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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more accurate 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
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Reading the excerpt from Piper Kerman’s Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison book places the reader in the shoes of the main character‚ Kerman. In the excerpt‚ Kerman evokes the reader’s pity‚ as well as interest‚ through a description of the fear and nerves she is experiencing turning herself in to the federal prison. As she undergoes several unpleasant procedures‚ Kerman expresses believable emotions. She hates the dehumanizing feeling of her circumstances‚ from standing naked in
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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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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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The charcoal canister is used to measure radon levels over two to seven days. The Alpha Track detector is used to measure levels over a period of three to twelve months (Kansas Radon Program Engineering Extension: Kansas State University). Radon detectors are easy to find and can be purchased in hardware stores and other retail outlets
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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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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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Journal Entry 3 Alpha – Beta Exercise Beta Group BACKGROUND The name of this negotiation exercise is ALPHA-BETA. The goal of this negotiation is to stay within character and gain as much information from the other side as possible. The uncertainties confronted were how to lead the negotiation as a Betan. The skills that we will try to exhibit are trying to embody the style and culture of the Betans. Our opponents‚ Alpha Inc.‚ were prepared with their demands. They seemed to have researched
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