...Character Analysis: Ryan Bingham Imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing… kind of exhilarating isn’t it? This is the mantra and philosophy of the protagonist in the Oscar nominated film, “Up In The Air.” Effectively, he has constructed a life for himself where ever morning, he does wake up with nothing. He has deluded himself into thinking that this is the life he wants, so much so that he even gives motivational speeches about the merits of his way of life. He is free of the weight of family, friends, a home, or any possessions other than the elite status cards he has earned at hotels and airlines across the country. However, his confidence in his work and the lifestyle he has chosen is only a veil to cover intrinsic emotional insecurities. Does waking up tomorrow with nothing still sound exhilarating? Superficially, Ryan appears to be a picture of confidence. His entire existence is based around flying and firing people. When your career is traveling the country, putting people through the worst day of their lives, and assuring them that everything is going to be fine, confidence is a very important thing to exude. That is what makes him the best at what he does. When people leave the office having been let go, he instills at least a little hope that a new beginning is coming, and that this could be an opportunity for a new, better life. His work is his whole life. Where the goals of most people in their lives have at least something to do with family and human...
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...reported it as a mild to severe problem. The prevalence of academic procrastination is varied from study to study, but it is unanimous that academic procrastination is a problem that must be addressed. Some of the consequences of academic procrastination are external, decreased progress/learning (Rabin et al., 2011), and increased health risk (Tice & Baumeister, 1997). Some of the consequences are internal such as depression, irrational cognitions, lower self esteem, and anxiety (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984). There are many negative aspects of academic procrastination. As stated earlier procrastination strikes deep into every aspect of daily life, it is a problem that cannot be solved by just looking at the individual. In Van Eerde’s (2003) meta-analysis on the networks of procrastination he stressed the importance of examining the social influences on the students. Academic procrastination is a well sought out field of study due to the many factors that produce and...
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...Report on the Textbook Rental System at Appalachian State University Prepared by the University Bookstore Committee March 24, 2006 Glenn Ellen Starr Stilling, Chairperson Dr. Patricia E. Allen Dr. Terry Wayne Cole Michael G. Coston (ex officio) Dr. John P. Geary Christopher Pereira Dr. Thomas Patrick Rardin Rebecca Jean Stamilio Laura Westmoreland, Secretary 2 C ontents Executive summary........................................................................ 3 Introduction ................................................................................... 4 The committee’s process................................................................. 5 Economic background of textbook price increases .......................... 6 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Price increases in recent years ................................................................6 Why are these increases happening? ......................................................7 How have students responded to textbook price increases? ....................10 Possible remedies for high prices ............................................................11 Predictions about the future of textbook prices .......................................14 Faculty viewpoints on the textbook rental system ........................... 15 Student viewpoints on the textbook rental system .......................... 20 Recommendations.......................................................................... 24 Rationale for the recommendations...
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...language and sexuality that incorporates insights from feminist, queer, and sociolinguistic theories to analyze sexuality as a broad sociocultural phenomenon. These intellectual approaches have shown that research on identity, sexual or otherwise, is most productive when the concept is understood as the outcome of intersubjectively negotiated practices and ideologies. To this end, an analytic framework for the semiotic study of social intersubjectivity is presented. (Sexuality, feminism, identity, desire, queer linguistics.)* I N T R O D U C T I O N Within the past decade the field of language and sexuality has emerged as an important area of research within sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and socially oriented discourse analysis. To be sure, research on a wide variety of sexual topics had been conducted within disparate language-centered fields for at least 30 years, but such studies tended not to engage with broader theoretical concerns about sexuality. Instead,...
