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Top PR Crises of 2007
2007 has been filled with big crises that presented PR challenges, from the Virginia Tech massacre to Don Imus to the NBA's gambling referee. PRWeek has done a nice job summing up the year in PR with its 2007 Book of Lists, including 10 PR Crises that...
Tags: Jon Greer, PRWeek, public relations, Don Imus, referee, Virginia Tech, NBA, firing
Blog posts 2007-12-31
Time Management Strategies For Improving Academic Performance
Many times college students have not had to manage their time efficiently prior to college because they are bright and weren't really challenged in high school. The situation often changes in college because everyone who goes to college did well in high school but the full range of grades are...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, grade, time management, C, performance
White papers 2007-01-01
Vizability: A Tool For Usability Engineering Process Improvement
The authors present Vizability, a usability engineering tool that is motivated by the variability of analysis processes and facilitates the analysis of existing problem data with the goal of process improvement. Usability engineers spend considerable resources performing usability testing and analyzing the resulting data, but their work is often limited...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, process improvement, analysis, tool, technique
White papers 2006-03-10
Project Budget Worksheet
This is a template for project budget.
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Tools & templates 2004-04-17
Supply Chain Management Tradeoffs Analysis
Supply chain management involves understanding complex interactions between many factors and using the understanding to achieve balance between conflicting objectives. Simulation is a very useful technique to evaluate the impact of changes in factors such as inventory control and business process parameters. This paper describes a simulation based study for...
Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Operational planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, tradeoff, SCM, supply chain, business process, inventory control, logistics, technique, analysis
White papers 2004-11-11
Analysis of Thermal Energy Collection From Precast Concrete Roof Assemblies
The development of precast concrete housing systems provides an opportunity to easily and inexpensively incorporate solar energy collection by casting collector tubes into the roof structure. A design is presented for a precast solar water heating system used to aid in meeting the space and domestic water heating loads of...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, solar energy, analysis, performance
White papers 2004-07-16
Critical Programmatic Success Factors of Select Arts Programs for Older Adults
The purpose of this study is to identify the pivotal factors contributing to programmatic success of arts programs for people, age sixty-five and older, in the United States. This study examines select programs within five arts disciplines: Elders Share the Arts theatre, Museum One visual art, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
White papers 2004-04-30
An Application of Anti-Optimization in the Process of Validating Aerodynamic Codes
This paper is based on an investigation that was conducted to assess the usefulness of anti-optimization in the process of validating of aerodynamic codes. Anti-optimization is defined here as the intentional search for regions where the computational and experimental results disagree. Maximizing such disagreements can be a useful tool in...
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, tool
White papers 2003-04-04
Ultimate Strength Analysis of Stiffened Panels Using a Beam-Column Method
An efficient beam-column approach, using an improved systematic numerical method, is developed in this study for studying the ultimate strength problems of stiffened panels with two load cases. This study presents an improved systematic numerical integration procedure to calculate the ultimate strength of a beam-column under axial compression, end moments,...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, analysis
White papers 2003-01-15
Elements of a Chapel: Procession, Transition, Materiality
Traditionally, poets, scholars, and clergy have referred to chapels and churches as houses of God, houses of worship, and/or even metaphorically as a cosmic mountain that reaches from heaven to earth allowing spiritual communication and oneness with one's own God. In an effort to reinforce and accentuate these experiences, this...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
White papers 2002-12-05
Modeling Computer Assembly Operations for Supply Chain Integration
Factory operations have been modeled for years to understand the relationship between the different design and policy factors and the performance measures of interest. The increasing awareness of the need to manage factories as a link in the supply chain places a corresponding requirement for an enhanced approach for factory...
Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Research & Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, supply chain integration, supply chain, modeling, logistics, business process, performance
White papers 2002-11-15
Understanding Information Usage by Residential Construction Supervisors and Bridge/Structure Inspectors as a First Step in Adoption of Field Based IT
This paper explores parallels in field information processes in two different construction sectors and operational domains, i.e. field supervision in residential construction and bridge and structure inspections. The work presented in this paper represents the first stage of a multi- stage project that will result in the integration of hand-held...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, residential construction, information technology, handheld
White papers 2002-10-03
Power Flow Analysis of Electrostrictive Actuators Driven by Switchmode Amplifiers
This paper presents the analysis of the power flow between stacked electrostrictor actuators and a pulse-width-modulated switching amplifier. The amplifier and actuator are analyzed as components of a smart skin whose function is underwater acoustic echo cancellation. An integrated model is developed with includes a dynamic structural model of the...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, amplifier, analysis, electronics
White papers 2002-09-16
Strength Degradation of GFRP Bars
This study examines the strength degradation of Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer GFRP bars at high temperature and alkalinity and determines if an Arrhenius type relationship can be used as a means of projecting life. The work done includes a thorough literature review, experiments, and development of strength prediction models. The...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, degradation
White papers 2002-09-01
Functional Properties of Restructured Boneless Pork Produced From PSE and RFN Pork Utilizing Non-Meat Adjuncts
Boneless cured pork was produced from combinations of pale, soft, and exudative PSE and red, firm, and non-exudative RFN semimembranosus muscle differing in amount of modified food starch MFS, sodium caseinate SC, and soy protein concentrate SPC. Response Surface Methodology was utilized to determine the effects of these adjuncts on...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, adjunct
White papers 2002-08-02
Concealing the Mechanism: The Addition and Rehabilitation of Roanoke's
This paper proposes to renovate the historic Norfolk and Western Passenger Train Station located in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, and design an addition onto the building. The train station will serve as a cultural center for the city of Roanoke. By researching and analyzing the history and formal implications of the...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
White papers 2002-07-09
Zoomorphic Architecture: The Carolina Coastal Museum
Throughout the evolution of man, the ocean has played an integral part in his survival. As technology has advanced so has man's use of the ocean. In order to preserve the history of these advancements for future generations, museums have been erected. The Carolina Coastal Museum is dedicated to the...
Tags: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, theory
White papers 2002-07-09
Mapping and Modeling Chlorophyll-a Concentrations in the Lake Manassas Reservoir Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Satellite Imagery
Carried out in collaboration with the Occoquan Water Monitoring Lab, this report presents the results of research that sought to ascertain the spatial distribution of chlorophyll-a concentrations in the Lake Manassas Reservoir using a combination of Landsat satellite imagery and ground based field measurements. Images acquired on May 14, 1998...
Tags: Network technology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, satellite, modeling, collaboration
White papers 2002-05-21
Critical Infrastructures--Virginia's Challenge for the New Millennium
This paper outlines some of the issues in power sector, and seeks to identify initial steps to develop a holistic approach at the state level in Virginia. At the state level, this demand is manifested in the call for higher levels of primary energy services, particularly electricity and natural gas,...
Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Virginia, natural gas, telecommunications
White papers 2002-05-07
Co-alignment between Environment Risk, Corporate Strategy, Capital Structure, and Firm Performance: An Empirical Investigation of Restaurant Firms
The importance of testing the co-alignment model has been emphasized by several researchers in the past. This study is an attempt to test the model using theories in corporate finance and strategic management, which will also prove the commonalties that exist between these domains of business research. This will help...
Tags: Leadership, Financial accounting, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, strategic management, finance, capital structure, researcher, theory, strategy, environment
White papers 2002-05-02
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