Chapter 8 Supply Chain Security – Threats and Solutions Daniel Ekwall Additional information is available at the end of the chapter http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/48365 1. Introduction In recent years‚ the cargo transport process has improved mainly in the areas of logistics efficiency and documentation handling. The World Trade Centre terror attack in 2001 changed the world and with it the conditions for logistics world-wide. The logistics consequences were according to[1]: It is instructive
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McGRAW-HILL EDITION LIST OF SYMBOLS TOPIC LOGIC SYMBOL ""’p p 1\ q P vq P (J) q p-+q p ++ q p=.q MEANING PAGE T F P(xJ‚ ... ‚ x n) VxP(x) 3xP(x) 3!xP(x) p{S}q SETS negation of p conjunction of p and q disjunction of p and q exclusive or of p and q the implication p implies q biconditional of p and q equivalence of p and q tautology contradiction propositional function universal quantification of P(x) existential quantification of P(x) uniqueness quantification of P(x) therefore
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS Financial performance analysis is the process of identifying the financial strengths and weaknesses of the firm by properly establishing the relationship between the items of balance sheet and profit and loss account. It also helps in short-term and long term forecasting and growth can be identified with the help of financial performance analysis.The dictionary meaning of ‘analysis’ is to resolve or separate a thing in to its element or components parts for tracing
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PressReleasePing Parts of Asia on Verge of Dire Post-floods Consequences?Hard-hit Areas to Face Mounting Pandemic Outbreak Tolls?1st Asian Post-DESPO?s P.I. Prof. Dr. Aurangzeb Hafi Torrential flood-tides leave over 12‚85000 Asian children prone to life-long disabilities?Already at high vulnerability‚ over 250‚000 Rohingya children most endangered?Scarce upsurge of deadly Leptospirosis at post-disastrous situations scenes?Specter zones crossing normal parameters of vector-borne diseases?High-risk
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Velupillai Prabhakaran (November 26‚ 1954 – May 18‚ 2009) was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers)‚ a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka. For over 25 years‚ the LTTE waged a violent secessionist campaign in Sri Lanka that led to it being designated a terrorist organization by 32 countries. Prabhakaran was wanted by Interpol for terrorism‚ murder‚ organized crime and terrorism
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Paul Quinn College | The Anatomy of Motive | Dexter D. Evans | | Criminology-ONLINE | 1/7/2011 | McIntosh | The Anatomy of Motive Every day I put my life on the line as a soldier in the United States Army. When a person joins the army the first material they learn is “The Soldiers’ Creed.” In this declaration to our country‚ a fresh recruit is expressing that he or she will defend America‚ come what may. This include taking out the enemy by killing them. One of the hardest questions
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I. David Ricardo Ricardo was a classical economist known for many contributions to economics but most notably for his labor theory of value and theory of rents. David Ricardo and several other economists also simultaneously and independently discovered the law of diminishing marginal returns. His most well-known work is the The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817). [1] A.. Labor Theory of Value Though many classical economist contributed to labor theory including Adam Smith
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dominance of speculative finance in business. V. SRIDHAR MORE than two months after Enron‚ the seventh biggest corporation in the United States‚ filed for bankruptcy‚ the stench of scandal refuses to die. Shocking revelations about the company’s modus operandi continue to pour in. Public and media attention was initially focussed on the company’s close ties with the political establishment and the policy-making bureaucracy. However‚ more details of Enron’s "business model"‚ so successful until it
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The contemporary foreign policy of the United States represents an evolving continuum of principles‚ conceptions and strategies that in part‚ derived from the particularistic American Cold War experience. As such‚ United States foreign policy is neither a static entity‚ nor is its intentions or direction uncontested. This essay will examine the underlying issues of identity and how‚ beginning with the Truman Doctrine‚ a distinct articulation of the national interest was evinced that has defined America’s
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You have for long warned about insecurity from the North. Why do you think the army can’t contain it? As far back as eight to nine years ago‚ we observed that the institution of the Nigerian army became a target of the intelligentsia behind what we called Boko Haram. They have known that the Nigerian army was the last institution in Nigeria that could practically bind the country. But now‚ the army seems divided. What I know is that the Nigerian army cannot handle this people because the sophistication
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