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Journal articles on the topic "Personal inventories"
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Alexander, C. Norman, and John J. Beggs. "Disguising Personal Inventories: A Situated Identity Strategy." Social Psychology Quarterly 49, no. 2 (June 1986): 192. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2786729.
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Taylor, Christopher. "The need for archaeological inventories: Co. Louth, Eire, and beyond." Antiquity 61, no. 231 (March 1987): 80–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00072562.
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The first of a new series of archaeological inventories for Ireland has been published. Christopher Taylor – himself a senior officer of the English commission with the equivalent role – goes beyond Louth to give a personal view of the whole business of published monument inventories.
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OGILVIE, SHEILAGH, MARKUS KÜPKER, and JANINE MAEGRAITH. "Household Debt in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories." Journal of Economic History 72, no. 1 (March 12, 2012): 134–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050711002464.
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The “less-developed” interior of early modern Europe, especially the rural economy, is often regarded as financially comatose. This article investigates this view using a rich data set of marriage and death inventories for seventeenth-century Germany. It first analyzes the characteristics of debts, examining borrowing purposes, familial links, communal ties, and documentary instruments. It then explores how borrowing varied with gender, age, marital status, occupation, date, and asset portfolio. It finds that ordinary people, even in a “less-developed” economy in rural central Europe, sought to invest profitably, smooth consumption, bridge low liquidity, and hold savings in financial form.
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Briginshaw, John. "Teaching Accounting For Inventory By Calling On Students’ Personal Experiences." American Journal of Business Education (AJBE) 3, no. 3 (March 1, 2010): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/ajbe.v3i3.400.
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This essay seeks to give practical guidance to accounting instructors seeking to convey the difficult concepts of accounting for inventory. Techniques to convey the concepts of assumed inventory flow, inventory valuation under inflation and deflation, impairment of inventories, LIFO liquidations and the concept of the periodic inventory system are considered.
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Accardo, C. M., D. C. Aboyoun, B. A. Alford, and J. T. Cannon. "Diaries: Who Keeps Them and Why." Perceptual and Motor Skills 82, no. 2 (April 1996): 559–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1996.82.2.559.
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Directed diary keeping is an important method of gathering data for various therapeutic and research purposes. Little information, however, has been collected on spontaneously kept diaries. A questionnaire relating to personal diary keeping and five personality inventories were administered to 101 undergraduates. Analysis suggested that women keep diaries more often and at an earlier age than men. Also, information regarding diary content and reasons for starting and stopping a diary are discussed. Surprisingly, scores on personality inventories were not significantly different for respondents who had kept a diary than scores for those who had not.
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Petley, Christer. "Managing “Property”." Journal of Global Slavery 6, no. 1 (January 29, 2021): 81–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2405836x-00601004.
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Abstract Probate inventories helped to support the established social and economic order in colonial Jamaica. These documents were part of the legal process of winding up an estate after a death and presented an account of personal possessions that had belonged to a decedent. They facilitated the transfer of property to heirs and identified those parts of an estate that were available for the repayment of debts. The inventories contain lists of enslaved people, representing them as a type of “property,” and so these documents form a major part of the archive of Jamaican slavery. This article explores the practices, aims, and assumptions of the people who produced the inventories, developing our understanding of slaveholder culture in the British Caribbean and of the bureaucratic and accounting techniques that facilitated slave management.
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Koupal, John W., Allison DenBleyker, Gopi Manne, Maia Hill Batista, and Thomas Schmitt. "Capabilities and Limitations of Telematics for Vehicle Emissions Inventories." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2676, no. 3 (October 19, 2021): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03611981211049109.
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Eastern Research Group, Inc. evaluated the current state of personal vehicle telematics data with respect to emission inventory development, identifying relative strengths and weaknesses, and how these data could align better with the needs of emission modelers. A market survey of telematics firms provided an overview of available data, and identified several candidate sources for location-based and engine-based telematics data on personal vehicles. Data were then purchased from three different vendors: StreetLight Data, Moonshadow Mobile, and Otonomo. These data were applied in case studies conducted in the Denver metro area, U.S., to assess strengths and weaknesses of telematics for developing emission inventories. Case studies included using telematics to estimate regional vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for annual emission inventories; tracking the VMT impacts of COVID shutdown; generating location- and time-specific vehicle activity inputs for project scale “hot spot” air quality analysis; and estimating the distribution of fuel fill level from real-world data, which is important for evaporative emissions. These case studies confirmed that telematics can serve a growing range of emission inventory use cases, and use of these data may help improve emission inventory accuracy. However, there are also several limitations of the data to consider in preparing emission inventories; for example, it can be difficult to assess the representativeness of telematics data because of a lack of vehicle information. The authors encourage telematics firms to cater data products more directly to the needs of emission inventory modelers, to better harness the enormous potential of these data for refining vehicle emission inventory estimates.
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Sherrill, Claudine, Tamara Gilstrap, Kenneth Richir, Barbara Gench, and Marilyn Hinson. "Use of the Personal Orientation Inventory with Disabled Athletes." Perceptual and Motor Skills 67, no. 1 (August 1988): 263–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1988.67.1.263.
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Athletes who are blind or have impairments in hand-eye coordination that prevent writing are unable to complete psychological inventories in the standardized manner, i.e., read silently and answered independently and anonymously. Two studies were conducted on the oral administration of the Personal Orientation Inventory as a measure of self-actualization of disabled athletes. Reliabilities were examined across modalities (oral vs written) by administering the inventory both ways to 25 high school and college athletes, M age = 21.6 yr. Test-retest reliability for oral administration was affirmed in a study of 15 blind elite male athletes and 15 cerebral palsied elite male and female athletes. It was concluded that the inventory, administered orally, may be appropriately used with disabled athletes.
