supplies planning are very dynamic and can often have last minute changes. Availability of patient kit when patient arrives at investigator site is very important for clinical trial success. This results in overproduction of drug products to take care of last minute change in demand. R&D manufacturing is very expensive and overproduction of patient kits adds significant cost to the total cost of clinical trials. An integrated supply chain can reduce the overproduction of drug products by efficient demand management, planning, and inventory management. Traditionally, marketing, distribution, planning, manufacturing, and the purchasing organizations along the supply chain operated independently. These organizations have their own objectives and these are often conflicting. Marketing's objective of high customer service and maximum sales dollars conflict with manufacturing and distribution goals. Many manufacturing
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Hyper-competition and Competitive Advantage Sustainability Competitive Tactics Requerements for Generic Competitive Strategies Overall cost of leadership Differentaiton Focus Market location tactics where a company implements a strategy • Offensive tactics • Defensive tactics Cooperative Strategies * Collusion * Strategic alliances Used to: − Obtain or learn new capabilities − Obtain access to specific markets − Reduce financial risk − Reduce political risk Corporate Strategy Directional strategy KASV , STABILITY, RETRENCHMENT Portfolio analysis Growth Strategy: Concentration and Diversification Merger a transaction involving two or more corporations in which stock is exchanged but in which only one corporation survives • Acquisition the purchase of a company that is completely absorbed by the subsidiary or division of the acquiring corporation Diversification Strategies
5. Financial Institutions and Services Objectives and Outcomes To give overview of main players. 5.1. Introduction It is common to distinguish between monetary financial institutions (MFIs) and other financial intermediaries. The distinction is based on the functions of institutions institutions in the first group (MFIs) play important role in the process of money creation in modern economies. European Central Bank (ECB) describes Monetary financial institutions as including national central banks (and also ECB in the euro area), credit institutions and non-credit institutions which receive deposits from general public (individuals and non-MFI firms) and grant credit and/or invest in securities. Major
Cost Accounting. Chapter 1 Management accounting measures, analyzes, and reports financial and no financial information that helps managers make decisions to fulfill the goals of an organization. Financial accounting focuses on reporting to external parties such as investors, government agencies, banks and suppliers. It measures and records business transactions and provides financial statements that are based on GAAP. Cost accounting measures, analyzes, and reports financial and no financial information relating to cost of acquiring or using resources in an organization. Value-chain analysis: sequence of business functions in which customer usefulness is added to products and services. 1. Research and development 2. Design of products, services, or processes 3. Production 4. Marketing 5. Distribution 6. Customer service.
BARRIERS TO DISTRICT HEATING DEVELOPMENT IN SOME EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Abstract District heating (DH) offers low primary energy demand, high security of supply and small CO 2 emissions. Barriers to DH in the UK, Ireland, France, Romania and the Czech Republic have been compiled through publications and interviews. DH systems require large investments, have negative initial cash flow and long payback time, which obstructs financing. One actor should control DH from source to consumption. If the value chain is fragmented, contracts are required between the links. It increases risks and financing costs, like in the UK and Ireland, where DH is not established. There are few multi- family houses with central heating and it is expensive to build DH networks in built areas. Most French DH systems are operated according to long-term concessions by companies that sell
Toscana Gourmet exists. · Increasing sales opportunities in take out business. Threats · Competition from local restaurants that respond to Toscana Gourmet superior offerings. · Other Italian restaurants found in Tallinn. · A slump in the economy reducing customer's disposable income spent on eating out. Objectives Marketing: 1. Maintain positive, steady, growth each month. 2. Generate at least 40,000 in sales per month. 3. Experience an increase in new customers who are turned into long-term customers. 3 Financial: 1. Double the growth for next year (at least 80, 000 per month next year). 2. Continue to decrease the variable costs associated with food production. Our objectives are rather specific, achievable, realistic and timed
