...1- ¿Qué recomendación le haría usted a John Wolf acerca de la estructuración de la función compras para la red de centros distribuidores de Wolf Motors? La calidad del servicio después de la venta depende del funcionamiento efectivo de la función de compras; siendo uno de los tres apoyos fundamentales –y por eso una prioridad competitiva- del éxito de Wolf Motors, la maximización de esta función no se puede dejar al azar. Por el momento, la gestión de la función compras - y en realidad el funcionamiento general - de cada una de las cuatro distribuidoras se hace de manera totalmente independiente y autónoma. A primera vista, esta segmentación no parece eficiente: * No capitalización de los aprendizajes (en términos de métodos de trabajo, de mejoramiento de los procesos, de relación privilegiada con particulares proveedores) * Pérdida de tiempo (tiempo de aprendizaje, tiempo de mejoramiento de lo existente, tiempo de construcción de relaciones privilegiadas) * Aumento implícito de los costos * No reparto de los datos históricos de demanda y de ventas entre distribuidoras * Pérdida de información clave para hacer pronósticos fiable * Pertinencia de los pronósticos en juego => pertinencia de los aprovisionamientos en juego => Riesgo de no satisfacer la demanda del cliente en tiempo => deterioro del imagen de marca del grupo Para disminuir los riesgos y las disfunciones actuales causados por el funcionamiento como entidades independientes...
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...Case Study 1 - MURDER At 8:26 PM the Paradise 911 Emergency Call Center received a call from John Wolf of 115 Front Street. Mr. Wolf asked for police to be sent to 114 Front Street to investigate a body in the driveway. Responding officers discovered Lucy Lane, deceased, laying in the driveway of 114 Front Street. It was apparent Ms. Lane had suffered multiple stab wounds to both the front and rear torso. On the deck in the rear of the house officers also discovered Rodney Hill, deceased. Mr. Hill also showed signs of multiple stab wounds to his chest and abdomen. Mr. Wolf informed police that he heard a commotion coming from the front yard of the house across the street. The shouting and yelling lasted several minutes and ended in a terrible scream. Mr. Wolf went to the window and saw the former resident James Lane driving away in his white Ford Bronco. When he saw what looked like someone lying still in the driveway across the street, he called 911. The police investigation revealed that Ms. Lane owned and lived at 114 Front Street. Mr. Hill and Ms. Lane had been in an intimate relationship for several months. Ms. Lane was recently divorced from James T. Lane, a bartender at a local “gentlemen’s” club that features exotic dancers. On the day of her death Ms. Lane had taken a restraining order out on James Lane, alleging prior physical and emotional abuse as well as threats against both her and Mr. Rodney Hill. When interviewed by police, James Lane denied killing his former...
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...basic activities of daily living (ADL) like eating, drinking and personal hygiene. One of the most common sequelae in central nervous system injury is impaired upper limb function, which is affected in more than 80% of stroke cases (1) . Stroke is the leading cause of disability in adults in the United States, affecting an estimated 730,000 people per year. It is therefore a major and increasing health care problem and accounts for major economic challenge for the society. Its consequences affect the individual in addition to his or her environment including family and friends. Thus it has negative social repercussions. For example, a person’s ability to perform common tasks can be significantly compromised after a stroke. Similarly, the level of independence and ability to participate in the society can be drastically changed which in turn affects a person’s quality of life(2)....
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...recent technological advances that directly affect operations management. Synopsis : Operations management goes by many names: Production, Production Management, or simply Operations. For our purposes we will define it as the production and delivery of goods and services. It encompasses designing the product and its accompanying production process, acquiring and organizing the necessary resources, and planning and executing production. With such a broad scope, the operations function plays an integral role in the ability of an organization to achieve its goals. A well-trained manager must be familiar and conversant with the many issues and concepts that arise within this functional area. In this course we will study the management of the operations function. We will focus on both understanding how the provision of goods is organized and managed and recognizing potential areas of improvement in the management of goods and services. Lecturer : ASSOC. PROFESSOR DR. AZMAWANI ABD RAHMAN dr.azmawani@gmail.com / azar@putra.upm.edu.my 03-89467578 / 7674 Office: A331/ Head of Dept. Management and...
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...In the current United States of America, a high minimum wage has hurt people economically, which has been seen by poverty rates, unemployment rates, and the reduction of part-time jobs. In 2008, an economist from American University and Cornell University released their results to their study on the effects of a higher minimum wage. They reported that through 2003 to 2007, the increase in the minimum wage did not decrease poverty rates throughout the struggling urban areas of America. Simultaneously, a group of economist from Ohio State University released a study that the increase in minimum wage, but in fact increased poverty rates across America. Unlike poverty rates, there has been a significant and visible increase in unemployment rates...
