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Journal articles on the topic "Opportunity for improvement"

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Abbott, J. Dawn. "Opportunity for improvement." Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions 81, no. 5 (March 22, 2013): 791–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccd.24877.

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Campbell, Craig. "The opportunity for improvement." Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions 23, no. 2 (2003): 125–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chp.1340230211.

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Firoz, Tabassum, and Susannah L. Woodd. "Maternal sepsis: Opportunity for improvement." Obstetric Medicine 10, no. 4 (May 15, 2017): 174–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1753495x17704362.

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Howie, Ailsa. "Medical handovers: an improvement opportunity." British Journal of Hospital Medicine 73, no. 6 (June 2012): 306–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2012.73.6.306.

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Ecker, Jeffrey L. "Gestational Diabetes: An Opportunity for Improvement." Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 93, no. 12 (December 1, 2008): 4646–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jc.2008-2204.

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Wahba, Mark Y. "Outcome Feedback: An Opportunity for Quality Improvement." CJEM 12, no. 04 (July 2010): 300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1481803500012355.

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Rodrigues, Anabela, Marília Maciel, Cledir Santos, Diana Machado, Joana Sampaio, Nelson Lima, Maria J. Carvalho, António Cabrita, and Margarida Martins. "Peritoneal dialysis infections: An opportunity for improvement." American Journal of Infection Control 42, no. 9 (September 2014): 1016–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.05.036.

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DeMario, Belinda S., Evelyn I. Truong, Mason T. Uemura, Hannah G. Braunstein, Samuel P. Stanley, Sarah Hendrickson, Mark A. Kalina, Heather A. Vallier, Jeffrey A. Claridge, and Vanessa P. Ho. "Psychiatric Disorders in the Trauma Patient: Characterizing an Opportunity an Opportunity for Improvement." Journal of the American College of Surgeons 231, no. 4 (October 2020): e248-e249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2020.08.666.

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Guerrero Gómez, Luis, and Montserrat Espín García. "Energy Efficiency: an opportunity for Research and Improvement." Ciencia y tecnología de buques 8, no. 15 (July 20, 2014): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.25043/19098642.103.

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In this paper, Bureau Veritas explains the new international regulations on air pollution, its origin, and its position in the marine market to help and develop several technical solutions suitable to the world’s fleet.
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Lowe, Marian, and Debra Hardy Havens. "Children's health insurance program—An opportunity for improvement." Journal of Pediatric Health Care 12, no. 5 (September 1998): 273–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0891-5245(98)90211-5.

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Holgersson, Jesper. "Data warehouse development : An opportunity for business process improvement." Thesis, University of Skövde, Department of Computer Science, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-735.

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Many of today’s organizations are striving to find ways to make faster and better decisions about their business. One way to achieve this is to develop a data warehouse, offering novel features such as data mining and ad hoc querying on data collected and integrated from many of the computerized systems used in the organization. A data warehouse is of vital interest for decision makers and may reduce uncertainty in decision making. The relationship between data warehousing and business processes may be used at the pre-deployment stage of a data warehouse project, i.e. during the actual development of the data warehouse, as an opportunity to change business processes in an organization. This may then result in improved business processes that in turn may result in a better performing data warehouse. By focusing on the pre-deployment stage instead of the post-deployment stage, we believe that the costs for development will decrease, since needs for changes detected early in a development project probably will be detected anyway, but in a later stage where changes in the business processes may cause a need to restructure the finished data warehouse. We are therefore interested in which factors that may cause a need for changes in the business processes during the pre-deployment stage of a data warehouse project, the types of business processes affected, and also if there is any correspondence between factors that trigger changes and business processes affected.

Based on a literature survey and an interview study, general triggering factors to change business processes have been identified, such as needs for new organizational knowledge and for prioritization of goals etc. We have also found that needs for changes more often concern supporting processes than other types of business processes. We have also found a general correspondence at a type level between triggering factors and affected business processes.

In combination with the results and conclusions presented, we have also identified propositions for future work, which will refine and confirm the ideas presented here.

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Zhang, Guangyu. "Product Manager view on Practical Assumption Management Lifecycle about System Use." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för programvaruteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-15406.

