Transpn Res.-A‚ Vol. 32‚ No. 4‚ pp. 261±269‚ 1998 # 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0965-8564/98 $19.00+0.00 Pergamon PII: S0965-8564(97)00013-X 12 3 ASSESSING THE RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGIES: AN APPLICATION OF DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS MILO W. PECK‚ JR. Department of Accounting‚ Fair®eld University‚ Fair®eld‚ CT 06430‚ U.S.A. CARL A. SCHERAGA* Department of Management‚ Fair®eld University‚ Fair®eld‚ CT
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AirCrash During Approach to Landing‚ Empire Airlines Flight 8284 Avions de Transport Regional Aerospatiale Alenia ATR 42-320‚ N902FX Lubbock‚ Texas January 27‚ 2009 Executive Summary Aerospatiale Alenia ATR 42-320‚ N902FX‚ operating as Empire Airlines flight 8284‚ was on an instrument approach when it crashed short of the runway at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport‚ Lubbock‚ Texas. The captain sustained serious injuries‚ and the first officer sustained minor injuries. The airplane
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INVESTMENT & PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT FIN3IPM TUTORIAL ANSWERS TUTORIAL 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: QUESTION 1 a The process of investment concerns the purchase of assets which will provide a future return to allow for future consumption or further investment. Individuals have to make choices between current and future consumption and because their pattern of income does not always match their pattern of consumption‚ they are required to make investments. Throughout an individual’s life
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SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND APPLIED STATISTICS FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS (STAT 2032 / STAT 6046) TUTORIAL SOLUTIONS WEEK 8 Question 1 This question refers to two projects relating to a small software company that has asked to set up a new computer system for a major client. : Project A Project A delegates all the development work to outside companies. The estimated cashflows for Project A are (where brackets indicate expenditure): Beginning of year 1 Beginning of year 2 Beginning of year 3 End
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of Commerce (Hons) Accounting Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Banking & Finance Bachelor of Finance (Hons) Year 1 Semester 1 Faculty of Business and Finance Department of Commerce & Accountancy UBAF1013 Financial Accounting Framework I Tutorial 1 (1a) Which of the following statements about users of accounting information is incorrect? (Weygandt‚ Kimmel & Kieso‚ 2008‚ p.31) A Management is an internal user B Taxing authorities are external users C Present creditors are external users
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Quantitative Methods for Economics Tutorial 12 Katherine Eyal TUTORIAL 12 25 October 2010 ECO3021S Part A: Problems 1. State with brief reason whether the following statements are true‚ false or uncertain: (a) In the presence of heteroskedasticity OLS estimators are biased as well as inefficient. (b) If heteroskedasticity is present‚ the conventional t and F tests are invalid. (c) If a regression model is mis-specified (e.g.‚ an important variable is omitted)‚ the OLS residuals will show a distinct
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Tutorial 2 Find a report of an experimental study in applied linguistics and give your comments. Report: “The effect of Peer Reviewing on Writing Apprehension and Essay Writing Ability of Prospective EFL Teachers” by Jamal Hamed Jahin (2012) I. Introduction The framework of the study is quite clear in term of organization. The researcher went through all the necessary steps of an experimental research in turn including literature review‚ statement of purpose of the study‚ method of the study
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DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS STUDIES Family Business Management Tutorial 4 (for week beginning 13 May 2013) Managing The Family Business I Discussion Questions 1. Why is the understanding of family conflict important to family-owned businesses? 2. Emily’s family runs a lucrative F & B business selling beef noodles. She is about to take over the running of the empire when her father retires later this year. However‚ she is worried that family conflicts may erode their very successful
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A Short Tutorial on Using Visio 2010 for Entity-Relationship Diagrams by Nezar Hussain Microsoft Visio 2010 is a flexible software tool that allows users to create some diagrams and charts‚ providing an alternative to using traditional drawing software such as MS Paint. Entity – Relationship diagrams (ERDs) provides a more visual way to represent the design of database tables and the relationships between them. The most popular notation used in textbooks is the Crow’s Foot notation that makes identifying
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Tutorial 1 Answer – Chapter 1 & 2 Question 1 Short sale entails borrowing shares and then selling them‚ receiving cash. Therefore‚ initially‚ we will receive the proceeds from the sale of the asset‚ less the proportional commission charge: 300 ($30.19) 300 ($30.19) 0.005 $9‚057 0.995 $9‚011.72 When we close out the position‚ we will again incur the commission charge‚ which is added to the purchasing cost: 300 ($29.87) 300 ($29.87) 0.005 $8‚961 1.005 $9‚005
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