The costs of production Production Decisions about production require individual agents to make decisions about the allocation and use of physical inputs. · Objectives of agents, technology, availability and quality of inputs determine the nature of these decisions. Since the objectives are often pecuniary, it is often necessary to relate the decisions about the physical units of inputs and outputs to the costs of production. · If the prices of the inputs and the production relationships are known (or understood), it is possible to calculate or estimate all the cost relationships for each level of output. In practice
hypnotherapy, reflexology, homeopathy and so on. Some have recognised degree courses, others have nationally recognised courses at other levels, while others do not yet have a structured qualification system and no statutory requirement to train at all. However, most have a lead organisation which can provide a list of recognised courses. Chef You may not need any qualifications to start work as a trainee (commis) chef. However, there are related courses that will help prepare you for work as a chef including GCSEs, BTECs, HNDs and foundation degrees. Web designer If you don't have experience in the IT industry, it's best to obtain one of the many undergraduate or master's degree courses offered by universities and technical colleges. Grants and bursaries are available. Nurse Most people do a diploma or degree. Training providers vary in terms of entry criteria. The Government pays tuition fees and students get a bursary for living expenses. Garden designer
Union. That history partly explains Ukraine's voting patterns, political sympathies, and outlook on the future. Population of Western Ukraine largely supports politics paying EU card (Yusteshenko, Tymoshenko), while industrial Eastern regions support Yanukovych as Politian closely associated with better relation / integration with Russia. 1.1.2. Post-Independent Ukraine. Economy and politics 1990-s When Ukraine became independent in 1991, there were expectations that it would in the near future become a wealthy free market democracy and a full member of the European and Euro-Atlantic communities. Ukraine never fulfilled those expectations. Instead, it is seen as an underachiever, sometimes as a sick man of Europe, and perhaps even as a potentially failed state thanks to its geopolitical situation, historical burdens, and the mistakes made in institutional development and policy. Economically, Ukraine has grown along with the region
its low weight and high strength in both compression and tension. Therefore, the steel design and construction industry has been on the forefront of technical innovation. The purpose of this study is to determine how 3D and BIM are changing the design, fabrication and construction of complex steel structures. The thesis is qualitative in nature, in that it tries to determine the effects of virtual design and construction based on in-depth analysis of two case studies. Data were collected during 5 interviews with people who were intimately involved in the projects. Background information was obtained from professional journals, engineering articles and conference papers. During analysis, the data were compared to propositions that emerged from the literature review to determine whether a clear pattern was present. A comparison table was created to compare the
CHAPTER 1- INTRODUCTION Over time the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry has become more complex and demanding. Clients are no longer expecting only to meet schedule, cost and quality objectives but also to guarantee safety, human satisfaction and minimal negative environmental impact (Vanegas, DuBose and Pearce 1996). Traditional construction project delivery methods and models have failed to satisfy the expectations of both contractors and clients. The main problems and their causes are analysed in the second chapter of this thesis. Thus people in the AEC industry, including scholars and practitioners, have come together to find new solutions for delivering projects and fulfilling high requirements. 1.1 Problem formulation The construction industry makes up a great share of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in many countries all over the world and provides employment to a great number of people
Duties: Business Planning and Website Building Sales Manager, Footlock, April 2010 April 2011 Duties: Selling to shoe retailers across the UK, giving presentations to businesses, dealing with clients face to face, on the telephone and via email, recruiting local sales teams and other sales duties. Various Roles, Agencies in Leicester, August 2005 - April 2010 Duties: Working in various roles including: Working in a warehouses, factories picking orders, packing. Preparing food in kitchens, cash handling and till work Sales Agent, Montana Marketing, June July 2005 Duties: Talking to customers door to door, selling contracts. Team Leader (Sergeant), Estonian Army, July 2004 - June 2005 Duties: Leading a group of 10 soldiers, motivating groups to work as a team, preparing training exercises. Head of the Shift, Filee Meat Factory, Estonia, June - September 2003 Duties: Looking after a team of 8 people, picking orders in a chilled warehouse.
