Establishing Cultural Identity in American Concert Dance: How Corporate Funding Can Revitalize the World of Dance

In a country that has rapidly evolved in many industries, it has always mystified me as to why advancement in the arts, specifically dance, has lagged behind. My hypothesis as to why this is occurring is that concert dance in America is not as synonymous to the cultural identity of the nation as it is in comparison to its European ancestors. I began my research with the creation of ballet in order to determine the cultural roots that were established within particular societies. I then compared the funding models between the nations with this deep attachment to the funding models of our country. After making the comparison, it was evidently clear that the difference lies within our economic structure. America being capitalistic and the European nations being socialist, the state can only have so much influence in its contributions to the companies. I also realized that the companies, being primarily nonprofit institutions, are not fully utilizing their resources. I then proposed that the only way to establish the cultural identity of concert dance within America is to do what America does best: establish corporate sponsorships. By understanding the current sports marketing, advertising, and sponsorship tactics being utilized by major corporations, I proposed the same tactics be used for concert dance companies. The financial risks would then be lifted from the companies whose sole purposes should be to create meaningful art. One way to fully test the effectiveness of this method would be a corporate sponsorship of a small dance company to see how it affects its growth. Because major companies have already established a rapport with its community, the effectiveness of the tactics would not be as apparent. After its effectiveness is evaluated, corporations could see the potential benefits of associating their brand with the brand of a cultural institution

Robot Autonomy for Surgery

Autonomous surgery involves having surgical tasks performed by a robot operating under its own will, with partial or no human involvement. There are several important advantages of automation in surgery, which include increasing precision of care due to sub-millimeter robot control, real-time utilization of biosignals for interventional care, improvements to surgical efficiency and execution, and computer-aided guidance under various medical imaging and sensing modalities. While these methods may displace some tasks of surgical teams and individual surgeons, they also present new capabilities in interventions that are too difficult or go beyond the skills of a human. In this chapter, we provide an overview of robot autonomy in commercial use and in research, and present some of the challenges faced in developing autonomous surgical robots

Revision of the EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) Criteria for Textile Products and Services: Technical Report with final criteria.

The revision of the Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for Textile products and Services is aimed at helping public authorities to ensure that textiles products and services are procured in such a way that it delivers environmental improvements that contribute to European policy objectives for energy, chemical management and resource efficiency, as well as reducing life cycle costs. In order to identify the most significant improvement areas for criteria development an analysis has been carried out of the environmental impacts of manufacturing and using textile products and providing textile services. The most commonly used procurement processes have been also identified and are further addressed in the separate criteria document (published as a Staff Working Document of the Commission). Together these two documents aim to provide public authorities with orientation on how to effectively integrate these GPP criteria into their procurement processes.JRC.B.5-Circular Economy and Industrial Leadershi

A methodology for producing reliable software, volume 1

An investigation into the areas having an impact on producing reliable software including automated verification tools, software modeling, testing techniques, structured programming, and management techniques is presented. This final report contains the results of this investigation, analysis of each technique, and the definition of a methodology for producing reliable software

Essays on Development Economics

This dissertation consists of three empirical essays on agricultural incentives, risk, and rural labor markets. Chapter 1 empirically estimates the effect of agricultural price support policies on crop choice and input (mis-)allocation, with important implications for spillover effects to other sectors. Agricultural price support policies are a popular way to alleviate the risk inherent in volatile prices, but, at the same time, may distort input allocation responses to agricultural productivity shocks across multiple sectors. This could reduce productivity in the agricultural sector in developing countries. I empirically test for misallocation in the Indian agricultural setting, with national price supports for rice and wheat. I first motivate the setting using a two-sector, two-factor general equilibrium model and derive comparative statics. I then use annual variation in the level of the national price supports for rice and wheat relative to market prices, together with exogenous changes in district-level agricultural productivity through weather shocks, in a differences-in-differences framework. I derive causal effects of the price supports on production patterns, labor allocation, wages, and output across sectors. I find that rice area cultivated, rice area as a share of total area planted, rice yields, and rice production all increase, suggesting an increase in input intensity (inputs per unit area) dedicated to rice. Wheat shows a similar increase in input intensity. The key input response is a reallocation of contract labor from the non-agricultural sector during peak cultivation periods, which results in an increase in wages in equilibrium in the non-agricultural sector (especially in response to price supports for the labor-intensive crop, rice, of 23%). The reallocation of labor reduces agricultural productivity by 82% of a standard deviation, and simultaneously reduces gross output in non-agricultural firms by 2.6% of a standard deviation. I also find that rice- and wheat-producing households do not smooth consumption more effectively in response to productivity shocks in the presence of price supports. Chapter 2 (with Emily Breza and Supreet Kaur) demonstrates the influence of collective action - specifically, through social sanctions imposed by informal labor unions - on labor supply in rural labor markets. A distinguishing feature of the labor market is social interaction among co-workers---providing the ingredients for social norms to develop and constrain behavior. We use a field experiment to test whether social norms against accepting wage cuts distort workers' labor supply during periods of unemployment. We undertake our test in informal spot markets for casual daily labor in India. We partner with 183 existing employers, who offer jobs to 502 randomly-selected laborers in their respective local labor markets. The job offers vary: (i) the wage level and (ii) the extent to which the offer is observable to other workers. We document that unemployed workers are privately willing to accept work at wages below the prevailing wage, but rarely do so when this choice is observable to other workers. In contrast, observability plays no role in affecting take-up of jobs at the prevailing wage. The consequences of this behavior are substantial: workers are giving up 38% of average weekly earnings in order to avoid being seen as breaking the social norm. In a supplementary exercise, we document that workers are willing to pay to punish anonymous laborers who have accepted a wage cut. Costly punishment occurs both for workers in one's own labor market, and for workers in distant other labor markets---suggesting the internalization of norms in moral terms. Our findings support the presumption that, even in the absence of formal labor institutions, collusive norms can constrain labor supply behavior at economically meaningful magnitudes. Chapter 3 investigates how households use engagement in criminal activity to smooth consumption in the face of agricultural risk. About 400,000 barrels of oil are stolen per day in the Niger Delta region. Much of this oil is stolen by militia groups with the help of local youth (who have the requisite knowledge about the terrain and placement of the pipelines). I use exogenous variation in households' access to oil pipelines, together with local shocks to agricultural productivity (both self-reported and due to variation in rainfall) to show that a proxy for theft from oil pipelines increases in the vicinity of households located close to pipelines that suffer unanticipated crop losses. This coincides with non-food expenditure-smoothing for these households (relative to households that are far from pipelines). Finally, I look at heterogeneity by household characteristics to identify households that are more likely to be affected by agricultural shocks or more likely to be targets for militia recruitment - households with young unemployed men and young men who are not in school, and households that lack financial infrastructure in their vicinity (which I take to be a proxy for a household's ability to access credit when faced with economic shocks). The findings from this paper suggest that there is potential for large spillover savings - in terms of reducing theft of oil from pipelines - for any policy that provides credit or other kinds of risk-mitigation mechanisms to households

