DISCUSSION The present study was undertaken to estimate the specificity‚ sensitivity and predictive validity of measurements obtained with the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) for evaluation of preterm high risk infants. The present study included two scales i.e. the Alberta infant motor scale and the Peabody developmental motor scale – 2 (PDMS – 2) on high risk infants at 3 months‚ 6 months and 12 months of age. For the purpose of comparing the AIMS scale‚ the PDMS -2 scale was used as the gold
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The Subway sandwich chain is the largest restaurant operation in the world‚ as determined by the number of locations. Subway has been gaining on other fast-food restaurants such as McDonald’s for years. It’s smaller format costs less to open and operate than other chain restaurants and lets it squeeze into heavily trafficked locations places such as McDonald’s might bypass. In its clarity‚ simplicity‚ and achievability‚ the Subway restaurants have one of the best mission statements in the U.S.
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amount of money on technological upgrades each year (Ross et al.‚ 2002). UPS always find new and improved technology which the company is able to maintain competitive in their pricing (Clinton‚ 2008). Fuel is a major expense for the company‚ their operations also helps UPS reduce costs. As they always put efforts to increase their achievement‚ UPS became more efficient and developed company compare to before by the UPS transition. As below chart shows Financial Data of UPS from 2007 to 2012. Million
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1. Purpose. The Army needed a vehicle that would help defeat the on-going threat in the new operational battlefield. Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom called for a vehicle that would be able to absorb the impact of an Improvise Explosive Device (IED) and the Department of Defense did not have a vehicle in their inventory that would fit the needs of the units on the ground. Since the insurgents relied on these IED‚ their greatest causality producer‚ without having to actively
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Operation Gothic Serpent (OGS)‚ the manhunt for Mohamed Farrah Aidid (MFA)‚ leader of the Somali National Alliance (SNA)‚ commenced on 3 October 1993 and ended on 4 October 1993. Task Force Ranger’s (TFR) mission targeted the so-called Black Sea slum district‚ near the Bakara Market‚ to capture two of MFA’s key lieutenants near the Olympic Hotel. On the afternoon of 3 October 1993‚ Helicopters carrying assault and blocking forces launched around 1530 from the task force compound at the western
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Markets Motorcycles: Overall Two-wheeler sales of Indian players is dominated by the domestic market and‚ within it‚ by motorcycles. After growing at a sharp clip from the late 1990s‚ motorcycle sales witnessed a 7.8% drop in volume in 2007-08‚ due to falling domestic demand as a result of rising interest rates and many private sector banks reducing their retail lending exposures. 2008-09 saw a modest increase in motorcycle sales of 4%‚ driven largely by growth in cash sales. Even so‚ sales of
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MKT B370 Operations Management SPECIMEN EXAMINATION PAPER Important Note: This specimen examination paper serves solely as an illustration of the types of questions which may be contained in the examination. Students should not construe these questions as the actual examination questions nor part of the actual examination paper. In addition‚ this specimen examination paper does not purport to represent the complete scope or coverage of the course and the distribution of the topics to be examined
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different consumer behaviour. Customers are also more likely to perceive a company as ‘an insider’ and accept the new brand (Starbucks wasn’t very well known in some of the countries). However‚ the success of expanding into foreign markets‚ in this case‚ depends on ability to find the right local partners. Starbucks chose them very carefully and later profited from their experience‚ knowledge of the market and already established distribution framework. Thanks to suggestions made by local partners
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approach to teamwork that moves responsibility for decisions further down the organization chart to the level of the employee actually doing the job Continuous Improvement Management’s view of performance standards of the organization The way management views the contribution and role of its workforce (employee involvement and team efforts are the key to improvement) Key Elements of TQM: Quality is defined by customer Employee involvement Continuous improvement Prevention‚ not inspection
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MGMT 405 Operations and Production Management Answer set 2 (Reference chapter 2 – William J. Stevenson-2007‚ ninth edition) Problems and Solutions 1. Suppose that a company produced 300 standard bookcases last week using eight workers and produced 240 standard bookcases this week using six workers. In which was productivity higher? Explain. Ans: Productivitylast week = standard bookcases produced as output / labor= 300/8= 37.8 sbc/worker Productivity this week = standard bookcases produced
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