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Context. In practice, software projects frequently fail in many fields, which causes the huge loss for the human being. Assumption faults are recognized as a main reason for the software project failures. As the world is changing fast, environment assumptions of software can be easily wrong. The daily assumption-related activities show not enough effectiveness and efficiency to deal with assumption faults. For example, no documenting of key assumptions, inappropriate assumption validation, lack of knowledge. In research, there is no empirical research about assumption management practice. Two assumption management frameworks were outlined. They both support the assumption formulation and assumption management. The formal assumption management framework provides an assumption-component mapping function to analyze assumption failures. Objectives. Our goal is figuring out how development team members handle environment assumptions today in practice and how they might handle them better tomorrow. To be specific, I test the applicability of the so far theoretical assumption management frameworks and investigate the assumption type, assumption formulation and assumption management in practical software development Methods. An interview-based survey was implemented with 6 product managers from Chinese software companies. They have rich experiences on assumption management and software development. I used directed content analysis to analyze the qualitative data. The result of the research is intended to be a static validation of the assumption management frameworks. Results. Interviewees consider that the assumption-component mapping function of the formal assumption management framework is useful in making decisions and analyzing the problems. However, using these frameworks takes too much effort. The functions of frameworks are covered by the development team members and the existing tools. Assumptions tend to be discovered when they frequently change and are important to the requirements. The main assumption types are user habit assumptions and quality attribute assumptions, which are both requirement assumptions. The user habit assumptions consist of name, description and value, while the quality attribute assumption formulation is name and value. The major assumption treatment activities are figuring out the value of assumptions, assumption monitoring, assumption validation and handling assumption failures. Assumption failures result in the loss of users and benefits. Assumption failures are always caused by the poor ability and experience of development team members. Conclusion. I create an assumption management model based on my result, and find out the advantages and disadvantages of the formal assumption management framework and semi-formal assumption management framework. The research could help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of assumption management practice. Also. The research can be treated as the starting point to study assumption management practice deeper.
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Atkins, Rosa Stocks. "School Practices and Student Achievement." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29565.

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After implementing a statewide standardized testing program in 1998, the Virginia Department of Education realized that some schools were making great gains in student achievement while other schools continued to struggle. The Department conducted a study to identify the practices used by schools showing improvement. Six effective practice domains were identified. The current study was a follow-up to the research conducted by the Virginia Department of Education. A questionnaire measuring the six effective practice domains: (a) curriculum alignment, (b) time and scheduling, (c) use of data, (d) professional development, (e) school culture, and (f) leadership was administered to teachers in 148 schools in Virginia; 80 schools participated. Two questions guided the study: (1) How frequently do schools use the Virginia Department of Education effective practices, and (2) what is the relationship between the use of the effective practices and school pass rates on the 3rd grade 2005 Standards of Learning (SOL) reading test? Descriptive statistics, linear regression, and discriminant function analysis were applied to explore the relationships between the predictor variables (percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch and the use of the effective practices) and the criterion variable (school pass rate on the 2005 SOL 3rd grade reading test). Academic culture and the percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch accounted for significant amounts of the variance in school pass rates. The remaining five effective practice measures were not related to school pass rates. The measures may have affected the results. In most cases, one person was used as the proxy for the school, and this person may have provided a biased assessment of what was happening in the school.
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Hu, Jia. "Analysis and improvement of medium access control protocols in wireless networks : performance modelling and Quality-of-Service enhancement of IEEE 802.11e MAC in wireless local area networks under heterogeneous multimedia traffic." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4466.

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In order to efficiently utilize the scarce wireless resource as well as keep up with the ever-increasing demand for Quality-of-Service (QoS) of multimedia applications, wireless networks are undergoing rapid development and dramatic changes in the underlying technologies and protocols. The Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol, which coordinates the channel access and data transmission of wireless stations, plays a pivotal role in wireless networks. Performance modelling and analysis has been and continues to be of great theoretical and practical importance in the design and development of wireless networks. This research is devoted to developing efficient and cost-effective analytical tools for the performance analysis and enhancement of MAC protocols in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) under heterogeneous multimedia traffic. To support the MAC-layer QoS in WLANs, the IEEE 802.11e Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) protocol has proposed three QoS differentiation schemes in terms of Arbitrary Inter-Frame Space (AIFS), Contention Window (CW), and Transmission Opportunity (TXOP). This research starts with the development of new analytical models for the TXOP scheme specified in the EDCA protocol under Poisson traffic. A dynamic TXOP scheme is then proposed to adjust the TXOP limits according to the status of the transmission queue. Theoretical analysis and simulation experiments show that the proposed dynamic scheme largely improves the performance of TXOP. To evaluate the TXOP scheme in the presence of ii heterogeneous traffic, a versatile analytical model is developed to capture the traffic heterogeneity and model the features of burst transmission. The performance results highlight the importance of taking into account the heterogeneous traffic for the accurate evaluation of the TXOP scheme in wireless multimedia networks. To obtain a thorough and deep understanding of the performance attributes of the EDCA protocol, a comprehensive analytical model is then proposed to accommodate the integration of the three QoS schemes of EDCA in terms of AIFS, CW, and TXOP under Poisson traffic. The performance results show that the TXOP scheme can not only support service differentiation but also improve the network performance, whereas the AIFS and CW schemes provide QoS differentiation only. Moreover, the results demonstrate that the MAC buffer size has considerable impact on the QoS performance of EDCA under Poisson traffic. To investigate the performance of EDCA in wireless multimedia networks, an analytical model is further developed for EDCA under heterogeneous traffic. The performance results demonstrate the significant effects of heterogeneous traffic on the total delay and frame losses of EDCA with different buffer sizes. Finally, an efficient admission control scheme is presented for the IEEE 802.11e WLANs based on analytical modelling and a game-theoretical approach. The admission control scheme can maintain the system operation at an optimal point where the utility of the Access Point (AP) is maximized with the QoS constraints of various users.
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Medina, Flores Yuri Eduardo. "Proyecto de implementación de mejoras de la gestión de compras, inventarios y almacenes en una empresa industrial extractiva del sector energía." Master's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656613.

