...Jenna Cardone International Economics WTO Phase II February 8, 2014 United Kingdom/European Union The European Union is a union of twenty eight member nations that work together to delegate political and economic issues. These countries have formed a single government that allows each nation to be interdependent on one another and, henceforth, reducing conflict between them. There is the free movement of goods, services, people, and money between each nation. The last one is made easiest through the common currency of the Euro. The only exception is the United Kingdom, who identifies with the Pound instead. The United Kingdom, along with being the only member of the EU that does not identify with the Euro has the ninth largest GDP in the world. The UK has the second largest GDP in the EU, second only to Germany, while the EU is the second highest GDP overall, just behind the United States (I). It just goes to show that while the European Union has some very strong economies in its membership, together they have created a world power. Imports in regards to the EU center primarily around dairy products, sugars and confectionery, and animal products, which, respectively, have MFN averages of 52.9, 32.1, and 20.4. The lowest average MFN is cotton, which is at a value of 0. The rest of the products are between a value of 1 and 20 and, for various reasons, are higher in value than cotton and much less than dairy, sugar, and animal products (II). The goods that are...
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...MGM 465 Phase 2 Discussion Board Jamey Lewis Colorado Tech University Online Internal analysis is completed generally at the corporate or tactical operational level (Internal Analysis and your value proposition, n.d.). It is at this level because there is other analysis completed prior to this analysis. Once the analysis is at this level the team will be prepared to dissect it by deciding advantages, disadvantages and what the product will do for the organization. Internal analysis is completed through various methods. According to Digimind, methods such as research and development activities, production methods and costs, organizational structure, financial status, marketing strategies, as well as their strengths and weaknesses (How To Conduct A Competitor Analysis, n.d. ). It is imperative to know who the competitors are. I would also recommend surveying. Surveying consumers and merchants will allow a business to learn likes and dislikes about the competitor. During the internal analysis managers are evaluated to determine what they have to offer. The business is evaluated to in regards to weaknesses and strengths to determine if it is moving in the right direction (Internal Organizational Analysis, n.d.). When internal analyses are not completed honestly and accurately it will affect various portions of the business. Generally, the finances are affected. Finances determine the sustainability of many organizations because of the overhead. When credit is maxed out and...
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...Phase 2 Individual Project The Cornell method of note taking is very thorough. I liked it because the summary portion makes it easy to quickly review your notes without going in to full detail, and still be able to grasp concepts. I did not like the fact that you had to do the questions/keywords after you took the notes. This, to me at least, felt backwards from what I am used to and it became more time consuming for me because of that. I liked the outline method because of the way it flows with the text that I was reading. I disliked the outline method because actually typing it out, all of the letters and numbers get a little bit confusing and it almost takes away from the different points. My preferred method for note taking out of the two would be outline. It is easier to type and you can quickly look at key concepts. It is visually more appealing to me. Outlining your notes also seems to allow you to pack in more details than I was able to put into the Cornell notes. After reading chapter eight, I feel that I am a visual learner. I think that since I am a visual learner it makes sense that I would prefer the notes that are more visually appealing. I read that a visual learner should summarize information in visual formats such as short sentences or bullet points, which to me would be more like an outline. This also makes sense because I learned that visual learners are better at remembering what they read if it is written in descriptive text and with outlines you can...
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...suits that are of the dark nature are acceptable in Japan whereas in China a more subtle look for casual look is appropriate. The discussion of profits is not a common practice of these countries. As a matter of fact they don’t discuss their company’s profits at all in negotiations. One should understand that these countries rely heavily on respect and making people feel comfortable and showing appreciation. One must understand what each action of the business people in these countries mean and how to handle each one or what to do in each case. One must understand the way each country communicates and what is an acceptable form of communication and what is not an acceptable practice, when to use non-verbal communication and when not to. 2. The Asian countries view contracts as just an agreement between two companies. In Japan, the contracts are very detailed but in other countries the contract does not have to go into much detail. Neither China nor Japan will sue anyone. They rely on their business relationships to solve disagreements. These countries are more about building relationships and getting to know the people they are going to do business with rather than negotiating for a contract. Most contracts are signed for building business...
