Strategies for Small Restaurant Owner Success Beyond 5 Years

Strategies for Small Restaurant Owner Success Beyond 5 Years by Veda P. Allen-Barnes MBA, University of Phoenix, 2015 BS, Queens College of the City University of New York, 1995 AAS, Borough of Manhattan Community College the City University of New York, 1992 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration Walden University August 2020 Limited strategies in the restaurant industry may lead to the loss of competitive advantage. Restaurant owners who lack success strategies may experience business failure. Grounded in the resource-based view, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies some small restaurant owners use to succeed in business beyond 5 years. The participants for this study included 5 five small restaurant business owners in New Jersey who successfully implemented strategies and remained in business for more than 5 years after beginning operations. Data were collected from semistructured interviews, documentation, and member checking to obtain responses from the participants. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. Three themes emerged: financial stability strategies, customer retention strategies, and marketing strategies. One recommendation is to ensure financial stability by creating long term goals, reducing cash flow issues, and promoting business continuity. The implications for positive social change include the ability to recruit and retain employees, to strengthen the restaurant industry, and build the local economy

Flexible Spare Core Placement in Torus Topology based NoCs and its validation on an FPGA

In the nano-scale era, Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnection paradigm has gained importance to abide by the communication challenges in Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs). With increased integration density on CMPs, NoC components namely cores, routers, and links are susceptible to failures. Therefore, to improve system reliability, there is a need for efficient fault-tolerant techniques that mitigate permanent faults in NoC based CMPs. There exists several fault-tolerant techniques that address the permanent faults in application cores while placing the spare cores onto NoC topologies. However, these techniques are limited to Mesh topology based NoCs. There are few approaches that have realized the fault-tolerant solutions on an FPGA, but the study on architectural aspects of NoC is limited. This paper presents the flexible placement of spare core onto Torus topology-based NoC design by considering core faults and validating it on an FPGA. In the first phase, a mathematical formulation based on Integer Linear Programming (ILP) and meta-heuristic based Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) have been proposed for the placement of spare core. In the second phase, we have implemented NoC router addressing scheme, routing algorithm, run-time fault injection model, and fault-tolerant placement of spare core onto Torus topology using an FPGA. Experiments have been done by taking different multimedia and synthetic application benchmarks. This has been done in both static and dynamic simulation environments followed by hardware implementation. In the static simulation environment, the experimentations are carried out by scaling the network size and router faults in the network. The results obtained from our approach outperform the methods such as Fault-tolerant Spare Core Mapping (FSCM), Simulated Annealing (SA), and Genetic Algorithm (GA) proposed in the literature. For the experiments carried out by scaling the network size, our proposed methodology shows an average improvement of 18.83%, 4.55%, 12.12% in communication cost over the approaches FSCM, SA, and GA, respectively. For the experiments carried out by scaling the router faults in the network, our approach shows an improvement of 34.27%, 26.26%, and 30.41% over the approaches FSCM, SA, and GA, respectively. For the dynamic simulations, our approach shows an average improvement of 5.67%, 0.44%, and 3.69%, over the approaches FSCM, SA, and GA, respectively. In the hardware implementation, our approach shows an average improvement of 5.38%, 7.45%, 27.10% in terms of application runtime over the approaches SA, GA, and FSCM, respectively. This shows the superiority of the proposed approach over the approaches presented in the literature.publishedVersio

Penyuluhan Instalasi Komposter Ember Tumpuk sebagai Media Pengolahan Sampah Organik di Desa Cinanjung dalam Rangka Menghadapi Masa Pandemi COVID-19

Limbah sampah organik perlu penanganan sistematik agar dapat dimanfaatkan seoptimal mungkin. Pengelolaan sampah organik khususnya setingkat desa masih perlu dibina kembali agar mampu memasok kebutuhan pupuk organik cair. Desa Cinanjung yang terletak di Kecamatan Tanjungsari, Kabupaten Sumedang, Provinsi Jawa Barat memiliki potensi wisata yang cukup tinggi, yang dapat menarik minat perusahaan swasta untuk mengembangkan desa agrowisata berbasis agribisnis berwawasan ramah lingkungan. Tujuan penyuluhan adalah memberi edukasi tentang instalasi komposter ember tumpuk untuk pengolahan limbah organik menjadi pupuk organik cair (POC). Penyuluhan dilaksanakan pada bulan Agustus 2021 hingga September 2021. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan Metode Random Sampling dengan teknik analisis penskalaan Likert. Terdapat lima indikator penilaian tingkat pemahaman terhadap materi penyuluhan yang telah disajikan, yakni Sangat Mudah dengan skor 5, Mudah dengan skor 4, Lumayan dengan skor 3, Sulit dengan skor 2, dan Sangat Sulit dengan skor 1. Hasilnya, dari 10 responden 1 orang menjawab Sangat Sulit, 4 orang menjawab Lumayan, 4 orang menjawab Mudah, dan 1 orang menjawab Sangat Mudah

