...several years due to its long-legged grace and unique coat of African Serval. Preview: Today, I would like to tell you a little bit more about Savannah cats. First, I will give you a brief history on how and when Savannah breed was introduced. Then I will tell you about the key characteristics of Savannah cat, and, lastly, I will give you some details on where and for how much you can buy a Savannah cat. Main Points: Transition 1: So now I will start with the brief history of Savannah cats. According to Steve Clark, the author of “The owners guide to proper care and training of Savannah Cats”, Judy Frank is recognized as the individual who introduced the first Savannah kittens to the world. * April 7, 1986 – The first litter of hybrid kittens born. * Patrick Kelly bought one of the kittens in 1989. * Partnership with Joyce Sroufe to get TICA recognition * Joyce Sroufe – first person to show a Savannah to the public. New York cat show, 1997 * Acceptance for registration with TICA in 2001. * Championship status – January 29,2012 Transition 2: So next I will talk about the key characteristic of Savannah cats. * 5 main generations – refers to how close the Savannah is to its Serval ancestor * F1,F2,F3 - high Serval percent, should not be considered as pets...
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...4 Advanced Automobile Concepts Case Objective This case item requires students to identify the proper associative analysis, run it with SPSS, and interpret the findings with respect to implications for integrated case, Advanced Automobile Concepts SPSS dataset. Answers to Case Questions 1. Use each unique hybrid model demographic profile to determine whether or not statistically significant associations exist, and if they do, recommend the specific media vehicles for radio, newspaper, television, and magazines. This exercise requires students to revisit the demographic groups they found significantly different for each hybrid model style in Case 17.3. With Case 17.3, they have identified groups within the various demographic variables that characterize each hybrid model’s target market. Here, they must determine the media preferences of those groups. So, they must run crosstabs for the demographic variables and the media preferences for each vehicle. If they find a statistically significant association, they then must look at the percentages tables to determine the media vehicles that are preferred by the hybrid model target groups. Since each hybrid model has a different set of target demographic groups, we only report the significant crosstabulations. Also, the SPSS output is too large to include here, so we have created column percentage tables and used bold font to identify the preferences of each group. For radio, the significant (95% level of confidence)...
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... Hybridization • Hybridization: mating between different species or two genetically distinct populations that produces offspring, regardless of fertility of offspring Golden- and Blue-Winged Warblers Golden wingedwarbler Blue wingedwarbler Hybrid (Brewster’s Warbler) Golden- and Blue-Winged Warblers Introgression • Introgression: the incorporation of genes from one population or species to another through hybridization that results in fertile offspring that further hybridize with parental populations or species (“backcross” ) • Over several generations, introgression can result in a complex mixture of parental genes, while in simple hybridization 50% of genes will come from each of the two parental species. • Without introgression, the parental species or populations are not “contaminated” by hybridization Levels of Hybridization Population or Species A Population or Species B F1 Hybrid Backcross (1st generation) Introgression F2 Hybrid (2nd generation) Backcross Hybrid Zones • Hybrid zones are often observed in nature… Species A Species B Hybrid Zone • How are hybrid zones maintained? – Hybrids may be less fit than parental taxa and selected against, but dispersal into the zone maintains a narrow band of F1’s – Hybrids may be more fit than parental taxa in habitats that are intermediate to parental taxas’ native habitat Hybridization and Conservation • Human-caused habitat changes have resulted in distribution changes and expansions for many species • Species...
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...Organism Physiology Paper Tigers are the biggest of cats and arguably the deadliest of land predators. Solitary animals, an existence of unmatched superiority is shown in their every stride. Living in forested areas, they have adapted to hunt large animals by virtue of their size, power, and stealth among many other attributes. Hunting from birth Like all other cats, tigers show hunting behaviors early on in playing and interacting with their environment. Even the simple action of a kitten batting at a string displays the natural hunting skills of all cats. All cats also practice stealth in sneaking up on potential targets and pouncing from short distances. The difference with tigers is their incredible size and power even early on in development. Size Evolutionarily speaking, a bigger cat will be more successful in taking down a large animal like a buffalo then will a smaller cat. Natural selection has produced a very powerful animal that can reach a weight of 660 lbs. and a length of 10.9 feet (Sea World, 2012). Tigers can run up to 35 miles per hour, leap up to 20 feet horizontally, and up to 6 feet vertically (Tiger Territory, 2001, Gigantic Leaps). Coupled with sharp teeth and claws, there is no disputing the killing potential in this deadly creature. But often overlooked are the other tools at the Tigers disposal. Senses In the category of senses, a tiger does not differ much from an ordinary house cat. Heightened hearing, smell, and a visual advantage are all traits...