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El presente trabajo de investigación evidencia los principales problemas de la situación actual y presenta la propuesta de mejora más conveniente para la gestión de Compras, Inventarios y Almacenes con la finalidad de realinear las buenas prácticas logísticas y optimizar el desempeño del departamento de Abastecimiento conjuntamente con el logro de beneficios económicos tan necesarios para la sostenibilidad de la Empresa XYZ. Mediante el análisis expuesto, se pudo identificar los problemas (falta de Abastecimiento Estratégico en Compras, alto inventario en exceso en Inventarios y alto inventario en exceso de tuberías en Almacenes) y causas de la situación actual de la gestión logística, desarrollar la propuesta de mejora (el modelo de Abastecimiento Estratégico en Compras, la clasificación ABC del inventario disponible y la eliminación del inventario en exceso en Inventarios, el cierre de los almacenes externos y el ingreso de efectivo por la venta de material inactivo en la empresa) y proponer conclusiones y recomendaciones. Para finalmente desarrollar el proyecto de implementación de mejoras mediante el enfoque de la Gestión de Proyectos. Para el presente trabajo de investigación se han utilizado herramientas como la Matriz Kraljic, la Clasificación ABC, la Técnica de las 5s, la Metodología de la Mejora Continua, el diagrama Causa-Efecto, el diagrama de Pareto, con las cuales se ha logrado realinear las buenas prácticas logísticas y optimizar el desempeño del departamento de Abastecimiento. Se ha obtenido ingresos de efectivo y ahorros para la Empresa XYZ. Y el proyecto de mejora genera valor con un VAN de USD 883,437 y TIR de 39.6%. Cumpliéndose con el objetivo principal del presente trabajo de investigación.
The research paper uncovers the main problems of the current situation and shows the most suitable improvement proposal for Purchasing, Inventory and Warehouse management in order to realign best logistics practices and optimize the performance of Procurement department along with accomplish economic benefits for business sustainability of Empresa XYZ. As the result of analysis, it was possible to identify the problems (no Strategic Supply in Purchasing, excess inventory in Inventory and excess inventory of pipes in Warehouse) and causes of the current situation of Logistics management, develop the improvement proposal (Strategic Supply model in Purchasing, ABC classification for available inventory and elimination of excess inventory in Inventory, the closure of external warehouses and sale of inactive materials for cash income) and propose conclusions and recommendations. And the Improvement Implementation was developed through Project Management approach. The research paper used tools as Kraljic Matrix, ABC Classification, 5s Method, the Continuous Improvement Method, Ishikawa diagram and Pareto diagram and it has been possible to realign best logistics practices, optimize the performance of Procurement department, achieve cash income and savings for Empresa XYZ and improvement project creates value with a NPV of USD 883,437 and an IRR of 39.6%. Finally, this is how the main objective of the research paper was successfully accomplished.
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Rodrigues, Patrícia Isabel da Silva. "Proposta de abordagem para gestão de ocorrências em Serviços de Sangue." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10859.

