...W1) Philosophy. The point of writing a scientific paper is to communicate the findings and significance of your research. Always envision yourself writing to a reader who (a) isn't familiar with your study area, samples, or methods, (b) may be (and as a scientist should be) skeptical of the claims you are making, and (c) probably has more pressing things to do with their time and so will skip your article unless you persuade him or her of its clarity and significance. No one will be obligated to read your paper, so you have to persuade them to start reading, and you have to write clearly enough that they keep reading. (W2) The Introduction. The purpose of the introduction is to tell the reader what the paper is about and, more importantly, to justify to the reader why the paper is significant. If a "previous work" section is included here or elsewhere, its goal should be to show how your paper is an advance or improvement on previous work. A section on "previous work" that just shows that the author did his or her time in the library will be skipped or will make the reader quit reading entirely. After justifying interest in the topic, don't be afraid to use a sentence that begins "This paper uses/examines/reports . . .", because telling the reader what the paper is about is also one of the main goals of the introduction. This sentence may end with a clause that begins "in order to . . ." or "as a contribution to . . .", so that you also tell the reader what...
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...10 weeks in the semester. There is no break in the semester The Summer 2012 semester begins July 5 and ends September 11, 2012 The last date to withdraw is August 18, 2012 Course Description (Formerly AMBA 603.) Prerequisite: AMBA 640. An exploration of the essentials of marketing management: setting marketing goals for an organization with consideration of internal resources and marketing opportunities, planning and executing activities to meet these goals, and measuring progress toward their achievement. Focus is on the concept of innovation in business, including the introduction of new market offerings and the use of new technologies, strategies, and tactics for achieving marketing objectives. An integrative approach combines discussions on theory of marketing management with industry analysis and practical implications. Assignments include the design and marketing of innovative products, analysis of the application of modern marketing strategies and tactics using examples from participants organizations, and practicing a holistic approach to marketing management. Course Goals/Objectives At the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. Assess the role marketing plays in an organization’s strategic planning. 2. Analyze the concept of innovation and its implications for business development. 3. Analyze consumer needs and behavior and how they affect an organization’s ability to deliver superior value to 1 of 18 7/31/2012 9:06 PM http://tychong.umuc.edu/wws/showSyllabus...
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...Course Schedule Course Schedule of Assignments Overview Session | Topic | Assignments | 1 | The Manager as a Systems Thinker | Discussion Activity 1 | 2 | The Manager as a Critical Thinker | Individual Paper 1 | 3 | Legal and Ethical Environment of Business: The Manager as an Ethical Decision Maker | Discussion Activity 2 | 3 | Team Work Plan | Team assignment | 4 | Organization Theory and Design | Discussion Activity 3 | 5 | Organization Theory and Design in the Global Environment | Team Project 1Individual Matching Exercise | 6 | Legal Environment: Courts, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Agency | Discussion Activity 4 | 7 | Critical Thinking in the Legal Environment: Torts and Products Liability | Individual Paper 2 Discussion Activity 5 | 8 | Legal Environment: Contracts and Forms of Business Organizations | Discussion Activity 6 | 9 | Knowledge Integration | Take-home Final | 10 | Corporate Social Responsibility in a Global and Technological Environment | Team Project 2 | Assignment Details Session | Module/Topics Readings/Assignments | 1 | The Manager as a Systems ThinkerObjective 1: Apply models of critical thinking and systems thinking to address complex organizational issues.Objective 2: Reflect on seminar assignments and relate the skills and knowledge gained to personal and professional goalsCompetency : Systems Thinking | Read the following articles which you can find and download from the UMUC library...
