9 research outputs found
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textInvoice for services rendered to Daniel W. Kempner by Sutherland International Despatch, Inc., including international car registration, international number plates, international driving permit, etc
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textCopy of a letter from a secretary on behalf of Daniel W. Kempner to Frank E. Dawson discussing a payment of $328.80 to Sutherland International Despatch, Inc
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Sutherland International Despatch and Andrew Kelly to Daniel W. Kempner confirming his carnet has been received and discharged and enclosing a check for $100.00
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Daniel W. Kempner to Sutherland International Despatch with an enclosed check of $292.50 covering automobile and marine insurance
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Daniel W. Kempner to Frank E. Dawson acknowledging a recent letter regarding remittance and enclosing a New York Exchange covering payment to Sutherland International Despatch, Inc.
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Frank E. Dawson to Miss Haglund addressing a missing check. The check, amounting to $328.80 for custom services in Europe, was requested to be sent to Sutherland International Despatch, Inc. Kempner believed the check had been sent, but it was not received. Dawson asks Miss Haglund to confirm whether the check was sent and, if not, to prepare a new one
The regional geopolitics of the strait of Gibraltar
No full textSecurity of passage of the Strait of Gibraltar is an imperative for the world community. To achieve this, there must be stability on the northern and southern shores of the Strait. Peace in the region is currently threatened by the "creeping jurisdiction" which both Spain and Morocco wish to exert over the waters of the Strait. Other factors which threaten stability are the historical rivalry which exists between Spain and the Islamic southern shore; the legacy of disputed sovereignty in the Crown Colony of Gibraltar and the Spanish Plazas in North Africa; the economic divide betwen the EC and Maghreb along the Strait axis; and the possible threat of militant Islam. Contentions also exist between Morocco and Algeria, eg the Western Saharan War. The re-establishment of a strong "power hierarchy" in the area must be supported by such international instruments as the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982). The Crown Colony and the Spanish Plazas must be decolonized once Spain is firmly integrated into the EC and NATO, and once Morocco has reached a level of economic and political development that is condusive to closer ties with Western institutions
Development of frameworks for steel manufacturing planning capability improvement using discrete event simulation
No full textCustomers of a steel manufacturing company now order a large number of low volume
orders instead of a small number of high volume orders as they would have done just
a few decades ago. The change in customer expectations has complicated production
planning and scheduling within a steel manufacturing company.
The aim of this research is to improve production planning and scheduling capability
in steelmaking using one of the popular simulation techniques, called discrete event
simulation. In this research it is observed that there are three major areas that need
attention to improve production planning and scheduling capability. First, selection of
optimal schedules and plans based on throughput, production time, stock size, and other
production processing criteria. Next, incorporating cost into the criteria to select the
schedules and plans will make the planning more cost effective and realistic at the same
time. In addition, with the increased use of discrete event simulation modelling, there is
a need to improve the model development efficiency and make the process less reliant
on practitioners’ experience and capabilities, in order to improve the overall planning
and scheduling capability. This thesis presents frameworks to address the three major
areas for the capability improvement.
This research adapts a systematic approach to validation. Theoretical, realisation,
and empirical parts of the research were separately validated. Real life case studies
were used for validation of each proposed framework.
Discrete event simulation can improve the accuracy of production planning & scheduling
and cost estimation for complex production systems. GA-based multi-objective optimisation
can be successfully applied to optimisation of plans and schedules. Production
planning and scheduling optimisation for some production areas provides a challenging
problem to GAs. Cost estimation in the steel manufacturing company needs improvement
because of the current lack of accurate costs of product families that affects quality
of price management. The developed cost estimation technique is capable of providing
more realistic cost for product families. The cost estimation technique would be useful
for companies operating on volume-driven manufacturing processes rather than on
unit-driven. Conceptual modelling needs to be improved in order to achievein model
development efficiency and to make the process less reliant on practitioners’ experience
and capabilities. A formal information collection process can aid conceptual modelling
of production systems by further development of DES models for cost estimation
Education and Training in Montserrat:A Partially Annotated Bibliography
No full textThis bibliography on “Education and Training in Montserrat” has been specifically prepared for the UWI School of Continuing Studies’ Montserrat Conference (2002). An attempt has been made to be as comprehensive as possible, but because of the weak bibliographical coverage of the literature of the region, important items may have been omitted. This is especially true for policy documents emanating from official sources