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Firkola, Peter. "Review of Career Assessment Tools." Archives of Business Research 9, no. 11 (December 4, 2021): 131–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/abr.911.11299.
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This paper provides an overview of career assessment tools. Background on key career concepts is first introduced. A number of career assessment tools are then examined. These assessment tools included reviewing personal history, interest inventories, values assessments, personality assessments, and aptitude tests. The importance and limitations of these career assessment tools are then discussed.
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Crispí, Marta. "The Use of Devotional Objects in Catalan Homes during the Late Middle Ages." Religions 11, no. 1 (December 25, 2019): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11010012.
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The purpose of this article is to study domestic devotion in Catalonia in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, based on the information provided by numerous post-mortem inventories and texts written by coetaneous spiritual authors such as Ramon Llull, Francesc Eiximenis and Saint Vincent Ferrer. Among the objects recorded in the inventories, pieces of furniture and devotional objects laypeople and clergymen used in their pious practices as “material” aid for personal prayer stood out. They were in keeping with the strong visual culture that pervaded the Late Middle Ages. There were retables, oratories and images of religious themes. However, the inventories also listed lesser known but equally recurring objects such as paternosters and Agni Dei. Painted cloths depicting religious scenes that decorated the homes of numerous wealthy Catalan-Aragonese families at that time were also present. Spiritual books such as books of hours and psalters, biblical texts, Legenda Aurea, etc., were mentioned as well. They were part of the incipient libraries of the laity in the Late Middle Ages.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Personal inventories"
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Fransson, Johan. "Analysis of synthetic aperture radar images for forestry applications /." Umeå : Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniv.), 1999. http://www.resgeom.slu.se/fjarr/personal/jf/.
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Aristizabal, Castañeda Rayniero, Esquerre Jesús Richard Bernabé, and Álvarez Nibardo Primero Cano. "Propuesta de mejora en la gestión de inventarios de los procesos vinculados a las compras internacionales, para reducir los inventarios de lento movimiento en una empresa de distribución de EPP (Equipo de Protección Personal)." Master's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/626356.
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El presente trabajo de tesis tiene como objetivo principal determinar las causas del inventario de lento movimiento y su posible solución, en una empresa dedicada a la comercialización de equipos de protección personal.
Primero se desarrolla una breve introducción, conformada por la presentación del tema, la formulación del problema, el planteamiento del objetivo general y los objetivos específicos, la hipótesis inicial, y finalmente; la fundamentación y sustento de realizar esta investigación.
Seguidamente se detalla el marco teórico requerido para el adecuado entendimiento y posterior desarrollo de la investigación. Los temas abarcan bases bibliográficas y teóricas acerca de los inventarios, gestión de almacenes, cadena de suministro y lean management.
A continuación se analiza la situación actual del inventario detectado de lento movimiento, el cual al cierre del 2015 representaba el 30% del total de inventario de almacén, posteriormente se han implementado progresivamente metodologías lean hasta reducir este porcentaje al 10% al cierre del 2018, el objetivo de la organización es mantener un estándar entre 5% y 10%, en ese sentido y alineados a los procesos de mejora continua se espera al cierre del 2019 llegar al 5%, teniendo en cuenta que el incremento de estos inventarios de lento movimiento acarrean consecuencias financieras que asume esta empresa, debido a las políticas de la alta dirección de la sede organizacional ubicada en Londres, Inglaterra.
Luego se determina la oportunidad de mejora en los procesos que tienen un mayor impacto en los inventarios de lento movimiento, mediante un análisis ABC para determinar el 20% del stock que represente el 80% del costo; e implementar, mediante las metodologías que sugiere el Lean Management, las estrategias para disminuir el inventario con bajo índice de rotación.The main objective of this thesis work is to determine the causes of the slowly moving inventory and its possible solution, in a company dedicated to the commercialization of personal protective equipment. First, a brief introduction is developed, consisting of the presentation of the topic, the formulation of the problem, the approach of the general objective and the specific objectives, the initial hypothesis, and finally; the foundation and sustenance of carrying out this investigation. Next, the theoretical framework required for the adequate understanding and subsequent development of the research is detailed. The topics cover bibliographic and theoretical bases about inventories, warehouse management, supply chain and lean management. The current situation of the slow-moving detected inventory is analyzed, which at the end of 2015 represented 30% of the total warehouse inventory, then lean methodologies have been progressively implemented until this percentage is reduced to 10% at the end of 2018, the objective of the organization is to maintain a standard between 5% and 10%, in that sense and aligned to the processes of continuous improvement is expected at the end of 2019 reach 5%, taking into account that the increase in these inventories of slow movement they carry financial consequences that this company assumes, due to the policies of the top management of the organizational headquarters located in London, England. Then the opportunity for improvement is determined in the processes that have a greater impact on slow-moving inventories, through an ABC analysis to determine 20% of the stock that represents 80% of the cost; and implement, through methodologies suggested by Lean Management, strategies to reduce inventory with low turnover.
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Anglès, i. Nicolás Rosa M. "Onomàstica de l’Espluga Calba." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668488.
