O’Hanley Kent Business School‚ University of Kent‚ CT2 7PE Canterbury‚ UK a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 30 November 2010 Accepted 26 September 2011 Available online 1 October 2011 Keywords: OR in strategic planning Location Protection Bilevel programming Decomposition a b s t r a c t Optimizing system resilience is concerned with the development of strategies to restore a system to normal operations as quickly and efficiently as possible following potential disruption
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--------------- "Introduction about location of retail store" ----------------- where you choose to locate your retail business will have a major impact on everything your shop does. The difference between selecting the wrong location and the right site could be the difference between business failure and success. Before choosing a retail store location‚ define how you see your business‚ both now and in the future. * What do your customers look like? * Can you visualize your building
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Running Head: LOCATION MEMORY AND EVOLUTION Gender Differences in Object-Location Memory with Concern to Evolutionary Theory Introduction Spatial cognition is the processing of visual info in terms of their spatial relationships. Spatial visualization‚ spatial orientation‚ and object and location memory comprise the three categories of spatial cognition. Female superior spatial ability regarding object-location memory arises from the presumption that during human evolution‚ women gathered
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Geographical Location‚ and its Affects on The Early River-Valley Civilizations Food‚ shelter‚ fertile land‚ and trade were essential for early river-valley civilizations. Without food‚ shelter‚ fertile land‚ and trade early river-valleys where doomed for any future success in the land. Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ and the Indus Valley are examples of some early river-valley civilizations that relied heavily on its geographies and Mother Nature. For early river-valley civilizations in Egypt the Nile River played
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An individual’s social location which includes their social class‚ sex‚ gender‚ race‚ and ethnicity impacts every aspect of their lives. My family’s social location has positively impacted me throughout my life and provided me with the opportunities that lead me to where I am today. I grew up in a middle class household; my father was an engineer and my mother was a nurse so they were able to buy a house in a safe and rural neighborhood in Massachusetts. Since my parents were financially stable I
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In this Project it is proposed to design an embedded system which is used for tracking and positioning of any vehicle by using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global system for mobile communication (GSM). In this project AT89S52 microcontroller is used for interfacing to various hardware peripherals. The current design is an embedded application‚ which will continuously monitor a moving Vehicle and report the status of the Vehicle on demand. For doing so an AT89S52 microcontroller is interfaced
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Explain the rise of civilization in one of the following locations: Ancient Egypt‚ Indus River Valley‚ or Mesopotamia. Egypt‚ otherwise known as the “Gift of the Nile”‚ started as small villages along the great Nile River‚ and slowly became greater to the point of city-states‚ and eventually a great empire. The small villages evolved into the thriving civilization by three major doings; commercial trade along the river influencing and ultimately boosting their economy‚ architecture that has lasted
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Case Study 2 Adapting Store Size to the Type of Location Submitted By : Marie Jo Aguzar 87/100 Under what conditions should a large box store retailer like a Best Buy Pursue a smallstore strategy? As U.S. chain retailers absorb the lessons of the great recession‚ many bigbox chains have started to shrink average store footprints to reflect the growing importance of multichannel shopping‚ adapt to urban settings and recognize the need to optimize investment. I suspect you got th
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Design and Implementation of a Location-Based Messaging System Patrick S. Chen‚ Janus Hsu‚ Dept. of Information Management‚ Tatung University‚ 40 Zhongshan North Road‚ 3rd Section Taipei 104‚ Taiwan (R.O.C.) chenps@ttu.edu.tw‚ kobe0621@hotmail.com ABSTRACT A messaging system supporting inter-vehicular communication is implemented to enable management of a caravan. With the help of positioning function and ad hoc network‚ important messages can be sent to vehicles in the caravan to regulate
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