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Friede, Alyssa, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Mary Dean Lee, and Shelley Macdermid. "Human resource manager insights on creating and sustaining successful reduced-load work arrangements." Human Resource Management 47, no. 4 (September 2008): 707–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hrm.20241.
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Meldrum, Lenore, and Peter Yellowlees. "The Measurement of a Case Manager's Workload Burden." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 34, no. 4 (August 2000): 658–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/j.1440-1614.2000.00760.x.
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Objective: The aim of this activity was to develop an appropriate scale to accurately assess the level of clinical load carried by each case manager at the Royal Brisbane Hospital Integrated Mental Health Service. Method: A survey of, and consultation with, case managers over a period of 15 months was used to gather data and modify the monitoring tool for future use in the service. Results and Conclusion: Analysis of the data gathered revealed the level of case managers' work load burden and the depth of need required by clients. Professionally the Clinical Load Monitoring scores have been used in the allocation of additional cases for case management and in the supervision by discipline seniors. Service management has used the Clinical Load Monitoring Scale by dividing individual caseloads into low, medium and heavy service users – with low service users being further investigated for discharge from the service. Heavy service users were assessed for entry into more intensive treatment areas.
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Dorokhova, Marina, Fernando Ribeiro, António Barbosa, João Viana, Filipe Soares, and Nicolas Wyrsch. "Real-World Implementation of an ICT-Based Platform to Promote Energy Efficiency." Energies 14, no. 9 (April 23, 2021): 2416. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14092416.
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The energy efficiency requirements of most energy-consuming sectors have increased recently in response to climate change. For buildings, this means targeting both facility managers and building users with the aim of identifying potential energy savings and encouraging more energy-responsible behaviors. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platform developed in Horizon 2020 FEEdBACk project intends to fulfill these goals by enabling the optimization of energy consumption, generation, and storage and control of flexible devices without compromising comfort levels and indoor air quality parameters. This work aims to demonstrate the real-world implementation and functionality of the ICT platform composed of Load Disaggregation, Net Load Forecast, Occupancy Forecast, Automation Manager, and Behavior Predictor applications. Particularly, the results obtained by individual applications during the test phase are presented alongside the specific metrics used to evaluate their performance.
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Malaga-Toboła, Urszula, Sylwester Tabor, Dariusz Kwaśniewski, and Maciej Kuboń. "Production Capacity and Workstations Load in the Animal Feed Production Process." Agricultural Engineering 20, no. 1 (April 1, 2016): 91–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/agriceng-2016-0009.
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AbstractProduction capacity is the amount of production with the determined assortment structure possible to achieve by a particular production unit in a determined time at the optimal use of production factors and at maintaining the products quality corresponding to standards. The objective of the paper was to determine the production power and output of particular workstations which constitute an assembly line of dry animal feed. The scope of research covered an assembly line in the establishment which produces dry feed for pet animals. Based on information and documentation obtained from the company manager and on the work schedule determined for particular workstations, the operation time of a machine, human work time (operation of a machine) and operation time of the entire station with its working surface was determined. Research showed that workstations which constituted the assembly line of dry animal feed were loaded within 76 to 86%. The lowest loading was reported in the mill and LP02 assembly line and it was respectively 76 and 78%. Whereas loading of the remaining devices was comparable and was at the level within 84 to 86%.
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Burns, Tom, Jenny Yiend, Helen Doll, Tom Fahy, Matthew Fiander, and Peter Tyrer. "Using activity data to explore the influence of case-load size on care patterns." British Journal of Psychiatry 190, no. 3 (March 2007): 217–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.bp.106.025940.
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BackgroundA limited case-load size is considered crucial for some forms of intensive case management and many countries have undertaken extensive reorganisation of mental health services to achieve this. However, there has been limited empirical work to explore this specifically.AimsTo test whether there is a discrete threshold for changes in intensive case management practice determined by case-load size.Method‘Virtual’ case-load sizes were calculated for patients from their actual contacts over a 2-year period and were compared with the proportions of contacts devoted to medical and non-medical care (as a proxy for a more comprehensive service model).ResultsThere were 39 025 recordings for 545 patients over 2 years, with a mean rate of contacts per full-time case manager per month of 48 (range 35–60). There was no variation in the proportion of non-medical contacts when case-load sizes were over 1:20 but there was a convincing linear relationship when sizes were between 1:10 and 1:20.ConclusionsCase-load size between 1:10 and 1:20 does affect the practice of case management. However, there is no support for a paradigm shift in practice at a discrete level.
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Soares, Filipe, André Madureira, Andreu Pagès, António Barbosa, António Coelho, Fernando Cassola, Fernando Ribeiro, et al. "FEEdBACk: An ICT-Based Platform to Increase Energy Efficiency through Buildings’ Consumer Engagement." Energies 14, no. 6 (March 10, 2021): 1524. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14061524.
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Energy efficiency in buildings can be enhanced by several actions: encouraging users to comprehend and then adopt more energy-efficient behaviors; aiding building managers in maximizing energy savings; and using automation to optimize energy consumption, generation, and storage of controllable and flexible devices without compromising comfort levels and indoor air-quality parameters. This paper proposes an integrated Information and communications technology (ICT) based platform addressing all these factors. The gamification platform is embedded in the ICT platform along with an interactive energy management system, which aids interested stakeholders in optimizing “when and at which rate” energy should be buffered and consumed, with several advantages, such as reducing peak load, maximizing local renewable energy consumption, and delivering more efficient use of the resources available in individual buildings or blocks of buildings. This system also interacts with an automation manager and a users’ behavior predictor application. The work was developed in the Horizon 2020 FEEdBACk (Fostering Energy Efficiency and BehAvioral Change through ICT) project.