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La toponímia s’estudià primer a Alemanya i França (1863 - principis del segle XX). Més endavant s’hi dedicaren publicacions periòdiques: Zeitschrift für Ortsnamenforschungen (Munic, 1925), Revue de dialectologie et toponymie (Bèlgica, 1926) i Revue des études anciennes (França, 1932); i el 1934 es va crear una càtedra a la Universitat de Munic. El 1938 un centenar d’universitats de 21 països assistiren al I Congrés de Toponímia i Antroponímia (París). Des del 1950 el Comitè Internacional de Ciències Onomàstiques (ICOS: http://www.icosweb.net) edita Onoma. Bulletin d’Information et de bibliografie du Comité International des Sciences Onomastiques S’han celebrat congressos internacionals en universitats europees, com ara la de Barcelona (2011).
Balari va publicar un estudi etimològic dels noms de cims de muntanyes (1877) i Orígenes históricos de Cataluña (1897), analitzant documents de l’època comtal (s. IX-XII). Simultàniament altres estudiosos del país abordaven la matèria: Sanpere i Miquel, Segura i Gomis. El segle passat hi van treballar: Alcover, Moll, Griera, Montoliu, Carreras i Candi, Miret i Sans, Badia i Margarit, Moreu-Rey, Casacuberta i Coromines. El darrer va col·laborar amb Fabra a partir de 1930 com a tècnic de l’Oficina de Toponímia i Onomàstica (IEC), creada el 1921. El 1989, després de més de cinquanta anys de treball, va començar a publicar l’Onomasticon Cataloniae, i continuà, a l’exili, el projecte de la Secció Filològica, que havia perillat amb la Guerra Civil. Al País Valencià, hi han treballat Sanchis Guarner, Rosselló i Verger, Casanova, Epalza...; a les Illes, Mascaró, Miralles, Aguiló i Ribes, i a la Catalunya Nord, Costa, Guiter, Portet i Peytaví.
El present treball s’emmarca en el conjunt de recerques centrades en un municipi que en recullen i preserven l’onomàstica, patrimoni cultural del país, en perill de desaparició, per abandonament de l’agricultura i la migració cap a grans nuclis urbans. Entre els molts publicats en les darreres dècades, hem consultat els de localitats properes a la que és objecte d’estudi: les Borges Blanques, Vallbona de les Monges, Ulldemolins, l’Albi, Fulleda, el Vilosell, Juneda, la Pobla de Cérvoles o Vallclara. Les publicacions d’Amigó, principal expert en inventaris monogràfics d’abast local, ens han servit de model metodològic. També hem tingut en compte altres monografies descriptives dels trets lingüístics de parlars de la mateixa zona de transició dialectal (el Cogul, el Vilosell), articles sobre toponímia del Butlletí Interior de la Societat d’Onomàstica (BISO) i l’estudi de Turull (2007) sobre les terres de ponent (les Garrigues, el Segrià, la Segarra, l’Urgell, la Noguera i el Pla d’Urgell).
El nostre recull és el primer d’aquestes característiques sobre l’Espluga Calba. A través de l’onomàstica es constata la presència de trets dialectals propis de la zona i de fenòmens lingüístics fossilitzats en els noms, estudiats gràcies a la gramàtica històrica; també es contribueix al coneixement de l’antroponímia d’altres èpoques, a través de la documentació antiga. A més, hem aplegat informació de caràcter històric vinculada a alguns noms estudiats, fet que hi afegeix un cert caràcter enciclopèdic.
La llista de noms conté informació obtinguda d’entrevistes orals i citacions de fonts documentals, a part de material facilitat per altres col·laboradors. La recerca bibliogràfica constitueix el cos de les entrades en què calia plantejar alguna hipòtesi etimològica per a justificar una determinada grafia. Als apèndixs, a manera de sumari, hi ha llistes dels noms, que els agrupen atenent a criteris de significat (partides, trossos de terra, classificació dels cognoms, noms de casa i renoms...), formals (genèrics, diminutius afectius, cognoms feminitzats) o cronològics (cognoms, noms de casa i renoms espluguencs en el decurs del temps). A la introducció, a part de les dades generals que emmarquen la vila en l’espai i en el temps, s’hi resumeixen, a manera de conclusió, les observacions de caire lingüístic extretes de l’anàlisi del material inventariat: nom de la comarca i de la vila, frontera català nord-occidental/oriental, comentaris sobre fonètica, morfosintaxi i lèxic.Toponymy was first studied in Germany and France (1863 – early s. XX). In 1938 about one hundred universities took part in the I Toponymy and Anthroponymy Summit. In 2011 this conference took place in Barcelona. Since 1950 the International Council of Onomastic Sciences has been editing Onoma. Bulletin d’Information et de bibliografie du Comité International des Sciences Onomastiques. In Catalonia Balari published etymological studies on proper names (1877) and documents analysis (1897). Last century Alcover, Moll, Moreu-Rey, Coromines, and others worked on it. The last one, Fabra’s colleague in the Oficina de Toponímia i Onomàstica (IEC), began to publish, in 1989, the Onomasticon Cataloniae. In the Valencian Country, the Balearic Islands and North Catalonia such studies are being continued. Our work, the first one on Espluga Calba, is inserted in the set of researches about one town which collect its onomastics, in extinction danger due to the agriculture decay and the migration towards big urban centers. Dialectal features of the area and linguistic phenomena fossilized in names, studied by grammar in history, are verified through onomastics. We also contribute to the knowledge of anthroponymy of other times, through ancient documents. Besides, we collected historical information related with some nouns, which make this sample encyclopedia like. Amigo’s woks have been chosen as a methodological guide, because he’s the main expert on local monographic inventories. We checked woks on near towns, monographs describing linguistic features from the same dialectal transition area, reports on toponymy from the Butlletí Interior de la Societat d’Onomàstica and the study by Turull (2007) about the west zone. The list of nouns contains information from oral interviews, documental quotations, bibliographical research in entrances in which we had to pose an etymological hypothesis to justify a certain graphic form, and material from other contributors. In the appendix there are lists of nouns in groups of the same meaning (pieces of land, surnames classifications…), the same form (generics, affective diminutives, feminized surnames) or chronology (date of surnames and alias). Apart from more general items, in the introduction, our conclusion summarizes linguistic comments from the inventory analysis: name of the region and the village, border noth- western/eastern Catalan, phonetics, morphosyntax and lexicon.