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...1.Strategic Directions Although Cyclermate management have persuaded the bank to continue funding for the short-term, the directors of the company realise that they have to think about the longer term. Further discussion with Dai’s cousin have established that he continues to be interested in helping, both in financial and management terms. Furthermore, he has apparently persuaded the famous entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Sir Claude Solstice to consider the possibility of involvement in the firm. Sir Claude, a passionate advocate of “green” technology, is also a keen cyclist. He would bring with him access to a highly specialised design and development team which has recently successfully brought to market a high-powered electric sports car. After some negotiation, Sir Claude has agreed to set up a “skunk works” which he will personally fund for a period of 4 weeks. This will bring together his highly skilled team of marketers, strategic thinkers and designers whose brief is: • to evaluate the current market for bicycles, and identify the size and growth rates of the key product segments • to determine the potential for a new range of electrically assisted bicycles based on new battery technology • to understand the routes to market and margin structures of the channels • to identify the required pricing structure for the new range of bikes; cost price, channel margins and selling price • to estimate the sales volume per year for the first three years following...
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...Monteiro1, António J. Rodrigues1, 2 2 Instituto de Telecomunicações and ISCTE Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal Tel: +351 218418484; Fax: +351 218418472; E-mail: frmo@lx.it.pt 1 Abstract — This paper explores the feasible limits for complexity reduction of a very simple front-end block for the calculus of phase transition metrics on a continuous phase modulation (CPM) receiver. A quasi-optimum receiver of very low complexity is attained by splitting the function of the optimum receiver bank filters in two blocks: calculus of projections coefficients on a low dimensional space of Walsh functions followed by simple matrix calculus. A sequence detection algorithm follows this block. The presented approach enables the reduction of the matched filters or correlators to just two integrators, regardless of the CPM scheme. Research on the reduction limits of the space dimension is conducted using catastrophic M-ary CPM schemes, taking advantage of their very low number of phase states. Performance of 1REC h=1/2 16-ary scheme is for the fist time presented. A rule is defined concerning the number of Walsh functions that must be used. That outcome proves to be valid for two CPM schemes of high power gain. The receiver is tested under additive white gaussian noise (AWGN). The carrier frequency is fc, where ωc=2πfc, ϕ0 is the arbitrary initial phase and Es is the energy per symbol...
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...Task Approaches To evaluate the current market for bicycles, and identify the size and growth rates of the key product segments This is desk research. Topics to investigate: What is the installed base of UK bike ownership? • This will give you some idea of the replacement market • How many people use a bike to get to work might give a handle on this. How many bikes are sold per year? Sources: • ONS production and import data • Market reports such as Data Monitor Mintel • Annual reports of Halfords Market segmentation • How is the bike market segmented? o By price, customer, features, by outlet? • Segment the market and identify the characteristics of each segment you identify; where it is sold, what market share, what end user price? The focus is on the UK market, but you might also sketch out in general terms the opportunity in the rest of Europe or elsewhere. • Use ratios to estimate this population? GDP? To determine the potential for a new range of electrically assisted bicycles based on new battery technology Evaluate where this type of bike fits into your segmentation. • What should be the specification of your proposed market entry? Features, price • What is your estimate of market sales for this type of product? • Would it make a sensible possibility for a company such as Cyclermate? To understand the routes to market and margin structures of the channels This requires an analysis of the structure of distribution of bikes in the UK. • How...
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...For our discussion this week, we had a few options for the topics we could discuss. I will start with the question of three social trends affecting US based businesses. The first trend I discovered was the power of Facebook. “. . . Facebook has the highest penetration among the top social media entities” (Cohen, 2013). Through Facebook, people are able to not only set up personal profiles but also post reviews and recommendations about businesses that can be viewed all over the world. This is a huge tool that essential works like word-of-mouth, but electronically. To be competitive businesses are setting up additional advertising here to help bolster crowds which frequent this site. The other social trend I found interesting was of the use of twitter which is essentially a site that streams blasts and updates continually for people that a user chooses to follow. As businesses have seen the power of Facebook, they have also jumped on this new trend so consumers can follow a not only people like celebrities, but also businesses and get the most up to date news at the touch of a finger. The last social trend that seems to be quite prevalent is the use of spam mail. When businesses want to easily promote something like a product or service, it is fairly easy to do this by bombarding people will e-mails by way of advertising and phishing. While most respectable businesses don’t normally do this, many others take advantage of be able to reach multiple people without them having to...
