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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...

One Significant Step: How Reforms to Prison Districts Begin to Address Political Inequality

Skyrocketing rates of incarceration over the last three decades have had profound and lasting effects on the political power and engagement of local communities throughout the United States ... contact , USA Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr - ONE SIGNIFICANT STEP: HOW REFORMS TO PRISON DISTRICTS BEGIN TO ADDRESS POLITICAL INEQUALITY INTRODUCTION

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

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

In All Fairness: Using Political Broadcast Access Doctrine to Tailor Public Campaign Fund Matching

Recent United States Supreme Court decisions have undermined the viability of campaign public financing systems, a vital tool for fighting political corruption. First, Citizens United v. FEC allowed ... telecommunications law to support the constitutionality of this system. These laws recognize the First Amendment rights of the electorate, the problem of political advertising market saturation, and the values of an

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

Emphasizing Substance: Making the Case for a Shift in Political Speech Jurisprudence

Political speech is vital to a functioning democracy and is highly protected. That much is hardly disputed. What courts, legal scholars, and those seeking to convey a political message do dispute is ... political speech doctrine and critiques two intent-based approaches that have been proposed by First Amendment scholars to define political speech. This Note proposes a solution to many problems inherent in

Comparing Artificial Neural Network Architectures for Brazilian Stock Market Prediction

Prediction of financial time series is a great challenge for statistical models. In general, the stock market times series present high volatility due to its sensitivity to economic and political

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

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

System dynamics for social good

, consisting of human flourishing. The concept of the common good is a consistent theme in political philosophy through the centuries (Lee, 2013). Since it was founded sixty years ago, system dynamics has

Paleoclimate quantitative reconstruction and characteristics of continental red beds: a case study of the lower fourth sub-member of Shahejie Formation in the Bonan Sag

relative’ (NLR) philosophy provides the fundamental methodology to describe climatic parameters based on fossil sporopollen data (Dhakal et al. 2022; Gibson et al. 2022; Mosbrugger and Utescher 1997

R&D spillovers from international student flows: a brics analysis

and practiceThe mobility of international students is currently an important political issue in the world. These formal or informal links between agents from diverse countries result in an exchange of ... university spillovers that transcend the spatial scale of political districts. Wennberg et al. (2011) have verified the transfer of knowledge from academic research that involves the indirect flow to

Application of artificial neural network models and random forest algorithm for estimation of fracture intensity from petrophysical data

the political border with Turkmenistan, around 180 km northeast of Mashhad city in Iran (Fig. 1). This field is situated in the Kopet Dagh Basin, and its neighboring field in Iran is Gonbadli Field and

Was the European oil industry prepared for the current global crisis?

Fig. 1. In the current geo-political context, like most major global economic players, the EU has had to adopt measures to reduce its dependence on oil imports, including from Russia. As a result, the ... produced locally. At EU level, dependency is 96% (Petrescu 2022) . Energy independence represents in the current geo-political context a strategic element that can ensure economic independence in the

A Survey on Differential Privacy for Medical Data Analysis

, political privacy and information privacy [ 7 ]. Among them, medical privacy comes from a wide range of sources and complex types of medical data, mainly including information that patients do not want to