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INVESTMENT APPRAISAL AND DECISION IN LPG TERMINAL AND JETTY PROJECT (Win Than, 2018)
Get PDFThe focus of the study is on the Investment Appraisal and Capital Investment decision of LPG Terminal and Jetty of Elite Petrochemical Company Limited. In order to fulfil the objective of the study, descriptive research method is used to collect both primary and secondary data. The primary data are obtained through personal interview with top level management of the company and secondary data are collected from the feasibility study report of the project, MOGE website and some seminars on LPG market in Myanmar. It was noted that market feasibility study was conducted and then capital investment appraisal techniques were applied to identify the financial viability of the project. The initial cash outlay of the project was estimated as per the engineering design and bill of quantities. The financial performance and cash flow projections for 10 years period were extracted as per market feasibility study and budgeted cost and expenses. Three investment appraisal techniques such as Payback period, Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return were applied to evaluate the viability of the project. It was witnessed that Payback period of the project is about 6 years, Net Present Value is positive at 14% discount rate over the net cash flow for the period of 10 years and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is 15.17% at which rate discounted net cash flow for 10 years of the project is exactly the same as total initial cash outlay. The management of the Company therefore decided to proceed with the project. It was however observed that as per post completion audit of the project, actual initial cash outlay is greater than the initially estimated one by MMK- 1,599 million due to project delay and depreciation of local currency and the actual financial performance for the period of 8 months from April to November 2018 is also well below the projection as a result of rising price of LPG mixture in the world market and drastic depreciation of local currency against US Dollar, about 18% drop of local currency value throughout 2018
DEVELOPMENT OF SERVICE QUALITY SCALE FOR RESTAURANTS IN YANGON (Win Than Dar, 2020)
No full textThis thesis aims to explore the service quality scale for restaurants in Yangon with identification of its dimensions. To validate the service quality dimensions the study analysed the effects of restaurant service quality dimensions on overall customer satisfaction and their behaviour intentions towards restaurants. This study used qualitative method (focus group) and quantitative research methods (descriptive statistics and regression analysis). Focus group participants were customers who had eaten in restaurants in last two months. 414 respondents were selected by systematic sampling method from 10 selected restaurants to collect data for the development of restaurants service quality scale. In addition, another 403 respondents are selected to confirm developed restaurant service quality scale through analysing the important level of service quality scale for restaurants. Secondary data were collected from text books, previous research papers, various publications and the internet. In the first part of the study, a new service quality scale for restaurants in Yangon has been developed with five dimensions, namely, interior décor, assurance and empathy, food service quality, reliability and responsiveness, and cleanliness and layout. In the second part of study, the results of regression analysis revealed that there is a positively significant effect of food quality, and reliability and responsiveness on overall customer satisfaction. The effect of food quality is stronger than that of reliability and responsiveness on overall customer satisfaction. Overall customer satisfaction has positive and significant effect on behavioural intentions. Finally, all of the developed restaurant service qualities are important for restaurant customers. It can be concluded that new service quality scale for restaurants is on the right track
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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