Module 3. Globalisation New markets via export Companies can become involved in export in many ways: Incidental contact; Forced choice to grow; Free choice to grow. Thorought preparation Passive export means that only foreign request are handled. Active export means that daily focus is given to exporting goods. Types of offers: In a offer the following items need to be discussed: Terms of payment: Advanced payment; Documentory collection – cash against documents. Delivery credit Letter of credit (аккредитив)– a letter issued by a bank to another bank (especially one in a different country) to serve as a guarantee for payments made to a specified person under specified conditions.
sector organisations. From this influence is inspired the pay-for performance tool that in private sector is usually used with car salesmen or with other sale fields. In very simplistic way pay-for performance means that one is getting paid relating how well he works. In a more complicated way it refers to instrument that encourages civil servants to rise their work quality and performance, it rewards best officials based on their contribution and effort. So it is kind of a tool to motivate officials to perform better and produce more qualitative work. (Randma-Liiv 2005) Compensating and motivating employees plays important role in governmental jobs- it helps to attract, motivate and retain qualified workers in the field. Success of pay-for performance tool has been discussed in many ways. Some researchers like Murphy and Cleveland (1995) support the success stories brining out examples why
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Margit Tepner k0848752 Sustainability aspects of biofuels 1. Introduction The literature review will discuss the sustainability aspects of biofuels. Food production will be the main concern as it is the most debated issue, but other aspects, such as land use change and water consumption will be also considered as they are essential aspects in the biofuels sustainability criteria. The review will discuss the viability of biofuels based on the current technologies. Second-generation biofuels are not yet commercially viable and therefore will not be discussed; although they could significantly improve the sustainability of biofuels when they break through to the industrial scale. 2. The scale of biofuels production 2.1. Drivers of biofuels production Lal (2010) stated that "three inter-connected challenges face humankind in the 21st century": food security, climate change, and energy security
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development. Trends The key trends during the last two years are: Expanding globalization – Expansion of global capital markets and information technology continue to bring unprecedented opportunities for the creation of new wealth. Search for new forms of global governance – Globalisation challenges the capacity of existing international institutions to govern corporate activity. Reform of corporate governance – Pressures on corporations to establish and maintain high standards of internal governance are accelerating. Global role of emerging economies – The same globalization, accountability, and governance trends evident in industrial nations are taking root in emerging economies. Rising visibility of and expectations for organizations – The spread of the Internet and communications technologies is accelerating the global transfer of information and amplifying the speed and force of feedback mechanisms.
Presently, space is so limited at many universities, and demand so high, that only students with the highest grades are accepted. Let us expand our ability to enroll students, and aim to admit all qualified applicants. This exclusion of non-A students bothers me more than high tuition rates do. Students in college can work summer jobs, such as fishing off Alaska, to earn their tuition; it is not necessary for parents or taxpayers to pay their way. Scholarships, based on deserving factors, are okay if endowed by private giving. I like to hope that even students of poor grades yet much promise might thereby get a chance to excel, as would very poor or otherwise handicapped ones. With the grades I received in high school, I did manage to get accepted by the University of Washington in 1980. But today there is no way I would've made the cut, thanks to increased competition. Yet I am one of many who
Costs Renewable energy systems encompass a broad, diverse array of technologies, and the current status of these can vary considerably. Some technologies are already mature and economically competitive (e.g. geothermal and hydropower), others need additional development to become competitive without subsidies. This can be helped by improvements to sub-components, such as electric generators. The table shows an overview of costs of various renewable energy technologies. For comparison with the prices in the table, electricity production from a conventional coal-fired plant costs about 4¢/kWh. Though in some G8 nations the cost can be significantly higher at 7.88p (~15¢/kWh).Achieving further cost reductions as indicated in the table below requires further technology development, market deployment, an increase in production capacities to mass
