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Fjellman, Andreas. "Mental practice for military performance." Thesis, Swedish National Defence College, Swedish National Defence College, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-836.
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The aim was to examine whether the Swedish Armed Forces can use mental training to develop the soldiers and officers in the military profession, a secondary objective was to examine how mental training methods can be integrated into the Swedish Armed Forces' daily activities. The study was carried out in the form of a literature review. The search of literature was done in scientific and military data bases, and retrieval from the Department of Leadership and Management (ILM) in Karlstad. The literature and articles were reviewed which resulted in only 19 out of 64 collected works were judged to have acceptable scientific quality and be of relevance for the topic. The results of the survey show that the use of mental training techniques goal setting, imagery, self-talk and relaxation strategies can produce positive effects for individual development of soldiers and officers. First, by allowing them to improve performance and stress management ability, secondly by creating motivation. An integration of the mental training techniques requires a training of officers carried out by experts and an individual motivation in soldiers.
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Mikuličiūtė, Vita. "Factors of military teams performance efficacy." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130327_100756-97279.
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Cohesion, team trust, stress, perceived Self and collective efficacy are considered to be significant factors of military teams performance efficacy. Still it is not clear, what the interaction between these factors are and in what way they predict performance efficacy. For the purpose of the study three questionnaires were developed: Perceived Military Stress, Perceived Military Self –efficacy and Perceived Military Collective Efficacy questionnaires, two scales of other authors were adapted to Lithuanian military population. 160 soldiers of Lithuanian professional military, belonging to 28 military teams (sections) took part in the research. It was estimated that cohesion, team trust, perceived Self and Collective efficacy are related to performance efficacy. Path model proves, that perceived collective efficacy is the most important variable predicting military team’s performance efficacy and stress. Team’s performance efficacy can also be predicted by cohesion, team trust and perceived Self - efficacy, but these factors predict performance efficacy not directly, but through perceived collective efficacy. Besides, higher levels of perceived Self and collective efficacy characterize person with international operation experience. Privates tend to experience higher levels of stress and to trust their teams less to compare to junior privates. Commanders of the section and their subjects evaluate their teams similar.Sutelktumas, pasitikėjimas komanda, patiriamas stresas bei suvoktas Aš ir kolektyvinis efektyvumas laikomi svarbiais karinių komandų veiklos efektyvumo veiksniais. Visgi nėra aišku, kokia šių veiksnių tarpusavio sąveikos kryptis ir kokia jų reikšmė numatant karinių komandų veiklos efektyvumą. Specialiai tyrimui sukurti trys klausimynai: Karių patiriamo streso, Karių suvokto Aš efektyvumo ir Karių suvokto kolektyvinio efektyvumo klausimynas, taip pat Lietuvos karių populiacijai adaptuotos dvi kitų autorių sukurtos skalės. Apklausus 160 Lietuvos profesinės karo tarnybos karių, kurie priklausė 28 komandoms (skyriams) nustatyta, kad didesnis komandos sutelktumas, pasitikėjimas komanda, suvoktas Aš bei kolektyvinis efektyvumas yra susiję su didesniu komandos veiklos efektyvumu. Atlikta kelių analizė parodė, kad suvoktas kolektyvinis efektyvumas yra svarbiausias kintamasis, leidžiantis numatyti komandos veiklos efektyvumą ir karių patiriamą stresą. Karių komandos veiklos efektyvumą galima numatyti ir remiantis komandos sutelktumu, pasitikėjimu komanda ir suvoktu Aš efektyvumu, tačiau jie komandos veiklos efektyvumą numato ne tiesiogiai, o per suvoktą kolektyvinį efektyvumą. Taip pat nustatyta, kad aukštesniu Aš bei kolektyviniu efektyvumu pasižymi tarptautinėse operacijose anksčiau dalyvavę kariai. Eilinio laipsnį turintys kariai, palyginti su kitus laipsnius turinčiais kariais, linkę patirti daugiau streso ir mažiau pasitikėti savo komandomis. Skyriaus vadai ir likusieji kariai... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Rogers, Jeff D. "Midshipmen military performance as an indicator of officer fleet performance." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Jun%5FRogers%5FJeff.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resource Development)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003.Thesis advisor(s): William R. Bowman, Stephen L. Mehay. Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-119). Also available online.
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Lyan, Dmitriy Eduard. "Performance dynamics in military behavioral health clinics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90690.
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Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, System Design and Management Program, June 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "June 2012."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-116).
The prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other related behavioral health conditions among active duty service members and their families has grown over 100% in the past six years and are now estimated to afflict 18% of the total military force. A 2007 DoD task force on mental health concluded that the current military psychological health care system is insufficient to meet the needs of the served population. In spite of billions of dollars committed to hundreds of programs and improvement initiatives since then, the system continues to experience provider shortages, surging costs, poor access to and quality of care as well as persistently high service-related suicide rates. We developed a model to study how the resourcing policies and incentive structures interact with the operations of military behavioral health clinics and contribute to their ability to provide effective care. We show that policies and incentives skewed towards increased patient loads and improvement in access to initial care result in a number of vicious cycles that reinforce provider shortages, increase costs and decrease access to care. Additionally we argue that insufficient informational feedback contributes to incorrect attributions and the persistence of ineffective policies. Finally we propose a set of policies and enabling performance metrics that can contribute to sustained improvement in system performance by turning death spirals into virtuous cycles leading to higher provider and patient satisfaction, better quality of care and more efficient resource utilization contributing to better healthcare outcomes and increased levels of medical readiness.
by Dmitriy Eduard Lyan.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
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Lindsay, Jon Randall. "Information friction : information technology and military performance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65320.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Militaries have long been eager to adopt the latest technology (IT) in a quest to improve knowledge of and control over the battlefield. At the same time, uncertainty and confusion have remained prominent in actual experience of war. IT usage sometimes improves knowledge, but it sometimes contributes to tactical blunders and misplaced hubris. As militaries invest intensively in IT, they also tend to develop larger headquarters staffs, depend more heavily on planning and intelligence, and employ a larger percentage of personnel in knowledge work rather than physical combat. Both optimists and pessimists about the so-called "revolution in military affairs" have tended to overlook the ways in which IT is profoundly and ambiguously embedded in everyday organizational life. Technocrats embrace IT to "lift the fog of war," but IT often becomes a source of breakdowns, misperception, and politicization. To describe the conditions under which IT usage improves or degrades organizational performance, this dissertation develops the notion of information friction, an aggregate measure of the intensity of organizational struggle to coordinate IT with the operational environment. It articulates hypotheses about how the structure of the external battlefield, internal bureaucratic politics, and patterns of human-computer interaction can either exacerbate or relieve friction, which thus degrades or improves performance. Technological determinism alone cannot account for the increasing complexity and variable performances of information phenomena. Information friction theory is empirically grounded in a participant-observation study of U.S. special operations in Iraq from 2007 to 2008. To test the external validity of insights gained through fieldwork in Iraq, an historical study of the 1940 Battle of Britain examines IT usage in a totally different structural, organizational, and technological context.