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...By the end of Phase I, my group and I were feeling fairly confident in the work that we had created. However, upon getting our mark back, it was significantly lower than we expected, and we started to feel the pain of problem-based learning. This caused us to rethink our entire plan for Phase II. Due to the feedback received in Phase I, we decided to keep the problem statement of lacking food security in Halifax. However, we decided to approach food security in a different manner, looking at it through the lens of education, community, economy, and food assistance programs rather than lack of accessibility, lack of knowledge, and lack of production. For this reason it caused it to fall a bit behind on our planned timeline for writing Phase II, as we changed our approach a week into working on Phase II. While this was frustrating at first, upon changing the approach, we all felt better about the formation of Phase II. To write the report, we used the same technique as last time, each assigning ourselves to write one section around 1500-2000 words. We then left an entire week to edit the full report with all the individual components. While this was...
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...Johnathan Yow Jian Jia (13084413) Marketing Management Tutorial Group: 4 Reading 6: Collaborative advantage 1. Collaborative advantage is synergy achieved by integrating resources plus expertise of one organization and provides a foundation or counterbalance to “Competitive Advantage” 2. The 3 main fundamental characteristics of collaborative advantage is that they must yield benefits for the partners and they are more than just the deal. They are also alliances that both partners ultimately deem successful involve collaboration rather than mere exchange. Collaborative advantage cannot be controlled by formal systems but require a dense web at interpersonal connections and internal infrastructures that enhance learning. 3. There are also 3 varieties of relationships which are mutual service consortia that means similar industries pool their resources together to gain benefit too expensive to acquire alone. Joint ventures are companies pursuing an opportunity that requires capabilities from each of them and value-chain partnerships are supplier-consumer relationships. 4. Relationships between companies begin, grow and develop much like relationship between people. Like romances and alliances, they are built on hopes and dreams, what might happen if certain opportunities are pursued? 5. The 8 I’s that create a successful we are first individual excellence, importance, independence, investment, information, integration, institutionalization and integrity. ...
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...Time and Cost Management Plan: A detailed Time and cost plan have been itemized for the Website development project. The Budget over time phase has been itemized based on the phases of the project and further it has been itemized based on the different activities of the project taking place in a definite week. The budget has been tabulated based on the activity and the on the week. The final budget has been calculated based on the phases. The detailed information is as follows: Time and Cost: Phase | Activities | Tasks | Deliverables | Dates | Cost | Project Requirements | Develop Business Requirements. | Collect Requirements from client and register a domain name.Draft the proceedings and document them.Produce a final version of the Business Requirements.(User Signoff) | Preliminary Business Requirements | 6/16/2014 | $360 | | Develop Technical Requirements. | User need to fill the form and register.Provide security by using secure pages such as HTTPS.Estimate hosting space for website.Identify appropriate website development platform and suggest to the client.Draft the proceedings and document them.Produce a final version of the Technical Requirements.(User Signoff) | Preliminary Technical Requirements. | 6/23/2014 | $400 | | Develop User requirements. | Collect required webpages names.Collect menu navigation requirements.Collect Access Requirements from client. | User Requirements. | 06/30/2014 | $160 | | | Draft the proceedings and document them.Produce...
