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Project Management in the British Construction Industry
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On the other hand, the use of these mind-sets for managing cultural problems in the construction industry would help to improve the performance of the relevant projects – by limiting the effects of the crisis on the various phases of these projects.... The paper "Project Management in the British Construction Industry" states that the skills of managers of the relevant construction projects should be reviewed, ensuring that they are capable of promoting the ideologies required for the successful completion of the construction project involved....
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Social Classes and Education Issues
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Such conditions badly impact upon a child's health, progress and access to friends and social systems, which are expected to influence school attendance and performance.... allantine (1993) emphasizes that Social Class and Educational Achievement (SES) of families is an influential and an important determinant predictor of school performance.... "Truancy and pupil performance", Education Economics, 2(3): 243-263. ... "Blighted lives", Centre Piece, London School of Economics: Centre of Economic performance, 15-17. ...
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Corporate Social Responsibility by Microsoft Corporation
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For many years, the corporation has been dealing with several social issues and problems of which some of them affect organizational performance directly or indirectly.... To ensure better implementation of the social factors, it would be important to consider adequately some of the social factors influencing organizational performance (Hopkins, 2003, 178).... With CSR, the corporation is guaranteed of improving its technological capabilities that would ensure enhancement in organizational performance and customer relations....
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Business Ethics in the Garment Industry
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This greatly affected the performance of the national factories as many of the services were outsourced.... The employees were also affected physiologically and therefore they not motivated to improve their performance instead they worked so that they can sustain themselves and their families. ... When the performance of the manager if not good, the shareholders through the board of directors can dismiss him or her and hire another one.... The performance of Italian industrial districts ...
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Drivers Impacting Small and Medium Enterprises
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obillo A M Rodriguez J A & Gaite F T 2006 "Innovation Investment, Competitiveness, and performance in Industrial Firms", Thunderbird International Business Review 48 (6), pp.... Only SMEs that have been able to adjust their promotion activities or improved their products to maintain their relevance in the market have been able to obtain a competitive edge and avoid bankruptcy or poor performance.... Their proprietors are familiar with local social factors and make provisions for them in their businesses, enabling them to implement effective internal business relationships which are vital for high performance (Charalambis D et al, 2004, 136 – 167)....
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The relationship between motivation and experience of Chinese tourists to UK
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Tourists' search for novel and distinctive experiences and sensations has been the drivers of outbound tourism (López-Guzmán and Sánchez-Caňizares, 2012).... International travellers are by nature novelty-seeking, inspired by a sense of exploration and adventure (Hartman, Meyer and Scribner, 2009)....
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LAssessing Public Library Services to Homeschoolers
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In response to a request for services from community homeschoolers, the staff of the Manross Memorial Library determined the need to assess library services to homeschoolers.... This research is the result of that need.... The purpose of this research is to explore homeschoolers'.... ... ... A qualitative and quantitative, case study approach will be used....
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The Need To Be Creative And Efficient
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The paper 'The Need To Be Creative And Efficient' focuses on creativity which has become widely acknowledged as both a major goal of economic activity and one of the most important instruments through which firms and countries gain and sustain competitive advantage in competitive marketplaces.... ...
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Investment Decision: Coca-Cola Vs. Pepsi
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This is an indication of better financial performance than Coca Cola.... Another measure of financial performance of a corporation is Return on Equity (ROE) which is the amount of net returns expressed as a percentage of shareholders investments or equity.... Pepsi on the other hand, had a better P/E performance.... om/university/ratios/operating-performance/ratio1....
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Budgeting as a form of management control
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The benefits to be gained from budgeting are numerous and are available to all companies inclusive of Production Solutions Ltd.... t ensures the achievement of the organisation's objectives by forcing managers to carry out an assessment of what may happen in the future and set detailed plans for achieving the targeted results ....
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Philosophical foundations of education
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"The surroundings in which children learn can greatly influence their academic performance and well-being in school.... Peterson explained that in a school with a positive culture, "There's an informal network of heroes and heroines and an informal grapevine that passes along information about what's going on in the school....
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Public and Private Finance of Liberty International Plc
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Public and Private Finance Introduction A financial analysis has been carried out in this report for Liberty International Plc on its performance ofthree years from 2005 to 2007.... It is not the performance of the company that is being reflected in the net margins, but the effect of rise and down fall of market value of real estates as at the reporting dates.... eturn on capital employed is ‘a very common measure of profitability both for external assessment of companies' performance and for internal assessment of the efficiency of the management....
