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Mcdonnell Douglas Spirit, October 1984, Mcdonnell Douglas

McDonnell / McDonnell Douglas Corporate Newsletters

McDonnell Douglas Spirit, October 1984 corporate newsletter.

Integrating Cad/Cam Into Engineering And Manufacturing Organizations : A Management Perspective, Gerardo A. Navia

Theses

The potential productivity improvements possible with CAD/CAM systems will require all Engineering and Manufacturing Enterprises to acquire this technology in order to stay competitive. Experience to date has shown that integration of these computer-based systems into the on-going operations is difficult and will not yield the anticipated benefits unless this is done properly.

This thesis examines the integration problem and how it is being dealt with by reviewing the literature and through personal contacts with both CAD/CAM vendors and users. It was concluded that for successful adoption and integration, Managers need a strong background in both the technical and managerial …

Japanese Management Techniques And Its Transition To Taiwan, Shih-Tung Shu

Theses

Japan's success, as measured by a vertically increasing balance-of-payments surplus, has created serious issues between Japan and other industrial democracies. It has created fears about the economic superpower status of Japan. On the other hand, because of this very success in coping with worldwide economic problems and in sustaining its export drive, Japan's unique style of managenemt has attracted a great deal of attention. As the Japanese have begun to demonstrate on ability to transfer their management style to the U. S. and other western countries, Japanese management and its transferability continue to be a subject of special interest in …

1984 September, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases from September of 1984.

1984 August, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases from August of 1984.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 4, Anthony Channell Hilfer, Richard Dillman, Michael Gillum, Richard Nickson, Peter Scheckner, Abby Arthur Johnson, J. V. Brummels, Michael A. Carey, David Etter, Sam Hamill, Jaan Kaplinski, Mark Vinz, Judith G. Shaw, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

ANTHONY CHANNELL HILFER pursues Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith' s faceless, sinister character, and finds him both other-directed and protean. Author of The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction and The Revolt from the Village, as well as articles on popular culture and criticism, Hilfer is Professor of English at the University of Texas in Austin. For the past year he has served as Visiting Professor of English at the University of Lancaster in England.

RICHARD DILLMAN suggests that Willa Cather fashioned Tom Outland more after the Transcendentalist ideal developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson than as …

A Retail Chain Multi Product Repricing Methodology, Kamlesh Mathur, Susumu Morito, Julio N. Berrettoni, Mohan Sundaram

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

In the marketing literature, various models have been suggested for the initial pricing of commercial products. However, not much work has been reported for the subsequent repricing function performed periodically, in particular, by retail chains, due to frequent changes in one or more of the product characteristics. This paper discusses the repricing problem and develops a nonlinear regression based methodology to design and implement a computerized system to perform this function. The model has been tested and validated for use in a large national retail chain.

1984-06-27, Morehead State Board Of Regents

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 26 Number 8, Summer 1984, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

2 - ALBEE'S ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON By Michael Tueth, S.J. Some principles of archetypal criticism are applied to Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

7 - NUCLEAR ADDICTION Edmund G. Brown Jr. The United States and the Soviet Union are engaged in an addictive and ultimately lethal process. Neither will break out of the curse of assured mutual destruction.

9 - GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD By Charles E. French. There are good reasons today to hope for a solution to world hunger, one that will occur in our time.

13 - TRAITS OF A HEALTHY …

Land Use Alternatives Disney/Wrather Anaheim Properties, Harrison Price Company

Harrison "Buzz" Price Papers

The following report prepared by the Harrison Price Company (HPC) for WED Enterprises and the Wrather Corporation sets forth the findings and conclusions with respect to the available near-term development opportunities for vacant land owned either by Walt Disney Productions, or The Wrather Corporation, near Disneyland and Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California. In All, some 123 acres of vacant or underutilized land is either owned in full or is under long term lease to one or the other of the two firms, and could be made available for development, without considering possibly underutilized portions of Disneyland itself, or the hotel …

On Using Sor Techniques For Solution Of A Large, Sparse, Nonsymmetric System, Yvonne Gibson-Robinson

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

The discretization of many physical problems produces a large linear system Ax = b where the obvious solution is x = A^-1b. However, for large systems it is computationally infeasible to find A^-1 explicitly. In such cases, iterative procedures are used to find the solution vector. The purpose of this Thesis is to study and modify one particular iterative procedure, the Successive Overrelaxation (SOR) algorithm, used to solve a Reservoir Model. The structure of the A matrix and Mathematical Programming concepts are used to develop and implement an efficient SOR algorithm.

