...1. REVIEW OF BASIC MATHEMATICS 1.0 INTRODUCTION Perhaps twenty years ago the only mathematics a business student was expected to know was a little basic arithmetic. However with the advent and widespread use of computers, it has become possible to process huge quantities of data and to use sophisticated mathematical techniques to solve complex business problems with relative ease. Consequently, it has become expedient to formulate many business problems mathematically and hence business students in our current age are required to attain at least a basic understanding of the various mathematical techniques that are available. The mathematics that is presented in this section is by no means sophisticated. It is meant to serve only as a reminder of basic definitions and techniques learned in secondary school. However because of its very basic nature it is essential that the work presented here be completely mastered if you are to fully understand the work of later sections and later years. Your primary aim for this section is therefore quite simple, to master each of the topics listed in the contents covering the area of number systems, algebra and equation solving. Your guide to a sufficient understanding of these subjects is also simple. If you can correctly solve the problems at the end of each section then you can be fairly confident you have mastered the necessary techniques required for later work. You should attempt all the problems presented unless you...
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...i TEST IQ boost your brainpower 2nd edition YOUR 400 questions to Philip Carter London and Philadelphia ii Whilst the author has made every effort to ensure that the content of this book is accurate, please note that occasional errors can occur in books of this kind. If you suspect that an error has been made in any of the tests included in this book, please inform the publishers at the address printed below so that it can be corrected at the next reprint. Publisher’s note Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publishers and author cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the editor, the publisher or the author. First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2000 by Kogan Page Limited Reprinted 2001, 2004 Reissued 2007 Reprinted 2007 Second edition 2009 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licences issued...
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...TITLE PAGE Wearable Obstacle Detection for the Blind that can Detect Discrete Elevation using Gizduino Microcontroller by Nicole Sam Rey P. Cuaresma Carissa D. Eustaquio Glenda T. Ofiana A Thesis Report Submitted to the School of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Mapúa Institute of Technology May 2015 ii iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researchers would like to express their deepest gratitude to all those who gave contribution to the completion of this paper. To our adviser, Engr. Glenn V. Magwili, for his patience and efforts in stimulating suggestions and encouragement that helped the whole group in order to create a device that can help many people. To our former instructors who have taught us valuable knowledge throughout our academic progress.This research would also not be possible without the belief of the research panel members. The researchers would also like to thank the unconditional support, patience and understanding of their families throughout the process. To the researchers’ colleagues who had also given support and shared their knowledge during the course of completing the research. Lastly, to the Almighty God who had bestowed them with wisdom and strength throughout the research and their life. To the Lord who gave blessings and guidance for the success of this research. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE...
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...International Journal of Educational Research and Technology Volume 3 Issue 2 June 2012: 86 - 96 ISSN 0976 - 4089 www.soeagra.com/ijert/ijert.htm © Society of Education, India IJERT Original Article Marriott India: Managing Its Hospitality through Gearing Service Quality Shikha Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Nilosha Sharma Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi Nurture Education Solutions Private Limited, MBA College, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad Email: shikhabirsingh@gmail.com , dineshkumar.kumar02@gmail.com, niloshasharma05@gmail.com 3i1,2Lal ABSTRACT The Marriot group of Hotels launched back in 1983 are one of the largest brand and the world’s 12th largest lodging chain.1 The Marriott had around 8,000 hotels worldwide. The company operated and have franchisees under the brand names Marriott, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Residence Inn, Courtyard, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, SpringHill Suites and Bulgari. The Marriott group in India has being focusing on its quality of service delivered and the various other factors like customer satisfaction. The case highlights the journey of Marriott group and the various services provided by Mariott. The case also discusses the various challenges upcoming for Marriott group in India related to customer service and customer satisfaction. Pedagogical Objectives The case study helps to understand and analyse: 1. The dynamics of Indian service Industry/Hospitality Industry 2. Challenges and Opportunities for...
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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Needs and Preferences for Live and Work Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Current Studio/Work Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Current Living Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Studio/Work Space Rental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Current Space Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Needs and Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 16 20 21 23 26 27 1 2 9 Occasional Creative Space Rental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Interest in Fee-Based Programs and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Interest in Additional Contact or Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Summary of Survey Results – Creative...