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RESUMO: A gestão de ocorrências, sendo um requisito, quer legal, ao nível da regulação, quer normativo, tal como surge na ISO 9001, é um componente crítico para garantir a melhoria contínua um Serviço de Sangue, dado ter como objetivo a satisfação contínua dos requisitos dos dadores e recetores. A gestão eficaz, mas com eficiência, depende, também da eficácia da abordagem para gestão de ocorrência, nomeadamente, através da geração de correções, ações corretivas e ações preventiva eficazes. Esta dissertação discute a relevância, propondo um modelo de abordagem de gestão da qualidade conforme com os requisitos da lei fundamental da regulação de Serviços de Sangue, DL 267/2007, e com a norma global para sistemas de gestão da qualidade, ISO 9001. Esta abordagem usada descreve as várias etapas para a gestão eficaz de ocorrências, desde o seu relato, à sua classificação, tratamento com medição e análise risco associado e verificação da eficácia das ações tomadas. A eficácia do modelo teórico proposto foi verificado através da sua passagem para algoritmo informático num software comercial. Foi evidenciado neste software o cumprimento dos requisitos da abordagem teórica, pelo que a aplicação informática está conforme com os requisitos estabelecidos num procedimento documentado. Foi evidenciado, também, a rastreabilidade dos dados ao longo e toda a metodologia. A utilização de uma ferramenta informática também acrescentou valor ao modelo teórico, dado o acesso a toda a informação ser mais célere e de fácil acesso, quando comparado com o uso em suporte de papel.---------ABSTRACT: The issues management is a law requirement intended for regulation of “Blood Banks” and a quality management global requirement from ISO 9001. It is a critical activity, intended to to ensure continuous improvement on “Blood Bank”. Its goal is the continuous satisfaction of blood donors and transfusion recipients. Effective management and efficiency also depend on the effectiveness of the management of occurrence approach, namely in successful corrections, corrective actions and preventive actions. This paper discusses the relevance and it proposes a model approach to quality management according to the requirements of the fundamental law of regulation of “Blood Bank”, DL 267/2007, and according to the global standard for quality management systems, ISO 9001. This approach describes the various steps for effective management of incidents, such as his account, its classification, measurement and treatment using risk analysis and verification of the effectiveness of actions taken. The efficiency of the proposed theoretical model was verified through its transition to a computer algorithm trading software. It was demonstrated in this software that the requirements of the theoretical approach has been fulfilled by the computer application, which complies with the requirements established in a documented procedure. It was also evident that traceability of data across the methodology. The use of a software tool also added value to the theoretical model due to the access to all information to be faster and more easily accessible, when compared to paper.
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Wu, Chien-Chun, and 吳建軍. "The Improvement of The Negative Association between Investment Opportunity and Firm Performance :From The Perspective of Corporate Governance." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58122141850735351726.

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Abstract Prior research on the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance is premised on the notion that, in theory, there is direct association between corporate governance and firm performance. However, extensive research often has produced weak results. In this paper, we allow for an important prerequisite mainly, a negative association between firm growth and performance. The study measures investment opportunities and return of equity for firm performance by using factor analysis to extract accurate information. Corporate governance allows for the influence of senior management and firm operation. Further, this study examines whether corporate governance variables moderate this negative association. Our results support this argument. Allowing for the corporate governance, the negative relationship between firm performance and growth becomes weaker; even the relationship would become positive.
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Modica, Andrea. "Private equity challenge - homeserve, the company which will drive home maintenance market." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/122796.

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The purpose of the work is to develop an investment thesis for HomeServe plc. In the group part firstly it is presented a company overview followed by a study of the market. Then, four value creation strategies are provided with their impact on financials. In the Capital Structure section, a breakdown of source and uses is presented. Lastly, returns and the exit waterfall are provided, together with a judgment on the most suitable exit option. In the individual part, my contribution was to investigate deeper the company and its market, explaining why HomeServe is an attractive investment opportunity.
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Afework, Tadesse Hailu. "Challenges and opportunities of using a distributive approach in instructional leadership : a case study in secondary schools in the Haramaya district of Ethiopia." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26575.

