Performance evaluation of texture features with co-occurrence and Q-matrix
Thesis - 2 pages - Mathematics
The Present paper compares the texture features based on co-occurrence and the new Matrix-method called “Qmatrix”, which measures the similarities of grey levels. The problem addressed is to determine which features optimize classification rate. Such features may be used in image...
Economic theory: Brief study
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Schools of economic thought correspond not only systematized sets and interconnections of theoretical principles, it also corresponds to the systems of ideas and values, committed to ethical, political and social issues. Therefore, they do not have the direction and results of scientific research...
Moss and McAdams Accounting Firm
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
A matrix organization is out of character because it joins managers and employees from distinct departments with an aim of working towards achieving a common goal. Therefore, a matrix structure refers to a blending of the divisional and functional structures. The functional...
Psychodynamic personality theories matrix
Case study - 7 pages - Psychology
The psychoanalytic approach assumes that the psychological apparatus of the mind needs some kind of energy to make it go. Psychoanalytic theories place a lot of emphasis on how "the self" develops. The infant is born with no sense of self - this self gradually develops through its interactions...
A Petrinet model of a short life cycle product supply chain and deduction of its reachability matrix by simulation
Thesis - 5 pages - Management
This paper focuses on the concept of short life cycle supply chain of products where the selling time of the product is short and fixed. Based on an object events table and dynamical events occurring table a composite model of short life cycle product is created. This model is then represented by...
In search of excellence - advanced organizational behavior
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
“In Search of Excellence” is a well-known book published in 1982 by Peters and Waterman and has been considered a fundamental book in the business world (Thomas & Robert, 1982). It has been read and recommended by some of the biggest businesses in the planet who have borrowed some of...
Screen Culture Review on the Screening Materials
Case study - 4 pages - Computer science
In 1982, Peters and Waterman published the book “In Search of Excellence” that was based on McKinsey's model elements (Collins, 2007). It focused on structure, strategy, style of management, skills, staff, and shared values to determine the exact nature in which those...
McDowell & Company Ltd
Dissertation - 55 pages - Finance
The corporate exposure and learning program was undertaken at McDowell and company limited. McDowell's consolidated its position as the No.1 Company in the highly competitive Indian spirits industry with a market share of 26%. The company sold 21.22 million cases during the year and has...
China: The eldorado of luxury
Thesis - 6 pages - Business strategy
“Five years ago, there were about 20 to 30 luxury shops here. Today everyone is here and their networks in continental China are becoming more and more significant," McKinsey management consultant Jacques Penhirin (partner of the McKinsey management consulting firm) told AFP....
Composite material failure in aircraft
Essay - 25 pages - Physics
Some composite materials used in construction of aircraft structures started appearing in late 1930s as well as 1940s. Typically, they used to be plasticity impregnated wood materials at that time, with the well know as well as the largest example being Duramold constructing the eight engine...
Analysis of the main organizational changes in Carrefour and the role of Informational Technology in this organizational change process
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Contrary to their considerable growth in terms of number and value, the operations of mergers and acquisitions reveals, for more than one operation out of two, a failure from the economic and organizational point of view (McKinsey 2000; Mercer Consulting 2001, 2003). The insufficiency of...
Strategic management in an organization
Thesis - 14 pages - Management
According to Johnson, Scholes and Whittington, ‘Strategic Management includes the understanding the strategic position of an organization, strategic choices for the future and turning strategy into action' (Johnson, Scholes & Whittington, 2005, p.16).There are many models and senior...
Five forces of Porter
Essay - 7 pages - Services marketing
The five forces of Porter's work on corporate strategy were defined in 1979. Its founder, Michael Porter, professor at Harvard, draws on his specialty to create the matrix bearing his name. As part of his business strategy, Michael Porter's specialty was based on optimizing the...
Lockheed Martin Corporation: Strategic analysis
Case study - 23 pages - Business strategy
Lockheed Martin is a multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995. Company's headquarter is located in Maryland, and Robert J. Stevens is the current CEO and president of the firm (“Lockheed Martin,” 2009). Lockheed Martin's major operating units...
The architecture and functioning of OCB-283: The switching node in the Alcatel 1000E
Thesis - 20 pages - Electronics
This document relates to the O.C.B 283 system, switching node in the ALCATEL 1000E 10 switching system. It outlines the general architecture and operation of the O.C.B.283, both the fixed subscriber centers and the access exchange to services (G.S.M, IN). O.C.B.283 is digital switching system...
