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Integrating risk management concepts into the drilling non-productive time

a sound technique to evaluate operational losses or wastes of many resources, including time. This paper presents an attempt to couple RM techniques with NPT philosophy together with other concepts ... professional development conference and exposition , Seattle, Washington, 11 - 14 June, ASSE- 06 -544E Pareto V , Page A ( 1971 ) Translation of manuale di economia politica “manual of political economy”, A.M

Study of an internal materials workflow based on the Lean Manufacturing philosophy

Recently, Brazilian companies have searched for ways to optimize the results of industrial processes. Studies by the Lean Institute Brasil (2012) indicate that the industries of Brazil, on average, require the most overtime for compliance with manufacturing operations. This is directly linked to the high amount of stocks between processes, waste handling and the storage of...

"Are You Ready for Some (Political) Football?

(Political) Football?" How Section 501(c)(3) - "ARE You READY FOR SOME (POLITICAL) FOOTBALL?" HOW SECTION 501(c)(3) ORGANIZATIONS GET THEIR PLAYING TIME DURING CAMPAIGN SEASONS DanielC. Willingham* AKRON ... Political Expenditures After Citizens United, 10 ELECTION L. J. 449, 452 (2011). See also Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, What Is This 'Lobbying' That We Are So Worried About?, 26 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 485, 486-89 (2008

Lean philosophy and its applications in the service industry: a review of the current knowledge

, Curitiba, Brazil, bPUCPR, Curitiba, Brazil ABSTRACT This article presents an in-depth bibliographic study about the creation, principles, evolution, and practices of the lean philosophy ... . Other limitations are due to the scarce articles in the literature. However, this research showed that the use of the lean philosophy in services proved to be effective and quite worthwhile. Several cases

Lean philosophy and its applications in the service industry: a review of the current knowledge

This article presents an in-depth bibliographic study about the creation, principles, evolution, and practices of the lean philosophy oriented to the services sector. More than 70 papers about “lean ... . Other limitations are due to the scarce articles in the literature. However, this research showed that the use of the lean philosophy in services proved to be effective and quite worthwhile. Several cases

Il Ritratto di Mazzini di Luigi Calamatta: una storia curiosa tra scelte estetiche e implicazioni politiche (con una lettera inedita di Giuseppe Mazzini a George Sand)

Mazzini’s portrait between aesthetic choices and political implicationsThe intriguing story of Luigi Calamatta's engraving (With an unpublished letter from Giuseppe Mazzini to George Sand)The ... republican élite in Paris. Two key figures on the political and intellectual scene in Europe, namely the statesman Giuseppe Mazzini and the novelist George Sand, with whom Calamatta confronted himself, were

Shale gas: a step toward sustainable energy future

factors such as political matters, wars, social and economic aspects, and exploration techniques. Depending on the recoverable reserve (RR), production of shale gas entails different methods and with a ... prevailing in that particular region. As the administration introduces new policies, this can lead to political and economic turmoil. Therefore, widespread corruption, weak institutional and government support

A produção enxuta como fator diferencial na capacidade de fornecimento de PMEs

philosophy coined lean production. This paper aims at pointing out some considerations about what could be done, regarding the production process, that may improve the supply capability of the autoparts firms

Arte e diplomazia: il caso dell’Arte italiana al Musée du Jeu de Paume negli anni Trenta

especially on the attitude toward Italian contemporary art and its political meanings, thus outlining a complex network of events and relations in order to integrate the studies developed so far. The essay ... and political forces on the managerial attitude displayed at the Jeu de Paume Museum toward Italian art.

The Squallor phenomenon: Social and political satire in Italian music during the First Republic

social and political satire in modern Italy. This is evident in their mocking and farcical parodies of Italian politics and cultural conventions. In addition, if we consider the period in which Squallor ... focusing on their political allusions (as in the song Alluvione), and then more explicitly by examining their satires against specific political leaders such as Gianni De Michelis (in Demiculis) and Umberto

‘The political deadlock is life’: Boris and the satire of contemporary Italian media and cultural industries

production of a feature-length film that was released in Italian movietheatres in 2011. This article will address how the political climate in Italy informed Boris' comedic form and its discourse on the ... Italian cultural industry as opposed to the humor seen in other comedic traditions. In particular, the political satire carried out in Boris will be examined with reference to Linda Hutcheon's theorization

PAC Contributions and Effective Corporate Tax Rates: An Empirical Study

It is commonly asserted that such large corporations have used political influence to secure special tax benefits to reduce their respective tax liabilities. The present study investigates whether ... study examines the relationship between corporate political action committee (PAC) contributions made during the 1983-1984 election cycle and the effective corporate tax rates imposed on the related

The New Tax Law: The Future of Private Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

look at the political infrastructure and the political philosophy of our system. We have to ask ourselves, . .. 'Is it going to last?' We certainly know the 19871 answers to the question of what is the ... at least, is likely to be signaled by the nature of the political philosophy taught in the universities.... The challenges in the American political system are often foreshadowed in our educational

All roads lead to Florentine patricians

Review of: Elisa Goudriaan, Florentine Patricians and Their Networks: Structures Behind the Cultural Success and the Political Representation of the Medici Court (1600-1660), Leiden/Boston, Brill ... research tradition of Leiden University, centring on (cultural) networks in early modern Europe. The first chapter provides us with a historical and political background of Florence between 1530 and 1670 and

All roads lead to Florentine patricians

Review of: Elisa Goudriaan, Florentine Patricians and Their Networks: Structures Behind the Cultural Success and the Political Representation of the Medici Court (1600-1660), Leiden/Boston, Brill ... research tradition of Leiden University, centring on (cultural) networks in early modern Europe. The first chapter provides us with a historical and political background of Florence between 1530 and 1670 and

The Antwerp joyous entry of 1549. The Florentine-Genoese conflict as a window on the role of a trading nation in political cultural transfers

of a broad range of cultural knowledge and techniques between these two areas. Yet, apart from Lamal's recent work, research that seeks to trace and understand transfers of political information and ... culture between the two regions is rare and is dominated by a biographical approach. This is in spite of the flourishing of both research on political culture and on transfer since the 1980s.1 This article

Riser and well casing analysis during drift-off: a coupled solution in the time domain

casing during drift-off, additional calculations were performed with the inclusion of a Production Adapting Base (height = 2.22 m), using Philosophy 2. The tension used in these calculations was 1,600 kips ... % 7.3% 7.3% 7.1% 0.9% 2.8% 2.6% 2.4% 2.6% 3.5% 3.5% 3.3% 2.6% 3.5% 3.5% 3.3% 37 104 100 96 67 119 120 115 67 119 119 114 As it can be seen on Table 2, the results obtained with philosophy 1 (quasi-static

Learning lean with lego: developing and evaluating the efficacy of a serious game

This study presents the use of a serious game developed to teach Lean philosophy. The structure of this game was built from theoretical elements and predefined learning events. Learning outcomes and ... philosophy. For this, a set of theoretical elements and a set of learning events (conditions which have the function of improving student learning) have been defined. After, the structure of an SG developed