In this better, faster, and cheaper era, project managers face many challenges in their attempts to perform effective project management. Too many projects suffer because the cost, schedule and performance goals are unachievable. Unrealistic cost, schedule, and performance estimates and a failure to quantify and communicate the uncertainty of these estimates to managers and stakeholders often results in project failure. A systematic risk identification approach using expert judgment coupled with a risk quantification method has utility in project planning and control. Cost, schedule, and performance are regarded as the "magical" combination that is continuously reviewed by project managers. These three factors form the basis for project...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Gaia is a U.S. non-governmental, non-profit organization involved in the creation of a commercially viable household market for alcohol-based fuels in Ethiopia and other countries in the developing world. The project considers alcohol fuels to be a solution to fuel shortages, environmental damage, and public health issues caused by traditional cooking in the developing world. Targeting poor and marginalized communities that face health issues from cooking over polluting fires, Gaia currently works in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Brazil, Haiti, and Madagascar, and is in the planning stage of projects in several...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Camelot was a social science research project of the United States Army in 1964. The goal of the project was to assess the causes of violent social rebellion and to identify the actions a government could take to prevent its own overthrow. The proposal caused much controversy among social scientists, many of whom voiced concerns that such a study would end up misusing social scientific research to crush down revolutionary movements. Chile was to be the test case for the project, but the Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who had been invited to be a contributor, worked hard to alert Chilean and US...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Abakan Trials was a Russian advanced assault rifle programme in rival to the US Advanced Combat Rifle that took place between 1980 to 1994. The 1960s ushered a new generation of assault rifles with the introduction of smaller calibres. U.S. military analysis of combat during the Second World War showed that volume of fire at shorter ranges were more significant than long range accuracy. They decided that a smaller calibre would be more effective in most conditions, because the soldier could carry more ammunition. In 1963 NATO duly adopted the smaller 5.56x45mm to replace the larger 7.62x51mm. In 1974 the...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Pluto was a United States government program to develop nuclear powered ramjet engines for use in cruise missiles. Two experimental engines were tested at the United States Department of Energy Nevada Test Site (NTS) in 1961 and 1964. On January 1, 1957, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission selected the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) predecessor, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, to study the feasibility of applying heat from nuclear reactors to ramjet engines. This research became known as "Project Pluto". The work was directed by Dr. Ted Merkle, leader of the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Project Morpheus is developing vertical take off and landing test bed vehicles. The vehicles are NASA designed robotic landers that will be able to land 1,100 pounds (500 kg) of cargo on the Moon.
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Daniel was a 2003 Israeli project, commissioned to assess the threat to the nation of Israel from other states in the Middle East, drawing particular attention to Iran, with Iran's nuclear program in mind. It was prepared by a high-powered team of Israeli foreign policy and military experts. The report was submitted to Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, and was discussed between Israel, the United States, and NATO. It surmised that the "principal existential threat to Israel at the present time is a conventional war mounted against it by a coalition of Arab states and/or Iran". The six members of the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project HARP, short for High Altitude Research Project, was a joint project of the United States Department of Defense and Canada's Department of National Defence created with the goal of studying ballistics of re-entry vehicles at low cost; whereas most such projects used expensive (and failure-prone) rockets, HARP used a non-rocket spacelaunch method based on a very large gun to fire the models to high altitudes and speeds. Started in 1961, it was created largely due to lobbying from Gerald Bull, a controversial but highly successful ballistics engineer who went on to head the project. Bull had developed the...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Babylon was a project commissioned by the Iraqi president Saddam Hussein to build a series of superguns. The design was based on research from the 1960s Project HARP led by the Canadian artillery expert Gerald Bull. Although the details are sketchy, it appears that there were four different devices in total included in the program. The project ran from 1988 and was supposedly halted in 1990 after Gerald Bull was assassinated and parts of the superguns were seized in transit around Europe. The remaining components in Iraq were destroyed by the United Nations after the 1991 Gulf War. The first, "Baby...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Rover was the name of the United States program to develop the technology to build a nuclear thermal rocket. It took place at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1955 through 1972. The program jointly involved the Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission, and NASA, and it was managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office. Nuclear reactors for the Rover program were built at the Lab's Technical Area 18 (TA-18), also known as Pajarito Site. The reactors were tested at very low power and subsequently shipped to Jackass Flats at the Nevada Test Site. Testing of fuel elements and other materials...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Projectional radiography or plain film radiography is the practice of producing two-dimensional images using x-ray radiation. Radiographic exams are typically performed by Radiologic Technologists, highly trained medical professionals who specialize in the usage of radiographic equipment, patient care, and radiation safety. Projectional radiography is the cornerstone of modern medical imaging, and can be used to image almost every part of the human body. Mammography and Dental radiography are also considered to be specialized variants of projectional radiography. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project 112 was a biological and chemical weapons experimentation project conducted by the US Army from 1962 to 1973. The project started under John F. Kennedy's administration, and was authorized by his Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, as part of a total review of the US military. The name of the project refers to its number in the review process. Every branch of the armed services contributed funding and staff to the project. Experiments were planned and conducted by the Deseret Test Center and Deseret Chemical Depot at Fort Douglas, Utah. They were designed to test the effects of biological weapons and...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Danny was a World War II plan for United States Marine Corps F4U Corsair fighter aircraft to attack German V-1 flying bomb launch sites in northern France. Although the squadrons had been trained at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and were loading onto their escort carriers for the trip to the North Atlantic, the operation was canceled before departing for the European Theatre of World War II. Extensive land-based Combined Bomber Offensive bombings of German targets had begun in June 1943, followed by Operation Crossbow attacks on German long range weapon facilities in August 1943 and V-1 launch...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project MINARET was a sister project to Project SHAMROCK operated by the NSA, which, after intercepting electronic communications that contained the names of predesignated US citizens, passed them to other government law enforcement and intelligence organizations. Intercepted messages were disseminated to the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD), and the Department of Defense. The names were on "watch lists" of American citizens, generated by Executive Branch law enforcement and intelligence agencies, to detect communications involving the listed individuals. There was no...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Sabre II Project was a project for the development of a joint fighter by China, Pakistan and the Grumman Aerospace Corporation in the late 1980s based on the Chinese F-7 fighter (MiG-21 derivative), which was abandoned in 1990 when Grumman pulled out after the Tiananmen Square protests in China in 1989. In 1984 the latest export version of the Chengdu F-7, an extensively upgraded form of the F-7B incorporating various Western systems and designated F-7M Airguard, was released. Pakistan was interested in developing and manufacturing an improved version of the F-7M to replace its large fleet of Shenyang F-6...