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This thesis draws on a case study research method conducted to identify the challenges of school leadership and to investigate the opportunities of instructional leadership practices via a distributive approach for secondary school principals in Haramaya District of Oromia region, Ethiopia. This qualitative research approach allows for obtaining detailed information from the participants for the issue under study. The participants of the study were five secondary school principals, 25 secondary school management members and five Haramaya District Education Office experts. Totally 35 participants were the subjects of the study. The data collected from the participants were analysed using a thematic analysis by employing the necessary steps of qualitative data analysis. Therefore, the study identified that school principals do not give equal emphasis for some of the instructional leadership roles and distribute instructional leadership roles based on a traditional ways rather than using a theme approach. The support provided to school principals from stakeholders to strengthen their instructional leadership practices using a distributive approach is also low. In addition, lack of knowledge and skill of principals to understand the recent school leadership theories and a distributive approach make principals not to practice instructional leadership via a distributive approach effectively and efficiently. Moreover, low commitment of stakeholders to take instructional leadership roles and activities, lack of adequate support from stakeholders to principals and lack of instructional materials and qualified personnel were the major challenges of principals in practicing instructional leadership via a distributive approach. Finally, the researcher recommended that school principals, Haramaya District Education Office and East Hararghe Zone Education Desk should work collaboratively to formulate and communicate a school vision, to use technology for assisting learning and strengthen CPD programme based on need assessment. Moreover, school principals should work on the approach of distributive leadership on a team base to use the various knowledge, skill, expertise and experience of stakeholders. Teachers, students, parents, community, educational authorities at different levels, GO and NGOs should distribute instructional leadership roles and activities to support principals. Haramaya District Education Office and East Hararghe Zone Education Desk in collaboration with NGOs should prepare up-to-date training and strengthen school-community relationships.
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Books on the topic "Opportunity for improvement"

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Hours of opportunity. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2010.

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Patrick, Hazlewood, ed. Leading the leaders for the future: A transformational opportunity. New York, NY: Continuum International Pub. Group, 2008.

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Office, General Accounting. Environmental Protection Agency: Continued improvement needed in assessing equal employment opportunity : report to congressional requesters. Washington, D.C. (P.O. Box 37050, Washington 20013): U.S. General Accounting Office, 2003.

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Consumer abuses in home improvement financing: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, April 30, 1998. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1998.

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Veterans entrepreneurship and self improvement: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 17, 2007. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2008.

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Is FHA limiting choices for home finance?: An examination of fair housing compliance : hearing before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, May 13, 1998. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1998.

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Ronald, Reagan. Proposed legislation--"Low-Income Opportunity Improvement Act of 1987": Message from the President of the United States transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to encourage state-sponsored and community-based demonstrations in public assistance policy. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1987.

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Ronald, Reagan. Proposed legislation--"Low-Income Opportunity Improvement Act of 1987": Message from the President of the United States transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to encourage state-sponsored and community-based demonstrations in public assistance policy. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1987.

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Ronald, Reagan. Proposed legislation--"Low-Income Opportunity Improvement Act of 1987": Message from the President of the United States transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to encourage state-sponsored and community-based demonstrations in public assistance policy. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1987.

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Reagan, Ronald. Proposed legislation--"Low-Income Opportunity Improvement Act of 1987": Message from the President of the United States transmitting a draft of proposed legislation to encourage state-sponsored and community-based demonstrations in public assistance policy. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1987.

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Book chapters on the topic "Opportunity for improvement"

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Nishimura, Akira. "Foreign Exchange Risk and Profit Improvement in the Comprehensive Opportunity and Lost Opportunity Control Model." In Management, Uncertainty, and Accounting, 215–41. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8989-3_9.

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Caputo, Paola, Simone Ferrari, and Federica Zagarella. "Urban Renovation: An Opportunity for Economic Development, Environmental Improvement, and Social Redemption." In Research for Development, 125–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_13.

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Dokic, Kristian, and Tomislava Lauc. "Opportunity for Video-on-Demand Services – Collecting Consumer’s Neurophysiology Data for Recommendation Systems Improvement." In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 91–104. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64642-4_8.

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Osaba, Eneko, Roberto Pierdicca, Tiago Duarte, Alfonso Bahillo, and Diogo Mateus. "Using ICTs for the Improvement of Public Open Spaces: The Opportunity Offered by CyberParks Digital Tools." In CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology, 278–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13417-4_22.

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Wood, Fiona M. "Scar Resurfacing." In Textbook on Scar Management, 311–16. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44766-3_36.

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AbstractScar resurfacing is focused on the improvement in the quality of a scar by disruption of the skin surface and reducing the bulk of the scar by control of the secondary healing process. The prerequisite is knowledge of the wound healing and scarring process such that the intervention can be designed to reduce the risk of increasing the scarring.The clinical examination and assessment of the scar will guide the selection of the technique addressing the specific aspects of the scar, such as the pigment restoration and volume reduction, with the aim of blending the scar with the surrounding uninjured skin.Understanding the natural history of the scar, the impact it has on the patient, and the techniques available for improvement provides the clinical decision-making matrix to drive an improved scar outcome. Resurfacing is one opportunity for scar modulation which needs to be taken into context relative to the range of conservative and surgical therapeutic opportunities explored within the chapters of the book.
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Iwata, Kazuyuki. "Climate Policy in Transportation Sector: Role of Carbon Pricing." In Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific, 61–78. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6964-7_4.