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...through critical management tasks. These performance measures include productivity, capacity, quality, speed of delivery, flexibility, and process velocity. Process analysis can be defined by several important characteristics of processes. Most processes use process flowcharting to represent major elements of a process that include tasks or operations, flows of materials or customers, decision points, and storage areas. Process flowcharting is the ideal methodology to begin analyzing a process. There are many types of process that a manager can use in order to gauge their organization’s performance. The hybrid process is the most common encountered today which consist of multiple stages to produce required goods and services. Within this multistage process many different types of processes can exist at each stage which is why this is a hybrid process. Process analysis can be multiple-stage processes organizations use to measure performance. Multistage processes buffers or storage areas exist between manufacturing activities. Other types of processes are The Make-to-Stock versus Make-to-Order process and the Modularization process. The Make-to-Stock versus Make-to-Order process is only activated in response to an actual order or to meet an expected or forecast demand. These...
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...in the professions of your interest. Assignment: To interview for information two different people working in careers you like. Next, write a hybrid-essay and thank you letter for each interview. Directions for preparing, interviewing and writing your hybrid essay and thank you letter are listed in A - F. Read pages 75-77 in Magical Quest for an overview about informational interviews. The due dates for each interview are listed in your Course Assignments document. NOTE: Interviews with immediate family members, bosses at work, or other non-serious options will not be accepted. The career of the person you select should be a strong possibility and with an income of at least 40K per year. Also the interview needs to be completed in person (not through the internet). A. Complete these steps for your assignment: 1. Interview someone in a career you might like. Choose a career you are really interested in, not someone who will just be easy to find and that you’re not so interested in. You will complete a total of two interviews with two different people. 2. Conduct the interview at the place of employment. 3. For each interview prepare a hybrid essay and thank you letter using the directions listed for the hybrid essay under C. 4. Send your thank you letter to your interviewee (for each interview). 5. Submit your hybrid essay and thank you letter in a Word document by each due date. B. Ask these questions when conducting your interview: 1. What are your job...
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...Under the functional structure, the organization is in more of a "team" structure. For example, the company would be structured into departments such as the finance department or compliance department. This type of structure is great for those companies that are smaller in size, perhaps less than 100 employees because it relies heavily on the knowledge of all employees (Writing, 2012). With that said, sometimes having a functional structure will keep departments from communicating with the other departments because each team has a specific function. Companies with a functional structure may find themselves spending time working with the employees to “drop the communicative walls”. Medtronic, a pharmaceutical company, for example, uses a functional structure combined with a top-down approach (Kimes, 2009). In a product structure, the company is divided based on the product that the division is producing. For example, a company that produces cars may have an engine division and a transmission division because it is product-based. While the product segmentation has similar drawbacks to the functional structure, there are significantly more restrictions. A company in a product type set up is not leveraging their employees in the fullest extent; think of this as a company with “walls” up, the employees do not leave their division or “walls”; therefore, they are not taking advantage of all the employees’ knowledge. 3M – another pharmaceutical company – is product based company...
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...Case Study 2: Types and Patterns of Innovation Honda and Hybrid, Electric Vehicles Honda was founded in Hamamatsu, Japan, by Soichiro Honda in 1946 as the Honda Technical Research Institute. The company began as a developer of engines for bicycles, but by 1949 it had produced its first motorcycle, called the Dream. In 1959, Honda entered the U.S. automobile and motorcycle market by opening the American Honda Motor Company. A few years later, in 1963, Honda released its first sports car, the S500, in Japan. Honda Motor Co. Inc. grew rapidly to become one of the largest automobile companies in the world. Its "glocalisation" strategy of building factories around the world that would meet the needs of local customers had resulted in a total worldwide presence of more than 100 factories in 33 countries. Furthermore, while other auto manufacturers engaged in a frenzy of merger and acquisition activities in the late 1990s, Honda steadfastly maintained its independence. Honda has grown into one of the world's largest automobile manufacturers and has also evolved into one of the most respected global brands. In 1997, Honda Motor Company introduced to Japan a two-door gas/electric hybrid vehicle called the Insight. The Insight's fuel efficiency was rated at 61 miles per gallon in the city, and 68 miles per gallon on the highway, and its battery did not need to be plugged into an electrical outlet for recharging. By 1999, Honda was selling the Insight in the United States...
