet shape errors, alignment (facet pointing) errors, structural deflections, and tracking errors. The errors may be random in nature, or may be systematic. The various sources of errors are often combined in a “root-mean-squared” process to present a single number as an “error budget”. However, this approach ignores the fact that various errors can influence the performance in different ways, and can mislead the designer, leading to component damage in a system or poor system performance. In this paper, we model a hypothetical radial gore dish system using Sandia’s CIRCE2 optical code. We evaluate the peak flux and incident power through the aperture and onto various parts of the receiver cavity. We explore the impact of different error sources on the character of the flux pattern, and demonstrate the limitations of lumping all of the errors into a single error budget.
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Racette, Russell A., and Peter B. Yinger. "U.S Navy Practical Experiences in Cable Laying." In ASME 2002 21st International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2002-28150.

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Two recent United States Navy projects incorporated cable-laying operations to construct and replace existing Underwater Tracking Ranges. Many constraints involving environmental concerns, budget reductions, etc., have required the United States Navy to be creative in planning and executing cable laying operations. The ship selections marginally meet the maneuverability design requirements without training. The cable types selected are expected to require minimal design and be a commercial off the shelf item. Environmental concerns and their mitigation have been challenging. Successful projects in the Bahamas and United States Virgin Islands were performed yielding similar but varying results. The majority of the resources were common excluding the installation ship. The Bahamas project was performed without incident. The Virgin Islands project encountered a cable run away in the deployment machinery. Results of the post analysis compare the two projects. This quantifiable data has improved the planning of upcoming projects.
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Christian, Joshua, Adam Moya, Clifford Ho, Charles Andraka, and James Yuan. "Probabilistic Analysis to Quantify Optical Performance and Error Budgets for Next Generation Heliostats." In ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2013-18238.

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Current heliostats cost ∼$200/m2 of reflective area and are estimated to contribute up to 50% of the total solar power tower plant costs. A drastic overall cost reduction is required in order for concentrated solar thermal power to be economically viable. The Department of Energy has set forth the SunShot initiative targeting a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of $0.06/kWh by the year 2020. The cost of each heliostat must be brought down to an estimated $75/m2 to achieve this rigorous goal. One of the driving aspects of heliostat design and cost are the heliostat optical errors. At the moment, it is relatively unclear about the amount of error that can be present in the system while still maintaining low cost and high optical accuracy. The optical errors present on heliostat mirror surfaces directly influence the plant LCOE by causing beam spillage. This can result in an increase in the number of heliostats, an increased receiver size, and decreased thermal efficiency. Assuming a fixed heliostat cost of $75/m2, the effects of optical errors on LCOE are evaluated within the software DELSOL. From a probabilistic analysis, beam quality errors (i.e. slope error, alignment errors, etc.) are shown to have more importance on the LCOE than tracking errors. This determination results in a realization that the tracking errors and beam quality errors can be combined into a “bundled” root-sum-square (RSS) error value. A “bundled” error value of 2 mrad results in an LCOE of $0.06/kWh. This “bundled” value is the basis for a new optical error budget and is decomposed into five individual errors. These five errors can be used as design specifications for new generation heliostats.
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Schoenhardt, Matthew B., Vachel C. Pardais, and Mitch R. Marino. "Why Projects Fail (and What We Can Do About It)." In 2014 10th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2014-33515.