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Frölander, John. "Renhet och smuts i personarkivet : Ett antropologiskt perspektiv på ordnandet och förtecknandet av personarkiv." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-253299.
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Personal archives are a largely neglected subject in archival theory. Among the consequences of this is the absenceof any general established or formalized practices when it comes to arrangement and description. Thisstudy opposes the notion that an archival institution without formal systems of arrangement and description doesnot order and describe archives in accordance with a general conceptual framework of a correct order. Supportingitself on the anthropological theory of Mary Douglas on dirt and cleanliness, it studies the implicit notions oforder that can be found in the archival descriptions of the personal archives kept by the Swedish national archives.Several patterns where revealed by the study: among them the primacy of quantity stood out. The vaguesystem of categories based on Martin Grass description model appears only to be employed loyally where quantitiesof the particular categories are such that they constitute complete volumes, which seem to be the cardinaljustifier of categorical division within the archive. The model itself is rarely applied with orthodoxy, and itsroughness often means that the categories engage in “border clashes” over which documents belong in whichcategory. Though these are often caused and generally determined by quantities, they also reveal an internalhierarchy of relations between specific types of records and categories. Furthermore, certain categories appearsmore stable than others, and when Grass system collapses, it reveals how certain of them – based on a principleof pertinence or theme – habitually fall out of use whereas categories defined by document types appear to remainfar more stable even in smaller archives and archives with low degree of differentiation.
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Woods, S. A., and Neil Anderson. "Toward a periodic table of personality: mapping personality scales between the five-factor model and the circumplex model." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/16824.
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YesIn this study we examine the structures of ten personality inventories widely used for personnel assessment, by mapping the scales of personality inventories (PIs) to the lexical Big Five circumplex model resulting in a ‘Periodic Table of Personality’. Correlations between 273 scales from ten internationally popular PIs with independent markers of the lexical Big Five are reported, based on data from samples in two countries (UK N = 286; USA N = 1,046), permitting us to map these scales onto the AB5C framework. Emerging from our findings we propose a common facet framework derived from the scales of the PIs in our study. These results provide important insights into the literature on criterion-related validity of personality traits, and enable researchers and practitioners to understand how different PI scales converge and diverge and how compound PI scales may be constructed or replicated. Implications for research and practice are considered.
Books on the topic "Personal inventories"
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Kreidler, Mike. Household inventory. [Olympia, Wash.]: Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner, 2004.
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Naval Alcohol Rehabilitation Center (U.S.), ed. Toward pride and professionalism: Increasing personal responsibility. [Washington, D.C.?]: Dept. of the Navy, Naval Alcohol Rehabilitation Center, 1985.
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Carrell, William P. The landed and personal estate of Gen. Joseph Bridger. Louisville, Ky: W.P. Carrell, 2001.
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Weiten, Wayne. Psychology applied to modern life: Personal explorations workbook for Weiten and Lloyd's : adjustment in the 90s. 5th ed. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1997.
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The late king's goods: Collections, possessions, and patronage of Charles I in the light of the Commonwealth sale inventories. London: A. McAlpine, 1989.
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1947-, Larson Gaylen, ed. The first book of self-tests: Personal and confidential tests to help you learn more about yourself. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993.
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Bigelow, J. H. Balancing rated personnel requirements and inventories. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2011.
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Taylor, William W. Fighter drawdown dynamics: Effects on aircrew inventories. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2009.
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Taylor, William W. Fighter drawdown dynamics: Effects on aircrew inventories. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2009.
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H, Bigelow J., and Ausink John A, eds. Fighter drawdown dynamics: Effects on aircrew inventories. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2009.
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García Marsilla, Juan Vicente, and Luis Almenar Fernández. "Fashion, emulation and social classes in late medieval Valencia. Exploring textile consumption through probate inventories." In La moda come motore economico: innovazione di processo e prodotto, nuove strategie commerciali, comportamento dei consumatori / Fashion as an economic engine: process and product innovation, commercial strategies, consumer behavior, 341–66. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-565-3.19.
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Abstract: This article explores the personal garments present in the probate inventories of 83 individuals that lived in the city of Valencia and its hinterland during the long fourteenth century. The paper explores the differences between both groups of individuals, the urban and the rural one, in aspects such as the typologies of the pieces of clothing, the colours, finishes, complements and fabrics employed in their design. It also tracks the spread of particular pieces of clothing across both groups of deceased before and after the Black Death, and discusses how far these changes were guided by emulative motivations.
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Wheeldon, Jonathan. "A Personal Perspective." In Patrons, Curators, Inventors and Thieves, 23–28. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230306677_2.