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...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND The restaurant industry consists of restaurants, bars, and other away-from-home eating facilities. The National Restaurant Association (NRA), an industry trade group based in Washington, D.C., estimated that industry sales in 2001 totaled $399 billion and predicted that industry sales will hit $576.9 billion by 2010. According to the National Restaurant Association (1999), an estimated 844,000 establishments offered prepared food in the United States in 2001 and the number of restaurants in the U.S. is forecasted to increase to 1,001,305 by the year 2010 (Figure 1.1). 1200 1000 1000 831 800 577 600 400 376 200 0 Sales (billions) Locations (thousands) 2000 2010 Source: National Restaurant Association (1999) Figure 1.1 Restaurant Industry Sales and Locations 1 There are a variety of possible locations for restaurants including a freestanding unit, located in shopping mall outlet, food court, or a multiple concept unit within an existing facility designed for another business such as a gas station and convenience store. It may be leased space, a building the retailer purchases, or a new structure built to specification. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages for specific types of restaurants (James, Walker, and Etzel, 1975; McGuire, 1993; Powers, 1997; Hsu and Powers, 2002). The cost of land, lease expenses, and building varies with the location of the restaurant. Metropolitan...
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...MARKETING 7E People real Choices This page intentionally left blank MARKETING 7E People real Choices Michael R. SAINT JOSEPH S SOLOMON ’ U OLLINS NIVERSITY Greg W. MARSHALL R C OLLEGE Elnora W. THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE STUART Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editorial Director: Sally Yagan Editor in Chief: Eric Svendsen Acquisitions Editor: Melissa Sabella Director of Editorial Services: Ashley Santora Editorial Project Manager: Kierra Bloom Editorial Assistant: Elisabeth Scarpa Director of Marketing: Patrice Lumumba Jones Senior Marketing Manager: Anne Fahlgren Marketing Assistant: Melinda Jensen Senior Managing Editor: Judy Leale Project Manager: Becca Richter Senior Operations Supervisor: Arnold Vila Creative Director: Jon Christiana Senior Art Director: Blair Brown Text and Cover Designer: Blair Brown Media Project Manager, Production: Lisa Rinaldi Media Project Manager, Editorial: Denise Vaughn Full-Service Project Management: S4Carlisle Publishing Services Composition: S4Carlisle Publishing Services Printer/Bindery: Courier/Kendalville Cover Printer: Courier/Kendalville Text Font: Palatino Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on appropriate page within text. Microsoft®...
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...Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research Graeme Keith Porte John Benjamins Publishing Company Appraising Research in Second Language Learning Language Learning and Language Teaching The LL< monograph series publishes monographs as well as edited volumes on applied and methodological issues in the field of language pedagogy. The focus of the series is on subjects such as classroom discourse and interaction; language diversity in educational settings; bilingual education; language testing and language assessment; teaching methods and teaching performance; learning trajectories in second language acquisition; and written language learning in educational settings. Series editors Birgit Harley Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Jan H. Hulstijn Department of Second Language Acquisition, University of Amsterdam Volume 3 Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research by Graeme Keith Porte Appraising Research in Second Language Learning A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research Graeme Keith Porte University of Granada John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia Dr Graeme Keith Porte is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Granada in Spain, where he lectures on Second Language Writing and Applied Linguistics Research Design...
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...MARKETING 7E People real Choices This page intentionally left blank MARKETING 7E People real Choices Michael R. SAINT JOSEPH S SOLOMON ’ U OLLINS NIVERSITY Greg W. MARSHALL R C OLLEGE Elnora W. THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE STUART Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editorial Director: Sally Yagan Editor in Chief: Eric Svendsen Acquisitions Editor: Melissa Sabella Director of Editorial Services: Ashley Santora Editorial Project Manager: Kierra Bloom Editorial Assistant: Elisabeth Scarpa Director of Marketing: Patrice Lumumba Jones Senior Marketing Manager: Anne Fahlgren Marketing Assistant: Melinda Jensen Senior Managing Editor: Judy Leale Project Manager: Becca Richter Senior Operations Supervisor: Arnold Vila Creative Director: Jon Christiana Senior Art Director: Blair Brown Text and Cover Designer: Blair Brown Media Project Manager, Production: Lisa Rinaldi Media Project Manager, Editorial: Denise Vaughn Full-Service Project Management: S4Carlisle Publishing Services Composition: S4Carlisle Publishing Services Printer/Bindery: Courier/Kendalville Cover Printer: Courier/Kendalville Text Font: Palatino Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook appear on appropriate page within text. Microsoft®...