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The Lunar Evolutionary Growth-Optimized (LEGO) Reactor Reactor is a modular, fast-fission, heatpipe- cooled, clustered-reactor system for lunar-surface power generation. The reactor is divided into subcritical units that can be safely launched within lunar shipments from the Earth, and then emplaced directly into holes drilled into the lunar regolith to form a critical reactor assembly. The regolith not only would just provide radiation shielding, but also would serve as neutron-reflector material. The reactor subunits are to be manufactured using proven and tested materials for use in radiation environments, such as uranium-dioxide fuel, stainless-steel cladding and structural support, and liquid-sodium heatpipes. The LEGO Reactor...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project National Glory or Project Guoguang was a military attempt by the Kuomintang-led Republic of China to try to recapture mainland China held by the People's Republic of China (PRC). The missions began in 1965. After many failures, the project was dropped in July 1972. After the PRC's disastrous Great Leap Forward, the outbreak of Vietnam war and the prospect of China having a nuclear weapon, Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek launched planning for a counterattack to recover mainland China. On April 1, 1961 the Project National Glory office was established by the Republic of China armed forces in...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Alberta was a section of the Manhattan Project which developed the means of delivering the first atomic bombs, used by the United States Army Air Forces against the Empire of Japan during World War II. Also known as Project A, the mission of Project Alberta was three-fold: (1) design a bomb shape for delivery by airplane, then procure and assemble it; (2) continue the testing work of Army Air Force Projects W-47 (ballistic testing of atomic bomb design) and Silverplate (modification of B-29s to perform the mission); and (3) train aircrews and ordnance crews in preparation for deployment overseas. Project...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project IC is the name used in Malaysia to describe the allegation of systematic granting of citizenship to immigrants (whether illegal or legal immigrants) by giving them identity documents known as IC (identity card), and subsequently, MyKad. The alleged practice is centered in the state of Sabah in East Malaysia. The term is used mainly by the media as well as other political commentators and the general public. Another term used is Project M, where "M" stood for Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia due to his being allegedly involved in the spearheading of this project. The alleged object...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project ARTEMIS was a project undertaken by the United States Navy in the 1960s, which produced a Low Frequency Active Sonar system that could detect submarines at long range. Robert A. Frosch, in his capacity as Technical Director of Hudson Laboratories (Columbia University) was TD of the project. Dr. Frosch later went on to be the 5th administrator of NASA. The project was named in honor of Frederick Vinton Hunt. Since Artemis is the god of the hunt, the name of the project is in deference to F.V. Hunt who proposed the idea in 1951. The active array was deployed from a ship, but only as a platform of...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Jefferson was a covert U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency program designed to determine if the current anthrax vaccine was effective against genetically-modified bacteria. The program's legal status under the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention is disputed. The secret Project Jefferson was revealed to the public in a September 4, 2001 article in The New York Times. Reporters Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William J. Broad collaborated to write the article. It is presumed that the reporters had knowledge of the program for at least several months; shortly after the article appeared they published a...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Coast was a top-secret chemical and biological weapons (CBW) program instituted by the South African government during the apartheid era. Project Coast was the successor to a limited post-war CBW program which mainly produced the lethal agents CX powder and mustard gas; as well as non-lethal tear gas for riot control purposes. Project Coast was headed by Wouter Basson, a cardiologist who was the personal physician of the then South African Prime Minister PW Botha. In the late 1970s, South Africa became increasingly involved in Angola in operations against Soviet-backed SWAPO, Cuban and Angolan troops. A...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Project Genie was a computer research project started in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley by J.C.R. Licklider, the head of DARPA at that time. The project was a smaller counterpart to MIT's Project MAC. Project Genie pioneered several computer hardware techniques, such as commercial time-sharing which allowed end-user programming in machine language, separate protected user modes, memory paging, and protected memory. Concepts from Project Genie influenced the development of the TENEX operating system for the PDP-10 and Unix (Unix co-creator Ken Thompson worked on an SDS 940 while at Berkeley). The...
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