Brown's gift shop

This is a photo of Brown's Guif Shop in Cheraw, S.C. The building was designed by V. H. Kendell, Jr, the contractor was H. J. Roshing, and the building was completed in April 1952.

Agent-Based Modeling of Deshopping Behaviour: A Single Shop Model with Multiple Deshoppers

Deshopping is rapidly turning into a modern day scourge for the retailers worldwide due to its prevalence and regularity. The presence of flexible return policies have made retail return management a real challenging issue for both the present and the future. In this study, we propose and develop a multi-agent simulation model for deshopper behavior in a single shop context. The background, theoretical underpinning, logical and computational model, experiment design and simulation results are reported and discussed in the paper.

Coalition based approach for shop floor agility – a multiagent approach

Dissertation submitted for a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, speciality of Robotics and Integrated Manufacturing from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

L'Oreal acquisition policy: The Body Shop case study

The Work Project I present focuses on the analysis of L’Oréal acquisition policy, trying to outline if the M&A deals it has led over the last 14 years have succeeded in creating value. By replicating the model proposed by Todd Hazelkorn, Marc Zenner and Anil Shivdasani in their paper “Creating Value with Mergers and Acquisitions”, I analyzed the 29 M&A deals that L’Oréal has led worldwide, understanding the common factors able to explain the success of such transactions. Further, I focused on The Body Shop case study, a highly criticized and controversial acquisition that has proved to be profitable and able to create value.

Shop-floor narratives : how six workers and a researcher describe learning activities

I am a part-time graduate student who works in industry. This study is my narrative about how six workers and I describe shop-floor learning activities, that is learning activities that occur where work is done, outside a classroom. Because this study is narrative inquiry, you wilileam about me, the narrator, more than you would in a more conventional study. This is a common approach in narrative inquiry and it is important because my intentions shape the way that I tell these six workers' stories. I developed a typology of learning activities by synthesizing various theoretical frameworks. This typology categorizes shop-floor learning activities into five types: onthe- job training, participative learning, educational advertising, incidental learning, and self-directed learning. Although learning can occur in each of these activities in isolation, it is often comprised of a mixture of these activities. The literature review contains a number of cases that have been developed from situations described in the literature. These cases are here to make the similarities and differences between the types of learning activities that they represent more understandable to the reader and to ground the typology in practice as well as in theory. The findings are presented as reader's theatre, a dramatic presentation of these workers' narratives. The workers tell us that learning involves "being shown," and if this is not done properly they "learn the hard way." I found that many of their best case lean1ing activities involved on-the-job training, participative learning, incidentalleaming, and self-directed learning. Worst case examples were typically lacking in properly designed and delivered participative learning activities and to a lesser degree lacking carefully planned and delivered on-the-job training activities. Included are two reflective chapters that describe two cases: Learning "Engels" (English), and Learning to Write. In these chapters you will read about how I came to see that my own shop-floor learning-learning to write this thesis-could be enhanced through participative learning activities. I came to see my thesis supervisor as not only my instructor who directed and judged my learning activities, but also as a more experienced researcher who was there to participate in this process with me and to help me begin to enter the research community. Shop-floor learning involves learners and educators participating in multistranded learning activities, which require an organizational factor of careful planning and delivery. As with learning activities, which can be multi-stranded, so too, there can be multiple orientations to learning on the shop floor. In our stories, you will see that these six workers and I didn't exhibit just one orientation to learning in our stories. Our stories demonstrate that we could be behaviorist and cognitivist and humanist and social learners and constructivist in our orientation to learning. Our stories show that learning is complex and involves multiple strands, orientations, and factors. Our stories show that learning narratives capture the essence of learning-the learners, the educators, the learning activities, the organizational factors, and the learning orientations. Learning narratives can help learners and educators make sense of shop-floor learning.

Multi-objective assembly job shop scheduling using genetic algorithm and tabu search

Assembly job shop scheduling problem (AJSP) is one of the most complicated combinatorial optimization problem that involves simultaneously scheduling the processing and assembly operations of complex structured products. The problem becomes even more complicated if a combination of two or more optimization criteria is considered. This thesis addresses an assembly job shop scheduling problem with multiple objectives. The objectives considered are to simultaneously minimizing makespan and total tardiness. In this thesis, two approaches viz., weighted approach and Pareto approach are used for solving the problem. However, it is quite difficult to achieve an optimal solution to this problem with traditional optimization approaches owing to the high computational complexity. Two metaheuristic techniques namely, genetic algorithm and tabu search are investigated in this thesis for solving the multiobjective assembly job shop scheduling problems. Three algorithms based on the two metaheuristic techniques for weighted approach and Pareto approach are proposed for the multi-objective assembly job shop scheduling problem (MOAJSP). A new pairing mechanism is developed for crossover operation in genetic algorithm which leads to improved solutions and faster convergence. The performances of the proposed algorithms are evaluated through a set of test problems and the results are reported. The results reveal that the proposed algorithms based on weighted approach are feasible and effective for solving MOAJSP instances according to the weight assigned to each objective criterion and the proposed algorithms based on Pareto approach are capable of producing a number of good Pareto optimal scheduling plans for MOAJSP instances.