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...NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT On Apple’s New Product Development Strategy Posted on January 1st, 2010 by daniel Michael Malone from ABC News wrote an interesting article on Apple’s iPhone and its overall new product development strategy, with interesting strategic lessons for new product development and business in general. Google Nexus Offers Little Competition to Apple iPhone Why Google’s New Smartphone Won’t Knock Apple Off Its iPhone Throne COLUMN By MICHAEL S. MALONE, ABC News Jan. 1, 2010 Whether the marketplace is ready or not, the Big Guns in consumer electronics are about to make their move at the dawn of the New Year. Next Tuesday, Google is expected to announce its long-rumored Nexus One smartphone. It is undoubtedly designed to run the Google Android operating system for cellphones, which the search giant introduced more than a year ago. Android was envisioned as a major breakthrough in cellphones because it offered an "open" operating system i.e., one that other companies could use and design applications for. At the time, this strategy was compared to that of Microsoft Windows, which broke the market hegemony of Apple’s decidedly non-open OS in the mid-1980s and within a decade, turned Apple into a niche company. This time around, the new Android phones were supposed to break the hegemony of the Apple iPhone. So far, it hasn’t quite worked out that way with Android. A number of cell phone companies notably Motorola, HTC, and Samsung have adopted Android...
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...enormous growth of the personal computer industry in the 20th century. The introduction of the Macintosh line of personal computers in 1984 established the company as an innovator in industrial design whose products became renowned for their intuitive ease of use. Though battered by bad decision-making during the 1990s, Apple continues to exude the same enviable characteristics in the 21st century that catapulted the company toward fame during the 1980s. The company designs, manufactures, and markets personal computers, software, and peripherals, concentrating on lower-cost, uniquely designed computers such as iMAC and Power Macintosh models. Origin: Apple was founded in April 1976 by Steve Wozniak, then 26 years old, and Steve Jobs, 21, both college dropouts. Their partnership began several years earlier when Wozniak, a talented, self-taught electronics engineer, began building boxes that allowed him to make long-distance phone calls for free. The pair sold several...
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...MIS Mini-cases -- 1 of 30 Cases for Use in Management Information Systems MIS Mini-cases -- 2 of 30 MIS Mini-cases -- 3 of 30 Case 01 -- Freeway Ford You are a management consultant working for Franklin Absolom, the majority stockholder for a group of 10 automobile dealerships. He has asked you to spend several days at Freeway Ford, a dealership that is not performing up to its potential. You are not to go ―looking for trouble‖: instead, your assignment is to find ways to help management at the dealership take advantage of opportunities. One day while you are talking with James Kahler, the sales manager for Freeway Ford, you realize that the dealership only uses transaction processing systems—it is not realizing the full potential of the information it has gathered for managerial decision making. For example, Freeway Ford knows the purchase date and owner of every car it sells, but it never contacts owner about routine maintenance. Freeway Ford know that people who purchase a new car generally trade it in for another new car 3 to 4 years later, but the dealership does not contact these previous customers. Another opportunity comes from used car purchasing and sales. Every car has a vehicle identification number (VIN), and the dealership uses this number to check for known problems with a used car before it makes a purchase. A data bank of car insurance claims histories and major repairs is kept on a set of CDs that is sent to the dealership each month. At the...
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...UNDERSTANDING CUSTOMER NEEDS Barry L. Bayus Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919)962-3210 cherryflavorine@gmail.com January 2005 Revised November 2007 prepared for Shane, S. (ed.), Blackwell Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers The comments of the following people on an earlier draft are greatly appreciated: Sridhar Balasubramanian, Dick Blackburn, Paul Bloom, Ed Cornet, Ely Dahan, Abbie Griffin, Steve Hoeffler, Erin MacDonald, Jackki Mohr, Bill Moore, Vithala Rao, Allan Shocker, and Gal Zauberman. Introduction Touted as the “most significant category innovation since toilet paper first appeared in roll form in 1890,” dispersible (flushable) moist toilet tissue on a roll was introduced in the United States by Kimberly Clark in 2001. According to a corporate press release, Cottonelle Fresh Rollwipes was a breakthrough product that “delivers the cleaning and freshening of pre-moistened wipes with the convenience and disposability of toilet paper.” Internal market research seemed to indicate that there was a clear customer need for a new product to supplement dry toilet paper. Surveys and focus groups revealed that over 60% of adult consumers had experimented with a moist cleaning method (e.g., using baby wipes, wetting a washcloth, sprinkling water on dry toilet paper) and one out of four used a moist cleaning method...
