The need for continuous improvement within a value stream is very necessary in today's business environment and can be one of the key sources of competitive advantage. As a company learns and implements the tools and practices of a Lean system, the underlying management and leadership methods

The land readjustment method of land assembly has an extensive international history, but is virtually unknown to professional planners and real estate developers in the United States. Its potential benefits are many. It promises to produce efficient development patterns, maximize value creation

by their objectives. REITs that shun development add value for shareholders through the active management of property holdings, whereas REIT-developers adopt strategies that are focused on creating and adding value through real estate development. Additionally, some of the strategies adopted by development-

in normal earth gravity (one-g) and zero-gravity (zero-g). This information is of value for the assessment of flammability hazards of materials used in spacecraft construction, evaluating the effectiveness of spacecraft fire suppression systems, and improving our knowledge of some inadequately understood

Value Stream Mapping of the Singapore operations of a multi-national food products packaging company was carried out with the objective of streamlining production in accordance with the World Class Manufacturing philosophy. An opportunity for reduction in WIP and lead time was identified

to deploy large contingents of peacekeepers to some missions and smaller numbers or none to others. The thesis posits that China's personnel contributions will be higher in peace operations taking place in states that have a high strategic value to China. That is, the peace operation host state

is the highest achieved value for concentrated solar thermoelectrics and it is comparable to photovoltaic modules that are deployed in these rural communities. Based on a heat

in two notable ways. First, Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) has received increased attention due to the positive value that EOR storage puts on CO2. Second, the EPA has proposed a 1000 lbs CO2/MWh emission standard that would

-conditioning control system, focused around the individual, which remedies these inefficiencies through the creation of personalized environments. To date, the measurement of thermal preference has been limited to either a complex set of sensors attempting to determine a Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) value, or to direct

to the region immediately below the compression ring. Analysis of the SO2 data revealed considerable variability in oil consumption values for the three engine