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...MARKETING PLAN -2012 UK’s Auto Market – Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Version KAYODE OMOSEBI: A4032655 MBA – 8A 18-08-2011 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 CADILLAC: A BRIEF INSIGHT 2 MARKET SUMMARY 3 MARKET TREND IN THE PREMIUM AUTOMOBILE MARKET 4 CONSUMER MARKET 4 MARKETING RESEARCH 6 BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 6 PESTEL Analysis 6 SWOT ANALYSIS 9 MISSION, DIRECTION AND OBJECTIVES 11 TARGETING AND POSITIONING DECISION 12 MARKETING MIX 12 PROMOTION / MARKETING COMMUNICATION 14 CUSTOMER SERVICE AND INTERNAL MARKETING 16 FORECASTS AND FINANCIAL DETAILS 16 IMPLEMENTATION AND CONTROL 17 REFERENCES…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18 APPENDICES…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….19 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cadillac Escalade Hybrid SUV is the new product of the Cadillac Company which is a sub-division of the General Motors group. General Motors group plans to market this premium and luxury product to UK auto market and, later, to other European auto market. However, luxury and premium auto-makers with well-respected brands can potentially earn higher profit margin by targeting a specific market segment. Our targets are four consumer segments at the high end of the affordable personal/family auto market, enhancing our positioning with luxury brand, hybrid version and advanced technologies. Our financial objective relates to first-year turnover in the UK market, a minimum level of sales per unit, achieving a break-even within three...
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...India has millions of people to house, power grids to expand and factories to fuel. They all involve hydrocarbons. How, then, is a developing economy to grow sustainably? One answer may lie in a small electric car. The advantages of electric cars are multiple and compelling. Instant torque for good initial acceleration, quiet operation, low local pollution, and ease of operation (Reva -a car with automatic gear shift)are among their many compelling virtues. The principal advantage for everyone in adopting electric cars is virtually eliminating urban air pollution. The civil advantages of electrics were recognized early. Thomas Edison created a pretty good nickel-iron battery a hundred years ago, and his good friend Henry Ford was on record as planning to make inexpensive and practical electric cars as early as 1915. It didn’t happen because the Edison battery was not quite good enough to allow electrics to prevail over the clear advantages of gasoline engines then. Today’s battery technology is vastly better, and advancing rapidly. A wide variety of efficient, lightweight electric...
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...history to it. Japan itself also has a wide and unique culture but however won’t be discussed in here. SWOT analysis This report is going to talk about the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats of the company Mitsubishi motor band name , High market share internationally and Huge portfolio Strengths Brand name: Mitsubishi, being an international company has built a famous made and also a trustworthy name. High market share internationally: Mitsubishi holds a huge amount of market share compared to other companies due to their quality yet low priced products and thus widely affordable. Huge portfolio: Mitsubishi has a huge range of products and thus is able to provide income even if one product fails. Weaknesses Past record: Mitsubishi had a recall of vehicles in 2012 due to faulty oil seal, this caused their reputation along with a decrease of trust from their customers. (BBC News, 2012) Natural disaster: Japan is prone to earthquakes and so when such disaster happens, the factories along with the economy will be affected and thus sales along with production will drop. (J. Mark Ramseyer, 2011) Opportunity Foreign market: China has been developing very fast and has a high demand of transportation vehicles and...