An Extension to the Tactical Planning Model for a Job Shop: Continuous-Time Control

We develop an extension to the tactical planning model (TPM) for a job shop by the third author. The TPM is a discrete-time model in which all transitions occur at the start of each time period. The time period must be defined appropriately in order for the model to be meaningful. Each period must be short enough so that a job is unlikely to travel through more than one station in one period. At the same time, the time period needs to be long enough to justify the assumptions of continuous workflow and Markovian job movements. We build an extension to the TPM that overcomes this restriction of period sizing by permitting production control over shorter time intervals. We achieve this by deriving a continuous-time linear control rule for a single station. We then determine the first two moments of the production level and queue length for the workstation.

Manuals on how to use Word 2010 (PC) to write your thesis

These five manuals show you how to use a range of Word 2010 features and the University's non-compulsory thesis template to produce your thesis. It shows how to save time and create a clearly structured & consistent looking document.

Manuals on how to use Word 2011 (Mac) to write your thesis

These five manuals show you how to use a range of Word 2011 features and the University's non-compulsory thesis template to produce your thesis. It shows how to save time and create a clearly structured & consistent looking document.

Manuals on how to use Word 2013 (PC) to write your thesis

These five manuals show you how to use a range of Word 2010 features and the University's non-compulsory thesis template to produce your thesis. It shows how to save time and create a clearly structured & consistent looking document.

La literatura en els nous manuals de l'ESO. 'La literatura en los nuevos manuales de la ESO'

En el art??culo analiza el trato de la literatura en los manuales de ESO en relaci??n a su organizaci??n, los contenidos, el corpus de lecturas y las actividades propuestas. En cada uno de estos cuatro apartados se??ala la tensi??n entre la innovaci??n inspirada por la Reforma que se han introducido de manera m??s generalizada y los planteamientos tradicionales te??ricamente superados que perviven a los manuales. se analizan las diez lecciones de los cr??ditos comunes de lengua y literatura catalana de los cursos de ESO de las editoriales Castellnou, Cru??lla, Edeb??, Enciclopedia catalana y Santillana.

Combinat??ria l??xica i discurs acad??mic : aplicaci?? a l'an??lisi de manuals d'ensenyament mitj??. 'Combinatoria l??xica y discurso acad??mico : aplicaci??n al an??lisis de manuales de ense??anza media'

Resumen del autor. Este art??culo forma parte de la monograf??a 'Fraseologia i educaci?? discursiva'

Com la relació de l'educador amb el nen incideix en el seu desenvolupament d'habilitats manuals dins del marc d'un pretaller de fusteria. 'Cómo la relación del educador con el niño incide en su desarrollo de habilidades manuales dentro del marco de un pre-taller de carpintería'.

Definir los objetivos de un pretaller. Establecer los procesos de aprendizaje en el taller de carpintería y su incidencia en el desarrollo de habilidades manuales. Reflejar la experiencia educativa en el pretaller Àuria de Formación Laboral de Igualada. Formar globalmente en los hábitos comunes de los trabajadores a un grupo de alumnos disminuidos, dotarlos de autonomía y conocimientos generales que permitan la integración social. Realizar una formación técnica inicialmente polivalente. 17alumnos del centro Àuria divididos en dos subgrupos: uno de 8 alumnos (6 chicas y 2 chicos) que están cursando segundo y tercero de EGB; otro subgrupo de 9 alumnos ( 6 chicos y 3 chicas) que por sus características no pueden realizar un trabajo escolarm y reciben la preparación para en trabajo y el desarrollo social. Realiza observaciones directas, programa actividades para crear y mantener hábitos de trabajo. Valora y da confianza a los alumnos para estimularlos y motivarlos en su trabajo. Busca pautas de trabajo de forma conjunta con los padres. Trabaja las herramientas (martillo, sierra, barrena, destornillador) para adquirir habilidades manuales. Realiza un informe individualizado de cada alumno. La observación directa, participante. Realiza un informe especificandolas necesidades de cada sujeto según diferentes factores: el informe médico;el Informe social del alumno; Tests de inteligencia WISC, Goodenough y Bender; Tests de Psicomotricidad Hilda Santucci; Tests de personalidad CAT. Recoge muestras de los trabajos gráficos de los alumnos y fotografias de los mismos durante el trabajo del pretaller. La práctica educativa se valora positivamente, a pesar de los obstáculos encontrados relacionados con la falta de colaboración con la familia, la limitación de horario y la falta de recursos económicos. Concluye que para conseguir los objetivos propuestos se tiene que conseguir un buen clima social que permita al alumnado expresarse libremente, adquiriendo confianza en sí mismo, dando así pie a la reestructuración de la personalidad del sujeto. La prospectiva de la investigación hace hincapié en la educación para la libertad, para preparar al sujeto para la vida autónoma.

Els manuals escolars com a representacions culturals de la ciutadania democr??tica

Resumen basado en el de la publicaci??n