Production Of Profit Research Articles

Optimization functions using poultry meat production fields in the province of Baghdad in 2014 costs

Targeted research to know the cost structure for 14 poultry field work in the province of Baghdad and to identify economies of scale for the production of chicken meat in those working the fields during the year 2014, with the highest percentage of variable costs are for feed, which amounted increase of 67.3% followed by the cost of the purchase of chicks, which amounted to 13.2% of the total costs, followed by medicine and health supervision. The fixed-cost items were the highest percentage of rental halls, which amounted to 2.9% of the total costs. As it has been the total cost estimate and function of which was derived average total cost function to calculate the optimum size investigator economic efficiency in the minimization of costs. As well as the derivation of marginal cost of college costs for a function to calculate the size of the holy profit it is found that the optimal production volume 80, 769 kg Year-1, either the size of the holy production for profit 123 846 kg Year-1, and it is the optimum capacity for civilian costs 76, 192 bird chicken. Year-1 and amplitude binoculars for-profit 115 650 bird chicken Years-1.

Customer Behavior Analysis on a Tmall E-commerce Shop

In recent years, China online marketing is very hot, and a lot of online shops run in the Tmall.com. This paper does an analysis of customer shopping behaviors in a certain e-commerce shop in Tmall. The shop is named X in this paper for privacy. Based on the descriptive analysis, it finds the profit customers and profit products in the shop. Then K-mean segmentation method is used to class the customers into 4 groups and the profiles of the customers in each group are described. The results on this paper can help the X shop to offer good services for the profit customers and do the precision marketing for all customers.

Reliance on Pumped Mother's Milk Has an Environmental Impact.

Breastfeeding is an environmentally friendly process; however when feeding relies on pumped mother’s milk, the environmental picture changes. Waste plastics and heavy metals raise concerns regarding resource efficiency, waste treatment, and detrimental effects on health. Reliance on pumped milk rather than breastfeeding may also effect obesity and family size, which in turn have further environmental impacts. Information on pump equipment rarely includes environmental information and may focus on marketing the product for maximum profit. In order for parents, health workers, and health policy makers to make informed decisions about the reliance on pumped mother’s milk, they need information on the broad and far reaching environmental aspects. There was no published research found that examined the environmental impact of using pumped mother’s milk. A project is ongoing to examine this issue.

A study on the impact of Income Property Investment Determinants on Preparation for Retirement

This study attempted to investigate the relationship between income property investment determinants and preparation for economic retirement of those aged their 40s or older. As a result, the following findings could be summarized. First, such investment related environmental factors as institutional environment and economic environment had a significant effect on real estate investment decisions. It indicates that their intention to investment is influenced by the investment related environmental factors as the institutional or economic environment becomes more important. Second, income property investment of factor analysis results, associated profitability, product and location, the characteristics of profitability and product for profit is having a positive significant effect. Real estate investment characteristics for the correlation effects of the product is a negative significant and no heed to the analysis results. Finally, it was found that income property investment decisions had a significant effect on economic preparation for retirement. This suggests that investment in income property oriented towards the stable structure of cash inflow plays a role in filling the gap between the reality and the uncertain future on account of the great uncertainty for both the economic situation and for people s old age.

Reproductive Labor at the Intersection of Three Intimate Industries: Domestic Work, Sex Tourism, and Adoption

This article explores, ethnographically and critically, migrant women's contributions to three intersecting sectors of “intimate industries” in Asia: domestic work, sex tourism, and adoption. These three sectors are normally understood as separate and distinct, and in the cases discussed below, women are paid formal wages only as domestic workers. Yet focusing on the intersections between these sectors illustrates the critical ongoing significance of global and regional class hierarchies and the intersections of gender, race, and nationality within the context of global capitalism. They simultaneously raise critical questions about why some intimate and reproductive activities are considered “work” while others are not. These intersections are especially pertinent for understanding the construction of less-valued forms of immaterial labor that have been largely overlooked by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in their influential work on late global capitalism and empire. Moreover, these three sectors highlight the current significance of what the author calls “intimate surplus labor”—adapting Karl Marx's nineteenth-century concept of the production of profits for a range of capitalist beneficiaries who depend on paying low or no wages to their workers—to the provision of intimate feminized reproductive labor within the contemporary political economy.

