...Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the behaviour of economic sentiment indicators at rent-growth turning points and indicators’ ability to forecast such turning points. More specifically, the paper looks at whether early signals are generated for forthcoming periods of negative and positive office rent growth. The analysis aims to complement structural model forecasting in the real estate market with short-term forecasting techniques designed to predict turning points. Design/methodology/approach – The objective of this study is achieved by deploying a probit model to examine the ability of economic sentiment indicator series to signal the direction of office rents and the strength of movement in this direction. The main advantage of this approach is that it is geared towards predicting turning points. Probit models are non-linear in nature, and as such they can capture more effectively the likely asymmetric adjustments when turning points occur than linear methodologies would. The analysis is applied to three major office centres – La De´fense, London City, and Frankfurt – to examine whether the results will differ by geography. Findings – The findings reveal that the probit methodology utilising information from economic sentiment indicators generates advance signals for periods of contraction and expansion in office rents across all three markets: La De´fense, London City, and Frankfurt. The lead times for La De´fense and Frankfurt are longer than...
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...Background of Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) and his artwork Alessandro de Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, also is known as Sandro Botticelli. He was born in 1445, Florence, Italy and he was one of the Italian painters during Early Renaissance. In 1460, he learned painting from the Renaissance painter, namely as Fra Filippo Lippi. Botticelli was a talented painter and he was able to open a workshop at the age of 15. “Birth of Venus” and “Primavera,” both of that were his earliest artwork. The “Birth of Venus,” is the first mythological painting created by Botticelli and it has display as the Goddess Venus that explains her birth. Moreover, the “Primavera” the largest mythological work and it has a humanistic nature and translating the life-renewing cultural to society. The inspiration of the “La Primavera,” is from the influence of Gothic realism by Botticelli's study of the antique. During the World War Two, “Primavera” was moved to Montegufoni Castle. It was returned to the Uffizi Gallery where it remains to the present day. The painting being restored in 1982 and had darkened with time's cruel passage. Who is the target audience? Primavera, known as “Allegory of Spring,” is the greatest works at the Uffizi Museum in Florence, Italy. The origin of the painting is unclear, but we can detect the Primavera’s target audience by knowing the history of painting. The powerful families such as Medici family gave the funding of Patrons to artist such as Botticelli to complete the masterpiece...
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...Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 93–111, 2005 Ó 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Printed in Great Britain 0160-7383/$30.00 doi:10.1016/j.annals.2004.05.001 MARKET SEGMENTATION A Neural Network Application Jonathan Z. Bloom University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Abstract: The objective of the research is to consider a self-organizing neural network for segmenting the international tourist market to Cape Town, South Africa. A backpropagation neural network is used to complement the segmentation by generating additional knowledge based on input–output relationship and sensitivity analyses. The findings of the self-organizing neural network indicate three clusters, which are visually confirmed by developing a comparative model based on the test data set. The research also demonstrated that Cape Metropolitan Tourism could deploy the neural network models and track the changing behavior of tourists within and between segments. Marketing implications for the Cape are also highlighted. Keywords: segmentation, SOM neural network, input–output analysis, sensitivity analysis, deployment. Ó 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ´ ´ Resume: Segmentation du marche: une application du reseau neuronal. Le but de la ´ ´ recherche est de considerer un reseau neuronal auto-organisateur pour segmenter le marche ´ ´ ´ touristique international a Cape Town, en Afrique du Sud. On utilise un reseau neuronal de ` ´ retropropogation pour completer la segmentation en generant...
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...According to the UN-Habitat, state of the world’s cities, 2008/09, page 129, a major flood in Surat, India, in 1994 resulted in an outbreak of a plague-like disease, and the official inquiry cited uncollected solid waste of which plastics are of greater percentage blocking drains. The disease caused panic country-wide and while the citizens blame the municipality, the public authorities in turn blamed the citizens for their lack of civic sense. Such a phenomenon of blame games when it comes to waste management and whose responsibility is it occurs in most major cities in the developing world, and Accra, Ghana is no exception. Solid waste management is a herculean task and can easily become a crisis if it is ignored. A solid waste crisis can...
