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Setting an Organization's Direction and Performing the Entrepreneurial Function--A Checklist for Action (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Introduction to Trade Secrets (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Trade secrets, or confidential technological and commercial information, are the most important assets of many businesses. The law protects trade secrets as alternatives to patents and copyrights.
Break-Even Analysis for Management Decision-Making (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Break-even analysis can help management decide among many financial alternatives. Several decisions are aided by break-even analysis, such as those relative to pricing and machinery or equipment purchasing.
Efficiency Audit Guidelines (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
An efficiency audit allows a firm to systematically review its entire operation and to determine potential cost reductions. Areas for potential cost reduction include management, production, purchasing, marketing and ...
Make or Buy Analysis (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
One of the initial steps to set up operations in a new plant or for a new product is selection of equipment. But before one proceeds to select the equipment that is essential for manufacturing and assembling the designed ...
Safety Management for Small Business Owners (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Successful accident prevention programs depend on: Employer leadership ; Safe and healthful working conditions ; Safe work practices by employees. If any of these three essentials is missing, accidents on the job are more ...
Marketing Plan (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
A marketing plan is probably both the most important and least thought of aspect of a new business. Without a marketing plan, (1) product or service acceptance is normally far below potential, (2) promotional dollars are ...
Introduction to Trademarks and Other Marks (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Marks distinguish products and services. Because many consumer decisions are based on "recognized names," the goodwill attached to certain marks gives them their value. Marks are protected by law and prevent others from ...
Introduction to Patents (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
A patent has the potential of providing tremendous wealth to its owner. The owner can prevent all others from using, making or selling the patented item throughout the United States for as long as 17 years. However, the ...
Managing Your Time (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
No one has enough time. Time is a unique resource as it cannot be accumulated like money or stock-piled like materials. We spend it at a fixed rate. Since all of us have exactly the same amount of time, the real problem ...
Systematic Plant Layout (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Material-handling costs comprise anywhere from 30 to 75 percent of total manufacturing costs. Any savings in material handling realized through a better arrangement of the departments is a direct contribution to the ...
Working With Your Banker (1993)
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Banks are in the business of lending money. Loans to small business owners constitute a significant part of most bank investments. Business owners should realize that their banker wants to work with them and will go to ...
Is your wiring system safe and energy efficient? (1993)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1993)
Electricity is a safe and convenient source of energy for heat, light and power in your home and on your farm, provided it is distributed in correctly sized and properly protected conductors. Good wiring systems are safe ...
Lightning protection for Missouri farms and homes (1993)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1993)
The National Board of Fire Underwriters reports that lightning is the chief cause of farm fires. Thirty-seven percent of fires resulting from known causes are started by lightning. Each year lightning kills 400 people, ...
UM Staff Advisor, 1993, Volume 5, Issue 5
(UM System Staff Advisory Council, 1993-04)
Monumental man
(University of Missouri. Alumni Association, 1993)
"Thomas Jefferson scholar Dr. Noble Cunningham explores the life of the third president of the United States whose views on higher education helped establish MU."--Table of contents for issue....
Multi-scale self-assembly of nanoenergetic materials utilizing functionalized graphene
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
gelation process of reduced graphene oxide was developed and utilized for self-assembling Al and Bi2O3 into macroscale structures with enhanced energetic performance and handling safety. The process successfully reduced graphene oxide sheets into r...
Dynamic agent safety logic : theory and applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Modal logic is a family of logics for reasoning about relational structures, broadly construed. It sits at the nexus of philosophy, mathematics, software engineering, and economics. By modeling a target domain as a relational ...
Establishing a foundation for large DNA transfer to artificial minichromosomes and B insert platforms in maize
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
difficult due to independent segregation in meiosis. Alternatively, the use of binary bacterial artificial chromosomes (BiBACs), large insert cloning vectors, can maintain and transfer up to 300 kps, but are also subject to random integrations. Therefore...
Weak phase retrieval and phaseless reconstruction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Phase retrieval and phaseless reconstruction for Hilbert space frames is a very active area of research. Recently, it was shown that these concepts are equivalent. In this thesis, we make a detailed study of a weakening ...