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...umbrella”. These are examples of situations that are common to many children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Children with ADHD tend to have creative and unique ways of thinking, and many problems focusing on one task, especially in school situations. Today children with this disorder are frequently prescribed medications to control their attention and/or hyperactivity. But are we doing what is in the best interest for children, or making it easier on the adults who have to deal with these children daily? In the previous stated examples we can see how the concentration, hyperactivity, and unique ways of thinking, “and behaving that were exemplified by Robert Frost, Frank Lloyd Wright, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Virginia Wolf, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Tesla. All of these individuals faced school problems, dark diagnoses, or worse. These are example of creative individuals whose behavior could also be interpreted as...
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...lari@gmail.com Received 27 March 2013; revised 25 May 2013; accepted 5 June 2013 Copyright © 2013 Glicia Pedreira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of Nintendo Wii training in quality of life in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients when compared to traditional physical therapy (PT). Methods: A randomized, single-blinded trial with 2 parallel arms was performed in a referral center for movement disorders in North-eastern, Brazil. Forty-four PD outpatients that fulfilled the eligibility criteria with mild to moderate motor impairment were randomized. Both groups executed a warm up session for 10 minutes that consisted of trunk flexion, extension and rotation, associated with upper and lower limbs stretching. The PT group followed a program that consisted of trunk and limb mobilisation, balance, muscle strengthening, rhythmic movement, postural alignment, double-task execution, bimanual tasks, and gait training. The Nintendo Wii group executed a sequence of tasks according to a previously established protocol, with similar training exercises. Duration of exercises was 40 minutes per session, 3 days per week for 4 weeks. The primary endpoint was the total score obtained in the Parkinson’s disease quality of life...
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...Drug Enforcement Administration reports that users can act high for an hour but the drug can still affect the body for up to 24 hours. Short term effects of the drug are dream-like states of hallucinations. Users say they feel like they are floating or are separated from their body. Effects also include impaired attention, learning ability, and memory. The K Hole large amounts of Ketamine creates is a lot like a “bad trip” people get from LDS. Users say they feel drunk, stoned, and tripping all at once. Long term use causes bad mental and physical problems like delirium, amnesia, impaired motor function, high blood pressure, depression, and potentially fatal respiratory problems. It can take from 2 months to 2 years for the chronic effects of Special K to wear off. Withdrawal signs include moodiness, anxiety, sweating, and agitation. Symptoms of an overdose include loss of motor control, unconsciousness, coma and even death. Special K as a powder is usually snorted, but it can be laced into tobacco or marijuana and smoked. The...
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...The power of music: its impact on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, University of London Executive Summary Recent advances in the study of the brain have enhanced our understanding of the way that active engagement with music may influence other activities. The cerebral cortex selforganises as we engage with different musical activities, skills in these areas may then transfer to other activities if the processes involved are similar. Some skills transfer automatically without our conscious awareness, others require reflection on how they might be utilised in a new situation. Perceptual, language and literacy skills Speech and music have a number of shared processing systems. Musical experiences which enhance processing can therefore impact on the perception of language which in turn impacts on learning to read. Active engagement with music sharpens the brain’s early encoding of linguistic sound. Eight year old children with just 8 weeks of musical training showed improvement in perceptual cognition compared with controls. Speech makes extensive use of structural auditory patterns based on timbre differences between phonemes. Musical training develops skills which enhance perception of these patterns. This is critical in developing phonological awareness which in turn contributes to learning to read successfully. Speech processing requires similar processing to melodic contour. Eight year old...
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...likely that the blockage will occur which causes a stroke or transient ischaemic attack which is also called the mini stroke (Chobanian et al., 2003). On some very rare instances, the extra strain causes the blood vessels to get weak and burst inside the brain which causes bleeding into the surrounding tissues. This is called as a hemorrhagic stroke. The common symptoms of having a stroke include severe headache, confusion, losing coordination, losing vision, feeling numb or weak. The symptoms depend on the amount of damage which has been done to the brain. A stroke often leads to physical disability. It is possible for people who have had strokes in their life to recover the abilities that they lost over time but this is not always the case and sometimes strokes can lead to a permanent disability. Some people who have a stroke face difficulties regarding their memory and thinking process. This is called as the vascular dementia in which the damage can be even permanent and can progress as well. A person...
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...NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Learner: Teka L. Williams Academic Integrity: All work submitted in each course must be the Learner’s own. This includes all assignments, exams, term papers, and other projects required by the faculty mentor. The known submission of another person’s work represented as that of the Learner’s without properly citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and may result in academic dismissal. Psych 6302-8 Dr. Nickerson Impact of Psychological Illness on Nutrition Assignment # 6 <Add Learner comments here> ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Faculty Use Only ------------------------------------------------- <Faculty comments here> Impact of Psychological Illness on Nutrition Healthy nutrition is often a reflection of healthy living in general. Psychosocial behaviors, psychological illness, cognitive deficiencies, and body image are among the many behavioral and psychosocial factors that can have an impact on nutrition. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is amongst the most common neurobehavioral disorders in children, with a prevalence...
