Performance evaluation of diesel engines using blends of diehtyl ether and diesel and diethyl ether and bio diesel
Thesis - 7 pages - Physics
Producing and using renewable fuels for transportation is one approach for sustainable energy future for the world. With ever growing concerns on environmental pollution, energy security, and future oil supplies, the global community is seeking non petroleum based alternative fuels, along with...
A look at cogeneration
Thesis - 14 pages - Computer science
Power is one of the basic requirements for the economic development of a country. The performance of various activities is dependent on the availability of adequate and reliable power supply. Our country has made a rapid progress in the field of electricity generation. Thermal power plants are a...
Bulgaria and European Union: A research report
Tutorials/exercises - 22 pages - European union
The development of a global financial market transforms the individual countries' and domestic capital markets into connected single financial environment, where investors can take advantage of numerous investment opportunities. The dynamic growth and gradual integration of the Bulgarian capital...
Cradle to cradle design - published: 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 45 pages - Economy general
Faced with the increasing damage inflicted on the planet by industrial development, environmentalists have traditionally argued that we need to put a halt on economic growth. This approach has neither been realistic nor efficient. Fortunately, a new way of thinking has emerged with respect to the...
The Intercultural management in the tourism sector: a new opportunity for a sustainable performance
Dissertation - 60 pages - Management
The tourism sector is clearly characterized by the number of nationalities that form it. Culture is also part of it. Employees from a specific country can face a customer from another country, whose culture is totally different. In the same way, an employee can work in team with another employee...
What are the impacts of advanced supplier quality assurance implementation on automotive lighting overall business performance?
Case study - 28 pages - Business strategy
Innovative company of automotive lighting industry, automotive lighting (AL), daily develops strategies which play a leading role in insuring its competitiveness. For this reason, AL's purchasing division targets to reach Purchasing Excellence. To assure this target, AL's purchasing...
Globalization: Knowledge-based economy in Europe
Tutorials/exercises - 31 pages - Economy general
It is a fact that today's European economy is strongly impacted by globalization. European firms have the opportunity to go to the global market. In order to be successful and to achieve a local and international development, those companies have to adapt and to reinvent their strategies. The...
The London Stock Exchange
Essay - 5 pages - Finance
Financial globalization has grown since the nineties. In 2004, the portfolios of British institutional investors contained 26% of foreign assets. In comparison, this rate was of 11% in the United States and 23% in Japan, which makes the LSE the biggest international Stock Exchange. Moreover, as...
The impact of congruency and contrast on the effectiveness of happy ads
Essay - 11 pages - Services marketing
Big companies have more and more interest in improving the image of their brand to increase their sales but also their profits and there are several reasons for this: According to Malinvaud, using ads enable the brand differentiate itself from its competitors, so this is for a company a way to...
The modern portfolio theory
Essay - 7 pages - Services marketing
The aim of the Modern Portfolio Theory is to provide to a portfolio owner the tools necessary to implement an efficient and sustainable strategy focusing on minimizing the risk. According to this theory, risk is supposed to be reduced through the choice of a diversified portfolio. In fact,...
Working capital and ratio analysis: BHEL Hyderabad
Case study - 60 pages - Finance
GROWTH : To ensure a steady growth by enhancing the competitive edge of BHEL in existing business, new areas and international operation so as to fulfill national expectations from BHEL. PROFITABILITY: To provide a reasonable and adequate return on capital employed, primarily through...
Managerial economics focusing on cost and revenue analysis
Thesis - 19 pages - Economy general
Health service providers have to carefully manage the use of scarce resources while meeting a growing demand for services and rising expectations for quality. Conducting cost and revenue analysis can greatly increase a managers' understanding of the factors that affect resource use, including...
Keeping records and its importance in finance
Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Finance
Finance is recorded as the life blood of a business enterprise. This is because in the modern money-oriented economy finance is one of the basic foundations of all kinds of economic activities. It is the master key which provides access to all the sources for being employed in manufacturing and...
A study of behavioral finance in the Indian stock exchange
Case study - 32 pages - Finance
Much of economic and financial theory is based on the notion that individuals act rationally and consider all available information in the decision-making process. However, researchers have uncovered a surprisingly large amount of evidence that this is frequently not the case. Peter L. Bernstein...
Customer Relationship Management and the call centers
Tutorials/exercises - 60 pages - Management
Before we begin to examine the conceptual foundations of CRM, it will be useful to define what CRM is. CRM stands for "Customer Relationship Management." CRM is a business strategy and a collection of technologies that enable seamless coordination between sales, marketing, customer service, field...