(cont.) These paired cases show that high information friction, and thus degraded performance, can arise with sophisticated IT, while lower friction and impressive performance can occur with far less sophisticated networks. The social context, not just the quality of technology, makes all the difference. Many shorter examples from recent military history are included to illustrate concepts. This project should be of broad interest to students of organizational knowledge, IT, and military effectiveness.
by Jon Randall Lindsay.
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Reece, Rick L. "An analysis of the effect of frequency of task performance on Job Performance Measurement." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA225304.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1990.Thesis advisor(s): Johnson, Laura D. Second Reader: Lindsay, Glenn F. "March 1990." Description based on signature page as viewed on October 21, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Readiness, aptitude, task performance, frequency, recency. Includes bibliographical references (p. 60). Also available online.
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Talmadge, Elisabeth Rosemary Caitlin. "Explaining military effectiveness : political intervention and battlefield performance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68942.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The puzzle: Why do states display such remarkable variation in their military effectiveness? This question is different from asking why states win or lose wars, because military effectiveness is not synonymous with victory. States can fight very well on the battlefield but still lose: consider the Germans in both world wars. Or they can fight very poorly but still win: consider the Soviets in the Winter War against Finland in 1939-40. These discrepancies exist because war outcomes hinge on all sorts of factors besides battlefield performance. The political goals for which a war is fought, the terrain, third-party involvement, the balance of material capabilities-all can influence ultimate victory and defeat. Military effectiveness bears on these outcomes but remains distinct. It pertains to the fighting power that each side is able to generate from the resources that it possesses, separate from the question of whether that fighting power is enough to bring ultimate triumph. In thinking about the challenges of U.S. foreign policy, the distinction between victory and effectiveness is especially striking. Given its overwhelming material power, the United States is almost sure to eke out some type of conventional "victory" from whatever military operations it chooses to launch in the contemporary international environment. But the price it pays for doing so is likely to vary dramatically depending on the military effectiveness of opponents. Historically, some of the poor, weak states that America has encountered have fought much better than anticipated, such as Serbia in 1999. Others, such as Iraq in 2003, have collapsed much more rapidly than expected, despite their large armies. These sorts of startling differences in effectiveness can also be found in the militaries of U.S. coalition partners and allies, even though many are rich or have received large infusions of U.S. aid and weapons. In considering these realities, it seems evident that states vary widely in their military effectiveness and that this variation drives differences in the costs, length, and settlement of wars. In particular, states seem to display puzzling differences in their ability to generate operational- and tactical-level fighting power from their resources, a type of power that I refer to in this study as battlefield effectiveness. Battlefield effectiveness requires states to perform three key tasks: to generate cohesive military units, to train those units in the performance of basic tactics, and to endow them with the initiative and coordination needed to conduct the complex operations crucial to effectiveness in modern battle. Beyond the dilemmas of current U.S. foreign policy, even a cursory examination of the last century of warfare suggests that there is significant variation in states' abilities to perform these tasks and therefore to impose costs upon their adversaries in war. Three particular types of such variation stand out. The first is cross-national variation, that is, instances in which some national armies seem to consistently perform better than others for example, the outnumbered Israeli army consistently performing better on the battlefield than its Arab opponents in the series of conflicts between 1948 and 1973. The second type of variation is over-time within the same country-for instance, the Chinese army's excellent performances against the United States in 1950 and India in 1962, followed by a rather poor showing its smaller, weaker neighbor Vietnam in 1979. The third type of variation is across different units within the same military even in the same war-for instance, the 1991 Gulf War, in which some Iraqi units surrendered immediately upon contact with coalition forces, while others stood and fought. What can account for these differences? In trying to answer this question, the study of military effectiveness has generally focused on large structural factors such as wealth, demography, culture, and regime type. But this approach is problematic, because these variables actually behave more like constants, changing very little if at all in individual states over time. As a result, they are poorly suited to explaining much of the variation just described. For example, none of these variables could explain the over-time shifts just mentioned in Chinese performance, or the cross-unit differences in Iraqi performance in 1991, because large structural factors did not change over time or vary across different military units in these individual states. Large structural variables are important, of course, and certainly condition the overall military power one would expect a state to be able to generate. They do constitute a plausible explanation for at least some cross-national variation in battlefield effectiveness. To continue the Arab-Israeli contrast mentioned above, for example, it is probably significant that Israel was a democratic, increasingly wealthy, highly unified society facing fractious, authoritarian, and economically underdeveloped Arab opponents. Nevertheless, the mechanisms that undergird the causal power of these sorts of sweeping structural forces remain poorly understood. While there may be good reasons to think that wealth, democracy, western culture, or societal unity somehow enhance military performance, it is not entirely clear what it is about these factors that actually matters. One might just as easily suspect that authoritarian regimes should have military advantages instead, with the examples of Nazi and Wilhelmine Germany, the Soviet Union, and North Vietnam immediately springing to mind, among others. What, then, can help account for the full range of variation in states' battlefield effectiveness?
by Elisabeth Rosemary Caitlin Talmadge.
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Karkatzounis, Konstantinos. "Performance evaluation of different jamming strategies over uncoded noncoherent fast FH/MFSK communication systems." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Sep%5FKarkatzounis.pdf.