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Interpersonal Communication
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Focusing only on the short-term issue of making money can lead to behavior and performance that lacks personal integrity and is at variance with the common good.... t the organizational level, the executive is a communicator and source of information in a variety of roles, the interpersonal role as leader or the informational role as spokesperson, is performance related and is separable from the executives need for a much deeper form of personal, intimate dialogue....
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Advanced Financial Accounting
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Later on, it is compared with appropriate industry standards or prior period performance to analyze current period's financial position and performance.... Bloomsbury plc's financial position is analyzed in this way and is compared with prior year performance. ... rofitability is an important aspect of a company's performance; however, it doesn't directly address the key issue of liquidity....
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Devices of USB Communications
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The paper also describes a source code of high level including USB description and stacks of SD/MMC and measurements of performance for a variety of configurations. ... In addition, it also gives the very best performance of write and read. ... The applications foundation code, the library services, and the drivers it relies on are with portability, performance and easy for the mind to use.... Alternatively, the average performance of different sizes of the packages can be estimated from the figures if the mix of a package of individual system....
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Safety Management Systems in Aviation
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In case of passenger travel, ‘performance Class 1 and Class 2' copters must be used.... The ‘performance Class 3' copters can also be used for passenger travel with due consideration to risk assessment.... The copters must go through regular trend analysis and their performance must be reviewed frequently (International Association of Oil & Gas Producers, 2009).... safe and secure operation of copters necessitates making consideration towards performance throughout all phases of flight....
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Seminars as Essential in Promoting Conversational Skills
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FFECTIVE TEAM and performance MANAGEMENT of Introduction Seminars have been utilized traditionally by universities in various ways.... Our leader ensured efficient performance of our team by assigning tasks in a manner that took into account the interests and skills of each member rather than allowing the team to be subjugated by aggressive, most popular or most verbal personalities.... The leader of the team needs to make it necessary to discuss how mood can impact on performance and attitude (Caron 2004, p....
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Importance of a Health and Safety Issues
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Organizations need safety programs in order to comply with national safety regulations while also demonstrating that business performance and productivity is viewed as being as important as safety performance.... Safety communication can be done through methods such as performance data, policies and procedures, workplace inductions, hazard and incident reports, training, and risk assessments.... n the performance of chores backstage, the people who are usually most vulnerable to being injured are the performers, the workers who maintain the stage, and the audience....
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Pentacene-Based Organic MIS Structures
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This is because of the crystallinity, the interface defects and the traps taking place between the SiO2-gate dielectrics and the pentacene-active materials which subsequently effect the operations and performance of the TFT devices.... Although, irrespective of the efficiency and great potential of the pentacene material, the performance of such organic MIS structures, which are based on pentacene, are confined to less efficiency since organic materials have high risk of defects and trap densities which result in the poor quality of the electronic devices and their materials [3]....
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Organizational Culture and Its Relationship with the Employees
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The authors have also mentioned that the performance appraisal system acts as an important tool for the management to organize the change in the culture.... These authors have also agreed upon the fact that the performance of the organization and the financial implication is related to the existing organizational culture of the firms.... Moreover, the high level of organizational cultural identification suggests that the employees exhibit higher level of acceptance towards the existing culture, which in turn increases the employees' motivational level thereby improving their individual performance....
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Bottom of Pyramid Strategy
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The diagram above represents the performance of Nirma compared to HLL.... The Bottom of Pyramid strategy seems to challenge the global managers because when the poorest people in the world dominate the world market, then it will force the price performance relationships to be re-examined, and this will affect most of the businesses....
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The impact of London congestion charge,an economic view
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These effects are established on business performance, retail sector performance and profitability in the original central London charging zone.... It will be investigated of Business performance, Retail sector performance and profitability in the original central London charging zone, also looking at revenue raised by congestion charge which is expected to facilitate the public transport and social benefit which including road repair....
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GW Restaurant Project
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Monitoring of the project must involve collecting, recording, and reporting information about a project's performance.... Description (performance, cost, and other characteristics) ... This paper presents the project management which is growing in importance because almost every organization has projects of all sorts....
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Creating and Managing New Venture
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Entrepreneurship is critical to enhancing the innovativeness and responsiveness of businesses, to boost productivity and to improve cost structures and trade performance.... Other factors affecting new ventures performance includes the extent and pervasiveness of crime and corruption, market fluctuations etc....