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...FRANK T. ROTHAERMEL DAVID R. KING Tesla Motors, Inc. January 1, 2015. Elon Musk, chief executive officer (CEO) of Tesla is taking it easy on this New Year’s Day. While having his coffee, he scrolls through some recent issues of The Wall Street Journal on his iPad. A headline from one current story jumps out at him, “Gasoline prices have declined for 88 consecutive days, the longest streak of falling prices on record.”1 The slide in gas prices, which began in September 2014, also happened to coincide with the slide in Tesla Motors (TSLA) stock. With increasing oil, and therefore gas, prices, people had an incentive for purchasing electric cars. Now with gas prices drop- ping, the incentive to buy would start to become less of one, and the demand for the product would probably drop. This was one of the challenges facing Musk on this New Year’s Day. In addition to hav- ing to contend with lower selling costs due to rising production, Tesla was also confronting increasing competition and economic headwinds that were likely going to lower the demand for electric cars. Musk is a serial entrepreneur longing to leave a legacy, and he believes that Tesla just might be the company that will help him leave his mark. He has a large profile already and has been described as “Henry Ford and Robert Oppenheimer in one person,” as well as “Tony Stark, the eccentric inventor better known as Iron Man.”2, 3 (In fact, Musk made a cameo appearance in Iron Man 2.) But, with sev- eral pressing...
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...Indian J. Genet., 69(4) (Spl. issue): 352-360 (2009) Analysis of diversity among cytoplasmic male sterile sources and their utilization in developing F1 hybrids in Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (R.) Br] C. Tara Satyavathi*, Sakkira Begum, B. B. Singh, K. V. Unnikrishnan and C. Bharadwaj Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012 Abstract The present study aims at analysis of diversity among parental lines of different cytoplasmic sources and their utilization in developing F1 hybrids. Seven male sterile cytoplasmic lines belonging to A1 – 3; A4 – 2 and A5 – 2 were crossed with three elite restorers. The cluster analysis done with molecular data obtained from genomic DNA using SSR markers grouped the parental lines belonging to A1 cytoplasm into one cluster, A4 into one and A5 into the other. The assessment of the performance of the F1 hybrids was done through standard heterosis, heterobeltiosis and economic heterosis. The study clearly indicated that all the seven cytoplasmic male sterile lines coming from different cytoplasmic sources are capable of producing new superior hybrids. Physiological characters like chlorophyll, relative carotenoids and root length density have also been studied to assess the performance of parents and F1 hybrids. Higher economic heterosis was observed for yield in A 1 cytoplasm compared to A4 and A5 cytoplasms. Desirable effects of earliness and maturity can be obtained using A4 cytoplasm while desirable...
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...America is one of the biggest automobile markets in the world. This trend has also created awareness for environmentalist to bring attention to rising level of pollution and emission within the cities and metropolis. As response, the U.S. Government is encouraging the automobile manufacturers to produce clean and renewable alternative vehicles that will drastically reduce pollution and emission. Subsequently, the automobile industry has witnessed a gradual introduction of environmental friendly vehicles that use clean and renewable energy to encourage less pollution and safer environment. The manufactures of these vehicles have introduced into the market three categories of electric passenger car namely Hybrid electric vehicle (HEVs), Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). However consumer response to these electric vehicles has been sluggish and it is widely believed by market analyst that as the market awareness grows there will be an increased rise in demand for electric cars. Opinion among industry analyst suggest that incentives will simulate the growth which falls on different assumptions such as gasoline prices, government purchase incentives, fuel economy standards and availability of electric cars. 2. Company Background Sanger Automotive Companies, Inc., was founded in 1950 in Fort Myers, Florida as a Cadillac dealership and has consistently grown over the year acquiring 8 lines of luxury car franchise therefore becoming one of the...
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...General Motors, and Volkswagen form entire segments of their respective countries’ economies and have dominated the auto industry for generations. Yet Tesla Motors, a company started in 2003, represents a disruptive threat characteristic of the information age in which industries are constantly challenged to innovate by smaller, more nimble firms. Led by Elon Musk–a serial entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal, serves at the helm of SpaceX and chairs the board of SolarCity–Tesla Motors evokes memories of Apple in the 1980s and Napster in the new millenium, companies that shook their respective industries. Industry Analysis The United States automobile industry can be divided into three categories: fully internal combustion engine (ICE), hybrid (a mixture of ICE and electric) and plug-in electric (fully electric vehicles). Within these categories, there are two subcategories based solely on price point: luxury and mass market. For this analysis, we define luxury as vehicles priced at $30,000 and more. Tesla Motors operates within the fully electric luxury segment of the market, but has a strategy that is based on future expansion into the mass-market fully electric segment as well. Over the past decade, the internal combustion engine segment has experienced extreme turbulence in the U.S., but has remained the dominant segment nonetheless. As a consequence of the 2008 recession, U.S. auto sales plummeted well below the 16.15 million vehicles sold in 2007. However, the...
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