CORPORATE DIVIDEND PRACTICE One consideration is the desire to have a relatively stable dividend; the second is the desire to pay out‚ in the long run‚ a given fraction of earnings. This fraction is usually referred to as the payout target. These objectives may be conflicting. Earnings tend to fluctuate substantially from year to year. If a corporation routinely paid out a given fraction of those earnings as dividends‚ then the dividend itself would tend to fluctuate drastically from year to year
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MEEM 3700 – Suggested problems from Chapter 1 1.7.1 Given that ω=5 rad/sec‚ then the frequency in Hz is f=ω/2π and the period T= 1/f 1.15 The displacement amplitude X=0.15mm or 0.00015m The acceleration amplitude is ω2X = 0.6g = 0.6 (9.81) m/sec2 ω2 = ω2X/ X ; but ω is in rad/sec. Convert rad/sec to rpm to get the shaft speed (1890 rpm). 1.18 p=polyfit(x‚f‚1) ; p=35.18‚ -0.0607 and f=35.18x - 0.0607; k=35.18 (the slope of the line) 1.19 For springs end to end (series)‚ 1/keq = 1/k1 = 1/k2 ; for equal
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Jones Tools Jones Tools‚ located in Montreal‚ produces precision equipment which it sells to all the aircraft producers in Canada‚ the United States and Mexico. Included in the components it purchases are small precision forgings‚ weighing anywhere from 2 pounds to 30 pounds. Jones’s annual purchase is 7‚000 of these forgings. The primary supplier of these precision forgings is Smith Metals Canada Limited‚ located in Vancouver. Smith Metals is known for their reputation of very high quality
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GB519 | Case study 1 Information‚ decisions‚ frameworks and responsibilities The case study below has been drawn from Chapter 1 of Jackson et al. (2008). Elaine Shumate has been working for GSM‚ a pharmaceutical research company‚ for more than seven years. It is her first job since finishing her graduate work in molecular biology and her performance evaluations have been exemplar y. She has received increasing responsibility as opportunities have become available at GSM. Unfortunately‚ her
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Kristen’s Cookies Kristen’s Cookies A1) We have analysed the case from two perspectives a) The total time in the first scenario is 26 mins (6 mins for washing‚ 2 mins for spooning‚ 10 mins for baking‚ 8 mins for cooling‚ packing and selling) if the order is placed when there is a pending order/order under process. b) In case‚ the order comes in at or after the wash‚ mix and spoon stage‚ it would take 26 + 10 mins (baking time). Hence‚ it would take 36 mins to fill in a rush order
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Tamira is in a professional dilemma that anyone in her position would find difficulty in knowing how to respond to her boss’s request to have up-to-date financial statements to share with the bank. She knows that there is not enough time to have the financial statements ready by when the president of the company needs them‚ so she follows the principle of conservatism and estimates the totals at a low level so the statements won’t look worse than they actually are. Tamira does not mention when handing
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what we want‚ we are temporarily happy and fulfilled. But the reason for happiness is not because we got what we wanted‚ but because for a brief period of time‚ we stopped wanting‚ and thus we experience peace and happiness.” The short story ‘Approximations‚’ by Mona Simpson demonstrates the belief of materialism
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Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithms We just saw how the primal-dual schema permits sometimes designing efficient combinatorial algorithms for solving certain problems. We will now see an example of how a related technique can sometimes be used to design efficient approximation algorithms The major tool that we will use will be the RELAXED Complementary Slackness conditions The problem we examine will again be weighted set-cover. 1 Recall that given canonical primal n minimize
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Linear Programming Tools and Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization by David Alexander Griffith Pritchard A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfillment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Combinatorics and Optimization Waterloo‚ Ontario‚ Canada‚ 2009 c David Alexander Griffith Pritchard 2009 I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis‚ including any required final revisions
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line 1. INTRODUCTION Wireless ad hoc networks have emerged to support applications‚ in which it is required/desired to have wireless variety of devices without relying on communications among a any infrastructure or central management. In ad hoc networks‚ wireless devices‚ simply called nodes‚ have limited transmission range. Therefore‚ each node can directly communicate with only those within its transmission range (i.e.‚ its neighbours) and requires other nodes to act as routers in
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