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Across the pond : a comparison of the Mexican & British SMEs and their dealings with sustainability.

Victoria-Uribe, Ricardo; Lofthouse, V.A. - 2006

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are widely recognized as an importantpart of the worldwide economy, acting both as the backbone of local economiesand as consumers of natural resources. In light of this, since the 1990’s,research to investigate how to make them more sustainable through the...

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The International Financial Reporting Standards and Their Implementation into the US Accounting System

Dols, Mindyleigh - 2010

This paper examines the differences between the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Generally … Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The areas closely examined are the differences inrevenue recognition and reporting of … intangibles. By investigating the differences in the two sets of standards I put into context the changes that would be necessary …

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Installation and Commissioning Automated Demand Response Systems

Global Energy Partners; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; … - 2008

Demand Response (DR) can be defined as actions taken to reduce electric loads when contingencies, such as emergencies and congestion, occur that threaten supply-demand balance, or market conditions raise supply costs. California utilities have offered price and reliability DR based programs to...

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Waste Management Policy Framework to Mitigate Terrorist Intrusion Activities

Redus, Kenneth - 2009

A policy-directed framework is developed to support US Department of Energy (DOE) counterterrorism efforts, specifically terrorist intrusion activities that affect of Environmental Management (EM) programs. The framework is called the Security Effectiveness and Resource Allocation Definition...

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Market transformation lessons learned from an automated demand response test in the Summer and Fall of 2003

Shockman, Christine; Piette, Mary Ann; ten Hope, Laurie - 2008

A recent pilot test to enable an Automatic Demand Response system in California has revealed several lessons that are important to consider for a wider application of a regional or statewide Demand Response Program. The six facilities involved in the site testing were from diverse areas of our...

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Techniques handbook: project management. Work breakdown structures. ERDA handbook 0805. 3 part 1

2008

The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) technique is primarily a project management planning technique which is aimed at defining, within an overall conceptual framework, the detailed products and work effort to be accomplished for successful achievement of the project objective(s). The WBS technique...

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Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)

Piette, Mary Ann; Ghatikar, Girish; Kiliccote, Sila; … - 2009

The development of the Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification, also known as OpenADR or Open Auto-DR, began in 2002 following the California electricity crisis. The work has been carried out by the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC), which is managed by Lawrence Berkeley...

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Adaptive external torque estimation by means of tracking a Lyapunov function

Schaub, H.; Junkins, J.L.; Robinett, R.D. - 2010

A real-time method is presented to adoptively estimate three-dimensional unmodeled external torques acting on a spacecraft. This is accomplished by forcing the tracking error dynamics to follow the Lyapunov function underlying the feedback control law. For the case where the external torque is...

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Help for the Developers of Control System Cyber Security Standards

Robert P. Evans - 2009

A Catalog of Control Systems Security: Recommendations for Standards Developers (Catalog), aimed at assisting organizations to facilitate the development and implementation of control system cyber security standards, has been developed. This catalog contains requirements that can help protect...

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Human Factors and Data Fusion as Part of Control Systems Resilience

David I. Gertman - 2009

Human performance and human decision making is counted upon as a crucial aspect of overall system resilience. Advanced control systems have the potential to provide operators and asset owners a wide range of data, deployed at different levels that can be used to support operator situation...

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