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Frampton, James Scott. "Enhanced job performance : a new role for military compensation /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2000. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA379635.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2000.Thesis advisors: Henderson, David R. ; Mehay, Stephen M. "June 2000." Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-158). Also available online.
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Dubey, Rohini. "PERFORMANCE EVALUATION of MILITARY TRAINING EXERCISES USING DATA MINING." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-13060.
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Attaining training objectives is the measure of a successful training as objectives defines the purpose of instructional events. Application of the training objectives is challenging in large and complex military trainings. The trainings in military domain not only focus on the completion of the trainings but effectively achieving the objectives of the training is the goal of the exercises. It has been realized that the performance to achieve the goal is strengthen by the instructional processes and materials which are crafted to address specific training objectives. Simulation is one of the effective and realistic learning tools which can be used in trainings. As it is known that simulation generates enormous data, analysis of this data which may contain hidden information is a challenging task. The use of data mining is a solution to this problem. The aim of this project is to propose a framework of a system for the instructors which can be followed for evaluating trainee’s performance so that their fulfillment of the training objectives can be improved. A proposal which is studied in this project is learning from previous training experiences using data mining techniques to improve the effectiveness of the training by predicting the performance of the trainee. For selecting the good prediction model to estimate the learning outcome of the trainees, different classification techniques have been compared. CRISP-DM model is considered as a base for proposing the framework in this dissertation. Proposed framework is then applied on the dataset obtained from the Swedish Military for the exercises which involved shooting the target.
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Hohmann, Maya Danielle. "Psychological Skills of Canadian Military Pilots." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20058.
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For decades, elite athletes have used mental skills training to enhance their performance. The effectiveness of these skills and strategies have been measured, documented and supported in research (e.g., Feltz & Landers, 1983; Vealey, 1994). As the remarkable benefits of mental skills continue to reach an ever-growing community of performers, it is surprising that many military organizations, known for their high standards for performance and little tolerance for error, have yet to take full advantage of this type of training. Canada’s Air Force (CAF), home to a world-renowned pilot training program, now finds itself seeking additional tools to empower pilots to achieve consistent, high quality performance under demanding, high stress conditions.
The purpose of this research was to explore the psychological skills used by elite Canadian military pilots to perform successfully in this highly demanding occupation. Sixteen in-depth interviews were conducted with elite Canadian pilots at a CAF base in Saskatchewan. Results indicated that pilots utilized all seven elements of Orlick’s (2008) Wheel of Excellence over three phases of flight: pre-flight preparation, mission execution, and post-flight debriefs. Pilots also drew on elements of the Wheel of Excellence during deployments to combat zones. Effective stress management played an especially important role in this context. Recommendations for future research include mental skills usage and preparation specific to deployment contexts as well as the implementation of a specific, relevant mental skills training program within the existing CAF pilot training program
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Tay, Hui Min June. "Improving end system performance using a robust link layer." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274856.
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A software-based modem design offers a new opportunity to integrate processing at various levels, to enhance performance (TCP throughput) and robustness (to jamming). There are several key problems that need to be addressed that impact link ARQ performance. ACKs are needed for link sender to retransmit or adapt and an imperfection of ACK feedback from receiver prevents a link responding to loss and may cause the forwarding to be suspended. Another problem identified is that although ARQ may efficiently retransmit corrupted frames resulting from Partial Band Noise Jamming, it is inefficient when operating in environments with significant levels of AWGN. At the same time, a single fixed FEC scheme is insufficient for a wide range of AWGN and would be lead to a high overhead at low AWGN. The approach presented in the thesis therefore provides features to make sure robustness is achieved over a wide range of error conditions. At the physical layer, the design sends individual frames in hops (rather than spreading errors with interleaving) and employs a tailbiting FEC code. At the link, ARQ is used in combination with diversity coding to ensure acceptable TCP performance. Robust framing is provided by status slot replication and an effective synchronisation algorithm. A range of ARQ methods are used to support multiple applications including (a) No ARQ link class option (for packets that do not require ARQ) and (b) ARQ option (3-level retransmission scheme, with increasing level of redundancy after each RTT). To achieve a good throughput with high levels of AWGN uses a novel application of diversity coding. Analysis shows this approach gives good performance. In comparison with HDLC, APRIL performance is comparable to HDLC at low FER (less than 0.1) over a range of jamming, while it outperforms this at high FER (0.1-0.5). Diversity in combination with ARQ significantly improves performance at high AWGN (or a combination of AWGN and PBNJ), but does so in an adaptive way without introducing significant overhead at low AWGN. A key feature of the approach is that it does not require a separate estimate of the link conditions and there is no need to explicitly inform the receiver of either the ARQ mode or the diversity level. The scheme is therefore well suited to the unpredictable characteristics of the military satellite environment.
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Kim, Chihoon. "The effect of sensor performance on safe minefield transit." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Dec%5FKim%5FChihoon.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2002.Thesis advisor(s): Steven E. Pilnick, Patricia A. Jacobs, Donald P. Gaver. Includes bibliographical references (p. 101). Also available online.
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Naeem, Muhamma. "Implications of aero-engine deterioration for a military aircraft's performance." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1826/3397.
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World developments have led the armed forces of many countries to become more
aware of how their increasingly stringent financial budgets are spent. Major expenditure
for military authorities is upon aero-engines. Some in-service deterioration in any
mechanical device, such as an aircraft's gas-turbine engine, is inevitable. However, its
extent and rate depend upon the qualities of design and manufacture, as well as on the
maintenance/repair practices followed by the users. Each deterioration has an adverse
effect on the performance and shortens the reliable operational life of the engine thereby
resulting in higher life cycle costs. The adverse effect on the life-cycle cost can be reduced
by determining the realistic fuel and life-usage and by having a better knowledge of the
effects of each such deterioration on operational performance. Subsequently improvements
can be made in the design and manufacture of adversely-affected components as well as
with respect to maintenance / repair and operating practices.
For a military aircraft's mission-profiles (consisting of several flight-segments),
using computer simulations, the consequences of engine deterioration upon the aircraft's
operational-effectiveness as well as fuel and life usage are predicted. These will help in
making wiser management decisions (such as whether to remove the aero-engines from the
aircraft for maintenance or to continue using them with some changes in the aircraft's
mission profile), with the various types and extents of engine deterioration. Hence
improved engine utilization, lower overall life-cycle costs and the optimal mission
operational effectiveness for a squadron of aircraft can be achieved.
