...inventions to the world. Since there are a lot of ancient Chinese inventions, in this essay I would like to give information about some of the very interesting and useful ten ancient Chinese inventions that I believe we cannot imagine without them today. 1. Toilet Paper Toilet paper was one of the very important Chinese inventions that we cannot imagine living our life without. Toilet paper was used in China for the first time in history during 6th century AD. In 589 AD a famous scholar Yan Zhitui wrote about the use of toilet paper and the word spread throughout China and toilet paper became popular in China. 2. Ice Cream Ice cream, our favourite treat is another surprising invention in ancient China. It became a new invention 3000 years ago when rich Chinese families started to treat their guests to sweet juices mixed with snow or ice. Marco Polo brought it to Europe and it became popular in the world. 3. Paper Paper is one of the major contributions to spread development of human civilisation in the world. China made the first proper paper during the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC- 9AD). However, Cai Lun of the Eastern Dynasty (25-220) successfully invented the very first batch of paper using fish net, tree bars,...
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...Experience Marcos dictatorship in Thailand By: Joel Ruiz Butuyan IF FILIPINO voters who are motivated with a longing to bring back the Marcos years will have their way in the May elections, all Filipino Facebook users will be in jail. This was my conclusion after a four-day stay in Thailand last week to witness the court trials of two political prisoners, and to meet with journalists and lawyers who are fighting to keep the embers of freedom alive despite the authoritarian rule of a military junta. I was in Thailand as the representative of the Center for International Law (Centerlaw), a nongovernment organization founded by my colleague Harry Roque. Centerlaw represents victims of human rights violations, especially persecuted advocates of freedom of expression. It is working to strengthen the network of free expression advocates in Southeast Asia. For four days, I listened to stories of arbitrary arrest and detention, intimidation, and some instances of torture committed by the very government that is supposed to protect the Thai citizenry against such crimes. It is all too reminiscent of the martial rule of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. The Thai military junta, euphemistically known as the National Council for Peace and Order, mounted a coup d’état and ousted the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The junta imposed martial law when it seized power in May 2014, and while the regime officially lifted it in April 2015, Thailand remains under martial...
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...Industry: Adjustments and Upgrading Series 2008-08 Oscar Lagman The DLSU-AKI Working Paper Series represents research in progress. This paper is preliminary, unreviewed and subject to further revisions and final editing. The views and opinions in this paper are of the author(s) and do not represent the position or opinions of DLSU-AKI or its Members, nor the official position of any staff members. Limited copies of this paper can be requested from DLSU-Angelo King Institute, Room LS223, De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, 1004 Manila, Philippines. Please request papers by number and title. Tel. No: (632) 524-5333; (632) 524-5369; Fax No: (632) 524-5347. DLSU-AKI Working Paper Series 2008-08 Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Philippine Tourism Attractions Deterrents to the Growth of Tourism Isolation of Major Destinations Boracay Palawan Camiguin Bohol The DOT’s ational Tourism Strategy Development of Cluster Destinations Packaged Tours The Department of Tourism Marketing Effort Public-Private Sector Partnership in Tourism Development The PCCI BIZTOURS 5 Marketing the Ilocandia Region Conclusion - A Bright Outlook 3 4 6 7 9 9 9 10 10 12 14 17 20 21 22 23 25 RP-US FTA: Philippine Tourism Industry 2 May 2008 DLSU-AKI Working Paper Series 2008-08 Abstract Tourism plays an important role in the socio-economic development of a country. This paper examined the Philippine’s tourism attractions, particularly major destinations like Boracay,...
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...soldadas y de los valores obtenidos en las curvas esfuerzodeformación para estas barras se evalúan sus modos de falla y los principales parámetros que definen estas curvas. Los resultados de este estudio indican que no se deben soldar barras de refuerzo en estructuras en zonas sísmicas de México. Además, por las buenas características de soldabilidad de barras de refuerzo con aceros de baja aleación, especificados por la normativa Mexicana NMX-B-457 (ASTM A706), se recomienda empezar la producción en México de este tipo de refuerzo para ser empleado en estructuras en zonas sísmicas de nuestro país. ABSTRACT This paper studies the effects of welding on mechanical properties of Mexican reinforcing bars that are produced following the NMX C-407 specification (ASTM 615). The reinforcing bars were welded using direct butt joints and arc welding. A total of 54 reinforcing bars were welded, with the following diameters, 1”(25.4 mm),...
