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    Investment & Strategy at Morse Cutting Tool

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    [Excerpt] Local #277 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America contracted with the ICA for a preliminary assessment of the long term viability of Morse Cutting Tools. The union had become alarmed by declining employment at Morse and by Morse management\u27s statements regarding the company\u27s inadequate profitability and shrinking market share. Of even greater concern was the threat that the conglomerate which owns Morse, Gulf+Western (G+W), might close the New Bedford plant. We were asked to examine Morse\u27s position in the cutting tool business with particular attention to the adequacy of G+W\u27s investment in plant and equipment and of Morse\u27s management strategy

    Sheltify

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    Modular, collapsible, community building, and mental health enhancing refugee shelter. Nexus Maximus IV The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of finding safety and a better tomorrow. The impact of war, political, racial and religious conflict, and environmental crises of famine and climate change, have caused great suffering and there is a great opportunity to do better. The issues these populations and the countries who receive them face are diverse and complex. They include public health, housing/built environment, cultural integration, public safety, employment/economic and more. How can innovation address these challenges? How do we create the social systems and products to support a healthy, safe and integrated program for refugees? How do we address the physical, emotional, and social needs of refugees to restore hope and opportunity? The solutions may be as far ranging as the challenges, exploring the acute needs during a crisis, as well as the chronic needs of the permanently displaced; looking at immigration and adjustments to new cultures. We encourage participants to draw upon all disciplines, from health professions to architecture, engineering to design, ethics, communication and every way of thinking we have, to find better ways to innovate on physical solutions, processes, policies, systems, and more. Recap from poster presentationshttps://jdc.jefferson.edu/nexusmaximus/1004/thumbnail.jp

    INTGRT

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    We are a non-profit organization with the goal to resettle refugees into a small-scale community with opportunities of education, employment, and housing. With the focus on cities between a 5,000 to 60,000 population, refugees have the chance to utilize their skill sets to improve and evolve a current community without being strongly labeled as a “refugee.” Nexus Maximus IV The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of finding safety and a better tomorrow. The impact of war, political, racial and religious conflict, and environmental crises of famine and climate change, have caused great suffering and there is a great opportunity to do better. The issues these populations and the countries who receive them face are diverse and complex. They include public health, housing/built environment, cultural integration, public safety, employment/economic and more. How can innovation address these challenges? How do we create the social systems and products to support a healthy, safe and integrated program for refugees? How do we address the physical, emotional, and social needs of refugees to restore hope and opportunity? The solutions may be as far ranging as the challenges, exploring the acute needs during a crisis, as well as the chronic needs of the permanently displaced; looking at immigration and adjustments to new cultures. We encourage participants to draw upon all disciplines, from health professions to architecture, engineering to design, ethics, communication and every way of thinking we have, to find better ways to innovate on physical solutions, processes, policies, systems, and more. Recap of poster presentations.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/nexusmaximus/1013/thumbnail.jp

    The Kelly criterion for spread bets

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    The optimal betting strategy for a gambler betting on a discrete number of outcomes was determined by Kelly (1956, A new interpretation of information rate. J. Oper. Res. Soc., 57, 975–985). Here, the corresponding problem is examined for spread betting, which may be considered to have a continuous distribution of possible outcomes. Since the formulae for individual events are complicated, the asymptotic limit in which the gamblers edge is small is examined, which results in universal formulae for the optimal fraction of the bank to wager, the probability of bankruptcy and the distribution function of the gamblers total capital

