Development capabilities

Capability Development. The work of Dams et ad. (2) and Zoller and Gordon (3) was the basis for building the INAA capability. The INAA procedure they used involved the following steps. 

However, because of the interests and objectives of most of the measurers of these data, the existence of this extensive body of information does not necessarily mean that the decay-data needs of any given area are satisfied. Such needs frequently are highly specialized and require additional characteristics not usually considered by an experimenter whose interests lie in other areas. To satisfy such needs, specialized measurements, occasionally utilizing techniques specifically tailored to the particular application, are required. As a result, the field of decay-data measurement, although by many standards a mature one, continues to present exciting new challenges as experimental capabilities develop and additional needs in other areas of basic and applied science continue to be identified. 

As in other imaging fields, developments in positron imaging occur in a symbiotic way new capabilities enable new applications and new demands drive enhancement in capability. In capability development, there is a continuing demand to make tracers which are... 

To capture the business opportunities, the procurement team then needs to build a holistic business plan. The business plan mentality is critical, since it will provide the organization with a clear proposal and basis for the decision to allocate necessary resources to the planned efforts. Organizations that have pursued such an approach have created the prerequisites for performance transparency and service-oriented behavior. Possible outcomes depending on the needs of the company and the capabilities developed within procurement can range from a strong procurement network with its own profit and loss statement and balanced scorecard to the creation of a market-oriented profit center unit. The business plan should be focused primarily on value creation rather than cost savings, and should consist of two distinct parts ... 

By 1970 Du Font s senior managers, having appreciated the limits of their corporate capabilities for new-product development, redefined the role of corporate R D in their industry, as they had lost their strong faith that research, particularly fundamental research, would be the salvation of the company. They now understood that the postwar product-specific technical, functional, and managerial capabilities developed in the several operating departments clearly served as a more reliable source for the improvement and commercializing of new products and processes than did basic research or even centrally planned, related-product diversification into new markets. 

Thus, Du Pont s profits and its primary competitive strength resided in the product lines whose organizational capabilities had been shaped during the dramatic years of new product development as the polymer/petrochemical technology unfolded. The second major source of income and competitive strength derived from the capabilities developed in the 1920s and 1930s. In... 

American Cyanamid, nonetheless, still considered itself a chemical enterprise and entered polymer/petrochemicals on the basis of its capabilities developed in plastics before World War 11. It became competitive in the production of acrylonitrile and then acrylic fiber. For the production of its intermediates, it formed in 1944 a joint venture with Texaco, the Jefferson Chemical Company. ... 

Meanwhile, Standard Oil of California, lacking Shell s technological capability, developed agricultural and horticultural insecticides through the acquisition in 1931 of the California Spray Chemical Corporation. In the 1930s Standard Oil of California began producing by-products, primarily naph-thalic acids and derivatives. ... 

Although there are many definitions of technology transfer, within the FLC, it is generally described as the process by which existing knowledge, facilities, hardware, or capabilities developed under Federal R D funding are transferred to fulfill other public or private needs. The Consortium serves as a forum for the discussion of the principles and practices of technology transfer and provides a communication network for the purposes of ... 

Alloplasmlc conversion Is a strategy which emerged from capabilities developed with plant protoplasts. Originally touted as a method for the recovery of exotic Interspecific hybrids (12), protoplast fusion has proven to be an excellent way to approach the wholesale manipulation of mitochondrial genes (13). The predominant trait of note Is cytoplasmic male sterility (cms), which Is of Interest to the seed Industry as a tool to facilitate hybrid seed production. Little or no Impact on possible value-added traits Impacting on food quality, however, Is anticipated from alloplasmlc conversion. 

Securing Our Homeland emphasizes capabilities development and also reliance on the vast resources and expertise from the Federal Government, private sector, academic community, nongovernmental organizations, and other scientific bodies. A crosscutting theme of all of these strategies is increased emphasis on interagency coordination. 

For each quadrant of the worlds, the desired state of countermeasure development was conceived and then new fields that could contribute to capability development were identified. Additionally, enabling infrastructures upon which such capabilities will depend and the limits to the use of countermeasure against different adversary types were considered. 

CARINA (CApsula di RIentro Non Abitata) will be the first Italian module with re-entry capability, developed by Alenia Spazio for the National Space Agency. Scheduled for launch from the San Marco platform by means of the Super Scout rocket, it will return microgravity experiments to Earth after some days in orbit (Figure 1 ). 

An improved knowledge of the monoterpenoids (as well as sesquiterpenes, diterpenes, triterpenes, tetraterpenes) and their effects on insects contributes to unraveling the intricate interactions that have shaped the coevolution of insects and plants. It also provides leads for possible utility of these safe, degradable compounds in modern pest control, and, as more advanced genetic engineering capabilities develop, the potential for... 

Processing capability developments in the past involved commodity resins, as they were predominantly used. Now there is more focus on engineering resins. Overlapping the melt streams in accumulator heads to obtain uniform wall thickness distribution is now a more fundamental requirement. The accumulator heads that are available differ in their feed channel designs, and they are frequently protected by patents so one must be careful when purchasing them. In a parison head, the melt is divided into separate streams by the mandrel or spiders. Weld lines form where the flow fronts reunite. As the parison is deformed differentially in BM, these weld lines are potential weak sections in areas of extreme deformation. 

Capability development is a critical enabler of the strategy, and therefore, should be detailed consider in the plan. 

People capability development plan based on gaps to execute the supply chain strategy. 

Key words capability development. Integrated Soldier Combat System,... 

Hazard identification and risk assessment (HIR A)—A process to identify hazards and associated risk to persons, property, and structures and to improve protection from natnral and hnman-cansed hazards. HIRA serves as a foundation for planning, resource management, capability development, public education, and training and exercises. 

Gavetti, G. (2005), "Cognition and hierarchy Rethinking the microfoundations of capabilities development Organization Science, 16 (6), 599-617. 

The United Nations Environment Program and the Society for the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry provide a Web site with information on LCA including approaches for capability development, methodologies, data, resources, and impacts. The Life Cycle Initiative includes LCA publications and manual. The goal of the initiative is to enable people around the world to use LCA more frequently and efficiently. The Life Cycle Initiative can establish a global network of LCA experts to establish and manage best practices of LCA across multiple industries and product sectors (Life Cycle Initiative 2013). 

Bamberger, H.H., Robinson, R.C., Jurns, J.J., Grasl, S.J., 2011. Liquid methane conditioning capabilities developed at the NASA Glenn Research Center s Small Multi-purpose Research Facility (SMiRF) for accelerated lunar surface storage thermal testing. NASA-CR-2011-216745. 

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