...Chapter II: methods and materials Methology * Identify the problem * Search for solutions in internet Source of data *www.independence.edu.com *www.ehow.com *www.palgrave.com Results and data analysis FACTORS THAT AFFECT STUDYING : Sometimes, no matter how much you’ve worked to create a study habit and stay focused, other factors creep in. Sometimes they’re not even something you can control—but when you’re aware of the things that can slip you up while you’re charging ahead through your nursing administration degree, you’re much more likely to succeed. Here are 5 factors that can affect your studying: 1.Weather- Seriously. You can’t control the weather—but you can stay aware of how it affects you, both positively and negatively. A sunshiney day is going to put you in a positive mood, but it could also be contributing to your urge to procrastinate and go play. On a gloomy, rainy day, time can sometimes feel like it’s slipping away—and with it, your study hours. And it’s not just emotional: bad weather, bad roads, and delayed buses can screw up your whole schedule. All of these factors are things to make notes of and plan for when it comes to arranging your day, and your study time. 2. Your social life. It’s important to have good people in your life to help keep you balanced, because you can’t dedicate your entire emotional well-being to your medical specialties training. But it’s also too easy to let the balance slip. Try to strike a sane, healthy equilibrium...
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...Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2007, 40(1), xx–xxx In-Depth Analysis of the Felder-Silverman Learning Style Dimensions Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sabine Graf Silvia Rita Viola and Tommaso Leo Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy Athabasca University, Canada Kinshuk Abstract Learning styles are increasingly being incorporated into technology-enhanced learning. Appropriately, a great deal of recent research work is occurring in this area. As more information and details about learning styles becomes available, learning styles can be better accommodated and integrated into all aspects of educational technology. The aim of this paper is to analyse data about learning styles with respect to the Felder-Silverman learning style model (FSLSM) in order to provide a more detailed description of learning style dimensions. The analyses show the most representative characteristics of each learning style dimension as well as how representative these characteristics are. As a result, we provide additional information about the learning style dimensions of FSLSM. This information is especially important when learning styles are incorporated in technology-enhanced learning. (Keywords: learning styles, Felder-Silverman model, data mining, student modelling.) IntroDuctIon In recent years, educational researchers have focused more and more on various aspects of learning styles and how they can be considered in educational technology. Investigations...
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...INTRODUCTION Proper planning and control of spare parts inventory is a critical component of an effective asset management program. If the right parts are not on hand when needed for routine maintenance or repairs, downtime is prolonged. If too many parts are on hand, the enterprise absorbs excessive costs and the overhead of carrying the inventory. There are tried and true strategies to manage spare parts in support of effective asset management, along with some that can be considered questionable, and a variety of new and innovative practices. Advanced enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions support the proper implementation of these capabilities. Following are examples of each. Item search. It can be frustrating to a maintenance planner who is not familiar with item numbers to locate the appropriate part in a computer system. Nouns and qualifiers are a way of simplifying a search. A noun is a simple, meaningful name for the item, for example "pump." The qualifier adds more detail, such as "hydraulic." A search on this combination will bring up all hydraulic pumps in the stock item master file. An assortment of captions and a detailed item description can provide an increasingly narrowed search that considers make, model, size, formulation, capacity, etc. If the part can be substituted with an alternate or equivalent part, that reference also should be stored in the stock record. ABC and XYZ analyses. The generally accepted 80:20 rule illustrates that approximately...