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Abstract This chapter focuses on climate countermeasures in the Japanese transport sector. We introduce the Japanese complexed automobile tax system and then calculate the Japanese effective carbon rate (ECR) on automobiles. In addition to the discussion of the ECR, this chapter offers a simple examination of the efficiency of electric vehicles (EVs) from the viewpoint of cost-benefit because it is expected that EVs will become the most popular eco-friendly vehicle in the future. Two remarks are found in our analysis. First, although the carbon tax rate on fuel consumption is small in Japan, compared to the European countries, the ECR is rather high. For further improvement of climate policy, the Japanese government should shift its attention to vehicle usage from vehicle purchase and possession. Second, under the basic assumption (i.e., representative owners do not recharge their EVs at home but at outdoor fast chargers), the diffusion of EVs is not an efficient measure for reducing GHG emissions. If owners recharge their EVs at home once of every two charges, the net benefit becomes positive Therefore, the opportunity cost of waiting for recharges is a key factor in whether EVs can play a role in mitigating climate change.
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Long, Lynn E., Gregory A. Lang, and Clive Kaiser. "Sweet cherry rootstocks." In Sweet cherries, 66–85. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781786398284.0066.

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Abstract All commercial sweet cherry trees are either budded or grafted. This chapter deals with sweet cherry rootstocks. Rootstocks are used for several purposes: (i) ease for propagating and producing more trees of a superior cultivar; (ii) better adaptation to particular soil or site characteristics; and (iii) the potential improvement of production due to additional traits like precocious flowering, higher productivity, and greater or reduced scion vigor as appropriate. Unfortunately, no one rootstock can satisfy all the requirements for consistently producing high yields of large, firm fruit of premium quality. Growers are advised to consider carefully the effects of each specific scion-rootstock combination as a function of environmental and cultural practices when replanting an orchard. Selecting the proper rootstock depends not only on the management skills of the grower, but also on the scion cultivar, training system, and site climate and soil selected for the orchard. Dwarfing, semi-dwarfing and even semi-vigorous rootstocks have major economic advantages over full-size rootstocks. The development of these new, precocious rootstocks has been almost as significant to the sweet cherry industry as to the apple industry several decades ago. When compared to Mazzard, Colt and even Mahaleb, size-controlling rootstocks have allowed sweet cherry growers an opportunity to plant high density, pedestrian orchards that become profitable more quickly, are more readily protected with orchard covering systems, and promote greater labor efficiency, easier management, and a safer and more productive work environment.
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Reimers, Fernando M. "In Search of a Twenty-First Century Education Renaissance after a Global Pandemic." In Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Education Reforms, 1–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57039-2_1.

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Abstract The COVID-19 Pandemic renewed interest on the question of what goals should be pursued by schools in a world rapidly changing and uncertain. As education leaders developed strategies to continue to educate during the Pandemic, through alternative education arrangements necessitated by the closure of schools, the question of re-prioritizing curriculum became essential. In addition, the anticipated disruptions and impacts that the Pandemic would cause brought the question of what capacities matter to the fore. This chapter reviews the history of mass education and examines the role of the United Nations and other international organizations advocating for schools to educate the whole child and to cultivate the breath of skills essential to advance individual freedoms and social improvement. The chapter makes the case that the aspiration to cultivate a broad range of competencies is not only necessary to meet the growing demands of civic and economic participation, but also critical to close opportunity gaps. The development of a science of implementation of system level reform to educate the whole child is fundamental to close the growing gap between more ambitious aspirations for schools and the learning opportunities that most children experience and that are at the root of their low levels of knowledge and skills as demonstrated in international comparative assessments. Implementation strategies need to take into account the stage of institutional development of the education system, and align the components and sequence of the reform to the existing capacities and structures, while using the reform to help the system advance towards more complex forms of organization that enable it to achieve more ambitious goals. The chapter makes the case for examining the implementation of large scale reforms in countries at varied stages of educational development in order to overcome the limitations of the current knowledge base that relies excessively on the study of a narrow range of countries at similar levels of development, many of them with stagnant or declining performance of their students in international assessments of knowledge and skills. Effective implementation requires also coherence across the various levels of governance of the education system and good communication and collaboration across a wide spectrum of stakeholders. Such communication can be facilitated by a good theory of mind of how others view reform. A reform can be viewed through five alternative frameworks: cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political, or through a combination of those, and each reform is based on elements reflecting one or several of those frames. Understanding these frames, can help better understand how others view change, thus facilitating communication and the development of a shared theory of change. The chapter concludes describing the methods of this study and introducing the six large scale reforms examined in the book.
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"Section IV: Opportunity Identification." In Identification of Cleaner Production Improvement Opportunities, 53–63. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0471979503.ch4.

