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How Many Performance Shaping Factors are Necessary for Human Reliability Analysis?

Ronald L. Boring - 2011

It has been argued that human reliability analysis (HRA) has expended considerable energy on creating detailed representations of human performance through an increasingly long list of performance shaping factors (PSFs). It is not clear, however, to what extent this refinement and expansion of...

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Quality and small business competitiveness: Where are we and what needs to happen?

Loveland, J.; Whatley, A.; Tapp, C. - 2008

Quality management is more than an idea whose time has come, more than a passing fancy. Quality will be an imperative … total quarry management practices and processes. While most of the current literature on quality management focuses on large … firms, quality management is arguably even more relevant to small businesses. As global markets become increasingly a …

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Review of the Structure of Bulk Power Markets Grid of the Future White Paper

Kirby, B.J. - 2008

) which stated that the traditional methods of grid management are showing signs of strain and may be inadequate to support …

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Technical Potential for Peak Load Management Programs in New Jersey

Kirby, B.J. - 2008

Restructuring is attempting to bring the economic efficiency of competitive markets to the electric power industry. To at least some extent it is succeeding. New generation is being built in most areas of the country reversing the decades-long trend of declining reserve margins. Competition...

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Affirmative Action Plan, October 1991--September 1992

2008

This report documents Reynolds Electrical Engineering Co., Inc., analysis of all major job groups with explanations if minorities and females are underutilized in any one or more job group. Goals and timetables have been developed and good faith efforts are directed to correct any deficiencies....

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Puget Sound Area Electric Reliability Plan. Appendix C : Economic and Technical Evaluation.

United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2009

In this Appendix, the study framework and evaluation for economic and technical factors are explained. This material documents the analysis performed for Section 4.8 of the EIS. Coupled with the environmental analysis, the evaluation factors described below will be used to judge the relative...

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Chief Financial Officer FY 1997 status report and five-year plan

2009

management. The Act requires the agency CFO to prepare, and annually revise, a plan to implement the Office of Management and … Budget (OMB) Federal Financial Management Status Report and Five-Year Plan. This is the sixth Status Report and Five …-Year Plan submission to OMB by the Department of Energy (DOE). Financial management at the Department operates in an environment …

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Institutional barriers to DSM (demand side management): Reviewing the regulatory bargain

Warwick, W.M. - 2008

The paper discusses traditional arguments for utility regulation in the context of the current utility environment. It reviews several DSM delivery options using a matrix of key financial considerations for utilities and consumers. The strengths and weaknesses of each option are discussed and an...

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Information requirements of self-managing teams

Van Aken, E.M. - 2009

In response to the significant challenges organizations face today, many managers have put in place continuous improvement efforts to help the organization on enhance its competitive position. A key element of continuous improvement efforts is employee involvement, and one of the most complex,...

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Handbook for preservation of local railroad service. Final report

Patton, E.P.; Langley, C.J. Jr. - 2008

Throughout the United States, there is an accelerating abandonment of redundant and/or unprofitable light-density railroad lines. This abandonment can be economically harmful to both the shippers and the communities that were previously served. Although greater dependence upon truck...

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