Over the past several years‚ increasingly‚ there has been a trend within business and manufacturing community to associate JIT with Lean operations. According to “Reference for Business” Lean methodology is Westernized version of Japanese Just-In-Time system‚ where both of these systems share mostly the same characteristics and goals‚ and often used interchangeably. Whereas there are similarities between these two methodologies‚ there are also principal differences between them. It should be noted
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Elements of the cinema TIME * Since the images of moving pictures move in time‚ time is the most important element of the cinema. In the cinema it is subject to contraction‚ expansion‚ breaks or leaps through the manipulation of the director. The three aspects of the time 1. Physical time is the time taken by an action as it is being filmed and as it is being projected on the screen. A film may actually show what is happening in real life. * Physical time in the cinema can be distorted
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Ques1. “Considerations must be sufficient but need not be adequate”- discuss. In Contracts‚ What is "Consideration"? In order for any contract to be enforceable‚ courts generally require three things: mutual assent (agreement to the contract terms)‚ a valid offer and acceptance‚ and consideration. Consideration in law is one of the three main building blocks of a contract. It can be anything of value‚ which each party to a legally binding contract must agree to exchange if the contract is to be
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commitment to only label the product‚ “Made in USA”‚ if it is so is an honest procedure conducted by New Balance. Many other companies may try to label a product as‚ “Made in USA”‚ when the product may not be made of domestic products. New Balance ethics in how they label their athletic
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How is it that 4 out of the 118 elements comprise over 96% of all living organisms? It is due to their reactive nature and ability to form bonds. One might ask why or how they are so reactive with other elements. Just as anything else in the universe seeks stability‚ so do atoms. Each of these 4 atoms seeks stability through their electrons. For example‚ hydrogen has 1 electron in its valance shell and it has the ability to fill that shell with up to 2 electrons thus it seeks another atom that
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felony but if the kidnapping is committed by a parent then it is a class one misdemeanor. If the kidnapping is done by a parent and that parent moves the abducted out of Virginia then it is a class six felony (USLEGAL.com‚ 2010). There are two key elements that are common to all charges of kidnapping. One is the removal or detention must be unlawful. The second one is that there has to be some aggravating circumstance must accompany the restraint or asportation (Lippman‚ 2010). The mens rea of kidnapping
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Melodic phrases are groups or sets of notes that make sense together‚ express a musical idea‚ and‚ when combined‚ create the melody. Melody is a series of musical notes that have been strung together. Pitch is the frequency of a sound‚ and it relates to the highness or lowness of a tone that we hear. Rhythm the timing of the musical sounds or notes in the music Subito forzando (usually written as sforzando) is a sudden change in the level of sound. Syncopation involves placing emphasis on
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Operations management refers to the complex set of management activities involved in planning organizing leading‚ and controlling an organization’s operations. At one time‚ operations management was considered the backwater of management activities – a dirty‚ drab necessity. This view has changed in recent years‚ as more and more managers realize how operations can be a “beehive” of activity with major financial consequences for any organization. For instance‚ to support the work of Johns Hopkins
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The Encyclopedia of Operations Management Terms by Professor Arthur V. Hill Curtis L. Carlson School of Management 321-19th Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis‚ MN 55455-0413 USA ahill@umn.edu Revised July 20‚ 2003 P O M S Production Operations Management Society The electronic version of this encyclopedia is distributed free of charge by the Production Operations Management Society (POMS) under the conditions that (1) you send corrections and additions to ahill@umn.edu
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4 ELEMENTS OF STATE | by Phatsakone Chanhchom on March 9th‚ 20100 COMMENTSShare | Following the Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of states which was a treaty signed at Montevideo‚ Uruguay‚ on December 26th‚ 1933.The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population (people); (b) a defined territory; (c) government (political authority); and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states (diplomat recognition
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