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by | May 21, 2013

Case Study in Strategy for Improved Oil Recovery

Study about Strategy for Improved Oil Recovery

Introduction:~ The WesternGeco Q-Marine* survey over the Magnus field addressed the key business drivers for BP in the North Sea: increasing near- and long-term cash flow from existing assets and prolonging viable field life.  The Magnus field is located 160 km northeast of the Shetland Islands and has been producing since 1983. The reservoir comprises Upper Jurassic sandstones at a depth of approximately 3 km and contains an estimated 1.65 Bbbl of oil, with 795 Mbbl (48%) considered recoverable. The Q-Marine survey was undertaken as part of an improved oil recovery (IOR) project that involves importing gas from the fields located West of Shetland.

Case Study on Improved Oil Recovery

The Magnus IOR project is expected to increase recoverable reserves and extend field life by several years. It will also help to reduce gas flaring West of Shetland and at the Sullom Voe terminal. BP’s immediate objectives for the Q-Marine survey over Magnus were to test the improved acquisition potential  of Q-Technology, obtain enhanced vertical and lateral resol ution images of the reservoir, and produce a baseline 4D survey. keep reading…

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by | May 20, 2013

A Study report on Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs

A Study report about Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs

Introduction: In 2009, the RHS commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to implement a research study looking at the impact of gardening in schools. The study surveyed 1300 teachers and conducted an in-depth study of 10 schools ranging from a large primary school in urban London to a small village school in Yorkshire. The findings of this study, published in June 2010, showed that school gardens provide a dynamic platform from which to build better learning outcomes for young people.

Case Study on Children and Young People

These outcomes fall into four key areas:Cognitive: This is the acquisition of knowledge and understanding, the ability to think independently, to question and to apply concepts and principles in different contexts. Other outcomes include enhanced communication skills and use of vocabulary across the curriculum. Keep reading..

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by | May 16, 2013

A Case Study of the First Expert System for Scientific Hypothesis Formation

A Study about the First Expert System for Scientific Hypothesis Formation

Abstract:~ The DENDRAL Project was one of the first large-scale programs to embody the strategy of using detailed, task-specific knowledge about a problem domain as a source of heuristics, and to seek generality through automating the acquisition of such knowledge. This paper summarizes the major conceptual contributions and accomplishments of that project. It is an attempt to distill from this research the lessons that are of importance to artificial intelligence research and to provide a record of the final status of two decades of work.

Case Study on Hypothesis Formation

Introduction:~ Within computer science the DENDRAL Project is noteworthy in several ways. It was the first major application of heuristic programming to experimen- tal analysis in an empirical science, a practical problem of some importance. It was one of the first large-scale programs to embody the strategy of using detailed, task-specific knowledge about the problem domain as a source of heuristics, and to seek generality through automating the acquisition of such knowledge. It has achieved a high level of performance, because it used a substantial amount of knowledge of chemistry. Keep reading…

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by | May 1, 2013

Case Study on Area Measurement

Case Study about Area Measurement

This paper reports on case study that investigated the development of mainly tacit and mainly explicit components of knowledge of area measurement of a student-pair. The research covered two terms or periods of the students’ learning of the subject: when they were aged 11 to 12 and when they were aged 12 to 13. The data analysis was based on Ernest’s model of mathematical knowledge, with reference to its mainly tacit and mainly explicit components, and Kitcher’s ideas about the development of mathematics practice. The results of the research reinforced our hypothesis that students’ mathematical knowledge displays a very similar structure to that of the mathematical knowledge of the mathematicians.

Case Study on Area Measurement

Introduction: The concept of tacit knowledge does not have a single meaning. As discussed in Frade’s (2004) work some researchers address what can be called Polanyi’s psychological version of tacit knowledge: knowledge that functions as subsidiary to the acquisition of other knowledge. Other researchers use the words tacit and explicit as opposites to refer to different, but complementary ontological dimensions of the same component of a certain practice. Whatever meaning we choose – psychological or ontological – the researchers quoted by Frade (ibid) share in some way Polanyi’s (1969) epistemological thesis that all knowledge is tacit or constructed from tacit knowledge: put it in another way, language alone is not enough to render knowledge explicit. Keep reading..

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by | April 30, 2013

A Case Study for Organizational Culture and the Bottom Line

Case Study about Organizational Culture and the Bottom Line

In the case of the XYZ Company, the dysfunctional culture was clearly impacting the company’s bottom line. The 40 year old XYZ company manufactures polyester film for industrial use. A couple of years before our involvement with the company, it was purchased. One of the new owners was an engineer and became the president of the company. The other had a financial background and became the CFO. The partners’ decision to purchase the company was based on projections of rapid growth and increased profits.