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Yang, Zheng, Jingmin Wang, Yani Li, and Yintang Yang. "A 20-mV Input DC/DC Converter for Energy Harvesting Applications." Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers 24, no. 05 (April 8, 2015): 1550070. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021812661550070x.
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A low input step-up DC/DC converter and power manager in 0.18-μm CMOS process is presented. The proposed converter can work with the input voltage as low as 20 mV. The extremely low input voltage makes it suitable for energy harvesting and power management. Four logic controlled outputs provide the best voltage for various applications to accommodate low power design requirements. A low current low dropout regulator (LDO) is utilized to provide a regulated 2.2 V output for powering low power processors or other low power integrated circuit (ICs). Reserve energy on the storage capacitor CSTORE provides power when the input voltage source is unavailable, thus prolongs the life of the system and expands the application range. Extremely low quiescent current (6 μA) and high efficiency design (64%@300 μA load current) ensure the fastest possible charge times of the output reservoir capacitor. This work provides a complete power management solution for wireless sensing and data acquisition.
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Rama Lingham N, Siva, G. Yuvaraj, and T. Senthil Murugan. "Emergency call receiving alert through mobile phones using to change the current profile." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 2.20 (April 18, 2018): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i2.20.12792.
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Emergency Call Alert (ECA) Application is developed for inform the urgency as well as seriousness of the call to the receiver. The profile in the mobile facilitates that the user to change the mode they need and this requires manual work load. This Call Manager changes the pro-file automatically to the desired mode designed by the user. It has also been enhanced with filtering mechanism called as Emergency calls filter which allows the calls from the emergency list to be in user preferred mode irrespective of the current mode. This feature is to avoid the missing of calls from the numbers specified in the emergency call list. Now a day most of calls come to us when we are busy, it is an interrupt, which disturbs or sometimes accident may happen. To avoid this either we switch off the mobile or we put the mobile in silent mode. If this is so if any emergency call comes we cannot attend such type of calls. The other disadvantage of this is the calling person does not know when the called person is free. To overcome all these problems we presented paper, Emergency Call Manager which handles all the call when he/she is busy sends an SMS. Software which filters this message and it gives an emergency alarm to called mobile.
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Leonardi, Luca, Lucia Lo Bello, and Simone Aglianò. "Priority-Based Bandwidth Management in Virtualized Software-Defined Networks." Electronics 9, no. 6 (June 17, 2020): 1009. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9061009.
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In Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications, when the network size increases and different types of flows share the bandwidth, the demand for flexible and efficient management of the communication network is compelling. In these scenarios, under varying workload and flow priorities, the combined use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Virtualization (NV) is a promising solution, as such techniques allow to reduce the network management complexity. This work presents the PrioSDN Resource Manager (PrioSDN_RM), a resource management mechanism based on admission control for virtualized SDN-based networks. The proposed combination imposes bounds on the resource utilization for the virtual slices, which therefore share the network links, while maintaining isolation from each other. The presented approach exploits a priority-based runtime bandwidth distribution mechanism to dynamically react to load changes (e.g., due to alarms). The paper describes the design of the approach and provides experimental results obtained on a real testbed.
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Tiwari, Pradeep Kumar, and Sandeep Joshi. "An Empirical Result Analysis of Dynamic Weighted Live Migration Mechanism for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing." International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering 6, no. 4 (October 2017): 51–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijeoe.2017100104.
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Load management of resources during high load demand managed by load management mechanism. An efficacious resource management algorithm effectively manages the load imbalance. Virtual Machine (VM) migration policy can maximize the throughput of the Cloud. Overloaded User Base (UB) high resource request increases the waiting time of the task and decreases the throughput. Task migration from high loaded VM to low loaded VM help to decrease the queue size and increase the throughput of the system. Effective resource management mechanism improves the performance and reduces the service level agreement (SLA) violations. Although researchers did the lot of work to manage load imbalance, but still need improvement. In this paper, proposed Dynamic weighted Live Migration (DWLM) Load balancing algorithm to manage the load imbalance problem. The proposed experiment result compares with another two algorithms. DWLM gives the better experiment results in Throughput, Migration time, Scalability and Fault Tolerance matrices.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Work Load Manager"
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Lundaby, Madeleine, and Lundberg Louise L. ""Mitt arbete ger mig stress, det ger mig sjukt mycket press men även jättemycket glädje" : En kvalitativ studie om mellanchefers arbete." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33443.
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In this essay, we want to highlight the problems that middle managers face in the company. Middle manager is one of the most significant operators in a company, but also one of those most challenged position. Therefore, we want to increase the understanding of the problems through making a qualitative study using semistructured interviews and making use of the understanding the by using hermeneutic as analytical tools. To explain the empirical study we have used two theories - requirement, control and support model and the concept of KASAM. As a result, it emerged that the meaningfulness of work is an important aspect for the middle manager and are reflected in how the middle manager perceives the work load.I uppsatsen vill vi belysa den problematik som mellanchefer inom privata företag står inför. Mellanchefer är en av de viktigaste aktörerna på företagen men också en av de som är högst belastade på arbetet. Därför vill vi öka förståelsen för den problematiken genom att utföra en kvalitativ studie med semistrukturerade intervjuer och använda oss av förståelsen genom hermeneutiken som analysverktyg. För att förklara det empiriska materialet har vi använt oss av två teorier, krav-, kontroll- och stödmodellen samt begreppet KASAM. I resultatet har det framkommit att meningsfullhet i arbetet är en viktig aspekt för huruvida mellanchefer uppfattar arbetet som alltför påfrestande.
