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It enables the bearer of card to buy goods and services from retailers and merchants.... With the boom in Internet marketing or e-business, credit cards have become important it is convenient and easier to buy from the Internet.... These programs had become a required criterion for businesses handling credit-card transactions from financial banks to universities (Stamp, 2005, Pg 172).... he scandal of 40 million credit card numbers being stolen from CardSystems in June, 2005 rocked the world around....
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This review considers a particular class of rituals related to substantial biological and social changes in all individuals' lives, otherwise known as 'rites of passage' according to Arnold van Gennep, who was the first to name and analyze them in his famous anthropological study.... ... ... ... These rituals are viewed with concern of their complex entanglement within the puzzle of interrelations between gender, kinship, religion, politics, and power, in different communities, societies, and cultural patterns; in order to be seen the extent of shrinking (if any) of the specific, and why not crucial, role....
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Epicurus died from kidney stones around 271 or 270 BCE.... This manner of looking at Epicurus' atomism provides no clue as to what differentiates him from his predecessors.... “In order to combat a strictly determinist theory of atomic motion Epicurus introduced the potentiality of an atom to deviate from its natural downward movement.... Hobbes, John Locke, and Marx in their discussion of human nature have also utilized the same argument which Epicurus claimed – human beings pursue that which brings them pleasure and moves away from that which causes them pain....
However, when Grand Cosmopolitan acquired the hotel from its previous owners, the hotel's reputation has been in decline.... he current effective capacity strategy of the hotel is operating at the 60% occupancy where excellent service was expected from the staff.... rocesses are groups of interrelated activities that together create value for the organisation and excellence in processes would distinguish successful organisations from the rest (Hindle, 2003)....
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Political representation is present in and stems from four fundamental sources: (1) representative endeavour for the interests of the represented; (2) representation existing in the affiliation between the represented and the representative; (3) descriptive representation from legislators who personify the values, attributes, and outlook of the represented; and (4) formal representation created by the modes and mechanisms of the electoral system.... The twofold process of electing and petitioning introduces a second group of representatives working apart from the formal representative affiliation between legislator and citizen....
After being in business for over 25 years it finds itself faced by the general decline in demand from the major customer segments.... Since its own products are a result of recycling of waste steel material, AS plans to build its strategy around brand promotion of the products, apart from searching for newer products and markets.... It collects excess or waste steel materials from automakers, salvages the usable portions and resells them to customers in usable size, shape, form and packing....
The paper "The UK Mortgage Law" discusses that although the Norgan case is considered a hallmark case and even providing judges with an excuse to give lengthier repayment periods, subsequent cases have however approached periods of repayment in a stricter manner.... ... ... ... In the case of National & Provincial Building Society v Lloyd, the court emphasized that the mortgagor can only be given a longer period for repayment of arrears if he or she is able to come up with real proof that the repayment can really be made within the time to be granted and was not merely expressing out loud some hope....
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... Setting up of the individual performance goals provide a clear communication to the incumbents as to what are the expectations from them and under what conditions the subsequent performance appraisals will be performed.... It has also been argued that since expats come on a fixed contract with less legal protection from their host environment....
The use of natural oils from plants has numerous physical and psychological values to the human body.... The naturally abundant chemicals can be used to release stress from the body, e.... It is also important for users of these oils to ensure that they do not contain chemicals from synthetic oils.... It was also practiced in Egypt at around the same period whereby natural oil was extracted from plants.... The disease was mitigated with the use of essential oils prepared from herbs....
This is software that is not freely available and cannot be used without restrictions; it must be purchased from the individual or company that holds the copyright over its use.... Where closed source software is concerned, it is the short term returns from the software that assume a greater level of importance; as a result quality may sometimes be sacrificed in order to ensure that a piece of software is produced within stipulated deadlines....
The pattern of leadership varies from person to person and, moreover, this pattern becomes clear when a leader passes through problematic situations.... Management is quite clearly related to leadership from this point of view.... It can be seen in anyone starting from a manager to a labor.... ne of the main things in which Buffet has been successful is to make the shares of Berkshire Hathaway inseparable from each other.... There must be certain novel aspects in the approach of the leader that people around him or working as his subordinates get some material to learn from him....
(Retrieved from freeessays.... Psychologists have defined various kinds and forms of sexual disorders, which cause perversion and deviation from the normal sex behavior of individuals.... an enters the world as a neat and clean biological organism, which learns how to behave from society by entering into continuous and constant interaction with the other members of his social arrangement....
from this perspective, the contemporary business case for diversity is supported by a number of positive outcomes leading to cost-savings, team efficiency, and the ability to brainstorm ideas to create immediate business solutions to complicated issues.... from this viewpoint, fairness and equality as the only acceptable constructs of diversity in business could not possibly hope to serve performance-related outcomes of the aforementioned magnitude.... This will create an organisational culture built of a wide variety of different demographics, requiring the necessity to instill, from the top-down, a culture built on individual respect....