An examination of the use of profitability analysis in manufacturing industry

Although profitability analysis has been identified as a useful technique, it is an under-researched area. This paper extends the limited research into profitability analysis by using research interviews to examine the circumstances when profitability analysis is or is not prepared, why various types of profitability analysis are prepared and the how it is used in decision making. Some notable results indicate that operating units prepare profitability analysis when there is an interest in preparing it and the resources exist to prepare it. Operating units prepare both product profitability analysis (PPA) and customer profitability analysis (CPA) to assist with increasing profits through managing low profit or loss making customers. The aim is to identify those products that contribute to the low profit or loss of a customer. In those operating units preparing only PPA, its function is to identify low profit or unprofitable products. This information is used to assist in determining what action should be take to increase the profits of those products. In contrast, customer focused operating units produce only CPA.

The effects of concentrate supplementation on growth performance and behavioral activities of cattle grazed on natural pasture.

The study was conducted in Manyara Region, to determine the effect of concentrate supplementation on growth performance and foraging behavior of zebu steers. Twenty zebu steers were distributed equally into two dietary groups: pasture + concentrate (PS) and natural pasture alone (NP). The animals' body weight and body condition scores were estimated every 2 weeks. The focal observation technique was used to determine grazing behavior. The average daily gain (ADG) was significantly higher (P ≤ 0.05) in the PS than in the NP. Significant less time (P ≤ 0.05) was spent in feeding by animals in the PS than those in the NP. Significant less bite rates (P ≤ 0.05) were also observed in the PS than in the NP. The most highly abundant forage species exhibited low CP contents but were most frequently eaten by the focal animals. Strategic supplementation with locally available concentrates is recommended for profitable ruminant productivity and environmentally friendly grazing strategy.

Phosphorus mobilization from sugarcane soils in the tropical environment of Mauritius under simulated rainfall

The continuous application of phosphorus (P) to agricultural systems to ensure profitable crop productivity can lead to an accumulation of P in agricultural soils. While this long-term residual pool of soil P is desirable from an agronomic perspective, there is some concern about its possible impacts on surface water quality as it may lead to eutrophication. Since a better understanding of P transport processes provides useful information for the development of site-specific P management strategies, rainfall simulation studies (100 mm h−1 for 30 min) on runoff plots (2.1 m × 0.75 m) were conducted at 20 field sites to study the mobilisation of soil P from sugarcane fields of Mauritius. The research findings indicated that the edge-of-plot P losses were insignificant from an agronomic perspective but only small amounts of P can actually trigger eutrophication in freshwaters. The results also showed that total P concentrations in runoff are more strongly associated with runoff sediments (r2 = 0.92) than runoff volume (r2 = 0.49) indicating that a greater proportion of the P transported in runoff occurred as particulate P rather than dissolved P. Actually, about 89 % of total P loss in runoff waters was mobilised in particulate form, pointing to the importance of erosion as a mechanism for mobilising soil P. The research findings suggest that in addition to the current management practices aiming at reducing runoff volume, such as conservation tillage and trash cover, measures that reduce sediments in runoff, such as grassed waterways and riparian buffers, may further attenuate P losses.

Dignity Denial and Social Conflicts

Struggles over dignity and dignity denial are a central facet of class struggles and other struggles under capitalism. Marxist theory, however, has not developed an adequate understanding of dignity denial or of struggles against it as a crucial part of capitalism and its dialectic. This paper discusses dignity denial as inherent both in a society based on commodity production for profit and also in the political, ideational, and social implications of capitalist production. It shows how struggles against such dignity denial are also inherent in capitalism. Finally, the paper suggests that an enhanced appreciation for and theorization of dignity denial and the struggles around it can help when framing issues for concrete conflict situations and can also help the development of firmer and better visions of a future socialism.

Early and Late Maturing Grain Sorghum under Variable Climatic Conditions in the Texas High Plains