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Jung, John D. "Performance measures for Military Sealift Command's Special Mission Oceanographic Ships." Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1996. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA311828.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1996."June 1996." Thesis advisor(s): William R. Gates, David G. Brown. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-85). Also available online.
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Mjelde, Frode V. "Performance assessment of military teams in simulator and live exercises." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/37677.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThe purpose of this paper is to present and evaluate a tool designed to assess the performance of military teams participating in complex military training exercises and to investigate the effectiveness of simulator training and live training from the matching of inherent stressors. Specifically, this study evaluates a tool that has been used by Norwegian military subject matter experts (SMEs) to assess the performance of eight cadet teams at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNoNA) during two separate 4-hour simulator exercises and a 48-hour live exercise. The resulting positive Spearman rank correlation coefficients between team performance assessments in the simulator exercises and the live exercise were strongest when the simulator scenario emphasized the stressors inherent in the live exercise and weakest when the simulator scenario did not facilitate the task demands in the live exercise. The study showed that (1) team performance measured in simulator training exercises can predict performance in a subsequent live training exercise, and (2) that scenario-based simulator training can realistically and effectively represent training demands for live operations. Our findings show the RNoNA tool can be easily applied to team training exercises and provide a meaningful evaluation of a team's future performance.
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Ulman, Sophia Marie. "Gait Variability for Predicting Individual Performance in Military-Relevant Tasks." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94346.
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Human movement is inherently complex, requiring the control and coordination of many neurophysiological and biomechanical degrees-of-freedom, and the extent to which individuals exhibit variation in their movement patterns is captured by the construct of motor variability (MV). MV is being used increasingly to describe movement quality and function among clinical populations and elderly individuals. However, current evidence presents conflicting views on whether increased MV offers benefits or is a hindrance to performance. To better understand the utility of MV for performance prediction, we focused on current research needs in the military domain. Dismounted soldiers, in particular, are expected to perform at a high level in complex environments and under demanding physical conditions. Hence, it is critical to understand what strategies allow soldiers to better adapt to fatigue and diverse environmental factors, and to develop predictive tools for estimating changes in soldier performance. Different aspects of performance such as motor learning, experience, and adaptability to fatigue were investigated when soldiers performed various gait tasks, and gait variability (GV) was quantified using four different types of measures (spatiotemporal, joint kinematics, detrended fluctuation analysis, and Lyapunov exponents).
During a novel obstacle course task, we found that frontal plane coordination variability of the hip-knee and knee-ankle joint couples exhibited strong association with rate of learning the novel task, explaining 62% of the variance, and higher joint kinematic variability during the swing phase of baseline gait was associated with faster learning rate. In a load carriage task, GV measures were more sensitive than average gait measures in discriminating between experience and load condition: experienced cadets exhibited reduced GV (in spatiotemporal measures and joint kinematics) and lower long-term local dynamic stability at the ankle, compared to the novice group. In the final study investigating multiple measures of obstacle performance, and variables predictive of changes in performance following intense whole-body fatigue, joint kinematic variability of baseline gait explained 28-59% of the variance in individual performances changes.
In summary, these results support the feasibility of anticipating and augmenting task performance based on individual motor variability. This work also provides guidelines for future research and the development of training programs specifically for improving military training, performance prediction, and performance enhancement.Doctor of Philosophy
All people move with some level of inherent variability, even when doing the same activity, and the extent to which individuals exhibit variation in their movement patterns is captured by the construct of motor variability (MV). MV is being increasingly used to describe movement quality and function among clinical populations and elderly individuals. However, it is still unclear whether increased MV offers benefits or is a hindrance to performance. To better understand the utility of MV for performance prediction, we focused on current research needs in the military domain. Dismounted soldiers, in particular, are expected to perform at a high level in complex environments and under demanding physical conditions. Hence, it is critical to understand what strategies allow soldiers to better adapt to fatigue and diverse environmental factors, and to develop tools that might predict changes in soldier performance. Different aspects of performance were investigated, including learning a new activity, experience, and adaptability to fatigue, and gait variability was quantified through different approaches. When examining how individual learn a novel obstacle course task, we found that certain aspects of gait variability had strong associations with learning rate. In a load carriage task, variability measures were determined to be more sensitive to difference in experience level and load condition compared to typical average measures of gait. Specifically, variability increased with load, and the experienced group was less variable overall and more stable in the long term. Lastly, a subset of gait variability measures were associated with individual differences in fatigue-related changes in performance during an obstacle course. In summary, the results presented here support that it may be possible to both anticipate and enhance task performance based on individual variability. This work also provides guidelines for future research and the development of training programs specifically for improving military training, performance prediction, and performance enhancement.
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McWhorter, Shane William. "Techniques for evaluation of visual performance in terrain assessment and three-dimensional material manipulation operations." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/19301.
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Neeb, Michael S. "The performance of LOGCAP in Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Dec%5FNeeb.pdf.
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Cook, Jill Melanie. "The effects of individual protective equipment on work performance." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242561.
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Eriksson, Kristina, and Henrik Persson. "Performance and size assessment of ORCs in mobile military power generation." Thesis, KTH, Kraft- och värmeteknologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-170579.
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In this study the suitability of small-scale organic Rankine cycles in military power generation is evaluated. It is presupposed that external combustion engines have favorable characteristics in terms of noise, heat and vibration signals.The work is conducted through a process consisting of three blocks; working fluid selection, component selection and modeling. The research community states that the optimal fluid is a matter of application. Therefore, a screening of working fluids is performed on the basis of a few key properties. A simplistic cycle model is used to determine the operating conditions that yield the best thermodynamic performance. Consequently, these conditions are the starting point of the component selection process. Each component that is selected introduces restrictions to the cycle. The upper pressure is, for example, limited by the material of the boiler. Therefore, an iterative selection methodology is employed in order to consider both cycle performance and component limitations. In the last block the model is refined with realistic properties of the selected components. Size and performance of the system are evaluated for electric outputs between 0.1 and 3.0 kW. The model is realized in Excel VBA and constructed for high user flexibility.It is found that the thermal efficiency is proportional to the size of the system. A water-methanol mixture passes the screening process and provides the best cycle performance. Also, scroll expanders are recommended as the prime mover of the system. With the proposed components, the realizable power range is between 1.8 and 3.0 kW. The most critical components, in terms of size, are the expander and condenser. Finally, this study indicates that the system can be built in sizes competitive to existing solutions.