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Over two-thirds of all mega projects result in failure, meaning they significantly exceed budget, miss schedule targets, or fail to achieve production close to design capacity. The reasons for project failure have been well documented over the past fifty years. Despite this large body of empirical evidence, many executive and project leadership teams continue to repeat the mistakes made on past projects. This can be partially attributed to project teams believing that their projects are somehow different from past projects and that others’ project mistakes are not relevant to their project. This paper is a literature review that considers the seven common root causes of project failure and how these root causes relate to the pipeline industry. No new primary data will be presented. The seven common root causes for project failure and their approximate impact on budget variance are: 1. Failure to complete front end loading = 60–85% 2. escalation = Up to 12% 3. Regulatory regimes = Up to 12% 4. Plant complexity = Up to 20% 5. New technology = Up to 20% 6. Solid feedstock = Up to 10% 7. Complex ownership = Up to 24% This paper will also review and discuss seven common project traits closely associated with project failure, although not direct root causes. These traits are: 1. Concurrent detailed design and construction = up to four times greater risk profile 2. Non-integrated project team = up to three times greater risk 3. Contractual risk misallocation = up to two and a half times greater risk 4. Fast-tracking projects = up to two times greater risk 5. Lack of internal capacity = up to two times greater risk 6. Oil and Gas industry = up to two times greater risk 7. Brownfield vs. greenfield site = no direct impact With these root causes and traits identified, several methods of risk and contingency analysis will be examined. An evaluation of each method’s ability to increase the success rate of capital projects will be discussed; ultimately, resulting in a recommendation on the optimal risk and contingency framework for improving project success rates. The paper will conclude with a summary of how Stantec’s risk and contingency framework is being implemented on pipeline projects.
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Shafer, Michael W., and Eric Morgan. "Energy Harvesting for Marine-Wildlife Monitoring." In ASME 2014 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/smasis2014-7630.

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Bio-logging devices are systems mounted to an animal that measure parameters associated with the animal or its environment. These devices date back to the 1930’s in their simplest form, while modern devices use suites of digital sensors, microcontrollers, and wireless data communication. Despite these advances, there has always been a fundamental relationship between power consumption and the amount of science that can be conducted. There are now a number of commercially available devices that use solar cells to supplement their daily energy budget, but supplemental solar power is not useful for species that are nocturnal, subterranean, aquatic, or spend significant time beneath dense forest canopies. As such, there have been calls from the marine biology community for devices that could harvest power from their environments. For these marine species, alternative energy harvesting techniques are required. Here we explore a new application for energy harvesting as a power source for marine wildlife bio-logging tags. Marine animals cover wide swaths of the ocean, making tracking and data collection challenging. Tagging these animals with devices that track their location and/or collect data about the animal or its surroundings require large batteries and have limited life spans due to high power requirements for satellite data relays. With limited solar irradiance at depth making solar power less attractive, we review and explore other forms of energy that could be harvested, such as energy from fluid flow and hydrostatic pressure cycles. We investigate the energy potential from a number of sources and compare these values with the requirements of current bio-logging systems to assess required transduction efficiencies. The application of energy harvesting on animal tags could result in nearly indefinite life systems allowing for data collection from a single animal over the course of many years.
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Di Blasi, Martin, and Scott Denny. "Asset Complexity Based Benchmarks in Support of Reliability Improvement Program." In 2020 13th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2020-9738.

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Abstract Successfully executing maintenance & reliability improvement programs on a complex pipeline asset network tends to be challenging. Influencing the factors that affect reliability performance usually involves elements of culture, asset management & operations, resource allocation, reliability and maintenance strategy and maintenance execution. Frequently, the focus of attention is placed primarily on tracking detailed reliability & maintenance performance (i.e. tool time, average time between failures, planned work, etc.) because they tend to be easier to understand and measure. When some of the other key factors potentially holding back the full realization of significant reliability improvements may be at the resource allocation level where usually measuring and benchmarking can be more challenging. In this sense, being able to benchmark different operating areas in terms of maintenance, reliability and resources allocation performance can help understand higher level factors driving less than ideal asset reliability performance. Supporting the implementation of a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) program on a vast liquid pipeline network, multi-attribute decision making (MADM) techniques and concepts were used to create assessment models that based around the notion of complexity were then used to benchmark multiple operating regions. From these assessment models, derived benchmarking indexes such as maintenance technicians per equivalent complexity or maintenance budget per equivalent complexity were created and used in support of resource allocation discussions. The paper will describe the use of a MADM techniques, discuss how different complexity models were developed working in collaboration with multiple maintenance SMEs, discuss some of the analysis and findings of different regional benchmarks and also comment on some of the cultural challenges encountered when using and communicating quantitative benchmarks to influence and drive reliability improvements. Hopefully this paper will help other professionals in the industry understand how SME experience can be captured and transformed into assessment tools for use in benchmarking.
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Wadman, Heidi, David Perkey, Jennifer Seiter, Mark Chappell, and Brandon Lafferty. A guide for using geochemical methods in dredged material, sediment tracking, and sediment budget studies. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), June 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/22663.

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