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...c MARKETING 7E People real Choices This page intentionally left blank MARKETING 7E People real Choices Michael R. SAINT JOSEPH S SOLOMON ’ U OLLINS NIVERSITY Greg W. MARSHALL R C STUART OLLEGE Elnora W. THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editorial Director: Sally Yagan Editor in Chief: Eric Svendsen Acquisitions Editor: Melissa Sabella Director of Editorial Services: Ashley Santora Editorial Project Manager: Kierra Bloom Editorial Assistant: Elisabeth Scarpa Director of Marketing: Patrice Lumumba Jones Senior Marketing Manager: Anne Fahlgren Marketing Assistant: Melinda Jensen Senior Managing Editor: Judy Leale Project Manager: Becca Richter Senior Operations Supervisor: Arnold Vila Creative Director: Jon Christiana Senior Art Director: Blair Brown Text and Cover Designer: Blair Brown Media Project Manager, Production: Lisa Rinaldi Media Project Manager, Editorial: Denise Vaughn Full-Service Project Management: S4Carlisle Publishing Services Composition: S4Carlisle Publishing Services Printer/Bindery: Courier/Kendalville Cover Printer: Courier/Kendalville Text Font: Palatino Credits and acknowledgments borrowed from other sources and reproduced, with permission, in this textbook...
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...How did the deregulation of air transportation in Europe foster entrepreneurial behavior and innovation in the European airline industry over the last twenty years? Case studies: SAS Airline & Ryanair Master Thesis in Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Business Contexts Spring 2007 Supervisor: Håkan Bohman Entrepreneurship Master Program Authors: Gilles Helterlin and Nuno Ramalho Acknowledgements We would like to express our gratitude to all who have contributed to the realization of this Master Thesis. A warm thank to our supervisor, Håkan Bohman from USBE (Umeå School of Business), for his guidance, his precious help and his advises during the last months. To Mr. Lundvall, from LFV (Luftfartsverket), Mr. Valinger from Scandinavian Airline and Mr. Wilsberg from SAS Braathens, Jessica Eriksson and Thomas Pettersson from USBE, thank you for your availability, willingness in answering our questions and for their so precious collaboration with interviews, comments and suggestions. Thank you also Sweden for the wonderful moments we have spent here. We will never forget your nature (your elks), your cold winter (-30°C), your long nights in winter and your short nights in late spring!! It has been a great experience and adventure up there in Northern Sweden!! We will miss you… Finally we would like to thank particularly the Studentexpedition for its kindness, without forgetting our family and friends (from Sweden, France, Portugal and Greece) for their everlasting daily support...
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...How to Make Money in Stocks 19A3265 How to Make Money in Stocks A Winning System in Good Times or Bad William J. O'Neil Second Edition McGraw-Hill, Inc. New York San Francisco Washington, D.C. Auckland Bogota Caracas Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan Montreal New Delhi San Jüan Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data O'Neil, William J. How to inake money in Stocks : a winning System in good times or bad / William J. O'Neil.—2nd ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-07-048059-1 (hc) 1. Investments. 2. Stocks. Success in a free country is simple. Get a Job, get an education, and learn to save and invest wisely. Anyone can do it. You can do it. —ISBN 0-07-048017-6 (pb) I. Title. HG4521.0515 1995 332.63'22—dc20 94-28192 CIP Copyright © 1995, 1991, 1988 by McGraw-Hill, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except äs permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval System, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 DOC/DOC DOC/DOC 909 909 7 6 5 4 (HC) 7 6 5 4 (PBK) ISBN 0-07-048059-1 (hc) ISBN 0-07-048017-6 (pbk) The Sponsoring editorfor this book was Philip Ruppel, the editing Supervisor was Fred Bernardi, and the production Supervisor was Suzanne Babeuf. It...
