...affects the companies where such incidents take place in multiple ways. It can lead to loss of morale between employees, and can lead to financial losses by the company for compensation to the affected parties. Most importantly, it sometimes has serious legal repercussions, as in the case of the lawsuit against Lockheed Martin in the aftermath of the Doug Williams shooting incident. So what can be done to prevent or reduce the prevalence of workplace violence? Possible Soultions: 1) Installing metal detectors in the workplace. 2) Employee screening process during the hiring process to avoid hiring at-risk individuals 3) Early detection and warning system coupled with psychiatric advisors for employees. Solution Details: 1) Installing metal detectors in the workplace. Explanation: Installing metal detectors at the entrances of the offices or factories Pros: Would prevent the entrance of guns or other weapons that can be used to commit violence. Cons: Does not take into account the possibility that ordinary items...
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...trauma center to receive our care." [ extracted from www.theatlantic.com] Just like any law, there's a list of pros and cons to consider, and gun control is no exception. Being such a complex regulation that stirs several opinionated altercations, the U.S. needs a plan B, which leads us to a second prevention plan: metal detectors -- another highly debated idea, but definitely one to consider. There are many pros and cons to this plan. A What would it cost to put metal detectors, security guards and a police officer in every public school in America? Let's do the unthinkable: in this case, some math. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that while metal detectors may vary in price range, from $1,000 to upwards of $30,000, a reasonably-priced model of around $4,000 to $5,000 would have the features and reliability for a school environment. How to avoid long bottlenecks in the morning, with students waiting to go through the detector? The experience of the New York Board of Education, with operates such programs successfully in about 50 inner-city high schools, shows that staggering the first period start times works to alleviate the problem of lines. An additional cost of the detectors is the salary of the people who operate them. On average, NYC school officials have to fund an additional 100 security officer hours a week to run the detection program for a school of about 2,000 students. The hourly rate for such personnel ranges from $12 to $20 an hour...
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...Key Components of Affordable Care Act HCS/455 Key Components of Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) came into federal law in March 2010 and was drafted by the Obama Administration. ACA is often referred to as “Obamacare” and one of the major objectives of the Affordable Care Act is to provide Americans with health care insurance. There are many types of individuals that will be seeking coverage through Obamacare. There are many types of benefits and drawbacks to any new health care policy and ACA has many of both. The Affordable Care Act has made a substantial impact on Medicaid and Medicare programs and well as health care in general. All of these will be discusses in this paper. Who Will Use the ACA? With private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and health insurance through employers there are many Americans still left without healthcare coverage. Many of these people were younger adults that could not afford health care coverage after being dropped from their parents health insurance after age 19. the ACA is expected to provide financing to increase the proportion of legal, nonelderly residents with insurance from about 83 percent to about 94 percent, resulting in a reduction of 32 million nonelderly individuals without insurance by 2019 (Shi, 2014). Young adults without health care coverage are faced with outrageous bills when facing emergency medical treatments. Under the Affordable Care Act, young adults ages 19-25 are able to retain...
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...1. Summary: The Indian government has the power to acquire private land for public use (the philosophy of eminent domain). Land acquisition is a very important and absolutely necessary activity that every government must undertake, and it is absolutely imperative that the government have a clear, just and feasible policy regarding land acquisition that provides fair compensation to the parties affected by the acquisition. A land acquisition policy must be clear on the factors mentioned blow: 1. The definition of public use (or the type of projects that the policy is applicable for): In general, the definition includes strategic purposes (those relating to Defense), infrastructure projects for development of villages, etc. 2. What all kinds of land can be acquired and how much of it: In all cases, there are restrictions that the land acquisition must not impair historical or artistic monuments of importance or desecrate religious structures, graveyards, etc. Due to concerns pertaining to food safety, in India, restrictions are often imposed on the acquisition of irrigated multi crop lands. 3. Who the affected parties are (or who are to be compensated): Land owners are the most obvious affected parties (they are always considered among those to be compensated). But people depended on the land indirectly, like landless labourers working on the land and others who depend on the land for livelihood, are also affected, often adversely. 4. In what form the...
