International Journal of New Practices in Management and Engineering
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Data Mining in Product Cycle Prediction of Company Mergers
Full text linkThe dynamic nature of business marketing in various parts of the world and industries is associated with a quest to achieve or attain and retain competitive advantages. With such advantages coming in the form of increased product user bases, a majority of the firms have ended up embracing business internationalization to stretch beyond local and regional borders within which they are based. With these efforts associated with improved company performances, Wal-Mart has been unexceptional. The effort to retain a competitive advantage and superior brand image across the world has been evidenced by its recent merger with Massmart, a South African company that owns brands such as Builder’s Warehouse, Makro, and Game. It is also worth highlighting that Massmart is South Africa’s second largest distributor of consumer goods and remains the largest retailer dealing in basic foods, liquor and home improvement equipment, and general merchandise. This paper examines the merger between Wal-Mart and Massmart, focusing on issues such as the international market analysis of the retail industry, aspects of product category and demand size, and competition analysis. In so doing, resultant recommendations might give an insight into current trends in business marketing strategies that embrace mergers, as well as lay an opportunity for improvement in the Walmart-Massmart merger and others at the intra-industry and inter-industry level
A Review Of E-Voting System Based on Blockchain Technology
Full text linkVoting is arguably the most important as well as elementary right in democracy that has existed for the past hundreds of years; it has taken place in the context of a large- and small-scale community. The process transitioned from paper ballots to electronic voting machines (EVM) in the late 20th century, but even with all the advancement, transparency in the election process remained the same. Blockchain technology came in existence in 2008 with the introduction of Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto, and in the last decade we saw enormous growth in development and execution of this technology in various fields e-voting is one of them, blockchain-based e-voting system has potential to improve the election process if utilized to its potential. Blockchain can eliminate the need to print ballot paper as it is secure, immutable and convenient to voters and can make elections more transparent
Mining Restaurant Data to Assess Contributions and Margins Data
Full text linkThe proposed business project seeks to ensure that at Monroe College’s Bronx Campus, the Jag Café emerges as a moderately priced restaurant offering convenience and promising breakfast and lunch experiences for students, faculty, and other individuals both in the campus community and in the neighborhood. Particularly, the proposed project involves the adoption and implementation of a new menu aimed at achieving family style services, food, and beverages. The proposal comes at a time when the cafeteria’s current menu is long and proves inconvenient in relation to the rate of order turnover. The location of the project is Kings Hall. Indeed, some of the anticipated and unexpected costs predicted to come with the new menu include the need to train employees and also ensure that several materials are in place to accommodate the new menu, and also ensure that the required raw materials and food preparation facilities are in place. However, the three-year sales project suggests that the financial benefits that might accrue from this project’s implementation are likely to outweigh the perceived costs. As such, the project is worth supporting because it not only promises profitability but also strives to make the Jag Café a place with quality meals at reasonable prices in the Bronx, as well as evolve as a home-style cafeteria in the campus
Glimpses of 3D Vector based Membrane Photolithography
Full text linkIn optical lithography, decline in the profundity of centre has become an intense issue, alongside the trouble in improving goal. In memory chip creation, the advancement of stage move cover (PSM) innovation is promising to conquer these issues. Notwithstanding PSM innovation, some super-goal lithographic applications have likewise been proposed. In the later methodology, no PSMs are required, in this manner a portion of the challenges concerning cover innovation can be maintained a strategic distance from. Be that as it may, it isn't in every case simple to apply PSM or super-goal advancements to muddled cover designs, for example, for ASIC, chip rationale IC's. For fine occasional examples, a high spatial frequency upgrading channel is utilized with annular enlightenment. With sideways occurrence enlightenments, light shafts which are significantly diffracted by veil examples can go through the viewpoint student, in this way, the band-width of the spatial frequency transmission qualities of the focal point framework is expanded. The student channel smothers the transmission of direct bars concerning the diffracted pillars, improving the picture differentiates in the high frequency locale. Thorough re-enactments run rapidly on a workstation for complex 20 customary and stage moving covers, substrate bleaching, and optical metrology and arrangement issues
Role of Photolithographic Process in Semiconductor Manufacturing
Full text linkSemiconductor Fabrication is a business of high capital speculation and quick evolving nature. To be serious, the creation in a fabrication should be viably arranged and planned beginning from the inclining up stage, with the goal that the business objectives, for example, on-time conveyance, high yield volume and viable utilization of capital concentrated hardware can be accomplished. Reproduction gives a successful tool to characterizing the way from serious ideas to true arrangements. More consideration is presently being centred on the precision of information gathered, implies for separating and bringing in information to the models, and staying up to date with changes in the fabrication. The directors and architects are these days properly worried about whether the model is a decent portrayal of the fabrication, and whether the outcomes are right. This is tended to through check and approval. The re-enactment group does approval by looking at the spreadsheet models and fabrication information, however formal systems have not been applied with the end goal of approval. The check and approval techniques are not officially recorded either. Additionally, the administration chose to explore different avenues regarding new programming called Lucent AP