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Block, Jan Martin. "Dependability analysis of military aircraft fleet performance in a lifecycle perspective /." Luleå : Luleå University of Technology, 2009. http://pure.ltu.se/ws/fbspretrieve/3074039.
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Mahlelehlele, Tumelo Clement. "Investigating the Relationship between Virtuous Leadership, New War Practices and Military Performance." Master's thesis, Faculty of Commerce, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32796.
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Background The world of work is rapidly changing, and military organisations are no exception. Military organisations are increasingly subject to political and public scrutiny. At the same time, various treaties and codes of conduct have placed greater accountability on soldiers and military leaders for their actions during times of peace and combat. The transformation of the roles which military organisations fulfil, as well as the way in which soldiers and military leaders are to conduct themselves, led to the relatively recent introduction of the term ‘New Wars'. The new war construct encapsulates models, theories and approaches which stand in stark contrast to those of traditional warfare and has not yet received much attention from scholars in the field of leadership. In an attempt to respond to the various contextual factors encompassing a modern approach to warfare, military leaders need to adopt new, i.e. more contextually relevant, approaches and strategies in order to accomplish the desired outcomes of various crucial missions within a changed context. Aim of the research study The aim of the present research study was, therefore, to identify a new leadership theory, model and/or approach, which will be better suited to a changing military landscape. In order to achieve this aim, a novel view on leadership, i.e. virtuous leadership, was suggested. It is argued here that virtuous leadership will enhance military performance within a modern operational environment. In the present study, the direct and indirect relationship between virtuous leadership, new war practices and military performance was investigated. Research design and method Given the dearth of literature in this field of study, an exploratory research design was employed to gain insights pertaining to the proposed relationship between Virtuous Leadership, New Wars and Military Performance. A composite questionnaire consisting of items responded to on Likert-type response scales, and open-ended questions were designed to measure the constructs under investigation. Qualitative data from open-ended questions, as well as quantitative data from close-ended questions, was, therefore, collected, i.e. a mixed-method approach was employed to collect data. The data was further collected crosssectionally, i.e. at a given point in time from a convenient or non-probable sample of military personnel (n=138). Data analysis Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were calculated to summarise sample statistics and determine the strength and direction of the relationship between variables of interest, respectively. The PROCESS procedure (Hayes, 2018) was further employed to estimate the mediating effect of new war practices on the relationship between virtuous leadership and military performance. Results The statistical analyses revealed a statistically significant positive relationship between virtuous leadership and military performance; virtuous leadership and new war practices; as well as between new war practices and military performance. The results further revealed a statistically significant direct and indirect, i.e. a partially mediated, relationship, i.e. that new war practices significantly mediated the relationship between virtuous leadership and military performance. Findings Virtuous leadership is positively attributed to positive organisational outcomes. These research findings suggest that military organisations could enhance desired organisational outcomes by incorporating virtuousness with other leadership approaches for optimum military performance. Contribution Based on these findings of the current study, the military leadership theory has hopefully been enriched with new construct and insights. It is therefore recommended that virtuous leadership should be part of leadership training from the junior level in order to shape desired military conduct within and beyond the organisational premises. Qualitative insights suggested that military leaders demonstrated outstanding communication skills, military professionalism, compassion and exemplary leadership throughout peacekeeping deployment. However, most soldiers cited competence, emotional intelligence, courage and fairness as attributes that require further development to enhance leadership effectiveness in a new war context.
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Boggs, Sharon R. "Job satisfaction within the Military Entrance Processing Station and its relationship to quality of performance." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA236536.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 1990.Thesis Advisor(s): Evered, Roger D. Second Reader: Roberts, Benjamin J. "June 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on October 19, 2009. DTIC Descriptor(s): Stations, quantity, processing, awards, productivity, military commanders, job satisfaction, organizations, quality DTIC Indicator(s): Theses, job satisfection, meps (military entrance processing stations), quality of performance, conelation, statistical analysis, enlisted personnel, tests, medical examinations. Author(s) subject terms: Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) ; job satisfaction Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-106). Also available in print.
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Fraser, Brent DeWayne. "Development of a Methodology for Assessing Military Team Processes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35082.
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This study is based upon the premise that overall team performance is the sum of the team's performance in several individual team processes. The purpose of this study was to develop a tool to measure performance in each of these individual team processes. This study begins the measurement development cycle by developing a tool that uses direct observation to collect data on team processes. The tool was then tested in a battle simulation being used as a C2 training exercise. The study showed that (1) the team process performance can be measured using direct observation, and (2) non subject-matter experts can accurately and reliably rate team performance by using the data collection tool.
The tool developed here relied on an observer to rate the command team on 43 items concerning ten team processes. Ratings were collected on visual analog scales that were overlaid with a Likert-type template for analysis. The results showed that six of the ten constructs were measured reliably and validly. However, inter-rate reliability was shown to be an issue to be overcome in future studies. The implications of this weakness, the potential of this line of research,and potential tool design changes are discussed in this thesis.Master of Science
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Roick, James A. "A statistical analysis of black-white performance differentials of U.S. military personnel." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA354975.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1998.Thesis advisor(s): Stephen L. Mehay, Barry T. Hirsch. "September 1998." Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74). Also available online.
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McNair, Daniel A. "Performance of a scalable wastewater treatment package unit and potential military applications." Thesis, Springfield, Va. : Available from National Technical Information Service, 1999. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA371973.
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Zettler, Gregory M. "Naval Academy athletic programs as predictors of midshipmen academic and military performance." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FZettler.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. in Leadership and Human Resoource Development)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2002.Thesis advisor(s): Greg Hildebrandt, Roger D. Little. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68). Also available online.
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Sheffield, Katherine L. "Military Middle School Student Classroom Turnover and Student Performance| A Correlational Study." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10689229.
