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An Exploratory Study of EVMS Environment Factors and their Impact on Cost Performance for Construction and Environmental Projects

  • Aramali, Vartenie;Sanboskani, Hala;G. Edward Jr., Gibson;Asmar, Mounir El
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.170-178
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    • 2022
  • A high-performing Earned Value Management System (EVMS) can influence project success and help stakeholders meet project objectives. Although EVMS processes are well-supported by technical guidelines and standards, project managers often face challenges related to the project culture, team, resources, and business practices that make up the project environment within which an EVMS is being used. A comprehensive literature review revealed a lack of a data-driven and consistent assessment frameworks that can gauge the environment surrounding EVMS implementation. This paper will discuss the EVMS environment of construction and environmental projects, and examine its impact on cost performance. The authors used a multi-method approach to identify 27 environment factors that make up the EVMS environment, assessing them on 18 construction and environmental projects worth over $2 billion of total cost. Research methods employed include: (1) a literature review of more than 300 references; (2) a survey of 294 respondents; and (3) remote research charrettes with more than 60 participating expert practitioners. Culture (one of the identified environment categories) was found to be relatively more important in terms of its impact on the EVMS environment, followed by people, practices, and resources. These exploratory results show statistically significant differences in cost performance between completed projects with either a good or poor environment, for the sample projects. Key environment factors are outlined, and guidance is provided to practitioners around how to set up an effective EVMS environment in a construction or environmental project to inform decision-making and support achieving the project cost objectives successfully.

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Improved Performance of Microbial Fuel Cell Using Membrane-Electrode Assembly

  • PHAM THE HAl;JANG JAE KYUNG;MOON HYUN SOO;CHANG IN SEOP;KIM BYUNG HONG
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.438-441
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    • 2005
  • A mediator-less microbial fuel cell (MFC) was used to determine the performance effects of a membrane­electrode assembly (MEA). The MFC with an MEA generated a higher current with an increased coulomb yield when compared to an MFC with a separate cathode. Less oxygen was diffused through an MEA than through a Nafion membrane. The MFC performance was improved with a buffer, although a high-strength buffer reduced the performance.

The Effects of Home Literary Environment, Reading Attitude, Perceived Verbal Ability, and Preference for Verbal Expression on the Writing Performance of the Verbally Gifted (언어영재의 문식성 환경, 독서태도, 지각된 언어능력 및 언어표현선호도가 쓰기수행에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoon, Cho-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.53-68
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    • 2006
  • For this study of the writing performance of verbally gifted elementary and middle school students and its relations to home literary environment, reading attitude, perceived verbal ability, and preference for verbal expression, a sample of 101 verbally gifted children was recruited from classes in a gifted education institute in P metropolitan area. Results of path analyses show that verbally gifted children's home literary environment affects reading attitude and perceived verbal ability; reading attitude and perceived verbal ability affects preference for verbal expression; and preference for verbal expression directly affects writing performance. Results imply that the indirect relations of home literary environment to verbally gifted children's writing performance are an important foundation for developing preference for verbal expression and writing skills.

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Effect of Environment-conscious Procurement Logistics Activity and Logistics Strategy on Logistics Performance (조달물류에서 환경친화적 활동이 조달물류 성과에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Seog-Ha;Lee, Sung-Ho;Kim, Che-Soong
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.71-82
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    • 2007
  • For a sustainable development, the resources circulation system should be established and an environment-conscious activities are required at the same time. These activities should be also implemented in logistics area. Especially, green procurement activities in inbound logistics is recognized as a very important factors in the early phase of an environment-conscious activities. In this paper, we are to suggest the direction through statistical analysis of effects, and cause of influences of environmental procurement logistics activities on logistics performance by environmental logistics strategy and by the size of enterprises, and by Environmental Management System. This study was conducted with the subjects of manufacturing enterprises with concurrent reviews of literature and statistical analysis, and the meaning of this study would be the analysis of the influencers of environment-conscious procurement logistics activities on logistics performance different from existing logistics studies.

A Study on the Improvement of Assessment Criteria for Housing Performance Indicator System and Green Building Certification Criteria (주택성능등급과 친환경건축물인증의 평가방법 비교를 통한 개선안 연구 -환경관련등급을 중심으로-)

  • Kim, Myoung-Shin;Hwang, Jae-Woo;Chun, Jung-Gil;Ha, Dae-Woong;Park, Kyung-Soon;Son, Won-Tug
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2009
  • A variety of Certification systems are initiated, as increased demands for housing quality of building & house owner. New building and apartment built in Seoul metropolitan should acquire Building Energy Rating System and Housing Performance Grade indication System, Green Building Certification System. Building Energy Rating System could be acquired through the certification from energy performance index of environment grade in Housing Performance Grade Indication. Between Housing Performance Grade Indication and Green Building Certification System, There are troublesome to acquire certification because a lot of assessment items are overlapped. At a result, the rational and efficient certification system should be initiated not only to avoid overlap among those certification systems and promote Green Building market share but also efficient certification system operation. We will discuss on assessment items between Housing Performance Grade Indication System and Green Building Certification System and release the improvement method those Certification Systems to avoid overlapping to assessment items.

