on which the maintenance priorities of the bridge structures can be decided. The proposed AHP–DEA methodology uses the AHP to determine the weights of criteria‚ linguistic terms such as High‚ Medium‚ Low and None to assess bridge risks under each criterion‚ the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method to determine the values of the linguistic terms‚ and the simple additive weighting (SAW) method to aggregate bridge risks under different criteria into an overall risk score for each bridge structure. The
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1) Raw data‚ not seasonalized 2) Seasonal Adjustment used: Census II X-12 multiplicative (MASA): Used because of the presence of seasonal variations that are increasing with the level of my series. Increasing degree of variability overtime… TX non seasonalized and seasonalized 3) Combined seasonally adjusted with non-seasonally adjusted De-seasonalizing the data helped with the removal of seasonal component that creates higher volatility in model. Now‚ variations
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Reed Supermarkets Case Analysis Managerial Communication I Submitted by: xxxxxxxxxxxx Roll No.: xxxxxx xxxxxxxxx Introduction The present case deals with the positioning efforts of Reed Supermarkets in Columbus‚ Ohio. Reeds Supermarkets was established in 1939 by William H. Reed and has since then grown from a grocery store to chain encompassing 192 retail stores and 21‚000 employees. Our present focus lies in the market of Columbus where Reed’s current market share of 14% is facing
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* INTRODUCTION Job evaluation is a crucial point in human resources management. The aim of human resources management is linking employees with their work results which should met in order for an organization to fulfill its tasks. Thus‚ job evaluation occurs as an irreplaceable factor that enables management through learning the necessary values. Enhancing the efficiency of a company depends on various endogenous and exogenous factors. Job evaluation may be the aspect that tips the scales in your
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are some examples of criterion you use to determine cost allocation? 10. What happens when a service’s revenues do not cover its costs? 11. Has a service been discontinued because revenue did not cover its costs? 12. <additional question> 13. <additional question> 14. <additional question> Part II: Interview Summary 1. Write a summary of your impressions. Did anything surprise you? What types of cost allocation criterion and methods are available
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qualities that are "powers to produce various sensations in us"[1] such as "red" and "sweet." These secondary qualities‚ Locke claims‚ are dependent on the primary qualities. He also offers a theory of personal identity‚ offering a largely psychological criterion. Book III is concerned with language‚ and Book IV with knowledge‚ including intuition‚ mathematics‚ moral philosophy‚ natural philosophy ("science")‚ faith‚ and opinionook I of the Essay is Locke’s attempt to refute the rationalist notion of innate
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The Factors Impact the Number of Private Car Ownership of China Demi Huang 1. Problem Introduction and Research Significance From 1990s‚ sales volume of vehicles in China increase swiftly. Number of private car ownership also increase rapidly from 1995. Car market is making a great contribution to domestic economy in China. According to the statistic data (1995-2010) make a time serious sample. Analysis the impact of domestic average wage‚ residents’ deposits‚ money supply‚ Engel
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Courage the Cowardly Dog Angela P. Sesin The University of Texas-Pan America Courage the Cowardly Dog Courage the Cowardly Dog is the name of an animated horror cartoon. The cartoon ran four seasons (52 episodes) from 1999 to 2002 on the Cartoon Network. The creator and executive producer is John R. Dilworth. Courage is a pink dog that belongs to Muriel and Eustace Bagge. He lives with them on their farm in the middle of Nowhere. Strange occurrences are a part of his daily life on the farm
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Tabu Search Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem Department of Industrial Engineering Koc University‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey gkirlik@ku.edu.tr Gokhan Kirlik April 16‚ 2010 Abstract Quadratic assignment problem is one of the most known and challenging combinatorial optimization problems. In this study‚ a new tabu search algorithm is proposed to solve the quadratic assignment problem. Proposed algorithm is tested with different tabu search elements such as neighborhood size‚ size of the tabu
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is very specific but is composed of many sections‚ A-H. Sections (criterion) A‚ describes the cause of the actual trauma itself. Requiring the person to be exposed to or threatened by death‚ injury or sexual assault. This criterion also states that the exposure can be “directly or indirectly witnessed”‚ meaning that it happens to a relative or friend who experienced the trauma. Criterion B is labeled “Intrusion Symptoms”‚ the reexperiencing of the traumatic
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