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Military students are a population of learners who must move several times during their service member parent's careers. Adolescents may be more affected by these frequent moves, as the moves occur during a crucial time of physical and emotional development. Social capital theory best underpins this research study, as adolescents begin to value the social capital established among peers and then become affected by the breaks in social capital as they are forced to move. The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the degree of the relationship, if any, of military middle school students' standardized test scores and grade level turnover to determine if grade level turnover had an impact on the outcome of the students' annual standardized test scores. Enrollment and archived tests data were collected from 18 DoDEA schools that serve grades six through eight. The independent variable was military middle school classroom turnover, and the dependent variables were the students’ test scores on the TerraNova3. Nine bivariate correlations were conducted for each school year and by grade level to analyze the data. Five subject areas were tested per test, and the results of these 45 analyses indicate 5 weak correlations. Post-hoc Bonferroni and a familywise error correction were conducted to correct the insufficient power and inflated alpha values. The results of this research can be valuable to educators who are unfamiliar with a transient population of learners, more specifically the adolescent military student population and how it could be correlated with academic success.
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Gill, Allen Jacoway. "The Military Figure as Tragic Hero: Understanding the Actions of Macbeth." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625898.
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Huang, Kuang-Chung. "Development of an integrated manufacturing performance measurement and evaluation framework." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2000. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/3964.
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With the end of the Cold War and the subsequent reduction in defence spending, the Taiwanese defence industry has encountered great difficulties. Recently, the Government announced that at the end of 2006, all military plants should move from the public sector to the private sector. The aim being not only to maintain a manufacturing capability sufficient to ensure the technical competence and resources necessary for an effective and timely response to a mobilisation but also to reduce government infrastructure costs. However, unless the military plants take more aggressive action to assess their management and manufacturing weaknesses effectively, their modernisation efforts will not succeed. This research is concerned with the development of a methodology for manufacturing performance measurement and evaluation to help Taiwanese military plants develop and maintain a competitive advantage. The basic concept of the proposed framework is based on the Balanced Scorecard concept. However, the structure and procedures have been further developed to reflect Taiwan's specific requirements. In particular, the proposed framework provides a structure and tools to tackle a number of key requirements, such as the need to provide both internal and external measures as a means of both qualitatively and quantitatively prioritising and evaluating manufacturing strategic concerns, and the need to show continuously where improvement needs to be made. Industrial case studies have shown that the proposed framework is both feasible and effective when applied within the particular environment of Taiwanese military plants. In addition the proposed framework has highlighted some theoretical and practical problems associated with the design and development of manufacturing performance measurement and evaluation framework. Due to its generic nature, through interviews with three UK companies, it was demonstrated that the proposed framework could also be applied to other societies and industries, either public or private, to solve their manufacturing performance measurement and evaluation problems.
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Agarwal, Saurabh. "Modeling and performance estimation for airborne minefield detection system." Diss., Rolla, Mo. : University of Missouri-Rolla, 2007. http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/thesis/pdf/Agarwal_09007dcc804fa37e.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri--Rolla, 2007.Vita. The entire thesis text is included in file. Title from title screen of thesis/dissertation PDF file (viewed May 13, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-113).
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Munday, David. "Flow and Acoustics of Jets from Practical Nozzles for High-Performance Military Aircraft." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1289842789.
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Sandoval, Lidia Denisse Bustos. "Fatigue Assessment VS. Military Performance." Dissertação, 2002. https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/113217.
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Sandoval, Lidia Denisse Bustos. "Fatigue Assessment VS. Military Performance." Dissertação, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/113217.
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Sandoval, Lidia Denisse Bustos. "Fatigue Assessment VS. Military Performance." Master's thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/113217.
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Hsu, Mao-Hsing, and 徐懋興. "The Study of Military Performance Evaluation System-Take Taoyuan military as example." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62970360948371209594.
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碩士元智大學
管理研究所
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Abstract The performance Evaluation System influences individual carrier development, The result of performance evaluation serve as the bases for promotion ,training and salary processing in personnel administration .Hence the performance Evaluation System must be just and accurate so as to ensure the nurture of outstanding military personnel, The morale of military staff is greatly affected by the of the evaluation process .Thus military official performance evaluation is not only the core of personnel administration ,but a major concern of defense management as well. In face of different military personnel with skills ,professional specialties in different units, whether or not a correct and fair personnel performance sequence could be get is a challenge for the military performance evaluation system. Therefore , a performance aggregation model, which meets the management essence of authorization and could improve the existing model ,is made and proposed. By this aggregation model, it let one not only pay his/her attention on individual performance within department , but team performance among departments. This mechanism makes team worked. Finally ,several suggestions are made for the agents of authorities and for further study. Keyword：1.performance Evaluation 2.sequences of performance 3. performance
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Ho, Hui-Wen, and 柯惠文. "Maintain Performance Evaluation of Private Military Factory." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06877687389407708881.
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碩士國立中興大學
應用經濟學系所
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This article adopted Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze repair-service achievements of the civilian-operated military repair-service factory belonged to the second control headquarters in the air force. The objects of the study are the departments of airplane components, the hydraulic pressure, the electricity , and the vehicle repair factory. Adopting the maintain information of thirty-four continual month from 2006 to 2008, choosing four inputs and four outputs items. By CCR, BBC of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to carrie on guidance mode and examine the repair service, manpower, production, and the cost efficiency among the departments of airplane components, vehicle repair factory and so on four military factories. To differ effectiveness and the inefficiency from eatch other among the civilian-operated military repair-service shops , and then utilize the effective one to set up a range pole of the study for the inefficiency military factories to offer improvement direction. And by the monthly tendency charts of the repair service, manpower, production, and the cost efficiency, to further analyze the stable degree of repair efficiency of each month. Then we can find out the items among inputs and outputs which are the factors of the influence of the inputs and outputs regarding the efficiency value in the military factory each month The findings reveals that the overall technology of the vehicle repair factory is the best one. Although the manpower, production, and the cost efficiency of the vehicle repair factory is less than the others and the operation is unstable, the overall achievements is still the pole of the management in the four civilian-operated military factories. Therefore in the management of the vehicle repair factory during the month of the less efficiency , we can find the improvement ways of in the inputs and outputs by the differential-variable analysis. And to find the problems in the month of which is highly-changed in the stableness degree, and examine if there is any influence from platoon regulation or personnel discipline questions and so on. By revising the correlation flow and the executive routine, to get rid of the problems in the vehicle repair factory of which is highly-changed in the stableness degree. Moreover, the other three factories also should learn to make improvement by referring to the operational procedure of the vehicle repair factory to promote the repair efficiency.
