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Enumeration Of Small Triangle Free Ramsey Graphs, Robert Getschmann

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In 1930, a paper by Frank Plumpton Ramsey entitled "On a Problem of Formal Logic" appeared in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Although the impetus of this paper was one of mathematical logic, a far reaching combinatorial result was needed by Ramsey to achieve his objective. This combinatorial result became known as Ram \sey's Theorem. One of the combinatorial structures which was developed during the study of Ramsey's Theorem is that of a Ramsey graph. A Ramsey graph, denoted (k,l,n,e), is defined as an undirected graph that contains no cliques of size k, no independent sets of size …

Operational Managers Handbook To Information Technology Outsourcing, Chester Johnson

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The academic, consulting, and business community is inundated with books, articles, web sites, and consulting services devoted to IT Outsourcing. As the technology advances and the business community gains practical experience in the area, outsourcing options require constant updating. This handbook provides the sequence of business process steps along with numerous guidelines, checklists, and detailed descriptions for developing a successful outsourcing contract. What is unique about the handbook is that it synthesizes the organizational, cultural, and political aspects of the enterprise that form the underpinnings for the development of a successful outsourcing function within the enterprise. The handbook then delves …

Travel Reservation Process Evaluation, Amy Bowles

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The purpose of this study is to analyze one specific process within the travel department to accurately determine its usefulness. This study will examine the current reservation process in place and establish if there are "fail points" or faults within the process. Further research will illustrate the increased cost associated with each "fail point" by analyzing specific scenarios. Additionally, this analysis will determine if the standard reservation process, which each agent is initially taught, is followed and to what extent. The cost associated with not adhering to the standard process will also by illustrated in specific scenarios.

Marketing Research: Positioning Of The Packaging Brand Name "Kremenci", Sanja Meles

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This thesis presents the analysis and results based on marketing research of the package that helps position the brand and close the sale in the store. The purpose of the marketing research is to identify the package recognition as one of the marketing tactics "package1 sells the product". In addition, supports the company's business objectives of the secondary package production for the chocolate brand "Kremenci" as a prototype for the most popular and the best-selling chocolate brand name "Dorina" to increase profitability and reduce the cost of shelf space. The methodologies that will help us accomplish the above goals are: …

International Graduate Student Expectations At Rit, Zeneida Granados

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Information is a key to seeing problems and experiences encountered by international graduate students while studying abroad. Consequent adaptations to new surroundings have been suggested from several perspectives. Services offered on-campus could help international graduate students to achieve their main goal: to be successful in their professional and social life. Success could commence from the initial contemplation or decision of studying abroad and might continue throughout their prolonged stay if continuous support was available from the staff and customized services in the college or university selected. Conducting sixteen face-to-face interviews (using open-ended questions) and two focus groups of four students …

Free Agency And The Organization, Gregg Chalmers

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Corporate downsizing has become a common occurrence in today's business world. As a result, many employers and employees no longer believe and cannot sustain the concept of lifetime employment. Several views on the breaking of this psychological contract and its implications on workplace loyalty and trust are offered from both the manufacturing and service industry's perspectives. The way we live and work is changing at an alarming rate. Rapid technological advancements enable employees to work from remote locations while communicating with their organization and coworkers in real-time. These break-through capabilities bring new challenges to the organization and the employee. In …

Process Mapping Framework For Small Business Consultants: A Case Study Approach, Nicole Kmicinski

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Objective To develop a Process Mapping Framework for Small Business Consultants and to evaluate its effectiveness on a case study organization. Design Current literature was reviewed to establish protocol for the framework. The framework was followed to test its efficacy. Subject Weight No More, Inc., of Lyndonville, NY, was selected as the case study small business. Results The developed framework proved useful for gathering information, maintaining consistency, and assimilating research into well-versed findings for the case study organization. Applications Small business consultants now have a guiding framework which promotes use of strong customer service skills, consistency, organization, and evaluation of …

