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Access to components in nuclear power plants for inspection is often difficult due to cluttered environments. A continuum robotic manipulator is very flexible and can maneuver its way in narrow and winding space to reach a target spot. The video demonstrates how a continuum manipulator carrying an inspection device at its tip can be used for inspection of the entire surface of a pipe-like structure...
Viewing the role of senior managers in organizations, the human resource managers suffer from the lack of hands-on tools for the performance evaluation of senior managers. This study reports the design of expert systems for senior managers' performance evaluation. Different from the normal information systems for employee performance appraisal, several modular components for this special case are...
Selecting points using min-max strategy can guarantee uniformity of Pareto. But shortcomings are missing effective solutions and poor solutions being selected. By the analysis of choosing points with the min-max strategy and reasonable fitness metric, we propose a new evolutionary method choosing weights on points (point-to-weight). A large number of multi-objective optimization functions have been...
The authors conducted a meta-analysis about the relationship between Information Technology (IT) capability and business performance which aggregates empirical findings from the information technology literature. This paper confirms that IT capability has significant impact on business performance. Our research also finds that different types of IT capability measurement, different types of performance...
Corner detection is a fundamental step in visual measurement, and it is also an important factor which affects the real-time performance in measurement. In order to improve the real-time performance of corner detection, a fast detection method of checkerboard corners based on the combination of template matching and Harris Operator is proposed. First, template matching model is founded based on the...
Based on the constructionist'learner view that learner is the enabler learning subject, puting forward a hypothesis that the learning expection is of deviation for various stage students of Civil Construction Management Speciality, which is supported by a case study from the the first year of postgraduate student, Senior student and junior student of School of civil engineering, Chang'an University...
Through the analysis on the life properties of building energy-conversation, this paper explains the coupling between nodes and the rule of cohesion within nodes in the lifecycle of building energy conservation. The energy-saving chain of construction engineering is combined with the coupling concept of synergetics. With the influence degree of coupling factors between upstream and downstream of energy-saving...
Humanity analysis is the essential premise that reasonably allocates human resources and then improves project performance. The characteristics of staff R & D innovative project are fully recognized and the humanity hypothesis theory is applied appropriately, which can avoid excessive performance loss. Starting from the relationship between growing enterprise and staff, combining with the characterizes...
The Learning power of Civil Engineering student is the cornerstone for the major development of civil engineering as well as the future career promotion. Form the chinese philosophy's views, the learning power lack comes from the opposits between the subject and the object. Based on pre literature analysis, unstructured interview and the corresponding questionnaire, the internal cause and external...
In view of the serious gap in China's architecture energy-saving and according to the characteristic of energy-saving chain and diagnosis theory, this paper proposed health diagnosis framework of general judgment for architecture energy-saving through reviewing its operating conditions and “diseases”, offered principles of process-oriented energy-saving diagnosis system, and then demonstrated the...
Starting from innovative management prospective, in connection to construction energy-saving gap, and with construction energy-saving chain management as theme, this paper studies the characteristic of innovative management of construction energy-saving and how to organize and operate in Chinese architecture industry. Basic on system control theory, author introduced status parameters (variables)...
Culture force is one of three-main important environment force for construction enterprises'value innovation. Based on literature review among the culture, culture force and enterprise culture force, the paper argues that culture governance is the highest state for construction enterprises to improve construction enterprises value innovation ability. Then, culture force system is divided into four...
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