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Ferraz, André Fernando Fernandes. "Acclimation effects in military operational physical performance." Dissertação, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/86817.
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Duarte, Joana Alexandra Silva. "Thermal stress effects in military physiological performance." Dissertação, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/87820.
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Ferraz, André Fernando Fernandes. "Acclimation effects in military operational physical performance." Master's thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/86817.
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Duarte, Joana Alexandra Silva. "Thermal stress effects in military physiological performance." Master's thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/87820.
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WU, PEI-FANG, and 吳佩芳. "A Study of the Military Body Generation and Post-Military Performance in Taiwan." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vfzwu5.
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博士國立臺北藝術大學
戲劇學系碩(博)士班
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From the perspectives of theatre anthropology and interpretation of the history, based on the physical, spatial, ceremony, theatrical, war, media, and modern links as clues, this study explored the influences of the military body in Taiwan in connection with the marks of the political powers during the Japanese Colonial Period before the war and the National Government Period after the war. Also, regarding the military body generation and body practice in the performance field, this study focused the issue and aspect to be discussed on the interpretations of the military body subjectivity in the performance field and historical meanings. First, this study proposed the concept of “post-military theatre”, through performances using bodies, sounds, spaces, and media, summarizing the changes in the military theatre in Taiwan and the aesthetics of the military theatre. Secondly, from the perspective of “performances” as human activities, this study explored the army’s military skills in dress parades, troop entertainment performance tours, and national celebrations, with focuses on the performance properties of the ceremonial behaviors in the military body, and probed into the military theatre trend of thoughts and qualitative changes after the declaration of the end of the martial law in details as well as defined the meaning of “post”-military theatre. Moreover, from the perspectives of the ceremonial space and power and dominance of the military body, this study looked at the relationships of watching performances in military skill presentations. On the one hand, it analyzed how the form of performances in national celebrations was considered as the mediating space of ceremonies. On the other hand, it observed the transition of power from troop entertainment performances to good-neighbor performances through the collective identity before and after the declaration of the end of the martial law. Indeed, under the esthetic conception with political meanings, the post-military body went into the civil society to participate in various ceremonial performances with the behavior of group revelry. In the process of practices, the actual effects and entertainment of the ceremonial space were also changed in response to the practices of the military body. The core of this study is the arguments of “military body”, “military theatre”, and “post-military theatre”. This study proposed a definition different from the general theoretical meaning. It is hoped that the research findings can be used as references when trying to understand the post-military theatre performances after the declaration of the end of the martial law in Taiwan. In addition, the influences of the transformation of the military body and the phenomenon of the post-military theatre still remain today in Taiwan. Thus, besides showing the changes in the body performance culture in Taiwan, this study also went deeper into the richness of the contents of the post-military performance and confirmed once again the complexity of the history. Through all this, this study elucidated how common the simultaneous development of the post-military performance and the modern history of dramas in Taiwan.
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Liao, Chuan-Ching, and 廖川景. "Military Personnel Performance Evaluation Applied on Promotion Selecting." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25830369725375390530.
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碩士義守大學
工業工程與管理學系碩士班
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On the basis of advancing personal quality, the military established different qualifications and restrictions as promotional criteria of every ranking. Since many units get their subordinates well trained, they figured that was very hard to make their decisions from candidates who have the approximately equal criteria. Therefore, this study tries to figure out an appropriate method and establish an integrated personal performance evaluation model by surveying related literatures. For the factors of “Personal Performance” and “Consideration of Superior Officer”, this study will classify the “Personal Performance Evaluation” into three hierarchical levels by applying the hierarchical conception of the AHP. The first level will be the overall performance evaluation which is combined with “Personal Performance” and “Consideration of Superior Officer” while the second level will establish a set of common weights for the evaluating indices by according to the viewpoint of superior officers. The third level will apply DEA-AR model to compute personal performance for each candidate. Comparably, the evaluating process and the results in this study will be more thoughtful, more objective and fairer than only use “Personal Performance” and “Consideration of Superior Officer” as the criteria. Some sequences of candidates changed after the comparison of evaluation method with the results of this study and different performance. In this study, different factors of consideration or performance evaluation method will cause and affect the results of performance evaluation, and personal rights. Therefore, the organization must establish a suitable and reasonable performance evaluation model for the purpose of achieving the real objective and fair according to the suggestion of this study.
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馬福忠. "Improving performance of military construction PCM through FMEA." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89514214781468859996.
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Kuo, Chao-Shu, and 郭兆書. "Digital Simulation for Performance Diagnostics of Military Turbofan Engine." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78948389534646892741.
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碩士國立成功大學
航空太空工程學系
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The objective of the present research is to simulate military turbofan engine operation through numerical methods and to establish a numerical procedure that can determine the influence coefficient matrix for gaspath performance diagnostics. Two numerical methods were considered with comparison made as well. The first is the Newton-Raphson method and the second is the Runge-Kutta method. The latter is shown more robust in terms of initial condition specification. In this work, the military two-spool turbofan engine with after-burner power operating at static and sea level condition is simulated. Result shows that both Newton-Raphson and Runge-Kutta methods are accurate for engine simulation. However, Runge-Kutta method is found less initial condition dependent and stabler. By perturbing fuel-flow, variable-geometry, nozzle area and component efficiencies, the influence coefficient matrix is constructed numerically. This numerical procedure developed for determining gaspath influence coefficient matrix out from the digital performance simulation code will pave the way for further studies to be carried out in engine fault diagnostics.
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Lee, Kuan Lien, and 李冠璉. "A Study of Performance Evaluation for Military Post Exchange." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87298235479880651951.
