scholarly journals VALUE ANALYSIS: Going into a Further Dimension

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 781-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Value Engineering ◽  
Value Management ◽  
Value Analysis ◽  
Extra Effort ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Theoretical Evolution ◽  
Professional Practitioners ◽  
The Many ◽  
Initial Concept

Value Analysis (VA), as it was originally conceived, was defined and applied as a cost cutting tool, in order to make products more competitive. That short scope was early identified as limiting further developments and applications of the concept, by its initial pathfinder, if no extra effort was made to take the concept into other levels of management and, consequently, of business. The many different and alternative applications of the concept and of its original methodology have taken many professional practitioners and scholars to theorize and apply new concepts and methods. We can find a tremendous number of different learning exercises and theoretical evolution from that work, but that has not yet answered many aspirations regarding the initial concept of value and value analysis. This paper aims at bringing a new and more comprehensive understanding to professional practitioners, scholars, trainers and students, about some major concepts and applied methodologies in the disciplines of Value Management (VM), Value Analysis (VA) and Value Engineering (VE).

Glossary of terms used in medicinal chemistry. Part II (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)

2013 ◽  
Vol 85 (8) ◽  
pp. 1725-1758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek R. Buckle ◽  
Paul W. Erhardt ◽  
C. Robin Ganellin ◽  
Toshi Kobayashi ◽  
Thomas J. Perun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Human Genome ◽  
Human Genome Project ◽  
Medicinal Chemistry ◽  
Genome Project ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Human Genome Project

The evolution that has taken place in medicinal chemistry practice as a result of major advances in genomics and molecular biology arising from the Human Genome Project has carried with it an extensive additional working vocabulary that has become both integrated and essential terminology for the medicinal chemist. Some of this augmented terminology has been adopted from the many related and interlocked scientific disciplines with which the modern medicinal chemist must be conversant, but many other terms have been introduced to define new concepts and ideas as they have arisen. In this supplementary Glossary, we have attempted to collate and define many of the additional terms that are now considered to be essential components of the medicinal chemist’s expanded repertoire.

Dictatorship and Democracy, 1918–1939

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Mergel
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
The People ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community People ◽  
The Many ◽  
Social Organism ◽  
German Parliament ◽  
Revolution Of 1848

Both dictatorship and democracy were essentially new concepts of political rule in Germany after World War I. It was true that suffrage had been increasingly extended after the revolution of 1848–1849, and more citizens (male citizens, that is) were entitled to vote in Imperial Germany than, for instance, in Great Britain. Dictatorship, too, was a new form of political control, at least in Germany. The term ‘people’ was to become a standard formula for the self-understanding of German politics after 1918. In its shades of meaning, it saw the people as a social organism, rather than as an ethnic community. ‘People’ referred to the many. It described the social commitment with which a good community was supposed to be built. An inquiry into Reichstag, and the German parliament and incidents and rebellions surrounding it concludes this article.

scholarly journals Value Management Integration for Whole Life Cycle: Post COVID-19 Strategy for the UK Construction Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9274
Author(s):  
Kieran Bennett ◽  
Mohammad Mayouf
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Value Management ◽  
Cost Cutting ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Value management (VM) and its integration in the whole life cycle (WLC) have become huge concepts for construction projects to provide additional value of an asset for the end user or client. However, the role of VM and its integration as part of the WLC in a construction project remain reactive, and highly impacted by nature of the project, and this has become more challenging with the epidemic impact of COVID-19. This research aims to investigate the mechanisms that delivers value management as part of the “re-invent” strategy proposed by the Construction Leadership Council in the UK government to improve WLC for buildings. In addition to existing secondary data from the literature, primary data were attained using a focus group with six quantity surveyors from different cost consultancies in the UK to gather qualitative evidence using their experiences, perceptions, and key challenges they face when integrating VM. Findings revealed that value management is primarily being used as a cost-cutting tool, the majority of quantity surveyors lack knowledge of what it encompasses, hence the industry needs a more proactive strategy towards it. Analysis revealed that value management is primarily implemented as a cost-cutting solution, key stakeholders (e.g., facility managers) need to be integrated, and there is no standardised process to incorporate value management in projects. The study proposes a four-dimensional (governance and policies, sustainability, industry’s best practice, and innovation and technology) strategy to facilitate more holistic considerations of value management post COVID-19. Future work looks into evaluating the strategy proposed while acknowledging different procurement routes.

scholarly journals Aerospace and Ergonomic Methods for Ear Anthropometry Supported by Bulgarian Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1699-1703 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Roebuck
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
English Language ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Section Plane ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
New Approach ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Aircraft Motion ◽  
Width Measurements ◽  
The Many

Translation into English has recently been completed for excerpts on ear and craniofacial anthropometry from an innovative, unpublished Bulgarian-language doctoral thesis written in 1986 by a plastic surgeon, M. M. Madzharov, MD-PhD; MD-SC. Most remarkable among the many benefits of the translation was revelation of heretofore unavailable text descriptions for 49 dimensions. Of these, 43 explain the titles and abbreviations with summary statistical data on ear measurements for young adults that were published in 1989 in the English language. Especially valuable among these data were four new and unique, long-axial ear lengths, all measured from a common ear landmark. These could locate “station planes” for cross-section views of human ears, similar to those for 3-D coordinate systems in aircraft and spacecraft fuselage engineering. Examples explaining the concepts and values of such a new approach to ear anthropometry are herein introduced, described and illustrated, together with previously recommended improvements in ear anthropometry notation and illustration, a virtual Ear Primary View Plane, a section plane through the ear long axis, newly introduced “semi-width” measurements extending perpendicular to the aforementioned section plane, new concepts of “view depths,” which are measured perpendicularly from the Ear Primary View Plane toward ear surfaces and a previously described three-axis aircraft motion analogy for defining static ear orientation. These innovative approaches are advocated for adoption by future researchers, designers of related hardware, modelers and standards developers.

scholarly journals Análise da aplicação da técnica de gerenciamento do valor agregado (EVM) em projetos de construção enxuta

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 947
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Cândido ◽  
Juliana Quinderé Carneiro ◽  
Luiz Fernando Mählmann Heineck
Keyword(s):  
Value Management ◽  
Earned Value ◽  
Earned Value Management ◽  
Value Analysis ◽  
Earned Value Analysis

O Gerenciamento do Valor Agregado (Earned Value Management, EVM) ou a Análise do Valor Agregado (Earned Value Analysis, EVA) é uma técnica de medição e controle de projetos baseada na medição física, financeira e de tempo que proporciona indicadores de avanço real, variações de desempenho e previsões para conclusão do projeto. Entretanto, vários trabalhos científicos vêm descrevendo alguns problemas e limitações dessa técnica como a desconsideração dos fluxos de trabalho e a incompatibilidade de previsões em estágios iniciais de construção. Assim, por meio de um estudo de caso único, exploratório e descritivo, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o uso da técnica do EVM em um projeto de construção sob a ótica da Construção Enxuta. O estudo pode confirmar alguns problemas levantados em outros trabalhos, bem como expandi-los, proporcionando uma visão mais holística sobre a aplicabilidade dessa técnica na construção civil, especialmente em obras cuja construção enxuta é aplicada. Por fim, os autores concluem que a técnica do EVM é uma repetição da técnica de medição físico-financeira plotada no tempo e que suas limitações podem tornar o seu uso incompatível com projetos de construção.

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