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Vizio and the Market for Flat Panel TVs Operating sophisticated tooling in environments that must be kept absolutely clean, fabrication centers in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan produce to exacting specifications sheets of glass twice as large as kingsize beds. From there, the glass panels travel to Mexican plants located alongside the U.S. border. There they are cut to size, combined with electronic components shipped in from Asia and the United States, assembled into finished flat panel TVs, and loaded onto trucks bound for retail stores in the United States, where consumers spend over $35 billion a year on flat panel TVs.

The underlying technology for flat panel displays was invented in the United States in the late 1960s by RCA. But after RCA and rivals Westinghouse and Xerox opted not to pursue the technology, the Japanese company Sharp made aggressive investments in flat panel displays. By the early 1990s Sharp was selling the first flat panel screens, but as the Japanese economy plunged into a decade-long recession, investment leadership shifted to South Korean companies such as Samsung. Then the 1997 Asian crisis hit Korea hard, and Taiwanese companies seized leadership. Today, Chinese companies are starting to elbow their way into the flat panel display manufacturing business.

As production for flat panel displays migrates its way around the globe to low-cost locations, there are clear winners and losers. U.S. consumers have benefited from the falling prices of flat panel TVs and are snapping them up. Efficient manufacturers have taken advantage of globally dispersed supply chains to make and sell low-cost, high-quality flat panel TVs. Foremost among these has been the California-based company Vizio, founded by a Taiwanese immigrant. In just six years, sales of Vizio flat panel TVs ballooned from nothing to over $3.1 billion by 2013. In early 2009, the company was the largest provider to the U.S. market with a 21.7 percent share. Vizio, however, has fewer than 500 employees. These focus on final product design, sales, and customer service. Vizio outsources most of its engineering work, all of its manufacturing, and much of its logistics. For each of its models, Vizio assembles a team of supplier partners strung across the globe. Its 42-inch flat panel TV, for example, contains a panel from South Korea, electronic components from China, and processors from the United States, and it is assembled in Mexico. Vizio's managers scour the globe continually for the cheapest manufacturers of flat panel displays and electronic components. They sell most of their TVs to large discount retailers such as Costco and Sam's Club. Good order visibility from retailers, coupled with tight management of global logistics, allows Vizio to turn over its inventory every three weeks, twice as fast as many of its competitors, which allows major cost savings in a business where prices are falling continually. On the other hand, the shift to flat panel TVs has caused pain in certain sectors of the economy, such as those firms that make traditional cathode ray TVs in high-cost locations. In 2006, for example, Japanese electronics manufacturer Sanyo laid off 300 employees at its U.S. factory, and Hitachi closed its TV manufacturing plant in South Carolina, laying off 200 employees. Sony and Hitachi both still make TVs, but they are flat panel TVs assembled in Mexico from components manufactured in Asia.

Union Local School District has bonds outstanding with a coupon rate of 5.2 percent paid semiannually and 19 years to maturity. The yield to maturity on these bonds is 4.7 percent and the bonds have a par value of $5,000.

What is the dollar price of each bond? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Which of the following is true about peer harassment directed toward lesbian–gay–bisexual (LGB) individuals?

a. It is the most intense in preschool and negligible in high school.

b. It has often been linked to suicidal thoughts and attempts.

c. Its incidence has been reduced with the advent of the Internet.

d. It involves homophobic epithets that are not derogatory toward the LGBs. G

1. Would a child’s learning experience during a trip to another part of his or her country be comparable to school learning for that period of time? In what ways might parents maximize the educational benefits of such a trip?

2. With the ever-growing aging population in developing countries, how will changing demographics worldwide impact the travel industry?

(Answer both in detail)

1) What was your first encounter with a nurse? What did you think then?

2) What are your thoughts now that you are in school?

3) What behaviors of a nurse have you witnessed that have NOT been professional? And what will you do to maintain a positive nursing image?

•Must be at least 3 paragraphs with at least 5 sentences per paragraph.

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Research children's health issues, focusing on environmental factors and links to poverty. The assessment of environmental processes includes agents and factors that predispose communities and populations to injury, illness, and death. What correlations did your research show between environmental and health issues in the school-aged child? Make sure to include references to the article(s) you consulted.

Use the ε-δ definition of limits to prove that lim x3 −2x2 −2x−3 = −6. 3 markx→1

Hint: This question needs students have a thorough understanding of the proof by the ε-δdefinition as well as some good knowledge of what is learnt in Math187/188 and in high school, such as long division, factorization, inequality and algebraic manipulations.

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Chapter 3, Six Sigma (book: Quality Improvement)

1. Working as an individual or in a team of three or more people, use DMAIC to improve a process in one or more of the organizations listed below:
   1. Large Bank
   2. Health-care facility
   3. University academic department
   4. University nonacademic department
   5. Large department store
   6. Grade School
   7. Manufacturing facility
   8. Large grocery store