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The theatrical purpose of Othello's blackness
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Some of the black actors who have been greatly appreciated for their theatrical performance are Paul Robeson who performed in London and USA in 1930 and 1943 respectively, and Laurence Fishburne who had performed in a movie in 1995 (Alexander).... “Acting Black: Othello, Othello Burlesques, and the performance of ...
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The Glasses Manufacture and the Development of New Materials
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The paper tries to describe the eyeglasses that are still essential objects in society due to their varied used.... The manufacture of the eyeglasses has been customized to the individual suitability because of the simplicity of the manufacturing process.... ... ... ... Eyeglasses are an important part of the society and their use is varied from treating eye problems to fashion or scientific such as the polarized marine glasses....
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Public Sector Employment Relations
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Topic: Public Sector Employment Relations Institution Affiliation: Date: The state through the public sector is charged with the responsibility of maintaining social, economic and political welfare among the population of that state.... ... ... ... This provision requires that the government act as an employer, in a bid to ensure that it fulfils its duties and responsibilities to the public....
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Analyzing Enterprise Operations
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Enterprise integration is an improvement concept, as are total quality and error-free performance and these concepts have proven to be very difficult to implement successfully because the desired degree of improvement is difficult to achieve (Nell, n.... Today's customer, when purchasing a car, is not only attracted by the money factor but is also swayed by performance, design , brand name and other factors, making the industry , immensely competitive....
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Social Class Determines Child's Success
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Additionally, Graham Holley agrees that the school performance and performance of the child correlate with the class.... Name Institution Date In the first article “Social Class Determines Child's Success” written by Richard Gagna (education expert) on 18th September 2008, the use of the term “class” is explored....
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How Nokia Has Been Able to Build Its Market Share across the World
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ajor Markets and Current performance: ... The company's performance in these markets is clearly indicated from the graph and the table below.... The study "How Nokia Has Been Able to Build Its Market Share across the World" reviews that Nokia is strong in terms of innovativeness, and has a very strong brand name....
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Foundation of Marketing of Pure General Insurance
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Until today the firm has managed to retain its position in the market; however, the severe turbulences within the local and the international market had their consequences on the firm's performance in the last years.... n order to understand the appropriateness of a marketing strategy applied by a particular firm, it is necessary to examine primarily its environment (internal and external) trying to identify all the factors that may influence the performance of the marketing policies followed by the specific firm....
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Constraints of Small Business Development in South Africa
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The "Constraints of Small Business Development in South Africa" paper presents the factors that negatively affect the development of small businesses in a particular country and suggests a series of measures, which could help towards the limitation of these constraints – even in the long term....
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Exam For Law And Ethics
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For example, Berghe wrote that majority of best practices in corporate governance in the area of transparency is the explicit rule in the code that financial performance, including the related interests of the members of the board should be reported in the annual report to shareholders.... If full transparency is ensured, audit, performance evaluations, and other assessments and mechanisms can function properly in order to ensure that the organization is on track in achieving its objectives and compatible with sound corporate governance. ...
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Minority Entrepreneurs and International Strategy Selection
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study that compared non minority businesses with minority owned showed that the findings indicated that minority-owned firms which had not received any assistance from the Minority Business Development Agencies achieved the same performance characteristics as non-minority counterparts.... These performance measures studied included profitability, indebtedness, and liquidity....
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The Rise of HRM in the Last Two Decades of the Twentieth Century
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While the topic sentence for this paper may give the impression that the current role of the HR manager is someone who puts the interests of the management ahead of the employees, it is the contention of this author that the proper role of the HR manager would be to mitigate the differences and account for proper performance of duties by both sides.... In contrast, the practice of HRM has evolved with a view towards staffing objectives, performance objectives, and change management objectives among other things. ...
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Business Strategy of Manchester United and Macpac
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By 1995, the focus of performance reviews was shifted from individuals to teams, which bolstered ingenuity and initiative within the organization.... In addition, Macpac faced a new problem of coming out with apt assessment systems to evaluate the performance of its multiple suppliers....
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Technology in Human Resource Management
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performance Improvement Interventions: Enhancing People, Processes, and Organizations through performance Technology.... This paper 'Technology in Human Resource Management" focuses on the fact that technology has played a very important part of any organization that is willing to make it immensely well within the time and age of today....