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...MANAGEMENT OF SPARE PARTS INVENTORY IN A MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATION INTRODUCTION Proper planning and control of spare parts inventory is a critical component of an effective asset management program. If the right parts are not on hand when needed for routine maintenance or repairs, downtime is prolonged. If too many parts are on hand, the enterprise absorbs excessive costs and the overhead of carrying the inventory. There are tried and true strategies to manage spare parts in support of effective asset management, along with some that can be considered questionable, and a variety of new and innovative practices. Advanced enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions support the proper implementation of these capabilities. Following are examples of each. Item search. It can be frustrating to a maintenance planner who is not familiar with item numbers to locate the appropriate part in a computer system. Nouns and qualifiers are a way of simplifying a search. A noun is a simple, meaningful name for the item, for example "pump." The qualifier adds more detail, such as "hydraulic." A search on this combination will bring up all hydraulic pumps in the stock item master file. An assortment of captions and a detailed item description can provide an increasingly narrowed search that considers make, model, size, formulation, capacity, etc. If the part can be substituted with an alternate or equivalent part, that reference also should be stored in the stock record. ABC and XYZ analyses...
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...Acknowledgement I would like to express my deepest appreciation to all those who provided me the possibility to complete this project on time. A special gratitude I give to our lecture in charge Ms.Tharanga Wijesuriya, whose contribution in stimulating suggestions and encouragement, helped us to coordinate this project. Furthermore I would also like to acknowledge with much appreciation the crucial of the staff of Akbar brother (pvt) Ltd, who gave the permission to use all the necessary information to complete the project tasks. Special thanks go to my friend Thiwangi Wijesuriya, who help me to assemble the information and gave suggestions to do the assignment tasks. Lastly, I thank almighty, my parents and friends for their constant encouragement without which this assignment would not be possible. I am making this project not only for marks but to also increase my knowledge. Executive Summary Today e-commerce became a major part in the business world. It remains a relatively changing area of business management and information technology. Nowadays modern organizations are seeking for the methods to expand their business, so ecommerce became one of the solutions for that. With the use of e-commerce, organizations easily can achieve their goals. Therefore in this project we first considering about the global influence of e-commerce. And understand the positive and negative effects of ecommerce on society. Akbar brother’s (pvt) Ltd is a large tea manufacturing and...
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...Roles, authority and involvement of the management accounting function: a multiple case-study perspective Caroline Lambert HEC, Paris 1, rue de la Libération 78351 Jouy en Josas Cedex lambert@hec.fr Samuel Sponem Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers GREG-CRC (EA 2430) samuel.sponem@cnam.fr Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to participants at the European Accounting Association Conference 2009, the Accounting department ESSEC seminar, France, and at the seminar of Ecole de Comptabilité de l’Université Laval, Québec, Canada for their constructive comments on earlier drafts of this paper. They also wish to thank and useful suggestions of members of the CriM group, Martin Messner and Juhani Vaivio. We would particularly like to thank Markus Granlund and the two anonymous reviewers for their many helpful comments and suggestions. Both authors thank ‘Fondation HEC’ and ‘Agence Nationale de la Recherche’ for their fundings. Abstract Recent techniques and shifts in the environment are often foreseen as leading management accountants to adopt a business orientation. However, empirical evidence pointing to fundamental shifts in the roles played by management accountants remains relatively scarce. We explore this paradox and give sense to the various roles played by the management accounting function by focusing on how management accountants are involved in and endowed with authority in decision-making situations. Using data we gathered from 73 interviews in ten...
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...mortgage fraud with predatory lending since it adds unnecessary confusion to an already complex issue and diverts attention and badly needed resources from the fight against true mortgage fraud. 2 The average “take” on a bank robbery is approximately $3,000.00. By contrast, the average straw borrower receives a “cut” of at least $10,000 and the orchestrator’s “take” in a mortgage fraud transaction frequently exceeds $100,000. In a few cases the orchestrator’s take was in excess of $1 million dollars, and in one, the perpetrator, who later fled the country, received $7 million in “profit” from the same-day flip of a mansion. 3 Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, “Mortgage Loan Fraud: An Industry Assessment Based on Suspicious Activity Report Analysis,” November 2006 at 10. http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/rp/reports/pdf/mortgage_fraud112006.pdf (accessed March 8, 2009). 4...