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"Section III: Preparation for Opportunity Identification." In Identification of Cleaner Production Improvement Opportunities, 33–52. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0471979503.ch3.

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Conference papers on the topic "Opportunity for improvement"

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Hyun Lee, Jae-Yong Yoo, and JongWon Kim. "Performance improvement of mobile P2P VoD by opportunity extension." In 2013 IEEE 10th Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ccnc.2013.6488569.

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Ibáñez Zurriaga, MD, S. Ruiz Garcia, E. Ramírez Herraiz, A. Garcia Peralo, I. Cidoncha Muñoz, A. Calvo Garcia, B. Ramos Martinez, M. Perez Abanades, and A. Morell Baladron. "5PSQ-098 Allergies and intolerances: an opportunity for improvement." In 25th EAHP Congress, 25th–27th March 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden. British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ejhpharm-2020-eahpconf.415.

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Lee, Eun-Ser, and Je-Min Bae. "Design Opportunity Tree for Requirement Management and Software Process Improvement." In 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE'07). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mue.2007.116.

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Maaref, Mahdi, and Zaher M. Kassas. "UAV Integrity Monitoring Measure Improvement using Terrestrial Signals of Opportunity." In 32nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2019). Institute of Navigation, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33012/2019.17009.

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"Supply Chain Metrics: An Improvement Opportunity for the South African Wine Industry." In 20th European Conference on Knowledge Management. ACPI, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/km.19.072.

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Chaengakson, K., D. Rerkpreedapong, and K. Hongesombut. "Reliability Improvement Opportunity for 115-kV Overhead Transmission Lines Using RCM Method." In 2019 IEEE PES GTD Grand International Conference and Exposition Asia (GTD Asia). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/gtdasia.2019.8716025.

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Lee, Eun-Ser, Haeng-kon Kim, and Sun-myoung Hwang. "Design Opportunity Tree of Capability Improve for Level-up and Software Process Improvement." In 5th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management & Applications (SERA 2007). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/sera.2007.77.

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Peng, I.-Hsuan, Meng-Hsien Lin, Yen-Wen Chen, Fong-Ming Yang, and Addison Y. S. Su. "Improvement of Streaming Video in Differential Service Networks by Using Opportunity RED Mechanism." In 2013 7th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cisis.2013.116.

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Reilkoff, R. A., S. Shaker, D. Kahat, K. Gu, A. Kneepens, R. Hatch, E. Worthington, Z. Miller, D. Wacker, and K. Simmons. "End of Life Opportunities Identified as Largest Opportunity for Improvement Sepsis Associated Deaths." In American Thoracic Society 2020 International Conference, May 15-20, 2020 - Philadelphia, PA. American Thoracic Society, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2020.201.1_meetingabstracts.a6023.

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Shen, Jialie, Karen Rafferty, and Jia Jia. "Online Intelligent Music Recommendation: The Opportunity and Challenge for People Well-Being Improvement." In 2020 IEEE Second International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cogmi50398.2020.00014.

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Reports on the topic "Opportunity for improvement"

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Kelley, D. L. Quality Improvement at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, January 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada347678.

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Klein, Sarah Klein, Douglas McCarthy McCarthy, and Alexander Cohen Cohen. Opportunity for Regional Improvement: Three Case Studies of Local Health System Performance. New York, NY United States: Commonwealth Fund, April 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.15868/socialsector.25008.

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Shelton, Walter, Nathan Weiland, Travis Shultz, and Charles W. White. Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (SCO2) Cycle as an Efficiency Improvement Opportunity for Air-fired Coal Combustion. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), February 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1511695.

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Mott, Joanna, Heather Brown, Di Kilsby, Emily Eller, and Tshering Choden. Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Self-Assessment Tool. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), April 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/slh.2021.016.

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The facilitated self-assessment provides the opportunity to discuss and reflect on current strengths and how to improve processes that drive positive change in GESI through your projects and organisation. It also provides an opportunity for your project and organisation to measure progress towards transformative practice and outcomes. It enables participants to identify strategies to strengthen gender equality/diversity and social inclusion, consider strategies to make change, and highlight opportunities for improvement within their work.
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Chandra, Shailesh, Mehran Rahmani, Timothy Thai, Vivek Mishra, and Jacqueline Camacho. Evaluating Financing Mechanisms and Economic Benefits to Fund Grade Separation Projects. Mineta Transportation Institute, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2020.1926.