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Radio over Internet Protocol
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he development and implementation of computer and information technology has radically transformed the working and performance of every field of life.... he broadcast of data and information over the modern generation of digital-radio communications is showing effective performance and more and more accepted with the government, emergency services, transport, security, exploration, construction, military and utilities sectors....
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Porters Views on Strategy
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orter has also argued to say that operational effectiveness and strategies are both very essential for better performance of companies, however both of these fall in line after the primary goal of any enterprise.... It has been noted that these companies have a different style of performance and also these companies have been known to trigger the operational effectiveness as long as 1970 and 1980s....
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Human resource management Management of physical resources Marketing Information systems
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The organization works hard to motivate its employees through leadership, flexibility, a value based climate, performance based opportunities and by hiring diverse and talented people.... The human resource management in an organization refers to the functional area within an organization that is solely responsible for the aspects of not only hiring but also supporting the employees....
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Technical Aspects, Best Practice Recommendations and Hardening SMTP
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Attaining performance Optimization ... n a nutshell, in order to attain performance maximization, there should be an attempt by the system administrator to re-use the SMTP. ... The paper "Technical Aspects, Best Practice Recommendations and Hardening SMTP" recommends the IIS SMTP server administrator protects the system with regular software updates to create patches for possible vulnerabilities and helps to protect the operating system against any attack or software flaw....
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Women in Music - Gender Role
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When a woman musician is about to upload her new performance or she is about to call a press release, it is then that the chronic devaluing of her skills and abilities affects her (Feld, 2014).... Gender and Music performance: Rationale of the study.... The author of this paper "Women in Music - Gender Role" discusses whether women musicians and composers are treated differently from their male counterparts nowadays, gender-imbalance issues....
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Education and Disability
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ust like Carl, children suffering from Down syndrome have vision and hearing challenges, which affects their alertness and performance in class as compared to other children in mainstream schools.... Wearing hearing and visual aids in a mainstream educational facility can also lead to more discrimination and teasing from other children, thus affecting overall performance....
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Consideration of Mental Disabilities Including Eating, Mood, Anxiety and Other Disorders
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The paper "Consideration of Mental Disabilities Including Eating, Mood, Anxiety and Other Disorders" discusses that Sexual and Gender disorders impact aspects of social behavior such as sexual desire, performance and behavior, gender identity problems and sexual dysfunction.... They often are a cause of decreased work or school performance, intoxication, accidents, absenteeism and a severe drop in social interaction and severe social consequences that often involve crime and violence....
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Capital Asset Pricing Model
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Measuring the risk and performance in plantation sector using capm based Jensens alpha.... 2006) also consider CAPM as one effective method used by practitioners in making estimations of expected returns, financial decisions, capital decisions, and in a companys performance evaluation....
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Changing Government Sports Policy
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Majors slow concern in sports development is attributed to poor performance at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 that resulted into Britain taking position 36 in the table of medal and the numerous 1990s failures in sports industry.... The coalition government further entourages independent participation in PE by incorporating it in the education offered to boost children performance in academics (Owen Web)....
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Ethics as a Field of Study
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usiness ethics also helps in bolstering the performance of a corporation or any other business organisation.... This is because adherence to the business or the corporation code of ethics ensures that the interests of the employees of the business organisation and the customers/clients of the business organisation will be met by the business organisation, thus leading to higher performance in the business organisation; when the employees of a business corporation feel treated fairly and justly by their employers, the workers will work harder because they will feel motivated by their employers....
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Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting
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Researchers and engineers prefer piezoceramic over the other materials because of high performance even though it as a shortcoming of being more brittle than the other materials.... Smaller elastic compliance was also proved to have contribution to good power performance....
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An Analysis of the Problems of Prosperity in Canada
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However, the recent performance of Canada leaves a lot of scope for improvement.... Keeping this in mind the government should declare consistent and clear environmental performance standards mainly for companies dealing with the production of energy.... The paper "An Analysis of the Problems of Prosperity in Canada" tells that the prosperity of nations does not depend on the abundance of the nation's revenue....
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Discussing Objectivity in Journalism
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However, even though essential to journalist performance, objectivity is a disturbing idea.... However, even though essential to journalist performance, objectivity is a disturbed idea.... Journalists themselves started to take on this performance as their individual audiences continued to be more miscellaneous (Miraldi, 1990, 65)....
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