Development of a supermarket website with the possibility of goods ordering

The initiative of this investigation was to inspect what sort of components can impact customers' goal and how do Ukraine buyers assess these elements to purchase basic food item items by means of the Internet. Foundation: E-business has been a broad environment for purchasers and internet shopping additionally turns out to be an ever-increasing number of predominant nowadays. By the by, in Ukraine, in spite of the fact that there is a gigantic number of online consumers, online shopping for food is as yet in an essential stage. Hypothesis: For this paper, the Theory of Planned Behavior was utilized, just as an assortment of perspectives that are often utilized in the current writing on this field of examination. Strategy: Both quantitative and Qualitative technique were utilized to accumulate essential information and semi-organized meetings were directed with partakers with comparable demographics. Conclusion: Combined with past literature, survey and interviews conducted, relevant components are brought up to be analyzed. Situational variables which incorporate seen product quality, seen item cost, climate, seen potential dangers, conveyance fetched, delivery time, sorts of the item, and time sparing. The study appears that over variables all have an impact on online consumers’ acquiring intention with distinctive levels.Introduction ...6 1. Hypothetical System ...11 1.1. Marketing ...11 1.2. E-commerce ...11 1.3. Hypothesis of Arranged Behavior ...12 1.3.1. Consumers’ Buying Intention ...13 1.3.2. Demeanors ...13 1.3.3. Subjective Standard ...14 1.3.4. Seen behavior control ...14 1.3.5. Purposeful ...14 1.3.6. Behavior ...14 1.4 Situational Variables ...15 1.4.1. Seen Item Quality ...15 1.4.2. Seen Item Cost ...16 1.4.3. Seen hazards ...17 1.4.4 Time-saving ...17 1.4.5. Delivery Price...18 1.4.6 Sorts of Items ...19 1.4.7. Climate ...20 1.4.8 Delivery time ...20 2. Technique and Strategy ...22 2.1. Technique ...22 2.1.1. Investigation Purpose ...22 2.1.2. Subjective research approach ...22 2.1.3. Information quality ...23 2.2. Strategy ...24 2.2.1. Auxiliary information ...24 2.2.2. Essential information collected by survey ...25 2.2.3. Essential information collected by semi-structured interviews ...25 2.2.4. Sampling Strategy ...27 2.2.5. Development of interview questions ...28 2.2.6. Strategy for information analysis ...30 3. Results/Empirical Discoveries ...31 4. Examination ...43 4.1. Current customer behavior towards online grocery shopping ...43 4.2. Demeanors towards online grocery shopping ...46 5. Life Safety...49 Сonclusions ...54 References ...6

Supply Chain Management of Coats Bangladesh Ltd.

This thesis is restricted.This internship report is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration,2015.Cataloged from PDF version of Internship report.RMG sector is one of the biggest and most GDP earning sectors in Bangladesh. This sector works with some raw materials. One of those raw materials is industrial sewing thread. RMG sector could be stopped without industrial sewing thread. There are many companies world for supply threads and coats PLC is one of them and the largest one. Coats PLC runs its business named Coats Bangladesh Ltd. My report contains a brief study on this company and SCM process of sewing thread supplying industry in Bangladesh based on this company. For completing this report I went through the extended enterprise which includes key suppliers, manufacturers, and end customers of a specific company as well as industry. I tried to analyze the real situation for preparing the report.Sk Abdullah Al JameoB. Business Administratio

Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion (SOWING): National Report (Portugal)

The choice over the Portuguese case studies was based on the sample constructed for the application of the firm questionnaires, during the second year of the SOWING project, 1999. This sample was fulfilled of firms among several activity sectors: textile, manufacturing, electronics, transports and software industry, based on NACE – codes (2 – digit level). Thus, we agreed to include in a new database the remaining questionnaires and construct a sample with 113 observations. Concerning the organisational change we make a distinction of three categories of change. First we analyse changes taking place at the inter-firm level (outsourcing, subcontracting, geographic relocation), followed by changes at the organisational level (deconcentration/decentralisation, reduction of hierarchical levels, introduction of cost and profit centres). The third kind of changes analysed will be those taking place at the workplace level (job enlargement/enrichment, changing character of work, work load). The Portuguese studied companies presents a relative uniform pattern considering the variables social competencies, practical knowledge, responsibility and specialized professional qualifications.industry; information technologies; qualification; organisation; work