Study of dematerialization in India: Indiabulls Securities
Dissertation - 53 pages - Finance
A widely neither distributed nor such distress followed so quickly on the heels 1the equity brokerage industry in India is one of the oldest in the Asia region. India had an active stock market for about 150 years that played a significant role in developing risk markets as also promoting...
Inventory management and control
Dissertation - 42 pages - Management
Materials constitute the most significant part of current assets of a large majority of companies. On an average, inventories are approximately 60% to 70% of the current assets in any manufacturing company and 30% to 40% in any construction company. Because of the large size of inventories...
Oticon case study
Case study - 8 pages - Management
The Human Resources course we had taken enabled us to wonder about the best way to deal with employees, how to improve their efficiency, how to increase their motivation and provide them with the best work environment possible. We also saw that the answers to these questions depended on...
A study on GE's business strategy
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Business strategy
GE Lighting is a leading supplier of lighting products for global consumer, commercial and industrial markets. Products include incandescent, fluorescent, high-intensity discharge, halogen and holiday lamps, along with portable lighting fixtures, lamp components and quartz products. GE also...
A report on activities on and around OFDM
Thesis - 5 pages - Physics
Multi-carrier communications are currently in a state of very rapid development, both in the introduction of new techniques and in its application to a wide variety of channels and services. Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a bandwidth-efficient signaling scheme for wideband...
The role of advertising effectiveness in changing customer's perception in relation to LG and its competitors
Tutorials/exercises - 80 pages - Business strategy
Modern marketing calls for more than developing a good product, pricing it attractively and making it accessible. Companies must also communicate with present and potential stakeholders, and the general public. Every company is inevitably cast into the role of communicator and promoter. For most...
The impact of alignment between supply chain strategy and is strategy on SCM performance
Thesis - 13 pages - Management
Supply chain (SC) strategy and information system (IS) strategy to implement Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes have been individually regarded as the vital and imperative ways to improve SCM performance. Yet what kinds of IS strategies to be implemented under what condition of manufacturing...
Report on Vodafone's success strategy in Europe
Tutorials/exercises - 59 pages - Business strategy
Following the Schumann declaration (1950) the European Economic Community (EEC) or Common Market, of six nations was established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957. Since this time, the number of member states has increased to fifteen, and successive treaties have gradually strengthened the degree of...
Application of ANN in non-life insurance industry
Thesis - 12 pages - Business strategy
Most of the Institutions are yet to use basic best practices for marketing spending and effectiveness for allocation of marketing resources. They traditionally allocate their marketing budget either based on historical allocation level or based on product level priorities. Marketing has come...
A novel multi-population genetic algorithm for human resource allocation
Thesis - 8 pages - Computer science
The Human Resource Allocation Problem is an interesting and important problem that occurs in several walks of life. The problem involves multi-objective optimization in a huge search space and hence genetic algorithms prove to be effective in solving such problems. Among the several types of...
Deploying face recognition system with neural network & sub-space techniques
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
Now-a-days Human-Computer interaction involves face recognition with high recognition efficiency. Face recognition mainly includes signal processing, face tracking, pose estimation and expressions recognition. The face images are transformed into face spaces by a set of Eigen faces...
Company analysis - PepsiCo
Case study - 10 pages - Audit
PepsiCo is a major corporate player in the global food and beverage industry, providing people with a wide selection of uncomplicated products since the early 1900s. Therefore, PepsiCo has been around since 1898 and functions through a complementary entity of a collection of brands that covers...
Business strategy: How Dell Computer uses technology to gain competitive advantage and keep its leader position on the PC market ?
Case study - 22 pages - Business strategy
When Dell's CEO, Michael S. Dell and President, Kevin B. Rollins met in the fall of 2001, they were confident that the company was recovering from the global crash of personal computer (PC) sales. In fact, Dell is the master at selling PCs directly and bypassing middlemen and thus delivers PCs...
International operations management: global operations management strategies
Case study - 10 pages - Management
According to Witkowski (2017) innovation is an integral element in driving organizations' progress and modernity. Innovation's contribution to operational efficiency is premised on the fact that organizations have the option of pursuing different types of innovation that include...
The Volkswagen Group : A study
Case study - 31 pages - Business strategy
As the largest automobile manufacturer in Europe and 5th in the whole world, the Volkswagen Group focuses on the automotive market and offers products and services along with an entire automotive value chain. With nine independent brands, the Group provides a unique range of models from the...