Penyuluhan Instalasi Komposter Ember Tumpuk sebagai Media Pengolahan Sampah Organik di Desa Cinanjung dalam Rangka Menghadapi Masa Pandemi COVID-19

Limbah sampah organik perlu penanganan sistematik agar dapat dimanfaatkan seoptimal mungkin. Pengelolaan sampah organik khususnya setingkat desa masih perlu dibina kembali agar mampu memasok kebutuhan pupuk organik cair. Desa Cinanjung yang terletak di Kecamatan Tanjungsari, Kabupaten Sumedang, Provinsi Jawa Barat memiliki potensi wisata yang cukup tinggi, yang dapat menarik minat perusahaan swasta untuk mengembangkan desa agrowisata berbasis agribisnis berwawasan ramah lingkungan. Tujuan penyuluhan adalah memberi edukasi tentang instalasi komposter ember tumpuk untuk pengolahan limbah organik menjadi pupuk organik cair (POC). Penyuluhan dilaksanakan pada bulan Agustus 2021 hingga September 2021. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan Metode Random Sampling dengan teknik analisis penskalaan Likert. Terdapat lima indikator penilaian tingkat pemahaman terhadap materi penyuluhan yang telah disajikan, yakni Sangat Mudah dengan skor 5, Mudah dengan skor 4, Lumayan dengan skor 3, Sulit dengan skor 2, dan Sangat Sulit dengan skor 1. Hasilnya, dari 10 responden 1 orang menjawab Sangat Sulit, 4 orang menjawab Lumayan, 4 orang menjawab Mudah, dan 1 orang menjawab Sangat Mudah

Fault-Tolerant Application-Specific Topology based NoC and its Prototype on an FPGA

Application-Specific Networks-on-Chips (ASNoCs) are suitable communication platforms for meeting current application requirements. Interconnection links are the primary components involved in communication between the cores of an ASNoC design. The integration density in ASNoC increases with continuous scaling down of the transistor size. Excessive integration density in ASNoC can result in the formation of thermal hotspots, which can cause a system to fail permanently. As a result, fault-tolerant techniques are required to address the permanent faults in interconnection links of an ASNoC design. By taking into account link faults in the topology, this paper introduces a fault-tolerant application-specific topology-based NoC design and its prototype on an FPGA. To place spare links in the ASNoC topology, a meta-heuristic algorithm based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is proposed. By taking link faults into account in ASNoC design, we also propose an application mapping heuristic and a table-based fault-tolerant routing algorithm. Experiments are carried out for a specific link and any link fault in fault-tolerant topologies generated by our approach and approaches reported in the literature. For the experimentation, we used the multi-media applications Picture-in-Picture (PiP), Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) - 4, MP3Encoder, and Video Object Plane Decoder (VOPD). Experiments are run on software and hardware platforms. The static performance metric communication cost and the dynamic performance metrics network latency, throughput, and router power consumption are examined using software platform. In the hardware platform, the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is used to validate proposed fault-tolerant topologies and analyze performance metrics such as application runtime, resource utilization, and power consumption. The results are compared with the existing approaches, specifically Ring topology and its modified versions on both software and hardware platforms. The experimental results obtained from software and hardware platforms for a specific link and any link fault show significant improvements in performance metrics using our approach when compared with the related works in the literature.publishedVersio

Torus Topology based Fault-Tolerant Network-on-Chip Design with Flexible Spare Core Placement

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Fault-Tolerant Network-on-Chip Design for Mesh-of-Tree Topology Using Particle Swarm Optimization

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A Novel Fault-Tolerant Routing Technique for Mesh-of-Tree based Network-on-Chip Design

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Role of genetic testing for inherited prostate cancer risk: Philadelphia prostate cancer consensus conference 2017

Purpose: Guidelines are limited for genetic testing for prostate cancer (PCA). The goal of this conference was to develop an expert consensus-dri