Efficient initiatives to help protect the environment Just like our bodies, the environment functions best when it's in balance. Unfortunately, we're not quite there. Many of us believe that we lead lives that respect nature but our consumption habits give us away. Many little habits that seem to be sustainable are in fact polluting. Along with pollution, issues like depletion of resources, the rise of consumerism, and the "throw away" culture have led to serious issues. That being said, the fight's not over yet. Fortunately, more people than ever are both aware of and active in the protection of the environment. To protect the environment, waste management and recycling are crucial. When we recycle, used materials are converted into new products, reducing the need to consume natural resources. If used materials are not recycled, new products are made by extracting fresh, raw material from the Earth, through mining and forestry. R...
Floating Wind Turbines University of Tartu 2012 Featured topics Basic layout of wind turbines About FWT Technology and advantages Initiatives Conclusion Introduction to how wind turbines work Electricity Kinetic Click to edit Master text styles Second level energy of the wind Third level is converted to Fourth level mehanical energy. Fifth level Main parts 1. Rotor blades 2. Shaft 3. Generator Introduction to how wind turbines work Click to edit Master text styles Click to edit Master text styles Second level Second level Third level Third level ...
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better gradations for a job well done. Moving to a higher group is possible if a worker regularly performs a higher value activity. Employees could also earn extra pay trough a personal supplement, payable for an individual´s contribution to group results. One of the most outstanding BMW manufacturing facility is the Cowley plant. Unions in that plant won the CIPD People Management Award because of their high performance and very good teamwork. HRM had two high-profile initiatives like establishing self-directed work groups and using an employee suggestion scheme in which individual bonus payments are given in return for cost savings and production improvement suggestions. Here is some statistics how these initiatives worked: · in 2002, production targets were exceeded by more than 60 per cent; · the programme of continuous process improvement saved £10.5 million in two years 2002- 2003;
Concern about fragmentation typically focuses on a lack of service coordination for individual patients and, particularly, the structural and cultural isolation of generalist from specialist medicine, or adult social care from health care, which often results in patients experiencing discontinuity of care when they are transferred from home to hospital, or vice versa. Table 1: Trends in integration initiatives 1980s 1990s 2000s · coordinated working · inter-agency working · inter-professional working · shared planning · intermediate care · whole systems working · coordinated care · shared protocols · integrated delivery · care programmes · managed care networks
professional skills OO5, SO4, SO5, TO3 LO8 Increase profitability, which would allow the company to grow as WO1, WO2, WO3, the influx of funds would allow to hire more professionals or/and WO4, OO1, OO2, help motivate current employees OO3 Financial Perspective Objectives Measures Targets Initiatives 2013, 2014, 2015 Increase profits Profit growth 7%, 20%, 35% Product deliverance Increase income Revenue growth 10%, 25%, 40% Attainment of new customers, including international ones
The Masais are selling souvenirs, charging for pictures and performing their sacred dances for tourists to get living. These things show that the destruction is not just a superficial consenquence of tourism, but is often an indication of much more deep-rooted cultural changes. But a quiet cultural revolution is happening. Communities are standing up and asking for something different. Over the last decade there has been a rapid growth in local ,,alternative tourism" initiatives. This means that buildings are built by locals with sustainable local materials, food is bought from local farmers and a limit on development has been set so that local communities aren't being overrun and the the destination isn't overly dependent on tourism.
