...Research paper Supply chain management integration and implementation: a literature review Damien Power Department of Management, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review a sample of the literature relating to the integration and implementation of supply chain management practices from a strategic viewpoint. Design/methodology/approach – The literature is examined from three perspectives. First, supply chain integration covers issues relating to integration of core processes across organizational boundaries through improved communication, partnerships, alliances and cooperation. Second, strategy and planning examines supply chain management as a strategic matter for trading partners, along with factors relating to the amount of planning required. Third, implementation issues concern factors critical for successful implementation, as well as issues specific to inter and intraorganizational aspects of supply chain initiatives are contained in this sub-group Findings – An important emergent theme from the literature is the importance of taking a holistic view, and the systemic nature of interactions between the participants. At the same time, it is also apparent that this requirement to take such an holistic and systemic view of the supply chain acts as an impediment to more extensive implementation. The strategic nature of adopting a supply chain wide perspective, on the one hand provides significant potential...
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...Zamani 1 Damien Zamani Professor Newman English 102 October 9th, 2012 Hills Like White Elephants Research Paper Despite the multiple critques of "Hills like White Elephants" I will briefly touch on a few. Several reviews elude the imagery and symbolism of the tale. Instead of list each critique in some haphazard bullet list we'll review the three points that were repeated and most obvious. The while elephant is the most prolific revolving theme of the story. Jig tells her boyfriend the hills look like white elepants. He responds that he's never seen one, to which she retorts "Of course you haven't". The hills are the imagery of the story. They are not actual hills but rather a metaphor for a choice of carrying a pregnancy to full term. White elephants are generally referred to as items whose maintenance costs exceeds their usefulness. In the story, Hemmingway is being subtle making an analogy of the hills being a child. For Jig, the costs exceeds the usefulness. To say children are exspensive is a Zamani 2 gross understatement. The hills represent an achievable undesirable journey. Jig comtemplates whether she's willing to make such a trip. This is eluded several times in the story. Her boyfriends perspective is that the hill is blocking his life with Jig. While jig indulges in the thought of the top of the hill; a child;family;life. The station is a allegory for change. The couple has a decision...
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...Gays in Our Ranks “I don’t want any fruitcakes near me.” Those were the exact words that came from the mouth of Damien, one my co-workers, when I asked for his opinion on gays in the military. According to the latest polls from the National Post, 50% of military households feel the same way as him (Man para 7). Even with the majority of America in favor for letting gays serve openly in the military, this controversial topic is getting many Americans riled up. I stand on the side of the fence that supports the repeal on the ban that’s prohibiting homosexuals from joining the armed forces. There can be many benefits if we let gays in our ranks. It was Damien’s response that reminded me how ignorant people can be. I immediately insisted for a good explanation for his remark, but he wasn’t able to produce one. “If I’m in a war zone, I want somebody watching my back for my protection. I don’t want them watching me out of sheer bliss.” That was the explanation he gave me as he walked away with the look of annoyance on his face. I wondered, was he annoyed because he realized he sounded like a buffoon, or maybe my facial expressions revealed my disgust towards him. Homosexuals are human beings, and I am a strong believer that they should have the right to defend our country as long as they meet physical and ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) requirements. There aren’t many people who are willing to put on our nation’s uniform especially when America is at war;...
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...Damien Thomas 08/08/2013 EN1320 Composition 1 Unit 10 Research Paper Part 6: Final Draft of Research Paper The war on drugs isn’t necessary; the amount of money tax payers are wasting is reason alone to consider other options. There is talk that decriminalizing drugs will not help, and that legalizing them will cause more trouble than what is already around, while legalizing marijuana and educating the teens about drugs may guide them to make better choices as they grow older. Not only does the war on drugs take money out of the hard-working hands of Americans, but it also forces drug users to look for alternative ways to get high. Because of unfair laws on drugs such as marijuana, users move toward the legal “spices” that cause more death than marijuana itself. There are a few states that have legalized marijuana for medical purposes, although it’s still difficult to grow and use in those states because of federal laws. The legalization of medical marijuana; brings money to that state, helps the sick, opens jobs and rises the tax revenue; a few of the things to look forward to when Uncle Sam starts treating us like adults. “In the 1980s and ‘90s the U.S. beat back the cocaine and heroin epidemics, but not by legalization or decriminalization, but by tough law enforcement, strong prevention and education programs and public outcry.” (Bennett, 2013) The truth is the War on Drugs is something like the War on Terrorism. To end terrorism is to end hate; a great idea, but is it...