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...FINS1613 Business Finance Semester 2 – 2009 Version 1.0.0 12th October 2009 Contents Page 3 Page 7 Page 10 Page 14 Page 18 Page 23 Page 26 Page 29 Page 32 Page 38 Page 42 Basic Concepts Introduction to Financial Mathematics The Valuation of a Firm’s Securities Capital Budgeting Capital Budgeting Applications – Part 1 Capital Budgeting Applications – Part 2 Risk and Return The Capital Asset Pricing Model Cost of Capital and Raising Capital Capital Structure Dividend Policy Note: This course has prerequisites and, as such, these notes are written assuming that you have sound knowledge from those prerequisite courses. Business Finance– Semester 2 2009 2 Basic Concepts Basic Concepts Background Before we delve into the harder components of business finance, it is imperative that we learn the basics first. Types of Business Forms If you have previously studied Business Studies for the HSC, you can skip this section. Businesses are usually formed based on a set structure. The most common of these are: • Sole Proprietorships This is where the business is owned by a single person. It is very simple, fast to establish and generally has very minimal government regulations. The owner gets to keep all the profits himself so there is incentive to work harder. The downside is that it has unlimited liability (where if the business goes bankrupt, everything the owner owns can be taken by creditors). There is also difficulty in raising large sums of money as you are a single...
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...Micro-Finance in India Micro-Finance in India Submitted by: S.GINMUANSANG NGAIHTE This project work is submitted as fulfillment of the requirement of B.COM(hons) Part III of Delhi University Submitted to: Prof. Shuchi Pahuja PGDAV college, Delhi University. Submitted by: S.GINMUANSANG NGAIHTE This project work is submitted as fulfillment of the requirement of B.COM(hons) Part III of Delhi University Submitted to: Prof. Shuchi Pahuja PGDAV college, Delhi University. Shri Ram College of Commerce B.Com(h) Part-III Roll no.13/10 #9650430713 [Type the fax number] [Pick the date] Shri Ram College of Commerce B.Com(h) Part-III Roll no.13/10 #9650430713 [Type the fax number] [Pick the date] DECLARATION I S.Ginmuansang Ngaihte hereby declare that the Project entitled Micro-finance in India submitted to University of Delhi in fulfillment for the degree of Bachelor in Commerce (honors). Whatever is written in this project is a bonafide work of mine and to the best of my knowledge. Place: Signature Date: ACKNOWLEGDMENT The satisfaction and euphoria that accompanied the successful completion of any task would be incomplete without the mention of the people who made it possible, whose constant guidance and support led to ultimate success. I would like to take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and respect to my mentor Dr. Shuchi Pahuja, Associate Prof...
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...1 Apple Inc. Strategic Paper Management 4842 Section 2 11/19/2012 Alex Morrison Zach Teachey Marquis Graham 2 Table of Contents Part 1 Executive Summary ………………………………………………………………………3 Mission and Vision Statement ……………………………………………………………4 Financial Objectives ………………………………………………………………………4 Strategic Objectives ………………………………………………………………………5 Driving Forces ……………………………………………………………………………7 Key Success Factors …………………………………………………………………….10 Competitive Analysis ……………………………………………………………………11 Competitive Strategy ……………………………………………………………………14 External Analysis ………………………………………………………………………..15 Internal Analysis ………………………………………………………………………...16 Financial Analysis ……………………………………………………………………….18 Part 2 Issue # 1 …………………………………………………………………………………23 Issue # 2 …………………………………………………………………………………25 Issue # 3 …………………………………………………………………………………27 Issue # 4 …………………………………………………………………………………31 Issue # 5 …………………………………………………………………………………34 Issue # 6 …………………………………………………………………………………36 References ……………………………………………………………………………….39 3 Exec. Summary-Alex Morrison Apple is the number one leader in innovation in the technology industry. They strive to create unique, high quality products. Over the next five years Apple faces a several strategic issues. The first issue is that Apple’s products are fairly expensive. We recommend that Apple create a secondary market with less expensive products. The second issue is the working conditions in the manufacturing plants. We recommend that...