nt: sellele tootele on palju kliente, selle toote järgi on vajadus, lähtutakse turust. Ei võta suundi turul ise arvesse, võib kehtida monopolfirmade kohta. Bottom down Some basic elements of the top-down approach include leadership development, training, equal employment and zero tolerance policies, social responsibility initiatives, recruitment and retention programmes, linking diversity to business goals, and culture-change initiatives. nt Kodak- einmõelnud kliendile See, mis teeme endale, pole hinda. Töö inimestega, töö iseendaga Juhtimise peamised tegevused (mudelist) *info- turundus *eesmärk- kasum Juhtimise alused 2.tund- Keskkond ja kultuur 2011 13,3% tööpuudus eestis 2011 850 Eurot keskmine palk Organisatsiooni keskkond Mõisted: SISEKESKKOND: inimesed, organisatsiooni kultuur,
conception but, by 2010, plans were increasingly firm. Windows Azure let developers run applications on Microsoft-hosted platforms, while Microsoft Office 2010 was slated to include an "Office Web" version accessible through a web browser. Whereas most cloud-based applications were run in public clouds, Microsoft promised to let companies install web apps on their own web servers, potentially improving privacy and security. Google's initiatives were a threat to eBay because of the first step in many e- commerce transactions. Customers shopping for a product could visit eBay's marketplace to find a qualified sellers, or they could find a vendor through Google. In fact many of Google's advertisers were also eBay sellers. eBay's PayPal services faced similar competition from Google Checkout. Both services should offer checkout services to third-party retailers. Yahoo
Estonian Business Incubators Essay Tallinn 2012 We can define business incubators as a specially designed programs to maintain successful development of entrepreneurial companies. There are more than 800 business Incubators in Europe and they devise into 2 main groups : 1) Incubators that focused on general business support 2) focused on technological areas. In Estonia exist Incubators in operation and new initiatives are underway. In my essay I allocate those Incubators, which are located in Tallinn. There are: Kopli Business Incubator, Ülemiste Business Incubator, Tallinn Creative Incubator. I focus on two of them : the Ülemiste Business Incubator which is created for technology-based service providers and innovative start- ups. This Incubator can offer modern office facilities in a location with a good success. The place is suitable for meetings with a perspective clients. The location of some start-ups
medium-term. The London Summit in October 2005 focused on the practical implementation of the Road Maps for the four Common Spaces. EU COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA AND EASTERN PARTNERSHIP COUNTRIES The course "EU Cooperation with Russia and Eastern Partnership Countries" is a part of TRADERUN programme and will proovide an overview and analysis of the challenges, activities, tools, experience and visions of European Union's eastward initiatives. Content will cover EU enlargement, EU Neighborhood Policy and EU Eastern Dimension activities and initiatives. Course codes TÜ P2EC.00.172 (UT code); RIE7014 (TLU code), HHL0013 (TTU code) Coordinating lecturer Viljar Veebel, [email protected] FINAL EXAM PART 1/ GROUP WORK 1/ MATERIAL 1 General instruction: There should be maximum 4 people in the group and in total you have 45 minutes to answer the questions. It is allowed to use the materials. The total length of the answers
- policy function (setting targets/goals, planning, decision making); - organizational (execution, monitoring, communication/information). The best managers select people on talent, not on intelligence, education or experience. And do not try to improve their staff's weak points but rather strengthen their strong points. Taylorism: rational model. Goal - productivity maximization. Monotonous, management by control, no personal initiatives. Human relations approach: goal employee satisfaction, participation, conflict solving, manager is MOTIVATOR, work still monotonous. Revisionism: integration between social system and technological system, appreciation and interesting work are important motivators. McGregor X/Y theory X: people are lazy, will avoid responsibility, avoid work, they desire only money. Y: people need independency, responsibility, naturally want to work.
5) Gitlow, Howard S., Levine David M., 2005a. Six Sigma For Green Belts And Champions : Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases And Certification. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall 6) Joglekar, Anand M., 2003a. Statistical Methods for Six Sigma: In R&D and Manufacturing. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 7) Sleeper, Andrew D., 2006a. Design for Six Sigma Statistics: 59 Tools for Diagnosing and Solving Problems in DFSS initiatives. New York: McGraw - Hill Six Sigma 8) Stamatis, D.H., 2003a. Six Sigma For Financial Professionals. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 9) Wikipedia 2010, Six Sigma. [Online] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma [30.11.2010] 10) Wikipedia 2010, Projektijuhtimise konspekt. [Online] http://beta.wikiversity.org/wiki/Protsessijuhtimise_konspekt#Six_Sigma [30.11.2010]
progress. The ONR Diversity Committee is an important tool for ONR in its work to increase diversity, and the current committee is to be commended for its solid recommendations. This committee believes that the ONR Diversity Committee should be strengthened and given a position of greater prominence. The Committee has identified many useful ways to increase the representation of target groups. Included among them are new initiatives in four areas: diversity training, rotational assignments, mentoring, and recruitment and relocation bonuses. Diversity training is helpful to ensure that common skills and knowledge are shared throughout the organization. This plan suggests that departmental displays highlight principal investigators, their research, and pictures of diverse participants. This can be an excellent forum to demonstrate the contribution of scientists and engineers in the target groups