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Spruth, Wilhelm G. "Enterprise Computing." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-126859.
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Das vorliegende Buch entstand aus einer zweisemestrigen Vorlesung „Enterprise Computing“, die wir gemeinsam über viele Jahre als Teil des Bachelor- oder Master-Studienganges an der Universität Leipzig gehalten haben.
Das Buch führt ein in die Welt des Mainframe und soll dem Leser einen einführenden Überblick geben. Band 1 ist der Einführung in z/OS gewidmet, während sich Band 2 mit der Internet Integration beschäftigt. Ergänzend werden in Band 3 praktische Übungen unter z/OS dargestellt.
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Ydergren, Jan, and Oscar Ericson. "Work-life balance och verkstadschefer." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för psykologi och organisationsstudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-4498.
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En hel del tidigare forskning tyder på att ha en balans mellan arbetsliv och privatliv är viktigt för att uppleva ett psykiskt välmående samt för att kunna prestera bra på arbetsplatsen. Då verkstadschefer på ett industriföretag genomgår ett stort förändringsarbete undersöktes hur fem manliga chefer upplevde sin balans mellan privatliv och arbetsliv. Delsyften med studien var att undersöka hur chefens roll i privatlivet påverkade balansen, i vilken grad stöd hemifrån påverkade balansen samt vilka konsekvenser en balans eller konflikt skulle kunna få. Studien genomfördes kvalitativt, med en semistrukturerad intervjuguide, där samtliga respondenter var påverkade av förändringsarbetet. Resultatet visade att det fanns verkstadschefer som upplevde en konflikt mellan arbetsliv och privatliv men även de som upplevde en balans. Gemensamt upplevde samtliga chefer att de ojämna arbetspucklarna, som uppstod i högre grad med anledning av förändringsarbetet, var påfrestande samt påverkade work-life balance negativt. Dessa arbetspucklar medförde minskad kontroll för att hantera arbetskraven. Något som cheferna upplevde frustrerande var att de har begränsade möjligheter att leva upp till kravbilden eftersom resurser och befogenheter saknades. Vidare visade studien att förhållandet cheferna hade hemma med olika krav beroende på vilken livsfas de befann sig i, hade en mycket stor påverkan på deras upplevda work-life balance.Previous research suggests that to have a good relationship between work and private life it is important to experience a-good mental health and success at work. The industrial managers’ in this study were undergoing a major change at their workplace and this study found examined how five male managers’ perception of their work-life balance. One of the aims of this study was to examine how the managers’ roles at home affects work-life balance (WLB), to what degree support at home affects WLB, and the impact that a balance or a conflict could have. The study was conducted qualitatively with a semi-structured interview guide and every manager was affected by the change at the workplace. The results showed that some of the managers were experiencing work-life conflicts where others were on the other hand experiencing a good WLB. The most common reason for feeling conflict between work-life was the uneven amount of workload, which occurred to a greater extent due to the change. These periods of uneven workload caused the managers to feel less control. One of the things that caused the managers to feel frustration is that they had limited resources and authority to handle the demands at work. The situation at home also had a very big impact on whether the managers’ experienced a good WLB or not.
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Bolanowski, Daniel. "The Leadership Perspective of Promoting Creativity and Innovation : A case study of an R&D organization." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9385.
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This paper focuses on leadership problems and possibilities regarding creativity in a specific R&D organization. This is done with the help of a model consisting of four domains of special interest for R&D leaders. A survey in the form of personal interviews was conducted with leaders and staff members of two R&D sections in the organization. The analysis pointed towards problems on work load and stress issues. Furthermore the organizational structure of the two sections provided a discussion on optimal structural build‐up in order to maximize creativity. Trust issues arose because of the apparent use of control by upper management as described by lower level leaders and the employees. Indications showed that the trust issues put up obstacles for learning and dealing with failure. On the other hand the relationships between section management and staff were perceived as good. Also the ground works of a good creative work was laid with the trusting relationships between fellow professionals within the group.
Books on the topic "Work Load Manager"
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Willemssen, Joel C. Year 2000 computing challenge: Important progress made, yet much work remains to avoid disruption of critical services : statement of Joel C. Willemssen, Director, Civil Agencies Information Systems, Accounting and Information Management Division, before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1999.
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Moro, Dorian, Derek Ball, and Sally Bryant, eds. Australian Island Arks. CSIRO Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486306619.
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Australia is the custodian of a diverse range of continental and oceanic islands. From Heard and Macquarie in the sub-Antarctic, to temperate Lord Howe and Norfolk, to the tropical Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’s islands contain some of the nation’s most iconic fauna, flora and ecosystems. They are a refuge for over 35% of Australia’s threatened species and for many others declining on mainland Australia. They also have significant cultural value, especially for Indigenous communities, and economic value as centres for tourism.
