A Company Profile for Ibis Surabaya City Center Hotel

Company profile is a description of the company history, resources, structure, performance, and reputation. Therefore, company profile is very important for the hotel and it also plays an important role for business communication because it provides the useful information of the hotel that can help the employees to get the product knowledge about the hotel. Also, it will help the customers when they want to stay in the hotel. As we know, ibis Surabaya City Center Hotel did not have the written company profile that can be very useful for the hotel. Therefore, ibis has to make the company profile for the hotel. By having the company profile, the hotel can attract new customers because many people will see the profile of the hotel. Moreover, this company profile will make an impact on the sales of the hotel because it is related with the promotion of the hote

The Impact of Government Policy on Private Car Ownership in Ireland

We construct a model of the stock of private cars in the Republic of Ireland. The model distinguishes cars by fuel, engine size and age. The modelled car stock is built up from a long history of data on sales, and calibrated to recent data on actual stock. We complement the data on the number of cars with data on fuel efficiency and distance driven – which together give fuel use and emissions – and the costs of purchase, ownership and use. We use the model to project the car stock from 2010 to 2025. The following results emerge. The 2009 reform of the vehicle registration and motor tax has led to a dramatic shift from petrol to diesel cars. Fuel efficiency has improved and will improve further as a result, but because diesel cars are heavier, carbon dioxide emissions are reduced but not substantially so. The projected emissions in 2020 are roughly the same as in 2007. In a second set of simulations, we impose the government targets for electrification of transport. As all-electric vehicles are likely to displace small, efficient, and little-driven petrol cars, the effect on carbon dioxide emissions is minimal. We also consider the scrappage scheme, which has little effect as it applies to a small fraction of the car stock only,

The Role of Risk in the Decision to Produce Post-Decoupling - A Stochastic Budgeting Example

Under the Mac Sharry and Agenda 2000 reforms, direct payments comprised a significant portion of farmers' income in the EU. Farmers had to engage in production to receive these payments but the payments were relatively risk-free and therefore risk may not have played an important role in the production decision. This paper considers the effect of the decoupling of direct payments from production in the EU and in particular, on the role of production risk in the decision making process. In an environment where direct payments are completely decoupled from production, farmers may engage in an 'entitlement farming' system, that is retain their land only to activate the decoupled payment and not actually produce any tangible goods. This paper examines the effect of production risk on the economic trade off between 'entitlement farming' and conventional farming. A stochastic budgeting model is developed for two representative farms. The model is used to measure the probability that the returns to the 'entitlement farming' system could be higher than the profit emanating from a conventional farming system given production risk. The results show that for the less efficient representative farm, the probability of achieving a significantly higher profit by engaging in entitlement farming is 46 percent, while further analysis shows that there is a 9 percent probability that profits from conventional farming systems would be only marginally higher than the 'entitlement farming' option.Decoupling, Risk Analysis, Production Risk, Decision Analysis, Stochastic Modelling, Agricultural and Food Policy, Risk and Uncertainty, Q12, Q18,

Effect of bow-type initial imperfection on the buckling load and mass of graphite-epoxy blade-stiffened panels

A structural synthesis computer code which accounts for first order effects of an initial bow and which can be used for sizing stiffened composite panels having an arbitrary cross section is used to study graphite blade-stiffened panels. The effect of a small initial bow on both the load carrying ability of panels and on the mass of panels designed to carry a specified load is examined. Large reductions in the buckling load caused by a small initial bow emphasize the need for considering a bow when a panel is designed

Does longitudinal Twitter use complement all anatomy learning? A comparison between two cohorts

Background: Students of today’s generation are regularly using social media to access and learn anatomical information. To avoid losing the skill of engaging with students, anatomy educators have been increasing their efforts to use popular social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to support their student’s learning. At the University of Southampton a Twitter hashtag (#nlm2soton) was successfully used to support Year 2 medical students during the difficult head, neck and neuroanatomy module by enhancing communication, boosting morale and creating a supportive network amongst students and educators. A similar Twitter hashtag was subsequently created for Year 1 medical students completing the prerequisite sister module called nervous & locomotor 1 in an attempt to investigate whether the benefits of using Twitter are transferable across anatomy topics. Methods: The nlm1soton hashtag (#nlm1soton) was created and displayed (via a widget) on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard) for a cohort of 215 BM5 Year 1 medical students. Participants completed an end of module survey to explore perceptions and attitudes towards its use which was approved by the University’s research ethics committee. Year 1 responses were compared with that of Year 2 students who had used the #nlm2soton hashtag. Results: Year 2 students viewed (P 20 years old made contributions to the hashtags (P = 0.1055). Overall, Year 2 students perceived their #nlm2soton hashtag to be significantly more useful for aspects of learning, compared to the Year 1 cohort. Conclusion: This study found that Year 1 medical students were less receptive to Twitter use in learning anatomy and used the hashtag significantly less often than their Year 2 counterparts. This would suggest that the optimal use of longitudinal Twitter use in anatomy education is most probably dependent on a number of criteria. Preliminary evidence suggests that important variables to consider may include age of students, module length, module difficulty and teacher engagement

Vibration and Instability of Plate-Assemblies including Shear and Anisotropy (VIPASA) user's guide, addendum

Extensions developed at Langley Research Center to the VIPASA computer program are described including a procedure for simple thermal stress analysis and options for graphical display of output. Input requirements for operation of the modified program are given in detail

PASCO: Structural panel analysis and sizing code: Users manual - Revised

A computer code denoted PASCO is described for analyzing and sizing uniaxially stiffened composite panels. Buckling and vibration analyses are carried out with a linked plate analysis computer code denoted VIPASA, which is included in PASCO. Sizing is based on nonlinear mathematical programming techniques and employs a computer code denoted CONMIN, also included in PASCO. Design requirements considered are initial buckling, material strength, stiffness and vibration frequency. A user's manual for PASCO is presented