therefore considered to be a medium-size barrier in Table I. HOW TO OVERCOME BARRIERS This paper focuses barriers and omits more positive circumstances for district heating. It may be depressing but the message is not that district heating has no prospects. The report should rather be understood as a realistic guide to DH development in the studied countries. To have a chance to overcome the outlined barriers to any significant extent, powerful initiatives are required from countries with established district-heating industries, such as Sweden. Initiatives should comprise many different players, for example, district-heating companies, equipment manufacturers, consultants and governmental bodies. Such consortia could offer district-heating systems from fuel supply, via heat production plants and DH networks to customer contracts. Now, many foreign groups visit municipal district-heating systems in
defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012. As president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. Other domestic policy initiatives include the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, and the Budget Control Act of 2011. In May 2012, he became the first sitting U.S. president to openly support legalizing same-sex marriage. In foreign policy, he ended the war in Iraq, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, ordered U.S. involvement in the 2011 Libya military
sustainability strategy for decreasing costs and improving profitability, and thereby gaining cost leadership. Costs and Risks - Cost analysis can be greatly enhanced by a holistic approach to assessing risks and uncertainties. In some industry sectors, key risks and uncertainties have strong links to environmental and social concerns. Product Differentiation - Sustainability initiatives and strategies also provide opportunities for product differentiation—a key component of competitive advantage. Many leading companies are repositioning their products as services as part of their attempt to reduce their environmental or social impacts. The environmental and social performance of companies can also have significant affect on intangible assets such as brand image and consumer goodwill, which are
combating of exclusion. - Flexicurity: an integrated strategy for enhancing, at the same time, flexibility and security in the labour market. It attempts to reconcile with workers’ need for security – confidence that they will not face long periods of unemployment 2. Social Policy aspects in EU strategy EU 2020 Priority is “inclusive growth”. It introduced three initiatives under the areas of employment and social affairs: - An agenda for new skills and jobs, which aims at revamping flexicurity policies to make the labour market function better, help people develop the skills of tomorrow and improve job quality and working conditions. - Youth on the move, which will contribute to better education and training help/encourage young people to
independent development is almost impossible. (Marlow, 2015) •In the past the state has made efforts to make chaebols more efficient by forcefully restructuring them. By now it is clear that this will not be enough. The state has realised that it needs to limit the economy’s dependence on large companies. Also, in order to stay competitive, there needs to be a general shift away from hardware and towards services. (Mundy, 2014) •There have been government initiatives launched to foster the start-up model of business, especially when it comes to funding (the largest financing mechanism is Growth Ladder Fund, with about $2.7bn in assets), but generally the regulatory and business environment is still considered too rigid, conservative and geared towards large conglomerates to bring about any substantial change. (Jung-a, 2014)
Kordamisküsimused keskkonnaökonoomikast 2014 1. Keskkonnaökonoomika definitsioon ja valdkond Keskkonnaökonoomika on ökonoomika, mis tegeleb looduskapitaliga. Keskkonnaökonoomika on majandusteaduse rakendusharu, mis käsitleb inimeste sotsiaalmajanduslikku tegevust mõjutavaid tegureid ja nende seoseid keskkonnaga. Keskkonnaökonoomika koht majandusteaduses: mikro-ja makroökonoomikas. Mõlemad sisaldavad keskkonnaökonoomika komponenti. - majandusteaduse rakendusharu, mis käsitleb inimeste sotsiaal-majanduslikku tegevust mõjutavaid tegureid ja nende seoseid keskkonnaga - majandusteaduse haru, mis käsitleb looduskeskkonna kaitse ja loodusressursside (nii taastuvate kui taastuvate) kasutamisega seotud majandusküsimusi -ökonoomika, mis tegeleb looduskapitaliga. Keskkonnaökonoomika tegeleb peamiselt loodusressursside ammutamise ja keskkonna saastamise majandusliku aspektiga. 2. Malthuse teooria Malthus sõnastas oma teoses printsiibi, mille k...
Kordamisküsimused keskkonnaökonoomikast 2015 1. Keskkonnaökonoomika definitsioon ja valdkond Keskkonnaökonoomika on majandusteaduse rakendusharu, mis käsitleb inimeste sotsiaal-majanduslikku tegevust mõjutavaid tegureid ja nende seoseid keskkonnaga majandusteaduse haru, mis käsitleb looduskeskkonna kaitse ja loodusressursside (nii taastuvate kui taastuvate) kasutamisega seotud majandusküsimusi ökonoomika, mis tegeleb looduskapitaliga. Keskkonnaökonoomika tegeleb peamiselt loodusressursside ammutamise ja keskkonna saastamise majandusliku aspektiga. 2. Malthuse teooria Malthus sõnastas oma teoses printsiibi, mille kohaselt inimeste arv kasvab geomeetrilises progressioonis (1, 2, 4, 8, 16), nende kasutada olevad ressursid aga aritmeetilises progressioonis (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Printsiip põhineb tõsiasjal, et rahvastiku kasvu osas võis mitmetes maades sel ajal tõepoolest täheldada geomeetrilist ...