Australian Island Arks presents a compelling case for restoring and managing islands to conserve our natural heritage. With contributions from island practitioners, researchers and policy-makers, it reviews current island management practices and discusses the need and options for future conservation work. Chapters focus on the management of invasive species, threatened species recovery, conservation planning, Indigenous cultural values and partnerships, tourism enterprises, visitor management, and policy and legislature. Case studies show how island restoration and conservation approaches are working in Australia and what the emerging themes are for the future.
Australian Island Arks will help island communities, managers, visitors and decision-makers to understand the current status of Australia’s islands, their management challenges, and the opportunities that exist to make best use of these iconic landscapes.
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Year 2000 computing challenge: Education taking needed actions but work remains : statement of Joel C. Willemssen, Director, Civil Agencies Information Systems, Accounting and Information Management Division, before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1999.
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United States. General Accounting Office., ed. Year 2000 computing challenge: Readiness improving yet avoiding disruption of critical services will require additional work : statement of Joel C. Willemssen, Director, Civil Agencies Information Systems, Accounting and Information Management Division, before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C: The Office, 1999.
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Thomas, Dimitrios, and Evangelos Kotsakis. "Energy Management and Optimal Power Scheduling in a Smart Building under Uncertainty." In Smart Cities [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94989.
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In this Chapter, we consider a microgrid with a certain number of distributed energy resources (DER) components connected to an office building (in a university campus) provided with electricity by a utility company. We develop the initial version of the energy management system which is responsible for the optimal energy scheduling of the microgrid’s distributed energy resources. These resources include a photovoltaic (PV) installation, a Storage Energy System (ESS), a small Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit, and a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) used for work-related trips. The mobility behavior of the EVs fleet is modeled considering deterministic realizations of the probabilistic distributions used for the arrival/departure, and the time EVs remain parked. To investigate the impact of renewable generation and load unpredictability on the energy management system (EMS) operation, PV production and electric load are modeled under uncertainty using actual smart meters data for the scenarios formulation. We also assume that each DER component, through an EMS, can communicate and control the power exchange from and towards this component and that, two way communication with the utility company can be reached through aggregators using advanced metering equipment. We also consider a simplified thermal model that provides a specific level of thermal comfort to the building’s occupants, by meeting the predicted heating load. The energy produced by the DERs can be sold back to the grid by the microgrid manager and/or it can be stored for future utilization.
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Cardoso, Pedro, João Rodrigues, Jânio Monteiro, and Luís Sousa. "Using a Hands-Free System to Manage Common Devices in Constrained Conditions." In Handbook of Research on Human-Computer Interfaces, Developments, and Applications, 73–98. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0435-1.ch004.
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As computing equipment become ubiquitous, a new set of interfacing devices need to be developed and properly adapted to the conditions where this equipment is to be used. Interacting with machines might present difficulties relative to the handiness of common interfacing devices, when wearing certain clothes, doing certain dirty jobs, or when they are used by people with accessibility needs. In the last decades a new set of input devices were made available, including 3D sensors, which allow machine interacting without the need of touching any device. This chapter presents two prototype solutions supported by one of this 3D sensors, the Leap Motion, to manage appliances and other devices in a building and for the picking and loading of vehicles in a warehouse. The first case is contextualized in the area of the IoT and load scheduling of appliances, as a decisive factor in reduction of the buildings' electrical costs. The second case is presented as a solution to integrate the distribution of fresh and frozen goods where workers use thick clothes/gloves to carry out their work.
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De Romanis, Federico. "Dramatis Personae." In The Indo-Roman Pepper Trade and the Muziris Papyrus, 298–320. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842347.003.0017.
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This concluding chapter identifies the two co-signatories of the loan contract. The manager of the department charged with levying customs duties on Indian commodities (paralemptes) was also the lender of the loan contract written on the recto of the Muziris papyrus. In all likelihood, the borrower was the owner of the Hermapollon. However, the cargo imported from Muziris was so enormous that it could hardly have belonged to a single merchant, as the loan contract—signed by a single borrower—seems to suggest. In all likelihood, the underwriter, a lone Indian Ocean ship owner (naukleros Erythraikos), represented also the Indian Ocean merchants (emporoi Erythraikoi) who chartered transport space on his ship. The Muziris papyrus lays bare the terms of a cooperative arrangement between the paralemptes and the naukleros, which may have been a structural peculiarity of Roman trade with India in the first two centuries AD. Above the merchants/borrowers and customs collectors/lenders is the imperial administration, whose officers assist and monitor the arabarchs’ work.
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Broughton, Chad. "Getting Back to Work in the ’Burg." In Boom, Bust, Exodus. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199765614.003.0017.
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Tracy Warner Began to worry after she got a rejection letter from Pizza Hut a few weeks after graduating from Western. She hadn’t heard on some manager-level jobs at the Carl Sandburg Mall, but she expected at least some positive responses from the entry-level ones. “We wish you luck in finding a job worthy of your skills,” read the Pizza Hut letter. “What’s that?” Warner said, exasperated. “Either my skills suck, or I have too many skills. Which is it? ’Cause I’m kind of curious! It’s flattering to be overqualified but it doesn’t pay the bills.” Warner hadn’t expected a dream job to suddenly appear, but she had hoped for more than a quiet phone and a growing pile of rejection letters. She just needed something, anything, to get by. Several months into 2007, the newly minted and distinguished WIU graduate was still unemployed and uninsured. Although sworn off factory life, a desperate Warner applied to Farmland Foods. When Maytag shuttered in 2004, Farmland, a massive, loud, hog disassembly operation, became the largest employer in this part of western Illinois. With about 1,200 to 1,400 cutters and slicers and a $60 million payroll, the slaughterhouse employed a couple hundred more than BNSF, the largest employer in Galesburg. Like Mike Smith, Warner was just looking for a wage, any wage, with a “1” in front of it, and Farmland, on Monmouth’s northern edge, was close. It was so close, in fact, that on some days Warner could smell the tangy mix of rendered hog, hydrogen sulfide, methane, and whatever else made up that vile smell in her house, a mile to the south. Farmland was a last resort for former Maytag workers. The jobs there, involving tearing apart pig carcasses with razor-sharp knives and powerful pneumatic tools were, frankly, tougher than appliance work. Perhaps worst was the “sticker,” which slit the throats of about 1,000 shrieking animals each hour for about $12 an hour. That was one pig every four seconds, at about a penny per kill.
