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The performance of VRLA batteries on solar duty

Proceedings of Intelec 94, 2002
This paper reports the findings to date of a long-term real-time performance evaluation of three different types of valve-regulated Pb-acid (VRLA) batteries in remote solar-powered telecommunications installations. The results collected over the past 3 years demonstrate that the performance of selected VRLA batteries in this application compare ...
J.M. Hawkins, L.O. Barling
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Performing Historical Duty

2016
This chapter explores the representation of asylum seekers and refugees in relationship to the discourse of Irish ‘historical duty’, which posits that Ireland has a particular obligation to welcome asylum seekers, refugees and migrants because of its own postcolonial and emigrant experience.
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An Empirical Study on Employees Duty and Their Performance

2009 Third International Symposium on Intelligent Information Technology Application Workshops, 2009
With the growing problem of negative social impact brought by production and operation activities, corporate social responsibility become one of considerable issues, and the staff with special status are regarded as key business stakeholders. This paper conducts empirical research which shows that employee duties have a positive impact on performance ...
Hao Yun-hong, Wang Yue-hong
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Who Performs Personnel Duties?

The School Review, 1931
An adequate personnel program requires special officers to deal with different types of personal problems of high-school girls: an expert in vocational guidance to help pupils choose, prepare for, enter, and succeed in, their vocations; a nurse and physician to deal with health problems; a visiting teacher to study special problems of maladjustment in ...
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Is a Contractor’s Duty to Continue Performance Absolute?

Civil Engineering Magazine, 2015
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims recently ruled that, under certain circumstances, contractors may be justified in stopping work while disputes are resolved.
Michael C. Loulakis, Lauren P. McLaughlin   +1 more
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Rights Protecting Performance of Duties

2019
Abstract Chapter 14 turns from property to a further class of rights groundable only by how they serve parties beyond the right-holder. Unlike property, the rights of Chapter 14 protect the right-holder’s performance of role-defining duties to serve others: e.g.
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Promises to Perform an Existing Duty

The Cambridge Law Journal, 1937
In December, 1934, the ex-Lord Chancellor asked the Law Revision Committee ‘to consider and report whether and, if so, in what respects the doctrine of consideration requires modification, and in particular to consider among other aspects of and observations upon that doctrine … (b) The rule that a promise to perform an existing duty is no ...
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Performance Testing as a Determinant of Fitness-For-Duty

SAE Technical Paper Series, 1990
<div class="htmlview paragraph">Performance testing provides an important complement to urine testing as a determinant of fitness for duty. Performance testing can be conducted immediately to screen out impaired workers before they undertake safety related job functions.
R. Wade Allen, Anthony C. Stein, James C. Miller   +2 more
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Auscultatory Measurement of Blood Pressure Performed by the Doctor on Duty

Acta Medica Scandinavica, 1975
Abstract. A review is presented of the measurements of blood pressure on admission of 600 patients to the wards in a department of general medicine. Three doctors each examined 200 patients, distributed over two periods with an interval of one year. Large differences were found between the doctors as regards the distribution of the BPs, particularly ...
P E, Nielsen, B, Oxenboll, K, Astvad, F, Gyntelberg   +3 more
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Post-duty psychomotor performance in young and senior anaesthetists

European Journal of Anaesthesiology, 2006
The level of performance in junior and senior anaesthetists was investigated after 24-h shift working and on-call duties.Pre- and post-duty psychomotor function, influence on response time, cognitive function and well-being in 23 individuals (13 junior and 12 senior anaesthetists) was assessed before and after 24-h in-house on-call duty.
W, Lederer, M, Kopp, O, Hahn, I, Kurzthaler, C, Traweger, J, Kinzl, A, Benzer   +6 more
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