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...Lauder Business School, Intercultural Management and Leadership Wendy’s or Vapiano? In initial Research: How companies present quality of their products and services to the public Prepared by Svitlana Kyazimova Vienna, 2010 Table of content Introduction 1. What are my expectations from the restaurants? 2. Wendy’s valuation 3. Vapiano valuation 4. Personal experience of being a Vapiano customer Conclusion Introduction A quality is an attribute or a property. Subjectively, something might be good because it is useful, because it is beautiful, or simply because it exists. Determining or finding qualities therefore involves understanding what is useful, what is beautiful and what exists. Commonly, quality can mean degree of excellence, as in, "a quality product" or "work of average quality". The quality of a product or service refers to the perception of the degree to which the product or service meets the customer's expectations. The quality management and quality control should be performed in all the levels. The scheme bellow demonstrates how the quality management functions in the Fast-food restaurants: In my initial research I would like to investigate two companies from the same business sector which is Entertainment and the industry is Restaurants. My choice fell on fast food Wendy’s from Wendy's/Arby's Group (USA/Canada) and Vapiano International...
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...culture as a democratic space for active citizenship among Filipino youth A Research Paper presented by: Marie Angelie Resurreccion Philippines in partial fulfillment of the requirements for obtaining the degree of MASTERS OF ARTS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Specialization: Children and Youth Studies (CYS) Members of the examining committee: Dr. Linda Herrera [Supervisor] Prof. Dr. Ben White [Reader] The Hague, The Netherlands November, 2009 Disclaimer: This document represents part of the author’s study programme while at the Institute of Social Studies. The views stated therein are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Institute. Research papers are not made available for circulation outside of the Institute. Inquiries: Postal address: Institute of Social Studies P.O. Box 29776 2502 LT The Hague The Netherlands Kortenaerkade 12 2518 AX The Hague The Netherlands +31 70 426 0460 +31 70 426 0799 Location: Telephone: Fax: ii Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Acronyms Abstract Key Words Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 The Filipino Youth and Media in Recent Philippine History The Marcos Regime: Youth in the Streets The 1986 People Power: The Culmination of Protests The Post-1986 Youth: Disengaged or Disillusioned? People Power II: The Rise of GenTxt Postscript 2001: ‘People Power Fatigue?’ Media and Technology: Expanding Youth Spaces 1.2 Research Objectives and Questions 1.3 Case Studies Philippine Educational Theater Organization...
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...Agricultural Research The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) is one of the staff bureaus of the Department of Agriculture (DA) which was established to lead and coordinate the national agriculture and fisheries research and development (R&D) in the country. BAR is committed to consolidate, strengthen, and develop the agriculture and fisheries R&D system for the purpose of improving its effectiveness and efficiency by ensuring customer satisfaction and continuous improvement through work excellence, teamwork and networking, accountability and innovation. Mission To attain food security and reduce poverty through technology-based agriculture and fisheries sector Vision "A better life for Filipinos through excellence in agriculture and fisheries research and development" Mandate Executive Order 116, under the 1986 Freedom Constitution, created the Bureau of Agricultural Research with the mandate: "…to ensure that all agricultural research is coordinated and undertaken for maximum utility to agriculture. It shall tap farmers, farmer organizations, and research institutions, especially the State Colleges and Universities, in the conduct of research for the use of the Ministry and its clientele, particularly the farmers/fishermen and other rural workers." Further expanded and strengthened the mandate of BAR by providing leadership in enhancing, consolidating and unifying the national and regional agriculture and fisheries research and development...