Abstract. In the Texas High Plains, variable climatic conditions prevail between and within growing seasons. As this area continues to experience drought conditions and water resources for irrigation become more limited, sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] production may become a more popular choice to sustain profitable crop water productivity with limited water. Regional sorghum production functions are helpful in strategizing adaptation methods for coping with climatic variability, but new varieties often exhibit new production functions. This article compares sorghum responses of grain yield, evapotranspiration (ET), water use efficiency (WUE), and irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE) of a late maturing (LM) and early maturing (EM) hybrid during three recent growing years exhibiting climatic variability (2009-2011). The hybrids were irrigated at levels of 80%, 55%, 30%, and 0% replenishment of soil water depletion to field capacity (FC). Mean maximum daily air temperatures and mean daily reference evapotranspiration (grass) for the 2009 (28.2°C, 6.5 mm d-1) and 2010 (28.6°C, 6.4 mm d-1) growing seasons were similar; in 2011, these parameters were considerable greater (32.6°C and 8.8 mm d-1, respectively). For both hybrids, dry grain yields were greatest in 2009 in the I80% treatment at 9.80 and 8.04 Mg ha-1 for the LM and EM hybrids, respectively. For irrigation treatment amounts of 80% replenishment of soil water to FC, grain yields in the LM hybrid were always greater compared with the EM hybrid. However, WUE in the EM hybrid in 2009 and 2011 was 27% and 29% greater, respectively, than in the LM hybrid. Grain yield responses in both hybrids were most sensitive to the exceptional drought year of 2011 where irrigation applied at less than 80% replenishment of soil water to FC greatly reduced grain yields. Irrigation applied at less than 55% replenishment produced minimal to no grain yields.

Efficiency of General Insurance in Malaysia Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis

General insurance comprises insurance of property against fire and burglary, floods, storms, earthquakes and so on. The purpose of the current study is to measure the relative efficiency of general insurance in Malaysia by using SFA for the year 2007 until 2009, consist of 26 general insurance companies by using the software FRONTIER to obtain the maximum likelihood (ML) and to get the relative efficiency. The finding showed that Oriental Capital Assurance Bhd (OCA) is at rank 1 for the three years. The 0.03975 value for the variance gamma ( γ ) parameter in this study is far from one, suggesting that all of the residual variations are not due to the inefficiency effects, but to random shocks. It can therefore, be concluded that the technical inefficiency effects associated with the production of the total profits by the input of the general insurence are very low.

Semiotics of pride and profit: interrogating commodification in indigenous handicraft production

This study investigates the shifting terrain of pride, profit and power relations in minority language communities under contemporary globalisation. While “pride” associates linguistic-cultural heritage with identity and preservation, “profit” views these as sources of economic gain. In contemporary late capitalism, “pride” seems to be increasingly giving way to “profit”. Arguing that this transformation needs to be interrogated in terms of complexity and that a detailed, multilayered semiotic analysis can open a privileged window for such an inquiry, this study combines critical multimodal discourse analysis and an ethnographic approach to analyse processes of semiotic commodification in handicraft production in the indigenous minority language community of the Sámi in northern Lapland. The investigation focuses on the activities of an innovative Sámi artist and entrepreneur, and within these a range of paper notebooks, which are, although designed by the Sámi artist and sold in her handicraft shop in Lapland, produced by women living at the border of Thailand and Laos. The investigation illuminates two critical shifts: how the move towards profit can open up space to contest the ownership of pride within an ethnic community. Second, how this move makes way for new, globalised modes of production of ‘indigenous handicrafts’ and creates global vectors of power, engaged in both empowerment and exploitation, in the production of both pride and profit. The study thereby contributes to the understanding of the increasingly complex power relations and the ambivalence and multiple effects of practices constituting the apparent shift from “pride” to “profit”.

Navigating conflicting landscape aspirations: Application of a photo-based Q-method in Transylvania (Central Romania)

In combination, the economic realities brought about by globalization, and the sustainability goals set by the European Union, translate into contradictory challenges for European cultural landscapes. With its high natural and cultural diversity, Transylvania (Central Romania) is facing the choice between development based on a “production for profit” logic, with the risks of a liberalized land market, versus a largely untested development pathway based on sustainability, landscape multifunctionality and conservation. In the context of these largely externally imposed and contradictory development pathways, clarifying the viewpoints and preferences of local people is important, and may help explain the outcomes of past policies, as well as inform future interventions. We undertook a photograph-based Q methodology study – interviewing 129 residents from 30 villages – to understand and explore the diverse range of landscape preferences held by locals in Southern Transylvania. We clarified these preferences by identifying groups of participants who shared similar viewpoints regarding local landscapes and their changing purpose. Our findings revealed five different “preference narratives” about Transylvanian landscapes, namely (1) landscapes for prosperity and economic growth; (2) landscapes for traditions and balanced lifestyles; (3) landscapes for human benefit; (4) landscapes for farming; and (5) landscapes for nature. Our systematic assessment of narratives showed areas of consensus and disagreement among participants. We relate the five preference narratives to current management approaches targeting rural landscapes. We conclude by suggesting policy approaches to tackle the diversity of opinions and interests found in this culturally and ecologically diverse landscape. Important policy priorities include fostering economic diversification and improving social capital.