    Solar Stove

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    PEOPLE\u27S CHOICE AWARD WINNER! We designed a solar powered hot plate that also functions as a light source. This allows refugees to cook food without burning wood or using toxic fuels and provides a portable light source. Nexus Maximus IV The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of finding safety and a better tomorrow. The impact of war, political, racial and religious conflict, and environmental crises of famine and climate change, have caused great suffering and there is a great opportunity to do better. The issues these populations and the countries who receive them face are diverse and complex. They include public health, housing/built environment, cultural integration, public safety, employment/economic and more. How can innovation address these challenges? How do we create the social systems and products to support a healthy, safe and integrated program for refugees? How do we address the physical, emotional, and social needs of refugees to restore hope and opportunity? The solutions may be as far ranging as the challenges, exploring the acute needs during a crisis, as well as the chronic needs of the permanently displaced; looking at immigration and adjustments to new cultures. We encourage participants to draw upon all disciplines, from health professions to architecture, engineering to design, ethics, communication and every way of thinking we have, to find better ways to innovate on physical solutions, processes, policies, systems, and more. Recap of poster presentationshttps://jdc.jefferson.edu/nexusmaximus/1014/thumbnail.jp

    Modelling football match scoring outcomes using multilevel models

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    Multilevel modelling technique recognizes the existence of hierarchal structures in the data by allowing for random effects at each level in the hierarchy, thus assessing the variation in the dependent variable at several hierarchical levels simultaneously. Multilevel modelling is becoming an increasingly popular technique for analysing nested data with such popularity accredited to the computational advances in the last two decades. In many sports, including football, the game fixtures are nested within seasons, which in turn are nested within country leagues invoking a multilevel structure in the data. Many gaming companies engage in sport data analysis in a bid to understand the dynamics and patterns of the game. This will assist the gaming company in developing fantasy sport games that will enhance gamer engagement and augment revenue to the company. This paper presents a comprehensive description of two and three level models, which are applied to a real football data set accessed from an online free football betting portal. The aim is to examine the relationship between the number of goals scored during a football match and several game-related predictors. These multilevel models, which assume a Poisson distribution and a logarithmic function, are implemented using the facilities of GLLAMM (Generalized Linear Latent and Mixed Models), which is a subroutine of STATA.peer-reviewe

    Investigating the factors which affect the performance of the EM algorithm in Latent class models

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    Latent class models have been used extensively in market segmentation to divide a total market into market groups of consumers who have relatively similar product needs and preferences. The advantage of these models over traditional clustering techniques lies in simultaneous estimation and segmentation, which is carried out using the EM algorithm. The identification of consumer segments allows target-marketing strategies to be developed. The data comprises the rating responses of 262 respondents to 24 laptop profiles described by four item attributes including the brand, price, random access memory (RAM) and the screen size. Using the facilities of R Studio, two latent class models were fitted by varying the number of clusters from 2 to 3. The parameter estimates obtained from these two latent class models were used to simulate a number of data sets for each cluster solution to be able to conduct a Monte-Carlo study, which investigates factors that have an effect on segment membership and parameter recovery and affect computational effort.peer-reviewe

    Los Angeles Labor Negotiations Study

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    [Excerpt] Sjoberg Evashenk Consulting and Cornell University have completed a study of the City of Los Angeles’ labor negotiation policies, processes and practices, under contract with the City Controller’s Office. The objectives of the study are to: • Review negotiations executed within the last three years for lessons learned, as well as review negotiations currently underway. • Evaluate and map the City’s current collective bargaining process. • Conduct a nationwide search for promising practices the City could incorporate into the collective bargaining process. • Evaluate the fiscal impacts of labor negotiations. • Evaluate the role of and incentives for each party in the process. • Evaluate the labor-management relationships outside of the bargaining process. • Identify opportunities for improving labor-management relations. Cornell University addressed the City’s current labor relations process and identified areas for improvement or consideration (Sections I and III), while Sjoberg Evashenk Consulting focused on the financial implications of the City’s collective bargaining practices (Section II). Cornell ILR faculty who contributed their time to this study include: Associate Dean Suzanne Bruyere, Marcia Calicchia (Project Lead), Lou Jean Fleron, Professor Emeritus and former Associate Dean Lois S. Gray, Dean Harry Katz, Sally Klingel, Peter Lazes, Tom Quimby, Jane Savage, Rocco Scanza, Scott Sears, and Associate Dean and Vice Provost for Land Grant Affairs Ronald Seeber. Pam Strausser in Cornell’s Office of Human Resources and Mildred Warner in Cornell’s Department of City and Regional Planning also provided invaluable assistance
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