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...Consumer behavior notes dream of a lost paradise where the ravages of time and history have been held back, where human beings live in harmony with nature, and where the wisdom of the planet is saved for future generations. In other words, to a Shangri-La. The story of Shangri-La itself is a modern one, told by the English novelist James Hilton in his novel Lost Horizon(1933). To start my paper we should use page 380 from the book retail stores as brands: performance, theatre and space spatial settings and the aesthetic structuring of a range of expressive artefacts are increasingly pervasive components of the construction and communication of brands AS per the consumer culture theory, service scape studies generally include environmental dimensions such as ambient conditions (noise, music and aromas) and space (design, layout and furnishing) as well as signs and symbols (style and personal artefacts) . If brands represent symphonies of meaning, managers must be viewed as orchestrators and conductors as well as composers, whose role is not only to coordinate and synchronise but also to create space and spatial arrangement(s) in retail shops as used to construct and to communicate a brand theatrical experience: This perspective allows us to understand how a theatre removes consumers from everyday life and isolates them in a constructed environment in order to create a unique and aesthetic experience to be used for first page for work introduction: In this way,...
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...inefficient learning styles and habits. Study habits are actions or manners that enable students to learn independently. It may require time and management. It is an adopted way or style that a student may plan to do private readings, reflect and understand lessons to attain mastery of the subject. According to Azikiwe (as cited by Tope, 2011) good study habits are good assets to learners because it assists students to attain mastery in areas of specialization and consequent excellent performance, while opposite constitute constraints to learning and achievement leading to failure. Developing productive study habits may greatly determine students’ success in taking examinations, earning a degree and completing assignments on time. By nature, habits are regular automatic tasks. With a regular study habit, the pain and struggle of trying to motivate oneself to study can greatly reduce the amount of stress during exam time as developing self-awareness will improve effective study techniques that will work for a particular learning style (Joseph,2009). Effective study habits are essential for success in college (Gates, 2005). When it comes to studying for a test in college you will find that you are basically left to study on your own. Some classes do not review for a test they expect you to have been following the course so far and taking notes. You will see that in college the notes you take will...
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...Advertising Campaign By Mark Jozaitis Hali Nepsha Adrian Aguirre Prepared for: Management of Maple City Building Services, LLC and April 2016 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Situation Analysis 4 Industry Analysis 4 Company Analysis 4 Service Analysis 4 Market Share 5 Strategy 6 Distribution 7 Competitive Analysis 8 Promotional Strategy 8 SWOT Analysis 9 Target Market & Segmentation 10 Creative Strategy 11 Print Media 12 Electronic Media 14 Internet Media 16 Out-of-Home Media 19 Direct Mail 22 Specialty Advertising – Exhibitive – Supplementary 24 Sales Promotion 27 Public Relations 27 Corporate Advertising 27 Pre-Testing and Post-Testing 29 Budget 29 Supplementary 29 References 29 Executive Summary Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary Blank Text. Executive Summary...
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...employment, product and services, publicity and sales. Retail paper and plastic bags are common packaging tools in the market but due to environmental issues and the public’s awareness more people are decided to use retail paper bag instead of plastic. Paper bags are used for many things, to put up lunches for kids, to bring in the groceries, to take out the trash, to hold the things and help us stay organized. Many markets have switched from plastic bags to paper bags. Paper bags are less expensive. Cost Effectiveness is one of the reasons why they prefer paper bag other than plastic bag. Many vendors and consumers have complained about using plastic bags to put their goods. Some market and grocery stores now give a choice between paper bags or plastic bags. Some Smart shoppers choose to use paper bags instead of plastic assuming that it is an environmentally friendly and better alternative. Paper Bags are usually made up of plant fibers substance from fibrous cellulose materials as rags, woods, or barks. Paper bags were invented in the 1850’s. Paper bags are recyclable. Well known grocery stores, supermarkets, fast food chain, establishment and markets uses brown paper bags to hold their items since there are laws that are implemented to ban the usage of plastic bags in some provinces and cities in the Philippines. Paper bags can easily be disposed and not a harmful thing in the environment...