The healing process arises from the unique mind-body-spirit system of the patient.... It comes from within and not without the system.... Good health according to holism is the balance between inputs and outflows from the body to the environment in a dynamic state.... Healing emerges from the within the body-mind-spirit of the patient with the assistance of therapeutic attention and not because of them.... The word heal has also emanated from the same source (Mariano, 2008)....
Building a powerful brand requireѕ determining the tangible characteriѕticѕ of the offeringѕ that carry the brand name and the benefitѕ the cuѕtomerѕ accrue from thoѕe benefitѕ and the pѕychological or emotional benefitѕ of the productѕ.... Thiѕ followѕ logically from the fact that perѕonalitieѕ are particularly uѕeful for the creation of brand aѕѕociationѕ.... Ѕimultaneouѕly, however, brand managerѕ have to face more threatѕ to their brandѕ, eѕpecially parity reѕponѕeѕ from competitorѕ....
n the novel White Teeth, the novelist tells the story of three families from various cultural backgrounds with different religious traditions.... It begins with the older generation, Archie Jones, who is a working-class Englishman married to a black immigrant from Jamaica, and his friend Samad Iqbal, a Muslim from Bangladeshi… The twin sons of Samad (Magid and Millat) and Archie's daughter (Irie), who were all born in England, represent the second generation....
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These passages from Genesis are often seen just as a description, perhaps wrong, of the creation process.... here are several instances in the scriptures of the same or very similar events being recorded by different writers, some of the most obvious being in the synoptic gospels where there are often two and sometimes three accounts of the same event such as the raising of Jairus's daughter from the dead.... Jackson also cites scholars as believing that Genesis 1 dates from the Babylonian captivity, a 70 year period dating from 598 B....
The change may be perceived by some groups as a catalyst for lower budgets allocations to their divisions, or transfer of substantial manpower from their group that more tasks will be incorporated in individual jobs.... By encouraging change in other areas of improvements, and soliciting ideas from employees in order to improve operations apart from the change in structure, better workplace environment will be fostered.... A choice of this or a combination of these depending on the situation and the relative advantage and drawbacks to the organization will help the organization prepare from changes in trends....
This philosophy has empowered people from all walks of life including laymen by escalating their knowledge of successful negotiation that tends to focus on their benefits rather than their social standing4.... efore moving onto the enforceability of remedies from the mediation outcome, the court first needs to consider the worth and position of the mediated dispute.... Under the first option, he will probably encounter prolonged proceedings as the debtor can use acceptable allegations to be excused from specific performance e....
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from the evidence in the short story, Mel's relationship with Terri is headed in the same direction and will probably suffer a similar fate.... This is what Harold Bloom meant when he says in his book Raymond Carver, that “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love speaks less of love than of the inadequacy of language to convey those monumental abstractions that spring from ‘unbridled emotions'.... Unlike Mel, the elderly man in his story wishes to remove the casts that prevent him from looking at and expressing his love for his wife....
Nonetheless, perhaps understandably, modern hotel revenue management brand varies extensively from that of more than two decades ago.... Apart from that, these systems tend to work perfectly in real time, thereby making subtle modifications at brief gaps of time in the maintenance of the best rate.... Apart from that, RevPAR continues to be the only revenue management metric, which a hotel is capable of literally taking to the bank; therefore keeping RevPAR at the front position of any revenue management strategy happens to be the industry's best practice (Verret 2008, p....
Participants The experiment was conducted with 381 participants ranging in age from 17 to 56 years who were all students of Psychology classes at UBL University.... Participants were recruited by including students from different classes who were asked to register themselves with the laboratory for an experiment about visualization.... We also prefer to maintain a difference from people who seem nasty, and so the ostracizing may not seem as harsh in this case....
he concept of service recovery is both a business function and a critical focus point from the marketing perspective.... Data was collected from a sampled one hundred respondents through an online survey.... Another advantage of the questionnaire is that makes it possible for data to be collected from a potentially large pool of source.... The questionnaires were administered via the web by sending email to the respondents from various fields and the responses were submitted back through email or by post office....
The information that the company gathers from the market is managed through the CRM system and decisions reached by top executives through the help of related information systems such as the decision support systems.... The Royal Mint Company will thus use the CRM system elements to welcome its customers to its information system which will target the acquisition of more customers from the potential market.... This is critical since Royal Mint would be able to get timely feedback from the customer and thus help to improve the quality of their services....
