CHAPTER 12 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. THE ADVENT OF LOW-COST COMPUTING SHOULD NOT BE SEEN AS OBVIATING THE NEED FOR THE ABC INVENTORY CLASSIFICATION SCHEME. ALTHOUGH THE COST OF COMPUTING HAS DECREASED CONSIDERABLY, THE COST OF DATA ACQUISITION HAS NOT DECREASED IN A SIMILAR FASHION. BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS STILL HAVE MANY ITEMS FOR WHICH THE COST OF DATA ACQUISITION FOR A “PERPETUAL” INVENTORY SYSTEM IS STILL CONSIDERABLY HIGHER THAN THE COST OF THE ITEM. 2. The standard EOQ model assumes instantaneous
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boiling point of water is 100°C (Bodner research Web, n.d.). Salt is considered to be a non-volatile soluble substance and in turn is supposed to increase the temperature at which the water boils Southwest Research institute, 2014). Chefs have thought for ages that adding salt to water would increase the boiling time. A higher boiling temperature should increase boiling times although displacing water with salt reduces the volume of water to boil. Literature Review The boiling point of a liquid
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Options for Square: Organic Growth Rewards • Continued Growth • Huge Unserved & Underserved market • Focus on core value dx and competency Risks • Might not be enough new customers to sustain growth • Already have scooped up early adopters • Risk being driven out by new disruptive technology • Highly imitable – startups and new entrants can copy • Organic Growth tends to push sustaining technologies upward relative to performance demanded by low end of market Reactions from Competitors
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Distillation Simple distillation is a method used for the separation of components of a mixture containing two miscible liquids that boil without decomposition and have sufficient difference in their boiling points. The distillation process involves heating a liquid to its boiling points, and transferring the vapours into the cold portion of the apparatus, then condensing the vapours and collecting the condensed liquid in a container. In this process, when the temperature of a liquid rises, the
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Week 6 Assignment Keller Graduate School of Management 2/14/2016 Fashioning A Fraud Case Study Expense reports are a fact of life for any business that sends employees to visit clients other offices, or conferences. While most employees are honest and abide by corporate rules, there are enough dishonest ones to make a serious dent in the bottom line. In the “Fashioning A Fraud Case”, Bobbie Jean Donnelly defrauded her company of approximately $275,000 over a two year time span, by submitting
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Pentium Microprocessor Flaw The Pentium Microprocessor Flaw was in the floating point math section. The most famous example is the case 4195835/3145727. The division results were off by approximately sixty-one parts per million. The way this issue was discovered was by a math professor at Lynchburg college by the name of, Thomas Nicely, this college was located in Virginia. He discovered this flaw in summer/fall of 1994. While he was computing the sum of the reciprocals of a large collection of
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Scirius Kittis meets Scirius Nevile: The Evolution of a New Species Various experiments and measurements were performed in the field in order to compare the two types of rodents. The following is a list of the data collected through multiple observations over a span of two years. We captured 100 rats of each rodent population, and we found the average weight, length, hind limb, and forelimb measurements. In addition, we conducted experiments in regards to their top speed, average height
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Malcolm Gladwell’s famous novel, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, opens up a new idea of how first impressions truly have a major impact within our minds. Gladwell is not only a well known best selling author, having all five of his books on New York times best selling list, but also a respectable journalist. Gladwell introduces his idea of “thin-slicing” through situations with both good and bad outcomes. “Thin-Slicing” is the idea that humans are able to make accurate judgments based
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The Seize of Fort Pulaski Constructed with twenty-five million bricks Fort Pulaski stands tall and heavily guarded with twenty 32-pounder navel guns. Fort Pulaski is located on Cockspur Island in Chatham County, Georgia. Pulaski started being built in 1829 and was finished in 1874. In Fort Pulaski and the defense of Savannah it states that “Forts such as Pulaski had two missions- to prevent the passage of ships and to resist attacks.” The past of Pulaski was rough, preparing took months, and the
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, written by Malcolm Gladwell is about first impressions and snap judgments. Gladwell has three main objectives in this book: “to convince you that “decisions made very quickly can be every bit as good as decisions made cautiously and deliberately,” “to learn when to listen to that powerful onboard computer and when to be wary of it,” and “to convince you that our snap judgments and first impressions can be educated and controlled.” Gladwell starts off
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