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...SECTION 1 Project Name The Knot Project Background Wendy and her boyfriend Bob, now fiancé, have announced to her parents that they plan to get married once they have completed their Project Management course. Their course come to end 3 months from now, therefore their wedding is schedule to be on February 11th, 2015. The parents would thus like to plan and throw a memorable wedding and reception for their daughter and her fiancé. Project Justification - Business Case This project charter, entitled The Knot, suggests a business case for the preparation of the wedding for Wendy and Bob. The project of The Knot has begun after the initial shock and response to Wendy’s engagement announcement by her parents. Given the time constraint of 3 month, this project will outline, design, and execute a wedding that will be an unforgettable experience for both families and their guests. The parents have decided that the overall budget will be in the order of $20,000, with an invitation list of 150 guests, which will create a proper and legal ceremony followed by a formal reception. The Knot will therefore be developed and submitted for approval to the Project Sponsors, as well as to the Project Executives. The business case of the project charter may also be periodically reviewed, given the time constraint of 3 months, to ensure that the project is on track to deliver the implementations and to ensure the project effectively and efficiently meets the needs to the memorable wedding...
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...Roasting in Hell’s Kitchen Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection To Mum, from cottage pie to Humble Pie – you deserve a medal. CONTENTS foreword 1 Dad 2 Football 3 Getting Started 4 French Leave 5 Oceans Apart 6 A Room of My Own 7 War 8 The Great Walk-Out 9 The Sweet Smell of Success 10 Ronnie 11 Down Among the Women 12 Welcome to the Small Screen afterword index 7 11 39 59 87 113 127 143 157 171 203 237 251 273 279 PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT PICTURE CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHOR CREDITS COVER COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER FOREWORD I n my hand, I’ve got a piece of paper. It’s Mum’s handwriting, and it’s a list – a very long list – of all the places we lived until I left home. I look at this list now, and there are just so many of them. My eye moves down the page, trying to take in her spidery scribble, and I soon lose track. These places mean very little to me: it’s funny how few of them I can remember. In some cases, I guess that’s because we were hardly there for more than five minutes. But in others, it’s probably more a case of trying to forget about them as soon as possible. When you’re unhappy in a place, you want to forget about it as soon as possible. You don’t dwell on the details of a house if you associate it with being afraid, or ashamed, or poor – and as a boy, I was often afraid and ashamed, and always poor. Life was a series of escapades, of moves that always ended badly. The next place was always going to be a better place – a...
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...1 TEACHING - LEARNING METHODS IN ACCOUNTING EDUCATION - AN EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN THE BRAZILIAN SCENARIO Prof. Edson Luiz Riccio, Ph.D. - e-mail: elriccio@usp.br BSc. Marici Cristine Gramacho Sakata - e-mail: mcsakata@usp.br Affiliation: University of São Paulo - Brazil Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accountancy Department of Accountancy and Actuary Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto 908 - FEA3 05508-900 – Sao Paulo – Brasil FAX: 55-11- 813 01 20 PHONE: 55-11- 3818 58 20 ABSTRACT The Teaching of Accounting is facing nowadays a significant challenge. Reason is that it aims educating youngster that are going to work in companies that use advanced Information Technologies and endeavor promoting continuous organizational changes. Those changes require constant attention and continuous adaptation from both academics and practitioners. To succeed, a neophyte has to be prepared on how to deal with these changes. It means not only receiving the necessary knowledge but also the abilities to adapt himself. In general, it is accepted that if a Course provides the student with proper knowledge utilization skills, and necessary abilities the student will be able to adapt to the difficulties of a changing environment. It is recognized that the teaching method can influence in the development of several abilities such as: cooperation, leadership, responsibility, self-confidence, independence, and ability to decision making and communication skills. The purpose of this work is to study the...
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...ASSESSMENT BSBMKG501B - Identify and evaluate marketing opportunities BSBMKG502B – Establish and Adjust the Marketing Mix Assignment By Aliomar Miranda Filgueira Galvão Student’s I.D. number: A106588 Table Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Evaluation 4 3. Swot Analysis 7 3.1 Conclusion 8 4. Marketing Plan 9 4.1 Product 9 4.2 Price 9 4.3 Place 10 4.4 Promotion 10 4.5 Features and Benefits 10 5. Conclusion 12 Reference 13 1. Introduction Australian domestic airlines industry has recently had a major change in competitiveness when Virgin Blue entered on the market. Their low cost fares strategy quickly captured 25% of the market share. Analysts have predicted that Virgin Blue would grow to reach a third of the market until next year. The success of the Virgin Blue’s new business model is based on the balance between affordable airfares and company’s profitability. This model leaded to a new consumer behavior, forcing QANTAS to study the new market niche and consequently study the feasibility of opening a new low-cost airlines. The aim of this study is to propose to the creation of a new company for Australian domestic airline called KOALA AIRLINES. Two questions must be answered by the study: first, how will this new airline affect QANTAS business? Second, should we undertake this opportunity? 2. Evaluation Some initial questions...
