The vibration suppression by deliberately introducing a parametric excitation in the fluid-film bearings is investigated for an industrial turbine rotor system. A journal bearing with variable adjustable geometry is operated in such a way that the effective stiffness and damping properties vary periodically in time April 24, 2018 Read More »
The U.S. packaged/convenience food industry has experience major growth in the last decade, as well as worldwide. Kellogg Co. and Kraft Foods Inc. can be said to me two major known competitors within this industry. According to the information provided by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Kraft Foods Inc was originally known as National Dairy Products Corporation that was formed in 1923, and has now grown considerably being the second largest food company in the world, next to Nestle; with revenues estimating at $54 billion and earnings from continuing operations of $4 billion April 24, 2018 Read More »
Since the beginning of the industrialization of Italy, Società Anonima Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino, or Fiat, has played a leading role in the automotive industry since its creation in 1899. Giovanni Agnelli, a member of the board of directors at Fiat’s inception, quickly separated himself from the group, becoming the Managing Director of the company in 1902. By 1908, Fiat opened what is known as the Fiat Automobile Company in the United States. The brand was considered a luxury item in the U.S. As time passed, Fiat continued to develop its brand internationally with a commitment to innovation, production, and technology (Fiat History, 2017). April 24, 2018 Read More »
Oakthorpe dairy in North London and in 1993, with Bamber Bridge dairy in the North West. MD Foods now exported to more than 60 countries outside Europe, and 22 per cent of its turnover was from non-EU countries. Additionally, the company had diversified, through its subsidiaries, into packaging (Danapak), fruit juices (Rynkeby Foods), financing and investment (Medani A/S) and insurance April 24, 2018 Read More »
A LinkedList is useful for storing information when you don’t know how many items you need to store. In this lab, we will be iterating through a rhyming dictionary and storing words together according to their rhyming group, which is the most heavily emphasized part of their pronunciation. In the directory of starter code for the assignment, you’ll see a subdirectory called cmudict. Inside is a file called cmudict-short.dic April 24, 2018 Read More »
Sequence Effects. According to behavioral scientists, when people recall an experience, they don’t remember every single moment of it (unless the experience was short and traumatic).lnstead, they recall a few significant moments vividly and gloss over the others-they remem ber snapshots, not movies. And they carry away an over- Richard B. Chase is the justin Dart Professor cifOperations Management at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles. He April 24, 2018 Read More »
The disposition effect is an instance of narrow framing. The investor has set up an account for each share that she bought, and she wants to close every account as a gain. A rational agent would have a comprehensive view of the portfolio and sell the stock that is least likely to do well in the future, without considering whether it is a winner or a loser. Amos told me of a conversation with a financial adviser, who asked him for a complete list of the stocks in his portfolio, including the price at which each had been purchased. When Amos asked mildly, “Isn’t it supposed not to matter?” the adviser looked astonished. He had apparently always believed that the state of the mental account was a valid consideration. April 24, 2018 Read More »
Mental accounking use of research on this topic over the past decade, this paper summarizes the current state of our knowledge about how people engage in mental accounting activities.ting is the set of cognitive operations used by individuals and households to organize, evaluate, and keep track of ®nancial activities April 24, 2018 Read More »
Relational leadership invokes an ethics involving a leader’s affec- tive engagement and genuine concern with the interests of others. This ethics faces practical difficulties given it implies a seemingly limitless responsibility to a set of incommensurable ethical demands. This article contributes to addressing the impasse this creates in three ways. April 24, 2018 Read More »
IAS students develop their collaboration and shared leadership abilities by learning to work with others to identify dimensions of a project, generate and refine ideas, follow through on the consequences of collective decisions, and pursue specific tasks without losing a sense of the whole. As part of this process, they learn to assess and draw on group members’ diverse histories, strengths, and potential contributions. They develop skills in listening, mediating conflict, playing different roles, and reflecting on the outcomes of collaborative work. Students learn different ways of managing groups, communicating effectively and respectfully across differences, and reflecting critically and creatively on collaboration processes. April 24, 2018 Read More »