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...Case Study On Chrysler in Trouble Prepared For: Tanvir H Dewan Course Coordinator of CBA,IUBAT Prepared By: Group Name: Brain Crash Name | ID | Section | Program | Md. Manik Molla | 12102462 | B | BBA | Kazi Mahmud Hasan | 12102482 | B | BBA | Mahidul Islam | 13202013 | B | BBA | Monika Shama | 12102450 | B | BBA | Course Name: Strategic Management Course Code: MGT - 403 Section – B Date of Submission: 29th November 2014 IUBAT- International University of Business Agriculture and Technology I. Current Situation A. Current Performance Chrysler is an American automobile manufacturer headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan and owned by Italian automaker Fiat. Chrysler is one of the "Big Three" American automobile manufacturers. It sells vehicles worldwide under its flagship Chrysler brand, as well as the Dodge, Jeep and Ram. Other major divisions include Mopar, its automotive parts and accessories division, and SRT, its performance automobile division. In 2014, Chrysler Group LLC is the seventh biggest automaker in the world by production. In 1998, Chrysler merged with German automaker Daimler-Benz AG to form DaimlerChrysler; the merger proved contentious with investors and Chrysler was sold to Cerberus Capital Management and renamed Chryvgsler LLC in 2007. Like the other Big Three automobile manufacturers, Chrysler was hit hard by the automotive industry crisis of 2008–2010 and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on April 30...
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...LANGUAGE ACQUISTIION AND DEAFNESS Assignment 1 INTRODUCTION The first 0 – 4 years are the most important years of the learning process of a child’s life. It is generally expressed that a child’s brain can perform like a sponge in early education, and that it can soak up a wealth of information which is retained for most of its life. Much of our knowledge could be described as being acquired in a mechanical or programmed sort of way during these early years, whereby a child learns to crawl, sit, stand, walk or talk without being shown or forced to do so. However, with regard to language acquisition, according to the ‘Behaviourist’ Perception (B.F. Skinner) children learn through training and start from scratch. This theory bases its beliefs on everything being determined through the environment, whereby “’conditioning’ that is through imitation” Singleton, D (1989:122) and habit development forms the basis of language acquisition. On the other hand the ‘Nativist’ approach (N. Chomsky) contradicts this line of thought. This theory argues that there is a ‘poverty of stimulus’ in earliest environmental existence and that the child is born with an innate biological language faculty which steers and forms language acquisition, and that humans are equipped with a language acquisition device (LAD). Singleton (1989). The “argument here is age related having to do with the early emergence of language in the young child”. Singleton (1989:188). While each writer has his particular...
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...Clusters, Innovation, and Competitiveness: New Findings and Implications for Policy Professor Michael E. Porter Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness Harvard Business School Stockholm, Sweden 22 January 2008 This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter’s articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), “The Microeconomic Foundations of Economic Development,” (with C Ketels, M Delgado) in The Global Competitiveness Report 2006, (World Economic Forum, 2005), “Clusters and the New Competitive Agenda for Companies and Governments” in On Competition (Harvard Business School Press, 1998), and the Cluster Initiative Greenbook (Ivory Tower, 2004) by C Ketels, O Solvell, and G Lindqvist. No part of this publication 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 permission of the author. Additional information may be found at the website of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, www.isc.hbs.edu The Changing Nature of International Competition • Falling restraints to trade and investment • Globalization of markets • Globalization of value chains • Shift from vertical integration to relying on outside suppliers, partners, and institutions • Increasing knowledge and skill intensity of competition • Nations and regions compete on becoming the most productive locations for business European...
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...VINES Laboratory and eLearning on Retention of Learning Among Level II Student Nurses A Thesis presented to the Faculty of Institute of Nursing Far Eastern University By: BSN 118 Group 71 Balanay, Shara Jane; Lewis, Samantha; Lisay, Kathreen; Martinez, Nikka; Obar, Zharmaine; Patiño, Mary Caryl; Quigao, Abigael; Reyes, Laurice; Silang, Johnas; Taylor, Ivanna Jane; Uy, Ashley Chloè In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for The course in Nursing Research Far Eastern University September 2010 Abstract The study seeks to determine the difference in the learning retention rate of students exposed to either eLearning or VINES laboratory instruction. 88 students from Level II Institute of Nursing of the Far Eastern University were purposively selected for the experiment, specifically those without prior experience with the modules. Subjects were notified of the purposes of the research through an informed consent. The respondents, categorized randomly as either Group A or B and were given the same lessons thru eLearning or a simulated-hospital setting using VINES respectively. Mean scores gathered from the two groups were computed, with the difference evaluated using independent t-test. Significant difference was noted between the mean scores of students under Group A and B suggestive that VINES provides students greater advantage in learning retention than eLearning. Given the results, the researchers recommended the use of...
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