their home cuisine. These two types of tourists can be looked at as the “new tourist” and the “old tourist” types (Singh, 2004; Swarbrooke et al, 2003; Buckley 2003). Western society has already seen the phase of “old tourism” in 1980-90 when mass tourism started booming. That is the main reason why they are seeking new experiences from travel. In some time eastern will go through the same phase. Therefore tourists are making decisions to travel based on their cultural mind-set and environment. Depending on culture norms, in some societies gender roles are part of traditional values and have an impact on women’ ability to travel. As an example of this, women mostly in Arabic and Islam countries are expected to stay at home and raise children, while being dependent from their husbands or other male family members. Coming back to female adventure travel, travelling in these countries is not considered as an activity for women
•Properties are “things”in the object that can be changed. Instansion •A class is instantiated when it is used to stamp out one or more objects of its type •Objects that are created from a given class are called instances of that class •Encapsulation means that the properties and methods of an object are not directly accessible to the outside world. •Inheritance is the ability to create new classes based on an existing class. The new class inherits all the properties and methods and events of the base class, and can be customized with additional properties and methods. •Polymorphism is the ability of different classes to define properties or methods with the same name. Polymorphism is essential to object-oriented programming because it allows you to call methods with the same names, no matter what type of object is in use at the moment. 2. COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY – THE PROBLEM The Problem
RoI Increase the number of employees simultaneously in the office Increase efficiency of every employee Increase perceived value Customer appraisal of the Not less than 7, 8, 8 Raise satisfaction with user experience products and services based Marketing initiatives to present the product most credibly and seductively on questionnaires and actual sales (10 point scale) Attain recognition of Äripäev The list of successful Enter Top 100 Estonian Conclude the development program chartered in the scorecard Estonian enterprises Companies by 2015
Much of the worldwide growth of Islam and Christianity, for example, is expected to take place in sub-Saharan Africa. Today’s religiously unaffiliated population, by contrast, is heavily concentrated in places with low fertility and aging populations, such as Europe, North America, China and Japan. Globally, Muslims have the highest fertility rate, an average of 3.1 children per woman – well above replacement level (2.1), the minimum typically needed to maintain a stable population.6 Christians are second, at 2.7 children per woman. Hindu fertility (2.4) is similar to the global average (2.5). Worldwide, Jewish fertility (2.3 children per woman) also is above replacement level. All the other groups have fertility levels too low to sustain their populations: folk religions (1.8 children per woman), other religions (1.7), the unaffiliated (1.7) and Buddhists (1.6).
The main impact is on shellfish and plankton. Acid Rain: Acid rain occurs due to the presence of certain pollutants in the atmosphere. Acid rain can be caused due to burning of fossil fuels or erupting volcanoes or rotting vegetation which release sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere. Acid rain is a known environmental problem that can have serious effect on human health, wildlife and aquatic species. FIND OUT 5 WAYS HOW TO REDUCE OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND 5 WAYS THAT WOULD HELP TO PREVENT ACID RAIN POLLUTION. 8. Water Pollution: Clean drinking water is becoming a rare commodity. Water is becoming an economic and political issue as the human population fights for this resource. One of the options suggested is using the process of desalinization. Industrial development is filling our rivers, seas and oceans with toxic pollutants which are a major threat to human health. FIND OUT 5 WAYS HOW TO REDUCE WATER POLLUTION. 9
All registered trademarks in this book are property of their respective owners. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ferriss, Timothy. The 4-hour body / Timothy Ferriss. -- 1st ed. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Health. 2. Physical fitness. 3. Weight loss. I. Title. II. Title: Four-hour body. RA775.F47 2010 613.7--dc22 2010018533 eISBN: 978-0-307-46365-4 All illustrations by Fred Haynes/Hadel Studio, unless otherwise noted in the Photo and Illustration Credits section Jacket front-flap photos: (top) (c) Mark Reifkind; (bottom) (c) Photos taken by Inge Cook, provided courtesy of Ellington Darden, PhD v3.1 For my parents, who taught a little hellion that marching to a different drummer was a good thing. I love you both and owe you everything. Mom, sorry about all the crazy experiments. Support good science-- 10% of all author royalties are donated to cure-driven research, including the excellent work of St
11.02.09 INGLISE KEEL Palju aega läheb. 10 nädalat aint. One of the ESP courses. What we are going to do, what is needed: · What we do - 1 test, on words. · 2 Essays, that means that we have to look into academic writing · Homereading we read a case from European Court of Justice thingy. · Oral thing. · 90% you have to attend · Have to prepare for class and take part of it etc What we learn: Terms Expressions / collocations (nt obey/abide by the law) Explaining AWOL absence without a leave Legal English can be divided into 3 levels. We learn the first one, which is needed for the other two! You have to know the vocabulary etc. Second level has to do with legal contracts... The third level both 1 and 2 and explaining... We learn the vocabulary + explaining.