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Ferreira, Alexandre, and Francisco Antunes. "Essential Functionalities for Commercial Internet Presence." In Mobile Commerce, 404–31. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2599-8.ch022.
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A balanced implementation of functionalities within a commercial internet presence is important, because of not only the involved complexity and cognitive load required in their use, but also for financial reasons. Investing money on features (e.g., software modules, programming time, maintenance and update, etc.) that are not valued by online consumers, hinders an efficient allocation of resources, especially when financial resources are scarce, a situation that corresponds too many small businesses operating on the internet. However, literature provides little help for managers to decide which functionalities should be implemented, according to a rational basis. Within this context, this research sought to fill in the gap between literature review and the need for helping companies to understand better how to build and keep online businesses. The authors work identified 16 essential functionalities grouped into four sets: order processing, advertising and prominence, product analysis, and payment.
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Collins, Sue. "Star Testimonies." In Cinema's Military Industrial Complex. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520291508.003.0016.
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This chapter, by Sue Collins, historicizes Hollywood stardom’s legitimation as a source of political authority during World War I and World War II. It charts film stars’ participation in war mobilization from the Liberty Loan bond drives of World War I to the star appearances, war relief, and USO activities managed by the Hollywood Victory Committee during the World War II. By showing how the government’s valorization of the popular became a mode of authority exploitable for propaganda, the chapter argues that the stars’ war work established a new logic for celebrity as a crucial personification of state discourse and cultural policy supporting state power during wartime.
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Yahya, Abid, Farid Ghani, R. Badlishah Ahmad, Mostafijur Rahman, Aini Syuhada, Othman Sidek, and M. F. M. Salleh. "Development of an Efficient and Secure Mobile Communication System with New Future Directions." In Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering, 219–38. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-116-0.ch010.
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This chapter presents performance of a new technique for constructing Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC) encrypted codes based on a row division method. The new QC-LDPC encrypted codes are flexible in terms of large girth, multiple code rates, and large block lengths. In the proposed algorithm, the restructuring of the interconnections is developed by splitting the rows into subrows. This row division reduces the load on the processing node and ultimately reduces the hardware complexity. In this method of encrypted code construction, rows are used to form a distance graph. They are then transformed to a parity-check matrix in order to acquire the desired girth. In this work, matrices are divided into small sub-matrices, which result in improved decoding performance and reduce waiting time of the messages to be updated. Matrix sub-division increases the number of sub-matrices to be managed and memory requirement. Moreover, Prototype architecture of the LDPC codes has been implemented by writing Hardware Description Language (VHDL) code and targeted to a Xilinx Spartan-3E XC3S500E FPGA chip.
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Molina, Benjamin, Carlos E. Palau, and Manuel Esteve. "CDN Modeling and Performance." In Next Generation Content Delivery Infrastructures, 1–28. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1794-0.ch001.
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Content Distribution Networks (CDN) appeared a decade ago as a method for reducing latencies, improving performance experienced by Internet users, and limiting the effect of flash-crowds, so as balance load in servers. Content Distribution has evolved in different ways (e.g. cloud computing structures and video streaming distribution infrastructures). The solution proposed in early CDN was the location of several controlled caching servers close to clients, organized and managed by a central control system. Many companies deployed their own CDN infrastructure– and so demonstrating the resulting effectiveness. However, the business model of these networks has evolved from the distribution of static web objects to video streaming. Many aspects of deployment and implementation remain proprietary, evidencing the lack of a general CDN model, although the main design concepts are widely known. In this work, the authors represent the structure of a CDN and the performance of some of its parameters, using queuing theory, simplifying the redirection schema and studying the elements that could determine the improvement in performance. The main contribution of the work is a general expression for a CDN environment and the relationship between different variables like caching hit ratios, network latency, number of surrogates, and server capacity; this proves that the use of CDN outperform the typical client/server architecture.
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Srivastav, Manoj Kumar, Robin Singh Bhadoria, and Tarasankar Pramanik. "Integration of Multiple Cache Server Scheme for User-Based Fuzzy Logic in Content Delivery Networks." In Handbook of Research on Advanced Applications of Graph Theory in Modern Society, 386–96. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9380-5.ch016.
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The internet plays important role in the modern society. With the passage of time, internet consumers are increasing. Therefore, the traffic loads during communication between client and its associated server are getting complex. Various networking systems are available to send the information or to receive messages via the internet. Some networking systems are so expensive that they cannot be used for the regular purpose. A user always tries to use that networking system that works on expansion of optimizing the cost. A content delivery network (CDN) also called as content distribution network has been developed to manage better performance between client and list of available servers. This chapter presents the mathematical model to find optimization among client and cache server during delivery of content based on fuzzy logic.