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...I. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ASPECT 1. Description of Products and Services Chocolicious delight is derived from chocolates that are so delicious that will even make your cravings more satisfied by its aroma and sense of being new in a way consumers tend to be curious on what taste it will be. The products that we offer in our shop has multi-varietal flavors that we have incorporated to make it unique among other common flavors of chocolates that are being sold at the market as of now, we have infused twenty one flavors of chocolates mainly nine fruits and six vegetables in which each has its own distinct taste and aroma that will compliment with our chocolates and make it sure it will blend well with the texture and taste level of our consumers preference and these chocolate flavors are the following. We also have the list of the standard recipe for making our chocolates. Fruit Flavors | Vegetable Flavors | Chesa | Corn | Dragon Fruit | Singkamas | Lanzones | Potato | Rambutan | Squash | Guapple | Sayote | Guyabano | Ampalaya | Marang | | Avocado | | Chocolate butterscotch balls covered with Graham This recipe is made of dark or white chocolates with a flavor of exotic fruits and healthy veggies that where dip with shortening, chocolate, and filled with soft chewy butterscotch mixture covered with crunchy graham bits. These “Coco or Choco balls” as we call it vary in different sizes and texture according to the flavor of chocolate. Chocolate Truffles ...
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...harder to make customers happy — before, during, and after their purchases. © 2011 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. Creating a CustomerCentered Organization A Harvard Business Review Insight Center Report CONTENTS 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 Create Brand Superfans Matthew Rhoden How Philips Uses Net Promoter Scores to Understand Customers Suhail Khan What Zipcar Can Teach the S&P 500 Stephen Wunker How Fidelity Used Design Thinking to Perfect Its Website Frederick S. Leichter The Coming Point-of-Sale Revolution Grant McCracken Using Mobile Phones to Capture Customer Experiences Emma Macdonald, Hugh Wilson, and Umut Konus How to Play Marco Polo When Setting Prices Rafi Mohammed Beyond Mass Customization B. Joseph Pine II Understand Your Customers with Colored Pencils and Cartoons Eddie Yoon Coca-Cola Marketing Shifts from Impressions to Expressions Joe Tripodi Memorable Events Are the Most Valuable Experiences B. Joseph Pine II Why Nokia’s Collapse Should Scare Apple Patrick Barwise and Seán Meehan CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE www.hbr.org CONTENTS, CONTINUED 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 Why Retail Workers (Like Me) Drive...
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...percent of voters from the 1950s to over 11% in the twenty-first century (Abramowitz 27). With this information in mind, it would make sense that the Democratic establishment is today trying to initiate immigration reform in the United States Senate, knowing that they’ll have an increasing amount of support from their Latino electorate. It should also be noted that although the Democrats harbor a substantial share of the Latino vote, the battle isn’t a lost cause for Republicans, with Bush winning the 2004 Presidency with more than 40% of the Latino vote and one-third of Latino votes in general going to Republicans (Bibby 337-338). It seems the Republicans already know this, and are seemingly trying to capitalize on this with the insertion of Marco Rubio in...
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...Constitution From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Constitution (disambiguation). A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.[1] These rules together make up, i.e.constitute, what the entity is. When these principles are written down into a single document or set of legal documents, those documents may be said to embody a writtenconstitution; if they are written down in a single comprehensive document, it is said to embody a codified constitution. Constitutions concern different levels of organizations, from sovereign states to companies and unincorporated associations. A treaty which establishes an international organization is also its constitution, in that it would define how that organization is constituted. Within states, a constitution defines the principles upon which the state is based, the procedure in which laws are made and by whom. Some constitutions, especially codified constitutions, also act as limiters of state power, by establishing lines which a state's rulers cannot cross, such as fundamental rights. An example is the constitution of the United States of America. George Washington at Constitutional Conventionof 1787 signing of the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution of India is the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world,[2] containing 444 articles in 22 parts,[3][4] 12 schedules and 118 amendments, with 117...
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