Innovative Start-Up Management, Gary Dean Lorenz

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

This thesis develops, tests, and evaluates a general network-based model for use in the management of an innovative start-up. The major tasks accomplished in a start-up are identified. The tasks include R&D and Engineering, Financial, Market Research, Organization, Legal and Accounting, Manufacturing, and Marketing. For each major task, the significant activities, precedence relations, decision nodes, alternative choices of action, and feedback loops are identified. The Q-GERT package (written in FORTRAN) simulates the innovative management process described by the general network-based model. A flexible computer program yields values of such parameters as an activity criticality index, expected times to achieve each …

An Information Theoretic Forecasting Methodology, Keith Kerwin Mclain

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

A forecasting methodology has been developed which is based on information theory. This methodology uses the idea that autoregressive (AR) representation of a stationary, Normally distributed time series is equivalent to a model of such a time series which has maximum information content. To apply this idea, two programs were developed. The first program utilizes an Adaptive Sequential Segmentation Algorithm, which is based on an information theoretic measure, to detect subseries in a piecewise stationary time series. This is done to accommodate abrupt or discontinuous changes in the underlying process parameters. A second program utilizes the Akaike Information Criterion to …

A New Approach For Determining When The Linear Complementarity Problem Has No Solution, Venky Venkateswaran

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

For the Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP) we have developed a finite descent algorithm that is capable of obtaining an optimal solution when the given matrix is a P-matrix. Conventional finite descent algorithms for solving geometric optimization problems move only from the current point to a geometrically adjacent one while traversing the feasible region. Here, we develop an algorithm that may 'jump' over infeasible regions during its operation. In a sense analogous to the methods of combinatorial optimization, the proposed algorithm exploits a 'nearness' structure that is defined not with respect to physical adjacency but with respect to the objective function …

The Role Of Index Options As Investments, Peter H. Ritchken, Harvey M. Salkin, Gregory B. Getts

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

In the first section of this article we consider an investor who holds a mutual fund on which index options trade. As a comparison, we also consider a portfolio consisting of shares of the fund, Black Scholes priced index options, and cash. This portfolio is constructed so that it has the same expected return as the fund but significantly less risk. Properties of the mutual fund and the portfolio are discussed. The second section examines a more realistic situation. In particular, we assume that an investor owns shares of a large diversified fund which is not perfectly correlated with the …

A Mean-Lower Partial Moment Analysis Of Hedge Portfolios, Wen-Kuei Chen

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

If the continuous trading assumption is met, then the Black-Scholes (BS) model is appropriate for option valuation. However, in this case, since the market is complete, the claims are redundant and offer no economic benefits. Trading and monitoring costs may prevent the continuous trading assumption from being met. In incomplete markets, shareholders benefit by trading options since they can alter their risk exposures in ways that could not be done without options. On the other hand, portfolio strategies based on meshing options for future periods are likely to be more relevant for individuals and institutions that use options as a …

Optimization Of An Inventory System With A Coupled Computer Simulation And Response Surface Methodology, Hsiao-Chao Yuan

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

This thesis develops a coupled simulation/response surface methodology to find an optimum variable (s, S) policy for an inventory control system. The system considered is very general and fits many business scenarios. It allows for probabilistic and seasonal demand, probabilistic lag time and realistic other complexities.