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A Study on Logistics Activities and Business Performance of Korean Industries (한국제조업체의 물류활동과 기업성과에 관한 연구)

  • 이덕수
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.21 no.48
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    • pp.89-99
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of the study was to identify the relationship of the logistics activities with the overall performance among the Korean industries, in order to suggest ways of enhancing the level of effectiveness in logistics management. On the basis of current logistics literature and research data, an analysis had been attempted to provide the study with a theoretical framework, followed by an empirical research that analyzed, among the randomly selected companies, the relations between logistics activities and management policy; logistics activities and logistics environment; logistics environment and the usage of computer software; management policy and the usage of computer software; management policy and performance; logistics environment and performance. Analyses of the data suggested that the companies that lay heavy emphasis on logistics effectiveness showed higher performance; management policies of the companies are influenced by their logistics characteristics; the more strongly is a company oriented logistically, the higher effectiveness in logistics activities it maintains; there is a significant relationship between the logistics environment a company is operated in and the company's reliance on logistically oriented information technologies; there is a close relationship between a company's logistics activities and its business outcome.

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Business Environment, e-Business Strategy and Performance : An Empirical Study of Venture Firms in Daedeok Valley and Hsinchu Science Park (한.대(韓.臺) 벤처기업의 경영환경, e-비즈니스 전략, 성과간의 관계)

  • Hwang, Kyung-Yun;Moon, Hee-Cheol
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.43-65
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    • 2008
  • This study investigates the effects of business environment on the e-business strategy and performance of venture firms. The development of the research model is based on the empirical studies on the strategy literature. The data from the survey was analyzed using Partial Least Squares(PLS). For Daedeok Valley Venture Firms, product innovation differentiation strategy is affected by environmental uncertainty. And, cost leadership strategy tend to be influence by environmental uncertainty. Finally, venture firm's performance is effected by cost leadership strategy and marketing differentiation strategy. However, for in Hsinchu Science Park Venture Firms, product innovation differentiation strategy is affected by environmental uncertainty and heterogeneity. And, marketing differentiation strategy is enhanced by environment uncertainty and industry growth. In addition, cost leadership strategy tend to be influence by environmental uncertainty and heterogeneity. Finally, venture firm's performance is effected by cost leadership strategy and product innovation differentiation strategy.

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The Implementation of Wireless Communication Test Environment for the Link-K System and Performance Analysis of Multiple Access Protocols (한국형 전술데이터링크(Link-K)의 무선통신 시험환경 구성 및 다중접속 프로토콜 성능분석)

  • Kwon, Koo-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.170-174
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    • 2009
  • This paper describes the wireless communication test environment for the Link-K system and shows the performance analysis of multiple access protocols. The test environment consists of data generator, modem, radio sets, attenuators, and antennas. In case of both CSMA and Roll-Call protocols, throughput performance and delay are measured. And test results are analyzed. The test results would be used for communication performance analysis and network design of Link-K system.

The Impact of Environment and Adoption Factors on the Performance of Financial EDI systems (금융EDI시스템의 환경 및 도입 요인이 성과에 미치는 영향)

  • 송미향;정철용
    • The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.75-88
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    • 1997
  • Many Korean banks and companies have adopted EDI to replace traditioanal paper documents by electronic ones, which can move much faster with greater accuracy, Also, it is expected to reduce overall costs and maintain good relationships with customers. However, in practice, the performance of EDI seems to be less than expected. The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of environment and adoption factors on the performance of financial EDI. We proposed a model for the relationships based on the existing literature and peformed a survey of Korean commercial banks and companies using KTNET. The results of this study are as follows: First, the business environment represented by the size of companies and the frequency of transactions showed a negative impact on the performance in terms of efficiency, which is quite converse to the common belief. Second, the technical environment, including computing skills of users and operators, showed a positive impact on the performance in terms of effectiveness. Third, the clearer the adoption purpose, the higher is the performace as intended, while the initiative for the adoption process showed no significant impact.

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Design and Implementation of a Performance Evaluation Tool for Embedded Softwares on Collaborative Development Environment (협업 개발을 지원하는 임베디드 소프트웨어 성능분석도구 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Ik-Su;Cho, Yong-Yun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.13 no.7
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 2008
  • A performance evaluation tool makes an important role in order to improve performance of an embedded software which has restricted computing resources. However, existing performance evaluation tools for embedded softwares cannot be used in collaborative development environment because they support only one developer with performance evaluation work under cross development environment. In this paper, we propose a performance evaluation tool for embedded softwares on collaborative development environment. A proposed tool is based on server and client model. It can have flexibility in offering and integrating the result information for the items. Through the suggested tool. developers can intuitively understand and analysis performance evaluation results each other.

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