Strategic human resource management has emerged as an area of human resource management that looks at Functionability of business from an innovative perspective.... According to this new field, organizations are not insulated from looking for the best and appropriate strategies that can help them achieve established goals and objectives in the business environment.... The contingency approach posits that organization cannot divorce from the particulate aspects in the organization if it has to achieve the best strategy of management (Armstrong, 2012)....
Human Resource Management Essay Case Analysis: Uni Bank Human Resource Management is becoming increasingly important for many organizations regardless of their size or location.... Employees are recognized as a firm's biggest asset, similarly, employee development is also written off as a major expense in most companies....
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The competition of transport from the Middle East transport exporters comes with increase in surpluses of transport production.... The increase in transport prices represents distribution of income from individuals who purchase transport and those who produce the transport.... Import quotas operate with trade agreements set by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Asean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) to protect the airline industry from the compensation of the high tariff....
It is necessary to know what kind of services the customers expect from the hospitals.... The purpose of this case study is to improve the quality of service in a hospital in the UK.... The development in service quality helps to create a clean environment and develop practical competency among the workforce, which is of prime importance to patients....
In the paper 'Where there is discord, let there be harmony by Thatcher' the author analyzes Thatcher's role as Prime Minister at an epoch when industrial trade unions actions heightened in a political-economic unrest.... She was a libertarian and never an advocate of bargained corporatism.... ... ...
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The paper will then present a research question and hypothesis from where it will proceed to categorically investigated literature review.... The paper will then present a research question and hypothesis from where it will proceed to categorically investigated literature review.... Some societies also used sound from drums, horns, whistles, and smoke to pass specific coded information.... As years lapse, technology also advances from one level to another integral level....
Analyze HRM from a strategic perspective and its implications for the role of the line manager and employees Strategic Perspective of HRM Strategically, HRM is a fundamental tool that provides the organization a framework to hire the best possible human resources in the organization.... Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of flexible working practices from both the employee and the employer perspective Advantages of Flexible Working Practices Flexible working patterns induce employees to work more competitively....
In some other countries in Europe, their crisis was caused by private debts arising from the downturn of the property market.... For the European community however, the crisis stems from a variety of causes for different countries and any solution to be implemented by the European community would be difficult to implement to all countries (Nelson, et.... These causes seem to include the following or a combination of the following: globalized finance, flexible credit option from 2002 to 2008 which caused high-risk spending, 2007-2012 global financial crisis, global trade imbalance, real estate crisis, 2008-2012 international recession, and bailouts of banks and private bondholders (Kakutani, 2011)....
In the traditional times, IMC was generally considered as a one-way communication process by its nature where the flow of information was only in one direction from marketers to consumers.... The companies also intend to receive performance enhancement benefits from the widespread organisational utilisation of the internet in order to coordinate information resources, endorse the virtual teams and assist in distributed decision making along with organisational flexibility (Hamill, 1997)....
In this process, the challenges involved in strategic HRM are studied from literature.... In this process, the challenges involved in strategic HRM are studied from literature.... Literature and findings indicate that the glowing facet of strategic HRM is also shadowed by certain challenges, especially from employee perspective, which management specialists are still trying to resolve; thus, strategically oriented HRD activities such as training, coaching, performance management, growth etc and recruitment and selection procedures remain nothing but whims of management....
Accepts user requests and processes them from the user's program-applications and generates or displays the desired output results.... This report "Partitions and Principles for Secure Operating Systems" presents various essential system administration tasks offered by different operating systems and concludes that with the improvements in the tools available in modern operating systems has been eliminated to a great extent....
Value Stream Mapping: Using value stream-based approach for promoting sustainable construction projects ABSTRACT In the modern construction arena, construction without sustainability is considered no to be complete.... This implies that the project has to be sustainable in all of its aspects notably is the environmental sustainability....
The highest authority has to be just in all manners, but originate from man himself.... The highest authority has to be just in all manners, but originate from man himself.... Kant's Political Writings The highest ity has to be just in all manners, but originate from man himself.... It was the only way to establish law and order in any social setting irrespective of where that rule comes from.... In the case scenario of the murder of the leader as was seen in the execution of Charles I, there was the deviation from the rule of law and even rendering it irrelevant....
Planning and Design 1.... Project Planning a.... What should be included in a Woody 2000 project plan?... What use would it be?... The project planning is one of the major steps for the project management in order to prepare any project.... The planning stage includes the scheduling of all the components and parameters of the required project along with making preparation for handling all the constraints and limitations of the project....
