...1. Review the history of Alphatec from 1989 through 1996. What was Charn Uswachoke’s long term business strategy for Alphatec? Do you think it was a well-founded strategy? -He wanted Alphatec to provide fully integrated turnkey Integrated circuit packaging and testing services at competitive rates and high quality. -They hoped to develop long-term strategic relationships with leading semiconductor manufacturers -Wanted to capitalize on two trends: subcontracting of packing and testing, attractiveness of Southeast Asia due to their low operating costs and heavy concentration of tech manufacturing in the area. 2. How was the Alphatec group structured as of 1996? What was the scope of its businesses and what was its financial condition? How well-governed was this business from the viewpoint of public company shareholders? 3. How did Charn react to the growing financial troubles at Alphatec? What steps did Alphatec’s board of directors take? 4. Besides negotiating with creditors, what kinds of problems did the new top management team of Mollerstuen and de Vries encounter in running the distressed company? 5. Why were Mollerstuen and de Vries so persistent in trying to keep Alphatec from liquidating? 6. As of late 1997 Alphatec was clearly unsound from a financial standpoint. Was it also unsound from an economic standpoint. That is, given appropriate financing, could the company return to profitability after reorganization? 7. How does the Thai bankruptcy...
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...INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TRAINING PROPOSAL Table of Contents L;l;COMPANY PROFILE i ABOUT IAT ii Our Mission ii Training Methodology ii Infrastructure ii Accreditations & Collaborations ii Partial List Of Clients iii Government Ministries iii Donor Agencies iii Private Sector Industries iv Parastatals iv Non-Governmental Organizations iv COURSE COVERAGE 1 WINDOWS 3.11 1 PROFICIENCY IN WORD 1 INTERMEDIATE WORD 1 PROFICIENCY IN EXCEL 2 INTERMEDIATE EXCEL 2 L;l;COMPANY PROFILE IAT is a Kenyan Information Technology training & constancy organisation whose sole mission is to provide effective advice, training and innovative services to promote the productive use of Information Technology in East Africa. The Institute's 18 classrooms have been well-equipped to create a spacious, modern learning environment. The use of classroom discussions, visual aids and private consultations with the course instructors, is geared towards developing a high degree of retention of the core concepts. We are also happy to conduct in-house training on special requests at client premises provided the client allocates a suitable training room with adequate training facilities. IAT is proud to have been selected by Microsoft Corporation (the world's largest software supplier) to deliver training in the use of Microsoft products in Kenya. To qualify as a Microsoft Authorised Training Centre, the institute must satisfy stringent criteria relating...
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...accommodation, tours, activities, events, etc. Some AVICs also make bookings. AVICs are “accredited” centres, identified by an italic “i”. B B&B Bed and breakfast facility; usually not more than six rooms. Benchmarking Comparing results with similar tourism businesses or assessing the business against an industry average. ANR Arrival notification report used by wholesale agents. BEC Business Enterprise Centre. APEX Airlines advanced purchase fare. BLIS Business Licence Information Service. ATE Australian Tourism Exchange. ATE is Australia’s largest international tourism trade show for inbound operators and overseas wholesalers; coordinated by Tourism Australia. Block booking Hotel rooms held without deposit for regular group travel. ATEC Australian Tourism Export Council, formerly known as ITOA. ATLAS Computer/reservation system used by some travel agents. ATO Australian Tax Office Attendance building Marketing and promotional programs designed to increase attendance at conventions, trade shows, meetings, and events. Attraction A man-made or natural facility, location or activity that offers an item or items of specific interest. Availability Dates available for booking a tourism product....
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...SEMINAR REPORT ON (ASP) [pic] COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY GB PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRIL & TECHNOLOGY SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY: PROF. PRABHAKAR SHILPI GUPTA COMPUTER ENGG.DEPTT. ID NO. 27882 CP-1 CONTENTS TOPIC PAGE NO. 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. EVOLUTION OF ASP 3 3. SERVER-SIDE SCRIPTS –SYNTAX 4 4. FEATURES OF ASP 4 5. ADVANTAGES OF USING ASP 6 6. WHAT YOU NEED TO...