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...BIO 101 Principles of Biology Program Council The Academic Program Councils for each college oversee the design and development of all University of Phoenix curricula. Council members include full-time and practitioner faculty members who have extensive experience in this discipline. Teams of full-time and practitioner faculty content experts are assembled under the direction of these councils to create specific +courses within the academic program. Copyright Copyright 2009 by the University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix® is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft®, Windows®, and Windows NT® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks or their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix® editorial standards and practices. Course Syllabus Course Title: | BIO 101 Principles of Biology | Course Schedule: | April 25, 2011 to May 23, 2011 | Course Location/ Times/Newsgroup: | Henderson CampusMonday, 6:00 pm to 10:00 pmHEFOUN78E | Required Text: | Simon, E. J., Reece, J. B., Dickey, J. L. (2010). Essential biology with physiology. (3rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson/Benjamin Cummings. Note: All required text materials can be found on the...
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...consideration. Wk2 DQ1 In what situations are compare-and-contrast essays effective? When would that style be ineffective? What is the difference? The situations preferable for using compare-and-contrast essays are when I am trying to win over client on business proposals. It gives the client the opportunity to look at the competition as well as, our product and decide which would be the best fit for their organization is. In business, it is imperative that you show the difference in a way that is positive toward the organization making the proposal. This style would not be effective when individuals are presenting a narrative or thematic illustration. In this case, the author wants to present information that only pertains to the topic being discussed. Therefore the...
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...ENGLISH 221: Technical Writing Fundamentals PRINT OUT—PRINT OUT-- PRINT OUT—PRINT OUT-- PRINT OUT If you have any questions about the syllabus, please post them in the Main Classroom. Susan Colebank scolebank@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) susancolebank@gmail.com (back-up; do not CC this address when you e-mail me at my UOP address) COURSE NUMBER: ENG221 COURSE TITLE: Technical Writing Fundamentals COURSE START DATE: 1/17/12 COURSE END DATE: 2/20/2012 FACILITATOR AVAILABILITY I am in the Classroom five days of the week: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I am on in the morning and then again at night, with the afternoon set aside for telecommuting and taking care of my daughter. I provide you with these times to make it easier to communicate with me, and not to limit our contact. I want you to know that, should you need to contact me outside this timeframe, you should not hesitate to do so via my University of Phoenix e-mail. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND e-mailing me with your questions or concerns, since it is best to document our conversations with a paper trail. I have yet, in nine years of being a UOP instructor, found a student who has a question or concern that couldn’t best be discussed via e-mail. If you need to call me, then please e-mail me first to schedule a time and to leave your phone number. For emergencies, when you are not able to gain access to messages on the Online Learning System (OLS), please send a message to...
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...Ministry of Education and Training Hoa Sen University Faculty of Economics and Commerce Intergrated Marketing Communications MARKET ENTRY STATEGIES FOR TRESEMMÉ INTO VIETNAM Lecturer: Ms. Nguyễn Trần Kiều Vân Class: MK308DE01 - 0600 Group members: Trương Phương Anh - 2006759 Võ Hồ Thanh Bình - 2008404 Đoàn Xuân Tâm Đan - 2007677 Nguyễn Ngọc Thiên Hương - 2007207 Damien Zafrani Ministry of Education and Training Hoa Sen University Faculty of Economics and Commerce Intergrated Marketing Communications MARKET ENTRY CAMPAIGN FOR TRESEMMÉ INTO VIETNAM Lecturer: Ms. Nguyễn Trần Kiều Vân Class: MK308DE01 - 0600 Group members: Trương Phương Anh - 2006759 Võ Hồ Thanh Bình - 2008404 Đoàn Xuân Tâm Đan - 2007677 Nguyễn Ngọc Thiên Hương - 2007207 Damien Zafrani 2 ABSTRACT The target purpose of this report is to build an Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) program for TRESemmé, which is a long-standing American brand that has recently appeared in Vietnam. In this report, we focus on IMC strategic plans for creating TRESemmé’s recognition and expand brand awareness in Vietnam market. We gathered information on the Internet and using our knowledge from Integrated Marketing Communications class to complete our assignment. Thanks to the report, we have the opportunity to apply theories in real situation, learn more about integrated marketing communications and know how to plan IMC stategies for a specific brand. ...
