The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority has recently undertaken a program of analysing the routine maintenance completed on its main generation and hydraulic assets. Power industry deregulation and increasing competition have created the need to reduce costs while increasing productivity. Along with downsizing and organisational restructuring, considerable effort has been placed on improvi...

This paper proposes the novel concept of Autonomous Restructuring Portfolios which would enable financial portfolios to re-adjust themselves to cater with the highly volatile customer behavior pattern. It investigates the possibility of using Kohonen’s Self Organizing Maps in analyzing, categorizing & modifying strategies applied on financial portfolios according to the its behavior patterns. I...

This study established the influence of corporate restructuring on organizational performance Tier three banks in Kenya. A descriptive research design was adopted where a census survey all conducted using self-administered structured questionnaire to collect data. The respondent from each bank were purposively selected. Data collected analyzed statistics with aid statistical package for social ...

this study investigates the efficacy of assertive training, that is a kind of multi component behavioral procedures, and it's combination with cognitive restructuring (systematic rational restructuring) on the socially anxious girls of 12-14 yrs. for this study 21 socially anxious subjects were matched by age, sex, education and economic background. first, they were evaluated by a number o...

With the transition of a heritage community from living to one based on servicing tourists, an influx new residents seeking run businesses and work in tourism sector generates intense process reorganization. In turn, changes external environment that take place during this restructuring combine with psychological factors affect integration these residents. Based investigation Tangkou town Huang...

The paper addresses a new class of combinatorial problems which consist in restructuring of solutions (as structures) in combinatorial optimization. Two main features of the restructuring process are examined: (i) a cost of the restructuring, (ii) a closeness to a goal solution. This problem corresponds to redesign (improvement, upgrade) of modular systems or solutions. The restructuring approa...

Array Restructuring for Cache Locality by Shun-Tak Albert Leung Chairperson of Supervisory Committee: Professor John Zahorjan Department of Computer Science and Engineering Caches are used in almost every modern processor design to reduce the long memory access latency, which is increasingly a bottleneck to program performance. For caches to be effective, programs must exhibit good data localit...

This paper estimates the price for restructuring risk in the U.S. corporate bond market during 1999-2005. Comparing quotes from default swap (CDS) contracts with a restructuring event and without, we find that the average premium for restructuring risk represents 6% to 8% of the swap rate without restructuring. We show that the restructuring premium depends on firmspecific balance-sheet and mac...

In order to deliver effective services, providers are being advised to ‘innovate’ their service delivery systems. Innovation in this context often refers to technology, technique or restructuring improvements. However, the difficulty is that in the modern organisation, service delivery is dispersed across a complex network of numerous departments and units. There are greater pressures on organi...

The formation of the single European market (SEM) will create a new business environment in Europe. The competitiveness and, indeed, the survival of many United Kingdom businesses depends on how well they understand and react to the threats and opportunities presented by opening up Europe and associated industry restructuring. Expertise in single-market issues and legislation is scarce and expe...