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...------------------------------------------------- Modern Management of Today’s Nursing Homes Connor Watson Sociology of Organizations 12/15/2015 Final Research Paper Introduction The Silver Tsunami is coming, and because of this, there will be more elderly people entering into nursing homes and the available labor force in the United States will decrease. This idea appear may be shocking to anyone reading this, but to me, it is incredibly important information because I want to be an Administrator of a nursing home myself one day. I decided that I wanted to study how these facilities operate, especially since I have not yet done my internship work and decided that this would be an excellent opportunity to take an early look inside the industry. I hope to discover through my research an answer to the question: “how have nursing homes adapted new technologies to minimize the costs and risks of day-to-day operations?”. For my research I used two theoretical frameworks that work together in many aspects. The first framework that I chose was Risk Management. I am interested in how nursing homes prevent risks and what they do in the case of accidents. I would argue that in these facilities, risk factors are everywhere; knowing how they control any situation that has a chance of putting the patient in harm’s way is very telling of how the industry is run. The other framework that I have incorporated is the development of technology in the nursing home. In an effort to...
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... Cantoria focused her research efforts on the morphology, physiology and biochemistry of drug plants. She has done basic studies on the pharmacognosy (study of medicines derived from natural sources) of agar, rauwolfia, datura, mint and Piper species. For her research paper on the morphology and anatomy of rauwolfia vomitoria Afz., Cantoria received the Edwin Leigh Newcomb Award in pharmacognosy given by the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education in 1954. She again received this award in 1962 for her research work on the growth and development of Daturia strasmodium L. She is also the recipient of the Phi Sigma awards for marked distinction in biology in in 1951 and was proclaimed the Most Outstanding Phi Sigman in 1977. Paulo C. Campos, MD is noted for his work in nuclear medicine. As a health scientist, Campos authored and co-authored 75 scientific publications, some of which have won awards. Three of his works, titled Observation of Some Parameter of Insulin Action, Cr-51 Tagged Red Cell Studies and The Genetic Factor in Endemic Goiter, have won the first prize in Research Award. For his achievements in the field of medical research, Campos was named conferred the Gregorio Y Zara award as an outstanding scientist by the Philippine Association for the Advancement of Science (PAAS). He was credited for establishing the first known radioisotope laboratory in the country and the first research laboratory of the University...
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...Gays in Society and the Effects on the Military Sean M. Czuchaj Introduction to Anthropology 101 Professor Michelle McBrady October 15, 2013 When it comes to homosexuals in society there are great many misguided opinions and active prejudices amongst the people around the world. More often than not those that associate themselves as being gay, lesbian, or even bisexual are chastised amongst their peers. The focus of this paper is to present an opinion as well as facts in a variety of subjects and how gays relate to them. Also to show the affect that gays have had on the military and policy changes that have positively impacted homosexuals. In many cultures, homosexual people are regularly the focus of bigotry and discrimination. Like those that associate themselves with many other minority groups they are the articles of prejudice, they are also the focus of stereotyping, which further adds to the “freezing out” from society. The prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping are all representations of forms of homophobia and heterosexism (or bigotry towards homosexuals), these can include negative assertiveness, prejudice, and discrimination in favor of heterosexuality and relationships. Heterosexism can embrace the belief that everyone is heterosexual or that opposite-sex allures and relationships are normal and consequently superior. Homophobia is a fear of, loathing towards, or discrimination against homosexual people. There are a number of different...
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...Journal of Business Administration Research Vol. 1, No. 1; 2012 Luxury Brand Exclusivity Strategies – An Illustration of a Cultural Collaboration Anita Radón, PhD Post Doc. Researcher The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås SE-501 90 Borås, Sweden Tel: 46-705-918-306 Received: May 30, 2012 doi:10.5430/jbar.v1n1p106 E-mail: anita.radon@hb.se Online Published: July 16, 2012 Accepted: July 14, 2012 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jbar.v1n1p106 This research is supported by Handelns Utvecklingsråd. Abstract This paper examines how luxury fashion brands renew themselves in order to balance the exclusivity that is associated with luxury goods and with profit maximization. Using consumers’ demand theory it is shown how luxury fashion brands go through different phases to renew the perception of exclusivity. A proposed model for the stages a luxury brand goes through to keep up the perception of exclusivity is provided. The focus is on identifying how luxury fashion brands renew themselves in order to create a perception of exclusivity and scarcity. The limitations of the study is that research has yet to be done on how consumers of luxury fashion goods perceive these efforts put forward by luxury fashion brands. Problems associated with luxury fashion brands, theoretically as well as on a practical level, and the crucial need for a perception of exclusivity and how this perception can be maintained are addressed. This paper contributes to the specific, and still...