Simulating Leakage Impact on Steel Industrial System Functionality
Full text linkSteels exhibiting ultralow sulfur content tend to gain increasing usage or application in manufacturing pipes used in oil transportation, as well as offshore platform construction. For these systems or platforms, it is worth indicating that they call for high resistance and impact strength relative to the formation of lamellar cracks. In this study, it was documented that when a refinery is compromised, the resultant fluids that are released tend to cause a loss in the refinery’s transportation capability. This outcome suggests that there is likely to be a decrease in the efficiency of transmission. Notably, the study examined the extent to which a leak presence affects flow behavior in the context of annular mist flow regime’s deep water production flow line. Another context that was investigated involved slug and stratified flow regimes. From the results, given the slug and annular flow regimes, any leakage could alter the pattern of material flow
Hotel Personnel Retention In Uttar Pradesh: A Study of HYATT Hotels
Full text linkThis study has been conveyed to check the impact of retention practices in hotels of Uttar Pradesh and find ideas to get fruitful result. Data collected through a questionnaire. Likert scales were used to build the survey tool. The sample size of the study is 30 and a method of sampling based on probability was used. It is found that four common factors influenced the decision of employees to join the hotel industry, including salary, career growth, senior positions, and job complications. The technology was used effectively by the most common parameters and sufficient resources were available, the working environment was safe, comfortable and appropriately equipped, and management followed consistent policies and practices. Five parameters were used which were important to the productivity of personnel' activities: satisfied with their coworkers, job meant for their performance, suitability for their growth in tomorrow’s time, and acceptance of employees’ views. Personnel of Uttar Pradesh's hotels had different views on scenarios that influenced personnel, many personnel think they will resign for greater career advancement opportunities and better job prospects
Review on Holographic Techniques for Photolithography
Full text linkHolographic methods utilizing spatial modulators to supplant the covers in photolithographic process. PC produced 3D images got from two pictures with known measurements, reproducing a clear visible field Mask and dark prior mask. The reason for the proposal is to consider the potential outcomes of picture decrease, through a holographic based optical segment arrangement, produced by spatial modulators from a CGH (Computer-created Hologram). Comprehend the outcomes by decreasing the pictures and look at the outcomes acquired. Boundaries, for example, complexity, goal and least size of the pictures produced from the spatial modulators will be broke down so as to decide the conceivable outcomes of progress and the confinements of the procedure applied to photolithography. It is accepted that the uniform and dainty oppose film can be effectively kept on the filaments by utilizing the electro-shower covering innovation. Nonetheless, high electronic voltage and conductive surface are required with the goal that the current smaller scale structures are exposed to harm. The immediate splash covering is liberated from electronic and other harm to substrates yet it is influenced by numerous boundaries including the arrangement thickness and substrate temperature
Gamification and Its Application in Social Network Implementation
Full text linkIn this communication strategy, ideal audiences that are perceived to yield an effective influence of the stakeholders include national security or intelligence groups, as well as external firms that engage in regular monitoring of user information systems in collaboration with Visa’s internal group of experts. Indeed, the role of the national intelligence group(s) lies in addressing potential legal liabilities that could arise from any customer complaints relating to communication failures or lapses when malicious activities are detected. Similarly, the national intelligence group acts as a regulator to check trends in Visa Inc.’s conformity to standards shaping the state of communication about user information (in terms of frequency) and advising about some of the emerging technologies or platforms that ought to be incorporated to foster inclusivity and reach out to as many customer bases as possible. On the other hand, external firms responsible for regular monitoring of user information will play the role of examining some of the strengths of the communication strategies outlined and advising about possible improvements that could be made to avoid lapses regarding the duration and frequency of updates to the customers. It is also worth noting that the general public forms another audience group that the formulated strategy seeks to involve because this group plays a significant role of airing views about possible improvements that could be made to the company’s current communication goals. An ideal communication platform through which views from members of the public could be received and enacted accordingly is the social media, a trend that prompts Visa to have open forums from which these members could be allowed to channel their views about the merits and demerits accruing from the communication goals and their eventual implementation
Advanced Process Control and Critical Dimension Control in Photolithography Process
Full text linkHigh volume, practical, assembling of cutting edge' photolithography processes requires top to bottom comprehension of Process and Process-Tool connection to accomplish Advanced Process Control (APC). The process likewise requires a tight control to keep up an ideal entryway CD. The direct loom that is right now being used in most semiconductor offices depends on administrator experience and doesn't give good control on the CD variety. Usage of a programmed input control framework in the business has been troublesome in light of the fact that the CD can't be estimated progressively finished. In this magazine, a neural complex is utilized to anticipate CD dependent on the estimations of thickness, reflectivity, refractive record, and portion. The neural network is prepared utilizing recorded information that are gathered at an assembling office. A neural scheme-based converse model of the progression is created. The opposite model is knock down with the progression model to frame a feed-forward controller