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Read the following case study and answer the following question.
The Five star Hotel ELV (Extra Low Voltage) project was located in Bahrain and completed in 2011. The purpose of this project was to install, test, and commission the IT, communication infrastructure, and services for the hotel. The ELV project was part of a total program to deliver 11 sub system, including installation of data, voice, music, wireless and CCTV systems. The project stakeholders included the hotel owner, the consultant they had employed on their behalf and various civil, electrical and construction teams involved in implementing the ELV project.
This case study focuses on the Audio visual (AV)sub system, primarily installation of projectors and screens in the meeting rooms and conference facilities. Renosh Thomas as the vendor’s project manager was responsible for issuing the client with complete drawings detailing the projects electrical requirements. Renosh knew these drawings needed to be accurate as these would be handed over to the civil and construction teams for use when building the sites. The final phases of the ELV project required Renosh team to visit the sites, install, and test the electrical equipment.
At initiation and during the project planning phases, the AV requirements were issued and communicated via drawings between the consultant, appointed by the customer and Renosh electrical team. The product specifications were based on lessons learned and templates from a similar project implemented in Dubai. The project scope was determined via the bill of quantities, materials and tender documents.
Renosh received only electrical drawings for the sites and continued to plan the installation requirements based on these drawings, going by the assumption that they were correct, accurate and most recent. Throughout planning, the electrical team was not privy to any of the civil or construction drawings from other teams, and hence remainded completely unaware of structural changes being made on the original plans that they were still working on too.
During installation of the AV system, the team encountered a major problem- the projection was faulty. The projectors and screens were not aligning; images are cut off and unclear. Upon investigation it became apparent that certain structural changes had been added, drawings and calculations inaccurate.
The customers response to this communication oversight was to respond by sending Renosh a full collection of civil and construction drawings including all the latest revisions. Renosh spent considerable time reviewing the drawings to identify the relevant adjustments. This resulted in delays, rework and wasted time as he ploughed through drawings, many of which were excessive to his requirements.
The problem the installation team encountered was that ceilings had been elevated higher than the original design and this had been approved by the customer who failed to communicate the new changes and approvals to Renosh electrical team. Renosh revised and issued new electrical drawings to the customer that went through the approval process again.
The site had been handed over from civil and construction completed with decoration. However, this vital communication error resulted in the solution requiring reworking of parts of the site, such as opening the ceilings to access the electrical panels and make the new changes. This impacted the schedule by 8-10 days and reworked costs of opening, adjusting and redecorating the site.
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In: Operations Management
Clive Palmer treated Queensland Nickel as $200m
Piggy BankClive Palmer is accused of being a reckless, shadow company director who took$200 million out of a Queensland nickel company to fund his political party andinvestments, including a new Titanic.
Administrators of Queensland Nickel, which closed last month, said yesterday thecompany was used as a “piggy bank” to finance what they termed the “Palmerempire”.
More than $200 million was taken out of the company over a five-year period andpumped into companies that were directly related to Mr Palmer, including hisflagship business Mineralogy, FTI Consulting said in its report.
But John Park, from FTI, said his investigations found $189 million in loans tocompanies linked to Mr Palmer were “forgiven” or not paid back to QueenslandNickel, including $5.9 million that went into the plans for the Titanic II.
Of the money that went into the Titanic, most was spent on lavish launch partieswith the only assets now some intellectual property and a “plastic boat”.
The company also became the single biggest political donor in the country,delivering $21.5 million to the Palmer United Party.
The administrators said Queensland Nickel accounted for 27 per cent of thenation’s total political donations in 2014 and last year, including the WA Senateby-election when Palmer United’s Dio Wang was elected.
While money was flowing out of the nickel company into the Palmer CoolumResort and other firms, the world nickel price was falling.
Mr Park said the borrowing from the company could have continued if nickelprices remained high.
“At a very high level, we saw Queensland Nickel as what I’d say (was) the piggybank, the treasury,” Mr Park said.
“And the money was coming through Queensland Nickel in the better times and itwas being dissipated amongst the Palmer empire entities.”
Up to 800 workers are owed $74 million in entitlements.
They are likely to get most of those entitlements paid out under a FederalGovernment program. Remaining creditors will likely get between nothing and 50¢for every dollar owed.
The administrators believe Mr Palmer and his nephew Clive Mensink, QueenslandNickel’s sole director, should be examined by the Australian Securities andInvestments Commission.
They claimed Mr Palmer acted as “shadow director” and that he and Mr Mensinkhad been “reckless in exercising their duties and powers as directors” for takingactions not in the interests of Queensland Nickel.
Mr Palmer is planning to fight any action and argued he was being singled outwhen Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was standing by as jobs disappeared in Queensland.
“Despite me controlling a lot of things, being Dr Evil, if you like, I don’t controlthe world’s international nickel price,” he told Melbourne radio.
Mr Palmer said there was a witch-hunt against him for making decisions that hewas entitled to make.
“I mean, that's my money. That's what we live in - a free society, and people havethe right to spend their money as they see fit,” he told the Seven Network.
Mr Palmer is the sole shareholder of Queensland Nickel. His nephew Mr Mensink isthe sole company director. The Administrators believe that Mr Palmer should beexamined by ASIC for breach of s184 of the Corporations Act.
Do you think ASIC would be successful in charging Mr. Palmer for breach of s184of the Corporations Act?
