A Fortune by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi

What is actually worth treasuring in life and what is valuable for us? Having a fortune is not necessarily synonymous with being rich. A man can be rich in several other ways but that doesn’t mean, he is aware of how fortunate he actually is. Just like the rich father in Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi’s … Read more

The Dress by Julia Darling

”The Dress” is a short story about an impairing relationship between two sisters, Flora and Ra-chel, written by Julia Darling in 2006. The text tells a story about how the two sisters’ relationship breaks, which unfortunately happens on their mother’s fortieth birthday. This happens because of Flora who stole and ruined Rachel’s dress. In the … Read more

Reliance Industries Limited

The Reliance Industries Limited, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932 — 2002) in 1966 with his cousin, is India’s largest private sector conglomerate (BSE: 500325), actively involved in the materials and energy value chain business. Dhirubhai started with a skimpy capital of 15000 INR earned through working with a firm in Yemen in the 1950s … Read more

International humanitarian law

The development of IHL had been influenced by religious concepts and philosophical ideas. Customary rules of warfare are part of the first rules of international law altogether. In this process, the development from the first rules of customary law to the first written humanitarian principles for the conduct of war was also accompanied by setbacks. … Read more

Industry analysis: the fundamentals (notes)

Layers of the business environment Scanning the environment, 3 levels: – Macro o PESTEL political, economic, social, technological factors o Scenario’s – Industry (customers, suppliers and competitors) o Five forces o Cycles of competition – Competitors and markets o Strategic groups o Market segments o Critical Success factors The macro and competitor analysis of industry … Read more

Health information exchange

Health information exchange is the standard electronic movement of health-related data amongst organizations. The main objective is to provide access of clinical data to the respective organizations to ensure an effective, timelier, secure, and patient-oriented health care. The Health Information exchange organizations (HIOs) are the ones that offer the services of health information exchange. Most … Read more

Energy in India

1.0 INTRODUCTION Coal sector is to be in the prime source of energy of our country. Majority 0f Indian cola resources spread over the states of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh , Jharkhand , Madhya Pradesh , Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Orissa and West Bengal and few other states , they account for a total reserve of 257.38 … Read more

Chapter by Peter M. Senge: The puzzles and Paradoces of How Living Companies Create Wealth

Senge starts of by saying that Jensen argues that firm value maximization is optimal (p. 59). He says Jensen argues that it isn’t possible to maximize in more than one dimension at the same time, according to Jensen there are trade-offs between those dimensions. That’s what an singe-valued objective function does. People need a measure … Read more

Enterprise Systems

  1. ABSTRACT This research assignment reflects what actually is an Enterprise System?, its types and how the implementation of Enterprise System proves to be very effective and profitable for the growth of any organizations business when controlled in a disciplined manner changing the course of their business. The research states the impact of these … Read more

Synthesis Essay – General Bernard A. Schriever

General Bernard A. Schriever On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. This feat of engineering had done much more than hurt American pride, it had potentially devastating and dire consequences for America’s defense. You see, it wasn’t the satellite that was the problem, it was the fact that … Read more

Gas fluidization

As introduced in Chapter 1, gas fluidization occurs when gas lifts-up a certain mass of powder and starts to behave fluid-like. The fluidized bed behavior is dependent on superficial gas velocity (u0) and powder/- particle properties. Most influential powder properties are particle density (½p ) and particle diameter (Dp ). The fluidization behavior can be … Read more

Accounting standards

Over the period 2004-006, the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), on behalf of the International Accounting Standards Boards (IASB) has greatly developed the accounting standards, in intangible assets, revenue, leases, and liabilities. Thus as from the year 2006 International Accounting Standard Board and the FASB conducted an essential Memorandum of Understanding in which the International … Read more

The Black Rhinoceros

The Black Rhinoceros is classified as critically endangered and are on the brink of extinction according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. They’re 1.4-1.8m tall and weigh between 800-1400kg. The Black Rhinoceros have a pointed upper lip, two horns which grows up to 1.5m long and they’re actually grey in colour not black. … Read more

Design a fractional filter based IMC controller for the nonlinear process

Abstract. Recently, fractional calculus found its applications in the field of process automation. Here the mathematical perspectives of fractional property are applied to control the process. This article presents a design of fractional filter based internal model controller (IMC) for the nonlinear process. The process chosen is pH process plays significant role in the industrial … Read more