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Szwaja, Janusz. "Personal Rights of Inventors in the Polish Legal System." In Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World, 67–73. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88743-0_6.
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Elert, Niklas, and Magnus Henrekson. "Collaborative Innovation Blocs and Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy: An Ecosystem Perspective." In International Studies in Entrepreneurship, 345–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94273-1_18.
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AbstractAmong contemporary economists, Mariana Mazzucato stands out for her emphasis on the importance of innovation to solving pressing challenges and achieve a greater quality of life. However, the type of mission-oriented innovation policies she promotes usually rely on an overly mechanical view of innovation and economic growth. We employ an ecosystem perspective to demonstrate that innovative entrepreneurship takes place in a collaborative innovation bloc consisting of a myriad of nodes. Entrepreneurs, inventors, early- and later-stage financiers, key personnel, and customers are all actors whose skills and abilities are necessary to realize an entrepreneurial project. When mission-oriented policies play a large role in an industry’s production or financing, connections between actors in the innovation bloc risk being severed, severely curtailing the scope for actors to play their requisite roles. Thus, there is a risk that such policies do more harm than good for innovation and economic growth.
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Warsh, Molly A. "“Regardless of Gender, Class, Color, and Condition”." In American Baroque, 163–92. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469638973.003.0006.
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This chapter turns to pearl consumption practices in the seventeenth century and considers what they reveal about the overlap between personal and imperial approaches to the custodianship of value. Drawing on personal correspondence of high-ranking diplomats, smugglers, widows, and children in Spain, as well as Inquisition records from Lima and Cartagena, the inventories of London goldsmiths, and Amsterdam-based Sephardic jewelers’ ledgers, it shows that the use and exchange of pearls among families, friends, and business associates reflected highly contextual assessments of value and worth. The personal political economies that pearls illuminated were often, if not always, at odds with official assessments of the jewel, which tried to remove them from their context and assign them arbitrary financial valuations. In art, pearls could be used to explore the supposed nature of different types of subjects, but in reality they figured in the socially embedded wealth husbandry practices of people of diverse backgrounds and means. The sixteen thousand smuggled pearls discovered in a small lead box that sank in 1622 with the Spanish galleon Santa Margarita illustrate the tremendous variety of the jewel, their subjective appeal, and their accessibility.
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North, Susan. "Washing Bodies." In Sweet and Clean?, 258–83. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856139.003.0011.
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The material culture of washing bodies is not as rich as that for clean linens. Chapter 11 uses a range of evidence to examine how widely it was practised by looking for basins, kettles, and towels which are ubiquitous but multi-purpose in inventories and household accounts. The consumables are more reliable; recipes for wash balls (soap explicitly for the skin), washing, and bath waters appear in household manuals and personal collections. These products were also sold by apothecaries, country mercers, and chapmen. The Old Bailey proceedings reveal a range of cleanliness practices—how frequently people washed themselves and sometimes exactly what parts—as well as standards and expectations. New literature on the early modern urban provision of water suggests it was widely available for washing bodies and clothes in all but the poorest neighbourhoods.
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Canavan, Claire, and Helen Smith. "‘The needle may convert more than the pen’: women and the work of conversion in early modern England." In Conversions. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719099151.003.0006.
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This chapter opens by establishing women's centrality to the religious life of the household and community, and, in particular, their work as model converts and proselytisers. It argues that women’s devotion was neither inherently private nor inherently concerned with questions of selfhood or personal transformation. Drawing on the Queer Phenomenology of Sara Ahmed, the chapter suggests the extent to which conversion functions as a re-orientation and change in direction. The second half of the chapter takes women’s biblical needlework as a case study in material culture as an instrument of orientation. Considering a group of manuscript poems alongside the evidence of inventories and surviving stitchcraft, the authors argue for the evangelical and devotional effects of women’s decorative arts, and suggest that scriptural and religious themes were not simply emblematic but intended to work upon and transform the viewer. For early modern readers and viewers, the needle was a doubly efficacious tool, able to prick not only fabric but the consciences of those who wielded it or meditated upon its products.
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Harbour, Daniel. "Number and the Functional Sequence." In Impossible Persons. The MIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262034739.003.0006.
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A very basic demand on any theory of person is that it interact with a theory of number to yield familiar inventories of pronouns and agreement in a straightforward fashion. This chapter shows that the current theory does so. Specifically, it shows that the theory of Harbour 2014 (Paucity, abundance, and the theory of number, Language) generates singular, dual, trial, paucal, greater paucal, minimal, augmented, unit augmented, and plural, both with and without clusivity contrasts. The chapter also argues for a phrase structure in which number dominates person and applies novel data from person to the question of whether the denotation of plural includes or excludes that of singular.
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True, Thomas-Leo. "Portraits as Symbols." In Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463725514_ch08.
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Unpublished post-mortem cardinals’ inventories report a myriad of low-value cardinals’ portraits hanging in cardinals’ palaces in the late sixteenth century. Why, and how, did prelates select or acquire cardinals’ portraits? Portraits will be studied as a material trace of devotional affinities of Counter-Reformation cardinals and their socio-political networks. Examination of the role of such portraits sometimes reveals surprising professional and spiritual paragons that cardinals held before them. The values of portraits reported in inventories also pose tantalizing questions regarding a cardinal’s persona as a commodity. This essay also examines how such portraits were acquired, considering giftgiving practices of portraits among Vatican circles and the market for images of cardinals.
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Bently, L., B. Sherman, D. Gangjee, and P. Johnson. "21. Ownership." In Intellectual Property Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198769958.003.0021.