How to Write a Design Report Summary A design report is the written record of the project and generally is the only record that lives once the design team disbands at the end of the project. The report has three sections. The first section describes the problem that was being solved and provides the background to the design. The second section describes the design and the third section evaluates how well the design worked by comparing its performance to the design requirements. The report starts with a short executive summary that contains a synopsis of the three sections. The body of the report is relatively short. Appendices to the report contain supporting information with the details needed by a reader who wishes to fully understand the design. While this document describes the general content and organization of a design
They used a spreadsheet to figure out how much energy they consumed for each of their activities. Each of the lights, car miles, games, and other appliances was converted to a common unit of power consumption called kilowatt-hours. The spreadsheet was used to determine how many kilowatt-hours were used during each day, each week, and each year for each energy consumption activity. The spreadsheet converted their energy consumption to show them the amount of money it costs for each energy consumption activity. In the end, they were shocked to see how much money Jules' energy using habits cost compared to Les' habits. USES OF ENERGY The United States is a highly developed and industrialized society. We use a lot of energy - in our homes, in businesses, inindustry, and for traveling between all these different places. The industrial sector uses almost one-third of the total energy. The residential and commercial sectors combined use 39 percent of all energy
People the Internet isn't always secure. sentence. reacted and I thought, `I've got to If you use your credit card to buy stop this gun thing.' I believe we Listening something online, criminals could should ban guns, period. · Remind students to prepare for the get hold of the details, then use Unfortunately, guns are used for listening by reading the statements them to buy other stuff. protection by certain people. They carefully and underlining any key S1But how often does that happen
protokollima - to the the minutes igale juhatuse liikmele - for every member of the board 30 olema koosoleku juhatajaks - to be in the chair eelmise koosoleku protokoll kinnitati - minutes of the previous meeting confirmed tutvustama mõtet - to introduce the idea uus kasutatav tehnoloogia - the new technology applied liistud tehtud vahtrast ja saarest - slats made of maple and ash ta vabandas võhiklikkuse pärast - he apologized for being ignorant alandama hinda - to reduce the price lähemas tulevikus - in the near future välja tooma puidu mustri ilu - to bring out the beauty of the grain of wood kavatsema minna välisturule - intended to go to a foreign market on vaja palgta rohkem tööjõudu - to need to hire more staff kaubalaod, kus hoida toodangut - warehouses where to store the production koosoleku juhataja loeb ette vabandused - the chairman reads out apologies esimene päevakorra küsimus - first item of the agenda
10. Digital outdoor advertising - advertising by LED screens on the streets 11. Sonic posters - ads which are "making" sounds 12. Lenticular posters - ads which are showing different pictures when somebody is walking past them or near them 13. OTS or coverage - the distance between the point where you first notice the advertisement to the point where you don't see or recognize it anymore MONEY-BUYING, SELLING AND PAYING 1. Current account - bank account for daily transactions, payments and cash withdrawing 2. Bank statement - is regularly sent to costumer by bank so costumer can see how much money he has on his account 3. Savings account - bank account where you hold your extra money and don't use it everyday until you need it 4. Be in the red - to have an overdrawn account 5. Be in black - to have credit, opposite to overdrawn 6. A mortgage - money that you lend from the bank to buy a house 7. Pay outright - to pay right here, on the place
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