High Noon at Alpha Mills Case Study Zuochen Lu A00336706 This case “High noon at Alpha Mills” talks about an oil plantation which name is Alpha Plantation Sdn. Bhd. This plantation consists of an oil palm estate and one palm oil mill. Mr. Ang started to work at here when he was 15‚ then he acts as gatekeeper‚ anyone who wants to see mill manager should meet Mr. Ang first. The oil palm faced many challenges in 1999. World oil price were diminishing
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The Portman Ritz-Carlton‚ Shanghai The main advantage for the Portman Ritz-Carlton in Shanghai (Ritz) is the way it manages and leverages its human resources. The quality of their employees and their employees’ satisfaction contributes significantly to its success. The Ritz’s motto‚ employee promise‚ credo‚ and basics‚ shown in appendix A‚ set the stage for their success. They ensure that everyone is on the same page at the Ritz. All know what is expected of the employees by the Ritz and
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9. Piper Alpha video review The Piper Alpha’s tragic chain of events occurred because of a number of safety procedures were not met or implemented. The almighty dollar was given preference over the safety of hundreds of lives. We found a number of unsafe situations that could have been avoided if the right Safety management system was in place. These are our findings. 1. The oil rig recently introduced a new gas pipeline in the weeks leading up to the disaster. The rig wasn’t designed to be a gas
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Case No 7 Tiresome Tire I Introduction: This case is about Hypothesis Testing‚ there is a tire manufacturing company which is producing tire with the strength 2800 pound per square inch (psi)‚ we have to test Null Hypothesis i.e. H0 : u> 2‚800 psi‚ where u is the mean strength of large batch of tire and population SD is 10 psi. Calculation: We have to test Null Hypothesis based on given information. Type I error will result in the rejection of a large number of good tires. Type II error
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questionnaire‚ this study used the Cronbach’s Alpha which is the most popular model to determine the correlation among the items and to assess the internal consistency of a questionnaire (or survey) that is made up of multiple Likert-type scales and items. According to Sekaran and Bougie (2010)‚ the range of Cronbach’s Alpha less than 0.60 is consider poor and the range above 0.60 and 0.70 indicate at the level of acceptable. If the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient is closer to 1.0‚ the consistency
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The Lady from Shanghai (1946) has all of the elements that encompass a great film noir. For the purposes of this short paper‚ I will focus strictly on one prominent scene in the film and the elements that comprise it. The scene I have chosen is the crazy house scene‚ one of the final scenes in the film. Michael awakes from his drugged stupor and realizes he is in a crazy house. His mind whirls as he begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together‚ realizing that Elsa was in fact the murderer and
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! Affect of pH on Porcine Pancreatic Alpha-Amylase Activity Introduction Proteins function in a variety of different ways‚ and one of their fundamental tasks is to act as enzymes. Enzymes are extremely important in controlling reaction speed (by initiating and regulating biological activity)‚ cell communication‚ and growth. One particularly significant enzyme is amylase‚ which catalyzes the hydrolysis of alpha glycosidic linkages of amylose‚ starch components‚ and other oligosaccharides (Qian
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1. Background & key issues The purpose of this case study is identify key issues causing the failure of introducing new leadership to Alpha Mills‚ providing an analysis and recommendations on how the directors/manager could have prevented these problems. Key facts: Alpha Mills is an oil palm plantation wholly owned subsidiary of a British multinational company located in Malaysia‚ it supplies crude palm oil for its parent company’s detergent manufacturing business. Most of the managers have
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Resolution of α-Phenylethylamine Date of Completion of Experiment: Monday‚ November 19‚ 2012 Date Report Submitted: Monday‚ December 3‚ 2012 Objective of Experiment The objective of this experiment was to learn the process of resolution of α-phenylethylamine. Materials Compound | Molecular Weight (g/mol) | Melting Point (°C) | Amount used | Moles used | (+) Tartaric Acid | 150.087 | 171–174 | 11.9 g | 7.93 x 10-2 | (+‚-) α-phenylethylamine | 121.18 | 184-186 | 10.0 ml | 8.25 x 10-2 |
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The Alpha project really caught my attention. Before Module 1‚ I thought that the producer almost always dealt with scripts that were already written and they had simply decided to push the creation of a movie with the script they had selected. However‚ the Alpha project surprised me in that the writer was commissioned to write a script and the producer’s job was on hold‚ or disrupted‚ due to the writer/director. Thus‚ I learned that the producer’s job is intense and they have to interact with the
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