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...1. Consider the principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS, which the rest of the world calls just-in-time or lean operations). How do its pieces fit together into a strategic capability? In particular, what are the roles of quality, and of the various activities Toyota pursues to improve quality? Waste reduction is at the top of the TPS architecture. The methods that help support the goal of waste reduction are JIT (just-in-time) and quality improvement methods. Both require standardization of work to eliminate variability, the flexibility to scale up and down process capacity in response to fluctuations in demand, and a set of human resource management practices. JIT seeks to synchronize the production flow with demand. Output should be produced exactly when the customer wants it and in the quantity demanded. The three steps toward achieving a JIT process are (in order) as follows: 1. Achieve a one-unit-at-a-time flow: Production plans are designed to avoid large batches of the same variant. Instead, product variants are mixed together on the assembly line (mixed-model production). Also, the physical layout for resources mirrors the process flow to avoid unnecessary transports and reduce need to form transport batches. This way, flow units can flow one unit at a time from one resource to the next. 2. Produce at the rate of customer demand: This step ensures the flow rate is in line with demand. TPS aims at reducing finished goods inventory by operating its production...
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...Antonie van Leeuwenhoek81: 537–547, 2002. © 2002Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 537 Antibiotic production by bacterial biocontrol agents Jos M. Raaijmakers ∗ , Maria Vlami & Jorge T. de Souza Department of Plant Sciences, Laboratory of Phytopathology, Wageningen University, Binnenhaven 5, 6709 PG Wageningen, The Netherlands (∗ Author for correspondence) Abstract Interest in biological control of plant pathogens has been stimulated in recent years by trends in agriculture to-wards greater sustainability and public concern about the use of hazardous pesticides. There is now unequivocal evidence that antibiotics play a key role in the suppression of various soilborne plant pathogens by antagonistic microorganisms. The significance of antibiotics in biocontrol, and more generally in microbial interactions, often has been questioned because of the indirect nature of the supporting evidence and the perceived constraints to an-tibiotic production in rhizosphere environments. Reporter gene systems and bio-analytical techniques have clearly demonstrated that antibiotics are produced in the spermosphere and rhizosphere of a variety of host plants. Several abiotic factors such as oxygen, temperature, specific carbon and nitrogen sources, and microelements have been identified to influence antibiotic production by bacteria biocontrol agents. Among the biotic factors that may play a determinative role in antibiotic production are the plant host, the...
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...device that accepts digital data as input, processes it according to instructions stored in its memory, and provides results as output. Intel introduced its first 4-bit microprocessor 4004 in 1971 and its 8-bit microprocessor 8008 in 1972. B. IBM POWER6 Microprocessors The POWER6 is a microprocessor developed by IBM that implemented the Power ISA v.2.03. When it became available in systems in 2007, it succeeded the POWER5+ as IBM's flagship Power microprocessor. The POWER6 processor is the latest generation in the POWER line of PowerPC processors. Fabricated using IBM’s 65 nm partially-depleted SOI process, the 341 mm POWER6 chip contains over 790 million transistors and 1953 signal I/Os connected using 4.5 km of wire on 10 copper metal layers (Fig. 1). Each chip includes two dual threaded SMT processor cores implemented in a 13 FO4 design capable of running at speeds up to 5 GHz. In addition, a private 4 MB L2 cache per core, a...
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...Measurement Basics 33 2.3.2 Three Valve Manifold 34 2.3.3 Open Tank Measurement 36 2.3.4 Closed Tank Measurement 36 2.3.5 Bubbler Level Measurement System 42 2.3.6 Effect of Temperature on Level Measurement 44 2.3.7 Effect of Pressure on Level Measurement 47 2.3.8 Level Measurement System Errors 47 2.4 TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT 49 2.4.1 Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD) 49 2.4.2 Thermocouple (T/C) 52 2.4.3 Thermal Wells 54 2.4.4 Thermostats 55 2.5 NEUTRON FLUX MEASUREMENT 59 2.5.1 Neutron Flux Detection 59 2.5.2 Neutron Detection Methods 60 2.5.3 Start-up (sub-critical) Instrumentation 61 2.5.4 Fission neutron detectors 63 2.5.5 Ion chamber neutron detectors 64 2.5.6 In-Core Neutron Detectors 70 2.5.7 Reactor Control at High Power ……………………………………..77 2.5.8 Overlap of Neutron Detection ……… ………..78 REVIEW QUESTIONS – EQUIPMENT…………………………………..81 Section 3 - CONTROL 89 3.0 INTRODUCTION 89 3.1 BASIC CONTROL PRINCIPLES 89 3.1.1 Feedback Control 91...
