chapter 20  proposing and estimating projects

... produce standard for all object-oriented design Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison- 20-25 UML Lately ♦ Since 1996: ♦ Developed and revised with feedback from OOP community ♦ Today: ♦ UML standard ... output ♦ Displays picture of model’s state ♦ Controller part: input ♦ Relays commands from user to model ♦ A divide and conquer strategy ♦ One big task  three smaller tasks ♦ Each with well-defined ... divide -and- conquer strategy ♦ Heart of pattern: int splitPt = split(a, begin, end); sort(a, begin, splitPt); sort(a, splitPt, end); join(a, begin, splitPt, end); ♦ Note no details on how split and...

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... Key Concepts and Skills • Understand the key issues related to credit management • Understand the impact of cash discounts • Be able to evaluate a proposed credit policy • Understand the components ... lost customers • Consider both types of costs, and minimize the total cost 20-22 Inventory Management - ABC • Classify inventory by cost, demand, and need • Those items that have substantial shortage ... the trade-off between increased sales and the costs of granting credit 20-4 Components of Credit Policy • Terms of sale – Credit period – Cash discount and discount period – Type of credit instrument...

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... appropriate database handle, or if the ping( ) method fails, Apache::DBI establishes a new connection, stores the handle, and then returns the handle to the caller It is important to understand that the ... foo and USE bar, but this approach seems less convenient, and therefore error-prone Cannot find the DBI handler You must use DBI->connect( ) as in normal DBI usage to get your $dbh database handle ... to be possible to handle a transaction over multiple requests, but the temptation should be avoided because different requests are handled by different mod_perl processes, and a mod_perl process...

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... for she vows she will not have him, and if you not make haste he will change his mind and not have HER.’ Mr Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed them on her face with a ... pleasure of understanding you,’ said he, when she had finished her speech ‘Of what are you talking?’ ‘Of Mr Collins and Lizzy Lizzy declares she will not have Mr Collins, and Mr Collins begins ... him.’ ‘My dear,’ replied her husband, ‘I have two small favours to request First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room I shall...

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... Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (PEN) Items and Services (Rev 1, 10-01-03) Payment for PEN items and services is made in a lump sum for nutrients and supplies that are purchased and on a monthly ... Considerations for SNF Billing for TPN and EN Under Part B 170 - Billing for Splints and Casts 190 - Contractor Application of Fee Schedule and Determination of Payments and Patient Liability for DME ... general instructions on billing and claims processing for durable medical equipment (DME), prosthetics and orthotics (P&O), parenteral and enteral nutrition (PEN), and supplies Coverage requirements...

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... Harris and James Sanderson Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers Pijanowski, B C., D G Brown, G Manik, and B Shellito 2002 Using artificial neural networks and GIS to forecast land use changes: A land ... conditions and biological assemblages Higgins et al (1999) referred to units of this type and scale as fish macrohabitats © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 252 Wetland and Water Resource Modeling and ... catchment area, and the percentage of the catchment in urban and agricultural land cover Adjusting inputs based on LTM, hydrologic, and loading model predictions, total diversity and number of...

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... hazardous locations) Condition and inflation of pressure lines Battery, lights, and warning devices Controls, including lift and tilt system and limit switches Brakes and steering mechanisms Fuel ... guards, and other safety devices should be inspected regularly and maintained in a safe operating condition All parts of the lift and tilt mechanisms and frame members must be carefully and regularly ... shoulders and slowly back straight out Never lift a load while moving 20.8.5 STANDARD SIGNALS Standard hand signals for use should be as specified in the latest edition of the ANSI (American Nation Standards...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... would not be in a position to know beforehand whether and to what extent the demand for money for cash holding would change and in what temporal sequence and to what extent the prices of the various ... promoters’ understanding of the future and their calculations based on such an understanding It comes into existence step by step as soon as first a few and then successively more and more actors ... tendency of business to expand The entrepreneurs draw from the fact that demand and prices are rising the inference that it will pay to invest and to produce more They go on and their intensified...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 13:20

... L P Postnikova, and A A Yudin [21] ; and V L Pipiras and V A Statuliavicius [37] On chapter Let X1 , X2 , be a sequence of independently and identically distributed random variables with ... eixa - ixa f ( - a) e - }_ix -a f lul e""` du , and as a-> oo the left-hand side converges in Lp to the Fourier transform of f' (x), and the right-hand side to - ixF (x) This theorem is a slight ... [93] and to Khinchin and Levy [75] © : Theorem for a > was proved by Lapin, for a < by Linnik [99] and Skorokhod [174] Theorem is a combination of the results of Linnik [99], Zolotarev [188] and...