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...In this research paper, we attempt to explore initiatives introduced by the United Nations in support of anti-corruption in emerging markets, such as Principle 10 of the United Nation’s Global Compact. We determined to explore this topic area after realizing a paradox: while the United Nations has recognized the phenomenon of corruption as “one of the world’s greatest challenges”, the sole UN principle that addresses this issue is under-developed and is the least among the four focus areas of the Compact (as compared to human rights, labour, and environment). Furthermore, there are even less initiatives undertaken by the UN that specifically address the prevention of corruption in emerging markets, both in business and government sectors. We begin by providing a literature review of past research in our topic area, followed by a theoretical analysis of the causes of corruption in emerging markets. As part of this theory, we have identified five variables that are our focus: level of poverty, cultural boundaries and differences, access to education, amount of extortion and bribery in government and business, and level of transparency and accountability. Using these variables, we arrive at new conclusions and then provide a discussion on their implications for international managers. Throughout the paper, we also explore the magnitude of the effects that have resulted from the addition of Principle 10 to the Global Compact. Introduction A wide variety of research on corruption...
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...Joaquin Raphael Deato Dr. Aileen Salonga 2014 13491 April 15, 2015 English 10: Concept and Position Paper Homosexuality In 1935, Sigmund Freud wrote a letter to an American mother saying: “Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, etc.) It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too...” ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote><Cite><Author>Ph.D. Gregory M. Herek</Author><Year>2012</Year><DisplayText>(Gregory M. Herek)</DisplayText><record><ref-type name="Web Page">12</ref-type><contributors><authors><author>Ph.D. Gregory M. Herek</author></authors></contributors><titles/><title>Facts About Homosexuality and Mental Health</title><periodical/><dates><year>2012</year><pub-dates/></dates></record></Cite></EndNote>(Gregory M. Herek) There have been a lot of changes in the society ever since the twentieth century came and this affected even the intangible and most absurd things such as how people interact...
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...Traffic Count and Occupancy Data Martin L. Hazelton University of Western Australia Abstract: Automatic vehicle detectors are now common on road systems across the world. Many of these detectors are based on single inductive loops, from which data on traffic volumes (i.e. vehicle counts) and occupancy (i.e. proportion of time during which the loop is occupied) are available for 20 or 30 second observational periods. However, for the purposes of traffic management it is frequently useful to have data on (mean) vehicle speeds, but this is not directly available from single loop detectors. While detector occupancy is related in a simple fashion to vehicle speed and length, the latter variable is not measured on the vehicles that pass. In this paper a new method for speed estimation from traffic count and occupancy data is proposed. By assuming a simple random walk model for successive vehicle speeds an MCMC approach to speed estimation can be applied, in which missing vehicle lengths are sampled from an exogenous data set. Unlike earlier estimation methods, measurement error in occupancy data is explicitly modelled. The proposed methodology is applied to traffic flow data from Interstate 5 near Seattle, during a weekday morning. The efficacy of the estimation scheme is examined by comparing the estimates with independently collected vehicle speed data. The results are encouraging. Key words: Bayesian inference, inductance loop, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, measurement error, missing data...