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...ESSAY FOR SBI DESCRIPTIVE TEST CYBER CRIMES Millions of people around the world use computers and the internet every day. We all use it in school, work even at home, computers have made our lives easier it has brought so many benefits to the society but it has also brought some problems and cybercrimes with them. Today, the world is moving towards a point where everything from banking stock exchanges, are traffic control, telephones to electric power, health care, welfare and education depends on software. This exponential growth, and the increase in the capacity and accessibility of computers coupled with the decrease in cost, has brought about revolutionary changes in every aspect of human civilization, including crime. As a result, the increased capacities of information systems today come at the cost of increased vulnerability. Information technology has begun to produce criminal opportunities of a variety that the brightest criminals of yore could not even begin to dream about. The term “Cyber Crime” has nowhere been defined in any statute or Act passed or enacted by the Indian Parliament. Any criminal activity that uses a computer either as an instrumentality, target or a means for perpetuating further crimes comes within the ambit of cyber crime. It is rapidly evolving from simple e-mail mischief where offenders send obscene e-mail, to more serious offences like theft of information, e-mail bombing to crashing servers etc.There are various forms of cyber crime like...
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...SANITATION AND MICROBIOLOGY MR.JONUS FREI (PROFESSOR) FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (planning, DESIGN, IMPLIMENTATION & procedure) CONCEPT : FAST FOOD RESTAURENT. word count: 4106 date of submission: 11TH MARCH 2014 Submitted by : Krunal, Sumeet & hitesh table of content. Sr.No. | Content | Page number | 1 | Summary of assignment | 3 | 2. | Planning and designing of food safety system | 4 | 3. | Step 1: Global standard procedure for food safety. | 4 | 4. | Step 2 :Pre requisites programs | 4 | | Step 3: Senior management implementation. | 6 | | Step 4: Food safety / HACCP implementation program. | 7 | | Step 5:Food safety quality maintain documentation | 8 | | Step 6:Training and implementation | 9 | | Step 7:Internal auditing and checklists | 10 | 5. | Personal hygiene | 10 | 6 | Training | 11 | 7 | Facility design and layoutRestaurant lay outKitchen lay out. | 15 | 8 | Flow of food | 17 | 9 | Risk factors | 18 | 10 | Supplier selection program | 18 | 11 | Active managerial control | 19 | 12 | Sanitation program | 20 | 13 | PEST control system | 20 | 14. | References | 22 | summary of assignment Our main objective behind preparing this report is to understand the food safety management system and create, design and prepare system in our concept restaurant that is fast food restaurant situated near Lucerne, Switzerland. Our system is based on planning...
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...[pic] Working Paper on future RFID Research Needs September 2007 Participating EU-funded R&D Projects in CERP: |Acronym |Name of Project |Contact / email | |AMI-4-SME |Ambient Intelligence Technology for Systemic Innovation |Harald Sundmaeker, ATB, Germany | | |in Manufacturing SMEs |Sundmaeker@atb-bremmen.de | |BRIDGE |Building Radio Frequency Identification in the Global |Henri Barthel, GS1 | | |Environment |henri.barthel@gs1.org | |CE-RFID |Coordinating European Efforts for Promoting the European |Dr. Gerd Wolfram, METRO Group, Germany | | |Value Chain |gerd.wolfram@mgi.de | |CoBIs |Collaborative Business Items |Stephan Haller, SAP, Switzerland | | | |stephan.haller@sap.com | |Dynamite |Dynamic Decisions in Maintenance |Kenneth...
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...TB 11-5800-229-10 TECHNICAL BULLETIN SYSTEM OVERVIEW GUIDE WARFIGHTER INFORMATION NETWORK - TACTICAL (WIN-T) INCREMENT 2 FInal Draft DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT C: Distribution authorized to U.S. Government Agencies and their contractors. This publication is required for administrative and operational purposes. This determination was made on 15 March 2011. Other requests for this document must be referred to Commander, U.S. Army CECOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC), ATTN: AMSEL-LCL-ECM, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-1846. WARNING: This document contains technical data whose export is restricted by the Arms Export Control Act (Title 22, U.S.C., Sec 2751, et. seq.) or the Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended, Title 50A, U.S.C., App. Violations of these export laws are subject to severe criminal penalties. Disseminate in accordance with provisions of DoD Directive 5230.25.. DESTRUCTION NOTICE - Destroy by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document. HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 15 JUNE 2012 TB 11-5800-229-10 LIST OF EFFECTIVE PAGES/WORK PACKAGES NOTE: The portion of text affected by the change is indicated by a vertical bar in the outer margins of the page. Changes to illustrations are indicated by a vertical bar adjacent to the title. Zero (0) in the “Change No.” column indicates an original page or work package. Date of issue for the original manual is: Original: 15 June 2012 TOTAL...