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Investment in transportation infrastructure projects generates benefits, both direct and indirect. While emissions reductions, crash reductions, and travel time savings are prominent direct benefits, there are indirect benefits in the form of real estate enhancements that could pay off debt or loan incurred in the improvement of the infrastructure itself. Studies have shown that improvements associated with rail transportation (such as station upgrades) trigger an increase in the surrounding real estate values, increasing both the opportunity for monetary gains and, ultimately, property tax collections. There is plenty of available guidance that provides blueprints for benefits calculations for operational improvements in rail transportation. However, resources are quite limited in the analysis of benefits that accrue from the separation of railroad at-grade crossings. Understanding the impact of separation in a neighborhood with high employment or population could generate revenues through increased tax collections. In California, the research need is further amplified by a lack of guidance from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on at-grade crossing for separation based on revenue generated. There is a critical need to understand whether grade separation projects could impact neighboring real estate values that could potentially be used to fund such separations. With COVID-19, as current infrastructure spending in California is experiencing a reboot, an approach more oriented to benefits and costs for railroad at-grade separation should be explored. Thus, this research uses a robust benefits-to-cost analysis (BCA) to probe the economic impacts of railroad at-grade separation projects. The investigation is carried out across twelve railroad-highway at-grade crossings in California. These crossings are located at Francisquito Ave., Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station, Sassafras St., Palm St., Civic Center Dr., L St., Spring St. (North), J St., E St., H St., Parkmoor West, and Nursery Ave. The authors found that a majority of the selected at-grade crossings analyzed accrue high benefits-to-cost (BC) ratios from travel time savings, safety improvements, emissions reductions, and potential revenue generated if property taxes are collected and used to fund such separation projects. The analysis shows that with the estimated BC ratios, the railroad crossing at Nursery Ave. in Fremont, Palm St. in San Diego, and H St. in Chula Vista could be ideal candidates for separation. The methodology presented in this research could serve as a handy reference for decision-makers selecting one or more at-grade crossings for the separation considering economic outputs and costs.
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Lavadenz, Magaly, Sheila Cassidy, Elvira G. Armas, Rachel Salivar, Grecya V. Lopez, and Amanda A. Ross. Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) Model: Final Report of Findings from a Four-Year Study. Center for Equity for English Learners, Loyola Marymount University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15365/ceel.seal2020.

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The Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) Model Research and Evaluation Final Report is comprised of three sets of studies that took place between 2015 and 2019 to examine the effectiveness of the SEAL Model in 67 schools within 12 districts across the state of California. Over a decade ago, the Sobrato Family Foundation responded to the enduring opportunity gaps and low academic outcomes for the state’s 1.2 million English Learners by investing in the design of the SEAL Model. The SEAL PreK–Grade 3 Model was created as a whole-school initiative to develop students’ language, literacy, and academic skills. The pilot study revealed promising findings, and the large-scale implementation of SEAL was launched in 2013. This report addresses a set of research questions and corresponding studies focused on: 1) the perceptions of school and district-level leaders regarding district and school site implementation of the SEAL Model, 2) teachers’ development and practices, and 3) student outcomes. The report is organized in five sections, within which are twelve research briefs that address the three areas of study. Technical appendices are included in each major section. A developmental evaluation process with mixed methods research design was used to answer the research questions. Key findings indicate that the implementation of the SEAL Model has taken root in many schools and districts where there is evidence of systemic efforts or instructional improvement for the English Learners they serve. In regards to teachers’ development and practices, there were statistically significant increases in the use of research-based practices for English Learners. Teachers indicated a greater sense of efficacy in addressing the needs of this population and believe the model has had a positive impact on their knowledge and skills to support the language and literacy development of PreK- Grade 3 English Learners. Student outcome data reveal that despite SEAL schools averaging higher rates of poverty compared to the statewide rate, SEAL English Learners in grades 2–4 performed comparably or better than California English Learners in developing their English proficiency; additional findings show that an overwhelming majority of SEAL students are rapidly progressing towards proficiency thus preventing them from becoming long-term English Learners. English Learners in bilingual programs advanced in their development of Spanish, while other English Learners suffered from language loss in Spanish. The final section of the report provides considerations and implications for further SEAL replication, sustainability, additional research and policy.
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