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...As individual we are aware what is happening in our nation. There is a lot of problem that our country is facing are and one of the issues that can’t stopped is the Corruption of Government and as a individual as being part of this society we are affective of it. When we look the meaning of corruption in Wikipedia it will gave you this meaning Corruption is the abuse of bestowed power or position to acquire a personal benefit. Some of us choose to accept this because we are blinded of their black propaganda we don’t even think what will be the future of the next generation if we let this people continue to abuse their power. And when we say Governance it is a government is the system by which a state or community is controlled. In the Commonwealth of Nations, the word government is also used more narrowly to refer to the collective group of people that exercises executive authority in a state Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. An illegal act by an officeholder constitutes political corruption only if the act is directly related to their official duties, is done under color of law or involves trading in influence. ------------------------------------------------- Effects[edit] Effects on politics, administration, and institutions[edit] In politics, corruption undermines democracy and good governance by flouting or even subverting formal processes. Corruption in elections and in the legislature reduces accountability...
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...Дневник читателя READER’S JOURNAL Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (1961). Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire (1959). Iris Murdoch. The Black Prince (1973). Jerome David Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient (1992). Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962). Edward Albee. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962). Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman (1949). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea (1952). ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- FULL TITLE · The Old Man and the Sea ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR · Ernest Hemingway ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TYPE OF WORK · Novella ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- GENRE · Parable; tragedy ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGE · English ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · 1951, Cuba ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...LEAN SIX SIGMA LOGISTICS Strategic Development to Operational Success by Dr. Thomas Goldsby • Robert Martichenko Copyright ©2005 by J. Ross Publishing, Inc. ISBN 1-932159-36-3 Printed and bound in the U.S.A. Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goldsby, Thomas J. Lean Six Sigma logistics / by: Thomas Goldsby & Robert Martichenko. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-932159-36-3 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Business logistics—Management. 2. Six sigma (Quality control standard). 3. Process control. 4. Inventory control. 5. Waste minimization. 6. Industrial efficiency. I. Martichenko, Robert, 1965–. II. Title. HD38.5.G63 2005 658.4′013—dc22 2005011208 This publication contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Reprinted material is used with permission, and sources are indicated. Reasonable effort has been made to publish reliable data and information, but the author and the publisher cannot assume responsibility for the validity of all materials or for the consequences of their use. All rights reserved. Neither this publication nor any part thereof may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. The copyright owner’s consent does not extend to copying for general distribution for promotion, for creating new works, or for resale...
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...9-700-082 DEBORA SPAR Forever: De Beers and U.S. Antitrust Law Educational material supplied by The Case Centre Copyright encoded A76HM-JUJ9K-PJMN9I Order reference F267708 CoursePack code C-788-275379-STU “As a worldwide dealer in enchanting illusions, Disney has nothing on De Beers.” - The Economist1 In 1999, a series of spectacular advertisements adorned the bus-sides and billboards of major American cities. Set against a lush black background, the ads displayed a perfect set of diamond earrings, or a single sparkling solitaire. The lettering, in white, was sparse and to the point: “What better time to celebrate the timelessness of love?” they asked. Or, “What are you waiting for, the year 3000?” Some were even more direct: “This wouldn't exactly be the year,” they noted, “to give her a toaster oven.” Coyly, the ads captured a joint fascination with the new millennium and the enduring allure of diamonds. How better to capture time than with a diamond, they urged. How better to herald eternal love? Indeed. According to analysts, U.S. diamond sales (30% of which occurred during the Christmas season) were expected to surge by more than 10%, hitting a high of over $20 billion for 1999.2 A significant portion of this windfall would flow to De Beers, one of the world’s most successful corporations and the controlling force of the international diamond market. There were many ironies behind De Beers’s millennial campaign, not least of which was that diamonds...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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