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... Measuring Long-Run and Nonfinancial Organizational Performance • • • responsible management of the environment, mutual understanding and respect for indigenous and local communities, and success in ... time and quality Some benefits of improved throughput are increasing the ability to respond better to customer needs and demands, to reduce production costs, and to reduce inventory levels and, ... Evaluating Performance Understand the firm’s goals and strategies by subdividing them into environment, markets and customers, products and lines, technology, operations, finance, and organization/management...

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... (bonds and equity), where performance data and benchmarks are readily and reliably available, the infrastructure and reliability of performance data for alternative investments, in general, and ... environments in which traditional stock and bond investment media offer limited opportunities, and participate in a wide variety of new financial products and markets not available in traditional ... return, and then to select one combination that is consistent with the risk aversion of the investor Mean-variance analysis has been increasingly applied to asset allocation and is now the standard...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 23:20

... Breusch, T S., and A R Pagan (1979), ‘‘A Simple Test for Heteroskedasticity and Random Coe‰cient Variation,’’ Econometrica 50, 987–1007 Breusch, T S., and A R Pagan (1980), ‘‘The LM Test and Its Applications ... ‘‘Data and Econometric Tools for Development Analysis,’’ in Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 3A, ed J Berhman and T N Srinivasan Amsterdam: North Holland, 1785– 1882 Dehejia, R H., and ... (1994), ‘‘Methodology and Theory for the Bootstrap,’’ in Handbook of Econometrics, Volume 4, ed R F Engle and D McFadden Amsterdam: North Holland, 2341–2381 Ham, J C., and R J Lalonde (1996),...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... some thousands of ready money, might bring the rental up to eight thousand or so Of course, Osborne will try and marry some one with money; the family is old and well-established, and he mustn't ... estate And Osborne Hamley is too fine a gentleman to understand the means by which to improve the value of the land - even if he had the capital A man who had practical knowledge of agriculture, and ... calmly and slowly forwards; Mr Preston went a step or two to meet her, his hand held out, and the whole expression of his face that of eager delight But she took no notice of the outstretched hand,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 10:21

... characteristics of both progressive and standing waves Standing Waves x Sea, swell, and surf are progressive waves x Standing waves (seiches)… – Oscillate back and forth about a node, i.e., a fixed ... due to friction between the water and the shallow floor beneath it Centrifugal Force x Earth and Moon revolving around one another x unequal masses of Earth and Moon – center of rotation lies ... Diurnal: have one high tide and one low tide daily (high lat) x Semidiurnal: have two high tides and two low tides daily (low lat) x Mixed: there are two high tides and two low tides daily, but...

Ngày tải lên: 21/07/2014, 18:20

... produce 35–60% fly ash and 40–65% bottom ash and slag Other types of stokers produce about 10% fly ash and 90% bottom ash and slag Cyclone boilers are used for coal combustion and are designed to ... CCB use, and reducing the disposal of CCBs in landfills and surface impoundments This chapter will first present a review of important federal regulations influencing the generation and utilization ... promulgated standards The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 established Natural Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and set specific pollutant removal requirements (New Source Performance Standards...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 13:22

... reactor system to remediate both SeO 42Ϫ and SeO 32Ϫ ions from contaminated water has been described by Macy and associates (47), Lawson and Macy (48), and Cantafio and coworkers (49) The latest pilot ... bacteria use the algae as a C and energy source and subsequently reduce the SeO 42Ϫ and SeO 32Ϫ to Se 0, and NO 3Ϫ to N gas Although near-complete removal of SeO 42Ϫ and NO 3Ϫ occurred at times ... to DMSe (38,39) Cooke and Bruland (40) proposed a pathway for the formation of DMSe from SeO 42Ϫ and SeO 32Ϫ in natural waters Apparently both Se oxyanions are reduced and assimilated into the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:20

... (see Sediment Removal Techniques section of this chapter and case histories) and special disposal and treatment techniques (Barnard and Hand, 1978; Matsubara, 1979) A common dredging concern among ... proper design, construction, and maintenance of disposal areas for dredged material Barnard and Hand (1978) describe when and how to treat disposal area discharges if standards cannot be met Brannon ... disposal area(s) Upland disposal is common The challenge is to design and construct containment and disposal areas of adequate size and retention time to hold the dredged material volume and to reduce...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:20

... contaminant fate and effect, reduces reservoir capacity and fisheries habitat due to increased sedimentation, is used as a remediation strategy for oil spills and toxic algal blooms, and dictates ... unique structures and chemical and biological behaviors within the medium of transport This chapter summarizes the outcomes of the workshop and guides us toward a better understanding of the unifying ... rivers via overland flow or eroded from the bed (Chapters and 4), marine snow (Chapter 11), estuarine turbidity maxima (Chapter 10), and engineered microbial flocs (Chapters 14, 17, and 19) All researchers...

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