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...2nd Floor 90 Pitts Bay Road Pembroke HM08 Bermuda http://www.tyco.com T Ict I ati nat nal t99 1 A An u e R t T y c o y n oe r n t e r o n ailo L t d . L1 d . 9 9 9n9n u a ln R a lp o re p o r t The Zurich Centre Ty c o I n t e r n a t i o n a l L t d . 19 99 Annual Report Get to know we are the world’s largest supplier of electronic and electrical connectors WE ARE THE WORLD’S LARGEST INSTALLER AND SERVICER OF we are the world’s largest producer of FIRE AND SECURITY industrial valves SYSTEMS w e h a v e g row n o u r ea rni ng s a t a 35% com pounded r ate for the past fi v e y ear s we lead the burgeoning global market in undersea fiber optic telecommunications W E H AV E 1 8 2 , 0 0 0 EMPLOYEES IN OVER 80 COUNTRIES AROUND THE we are a global leader in disposable health care we achieved sales of over $22 billion in fiscal 1999 we do not make toys . . . and never have 1 1. telecommunications and electronics If you knew Tyco last year, look again. The Company has evolved into a leader in the fast-paced, high-tech world of electronics. Our merger with AMP, the world’s largest maker of electrical connectors, and the acquisition of Raychem, a leading manufacturer of high-performance electrical components, created the nucleus for the formation of Tyco Electronics Corporation, the world’s largest supplier of passive electronic components. The diverse capabilities of AMP and Raychem, combined with...
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...severely affected by fraud over the past few years. Indeed, despite all the research and systems available, fraudsters have been able to outsmart and deceive the banks and their customers. With this in mind, we intend to introduce a novel and multi-purpose technology known as Stream Computing, as the basis for a Fraud Detection solution. Indeed, we believe that this architecture will stimulate research, and more importantly organizations, to invest in Analytics and Statistical Fraud-Scoring to be used in conjunction with the already in-place preventive techniques. Therefore, in this research we explore different strategies to build a Streambased Fraud Detection solution, using advanced Data Mining Algorithms and Statistical Analysis, and show how they lead to increased accuracy in the detection of fraud by at least 78% in our reference dataset. We also discuss how a combination of these strategies can be embedded in a Stream-based application to detect fraud in real-time. From this perspective, our experiments lead to an average processing time of 111,702ms per transaction, while strategies to further improve the performance are discussed. Keywords: Fraud Detection, Stream Computing, Real-Time Analysis, Fraud, Data Mining, Retail Banking Industry, Data Preprocessing, Data Classification, Behavior-based Models, Supervised Analysis, Semi-supervised Analysis Sammanfattning Privatbankerna har drabbats hårt av bedrägerier de senaste åren. Bedragare har lyckats kringgå forskning och...
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...rP os t W14161 APPLE INC.: MANAGING A GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN 1 Ken Mark wrote this case under the supervision of Professor P. Fraser Johnson solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. op yo This publication may not be transmitted, photocopied, digitized or otherwise reproduced in any form or by any means without the permission of the copyright holder. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Business School, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, N6G 0N1; (t) 519.661.3208; (e) cases@ivey.ca; www.iveycases.com. Copyright © 2014, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation INTRODUCTION Version: 2014-06-12 tC Jessica Grant was an analyst with BXE Capital (BXE), a money management firm based in Toronto. 2 It was February 28, 2014, and Grant was discussing her U.S. equity mandate with BXE’s vice president, Phillip Duchene. Both Grant and Duchene were trying to identify what changes, if any, they should make to BXE’s portfolio. “Apple is investing in its next generation of products, potentially the first new major product lines since Tim Cook took over from Steve Jobs,” she...
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