“SMART MATERIALS” ABSTRACT The world has undergone two materials ages‚ the plastics age and the composite age‚ during the past centuries. In the midst of these two ages a new era has developed. This is the smart materials era. According to early definitions‚ smart materials are materials that respond to their environments in a timely manner. The definition of smart materials has been expanded to materials that receive‚ transmit or process a stimulus and respond
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therefore focussed towards meeting the requirements of Strategic Electronics in the Nuclear‚ Defence‚ Security and such other sectors of National Importance. The Crisis The post-liberalisation period of 90s was characterised by intense competition from both the MNCs and private sector. The impact of the globalisation process and the sanctions in the wake of Pokhran-11 experiments have brought the company to the brink of sickness in 1998-99. ECIL suffered a loss of Rs.10 crore in 1997-98 and a substantial
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Capital Budgeting Introduction Capital budgeting is the process of evaluating and selecting long-term investments that are consistent with the firm’s goal of maximizing owner wealth. A firm using capital budgeting‚ their goal is to see if there fixed income will cover itself for profit. Fixed incomes are things such as land‚ plant and equipment. When a firm using a machine to produce its good or service. They most of the time what the machine to produce the amount that they paid for the machine
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CONSUMER PURCHASE DECISION 2 Consumer Purchase Decision There are many reasons that a consumer chooses a certain product. It may be that it is environmentally friendly‚ a great design or it might be as simple as the price of the product. As a business organization we must be able to conduct our research and decipher what is most important to our target market. The consumer buying decision process is a systematic way of looking at how a consumer makes the decision to purchase a product
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Post Purchase Evaluation A***** W**** After purchasing a product a consumer goes through many steps to evaluate whether or not they made a good purchase. They will research the product that was purchase and make sure that it was up to their standards. They will avoid finding negative information about their product. In the end the consumer may decide to take the purchase back all together due to thinking it overall was not a good purchase. When making the decision to purchase a product
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Capital Budgeting Assignment #2 Breana N. Rainge 23. Bauer Industries is an automobile manufacturer. Management is currently evaluating a proposal to build a plan that will manufacture lightweight trucks. Bauer plans to use a cost of capital of 12% to evaluate this project. Based on extensive research‚ it has prepared the following incremental free cash flow projections (in millions of dollars): | Year 0 | Year 1-9 | Year 10 | Revenues | | 100.0 | 100.0 | -Manufacturing expenses (other
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2.1 Venture capital and its role in the investment process………………………………2 2. Google Inc. development and role of venture capitalists in it………………………4 3.2 The history of the company………………………………………………………………4 3.3 Major investments and acquisitions……………………………………………………6 3.4 Role of Venture Capitalists in the lifecycle of the company………………………….9 3.5.1 Sequoia Capital as a major venture capital firm involved………………………9 3.5.2 You Tube Inc. acquisition and ensuing
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addresses two different approaches in international capital market by exploring positive and negative characteristics of each trend: * Perfect capital market which is about economists’ idea of capital market; * Imperfect capital market which refers to modern capital market; * And‚ finally after above explorations and assessment of each strategy’ weaknesses/ strengths‚ it seeks to weigh/ compare both trends. Introduction Sion‚ A (2010) describes perfect (economists’) capital market as
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it still a good strategy? The following essay will critically evaluate whether the ‘just in time’ approach to production is still a good strategy and whether it has any implications. The manufacturing approach ‘just in time’ was first established in japan during the mid-1970 by Taichi Ohno and Shigeo Shingo at the Toyota Motor Company. Toyota was one of the first companies to input this approach to streamline its manufacturing and production to minimise the retention of raw materials which enable
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Engineering Materials Msc. Shaymaa Mahmood Introduction to Eng. Materials : Since the earliest days of the evolution of mankind ‚ the main distinguishing features between human begins and other mammals has been the ability to use and develop materials to satisfy our human requirements. Nowadays we use many types of materials‚ fashioned in many different ways‚ to satisfy our requirements for housing‚ heating‚ furniture‚ clothes‚ transportation‚ entertainment‚ medical care‚ defense and all the
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