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...------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 3 2. Company Description 4 2.1. Company Overview: 4 2.2. Vision: 4 2.3. Mission: 5 2.4. Competitive Advantage 5 2.5. Challenges 5 3. Services Overview 6 3.1. Services: 6 3.2. Benefits and Features: 6 4. Marketing Plan 8 4.1. Market Analysis: 8 4.1.1. Market Description 8 4.1.2. Market Size 8 4.1.3. Market Growth: 10 4.1.4. Market Gap: 11 4.1.5. Target Market 11 4.1.6. Regulations: 12 4.1.7. Porters Five Analysis: 13 4.1.8. Competitive Analysis: 15 4.1.9. SWOT Analysis: 18 4.2. Marketing Strategy 21 4.2.1 Value Proposition 21 4.2.2 Branding 21 4.2.3 Marketing Strategies 22 4.2.4 Business Strategy 22 4.3. Marketing Mix: 22 4.3.1 Product Strategy: 22 4.3.2 Pricing Strategy: 23 4.3.3 Place Strategy 24 4.3.4 Promotion Strategy: 24 4.3.5 Marketing Strategy Summary: 28 5. Operational Plan 29 5.1. Personnel Plan 29 5.2. Organizational Hierarchy 30 5.3. Management Strength 31 ------------------------------------------------- List of Tables and figures Table 1: Target Market 11 Table 2: Competitive Analysis 14 Table 3: Personnel Plan 28 Figure 1: Market share of US Apparel Market 2007 9 Figure 2: Growth of Children Clothing Market in US ($ bn) 10 Figure 3: Potential Growth of US Children Clothing Market ($ bn) 10 Figure 4: Value Proposition 20 Figure 5: Organizational Hierarchy...
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...THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ISSUES IN PHYSICAL XML DATABASE DESIGN Damien Fisher (3065680) Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) Supervisor: Dr. Raymond Wong Submission Date: October 29, 2003 Abstract Recent years have seen a surge in the popularity of XML, a markup language for representing semistructured data. Some of this popularity can be attributed to the success that the semi-structured data model has had in environments where the relational data model has been insufficiently expressive. It is thus natural to consider native XML databases, which are designed from the ground up to support XML data. Developing a native XML database introduces many challenges, some of which we consider here. The first major problem is that XML data is ordered, whereas relational databases operate on set-based data. We examine the ordering problem in great detail in this thesis, and show that while it imposes an unavoidable performance penalty on the database, this penalty can be reduced to an acceptable level in practice. We do this by making use of type information, which is often present in XML data, and by improving existing results in the literature. XML data is frequently queried using XPath, a de facto standard query language. The importance of XPath is increasing, due to its use as a primitive in the more powerful emerging query language, XQuery. It is widely believed that the one of the most promising approaches to evaluating...
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...Guide to Referencing and Citations Sheffield Hallam University Learning and Information Services Accurate and consistent referencing is essential in all academic work. Whenever you refer to either the work or ideas of someone or are influenced by another's work, you must acknowledge this. Similarly if you use a direct quotation from someone's work this should be referred to accurately. There are a number of systems of referencing. This guide offers detailed guidance based on a range of British and international standards for producing references and bibliographies according to the Harvard method. You may be asked to use another system, such as a numeric system or to use a different version of the Harvard method. If this is the case, please refer to your course handbook or tutors for guidance. This guide does not cover the use of footnotes as these are not used in the Harvard method. You can search this document or use the contents list below Contents: What is referencing? Why should you reference? When should you reference? What should you reference? Plagiarism How to reference using the Harvard method Principles of citing How to cite Citing sources with one author Citing sources with two or three authors Citing sources with more than three authors Citing edited sources Citing corporate authors: organisations, companies and institutions Citing more than one source by the same author(s) Citing when you cannot identify the author(s) of a source Citing when you cannot identify...
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...BA English Literature and Community Engagement About your application For entry in October 2013, there will be two deadlines for applications. The initial deadline will be Monday 26 November 2012. Interviews for those who apply by this date will be held in December 2012. Assuming there are still places available after this date, we expect to have a second deadline for applications of Monday 1 July 2013, with interviews to be held later that month. These dates are designed to acknowledge that some applicants are also pursuing other options for further study, and may need to make decisions early in the academic cycle, while other mature students may prefer to complete a prior course of study in 2012/13, such as the English Department’s Reading English Literature course, before applying to the degree. You are advised to read the information in this pack carefully before completing your application. Please address any questions about the application process or the degree to Gareth Griffith on gareth.griffith@bristol.ac.uk Aims of the course: The undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement is offered part-time over six years and is taught one evening per week plus occasional Saturdays. It aims to develop a student’s interest in, and knowledge and understanding of, a full range of literature in English. The programme reflects the English Department’s wider commitment to maintaining a balance between established traditions of literary study and...
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