A value-centric decision making framework for maintenance services outsourcing [PDF]
, 2011 The shift in mindset of decision makers, from maintenance being a “necessary evil” and “cost centre” to a “profit contributor” in manufacturing companies has driven outsourced maintenance suppliers to employ value-centric approaches in order to design
Toossi, Amir
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Water Services Maintenance Trust Fund Impact Report, 2016-2021 [PDF]
, 2023 In 2016, a results-based funding model was developed to improve the reliability of rural drinking water supply services in Kenya. The Water Services Maintenance Trust Fund has tested a professional service delivery model in two counties and attracted new
Fund, Water Services Maintenance Trust
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An Artificial Neural Network Model Supported With Multi Criteria Decision Making Approaches For Maintenance Planning In Hydroelectrıc Power Plants [PDF]
, 2020 DANISAN, TUGBA/0000-0003-1998-6810; Yumusak, Rabia/0000-0002-0257-939XPower plants are the large-scale production facilities with the main purpose of realizing uninterrupted, reliable, efficient, economic and environmentally friendly energy generation ...
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Integrating the maintenance process: a framework to bridge design for maintenance to prescriptive maintenance [PDF]
, 2022 Due to the rising concern over the impact of global warming and significant climate changes, the aviation industry is looking for solutions to reduce emissions.
Martinetti, Alberto +3 more
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Preventive maintenance models with random maintenance quality [PDF]
, 2005 In real-world environments it is usually difficult to specify the quality of a preventive maintenance (PM) action precisely. This uncertainty makes it problematic to optimise maintenance policy.-This problem is tackled in this paper by assuming that the ...
Clements-Croome, Derek +3 more
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Echoed induction of nucleotide variants and chromosomal structural variants in cancer cells
Scientific Reports, 2022 Generally, the number of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) in somatic cells increases with age, which is expected for replication errors. The number of SNVs in cancer cells, however, is often much higher than that in somatic cells, raising the question ...
Yusuke Matsuno +4 more
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Assessing maintenance contracts when preventive maintenance is outsourced [PDF]
, 2012 In some companies, corrective maintenance is conducted in-house but preventive maintenance might be outsourced. This raises a need to optimise some parameters such as the number of contracts from a perspective of the equipment owner.
Shaomin Wu, Wu, Shaomin
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LARP7 family proteins have conserved function in telomerase assembly
Nature Communications, 2018 The telomerase holoenzyme is minimally composed of the reverse transcriptase and the RNA template. Here the authors identify Lar7 as a member of the full complex that helps to stabilise it and protect telomerase RNA from degradation.
Laura C. Collopy +11 more
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Structure Formation and Properties of Concrete Based on Organic Hydraulic Binders
Наука и техника, 2020 The article addresses the issues of structure formation of road composite materials containing hydraulic (рortland cement) and organic (bitumen) binders. It has been determined that organic and hydraulic binders, being thermodynamically incompatible, are
B. M. Khroustalev +6 more
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021 With the continuous growth of global warming and traffic volume, rutting deformation is common on road surfaces. A new type of pavement mixture, a semiflexible mixture, was proposed to solve the easy deformation and low riding quality of traditional ...
Hairong Gu +5 more
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