António de Oliveira Salazar in 1933. Portugal was one of only five European countries to remain neutral in World War II. From the 1940s to the 1960s, Portugal was a founding member of NATO, OECD and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). Gradually, new economic development projects and relocation of mainland Portuguese citizens into the overseas provinces in Africa were initiated, with Angola and Mozambique, as the largest and richest overseas territories, being the main targets of those initiatives. These actions were used to affirm Portugal's status as a pluricontinental nation and not as a colonial empire. After India attained independence in 1947, pro-Indian residents of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, with the support of the Indian government and the help of pro-independence organisations, invaded the territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli from Portuguese rule in 1954. In 1961, São João Baptista de Ajudá's annexation by the Republic of Dahomey was the start of a
worldwide and have proven their validity. This, the fifth chapter is about the integration of these two models. The purpose of this work is not to define any particular workflow, to describe how these two can be simultaneously used or provide a new model of how these two independent concepts could be integrated, but rather to provide an introduction to existing forms and studies. 5.1 Theoretical work of integrating Lean Construction and Building Information Modelling LC and BIM are different initiatives, but both have proven to have a profound impact on the construction processes. "The Interaction of Lean and Building Information Modelling in Construction" compiled by Sacks, Koskela, Dave and Owen (2009) is a thorough, theoretical and practical literature review of the understanding of the synergies between LC and BIM. This white paper juxtaposes 16 lean heuristics/principles with the 8 BIM functionalities/uses to determine if the use of BIM in construction processes promotes leaner processes
implementation and potential opportunities to optimize the system. The team then came up with 24 recommendations for improvement of utilization, user productivity and forecast accuracy. These recommendations were analyzed from two aspects viz. 'ease of implementation' and 'delivered business value' to arrive at the priority classification for implementation. In the second phase, the Infosys team was asked to implement eight of the statistical modeling initiatives, clubbed under four Clusters with an objective to improve forecasting process, user productivity (by making the 38 system user friendly and flexible) and implementing various advanced features of DP that were not being used. The above scope was completed within a short span of four months leveraging the Infosys' Global Delivery Model with significant productivity/ process improvements. (iv.) Benefits:
Rights of the Child (2009), http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dcells/publications/091117gettingitrighten.pdf [accessed 16 April 2014]; Berry Mayhall, `The sociology of childhood in relation to children’s rights`, 17 councils in Wales, the inclusion of the UNCRC to the Personal and Social Education (PSE) curriculum and the Rights Respecting School initiative developed by the UNICEF UK, are only a number of initiatives taken by the Welsh Government and NGO`s in respect of protecting children and young people`s rights. The PSE curriculum provides children with the opportunity to access their right to have their voices heard and participate in the matters that affect them through the Active Citizenship element in this framework. The Rights Respecting School programme which clearly fits with the PSE framework is one of the first encouraging
Georgia is a business-friendly state that strives to make Georgia the best destination for business- es. The reforms and creation of the right legal base have played a significant role in Georgia's economic growth. The Government of Georgia stays committed to its economic reform agenda and intends to implement further reforms to improve its investment climate and stimulate eco- nomic growth. This means more reforms and more initiatives in a range of fields aimed at further improvement of investment climate and progress in terms of the ease of doing business. In this brochure we offer information about the legal framework which is highly important in the process of starting up and running a business in Georgia. The brochure consists of three parts Start up a Business, Privatization and the Labor legislation. Each part consists of chapters outlining in most comprehensible language the content of the leg-
Aarhus School of Architecture is focusing on product configuration, design intent and IFC model servers whereas the Technical University of Denmark is working on interoperability (Wong, Wong & Nadeem, 2009). From the practices of Finland, Denmark and Norway it is evident that the implementation of BIM starts with a public organization taking the lead and drafting BIM guidelines. At the same time, strong support of the private sector is also required in the form of university programs and R&D initiatives by top AEC companies. Finland, Denmark and Norway realized the benefits of virtual design and construction tools around 2007, whereas the first BIM guideline in Estonia was drafted almost 3 years later in 2009. At the same time this might not be such a bad course of events for Estonia. We now have an excellent opportunity to learn form the mistakes and successes from other countries and adopt the best practices. If Estonian architecture, engineering and construction companies
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