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Firpo, Christina Elizabeth. "Unfree Labor." In Black Market Business, 90–112. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752650.003.0003.
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This chapter examines two forms of unfree labor — debt-bondage and human trafficking — in which sex workers were not recompensed for their labor and, for a variety of reasons, remained stuck in their place of employment. Women involved in debt-bondage arrangements exchanged work for room, board, and a cash loan. Under debt-bondage agreements, the indebted paid off a monetary debt through labor for a definitive period of time. The chapter discusses how unscrupulous managers used debt-bondage to exploit sex workers. It also talks about trafficked women and how they were typically tricked or abducted and sold against their will to brothels in Tonkin or China, linking the sex industries of both countries. The chapter discusses how the prevalence of trafficking became a thorn in the side of the colonial government as France had already completely abolished slavery and slave trade in its terriroties since 1848. Finally, it discusses the colonial efforts to stop abuses of unfree labor.
Conference papers on the topic "Work Load Manager"
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Dawes, W. N., W. P. Kellar, and G. A. Richardson. "Application of Topology-Free Optimization to Manage Cooled Turbine Tip Heat Load." In ASME Turbo Expo 2009: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2009-59817.
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The application of automated design optimization to real-world, complex geometry problems is a significant challenge—especially if the topology is not known a-priori like in turbine internal cooling. The long term goal of our work is to focus on an end-to-end integration of the whole CFD Process, from solid model through meshing, solving and post-processing to enable this type of design optimization to become viable & practical. In recent papers we have reported the integration of a Level Set based geometry kernel with an octree-based cut-Cartesian mesh generator, RANS flow solver, post-processing & geometry editing all within a single piece of software—and all implemented in parallel with commodity PC clusters as the target. The cut-cells which characterize the approach are eliminated by exporting a body-conformal mesh, with a viscous layer, guided by the underpinning Level Set. This paper develops this work further with a simple, generic study showing how the basic functionality can be scripted and then used as the infrastructure for automated optimization applied to an example in turbine cooling: managing blade tip heat lead.
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Holland, Howard W., and Sally Fathulla. "Improved Generating Reliability of Mature Technology Gas Turbines for Supplying Critical Industrial and Commercial Loads for General Electric Company of Libya (GECOL)." In ASME Turbo Expo 2014: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2014-25028.
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Contractors can add value for their clients when they effectively manage operating risks within their areas of core competence. General Electric Company of Libya (GECOL) had operated its mature gas turbine generating plants at maximum output with severely constrained maintenance budgets for years. GECOL prolonged operation of many of its facilities supplying critical industrial and commercial loads until material failures shut them down. In addition, facilities under construction suffered from a lack of technical due diligence and quality assurance scrutiny. This paper covers the loss-of-load risk management techniques recommended following a Willbros assessment of GECOL’s major combustion turbine generating facilities. The assessment was completed immediately prior to the recent regime change and resulted in recommended strategies for managing new construction and outage work under existing maintenance budget constraints. Plants assessed included Zawia, Khoms, Tripoli South, Western Mountain, Benghazi North and Zewitena.
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Cavina, Nicolò, Matteo De Cesare, Vittorio Ravaglioli, Fabrizio Ponti, and Federico Covassin. "Full Load Performance Optimization Based on Turbocharger Speed Evaluation via Acoustic Sensing." In ASME 2014 Internal Combustion Engine Division Fall Technical Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icef2014-5677.
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Turbocharger performance optimization on passenger car engines is particularly challenging, especially in case of severe engine downsizing and downspeeding. On high performance engines (e.g., heavy duty truck applications) turbocharger speed measurement is usually performed with the aim of maximizing engine power and torque, limiting turbocharger over-speed, which is harmful for its durability and reliability. This solution is too expensive for passenger cars, and the turbocharger speed sensor is typically not available. In this work, an innovative and low cost sensing chain for the rotational speed evaluation of the turbocharger is applied. With this information, obtained via an acoustic sensor, a new turbocharger control architecture has been developed to optimize turbocharger performance, in order to improve engine output torque under full load conditions. After a brief description of the new sensing chain and of the electronic components developed to manage this kind of information, the paper shows the new control architecture that takes advantage of the turbocharger speed information. Moreover, experimental results on a small turbocharged Diesel engine for passenger car applications are presented, demonstrating the achieved benefits.
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Deshpande, Kedar, Pravin Naphade, and Chad Wuest. "Advanced Computational Modeling for Estimating Safe Cuttings Load Through MPD Surface Equipment." In IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/201074-ms.
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Abstract The critical components of Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) operations include surface manifold, surface chokes and the pipes connected to Mud Gas separators. The MPD surface equipment needs to safely handle a multiphase mixture of drilling mud, cuttings load and reservoir fluid influx during operations. The focus of this work is to establish safe cuttings load limit that can be handled by MPD system using advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling approach. In MPD operations the surface choke is the key surface manifold component through which the fluid and cuttings flow before entering the Coriolis meter. Based on choke position only a certain volume and size of cuttings (cuttings load) can pass through chokes without causing unintentional pressure surges. In this work, Non-Newtonian fluid flow using Eulerian-Granular modeling approach is presented to understand the effects of cuttings load and different choke positions on the overall pressure drop through MPD surface manifold. Several CFD studies were conducted for different choke sizes, cuttings load and fluid properties to understand velocity profiles, cuttings accumulation and pressure drop across the MPD surface manifold. CFD results were first validated with available test data to generate confidence in CFD simulation model settings, good match was observed in pressure values between test and numerical results. Based on CFD simulations, charts were developed showing effect of operational parameters that help field personnel design the best surface equipment configuration, determine associated pressure drop and guard against the possibility of Non-Productive Time (NPT). CFD studies provided insights into cuttings accumulation and associated pressure drop change across choke for given operating conditions. Usage of advanced computational methods helped model the multi-phase flow with cuttings accurately and provided safe cuttings load estimation for given range of operational parameters.
