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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
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