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...|Strength |Weakness | |One of the world's strongest brand names. |Cost of environmental hazards. | |Diverse and huge operations. |Legal issues. | |PETRONAS has grown to be an integrated international oil and gas |Employment scam. | |company with business interests in 50 countries. |Rising investment requirement. | |Sponsored education to Malaysian students. (PESP, PSIP) | | |Opportunity |Threats | |Increasing fuel/oil prices. |Government regulations. | |Increasing natural gas market. |High Competition. | |More oil well discoveries. |Long-term falls in domestic oil production. | |Expand export market. |Competition in regional...
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...continuation scheme to accelerate the practical convergence of the algorithm. Extensive numerical results show that our algorithm performs favorably in comparison to several state-of-the-art algorithms. In particular, it runs orders of magnitude faster than the lagged diffusivity algorithm for TV-based deblurring. Some extensions of our algorithm are also discussed. Key words. half-quadratic, image deblurring, isotropic total variation, fast Fourier transform AMS subject classifications. 68U10, 65J22, 65K10, 65T50, 90C25 DOI. 10.1137/080724265 1. Introduction. In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm for reconstructing images from blurry and noisy observations. For simplicity, we assume that the underlying images have square domains, but all discussions can be equally applied to rectangle domains. Let 2 2 2 u0 ∈ Rn be an original n×n grayscale image, K ∈ Rn ×n represent a blurring (or convolution) 2 2 operator, ω ∈ Rn be additive noise, and f ∈ Rn be an observation which...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |College of Natural Sciences | | |MTH/208 Version 5 | | |College Mathematics I | | | | | |Group Number: ON11BCJ01 | | |Course Start Date: 07/28/2011 | | |Course End Date: 08/25/2011 | Copyright © 2011, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course begins a demonstration and examination of various concepts of algebra. It assists in building skills for performing specific mathematical operations and problem solving...
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...LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY TOPIC:- TERM PAPER OF DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING MEC-206 TOPIC: Material and Heat treatments used for sheet metal Moulds(Die) Submitted to: Submitted by: MR.HARPINDER SINGH RAHUL PAINULY (Deptt. Of Mechanical) Roll.No: RE4801B47 Regd.: 10810232 B.Tech(ME) ACKNOWLEDGEMENT With the deepest gratitude, I wish to thank MR.HARPINDER SINGH., who has been very kind on me in completion of my Term-Paper. I could achieve this target only because of his kind and ever supporting guidance. I have completed the term work on the subject given to me successfully and I am here by submitting my report for the same. I have done all the work on my own basis. As a reference, CONTENTS * INTRODUCTION * CHARACTERSTIC OF TOOL AND DIE STEEL * CHOSING TOOL STEEL * COLD AND CRYOGENIC TREATMENT * DIE DESIGN FOR SUCESSIVE HEAT TREATMENT * REPAIRING DIE BY WELDING * DIE WELDING APPLICATION * DIE WELDING APPLICATIONS * DIE SURFACE COATING AND TREATMENT * HEAT TREATMENT OF STEEL * REFERENCE INTRODUCTION Tool steels are used to construct the die components subject to wear. They are used in a variety of press working operations. These steels are designed especially to develop high hardness...
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....1 | UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN (UTAR)FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND FINANCE (FBF) | Unit Plan 1. | Unit Code &Unit Title: | UBMM1011 SUN ZI’S ART OF WAR AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES | 2. | Course of Study: | Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Accounting (AC)Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) (BBA)Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Banking & Finance (BF)Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Entrepreneurship (EN)Bachelor of Economics (Hons) Financial Economics (FE)Bachelor of Finance (Hons) (FN)Bachelor of Marketing (Hons) (MK)Bachelor of Social Science (Hons) Psychology (PY)Bachelor of Arts (Hons) English Education (EL)Bachelor of Arts (Hons) English Education (ED)Bachelor of Science (Hons) Chemistry (CE)Bachelor of Science (Hons) Statistical Computing and Operations Research (SC)Bachelor of Science (Hons) Biotechnology (BT)Bachelor of Science (Hons) Microbiology (MB)Bachelor of Science (Hons) Construction Management (CM)Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Electronic Engineering (EE)Bachelor of Information Tchnology (Hons) Communications And Networking (CN)Bachelor of Computer Science & Information Systems (Hons) (CS) | 3. | Year of Study: | Y2T1/T2 (BAC) Y1T2/T3 (BBA) Y2T1/T2 (BBF) Y2T1/T2 (BEN)Y2T1/T2 (BFE) Y1T3 (BFN) Y2T1/T2 (BMK) Y3T2 (PY)Y3T1/T2 (EL) Y1T1/T2/T3 (ED) Y1T1/T2/T3 (CE) Y2T1/T2 (SC) Y1T1/T2 (BT) Y1T1/T2 (MB) Y1T1/T2 (CM) ...
