Compression ratio

Minerals and their derived products are the foundation of many important industries. Mines and quarries can be found in almost every country all around the world. Mining industry products provide most of the needed energy, from electricity in homes and industries, to fuel in cars, machinery and tools Resources obtained from mines are also used as inputs for raw materials, consumer goods as well as for almost all services and processes provided by other industries, such as: manufacturing…

RECOMMENDATIONS Along with impressive growth the pharmaceutical and medical manufacturing industry recently, Traphaco is having some of its most profitable years. From 2012 to 2016, the company enjoyed an average growth rate of 16.3% regarding profitability and outperformed its fairly successful competitors as DHG 8,7%; DMC 14,6%; IMP 6,3%, etc (Traphaco, 2016). The year 2016, in particular, was a prosperous year for Traphaco as it reached the planned VND 2000 billion in revenues. Moreover,…

Potato chips industry in Ireland has reached the maturity status. The market growth rate is relative stable and it is expected to keep the same growth pace till 2016. The market share was dominated by two major companies, Largo foods (Tayto) and PepsiCo (Walkers). The share of the two companies exceeded more than 90% in 2011. According to a market research from MarketLine in 2012, the total sales of potato chips in 2011 was 105.7 million Euro. The sales increased by 1.7% comparing to the sales…

calculating the company’s liquidity, activity, profitability, and coverage ratios. Company Background Avis a car rental industry is known for its long history of innovation and one of the world’s top brands for…

1. Maintains an exact replica of one disk on another offering 100% fault tolerance. 2. Data redundancy - If one disk fails, data can be recovered from the other. 3. Fault tolerance - Even when one disk fails, the other one can continue functioning and the system continues to function. 4. Quick recreating data when a disk is replaced 1. Reduced data storage capacity a Raid 1 disks capacity is half the physical disk capacity. 2. Raid 1 is slower as it does not improve read or write speeds. 1.…

Figure 2.8 listed situation of the fire in a floor near to the atrium at the beginning of fire. The fire floor has 2 vertical vents open to the atrium and to ambient at outside. The atrium is apen from the top. At the beginning of fire , the smoke moves to outside and the atrium, and air from ambient and the atrium moves inside the fire floor at the same time from the 2 vents. Figure 2.8 shows the velocity direction at the vents. At the top of the vents, because the smoke in the fire floor is…

In 1999, Richard Scrushy overstated HealthSouth’s earnings by at least $1.4 billion in order exceed the expectations of Wall Street earnings. During this time investors and lenders were more concerned with revenue than profits. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), stated if policies and procedures were not violated then they are considered legal, and ethically adequate. This allowed HealthSouth to meet expectations of analyst for 40 consecutive quarters, by using creative and…

In 1857 “a third son of William, Thomas Shields Bisland purchased Fairfax Plantation, located in St. Mary Parish from Joshua Baker” … the father-in-law of Thomas’ brother, William Alexander Bisland. “Baker, who served a brief term as a military governor of Louisiana in 1868, played an important role in the maintenance of the Bisland plantations during the war.” Scarborough speculates his appointment as a Unionist Governor during Reconstruction helped to keep Hope Farm and Aragon as working…

America: Riveting Prospects, the article written by Ed Crooks, discusses the issues within the United States lack of exporting goods. He briefly touches on five reasons why our economy is not quick to jump at the opportunity that trade can bring. Here within I will discuss those five areas along with my opinion on international commerce. 1. The United States are not custom to selling internationally. Mr. Crooks speaks about there only being 1% of goods exported to other countries at the time…

The overall attractiveness of the industry is moderate. As a whole, the audio entertainment industry provides hundreds of thousands of jobs directly and indirectly. As a consumer, the attractiveness of this industry is high. The consumer has the ability to choose between the programming of AM/FM, internet, and satellite radio, based on their likes and dislikes, vis-a-vi payed programming versus commercial programming. The attractiveness remains high on the part of the consumer due to their…