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This paper intends to critique a study reports and the findings from a study focusing on the nursing and leadership roles of head nurses' in the hospitals.... The researcher pointed out that even though studies for instance, Scandinavian research in nursing leadership has studied a range of issues from leadership styles (Aiken, Buchan, Ball, J, & Rafferty, 2008), hospital head nurses' leadership practice at the first line and a department level (Sørensen, 2006) to job satisfaction and clinical wisdom among leaders (Miles, & Huberman, 1994)....
There are various performance management frameworks from which an organisation may anchor its system on.... This is attested to by Felsted (2012), who cites that Tesco's managers' bonuses have been slashed from 100% last year to a maximum of 16.... This has been finalized after the company garners poor results from the previous year.... One must note that the alignment of pay to performance metrics is a new move from CEO Philip Clark....
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Later on, students were asked on a four point scale, from ‘never' to ‘often,' to reveal whether they would watch a certain kind of program The foremost general discovery was that, as compared to previous years, the children in Perth had started watching more television.... Furthermore, the answers from set of positive and negative set of sentences were utilized to develop a Mean World Scale Index, and it was discovered that the negatively phrased sentences were directly related to the amount of television viewed....
The issue of change is more relevant also for practitioners, which is evident from the volume of books published on change management.... Topic: ‘Power is critical to understanding the difficulties managers confront when seeking to manage change'.... Discuss.... Introduction A discussion on power should start with a definition of it, as provided by Weber: “the probability that one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance (see Grimes 1978, p....
Apart from these very basic software tools that are widely used for organizational research, following are some of other software that have recently gained significant importance in research.... With induction, the researcher can draw general conclusions from his empirical observations.... Induction is thus more closely related to projecting the solution from observations and findings.... This type of research is more likely to be associated with qualitative research and this research process goes from assumptions to conclusions....
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In Orlando Furioso, apart from the central love story of Orlando and Angelica, there are developments of amorous relationships between Bradamante, who was a female Christian warrior and that of Ruggiero.... The allusion referring to the sub-title of the book bears the title of Prencipe Galeotto derived from Dante's Galleotto in “Inferno V” who is the character responsible for arousing lust and passion in the episode of Paolo and Francesca.... “True Love” from the perspective of Orlando Furioso or Decameron is the love attained on the platonic realm....
31) Table 1 indicates that based on the 2009 projections of the UK Annual Abstract of Statistics, the projected elderly population for 2011 in the United Kingdom from 60 to 84 years old is about12.... Table 1 informs us of the higher rate of mortality among men as the female-to-male ratio increases from 1.... These figures are my own computation based on data available from the UK Annual Abstract of Statistics for 2009.... Based on Table 2, the elderly population from 60 years up is about 22....
It is a common trend in the society for artist and other special people in the society to come up with cloth designs, which distinguish them from the rest of the society.... Designs meant for the low social class would borrow a lot from the royal design, but the fabric would be of a lower quality.... Manipulation of consumers to buy products from other cultural backgrounds occurs in the market due to the marketing strategies that many designers and retailers take....
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from the study, the principles that enjoin compromise were more outstanding in Japanese culture than in Australian culture.... from both participants, there was positive correlation between the decisional self-esteem with the decision making choice style (Radford et.... This knowledge, apart from bringing new understanding on cultural contexts concepts, study gives another avenue for understanding the cultural differences using critical multiculturalism....
The N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase enzyme, known as ‘A-enzyme', coverts the H-substance into A-antigen by transferring an N-acetylgalactosamine residue from UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine to its terminal galactose.... Similarly, the ‘B-enzyme' (a galactosyl transferase) transfers a galactose from a molecule of UDP-galactose to the H-substance galactose thus transforming the blood group specificity to ‘B'.... he Rh blood group system was first described in year 1940 by Landsteiner and Wiener, when they found that serum from rabbits and guinea pigs immunized with red blood cells of Macacus rhesus could agglutinate 85% of the blood from New York blood donors....
Consumers and investors moved away from the brand.... ulture, according to Hofstede, is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another (Hope & Mühlemann, 2001).... These beliefs and patterns are handed down from one generation to another.... Expertise is gained for a small fee and both the franchisor and the franchisee benefit from the economies of scale....
Taking the reasons into consideration and the problem she had been suffering from I came to the conclusion that she was suffering mainly from an anxiety disorder.... Anxiety disorders are defined as several different forms of abnormal and pathological forms of fear that affect an individual from time to time (Craske, 2003, 48).... The latter come from drugs which are ironically used to control anxiety, but excessive use of them can have the opposite effect (Nemeroff, 2003, 133)....