Optimal Portfolio Management in Alaska: A Case Study on Risk Characteristics of Environmental Consulting Companies

A Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE in Project ManagementSharp declines in global oil prices have led to a marked contraction in Alaska’s natural resource dependent economy. This, coupled with record the State’s budgetary shortfalls and a decrease in incoming federal dollars, has created a climate where environmental consulting companies must accept riskier projects to balance portfolio growth and security. As a result, companies must adopt a risk-based portfolio management approach as both a high level strategy and a core management practice. It is important to specifically identify projects best suited for an organization’s tolerance for risk based off of the supply and demand of the industry in rapidly changing economic conditions. Therefore, the aims of this project report are to help environmental consulting companies identify risk characteristics and manage their portfolio, as well as develop a tool to guide decision-making and selecting projects best suited for a companies’ portfolio strategy. The results of this research may provide Alaska based environmental companies with a clear understanding of the types of projects that offer both development and financial security for an organization. This research paper will present the methodology, results, and an environmental consulting portfolio management tool.Title Page / Table of Contents / List of Exhibits / Abstract / Introduction / Background / Literature Review / Project Methodology / Research Methodology / Presentation and Analysis of Data from Survey / Data Validation From Survey / Conclusion / Recommendation / Project Conclusion / Recommendations for Further Research / References / Appendi

A figure of merit measuring picture resolution

Figure of merit measuring picture resolutio

Beyond Repair: An Investigation of the Experiences, Interpretations, and Self-Construction of Black Women Welfare Recipients in the Deep South

Based on six in-depth interviews with Black women in the Metro-Atlanta area who have at some point in the past ten years received welfare assistance, this project serves to understand how Black women relate to the welfare system in the current moment. To best understand their circumstances, I set forth a three-part question: how do Black women welfare recipients experience the welfare system in the current moment?; how do they interpret these experiences?; and lastly, how do these experiences and interpretations lend to how they conceptualize, construct, and/or manage their identities as Black women welfare recipients? I argue that my participants\u27 experiences with the welfare system are varied based on their backgrounds of financial stability or instability and their adherence to or non-compliance with standards about work participation and the nuclear family order; this consequently influences their interpretations of their experiences which they express via whom or what they blame for their conditions of financial instability. Lastly, however, I argue that regardless of their circumstances and experiences, each of my participants believes that they are rights-bearing citizens who are a part of the mainstream American citizenry and thus adopt mainstream American values that center independence, work, and self-responsibility. As a result, through what I term politics of distance, my respondents are able to justify their claims on the welfare system as they conceptualize and construct their identities in adherence to the American value system

A system for calculating the greatest common denominator implemented using asynchrobatic logic

An asynchrobatic system that uses Euclid's algorithm to calculate the greatest common denominator of two numbers is presented. This algorithm is a simple system that contains both repetition and decision, and therefore demonstrates that asynchrobatic logic can be used to implement arbitrarily complex computational systems. Under typical conditions on a 0.35 mum process, a 16-bit implementation can perform a 24-cycle test vector in 2.067 mus with a power consumption of 3.257 nW

Five day mission plan to investigate the geology of the Marius Hills region of the moon

Five-day mission plan to investigate geology of Marius Hills region of moo

Using positive feedback adiabatic logic to implement reversible Toffoli gates

A reversible, positive feedback adiabatic logic circuit is presented, which by implementing the universal Toffoli gate demonstrates that reversible logic circuits can be created and implemented using this adiabatic logic family. When compared to circuits with similar circuit structures that do not incorporate complete recovery logic, the use of reversible structures shows a reduction in energy losses by a mean of just under 63%

An asynchrobatic, radix-four, carry look-ahead adder

A low-power, Asynchrobatic (asynchronous, quasi-adiabatic), sixteen-bit, radix-four, parallel-prefix adder circuit is presented. The results show that it is an efficient, low power design, and that as would be expected with an asynchronous design, its performance is determined by its operating conditions. On a 0.35 mum CMOS process, under ldquotypicalrdquo process conditions, operating at an effective frequency of 22 MHz, an addition can be performed using 69 pW, with 48.3 pW used by the control logic and 20.7 pW by the data-path