A Framework for the Selection of an Optimal Custom House Agent by Exim Firms Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process V Kannan* This paper aims at providing a framework to exim firms for the selection of an optimal Custom House Agent (CHA) by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). For the study‚ two focus groups were conducted. One for exploring the criteria which contribute to the selection of an optimal CHA and the other for bringing out the relative importance of these criteria. The moderators
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PERSONALITY‚ STRATEGIC FLEXIBILITY‚ AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF THE INDIAN BUSINESS PROCESS OUTSOURCING INDUSTRY SUCHETA NADKARNI Drexel University POL HERRMANN Iowa State University We examine the relationships between CEO personality‚ strategic flexibility (ability to adapt quickly to environmental changes)‚ and firm performance‚ using a sample of 195 small and medium-sized firms from the Indian business process outsourcing industry. We hypothesize that strategic flexibility mediates the relationships
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PSBRKDSP_dflt. It is recommended that you use these services unless you have a specific need for dedicated handlers. To boot PUB/SUB use PSADMIN to configure your domain and simply answer Y to the following question at the end of the configuration process: Command to execute (1-7‚ q) : 4 Do you want the Publish/Subscribe servers configured (y/n)?
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Samuel Obasanya CSC 226-051 Fall 2013 October 24‚ 2013 Key Terms Lightweight process; this is the unit of dispatching also known as thread. Multithreading; this refers to the ability of an os to support multiple‚ concurrent paths of Execution within a single process. Kernel-level thread; this is a type of threading in which all of the work of thread management is done by the kernel. Thread; this is a single execution path‚ with an execution stack‚ processor stack‚ and scheduling information
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hands I told him what he was responsible for and how we did things. I personally trained him and released him to be on his own. When they told us the company was selling out to another company I wrote due to the process the company is going through and my disagreement with the process I must submit my two week notice and advise the owners of my resignation effective Oct. 12th‚
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responsibilities. Due to the vast geographic expanse and logistical challenges of this new program‚ Down East Spud Busters should make some improvement regarding to the company’s human resources policies and procedures. Selection Selection is the process of obtaining and using information about job applicants in order to determine who should be hired. Human resources department is responsible for selecting the right person in doing the right jobs. This can make sure each of the employees meet the
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switched. 3. 4. (4 points) (TRUE/FALSE) For each of the following thread/process state transitions‚ whether the transition is legal‚ (a) Change from thread/process state BLOCKED to thread state RUNNING. (b) Change from thread/process state RUNNING to thread state BLOCKED. (5 points) Assume you have the following jobs to execute with one processor‚ with the jobs arriving in the order listed here: Process P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Execution time 80 20 10 20 50 5. a) Suppose a system uses Shortest
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most suitable for time-shared operating systems? (a) Shortest Job First (b) Round Robin (c) First Come First Serve (d) Elevator What information about a job needs to be kept in process control block? 2. What information about a process needs to be saved‚ changed or updated when context switching takes place? 3. Five jobs are in the READY queue waiting to be processed. Their estimated CPU cycles are as follows: 10‚3‚5‚6 and 2. Using SJN‚ in what order
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Chapter 1 – 8 Essay Question Review 1. Explain why an operating system can be viewed as a resource allocator. Ans: A computer system has many resources that may be required to solve a problem: CPU time‚ memory space‚ file-storage space‚ I/O devices‚ and so on. The operating system acts as the manager of these resources. Facing numerous and possibly conflicting requests for resources‚ the operating system must decide how to allocate them to specific programs and users so that it can operate the
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Processes – Process concept – Process scheduling – Operations on processes – Cooperating processes – Inter process communication – Communication in client – Server systems – Case study – IPC in linux – Threads – Multi-threading models – Threading issues – Case study – Pthreads library. UNIT II PROCESS SCHEDULING AND SYNCHRONIZATION CPU scheduling – Scheduling criteria – Scheduling algorithms – Multiple – Processor scheduling – Real time scheduling – Algorithm evaluation – Case study – Process scheduling
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