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...NOTE: This PDF document has a handy set of “bookmarks” for it, which are accessible by pressing the Bookmarks tab on the left side of this window. ***************************************************** We are the last. The last generation to be unaugmented. The last generation to be intellectually alone. The last generation to be limited by our bodies. We are the first. The first generation to be augmented. The first generation to be intellectually together. The first generation to be limited only by our imaginations. We stand both before and after, balancing on the razor edge of the Event Horizon of the Singularity. That this sublime juxtapositional tautology has gone unnoticed until now is itself remarkable. We're so exquisitely privileged to be living in this time, to be born right on the precipice of the greatest paradigm shift in human history, the only thing that approaches the importance of that reality is finding like minds that realize the same, and being able to make some connection with them. If these books have influenced you the same way that they have us, we invite your contact at the email addresses listed below. Enjoy, Michael Beight, piman_314@yahoo.com Steven Reddell, cronyx@gmail.com Here are some new links that we’ve found interesting: KurzweilAI.net News articles, essays, and discussion on the latest topics in technology and accelerating intelligence. SingInst.org The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence: think tank devoted to increasing...
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...Extract from the Book “ERP Demystified” by Alexis Leon, Publisher: Tata Mc Graw Hill Publishing Co-2008 edition ( by Dileep Kumar, Secretary, Association of Knowledge Workers, Lucknow ) Part 1: Introduction: 1. What is an Enterprise? An enterprise is a group of people with a common goal, which has certain resources at its disposal to achieve this goal. In traditional approach , the organization is divided into different nits based on the functions they perform. These departments function in isolation and have their own systems of data collection and analysis. In enterprise way the entire organization is considered a system and all departments are its sub system, each sub system knows what others are doing , why they are doing and what should be done to move the company towards common goal. If the information that is generated is accurate, timely and relevant, then the systems will go a long way in helping the organization to realize its goals What is ERP? ERP integrates the information system of an organization and automates most of the functions. The activities supported by ERP system include all core functions of an organization, including financial management, human resource management, and operations. Increasingly, ERP vendors are offering “bolt-on” products , such as business Intelligence (BI), Product Life Cycle Management (PLM), Advance Planning and Scheduling (APS),Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management etc Why ERP ? Today having an ERP is not a luxury...
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...Electronics FOR DUMmIES by Gordon McComb and Earl Boysen ‰ TEAM LinG - Live, Informative, Non-cost and Genuine ! Electronics For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada 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, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Legal Department, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46256, (317) 572-3447, fax (317) 572-4355, e-mail: brandreview@wiley.com. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries, and may not be used without written...
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...CHAPTER II HISTORY OF ADVERTISING - - AN OVERVIEW This chapter is devoted to give an overview of the history of advertising in general, in lndia and in Kerala. Section I of this chapter makes a brief review of the history of advertising in general. Section II gives a resume' of the history of advertising in lndia while Section Ill gives a brief account of the history of advertising in Kerala. SECTION - I ORIGIN OF ADVERTISING The origins of advertising lie thousands of years in the past. One of the first known methods of advertising was an outdoor display, usually an eyecatching sign painted on the wall of a building. Archaeologists have uncovered many such signs, notably in the ruins of ancient Rome and Pompeii. An outdoor advertisement excavated in Rome offers property for rent, and one found painted on a wall in Pompeii calls the attention of travellers to a tavern situated in another town. As much as some three thousand years ago Papyrus sheets were used in Thebes in Egypt for announcing the reward for return of runaway slaves .The first advertisement was somewhat in the form of stenciled inscriptions. which were found on earthen bricks prepared by the Babylonians 1 Prepared by BeeHive Digital Concepts Cochin for Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam about three thousand years before Christ. The bricks carry the name of the temple in which they were used and the name of the king who built it, just as a modern public building which contains a corner stone...
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