MECH 4010 Design Project Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Group 2 Jon DeCoste Denise McKay Brian Robinson Shaun Whitehead Stephen Wright Supervisors Dr. Murat Koksal Dr. Larry Hughes Client Department of Mechanical Engineering Dalhousie University December 5‚ 2005 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With the recent surge in fossil fuels prices‚ demands for cleaner energy sources‚ and government funding incentives‚ wind turbines have become a viable technology for power generation. Currently‚ horizontal
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Problem Set 1 Problem 1 Which project should the firm select? Why? Project B: Managers should try to maximize their stock’s intrinsic value while also bringing in revenue. The P/E ratio shows the dollar amount investors will pay for $1 of current earnings. Problem 2 If most investors expect the same cash flows from Companies A and B but are more confident that A’s cash flows will be closer to their expected value‚ which company should have the higher stock price? Explain. The primary
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Pricing Strategies Marketing 0571 September 27‚ 2012 Pricing Strategies Price is one of the key elements to consider when deciding which products and services to provide and where to sell them (Kotler‚ & Keller (2006). Companies face several pricing issues when selling products and services abroad. Once a company decides on which country to sell in‚ it must determine the best mode of entry. Some choices of entry are indirect exporting‚ direct exporting‚ licensing‚ joint ventures
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Doctrine » Summary of Runaway World by Anthony Giddens Posted by Realsociology on October 23‚ 2010 Like Subscribe Entries (RSS) Comments (RSS) early retirement open in browser PRO version 24 Tweet 0 39 There has been a considerable amount of research and theorising into globalisation and its consequences over the past decade‚ yet little of this has filtered down to students of A level Sociology. This article aims to address this by summarizing Anthony Giddens’ views on globalisation and its
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1. What is “kamikaze pricing”? Kamikaze pricing is an extreme form of penetration pricing. “Kamikaze” is a reference to World War II Japanese dive bomber pilots who would sacrifice their lives by crashing their airplanes‚ heavily loaded with explosives‚ onto enemy ships. Kamikaze pricing happens when the reasoning for penetration pricing is flawed because marketers wrongly assume lower prices will increase sales. However‚ in the business world‚ the continuous pursuit of increasing sales by lowering
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Chapter 1 Data and Statistics Learning Objectives 1. Obtain an appreciation for the breadth of statistical applications in business and economics. 2. Understand the meaning of the terms elements‚ variables‚ and observations as they are used in statistics. 3. Obtain an understanding of the difference between categorical
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Transportation Problem and Solution in Case of Bangladesh An adequate and efficient transport system is a pre-requisite for both initiating and sustaining economic development. Investment in improving transport efficiency is the key to expansion and integration of markets - sub-national‚ national and international. It also helps the generation of economies of scale‚ increased competition‚ reduced cost‚ systematic urbanization‚ export-led faster growth and a larger share of international
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Have you ever lost someone to a drunk driver? In 2010 10‚288 American’s lost their lives due to a drunk driver (Reference: www.centurycouncil.org/drunk-driving/drunk-driving-fatalities-national-statistics). Right now laws in place only punish those who are who are caught driving under the influence of alcohol. What if it could be prevented before anyone can get behind the wheel of a vehicle after consuming alcohol. Why wait for an alcohol related incident to happen when it could be prevented. Anyone
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online casinos operations running worldwide. The most serious problem for these operations is to protect their transaction data‚ such as client¡¦s personal
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Transfer Function General with order‚ linear‚ time invariant differential equation an dn(t)dtn+ an-1 dn-1c(t)dtn-1+…a0ct= bmdmrtdtm+bm-1dm-1rtdtm-1+…b0r(t) Where: c (t) is the output r (t) I is the input By taking the Laplace transform of both sides ansn cs+ an-1sn-1 cs+…a0cs+initial condition involving c(t) =bmsmRt+bm-1sm-1Rt+…b0Rs+initial condition involving r(t) If we assume that all initial condition are zero ansn+ an-1sn-1….+…a0cs=bmsm+bm-1sm-1+…b0r(s) Rs-→ bmsm+bm-1sm-1+…b0ansn+
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