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...An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Austin T. Clements, Yandong Mao, Aleksey Pesterev, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris, and Nickolai Zeldovich MIT CSAIL A BSTRACT This paper analyzes the scalability of seven system applications (Exim, memcached, Apache, PostgreSQL, gmake, Psearchy, and MapReduce) running on Linux on a 48core computer. Except for gmake, all applications trigger scalability bottlenecks inside a recent Linux kernel. Using mostly standard parallel programming techniques— this paper introduces one new technique, sloppy counters—these bottlenecks can be removed from the kernel or avoided by changing the applications slightly. Modifying the kernel required in total 3002 lines of code changes. A speculative conclusion from this analysis is that there is no scalability reason to give up on traditional operating system organizations just yet. but the other applications scale poorly, performing much less work per core with 48 cores than with one core. We attempt to understand and fix the scalability problems, by modifying either the applications or the Linux kernel. We then iterate, since fixing one scalability problem usually exposes further ones. The end result for each application is either good scalability on 48 cores, or attribution of non-scalability to a hard-to-fix problem with the application, the Linux kernel, or the underlying hardware. The analysis of whether the kernel design is compatible with scaling rests on the extent to which...
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...Review of consumer protection measures in the travel and travel related services market in Australia including the role of the Travel Compensation Fund Submission by Australian Federation of Travel Agents April 2010 Contact Mr Jayson Westbury Chief Executive Officer, AFTA 309 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000 T: 02 9287 9900 E: afta@afta.com.au Without a travel agent, you are on your own AFTA submission to Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs Review of consumer protection measures in the travel and travel-related services market including the role of the Travel Compensation Fund Page 2 AFTA submission to Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs Review of consumer protection measures in the travel and travel-related services market including the role of the Travel Compensation Fund Who is AFTA? The Australian Federation of Travel Agents Ltd (AFTA) was founded in 1957 to: establish professional standards for travel agents; stimulate, encourage and promote travel; bring together those acting as intermediaries in the distribution of travel services; and build strong working relationships with suppliers and consumers of travel related services. AFTA represents approximately 70% of Australia’s travel intermediaries that control more than 90% of travel intermediary turnover. It also has a substantial base of associate members, representing non-intermediary sectors of the travel related services industry. Members are bound by AFTA’s Code of Ethics. AFTA represents...
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...Understanding the Implications of Online Learning for Educational Productivity U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology Prepared by: Marianne Bakia Linda Shear Yukie Toyama Austin Lasseter Center for Technology in Learning SRI International January 2012 This report was prepared for the U.S. Department of Education under Contract number ED01-CO-0040 Task 0010 with SRI International. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Department of Education. No official endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education is intended or should be inferred. U.S. Department of Education Arne Duncan Secretary Office of Educational Technology Karen Cator Director January 2012 This report is in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce this report in whole or in part is granted. While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, the suggested citation is: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, Understanding the Implications of Online Learning for Educational Productivity, Washington, D.C., 2012. This report is available on the Department’s Web site at http://www.ed.gov/technology On request, this publication is available in alternate formats, such as Braille, large print, or computer diskette. For more information, please contact the Department’s Alternate Format Center at (202) 260-0852 or (202) 260-0818. Technical Contact: Bernadette Adams Senior Policy Analyst Office...
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...Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality By the same author Britain – Workshop or Service Centre to the World? The British Hotel and Catering Industry The Business of Hotels (with H. Ingram) Europeans on Holiday Higher Education and Research in Tourism in Western Europe Historical Development of Tourism (with A.J. Burkart) Holiday Surveys Examined The Management of Tourism (with A.J. Burkart eds) Managing Tourism (ed.) A Manual of Hotel Reception (with J.R.S. Beavis) Paying Guests Profile of the Hotel and Catering Industry (with D.W. Airey) Tourism and Hospitality in the 21st Century (with A. Lockwood eds) Tourism and Productivity Tourism Council of the South Pacific Corporate Plan Tourism Employment in Wales Tourism: Past, Present and Future (with A.J. Burkart) Trends in Tourism: World Experience and England’s Prospects Trends in World Tourism Understanding Tourism Your Manpower (with J. Denton) Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality S. Medlik Third edition OXFORD AMSTERDAM BOSTON LONDON NEW YORK PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann An imprint of Elsevier Science Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803 First published 1993 Reprinted (with amendments) 1994 Second edition 1996 Third edition 2003 Copyright © 1993, 1996, 2003, S. Medlik. All rights reserved The right of S. Medlik to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted...
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