On the heels of the above reasoning, a few case studies nearly fit the following definition of best practice: a retrofit project wherein the works involve almost all the building elements and most of the systems so as to achieve substantial performance gains, possibly with the use of renewable...
This paper explains what `risk efficiency' means, why it is a key part of best practice project management, and why it may not be delivered by common practice as defined by some guidelines. This paper also explains how risk efficiency can be addressed operationally using comparative cumulative ...
Here, we present a general definition of the social efficiency deficit (SED) that is also a step-by-step recipe for obtaining the SED in practice. Let us suppose that \(S=\{s_1,...,s_n\}\) is a set of strategic decisions and that \({\mathbf {x}}=(x_1,...,x_n)^T\in...
Novice programmers need differentiated assessments (such as adaptive Parsons problems) to maximize their ability to learn how to program. Parsons problems require learners to place mixed-up code blocks in the correct order to solve a problem. We conducted a within-subjects experiment to compare the...
analysis the economic principle of the cost/efficiency problem and the accounting principle of cost accounting,efficiency accounting,give a brief introduction of several important parts in cost accounting,efficiency accounting,and give examples of procedure model analysis on the cost/efficiency problem in ...
Explain how can the effectiveness of global virtual teams be improved. Give some examples. Discuss the process of strategy formulation and how TQ (total quality) can improve this process. Define productive efficiency and give examples. Using an example, explain the process ...
The second section is titled "Efficiency Analysis in the Public Sector - Advances in Theory and Practice." This division is somewhat arbitrary, in the sense there are significant overlapping themes in both sections. However, it serves to separate chapters that can be characterised as dealing with...
The architectural practice of reusing and refurbishing should be the first consideration when designing and reshaping our already overbuilt cities. Good architecture prioritizes this approach over demolition, as it can reduce costs, enhance environmental efficiency, and preserve functional structures that ...
In practice, many of the older irrigation projects have long operated in an inherently inefficient way. In many surface-irrigated (or flood-irrigated) schemes, water is delivered to the farm at a fixed interval for a fixed period, and charges are assessed per delivery regardless of the actual...
The NP-hard complexity class consists of those problems at least as difficult to solve as NP-complete problems. A specific way to define an NP-hard problem is that the solution checking for an NP-hard problem cannot be completed in polynomial time. In practice, many optimization versions of ...