Rhodium Trichloride Promoted Hydroboration Of Alenyl Nitriles And Alkenyl Chlorides, Anvar Buranov

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Previous studies of the rhodium trichloride (RhCl3) catalyzed hydroboration mechanisms of alkenes showed rearrangements and unusual regiochemistry compared to simple uncatalyzed hydroboration, and complex mechanisms have been proposed to explain these results. Earlier studies suggested that isomerization of alkenes in the presence of RI1CI3 prior to hydroboration accounted for these results. Studies of alkene rearrangements in the presence of RI1CI3 also suggest that the results are due to a different mechanism. The elimination-addition promoted elimination of R-Rh-B structures was shown to be responsible for isomerization and formation of different alcohol isomers after hydroboration. These interesting results prompted us to study …

Post-Test Implementation Of Twntn4a Correction Code At O.3m Tct, Ryuichi Machida

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Airfoil characteristics measured in a wind tunnel typically differ from those obtained in free air due to the confinement of airflow in tunnel test sections and the development of boundary layer on tunnel walls. Wind tunnel measured quantities, e.g. Mach number, Reynolds number, angle of attack, require corrections to determine their equivalent values in free air. TWNTN4A is a correction program capable of correcting wall interference effects in 2-D wind tunnels. TWNTN4A was applied to correct over 300 data files obtained from tests performed in 0.3m Transonic Cryogenic Tunnel (TCT) at NASA Langley. Data describe Mach number range of 0.50 …

A Journey Into Self-Actualization, William Rubar

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The MFA Thesis Exhibition is a presentation of ceramic sculpture. The theme for this body of work is a self-portrait that uses text as an integral part of the composition. The medium is clay, which interacts with the two-dimensional and three-dimensional properties of space. Therefore, it is my goal to establish a union with these dimensional properties. My tablet paintings serve to catalog significant events affecting both our culture and my life, resulting in a self-portrait. These paintings create a dialogue between the emotion of language, passage of time and the properties of space. The preparation of the clay and …

Bearing Distribution Packs Of The Pharmaceutical Products In Dynamic Lab And In The Real Distribution Environment, Ivan Berljak

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The main purpose of the package testing is to determine whether or not the package can provide adequate protection of the product. The purpose of this study is to detect bearing of different pharmaceutical products in the dynamic laboratory and in real distribution environment. Pharmaceutical industry in normal operation applies many regulations and rules. One of those is to record all events in the distribution process. The analysis compared the results reached in dynamic lab with those of the real distribution cycle and all losses and damages entered in the Belupo Ltd. Data base during last 12 months. As test …

Occupational Health & Safety Innovations In The Hazardous Waste Remediation Industry, Brian Hansen

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As the environmental technology aspects of hazardous waste remediation projects are becoming more innovative, the occupational health and safety aspects associated with these projects have not kept pace. This study was designed to examine a single, long-term remediation project's experiences with this dilemma. Although the project employed a number of traditional strategies to abate occupational health and safety hazards through most of its course, innovations concerning chemical protective clothing, air monitoring/sampling equipment, and the management of physical hazards at the last and perhaps most dangerous site lead to some interesting results. These results suggest that innovative yet practical solutions exist …

Policy Driven Security Architectures For Ebusiness, Marcus Cutts

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The dawning of the twenty-first century and genesis of a new millennium has been extremely kind to technological advance. Industries and society alike have reaped the extreme benefits of technology at its finest. Technological progress has also proven to be extraordinarily beneficial to businesses and their bottom lines when properly employed. The need for automated business logic and functionality has spawned numerous concepts and efforts to capitalize on advanced business requirements. Probably the most popular and revolutionary to date of all initiatives is the advent of eBusiness. A direct descendant of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), eBusiness has and continues to …

Uml As A Foundation To Technology, Amy Whiteside

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The UML is becoming the recognized standard for object-oriented modeling. The incorporation of this standard into the curriculum of Information Technology academia appears to be a natural progression. How a course can be implemented and in what force is the primary focus for this thesis. In addition to the academic advantages and necessities of the UML as a foundation course.