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...Includes Over Two Hours of Bonus Audio on the CD Includes Real-World Scenarios and Leading-Edge Exam Prep Software Featuring: Updated for the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Fourth Edition • Custom Test Engine • Hundreds of Sample Questions • Chapter Review in Audio Format • Electronic Flashcards • Entire Book in PDF PMP Fifth Edition SERIOUS SKILLS. ® Project Management Professional Exam STUDY GUIDE Kim Heldman Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide Fifth Edition PMP ® Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide Fifth Edition PMP ® Kim Heldman Acquisitions Editor: Jeff Kellum Development Editor: Alexa Murphy Technical Editors: Terri Wagner and Brett Feddersen Production Editor: Christine O’Connor Copy Editor: Judy Flynn Production Manager: Tim Tate Vice President and Executive Group Publisher: Richard Swadley Vice President and Publisher: Neil Edde Project Manager 1: Laura Moss-Hollister Associate Producer: Angie Denny Quality Assurance: Josh Frank Book Designers: Judy Fung, Bill Gibson Compositor: Craig Woods, Happenstance Type-O-Rama Proofreader: Publication Services, Inc. Indexer: Nancy Guenther Project Coordinator, Cover: Lynsey Stanford Cover Designer: Ryan Sneed Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-45558-6 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form...
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...Quantitative Business Valuation Other Titles in the Irwin Library of Investment and Finance Convertible Securities by John P. Calamos Pricing and Managing Exotic and Hybrid Options by Vineer Bhansali Risk Management and Financial Derivatives by Satyajit Das Valuing Intangible Assets by Robert F. Reilly and Robert P. Schweihs Managing Financial Risk by Charles W. Smithson High-Yield Bonds by Theodore Barnhill, William Maxwell, and Mark Shenkman Valuing Small Business and Professional Practices, 3rd edition by Shannon Pratt, Robert F. Reilly, and Robert P. Schweihs Implementing Credit Derivatives by Israel Nelken The Handbook of Credit Derivatives by Jack Clark Francis, Joyce Frost, and J. Gregg Whittaker The Handbook of Advanced Business Valuation by Robert F. Reilly and Robert P. Schweihs Global Investment Risk Management by Ezra Zask Active Portfolio Management 2nd edition by Richard Grinold and Ronald Kahn The Hedge Fund Handbook by Stefano Lavinio Pricing, Hedging, and Trading Exotic Options by Israel Nelken Equity Management by Bruce Jacobs and Kenneth Levy Asset Allocation, 3rd edition by Roger Gibson Valuing a Business, 4th edition by Shannon P. Pratt, Robert F. Reilly, and Robert Schweihs The Relative Strength Index Advantage by Andrew Cardwell and John Hayden Quantitative Business Valuation A Mathematical Approach for Today’s Professional JAY B. ABRAMS, ASA, CPA, MBA McGRAW-HILL New York San Francisco Washington, D.C. Auckland Bogota ´ Caracas Lisbon London...
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...cover next page > title author publisher isbn10 | asin print isbn13 ebook isbn13 language subject publication date lcc ddc subject : : : : : : : : : : : cover next page > < previous page page_i next page > Page i Dictionary of Accounting Terms Third Edition Joel G. Siegel, PhD, CPA Professor of Accounting Queens College of the City University of New York Jae K. Shim, PhD Professor of Accounting College of Business Administration California State University, Long Beach < previous page page_i next page > < previous page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS page_ii next page > Page ii The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions made by reviewers John Downes, formerly of the New York City Office of Economic Development, and Dr. G. Thomas Friedlob, Professor of Accounting at Clemson University. Their in-depth evaluations have been of great importance to the technical accuracy of the manuscript. Gerald J. Barry suggested many meaningful insertions and deletions that greatly enhanced the authors' prose. Thanks also go to Roberta Siegel and Cher Ragge for their assistance with the computer terms, graphics, and word processing. Anna Damaskos, Don Reis, Sally Strauss, and Eileen Prigge of Barron's have been invaluable during the many stages of editing the manuscript into its bound book form. © Copyright 2000 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. Prior editions © 1995, 1987 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this...
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...To my mother and grandmother, whose engineering endeavors paved the way for my own. Copyright © 2011 by Gayle Laakmann. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600, or on the web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials. The advice and strategies...
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