In: Finance
Explain and illustrate the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic and horrendous bushfires of 2019/2020 have had on the Australian economy. You will do so by comparing the three main macro-economic indicators –GDP growth, inflation and unemployment – in June 2020 to a point in time prior to the pandemic and bushfires (pre-July 2019), then you will illustrate and explain the impacts using the AD-AS model. Provide references that support your work and submit your slides and a link to your video for marking.
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Comparison: July 2018 and June 2020 GDP growth: September 2018 (2.6%) June 2020 (-6.3%) Inflation: September 2018 (1.9%) June 2020 (-0.3%) Unemployment rate: July 2018 (5.3%) June 2020 (7.4%) |
In: Economics
A refinery in Southern Louisiana is in the business of producing
regular and premium
unleaded gasoline. Based on its experience, light and heavy crude
oil have to be combined in
the ratio of 1 to 2 and 3 to 2, respectively, for regular and
premium gas. Market price of light
crude is $0.3/gallon and $0.2/gallon for heavy crude oil. The
objective is to minimize the
total production cost of regular and premium gasoline. Management
wants to satisfy the
market demand of 6 million gallons of regular and 10 million
gallons of premium gasoline per
period. Formulate the problem as a linear program and obtain the
optimal solution using the
Solver Program in Excel. Hint: Define the decision variables as XLR
= millions of gallons of
light crude going into regular gas, etc
In: Statistics and Probability
We are purchasing a new TV!
Let A be the event that the TV was manufactured in the U.S., B be the event that the TV has Wifi, and C the event that the customer purchased an extended warranty.
Relevant probabilities are:
P(A) = 0.75
P(B|A) = 0.9
P(B|A′) = 0.8
P(C|A ∩ B) = 0.8
P(C|A ∩ B′) = 0.6
P(C|A′ ∩ B) = 0.7
P(C|A′ ∩ B′) = 0.3
a. What is the probability that the TV was manufactured in the US, with Wifi, and the customer purchased an extended warranty?
b. What is the probability that the TV does NOT have Wifi or the customer did NOT purchase an extended warranty?
c. What is the probability that the customer purchased an extended warranty?
d. What is the probability that the TV does NOT have Wifi given that it was not manufactured in the US?
In: Statistics and Probability
LAB QUESTION
A rotating cylindrical rod of mass m=4 Kg and length l=1 meter is connected to a falling weight of 300 grams with a 2 meters string (Maximum distance covered by the falling weight). The distance from the wound string to the axis of rotation is 300 mm. The time taken by the falling weight to halfway is 2 seconds and to the bottom is 3.7 seconds.
Change of angular momentum in the spinning rod
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Mass (Kg) |
Moment of Inertial of Rod I (Kg.m2) |
Angular Momentum at halfway (Kg. m2)/s |
Angular Momentum at bottom (Kg. m2)/s |
Difference (Kg. m2)/s |
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0.3 |
In: Physics
I am provided with the following stock solutions: 1M Tris, pH 8, 5 M NaCl, 1M MgCl2, lysozyme, and DNase. Prepare a 25 mL solution of complete lysis buffer using the following recipe:
- 50 mM Tris (pH 8)
- 150 mM NaCl
- 2 mM MgCl2
- 0.5 mg/mL lysozyme
- 0.04 uL/mL DNase
In order to perform ion-exchange chromatography, I also need to prepare elution buffers. Using the stock solutions listed above, I need to calculate how to make 10 mL of each of 50 mM Tris pH 8 with 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, and 0.4 M NaCl.
Thanks for the help, I appreciate it!
In: Chemistry
the mass of block A is 80 kg, the mass of block b is 20 kg, and A is connected to B with the cable and pulley system shown. the pulleys rotate freely, and the cable and pulleys have negligible mass. the coefficient of static fricion between A and the horizontal surface is Ms=0.4, and the coefficient of kinetic friction is Mk=0.3.
a) initially, block A is being held stationary and the system is at rest in static equilibrium . Find tension in the cable(answer: 196.2 N)
b) the system is released from rest. show the colfficient of static friection is not large enough to keep block A from sliding.
c) Find the acceleration of block A and the tension in the cable when block A starts sliding ( answers: aA=0.981 m/s^2 and 156.96 N)
In: Physics
The director of publications for a university is in charge of deciding how many programs to print for football games. Based on the data, the director has estimated the following probability distribution for the random variable X= number of programs sold at the university football game:
X 25,000 40,000 55,000 70,000
P(X) 0.1 0.3 0.45 0.15
a)Compute the expected number of program sold at the university football game.
b)Compute the variance of program sold at the university football game.
c) Each program cost $1.25 to print and sells for $3.25. Any programs left unsold at the end of the game are discarded. The director has decided to print ether 55,000 or 70,000. Which of these two options maximizes the expected profit from program?
In: Statistics and Probability
The director of publications for a university is in charge of deciding how many programs to print for football games. Based on the data, the director has estimated the following probability distribution for the random variable X= number of programs sold at the university football game:
X 25,000 40,000 55,000 70,000
P(X) 0.1 0.3 0.45 0.15
a)Compute the expected number of program sold at the university football game.
b)Compute the variance of program sold at the university football game.
c) Each program cost $1.25 to print and sells for $3.25. Any programs left unsold at the end of the game are discarded. The director has decided to print ether 55,000 or 70,000. Which of these two options maximizes the expected profit from program?
In: Statistics and Probability