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Bridle, Peter. "Catastrophic Events and Human Error: A Few Rotten Apples or Organizational Dysfunction?" In SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/205858-ms.
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Abstract By July of 2021, it would have been 33 years since the 1988 Piper Alpha tragedy in the UK sector of the North Sea where 167 oil field workers lost their lives. Without question, the incident was a watershed event for the international oil and gas industry. And not simply because of the immediate toll in human lives lost, but also in terms of the devasting aftermath endured by countless friends, families and loved ones whose lives were forever changed on that fateful day. The tragedy also served to illustrate how much work would be needed by the oil and gas industry to fully understand and better manage those operating risks that possessed the potential for catastrophic loss in terms of business cost and reputational impact. In the wake of the public enquiry that followed and chaired by Lord Cullen of Whitekirk, one of the principal recommendations resulting from the disaster required that the international oil and gas industry do a much better job in determining both its major hazards (i.e. major operating risks) and in creating the necessary operating conditions to demonstrate that such things were being well managed. The objective being to provide tangible assurance that the likelihood of the industry ever incurring such a calamitous event again in the future had been reduced to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). In taking its responsibilities very seriously, the international oil and gas industry responded by raising the profile of the management of Health, Safety, and the Environment (HSE) across the wide spectrum of its global operations. By the mid-nineties, the industry had implemented comprehensive and structured systems of work within the framework of purposely built HSE Management Systems using templates designed and developed for the industry via the International Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP)*.
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Qian, Haiyang, David Harris, and Timothy J. Griesbach. "Probabilistic Models of Reliability of Cast Austenitic Stainless Steel Piping." In ASME 2011 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2011-57270.
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Thermal embrittlement of cast austenitic stainless steel piping is of growing concern as nuclear power plants age. The difficulty of inspecting these components adds to the concerns regarding their reliability, and an added concern is the presence of known defects introduced during the casting fabrication process. The possible presence of defects and difficulty of inspection complicate the development of programs to manage the risk contributed by these embrittled components. Much work has been done in the past to characterize changes in tensile properties and fracture toughness as functions of time, temperature, composition, and delta ferrite content, but this work has shown a great deal of scatter in relationships between the important variables. The scatter in material correlations, difficulty of inspection and presence of initial defects calls for a probabilistic approach to the problem. The purpose of this study is to describe a probabilistic fracture mechanics analysis of the maximum allowable flaw sizes in cast austenitic stainless steel piping in commercial power reactors. Attention is focused on fully embrittled CF8M material, and the probability of failure for a given crack size, load and composition is predicted considering scatter in tensile properties and fracture toughness (fracture toughness is expressed as a crack growth resistance relation in terms of J-Δa). Random loads can also be included in the analysis, with results generated by Monte Carlo simulation. This paper presents preliminary results for CF8M to demonstrate the sensitivity of key input variables. The outcome of this study is the flaw sizes (length and depth) that will fail with a given probability when a given load is applied.
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Noto, Joe, Athul Radhakrishnan, Ye Sun, Josh Ferreira, and Marc Compere. "Diesel Emission Test Stand for Advanced SCR Control." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-52747.
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The combination of increasingly challenging emissions regulations and impending Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards of 54.5 mpg by 2025 presents auto makers with a challenge over the next 10 years. The most promising technologies currently available for meeting high fuel economy and low emissions regulations are increased hybridization, turbo downsizing, and increased Diesel engine implementation. Combining these into a hybrid turbo Diesel is an ideal transition technology for the very near future as battery and other alternative fuels become viable for widespread automotive use. This paper presents a Diesel emission test stand to improve Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) systems for light duty Diesel vehicles, particularly hybrid power systems that experience many start-stop events. Advanced modeling and control systems for SCR systems will further reduce tailpipe emissions below existing Tier structures and will prepare manufacturers to meet increasingly stringent Tier 3 standards beginning in 2017. SCR reduces oxides of Nitrogen, NO, and NO2, from otherwise untreated Diesel emissions. Scientific study has proved that inhaling this harmful exhaust gas is directly responsible for some forms of lung cancer and a variety of other respiratory diseases. In addition to EPA Tier emissions levels and CAFÉ standards, the On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) regulations require every vehicle’s emission control systems to actively report their status during all engine-on vehicle operation. Testing and development with production NOx sensors and production SCR components is critical to improving NOx reduction and for OEMs to meeting strict Tier 3 light duty emission standards. The test stand was designed for straightforward access to the NOx sensors, injector, pump and all exhaust components. A Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) followed by a Diesel Oxidizing Catalyst (DOC) precedes the Selective Catalytic Reducer (SCR) injector, mixing pipe and catalyst. An upstream NOx sensor reads engine-out NOx and the downstream NOx sensor reports the post catalyst NOx levels. Custom fabrication work was required to integrate the SCR mechanical components into a simple system with exhaust components easily accessible in a repeatable, controlled laboratory environment. A Diesel generator was used in combination with a custom designed resistive load bank to provide variable NOx emissions according to the EPA drive cycles. A production exhaust temperature sensor was calibrated and integrated into the software test manager. Production automotive NOx sensors and SCR injector, pump and heaters were mounted on a production light duty vehicle exhaust system. The normalized nature of NOx concentration in parts per million (ppm) allows the small Diesel generator to adequately represent larger Diesels for controls development purposes. Both signal level and power electronics were designed and tested to operate the SCR pump, injector, and three Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) heating elements. An Arduino-based Controller Area Network (CAN) communications network read the NOx Diesel emissions messages from the upstream and downstream sensors. The pump, injector, solenoid, and line heaters all functioned properly during DEF fluid injection. CAN and standard serial communications were used for Arduino and Matlab/Simulink based control and data logging software. Initial testing demonstrated partial and full NOx reduction. Overspray saturated the catalyst and demonstrated the production NOx sensor’s cross-sensitivity to ammonia. The ammonia was indistinguishable from NOx during saturation and motivates incorporation of a separate ammonia sensor.