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碩士開南大學
財務金融學系
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The purpose of this paper is to assess the performance of 36 Military Post Exchanges over 2005-2007. Research questions includes (1) Are Post Exchange good at relative efficiency and what are the most productive scale size? (2) Are these Post Exchange good at manpower and plant efficiency? (3)What is the management improvement direction of Post Exchanges？ (4) What is the growth of total factor productivity for 2005-2007？ Results of this study show that (1)There are fifteen Post Exchange（N1、N2、N4、N5、N6、N10、N11、N14、N15、N16、C1、S5、S6、S7、S10） efficiency value equal to 1 which belong to the relatively effective Post Exchanges (2) According to the calculation by using the cross efficiency model ; the Post Exchanges with top five efficiency are S7, N5,N6,N15 and S10 (3)During the three years, six Military Post Exchanges were in the constant returns to scale. Twenty-five Military Post Exchanges were in the increasing returns to scale. No Military Post Exchanges were in the decreasing returns to scale (4)After unilizes the slack variables analysis,discovers the relatively invalid efficiency Post Exchanges what inputs should be reduced and what outputs should be increased to achieve the standard of relative efficiency（5）To the relative efficiency, the N17 Military Post Exchange wins the most referential frequencies and the C1 Military Post Exchange is the second one. To the manpower efficiency, the N17 Military Post Exchange wins the most referential frequencies and the N11 and N16 Military Post Exchanges is the second one. To the plant efficiency, the N14 Military Post Exchange wins the most referential frequencies and the S6 and S7 Military Post Exchanges is the second one.（6）There are three Post Exchanges with higher manpower efficiency（N11,N14,S7）and six Post Exchanges with higher plant efficiency（N4,N5,N6,S5,S6,S7）.（7）There are seventeen Post Exchanges（N3、N5、N6、N14、N15、N16、N17、C2、C5、S3、S4、S6、S7、S9、E1、E2、E4） increased the growth of total factor productivity for 2005-2007,sixteen Post Exchanges（N3、N5、N15、N16、N17、C2、C5、S1、S3、S4、S5、S8、S9、E1、E2、E4） increased the growth of manpower total factor productivity for 2005-2007 and twenty-nine Post Exchanges（N2、N3、N5、N6、N7、N9、N10、N11、N12、N13、N14、N15、N16、N17、C1、C2、C3、C4、C5、S2、S3、S6、S7、S8、S9、E1、E2、E3、E4） increased the growth of plant total factor productivity for 2005-2007
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Chen, Ming-Yi, and 陳明義. "Performance evaluation of the ECL of the ROC military." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r8w9sq.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
工業工程與管理系碩士在職專班
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We compare the ELC (English Comprehension Level) scores of the first half and the second half of year 2013 for the ROC military. The data contains three departments and thirteen positions. We adopt the statistics and data envelopment analysis to analyze the ELC scores. The results indicate that the ELC scores of the second half of year 2013 outperfom those of the first half of year 2013 for different combinations of the departments and positions. The averages of the ELC scores of the second half of year 2013 large than those of the first half of year 2013 for the departments and positions. There is positive correlation between the ELC scores of the first half and the second half of year 2013. According the data envelopment analysis, the efficeincies of the ELC scores of the second half of year 2013 outperform those of the first half of year 2013. The efficeincies of the ELC scores of the departments A and B large than those of he ELC scores of the department C.
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Yang, Wan-Erh, and 楊婉兒. "Thermal Performance Simulation Analysis of Military Computer Cooler Improvement." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s69t2s.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
能源與冷凍空調工程系
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With the need for computing performance, market for military computers will increase significantly. However, in order to meet the various restrictions of military use and computers, the costs incurred in the R&D phase are considerable. Therefore, this paper will focus on the thermal design of military computer components provided by A company. Based on the original design of the aluminum chassis radiator as a basis for the study of this paper, the use of ANSYS Icepak simulation analysis software compared various heat dissipation schemes caused by the heat transfer performance changes in order to reduce the design cost. In conformity with its external specifications, this study explored the changes in various heat sink parameters and whether the addition of heat pipes had an effect on the overall thermal performance. According to the simulation results, the effect of the change in the thickness of the heatsink base and the parameters of the fins on the overall thermal performance is small. However, in the case of heat pipes added, the heatsink base material changes have little effect on the overall thermal performance. If a heat pipe is added to the radiator base, it is not necessary to add copper to increase its thermal performance, so as to avoid unnecessary cost and weight increase. In the case of forced convection, when the wind speed exceeds 2m/s, the effect on increasing the cooling effect is already very small. Therefore, when the wind speed reaches 2m/s, increasing the wind speed will only result in a waste of fan power, but it will not be able to significantly increase the cooling effect.
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Make, Maria Mmotsi. "Learner performance at the School of military justice (SoMJ)." Thesis, 2014.
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Thesis (M.M. (Security))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, 2013.The first key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting, we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth (Pierre Peter Aberlard). lll The purpose of this study is, to investigate possible contributory factors to poor learner1 performance at the School of Military Justice (SoMJ) on Advanced Military Law Course, the trend that was noticed after the implementation of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) in 2009. The determination of the nature of challenges that might contribute negatively to learner performance at SoMJ will be concluded. My hypothesis is that since the accreditation of SoMJ as a service provider and implementation of OBE, a trend of poor learner performance has been noticed. This might impact negatively on the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and ultimately poor performance at the workplace. A qualitative method was used, the reason being qualitative method will describe social reality from the point of vlew of participants within the system studied as well as supported by the relevant data collected. A qualitative phenomenological method to prove the hypothesis of this study was conducted. One-on-one semi-structured interviews corroborated by analysis of document relevant to the research questions and the concept of study was used. The study explored the perceptions and experiences of twenty seven volunteer learners who attended the Advanced Military Law Course during 2010, 2011, 2012, the specialists from the management group and facilitators in terms of the research questions. As demonstrated by data collection and data analysis processes, five themes emerged, namely global view of changing approaches to education, South African view of changing education approaches, Military Education, traditional learning versus OBE and contributory factors to learner performance (adult learning) .The findings of the study revealed that there is actually a high rate of incompetence after the first assessment attempt. A lot of factors that might contribute to poor learner performance were identified and investigated. Recommendations based on the findings of the study will guide the Defence Legal Services Division (DLSD) on measures to improve the current learner performance at SoMJ.