Case Study on Organizational Culture

The new owners believed that they could achieve their goals of increased productivity, acquisition of new customers and profit growth by creating a more disciplined, standardized production system. In addition, they planned to build the capabilities of the workforce and create a culture of employee input and problem-solving. Their vision of the future organization was one in which all operators would contribute their input to process improvements and trouble-shooting. Keep reading..

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by | April 19, 2013

Case Study in Organizational Culture and the Bottom Line

Case Study about Organizational Culture and the Bottom Line

Whether we like it or not, every organization has its own unique culture. While some choose to ignore it, and others try to defy it, wise leaders will attempt to understand it. Why? Because organizational culture can have an impact on the company’s ability to implement a strategy, introduce new technology or increase productivity. In the case of the XYZ Company, the dysfunctional culture was clearly impacting the company’s bottom line. The 40 year old XYZ company manufactures polyester film for industrial use.

Case Study on Organizational Culture

A couple of years before our involvement with the company, it was purchased. One of the new owners was an engineer and became the president of the company. The other had a financial background and became the CFO. The partners’ decision to purchase the company was based on projections of rapid growth and increased profits. The new owners believed that they could achieve their goals of increased productivity, acquisition of new customers and profit growth by creating a more disciplined, standardized production system. In addition, they planned to build the capabilities of the workforce and create a culture of employee input and problem-solving. Their vision of the future organization was one in which all operators would contribute their input to process improvements and trouble-shooting. keep reading…

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by | April 18, 2013

A Study for Supporting Scenario-Based Requirements Engineering

A Study about Supporting Scenario-Based Requirements Engineering

Abstract: Scenarios have been advocated as a means of improving requirements engineering yet few methods or tools exist to support scenario-based RE. The paper reports a method and software assistant tool for scenario-based RE that integrates with use case approaches to object-oriented development. The method and operation of the tool are illustrated with a financial system case study. Scenarios are used to represent paths of possible behavior through a use case, and these are investigated to elaborate requirements. The method commences by acquisition and modeling of a use case. The use case is then compared with a library of abstract models that represent different application classes.

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Introduction: Several interpretations of scenarios have been proposed ranging from examples of behavior drawn from use cases, descriptions of system usage to help understandsocio-technical systems, and experience based narratives for requirements elicitation and validation. Scenarios have been advocated as an effective means of communicating between users and stakeholders and anchoring requirements analysis in real world experience. Unfortunately scenarios are extremely labor-intensive to capture and document; furthermore, few concrete recommendations exist about how scenario-based requirements engineering (RE) should be practised, and even less tool support is available. keep reading on Scenario-Based Requirements Engineering

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by | March 16, 2013

A Case Study on Modeling the Acquisition of Quantifier Semantics: Function Word Learnability

A Case Study on Modeling the acquisition of quantifier semantics: Function Word Learn Ability

Abstract: This paper studies the acquisition of quantifier meanings as a case study of function word learnability. We suggest that learners construct semantic representations of quanti ers and other function words using a compositional statistical learning mechanism that operates over a small set of domain- general cognitive primitives. We present a simple cross-situational learning model that provably solves key learning problems in this domain, using a developmentally-plausible amount of data.



Case study on Acquisition of Quantifier Semantics

Introduction: In acquiring language, children discover remarkable representations that enable complex communication. They do this from seemingly impoverished evidence, to arrive at a linguistic system that goes far beyond what is directly observable in their input. This capacity is especially striking in children’s acquisition of function words like \the,” \both,” and \and.” Content words|which map onto objects, actions, and properties|are plausibly learned through tracking co-occurrences between words and features of the world as in cross-situational word learning models.

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by | March 7, 2013

Case Study on Organizational Culture and the Bottom Line

Case Study about Organizational Culture and the Bottom Line

The Problem: In the case of the XYZ Company, the dysfunctional culture was clearly impacting the company’s bottom line. The 40 year old XYZ company manufactures polyester film for industrial use. A couple of years before our involvement with the company, it was purchased. One of the new owners was an engineer and became the president of the company. The other had a financial background and became the CFO.



Case Study on Organizational Culture and the Bottom Line

The partners decision to purchase the company was based on projections of rapid growth and increased profits. The new owners believed that they could achieve their goals of increased productivity, acquisition of new customers and profit growth by creating a more disciplined, standardized production system. In addition, they planned to build the capabilities of the workforce and create a culture of employee input and problem-solving. Their vision of the future organization was one in which all operators would contribute their input to process improvements and trouble-shooting.

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by | February 18, 2013

Case Study on Palo Alto

Challenges:By the late 1990s, Clontech boasted a broad product line and high profit margins. The genome sequencing project was in full swing, creating strong demand for Clontech’s products. After bootstrapping his company for more than a decade, Dr. Fong hoped to realize equity gains and increase personal liquidity. In addition to seeking capital for further growth, he sought help in preparing for an initial public offering or acquisition…
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