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...|[pic] |Syllabus | | |School of Business | | |ECO/212 (3 Credits) Version 6 | | |Principles of Economics | | |03/01/2012 - 03/29/2012 | | |PUERTO RICO CAMPUS | Copyright © 2009, 2008, 2006, 2004 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces the fundamental theories of microeconomics and macroeconomics. The economic principles studied in this course apply to everyday life as students research an industry, debate issues with trade agreements, discuss the effects of a shift in labor supply and demand, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Consumer Price Index calculation. In particular, students research an industry affected by the economy and perform an economic analysis of the chosen...
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...Lecture Notes in Finance 1 (MiQE/F, MSc course at UNISG) Paul Söderlind1 14 December 2011 1 University of St. Gallen. Address: s/bf-HSG, Rosenbergstrasse 52, CH-9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland. E-mail: Paul.Soderlind@unisg.ch. Document name: Fin1MiQEFAll.TeX Contents 1 Mean-Variance Frontier 1.1 Portfolio Return: Mean, Variance, and the Effect of Diversification 1.2 Mean-Variance Frontier of Risky Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Mean-Variance Frontier of Riskfree and Risky Assets . . . . . . . 1.4 Examples of Portfolio Weights from MV Calculations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 9 19 22 A A Primer in Matrix Algebra 24 B A Primer in Optimization 27 2 . . . . . . . . 31 31 32 37 39 42 45 46 47 3 Risk Measures 3.1 Symmetric Dispersion Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Downside Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Empirical Return Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 54 56 67 4 CAPM 4.1 Portfolio Choice with Mean-Variance Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 70 Index Models 2.1 The Inputs to a MV Analysis . 2.2 Single-Index Models . . . . . 2.3 Estimating Beta . . . . . . . . 2.4 Multi-Index Models . . . . . . 2.5 Principal Component Analysis 2.6 Estimating Expected Returns . 2.7 Estimation on Subsamples . . 2.8 Robust Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. . ...
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...list of Frequently Used Symbols and Notation A text such as Intermediate Financial Theory is, by nature, relatively notation intensive. We have adopted a strategy to minimize the notational burden within each individual chapter at the cost of being, at times, inconsistent in our use of symbols across chapters. We list here a set of symbols regularly used with their specific meaning. At times, however, we have found it more practical to use some of the listed symbols to represent a different concept. In other instances, clarity required making the symbolic representation more precise (e.g., by being more specific as to the time dimension of an interest rate). Roman Alphabet a Amount invested in the risky asset; in Chapter 14, fraction of wealth invested in the risky asset or portfolio AT Transpose of the matrix (or vector)A c Consumption; in Chapter 14 only, consumption is represented by C, while c represents ln C ck Consumption of agent k in state of nature θ θ CE Certainty equivalent CA Price of an American call option CE Price of a European call option d Dividend rate or amount ∆ Number of shares in the replicating portfolio (Chapter xx E The expectations operator ek Endowment of agent k in state of nature θ θ f Futures position (Chapter 16); pf Price of a futures contract (Chapter 16) F, G Cumulative distribution functions associated with densities: f, g Probability density functions K The strike or exercise price of an option K(˜) Kurtosis of the random variable x x ˜ L A lottery...
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