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This chapter explores the issue of patent ownership and the related question of who is entitled to be granted the patent. It begins by considering aspects of British law dealing with ownership and who is properly entitled to the grant of a patent, particularly as stated in the Patents Act 1977, as well as the remedies available where the wrong person has applied for a patent or a patent has been granted to the wrong person. It then looks at the European Patent Office’s procedural role in determining disputes over entitlement before concluding with an analysis of ownership with respect to inventors, joint inventors, and employee inventions.
Conference papers on the topic "Personal inventories"
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Odom, William. "Personal inventories." In Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference extended abstracts. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358929.
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Zhang, Dan, and Zu-guang Hu. "Impact of Personal Relationship of Inventors on the Partner Selection of Cooperative Technological Innovation - Based on an Analysis of Enterprises in Xi'an High-tech Zone." In 2010 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icee.2010.301.
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Cantarella, J., R. Simenon, and M. Braeckeveldt. "Activities ONDRAF/NIRAS Related to the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities." In ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2013-96174.
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Since 1980, the Agency is responsible by law for the safe management of all radioactive waste produced in Belgium, including decommissioning wastes. By the law of 11 January 1991 and the implementing Royal Decree of 16/10/1991, ONDRAF/NIRAS has been entrusted with a mission concerning the decommissioning of nuclear facilities. This mission involves the collection and assessment of data concerning decommissioning forecasts for nuclear facilities, the approval of facilities’ decommissioning programmes, the establishment — in consultation with operators — of financing conditions for decommissioning, as well as the implementation of these programmes on request by the operator, or in the case of its failure to do so. This is the case for the company Best Medical Belgium SA located at Fleurus (MDS Nordion SA, till April 2011), which produced radioisotopes for medical applications and went bankrupt in 2012. These installations have been entrusted to ONDRAF/NIRAS. A plan of action was developed for taking-over the operations in the framework of remediation and decommissioning. Steps have been taken to integrate his new role as a nuclear operator. The installations of Best Medical Belgium SA are now referred to as the “O/N - Site Fleurus.” Nuclear facility operators, or any person requesting to operate a nuclear facility, are obliged to provide ONDRAF/NIRAS, under their responsibility and in due time, with all the necessary information concerning these facilities’ decommissioning forecasts, the nature, quantities and dates of transfer of the resulting waste, and the financing conditions for these facilities’ decommissioning. In order to make the necessary funds available for decommissioning a nuclear facility when it will be shut down, operators are obliged to establish provisions during the facility’s active life. These provisions are calculated in such a way that the total amount established at the time of the final shutdown covers all costs resulting from the facility’s final phase, namely the preparation of decommissioning, decontamination, more or less long-term maintenance, dismantling, treatment, conditioning and disposal of waste produced during this phase. In order to face to multiple and repeated evaluation processes, the Agency, already in the early 90’s, started with the implementation of its own integrated data processing system, recording the physical and radiological inventories of nuclear facilities, and allowing the evaluation of the quantities of decommissioning materials and wastes as well as of the decommissioning costs of these facilities. The cost evaluations cover all decommissioning activities from final shutdown of the facility until final release from nuclear control, as well as conventional demolition and site restoration if required. Beside the information related to the inventories, the database involves so called auxiliary tables integrating unit prices of the various decontamination and dismantling techniques, unit rates for radioactive waste processing, interim storage and final disposal.
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Borrison, David E. "Strategic Automation for Citrus Processing." In ASME 2000 Citrus Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/cec2000-4601.
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AUTOMATION: Automatically controlled operation of an apparatus, process, or system by mechanical or electronic devices that take the place of human organs of observation, effort, and decision. (Merriam-Webster) STRATEGIC: Of great or vital importance within an integrated whole or to the taking place of a planned or unplanned occurrence. (Merriam-Webster) Strategic automation requires a comprehensive plan for automating the entire plant. This master plan must be followed as individual areas are automated and incorporated into the overall plan. The master plan will set all the standards for process and instrument drawings, equipment identification, instrument tags, control systems, operator interface, and control room locations. With a master plan the following advantages are realized; * Newly automatedareas are easily integrated into the existing infrastructure. * Fewer operators controlling multiple process areas from a single control room. * Standardized operator interfaces minimize operator training and cross training. * Maintenance personnel require less training because of common equipment. * Spare parts inventories are reduced. * Process changes or upsets can be sent throughout the system to adjust other affected areas. * Monitoring and recording data from any area of the plant is easily accomplished. Without a master plan none of the advantages are guaranteed. The cost to link and maintain different systems can be more expensive than the original cost of the system. Exchanging data between systems, or capturing and recording data across multiple systems can become very complex and expensive. Even the best designed, best of breed individual systems don’t always tie together to form a complete and comprehensive overall plant system. Once the master plan is in place, all areas of a citrus plant can be automated. Some areas can be fully automated while others are better controlled by partial automation with enhanced information made available to the operators. Some decisions are driven by measurement instrument availability, while others are purely economical. The ultimate goals are better and more consistent product quality with fewer operating personnel, a process that responds automatically plant wide to changes, and data gathering to monitor and improve your entire process. This paper will address the typical process areas in a citrus plant and discuss viable control techniques as they apply to each area. It will also discuss the interactions between processing areas and the monitoring of the plant as a whole. Paper published with permission.
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Q. Huynh, Minh, and Eraj Khatiwada. "Online Teaching With M-Learning Tools in the Midst of Covid-19: A Reflection Through Action Research." In InSITE 2021: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences. Informing Science Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4761.