Cost optimization of supply chain networks using particle swarm optimization
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
With increasing competitiveness in the business world, focus on supply chain has got greater attention. Therefore supply chain has to be made effective by reducing unnecessary losses occurring in the supply network. These losses are caused due to production, distribution planning and improper...
The Game Theory
Thesis - 16 pages - Management
There are a number of limited companies in the market. These companies must adopt a strategic behavior, as each decision made by one company creates an impact on the other companies. There are various theories that talk about making and managing strategies. The game theory is one such theory...
Strategic Marketing Plan: Caroll entering the middle market in China
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
This document develops a strategic plan through the main tools; the first section is dedicated to the presentation of the company and its competitive market. Tools including the positioning of the brand, SWOT analysis and Value chain of the company Caroll are used to understand the strengths and...
The concept of landscape ecology
Essay - 9 pages - Ecology & environment
Landscape ecology is an emerging discipline that aims to understand the environmental processes and patterns in?uencing habitats and species beyond the site level. It arose independently in the latter part of the twentieth century in central and Eastern Europe and in North America as geographers,...
2007 NCAA March Madness Tournament: A game theory approach to finding an optimal strategy for office pools
Thesis - 10 pages - Logistics
The focus of this paper is to use aspects of game theory to form a strategy for maximizing a player's chances of winning a NCAA Tournament Bracket from the sweet sixteen rounds on. For each match-up, a strategy for selecting a team to advance will be determined by analyzing a payoff matrix...
The music industry: industry analysis, the future of the paid content
Market study - 15 pages - Services marketing
Contents : Industry Analysis : flow chart, value chain, the vc2 matrix. Paid content : iTunes & Co, demand & deterrents. Future Scenario : tows matrix. Music industry: a complex system of product, information, and capital flows. Value chain: highly fragmented, thus high potential...
Caroll in China: strategic marketing plan
Case study - 22 pages - Services marketing
With an economic growth of nearly 10%, China looks very attractive to a lot of companies today. The emergence of a strong middle class characterized by a high purchasing power makes opportunities plentiful. However, China's huge market is much more complex and specific than western ones. That...
Conventional offset
Case study - 5 pages - Biology
It is the main printing process since the second half of the 20th century, ensuring good quality for medium and large print runs and just about any type of paper and some types of plastic (especially polystyrene). Planográfico process, originating in lithography, he makes an indirect impression:...
"Corporate virtue" strategies are more likely to cause "good governance" than stricter "compliance and control" regimes
Essay - 4 pages - Management
What is “good corporate governance”? And how an enterprise can achieve to have it? A number of writers and researchers gave their contribution to this subject. Nevertheless, some disagreements and conflicting points of view appeared among them. Indeed, some suggested that corporate...
Preparation and analytical investigation of electrodeposited nickel aluminum oxide composite coatings
Thesis - 11 pages - Physics
Composite coating methods play a major role in enhancing the life of the components by improving the wear resistance of the surface coating used. Electrodeposited composite coatings consist of a metal matrix with either a ceramic or cermets particle addition which represents the new...
Strategic marketing plan for Caroll (the French "fashion house") in China
Market study - 10 pages - Services marketing
Today, with the globalization, companies have to establish in other countries than their origin country, to be more competitive and to resist in the market, especially in the clothing retail market. So, the main part of companies opens new subsidiaries in other countries and more on emergent...
Is "Al-Dar Islamic Fund", created by Pictet, a Geneva based Private Bank, Islamic compliant?
Essay - 10 pages - Finance
Who has created the ?Al-Dar Islamic Fund'? Is it Pictet which is a Geneva based Private Bank which is in compliance with the Islamic culture? The answer to this buzzing mind boggling question is ?No'. As confirmed, the contained shares are not Islamic compliant and secondly the targeted...
Music, emotion and Zipf's law
Essay - 59 pages - Linguistics
The hypothesis of Zipf concerning a universal Principle of Least Effort, manifesting itself in Zipf 's law and modeled by Ferrer i Cancho and Sol´e in a signal-object reference matrix, gave rise to the idea that maybe the elements in music that elicit our emotional...
China's beer wars South Africa Breweries. SABMiller case
Market study - 31 pages - Business strategy
1. General information on the company A. SABMiller historical B. Important figures C. International policy 1. The main international events 2. The case of China 3. Analysis of the SAB International policy 2. Analysis of the Chinese beer market A. Characteristics of the Chinese beer market B....
Learning team behavior and processes
Case study - 4 pages - Business strategy
Prioritizing tasks may prove to be quite a tough feat when an individual has too much on their plate. Determining the difference between urgent tasks and important tasks may aid in the fight. Author Stephen Covey has developed a matrix the he described in his book, First Things First....