Virtual Instrumentation Based Analysis of Induction Motor

The three phase induction motor is a popularly used machine in many of the industries, which is well known for its robustness, reliability, cost effectiveness, efficient and safe operation. The unnoticed manufacturing failure, mistakes during repair work, exceeding life time may be some of the causes of the induction motor failure, which may lead to the unknown shut down time of the industry. The condition monitoring plays important role as it has the influence on the production of materials and profit. In our work, the induction motor is modelled using stationary reference frame and analysed for single phasing stator fault. The techniques used in detecting the single phasing (open circuit) failures are Park’s vector approach and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). Park’s vector approach is used for detecting the faults occurring at various phases and FFT is used for detecting the faults of the induction motor working under no load and varying loading conditions.

(Un)Lawful Subjects of Company

This essay engages Cape Town – a city founded as a tavern of the seas linking Atlantic and Indian Ocean trade routes – by tracing the ways in which its foundation as seventeenth-century Dutch East India Company settlement resonates as metaphor through which to approach the contemporary corporate city. Rereading the Journal of Jan van Riebeeck through the lens of Ishtiyaq Shukri's The Silent Minaret and, particularly, Dan Sleigh's Islands, it explores the Journal's mutually informed production of crime and profit. It then turns to a set of recent thrillers – by Andrew Brown, Deon Meyer, Margie Orford, Roger Smith, Mike Nicol and Joanne Hitchens – as a way of reading the post-apartheid city. Finally, it engages Lauren Beukes' Moxyland, in which corporate Cape Town takes concrete form in a virtual society, before closing with reflections on the limits of the Company archive, the alternative archives it overwrote and erased and the potentialities of what it forecloses, including the common and the creole.

The impact of the institutional environment on the development of the rural economy in the Belgorod region of Russia

Abstract This article deals with the problems in the development of agriculture in Russia caused by an imperfect institutional environment. The characteristics of institutional conditions and their influence on the development of agriculture is discussed. The main institutional changes which have taken place in Russia over the past 20 years are described, including the ownership of the means of production, commodity-money relations, access to and distribution of profits and competition. The main body of the article presents an analysis of the development of agriculture in the Belgorod region in relation to the status of the institutional environment.

Explotación empresarial y manipulación informativa

A midtwentieth century began a dangerous period that worsened the exploitation of labor production factor by the capital production factor, supported in modern communication technologies and business concentration. Due to the increasing importance of banking, the process leads to the production of illicit profits and favors the existence of extremes of poverty and wealth at the expense of the middle class. The passivity of the population against this new kind of society is mainly due to the media, which are not at the service of citizens, but in the service of capital and the state. Modern communication technologies not are configured to inform, but rather to entertain, distract and numb to the public so it become accomplice of the expansion of neocapitalism.

The Dilemma of Professional Partnerships: Production of Producers or Prompt Profit?

A large and growing proportion of the organizations in the contemporary knowledge economy are organized as professional partnerships as is the case of professional service firms. As these firms have grown larger (e.g. Big4: Deloitte, PwC, E&Y, KPMG), the way of organizing is under pressure for change. The internalized 'democratic' ownership, the single- minded focus on delivering professionalism in client relations and the fundamental goal of growing new professionals of the professional partnerships have become challenged. Based on an ethnographic study of Deloitte in Denmark, and data from other sources, the paper analyzes the changing organization of work, the changing partner and manager roles and basic changes in the HR-model. The paper explores the question of where the partnership organization is going and discusses potentials and pitfalls for this particular type of organization.

An Integrative Business Case Utilizing An Online Database

This paper describes a unique business case that is an integration of topics in accounting information systems, managerial accounting, economics, and marketing into a single comprehensive student project on the internet. The project described gives students experience using an online database and php coding to interact with this database. The problem also involves demand functions and profit maximization with elementary calculus. The information system used is a website that assists a company employee in setting prices of products for optimal profit, given information concerning demand function parameters, costs, and marketing options. Although this project was used in an accounting information systems course, it could also be utilized in other courses such as introductory database management systems, managerial accounting, or introductory information technology. The project can be easily modified to align with the experience and sophistication of the students.

The Mechanics of Virtue: Quicksilver’s “Repentance,” the Test of the Audience, and Social Change in Eastward Ho

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