Weirton Steel's plant in Weirton, West Virginia is one of North America's most advanced integrated steel production facilities. Weirton Steel's management commissioned a compressed air systems assessment by Ingersoll Rand. The assessment's main conclusion was that most of the system's problems were being caused by excessive oil and moisture in...
Documenting skills is frequently required for employee assessments. A predefined form provides a simple tool for employees to start a skills development plan that will save them time and provide an easy method for capturing this information.
One of the primary reasons for small business failure is the lack of assessment of the business by the owners on some kind of a regular basis. They tend to look at where they are today and not where they will be five, ten or even fifteen years from now....
In May 2001, Air Management of Powder Springs, Georgia, assessed the compressed air system at the Alcoa North American Extrusions NAE facility in Elizabethton, Tennessee. The result of the assessment was a proposal to optimize the compressed air system to meet current and future production requirements and reduce operating costs...
Quality assessment is the term the Institute of Internal Auditors IIA now uses for what had been called quality assurance reviews. The aim of the assessments is to verify compliance with IIA Standards and provide suggestions for continuous improvement. The paper depicts about internal audit Quality Assessments QA from three...
This is a template for common model development and assessment which is used to locate by process and department where business rules, data, and workflow could be common and shared; to determine whether or not the new ERP system could be used within its flexibility / configurability; whether or not...
This paper is not a scholarly or scientific analysis of the various Emotional Quotient EQ assessments. If anything, it is more like a review of, and blatant advertisement for, the Genos Emotional Intelligence EI assessment. Why to read it then? Three good reasons explore key questions to ask you in...
The paper presents a game theoretic model of property tax assessment that allows a tax appraiser to either choose a high a low assessment. The owner either accepts or challenges this assessment. It then uses a "fixed effects" regression model to evaluate the differences in assessed values of a sample...
Assessment typically focuses on specific traits, or highly related clusters of traits, in the hope that participants can increase their understanding in areas of weakness and strength. This knowledge is intended to drive improved job performance through the development of new behaviors. This document reviews the purpose and design of...
This document provides guidance to industry on good pharmacovigilance practices and pharmacoepidemiologic assessment, specifically on safety signal identification, pharmacoepidemiologic assessment and safety signal interpretation, and pharmacovigilance plan development. The paper describes the Agency's current thinking on a topic and should be viewed only as recommendations, unless specific regulatory or statutory...
The paper reveals that dizziness is a common complaint among the elderly with a prevalence of over 30% in people over the age of 65. Although it is a common problem the assessment and management of dizziness in the elderly is challenging for family physicians. There is little published research...
There is a serious lack of testing of medicinal products in the pediatric population. The European Commission has attempted to provide a structural solution by drafting a regulation. This paper describes the economic, social, sustainable, and environmental impacts of the regulation. The assessment indicates that the proposed regulation will achieve...
The assessment of abuse is a highly emotionally charged activity. The requirement to provide an accountable and transparent assessment process requires the development of actuarial devices and clearly enunciated decision rules. Risk assessment requires the application of ecologically valid, evidence-based approaches. Such approaches, commonly transcribed into actuarial systems, are usually...
Research and development (R&D) efforts have developed parametrically defined, automated and validated numerical models for the applications including dent residual life assessment, wrinkle and buckle assessment, pipeline sleeve and split tee design, and flaw tolerance and pipeline upheaval buckling and slope movement analysis. This article discusses the various aspects of...
The White Paper contains an assessment of various energy-related technologies and categorizes them based on their strategic priority for Australia. The Government will incorporate these assessments into existing innovation mechanisms and review them on a regular basis. The White Paper also indicates that the Government will conduct a review of...
IEA Members have repeatedly called for increased energy technology development to help countries respond to the climate-change challenge. The IEA Committee on Energy Research and Technology CERT and the IEA Secretariat have therefore undertaken an assessment of the energy technology developments that could generate significant cuts in CO2 emissions while...
Detecting talent in people is vitally important, especially when a HR professional is seeking out the special talents required to succeed in the world of commerce. He will be making use of assessment tools in order to predict the likely performance and tenure of potential employees, and the chances are...
This paper presents the implications of the so-called optimized NF membrane properties on the economic assessment as well as the process performance of NF membrane system which is also discussed. The predictive model for NF membranes such as the Donnan steric-pore model has been used in conjunction with an economic...