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Aim/Purpose: In the midst of COVID-19, classes are transitioned online. Instructors and students scramble for ways to adapt to this change. This paper shares an experience of one instructor in how he has gone through the adaptation. Background: This section provides a contextual background of online teaching. The instructor made use of M-learning to support his online teaching and adopted the UTAUT model to guide his interpretation of the phenomenon. Methodology: The methodology used in this study is action research through participant-observation. The instructor was able to look at his own practice in teaching and reflect on it through the lens of the UTAUT conceptual frame-work. Contribution: The results helped the instructor improve his practice and better under-stand his educational situations. From the narrative, others can adapt and use various apps and platforms as well as follow the processes to teach online. Findings: This study shares an experience of how one instructor had figured out ways to use M-learning tools to make the online teaching and learning more feasible and engaging. It points out ways that the instructor could connect meaningfully with his students through the various apps and plat-forms. Recommendations for Practitioners: The social aspects of learning are indispensable whether it takes place in person or online. Students need opportunities to connect socially; there-fore, instructors should try to optimize technology use to create such opportunities for conducive learning. Recommendations for Researchers: Quantitative studies using surveys or quasi-experiment methods should be the next step. Validated inventories with measures can be adopted and used in these studies. Statistical analysis can be applied to derive more objective findings. Impact on Society: Online teaching emerges as a solution for the delivery of education in the midst of COVID-19, but more studies are needed to overcome obstacles and barriers to both instructors and students. Future Research: Future studies should look at the obstacles that instructors encounter and the barriers with technology access and inequalities that students face in online classes. NOTE: This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, 18, 173-193. Click DOWNLOAD PDF to download the published paper.
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Gasmi, Rami, and Marc Cahay. "Flare Structure Heat-Up During Depressurization." In ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2018-78718.
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Despite regulations becoming more and more stringent, significant quantities of gas are still flared around the world every year. Indeed, for safety reasons, flaring remains a usual practice in oil and gas production in cases of process upset. For instance, emergency shutdown, when the unit must be depressurized in a short period of time, most of the gas inventories are flared to limit as much as possible the potential consequences of fire and explosion within the facility. With the increase of the global demand for energy and especially in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), the recent development of Floating Liquefied Natural Gas unit (FLNG) has raised new challenges concerning flare stack design. Since FLNG facilities handle large flammable gas quantities the flare stack needs to be designed considering much more stringent cases. It results in an increased length of flare stack, to reduce the radiation effects on personnel and equipment. The thermal response of the flare structure needs also to be accounted for in the design, in addition to other load cases such as piping and structural weight or vessel accelerations. To accomplish the structural design of the flare stack, the engineers will have to convert the radiative heat fluxes from the flame into the resulting temperature of the structure exposed. Indeed, temperature is the parameter that can be used as a thermal load case in any finite element analysis calculation code. Current temperature mapping methodologies applied on projects are not exhaustive and are often based on a simplified approach which is now challenged by operators and certification bodies who require more detailed verifications on flare structure heating during continuous or emergency flaring. Moreover, such simplified modelling approaches tends to overestimate thermal protection to mitigate the heat radiation impact. The proposed approach described in this paper will address these points through a multidisciplinary workflow to form a flexible, simple and robust technical methodology to be applied during project execution. The proposed approach will assess heat radiation and temperature calculations in a spatial-temporal reference including the dynamic response. This transient approach is more attractive as computed temperatures will be lower than steady-state approach results which are the usual engineering practice, especially for accidental loading cases, such as emergency depressurization, where the flare release can decrease quickly.
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von Lavante, Dominik, Dietmar Kuhn, and Ernst von Lavante. "Self-Propelling Cooling Systems: Back-Fitting Passive Cooling Functions to Existing Nuclear Power Plants." In 2012 20th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering and the ASME 2012 Power Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone20-power2012-54382.
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The present paper describes a back-fit solution proposed by RWE Technology GmbH for adding passive cooling functions to existing nuclear power plants. The Fukushima accidents have high-lighted the need for managing station black-out events and coping with the complete loss of the ultimate heat sink for long time durations, combined with the unavailability of adequate off-site supplies and adequate emergency personnel for days. In an ideal world, a nuclear power plant should be able to sustain its essential cooling functions, i.e. preventing degradation of core and spent fuel pool inventories, following a reactor trip in complete autarchy for a nearly indefinite amount of time. RWE Technology is currently investigating a back-fit solution involving “self-propelling” cooling systems that deliver exactly this long term autarchy. The cooling system utilizes the temperature difference between the hotter reactor core or spent fuel pond with the surrounding ultimate heat sink (ambient air) to drive its coolant like a classical heat machine. The cooling loop itself is the heat machine, but its sole purpose is to merely achieve sufficient thermal efficiency to drive itself and to establish convective cooling (∼2% thermal efficiency). This is realized by the use of a Joule/Brayton Cycle employing supercritical CO2. The special properties of supercritical CO2 are essential for this system to be practicable. Above a temperature of 30.97°C and a pressure of 73.7bar CO2 becomes a super dense gas with densities similar to that of a typical liquid (∼400kg/m3), viscosities similar tothat of a gas (∼3×105Pas) and gas like compressibility. This allows for an extremely compact cooling system that can drive itself on very small temperature differences. The presented parametric studies show that a back-fitable system for long-term spent fuel pool cooling is viable to deliver excess electrical power for emergency systems of approximately 100kW. In temperate climates with peak air temperatures of up to 35°C, the system can power itself and its air coolers at spent fuel pool temperatures of 85°C, although with little excess electrical power left. Different back-fit strategies for PWR and BWR reactor core decay heat removal are discussed and the size of piping, heat exchangers and turbo-machinery are briefly evaluated. It was found that depending on the strategy, a cooling system capable of removing all decay heat from a reactor core would employ piping diameters between 100–150mm and the investigated compact and sealed turbine-alternator-compressor unit would be sufficiently small to be integrated into the piping.