A Corporate R&D Strategic Planning And Budgeting Model, Gregory Richard Madey

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

This thesis describes an R&D decision support model that was developed and subsequently tested for use within a division of an aerospace firm. The model is used for R&D project evaluation, selection and budgeting. The model uses multiattribute utility theory to describe the preference structure of the organization's decision makers. Data defining the projects is obtained from the firm's decision support system. Mathematical programming techniques are used to select a portfolio of R&D projects that maximizes the expected utility of the firm. Several multiobjective mathematical programming approaches for maximizing expected utility are formulated and evaluated. These include (1) minimization of …

Applications Of Integer Programming To Radio Frequency Management, Koichi Nishimura

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

The management of the radio communication environment has become increasingly complex as communication requirements have evolved. Various types of interference could seriously degrade the performance of a communications network. In a Naval fleet radio communication scenario, a particular type of interference, referred to as intermodulation interference, is important and amenable to mathematical study. In this problem scenario, the primary objective is to find an overall assignment of frequencies to each communication net such that potential intermodulation interference is minimized, while satisfying other communication requirements. In order to determine the potential level of intermodulation interference for each candidate set of frequencies …

Flood Insurance Study, City Of Cedar City, Utah, Iron County

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

This Flood Insurance Study investigates the existence and severity of flood hazards in the City of Cedar City, Iron County, Utah, and aids in the administration of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973. This study will be used to convert Cedar City to the regular program of flood insurance by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Local and regional planners will use this study in their efforts to promote sound flood plain management.

Reviews, Jewell Lewis Shane, Linda J. Zucca

Woman C.P.A.

No abstract provided.

Cpa Client Bulletin, April 1985, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Options In Portfolio Management - Some Key Issues, Peter H. Ritchken, Gregory B. Getts, Harvey M. Salkin

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

A review of stock and index option pricing models, their possible misuses and limitations, and their role in portfolio management under various assumptions. A discussion of how these models may be used in conjunction with the Capital Asset Pricing Model for measuring risk and reward of optioned portfolios is also included.

1984 January - June, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases from January to June of 1984.

Trends In Consumer Behavior Literature: A Content Analysis, James G. Helgeson, E. Alan Kluge, John Mager, Cherri Taylor

Faculty Publications - College of Business

While a comprehensive review and classification of consumer behavior literature has been called for periodically, none has been forthcoming. This paper attempts partially to rectify this situation. It classifies by several key variables 32 years of consumer behavior literature from selected journals and proceedings.

Mcdonnell Douglas Spirit, March 1984, Mcdonnell Douglas

McDonnell / McDonnell Douglas Corporate Newsletters

McDonnell Douglas Spirit, March 1984 corporate newsletter.

Scheduling And Sequencing Algorithms, Hamilton Emmons

Research Reports from the Department of Operations

Scheduling involves the allocation of resources over time to perform tasks and is a crucial aspect of managerial decision-making. While heuristic scheduling rules are commonly used, their effectiveness and potential alternatives are often not well understood. This memorandum explores job shop scheduling, a critical component of short-term decision-making in industrial production, and its broader applicability to sectors such as healthcare, education, and logistics. Job shop scheduling addresses detailed operations following aggregate planning, employing practical dispatching heuristics to manage dynamic, complex environments. The Shortest Processing Time (SPT) rule is highly effective for minimizing work-in-progress but may delay some orders significantly. For …

1984-02-11, Morehead State Board Of Regents

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Hsus Petitions U.S. Government To Protect Fur Seals

Close Up Reports

Since the 1960s, The Humane Society of the United States has vigorously protested this brutal clubbing of the North Pacific fur seals. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, HSUS investigator Frank McMahon repeatedly documented this slaughter and worked with government officials and others to stop it. In 1980, HSUS chief investigator Frantz Dantzler returned to continue the work. Unhappily, these constant efforts, though successful in calling this brutal activity to the attention of the American public, failed to achieve our goal of bringing the Pribilof "harvest" to an end.

Now, we have undertaken a different strategy: on Thursday, January …

An Inquiry Into Engineering Career Choice And Career Satisfaction, Gunars Bachs

Theses

The purpose of this thesis was to ascertain factors that motivate a person to study engineering, and to examine the aspects of engineering career satisfaction. This study was conducted as a survey by means of a mail questionnaire, which was distributed among graduates of New Jersey Institute of Technology. Another sample, comprised of master's degree recipients of NJIT who had received their bachelor's degree from other undergraduate schools, served as a control group.

Motivation factors and positive and negative aspects of the engineering career were established and ranked in order of their importance. A method to measure career satisfaction was …