On The Classical Ramsey Number R(3,3,3,3), Susan Fettes

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The classical Ramsey Number R(3, 3, 3, 3), which is the smallest positive integer n such that any edge coloring with four colors of the complete graph on n vertices must contain at least one monochromatic triangle, is discussed. Basic facts and graph theoretic definitions are given. Papers concerning triangle-free colorings are presented in a historical overview. Mathematical theory underlying the main result of the thesis, which is Richard Kramers unpublished result, i?(3,3,3,3) < 62, is given. The algorithms for the com putational verification of this result are presented along with a discussion of the software tools that were utilized to obtain it.

Lessons Learned By Opening And Operating An Independent Restaurant: A Case Study, Robert Geiger

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This case study looks at what it takes to create a start-up business in the restaurant industry; with the intention to find out what pitfalls and potential mistakes an individual should be aware of in order to have a successful operation. The details are based on the researchers' education, industry experience, and other people's research and knowledge that are found throughout the restaurant industry. This case study will help others understand what to expect when opening a new restaurant, and possibly some challenges that could be avoided when creating their own restaurant. There are lessons to be learned from this …

Design Of An Advanced On-Street Parking Meter, Yaotsung Tung

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Emigration, Yuhay-Raymond Ng

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A descriptive narration of a project to create a 3-D computer animated film, "Emigration," about the lives of people of different social classes in a high-rise apartment building in Hong Kong right around the time of the Chinese takeover in 1997. In particular it focuses on a rich family and a poor family who both try to emigrate from Hong Kong.

Project Management: A Handbook Of Fundamentals For The Packaging Student And Professional With A Review Of Current Literature, Kenneth Fischer

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This thesis seeks to introduce the basic concepts and techniques of project management to packaging students and professionals. After reviewing these fundamentals, packaging students and professionals should be able to facilitate successful project management in the work place: Develop an appropriate project plan for specific objectives Understand the scheduling techniques such as work breakdown structure, Gantt Charting, PERT Charting, Network Diagramming, Assign resources and manage the project team Interpret and optimize a project plan or schedule Identify and manage project dependencies Communicate project status information appropriately and effectively Determine the impact of potential problems and make appropriate decisions for project …

Identification End Evaluation Of Packaging Design For Internet Kiosk Depending On Feasible On-Site Service Support Level, Nedeljko Medvedec

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The Internet Kiosks are fast emerging telecommunication products that have a main function to enable "public mobility". The estimated market size in 2000 is 2,4 Billion US$ worldwide, with prognoses to grow in next 3 years to the level of 7 Billion US$. One of the features offered to the market is "plug and play" capability, but due to the size and weight of the kiosks, this should be conditionally treated. Some portion of on-site service support at the installation should be considered, the amount of which depends on applied product design and package design solution. Product design and package …

Regulatory Distortions Of Local Exchange Telecommunications Infrastructure, Gregg Sayre

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This thesis presents a history of United States telecommunications regulation in the 20th Century with a view toward explaining the economic motivations of the involved parties and exploding economic myths such as "natural monopoly" and "cross subsidization" by the application of common sense. The relative success and failure of antitrust and economic regulation are analyzed on a subjective but quantitative scale, with antitrust regulation as the clear winner in terms of the author's standard of "public interest." The thesis examines specific economic incentives resulting directly from economic regulation, in particular, rate-of- return regulation and the FCC's interpretations of the Telecommunications …

Environmental Supply Chain Management Integration Into The Purchase Of Finished Electrical Products, Cavan Kelsey

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Representatives from the electronics equipment industry were surveyed and selected companies were interviewed to determine the current level of environmental supply chain integration into the purchase of finished electrical products. Based on the information gathered, a summary of best practices was defined which included insights into effective buyer/supplier relationships and establishing environmental product requirements. As electronic equipment manufacturers change from a vertically integrated marketing structure to one of a horizontal supply chain, there is an increasing need to outsource manufacturing of or to procure finished products made by another supplier and subsequently branded by the buying manufacturer. The manufacturer's environmental …

