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Psychological and cultural insights into consumption of luxury western brands in India
No full textIndia has always had wealthy elites such as the maharajas, upper class and royalty that consume luxury products throughout its consumption history. The relatively recent economic rise of the middle class with an increase in disposable income is leading to consumption of luxury en mass. This qualitative study examines why consumers buy luxury, what they believe luxury is and how their perception of luxury impacts buying behaviour in the context of India. The present study explores luxury constructs drawn from the literature and provides some explanation for luxury consumption behaviour in India. The findings reveal that psychological and cultural factors in Indian society play a major part in shaping luxury consumption. While the findings suggest little support for homogenous luxury preference, Indian consumers share cultural characteristics of lavish consumption of luxury and display of wealth in social functions. Luxury reflects conspicuous consumption and status, and signals wealth for individuals, and conveys social identity and status in Indian society
Raw material inventory strategy for make-to-order manufacturing
No full textThesis: M. Eng. in Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Supply Chain Management Program, 2016."June 2016." Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64).What is the appropriate raw material inventory strategy for a make-to-order manufacturing company? As companies grow in size and the business environment changes over time, many companies adapt their operating policies to remain competitive. However, some policies, such as raw material inventory policies, are left untouched as "legacies" of the company's past due to lower priorities or lack of adequate data. These raw material inventory policies are of particular importance to manufacturing firms, especially those that often operate at maximum capacity or have seasonality in demand. This research proposes a raw material inventory policy evaluation tool that allows a company to understand how certain key performance indicators are affected by various changes in its inventory policy and helps the company devise a strategy. This evaluation tool can then guide the company towards a better inventory policy in the absence of cost information and shows the results in terms of number of events. The company can then adjust various replenishment policies depending on the product's demand characteristics. In addition, the research demonstrates that inventory policy changes can be used to partially overcome supplier service level declines and demand variability.by Vikash Chandra and Michael Tully.M. Eng. in Logistic
The need for a probabilistic risk assessment of the oil tanker industry and a qualitative assessment of oil tanker groundings
No full textThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-98).by Michael D. Amrozowicz.M.Eng
A common platform for current sensor evaluation in industrial automation applications
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-58).This thesis describes the design and implementation of an evaluation system for Silicon Labs' current sensor products. The system provides significant advantages over existing evaluation systems by reducing hazardous voltages and currents through increased sense resistance and improving simplicity through a modular motherboard, daughtercard, and software system. The system is versatile and supports modifications for additional customization. All existing Silicon Labs' current sensor products are implemented in the system. The performance of the constructed evaluation system is shown to exceed existing work. The constructed system uses lower currents, requires fewer specialized components, improves portability, and provides access to advanced product functionality.by Michael A. Wu.M. Eng
Index for the London Book Trades database
No full textAn index for Michael Turner's database of the London Book Trades
Drug Terms in DaoBudMed6D
No full textDataset for Stanley-Baker, Michael, and William Eng Keat Chong. "Visualising Knowledge Distribution in Early Chinese texts." Paper presented at the 2019 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC), IEEE, Singapore, 2019
Simulation and comparative evaluation of flexible automotive assembly layouts
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-107).Equipment malfunction, logistics errors, and other disturbances in automobile factories can be very costly for manufacturers, as they often result in assembly line downtime until the problem is resolved. In this thesis, we examine a new concept for a Flexible Assembly Layout, enabled by new mobile robot technology, that aims to decrease the cost of such errors by removing the affected car from the line while the error is being fixed. In order to compare it to the layout commonly used today, we develop Discrete Event Simulations, based on data from real factories, for both. The simulations contain fast heuristic schedulers that adjust their generated schedules in real time in response to errors. Our comparison shows that, for a representative factory with representative error frequencies, the Flexible Layout is able to produce cars in 29.4% less time than the Conventional Layout, thanks to its robustness to errors.by Michael Theologos Kelessoglou.M. Eng
Lynas: satu kajian kes persepsi audiens terhadap pelaporan berita dalam media cetak di Malaysia / Eng May Chuen dan Edwin Michael
No full textKajian ini berdasarkan isu pembinanan kilang pemprosessan nadir bumi (tanah jarang) serta isu pembuangan sisa radioaktif di Gebeng, Kuantan Pahang yang menyaksikan bantahan rakyat Malaysia khususnya masyarakat di negeri Pahang dan aktivis-aktivis alam sekitar. Isu Lynas dalam konteks kajian ini dilihat dari dua konsep yang penting iaitu persepsi audiens yang terdiri daripada pihak Lynas Corporation Limited itu sendiri serta kumpulan aktivis alam sekitar dikenali sebagai ‘Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas!’ yang mewakili majoriti penduduk Gebeng dan rakyat Malaysia amnya serta peranan media cetak khususnya akhbar tempatan dalam melaporkan isu kontroversi ini. Kajian ini amat penting dalam menunjukkan betapa penilaian dan persepsi audiens berhubung kait dengan tanggungjawab akhbar tempatan dalam melaporkan isu Lynas kepada audiens. Kajian ini juga memperlihatkan betapa akhbar tempatan gagal berfungsi dalam situasi-situasi tertentu seperti ketidakcukupan maklumat dari perspektif ekonomi dan sosial. Akhbar tempatan dikatakan terlalu mensensasikan sesuatu isu sehinggakan gagal mengekalkan kesanggupan audiens untuk mengetahui laporan isu Lynas yang terkini. Walaupun isu ini hangat diperdebatkan serta dipolitikkan, kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa terdapat perubahan dari segi pandangan dan persepsi audiens terhadap tugas akhbar tempatan yang selama ini hanya menjadikan akhbar cetak sebagai tidak lebih daripada ‘panduan’ oleh masyarakat. Kewujudan persepsi sedemikian mencetuskan satu pandangan kritis terhadap peranan, tangungjawab serta etika akhbar tempatan dalam melaporkan kebenaran kepada audiens
Trends in modern system theory
No full textBibliography: .26-28.Prepared under AFOSR grant 72-2273, NASA Ames Research Center grant NGL-22-009-124, NSF grant ENG 75-14103 and ONR contract N00014-76-C-0346.by Michael Athans
Combining phrase-based and tree-to-tree translation
No full textThesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-40).We present a novel approach to multi-engine machine translation, using a feature-based classification algorithm. Instead of just using language models, translation models, or internal confidence scores, we sought out other features that could be used to determine which of two translations to select. We combined the outputs from a phrase-based system, Moses [Koehn et al., 2007] and a tree-to-tree system [Cowan et al., 2006]. Our main result is a 0.3 to 0.4 improvement in BLEU score over the best single system used, while also improving fluency and adequacy judgments. In addition, we used the same setup to directly predict which sentences would be judged by humans to be more fluent and more adequate. In those domains, we predicted the better sentence 6% to 7% more often than a baseline of always choosing the single best system.by Michael Lieberman.M.Eng
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