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Lidar, Per, Niklas Bergh, Arne Larsson, and Gunnar Hedin. "Waste Management Strategy for Cost Effective and Environmentally Friendly NPP Decommissioning." In ASME 2013 15th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2013-96006.
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Decommissioning of nuclear power plants generates large volumes of radioactive or potentially radioactive waste. The proper management of the dismantling waste plays an important role for the time needed for the dismantling phase and thus is critical to the decommissioning cost. An efficient and thorough process for inventorying, characterization and categorization of the waste provides a sound basis for the planning process. As part of comprehensive decommissioning studies for Nordic NPPs, Westinghouse has developed the decommissioning inventories that have been used for estimations of the duration of specific work packages and the corresponding costs. As part of creating the design basis for a national repository for decommissioning waste, the total production of different categories of waste packages has also been predicted. Studsvik has developed a risk based concept for categorization and handling of the generated waste using six different categories with a span from extremely small risk for radiological contamination to high level waste. The two companies have recently joined their skills in the area of decommissioning on selected market in a consortium named ndcon to further strengthen the proposed process. Depending on the risk for radiological contamination or the radiological properties and other properties of importance for waste management, treatment routes are proposed with well-defined and proven methods for on-site or off-site treatment, activity determination and conditioning. The system is based on a graded approach philosophy aiming for high confidence and sustainability, aiming for re-use and recycling where found applicable. The objective is to establish a process where all dismantled material has a pre-determined treatment route. These routes should through measurements, categorization, treatment, conditioning, intermediate storage and final disposal be designed to provide a steady, un-disturbed flow of material to avoid interruptions. Bottle-necks in the process causes increased space requirements and will have negative impact on the project schedule, which increases not only the cost but also the dose exposure to personnel. For these reasons it is critical to create a process that transfers material into conditioned waste ready for disposal as quickly as possible. To a certain extent the decommissioning program should be led by the waste management process. With the objective to reduce time for handling of dismantled material at site and to efficiently and environmental-friendly use waste management methods (clearance for re-use followed by clearance for recycling), the costs for the plant decommissioning could be reduced as well as time needed for performing the decommissioning project. Also, risks for delays would be reduced with a well-defined handling scheme which limits surprises. Delays are a major cost driver for decommissioning projects.
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Cnapelinckx, Pierre, and Fanny Castillo. "IDEA: An Integrated Set of Tools for Sustainable Nuclear Decommissioning Projects." In 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone17-75699.
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Projects Decommissioning of nuclear installations constitutes an important challenge and shall prove to the public that the whole nuclear life cycle is fully mastered by the nuclear industry. When ceasing operation, nuclear installations owners and operators are looking for solutions in order to assess and keep decommissioning costs at a reasonable level, to fully characterize waste streams (in particular radiological inventories of difficult-to-measure radionuclides) and to reduce personnel exposure during the decommissioning activities taking into account several project, site and country specific constraints. In response to this need, Tractebel Engineering has developed IDEA (Integrated DEcommissioning Application), an integrated set of computer tools, to support the engineering activities to be carried out in the frame of a decommissioning project. IDEA provides optimized solutions from an economical, environmental, social and safety perspective. IDEA is based on the integration of the following computer tools: LLWAA-DECOM, VISIMODELLER/VISIPLAN and DBS. The LLWAA-DECOM module has been developed for the radiological characterization of contaminated systems and equipment. The module constitutes a specific part of more general software that was originally developed to characterize NPP radioactive waste streams in order to assist the Operators when declaring the radiological inventory of critical nuclides, in particular difficult-to-measure radionuclides, to the Authorities. In the case of LLWAA-DECOM, deposited activities inside contaminated equipment (piping, tanks, heat exchangers ...) and scaling factors between nuclides, at any given time of the decommissioning time schedule, are calculated on the basis of physical characteristics of the systems and of operational parameters of the nuclear power plant. The VISIMODELLER tool, a user friendly CAD interface developed to ease the introduction of lay-out areas in a software named VISIPLAN. VISIPLAN is a 3D dose rate assessment tool for ALARA work planning, developed by the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK•CEN. The DBS computer tool has been developed to manage the different kinds of activities that are part of the general time schedule of a decommissioning project. For each activity, when relevant, algorithms allow to estimate, on the basis of local inputs, radiological exposures of the operators (collective and individual doses), production of primary, secondary and tertiary waste and their characterization, production of conditioned waste, release of effluents, ... and enable the calculation and the presentation (histograms) of the global results for all activities together. Based on design and operating data from the Nuclear Power Plant to be dismantled and on the specificities of the country regarding radioactive waste management and disposal routes, IDEA will enable to prepare and manage a decommissioning project, in a sustainable way, leading to a greenfield or a reuse of the nuclear site after decommissioning of the plant. Moreover thanks to the characterization and definition of the optimal waste treatment and conditioning techniques, IDEA contributes to the long term safe management of the radioactive waste.