Optimal decision Essays

  • Using Your Minds Eye for Optimal Athletic Performance

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    Using Your Minds Eye for Optimal Athletic Performance You are in the First Union Stadium playing in the championship basketball game in front of a sold out, wildly cheering crowd, with hints of soft pretzels, buttered popcorn, and sweat in the air. Theres one minute left to play and you are agitated, exhausted, and have cottonmouth from the stimulation of this once in a life time opportunity to own and flaunt a championship ring. The scoreboard announces that the numbers are tied at 101 and

  • Jp Molassas Business Analysis

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    recommendations on future improvements to increase profits Part I Objective function: J.P. Molasses' goal is to maximize the profit generated from the refining of raw sugar into molasses and its byproducts and then shipping those products to customers. Decision variables: a. The amount of raw sugar shipped from eight suppliers to two processing plants b. The amount of molasses and byproduct shipped to seven customers (a majority of which are internal and therefore don't generate profit accounted

  • Investigating the Browning of a Fruit or Vegetable

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    temperatures and at an optimal pH level. The degree and speed at which each apple portion browns will depend upon the strength and amount of the enzyme phenolase present in each portion. Background Information: Apples will turn brown when cut and exposed to air. This can be partly attributed to the action of enzymes which are organic catalysts. They speed up chemical reactions without taking part in the reaction. Enzymes are sensitive to temperature and pH and have optimal levels of each variable

  • Full-Day vs. Half-Day Kindergarten

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    young. Kindergarten plays an important role in the growth, and development of a child. It is here that children begin the foundation for the rest of there education. Educators are constantly looking for ways to improve the kindergarten program for optimal success, however change never occurs easily. There is always some opposition; as in the case with the change from half-day to full-day kindergarten. After carefully researching the controversial topic I have been able to come to some conclusions,

  • hand tools

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    (pistol grip) maintains a straight wrist during cutting, sawing, or rotary operations such as drilling or nut tightening. Maintain a straight wrist     Provide an optimal grip span Cylindrical Handle. A tool for rotary action on a horizontal work piece maintain the wrist in a straight position.           Excessive grip span does not allow optimal application of force and imposes undue stress upon the joints. Avoid tissue compression     Protect against heat, cold, vibration extremes Excessively thin or

  • Optimal Size Of A Firm

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    Optimal Size Of A Firm The optimum size of a firm is a very subjective idea. The ways in which size can help or hinder a firm vary from which angle you a looking at the situation from. Size can have its benefits and its drawbacks, and each firm will have its own benefits and drawbacks that come from either increasing in size, or remaining small, and these will depend on the market in which the firm is in, the current economy, and in some cases the preferences of the manager(s). For example a small

  • Compare The Three Models Of Decision Making As Articulated By Allison Case Study

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    models of decision making as articulated by Allison. What are the components, assumptions, and applications of each? Which is most useful for organizational administration and leadership? Why? Finally, how could “group think” influence decision making in an organization? The three models of decision making according to Allison are the rational model, the organizational process model, and the government and politics models. The rational model is when within the organization context, decision making

  • Rational models and self evaluation

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    My supervisor requested a self-evaluation in connection with an upcoming annual performance review, the self evaluation was meant to answer questions regarding A certain customer service decision and accommodations made by me that went beyond company standard operating procedure and protocols. Conio-caca Graphics Imaging Corporation ordered my team to perform a systems installation for a small publishing company in North Miami. The installation was to be performed according to company standards;

  • Williams’ and Calabrese’s Ambiguity & Interpretive Theory

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    lacks formal structure and motive, it is similar to the Garbage Can theory (GC). The GC theory describes the decision making process within an organization that experiences high levels of ambiguity. Ultimately, both theories can be used to describe an organized anarchy. Decision outcomes are deliberated among independent networks, lacking specific problems, a systematic process and tangible optimal goals. The Ambiguity & Interpretive theory is compatible with Rubin’s Real Time Budgeting (RTB) theory.

