Analysis and fabrication of the model of a crane with pneumatic lift
Tutorials/exercises - 71 pages - Physics
Within this dissertation, the manufacturing and fabrication of a prototype of a crane with a pneumatic lift is explained with the help of detailed diagrams. The project is held to covert each and every drop of theoretical knowledge into a crude conceptual and practical work. This introductory...
Process improvement in recruitment, selection and functional design of hiring management system in relevance to IBM
Thesis - 18 pages - Human resources
Process Improvement, a methodology adopted for stabilizing and improving work tasks and systems can result in great benefits in processes in an organization by establishing continuous monitoring and control over those tasks and ensuring predictability of quality and costs. The recruitment...
Basic concepts of CRM
Thesis - 23 pages - Management
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) refers to the methodologies and tools that help businesses manage customer relationships in an organized way. CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is a process or methodology used to learn more about customers' needs and behaviors...
Brain finger-printing
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, Inc. has developed and patented EEG/P300 based testing systems that determines, with extremely high accuracy, whether or not specific information is stored in a person's memory. The test measures individual brain-wave responses to relevant words, pictures or...
A study on Kinsey's reports
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Kinsey Reports were two innovative books on human sexual behavior that was very controversial and sensational. The findings caused much controversy due to the graphic nature of the findings. They served to challenge conventional beliefs about sexuality and they addressed topics that were,...
Decision support for knowledge intensive business processes
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Strategy development, new product introduction, marketing research, and financial budgeting, are a few examples of Knowledge Intensive Business Processes (KIBPs). These processes tend to be complex and time consuming, requiring collaboration and the sharing of expertise within specific work...
POLCA based lead time reduction in a job shop environment using simulated experiments
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Quick Response Manufacturing is an emerging shop floor management technique best suited for high product mix and variable demand environments. Paired Cell Overlapping Loop of Cards with Authorization or POLCA is the material control system of Quick Response Manufacturing. Pull system have...
Vendor selection under uncertainty
Thesis - 6 pages - Physics
Vendor selection is of strategic importance to companies. This paper uses fuzzy tools for vendor selection to improve decision-making (DM) through a more systematic and logical approach. Expert opinion is portrayed by allocating different fuzzy weights to the linguistic data in the form of...
A review of evolutionary algorithms for multi objective multi product multi modal distribution problem with a possible new approach
Thesis - 12 pages - Logistics
Transportation industry is a fairly large industry in today's globalized world, and has significant effect too. Each and every big or small industry is bound to use the transportation facilities or logistics. The main problems in this logistics operation are optimizing the cost, time; distance...
Preparation and analytical investigation of electrodeposited nickel aluminum oxide composite coatings
Thesis - 11 pages - Physics
Composite coating methods play a major role in enhancing the life of the components by improving the wear resistance of the surface coating used. Electrodeposited composite coatings consist of a metal matrix with either a ceramic or cermets particle addition which represents the new development...
Use test case for z-specification based criteria
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Testing is an important and critical part of the software development process, on which the quality and reliability of the delivered product strictly depend. Testing is not limited to the detection of “bugs” in the software, but it also increases the level of proper functioning and...
A system dynamics approach for village development planning with reference to India
Case study - 12 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This paper presents the results of a detailed 10-week long fieldwork done at the Tuljapur village in Thane district of Maharashtra a state in India obtained from modeling the observed data using the System Dynamics methodology. Various resource-technology-need linkages (forward and...
Privacy preserving distributed data mining by using tree based randomization
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
Due to increasing concerns related to privacy, organizations are forced to take actions to protect the privacy of individuals when revealing customers' records during data mining activities. In this paper we present a methodology that preserves statistical relationship between attributes...
Artificial intelligence for classification of defects in ultrasonic testing
Tutorials/exercises - 14 pages - Computer science
A methodology is developed to detect defects in NDT of materials using an Artificial Neural Network and signal processing technique. This technique is proposed to improve the sensibility of flaw detection and to classify defects in Ultrasonic testing. Wavelet transform is used to derive a...
Fuzzy QFD for optimizing the engineering characteristics of a casting product
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
A casting may be defined as a metal object obtained by allowing molten metal to solidify in a mould, the shape of the object being determined by the shape of the mould cavity. Defective castings, even at advanced foundries, account for 2 to 5% and sometimes from 10 to 25% of the number of...
Constructive and equivalent variable cost heuristics to the multi-period fixed charge transportation problem
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
This paper addresses a multi-period fixed charge transportation problem (MPFCTP), which includes transportation, inventories and backlog. The transportation costs are represented in the form of a nonlinear function. The objective is to determine the size of the shipments in each period, inventory...
Research proposal - proposed title: The role of quality factors in electronic commerce
Essay - 4 pages - Business strategy
The unprecedented proliferation of the Internet and the World Wide Web over the last decade has increased the importance of electronic commerce. The research will present an exploratory study of the role of quality factors in electronic commerce in order the significance of the latter to be...
The grounded theory
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
The methodology of Grounded Theory is increasingly being used in research in information systems. However, some researchers consider this method as having non-rigorous data points and therefore unacceptable for scientific research and the use of empirical data. The purpose of the article...
Marketing and direct marketing
Thesis - 3 pages - Services marketing
Marketing is a mindset using techniques which enable a company to win markets, or even to create, preserve and develop them. The methodology is tantamount to seeing marketing from the point of view of the consumers, and constantly analyzing the needs and desires of the customer, so as to...
Expatriates: The pros and cons
Thesis - 13 pages - Management
Research concerning human resource staffing issues as regards international business personnel needs has emphasized the importance of the selection decision. Little has been done concerning the integration of this decision in the context of foreign business strategies. One analytical...
Standardization versus adaptation of international advertising strategies : towards a framework
Book review - 10 pages - Services marketing
The purpose of this article by Papavassiliou and Stathakopoulos was to create a framework capable of detailing the environmental determinants that affect the degree of standardization or adaptation needed in international advertising decisions. Some studies argue that a standardized advertising...
Case study: Apple
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
We present an analysis of the firm, Apple Computer, Inc. and examine its growth from different angles. The choice of this firm was a result of the immediate interest in the firm. This analysis is particularly interesting in terms of study of its history, and also its present and its future. In...