Cleaner Production Among Multinational Corporations In Southeast Asia, Nguyen Phan Duy Nguyen

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Cleaner Production (CP) represents the change from a conventional end-of-pipe treatment attitude to a proactive approach to pollution prevention and increased production efficiency. CP has been successfully implemented in developing countries, including the countries of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN is becoming an economic development center in Asia, attracting a large amount of foreign direct investments from multinational corporations during the last two decades. However, success in economic development has been accompanied by environmental problems. Understanding the level of CP practices among ASEAN's multinational corporations (MNCs) and National Cleaner Production Centers/Cleaner Production (NCPCs/CP) organizations is important to …

To Investigate The Reasons For Moisture Ingress In Ready To Drink Mixes, Rahul N. Eklahare

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The objective of this study was to determine the reasons for moisture ingress in ready to drink mixes. The containers for this product were supposed to be moisture resistant. However, after a certain period it was observed that the product inside was prone to caking and lump formation due to moisture ingress.

The dimensions of the containers were compared with the actual dimensions and the containers were exposed to accelerated aging to simulate a longer duration of shelf life. Several recommendations were made for new design of containers which were also tested for moisture ingress. Some observations were also made …

Part One: Pitch, Problems And Process; Part Two: Chasing A Relationship, Russell Baron

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Familial Dichotomy, Suzan Atesoglu

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Robust Ideals, Kelli Damron

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Recent American pop culture has played a major role in portraying the voluptuous female as unhealthy and unattractive; it has recreated an idea of beauty that is an extreme opposite of the ideals of the past. Through my thesis work I would like to offer another option to the emaciated female figure that is propagated by American society today. The amply proportioned woman as an object of beauty has been represented in art from the beginning of humankind. She has been painted, carved, sculpted, and modeled by the earliest known inhabitants of this planet. She has been exalted in works …

Material Cooperation And Catholic Institutions: An Inquiry Into Traditional Moral Principle And Its Meaning For Catholic Institutions Today, With Reference To Catholic Hospitals In Australia, Joseph C. Parkinson

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This dissertation views the Principle of Legitimate Cooperation as a guiding norm for the activity of Catholic institutions in the world. It samples various expressions of the principle from the seventeenth century to the present day, noting the significance of the central terms ‘intrinsically evil acts’ and ‘sufficiently serious reason’, and suggests that while the principle traditionally applied to individual moral agents, it can also apply to institutions. Taking as starting-points the Second Vatican Council’s call for a renewal of moral theology and the Church’s post-conciliar view of itself as ‘Sacrament of Christ’, the dissertation sketches an essentially Christological and …

Cyclic Olefin Copolymer: An Alternative Plastic Film For Pharmaceutical Blister Packages, Kurt Trombley

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This thesis paper will provide data to show that cyclic olefin copolymer blister film can be used as a beneficial alternative to polyvinyl chloride film which is more commonly used in the pharmaceutical market today. Polyvinyl chloride continues to be a highly controversial packaging material due to potential environmental concerns. Cyclic olefin copolymer is shown to have properties which result in fewer environmental concerns and also can provide the added benefit of an improved barrier to moisture permeation when compared to polyvinyl chloride film. This paper documents a summary of the data on both sides of the polyvinyl chloride environmental …

Dynamic Performance Of Isolated Power Converters, David Badia

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Isolated power converters are primarily used in applications where electrical galvanic isolation is required for safety purposes. They are also used in applications, which require various output voltages level. They have been studied from many different aspects, but in this thesis the fundamental circuits of the flyback, the forward and the half-bridge converters are studied and compared extensively, with regard to their dynamic performance.

This analysis will lead us to a better understanding of their behaviour, that is a crucial point in the selection of each topology for a particular application. Moreover, the dynamic response of each converter is different; …