Examples of ore in the following topics:
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- Today, the nine forms of waste that lean manufacturing seeks to reduce or eliminate are:
- Over-production: which is defined as producing more information or product than a customer requires, or making the product or its components earlier than is required, or making it faster than required.
- Moving items: needlessly shifting, storing, stacking or filing materials and information, or needlessly moving people, materials and/or information from one point to another.
- Over-processing: the time and effort spent processing information or material that does not add value to the product (e.g. unnecessary paperwork or employees and managers seeking approvals).
- Defects: the unnecessary repairing, scrapping or reworking of material or information.
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- A graph (sometimes called a sociogram) is composed of nodes (or actors or points) connected by edges (or relations or ties).
- A graph may represent a single type of relations among the actors (simplex), or more than one kind of relation (multiplex).
- Each tie or relation may be directed (i.e. originates with a source actor and reaches a target actor), or it may be a tie that represents co-occurrence, co-presence, or a bonded-tie between the pair of actors.
- The strength of ties among actors in a graph may be nominal or binary (represents presence or absence of a tie); signed (represents a negative tie, a positive tie, or no tie); ordinal (represents whether the tie is the strongest, next strongest, etc.); or valued (measured on an interval or ratio level).
- In speaking the position of one actor or node in a graph to other actors or nodes in a graph, we may refer to the focal actor as "ego" and the other actors as "alters
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- Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
- In the workplace, harassment may be considered illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment, or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted, or when the victim decides to quit the job).
- Fear of being fired or refused a promotion or job opportunity; loss of job or career, and loss of income;
- Loss of trust in the types of people that occupy similar positions as the harasser or his or her colleagues; difficulties or stress with peer relationships, or relationships with colleagues;
- Weakening of support network, or being ostracized from professional or academic circles (friends, colleagues, or family may distance themselves from the victim, or shun him or her altogether);
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- The mechanical, biological, or chemical processes used to transform materials or information into products or services and deliver them to where they need to be.
- Offices, factories, farms and restaurants all rely upon equipment and machinery in one form or another to turn information and resources into goods and services and since many of these tools (and processes) can waste as much or more than they produce, they present a prime target for efficient, sustainable practices.
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- Current liabilities are usually settled with cash or other assets within a fiscal year or operating cycle, whichever period is longer.
- In financial accounting, a liability is defined as an obligation of an entity arising from past transactions or events, the settlement of which may result in the transfer or use of assets, provision of services or other yielding of future economic benefits.
- A borrowing of funds from individuals or banks for improving a business or personal income that is payable during a short or long time period.
- A duty or responsibility to others that entails settlement by future transfer or use of assets, provision of services, or other transaction yielding an economic benefit, at a specified date, on occurrence of a specified event, or on demand.
- However, they do often run past 30 days or 60 days in some situations.
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- Extending the life and use of a building, office or workplace (including renting or subleasing areas or equipment that are not used or are only partially used),
- Locking in customers or markets with optimal customer service or other value initiatives,
- Creating or extending value in the long term by reusing, reworking (modifying) or adapting what your business currently has instead of throwing it away or abandoning it.