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...charts and a rankine refrigeration cycle for C2H6S, a result part of all the charts and cycle I get from mat lab and other calculation methods, a brief discussion part between the thermodynamic charts and the chemical, physical, environmental, industrial significance. Introduction 1. Basic chemistry. C2H6S: Structure: [pic] [pic] Molecular weight: 62.134 Boiling Point: 38 °C (311 °K) Freezing Point: -98.72 °C (174.88 °K) Triple Point Temperature (Ttri): 174.85°K Critical Temperature (Tc): 503 °K Critical Pressure (Pc): 55.30 bar Critical Molar Volume (Vc): 0.2066 L/mol Critical compressibility factor (Zc):0.273 Acentric factor (ω): 0.191 Antoine Equation Parameters A: 4.28713, B: 1201.134, C: -29.906 2. Compound uses. Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is a key compound in global sulfur and carbon cycles. a) chemical reactant Dimethyl Sulfide will undergo some types of reactions and used as a source to produce several chemical compounds. [pic] (b) Food and Beverage Component DMS is a primary aroma and flavor compound to make beer character. It is also used in other food applications like non-alcoholic beverages, ice cream, candy, baked goods, gelatins and puddings, and syrups. But only in very small amount like several parts per million (c) Presulfiding of Catalysts Dimethyl sulfide is an economical source for the organic sulfur required in hydro cracking catalysts. The high purity and easy handling of DMS has led to its worldwide use as a presulfiding...
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...miscible and the other is partly miscible with water. According to the phase rule of Gibbs the variance F (number of degrees of freedom) of a system at equilibrium is equal to the number of components c minus the number of phases p plus 2, provided that the equilibrium is influenced only by temperature, pressure, and concentration. A system with three independent components has F=5-P degrees of freedom. An invariant point in a ternary system therefore contains five different phases in equilibrium with each other. An invariant point can for example consist of a vapor phase, a liquid phase, and three solid phases in equilibrium with each other. A ternary system with three phases (solid-liquid-vapor) in equilibrium with each other has two degrees of freedom. If the temperature is fixed, one degree of freedom remains. A phase diagram isotherm showing a ternary system with a vapor phase and a liquid phase requires therefore a line to mark the concentration range in which a solid phase is in equilibrium with the other two phases. A point needed to mark concentrations where two solid phases are in equilibrium with liquid and vapor. Experimental: Chemical used Distilled Water Ethyl acetate Ethanol Glass ware used Pipette Beaker Burette Elementary flasks Procedure: Part I o We prepare seven mixtures of water and ethyl acetate as follows: Volume mL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Water 10 1 1.5 2 3.5 7 8 Ethyl acetate 2 7 5.5 4.5 4 2.5 1 o Titrate mixture 1, carefully and slowly, with distilled...
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...When discussing leadership we need to remember that this concept requires two or more people to be involved, a leader and a follower(s). In order for these 2 people to interact there must be communication between the two. The Leadership Expectancy (LMX) theory covers the relational concept between a leader and his followers; it puts an emphasis on the dyadic interactions between the two. There are three phases of the LMX theory. It first starts with the stranger phase. In this initial phase the communications and interactions are just beginning. The two parties only engage in interactions that pertain to the objective. At this point in the relationship the motives of the follower are initiated by self-interest. This is descriptive of what is considered to be the out-group. In phase two, the relationship graduates to the acquaintance phase. In this phase we will see the relationship become more interrelated. There is a sharing of ideas and resources from both the leader and the follower. The motives begin to progress to be focused more on the goals, rather than self interest as it was in the beginning of this dyadic relationship. Here is the tipping point of whether a follower is part of the in or the out-group. In the third and final stage, the relationship has matured to a point where there is trust and respect between the leader and the follower. Due to this respect and trust, the follower will be more inclined to have the best interest of the goal set by the leader and work...
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...Exercises 3.8.2 Questions: Q3-2. What does the amplitude of a signal measure? What does the frequency of a signal measure? What does the phase of a signal measure? Amplitude: it measures the proportion of the energy that a specific area can carry it, and it always include (peak amplitude) which represent the highest intensity that carried by the area. Frequency: it used to measure “the number of periods in 1 second”. Phase: it is used to “describe the position of the waveform relative to time 0, and it measured in degrees of radians”. [1] Q3-6. Distinguish between a low-pass channel and a band-pass channel. Low-pass channel: “a channel with a bandwidth that starts from zero”. Band-pass channel: “a channel with a bandwidth that doesn’t...
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