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Fazeli, Amir, Meysar Zeinali, Amir Khajepour, and Mohammad Pournazeri. "Air Hybrid Engine Torque Control Using Adaptive Sliding Mode Control." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-38762.
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In this work, a new air hybrid engine configuration is introduced in which two throttles are used to manage the engine load in three modes of operation i.e. braking, air motor, and conventional mode. A Mean Value Model (MVM) of the engine is developed at braking mode and a new Adaptive Sliding Mode Controller (ASMC), recently proposed in the literature, is applied to control the engine torque at this mode. The results show that the controller performs remarkably well in terms of the robustness, tracking error convergence and disturbance attenuation. Chattering effect is also removed by utilizing the ASMC scheme.
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Yeow, Ming-Lei. "Optimising Big Bore Gas Well Completion Design in a Carbonate Field." In International Petroleum Technology Conference. IPTC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2523/iptc-21347-ms.
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Abstract A large gas field with carbonate formations was discovered about 200 km (kilometers) offshore, in water depths of 108 m (meters) below mean sea level. Flow analysis and reservoir depletion studies by the Operator show 7" tubing is required to provide high production rates of about 80 to 120 million Standard Cubic Feet per day (mmscfd) per well as the optimum production and depletion strategy for the field. The field presents significant challenges to well construction and completion. These challenges were considered in the design stage to optimise well completion design and operations. This paper describes the approach and methods used to overcome the challenges in the design and execution stage to optimise the completion design and to manage challenges during construction of the well including: –Due to loss of circulation in the fractured gas carbonate reservoirs, the well will be drilled with Pressurised Mud Cap Drilling (PMCD), a form of Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD). Thus, the design needs to provide for installing the well completion in this condition–The wells required heavy mud weight for drilling and thus, heavy brine weights for well completion. Challenges to avoid or minimise the loss of high cost heavy brine were considered–High reservoir temperatures of about 325 deg. F (degrees Fahrenheit) which lead to challenges of ensuring equipment will continue to work in high temperature environments, high loads / stresses on completion & casing during production, and Wellhead & Christmas Tree & Flowline movement / growth.–Presence of sour gas and CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) which require optimising metallurgy of tubulars and downhole equipment, considering corrosion and cost requirements–Understanding loads / stresses on the tubing and casings with high flowrates and high flowing temperatures–Concerns with formation collapse during production–Corrosion studies to optimise material selection and ensuring well integrity for at least twenty (20) years’ field life–Manage hydrates and scaling while carrying out well completion, well clean and well test operations and during the field life–Acceptable seals, barriers and completion equipment to manage high pressure gas–Wellhead and Christmas Tree that can take the high temperature and sour gas content–Well clean-up and testing after completion in conjunction with drilling operations–Cost and time optimisation to maximize returns on investment for the project. Well completion engineering studies were carried out for each challenge or consideration. Experiences and lessons from similar gas fields were also considered. Corrosion laboratory analysis was carried out to optimise the corrosion resistant alloy for the completion tubular and completion equipment. For each solution to the challenge, cost and time considerations were reviewed and studied to optimise the design, cost, integrity and safety of the wells and operations. This paper describes the approaches and methods taken by the Operator to optimise the Big Bore Gas Well Completion Design including some lessons for improvement after successfully drilling, completing, clean-up and testing of the first well with this completion design.
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Dambrosio, Lorenzo, Marco Mastrovito, and Sergio M. Camporeale. "Performance of Gas Turbine Power Plants Controlled by Multiagent Scheme." In ASME Turbo Expo 2006: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2006-90590.
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In latter years the idea of artificial intelligence has been focused around the concept of a rational agent. An agent is a (software or hardware) entity that can receive signals from the environment and act upon that environment through output signals. In general an agent always tries to carry out an appropriate task. Seldom agents are considered as stand-alone systems. Their main strength can be found in the interaction with other agents in several different ways in a multiagent system. In the present work, multiagent system approach will be used to manage the control process of a single-shaft heavy-duty gas turbine in Multi Input Multi Output mode. The results will show that the multiagent approach to the control problem effectively counteracts the load reduction (including the load rejection condition) with limited overshoot in the controlled variables (as other control algorithms do) while showing good level adaptivity readiness, precision, robustness and stability.