  • Ticketmaster Case Study

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    Ticketmaster transformed itself from a more client-friendly model (i.e., venue and promoter-geared) to a customer-friendly model (i.e., ticket purchaser-geared). How has this helped the company? How might it have harmed it? Ticketmaster’s decision to transform from a more client-friendly model to a customer-friendly model changed Ticketmaster to become fun-centered, e-commerce company. The customer-friendly model allows consumers to see the price of the ticket up front and pick their own seats

  • The Role of the Management Consultant

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    the consultant’s responsibility to facilitate client decision-making, not change the decisions the client would have made anyway" (Wickham and Wickham 2008). To do so, the review firstly outlines the client- consultant relationship and the consultant’s responsibility and role once they are hired, in light of the work of prominent authors like Appelbaum (2004), Calvert (2005) and O’Mahoney (2010). Then, the review analyses the client’s decision-making processes and consultant’s role in it, with

  • Review of paper 1

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    1. Introduction Design variables are important to be conducted the appropriate experiment analyzing and getting the accurate values for integer, discrete, zero-one (binary), and continuous variables. The researchers should classify design factors before the experiment is conducted. In literature, there are several factors such as quantitative, qualitative, discrete, continuous, zero-one (binary), non-zero-one (non-binary), controlled and uncontrolled variables (Sanchez & Wan, 2009). Quantitative

  • The Optimal Foraging Theory

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    The Optimal Foraging Theory Abstract.Ý The theory of optimal foraging and its relation to central foraging was examined by using the beaver as a modelÝ (summarizes the Introduction). Beaver food choice was examined by noting the species of woody vegetation, status (chewed vs. not-chewed), distance from the water, and circumference of trees near a beaver pond in North Carolina (summarizes the Methods).Ý Beavers avoided certain species of trees and preferred trees that were close to the

  • Hypotheses Of The Effects Of Wolf Predation

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    Hypotheses of the Effects of Wolf Predation Abstract: This paper discusses four hypotheses to explain the effects of wolf predation on prey populations of large ungulates. The four proposed hypotheses examined are the predation limiting hypothesis, the predation regulating hypothesis, the predator pit hypothesis, and the stable limit cycle hypothesis. There is much research literature that discusses how these hypotheses can be used to interpret various data sets obtained from field studies

  • Do Humans (Homo sapiens) Maximize the Number of Food Items Per Foraging Run? A Test of the Marginal Value Theorem

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    the foraging patch and collected simulated food items in a way that simulated diminishing marginal returns. Data on travel time, foraging time, and number of food items collected were collected. The data differed significantly from the calculated optimal values. This may be a result of low number of trips between the foraging patch and the simulated dwelling. Introduction When animals forage, many factors become involved. They include the location of the food, its distance from the animals’

  • Agriculture in Mesoamerica

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    innovation of pottery and before hunter-gather societies settled into villages. The variety of crops from agriculture result independently before spreading later to the American Southwest and the Northern America during the Formative period. The optimal foraging theory could explain the role of human actions in spreading of agriculture as a by-product of rational societies adapting from the Mesoamerican example for self-interest of reproducing valuable food sources. This belief was easily spread

  • Les relations Anglais-Francais

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    beaucoup d'efforts de résoudre les problèmes du FLQ et rejoindre le pays ensemble. Mais quand meme, les anglais-francais n'ont pas un relation forte a cause de ces problemes, meme avec tous les efforts de Trudeau. Le sujet de "conscription" était un decision tres important durant la première guerre mondiale. La definition de conscription est un loi qui oblige chaque homme qui peut battre dans le guerre, de battre. Après la bataille de la somme, le Canada a perdu beaucoup d'hommes et ont a besoin beaucoup

  • The Importance of Each Decision in Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken

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    The Importance of Each Decision in The Road Not Taken "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is a lyrical poem about the decisions that one must make in life. When a man approaches a fork in the road on which he is traveling, he must choose which path to take. The choice that he makes, as with any choices made in life, affects him in a way that "has made all the difference . Thematically

  • Moral Issues and Decisions in George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant

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    Moral Issues and Decisions in Shooting an Elephant Throughout "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell, he addresses his  internal battle with the issues of morality and immorality. He writes of several situations that show his immoral doings. When George Orwell signed up for a five-year position as a British officer in Burma he was unaware of the moral struggle that he was going to face. Likewise, he has an internal clash between his moral conscious and his immoral actions. Therefore, Orwell

  • I Hate Decisions

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    salad? Should I get something to drink or for dessert? What would go best with the main course? After agonizing over all of my choices, I usually just end up following my gut instinct and ordering what I had in mind on the way to the restaurant. Decisions have always tended to come difficult for me, big or small. Similar to selecting a meal at a restaurant, I have an extremely difficult time choosing a major at college. Since grade school, I have dreamed of becoming a schoolteacher. I had