successful cost reduction programmes In the current economic climate‚ most organisations must face up to a prolonged period of extreme competition and funding restrictions. This is particularly the case if the past few years have been focused on growth‚ service improvement or reorganisation (i.e. cost efficiency has not been a recent priority). Such pressures require an approach that reduces costs in a strategic‚ disciplined‚ and sustainable manner - delivered at pace. In our view serious cost reduction
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analogies between words in documents and patterns of patients and inspiring from bag-of-words‚ we represent the observed patterns of a patient as a bag of patterns. Therefore‚ the generative process can be treated as the process of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)~\cite{blei2003LDA}. More specifically‚ patterns of a patient are generated as: (1) A patient has $N$ patterns to describe his/her
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Responsibility Ought to be Considered in Organ Allocation Organ allocation. A process in which someone‚ somewhere decides where to place people on the transplant list. Many factors must be considered as organs are a scarce resource. Such factors must include‚ life style‚ age‚ prognosis‚ other comorbidities and most importantly the cause for the transplant. To explore these ideas‚ I will focus on the Zambrano article introduced in class. In this article‚ the author explores the argument of responsibility
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Having concluded his appeal in verse 16 to both his interests and Philemon’s‚ Paul makes three requests‚ telling Philemon what his next steps should be. The first request is that Philemon would “receive him as you would receive me” (1:17) and it is a strong request that puts Onesimus on the same level of respect as Paul. The second request is to forgive Onesimus’s debt and “charge that to my account”(1:18). Here‚ Paul is asking Philemon to do something extraordinary - forgive Onesimus for having
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Plant overhead $122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment
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6% 8.6% Std. Dev 0.1% 5.0% 3.9% 2.1% 4.9% Annual 0.4% 17.2% 13.4% 7.4% 17.1% Correlation Russell S&P 500 LT Bond EAFE Russell 1.000 S&P 500 0.780 1.000 LT Bond 0.191 0.413 1.000 EAFE 0.441 0.539 0.174 1.000 Q2. Optimal Asset Allocation a) For each portfolio return highlighted in yellow in the spreadsheet ‘Efficient Frontier’‚ calculate the minimum unconstrained portfolio standard deviation. Port Mean Sum of Weights Return Port wgts. Target Port Mean St. Dev
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Travelling by air has become cheaper with the number of budget airlines and the many deals that even the major carriers put out from time to time. It makes it easy to travel on a budget. However there are some costs attached to travelling that seem to be unavoidable like airport parking. Melbourne airport parking is ranked as the second most expensive in Australia. The trend seems to be that the bigger city the higher the airport parking fees are likely to be. Airports collect a lot of revenue from
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Business (UKM-GSB-LHDN) Cost Classification: Government Agency PROBLEM 2-56 The Department of Natural Resources is responsible for maintaining the state’s parks and forest lands‚ stocking the lakes and rivers with fish‚ and generally overseeing the protection of the environment. Several cost incurred by the agency are listed below. For each cost‚ indicate which of the following classifications best describe the cost. More than one classification may apply to the same cost item. The Answers
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following data have been recorded for recently completed Job 501 on its job cost sheet. Direct materials cost was $3‚067. A total of 30 direct labor-hours and 104 machine-hours were worked on the job. The direct labor wage rate is $12 per labor-hour. The company applies manufacturing overhead on the basis of machinehours. The predetermined overhead rate is $11 per machine-hour. The total cost for the job on its job cost sheet would be: A. $4‚571 B. $3‚757 C. $3‚090 D. $3‚427 Applied manufacturing
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Anthropomorphism is “the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to god‚ animal or object.” In this specific short story “ The Giraffe” Mauro Senesi has used this technique to frame the character of Giraffe. There were many human characteristics or behaviour given to the Giraffe in the story. But this may not mean that if an object or an animal character is given human attribution‚ that they also have lines (no talking is required). This is simply a way for audience to feel the kind of
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