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...effects on the job performance of working students in selected colleges in cavite Jaime A. Enoc Jr., Aileen C. Juera De La Salle University – Dasmariñas City of Dasmariñas, Province of Cavite Abstract Education is considered as one of the valuable thing for every Filipino that they can achieve. It became a culture for every Filipino family to have even one member of the family to finish the education with a Diploma. This now became the answer for poverty for most of them. That is why even though the path to achieve success through education is seem to be narrow and steep, they still strive for excellence. That is why Filipino youth who really want to pursue their education chose to work while studying because of the incapability of their parents to support them financially. But due to their oath-to-work together with their responsibility as a student, how can they perform well in their job despite of their school responsibility? This study, therefore, was undertaken to find out how are they going to perform in a job while being a student at the same time. More specifically, it sought to answer the following questions: * Is schooling hindrance working students to perform to their job well? Or vice versa? * Is there any aspect that hinders the student to perform in their job? * Are they satisfied with their current job that can make them perform in the job well? * Are they more effective in their work environment than others? [Click here to add keywords...
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...Grant Proposal and Presentation Learning Team A: Leslie Hernandez, Marcy Melendrez, Dominic Nakagawa and Liz Ragasa BSHS 451 February 13th, 2014 Professor Michele Howser Grant Proposal and Presentation Cover Letter February 13th, 2014 Leslie Hernandez Founder & President Human Nature Project 1234 Human Nature Ave. Las Vegas, Nevada 89149 Dear Mr. Mike Sprinkle, We are requesting $79,272 for our agency to hire on two full-time advocates to represent our clients who are underage prostitutes who are seeking to become productive members of society. Human Nature Project will bring two full time advocates to work in our agency’s office to help bring our clients into a partnership within our community. Our agency is located at 1234 Human Nature Ave., Las Vegas Nevada 89149. We believe this request fits under your giving area of Nevada Anti-Prostitution Organization because of your community’s helpful citizen give back program. Our vision and mission are central to our efforts in generating funds for these advocates: The Human Nature Project’s mission is help to women change their situations by giving them hope to transform their lives and no longer be victimized. A new way of life and view of self-worth for the victims of underage prostitution to have a new start within their community is needed here in Clark County for the following reasons: 1) Children cannot consent to prostitution and are considered to be victims of child sex trafficking 2)...
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...De La Salle University-Dasmariñas COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTANCY Dasmariñas DBB-B, Dasmariñas City, Cavite ________________________________________________________________ Math Anxiety among College of Tourism and Hospitality Management Students of De La Salle University: An Illness or a Psychological Mentality? In partial fulfillment of the requirements in English 102: Information Literacy (A Research Paper) By: Bongcac, Francis Dianne De Jesus, Alyssa Marie Pialago, Mary Anne Solayao, Elizabeth Viesca, Jr., Rolando NON07 September 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page................................................................................................................. i Table of Contents..................................................................................................... ii INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................... 1 Nature and Importance of the Study............................................................. 1 Statement of the Problem............................................................................. 4 Respondents of the Study………………………………………………………. 4 METHODOLOGY………………………………………………………………………… RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS.............................................................................. SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS...................................... Summary.....................................................
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...TRANSITIONS IN TEACHING STRATEGIES OF HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY TEACHERS: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH Mark Joseph C. Diaz Jerah Mae G. Gilos Kenneth P. Guilan Nerissa E. Sorolla Chapter 1 Introduction to the Study Chapter One has five parts: (1) Background and Theoretical Framework of the Study, (2) Statement of the Problem, (3) Significance of the Study (4) Definition of Terms, and (5) Scope and Delimitation of the Study. Part One, Background and Theoretical Framework of the Study, justifies the need for the investigation, describes the origin of the study, discusses the importance of selecting the problem, and the reason for conducting it. Part Two, Statement of the Problem, presents the purpose and enumerates the problems answered in the study. Part Three, Significance of the Study, states and tells the importance and benefits that may be derived from the findings. Part Four, Definition of Terms, clarifies the meaning of the terms used in this investigation. Part Five, Scope and Delimitation of the Study, sets the limit and scope of the investigation. Background of the Study Throughout the history, societies have sought to educate people to produce goods and services, to respond effectively and creatively to their world and to satisfy their curiosity and aesthetic impulses. Education involves theory and empirical sets of knowledge and learning as well. Teaching is the process of helping their learners economically and efficiently. It is...
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...teaching of English using the first language (L1). This presentation hopes to address these concerns by proposing a World Englishes (WE) approach to English language teaching (ELT) in the Philippines. Introduction ! Just recently, a college freshman who interviewed me for his research paper on mother-tongue based multilingual education (MTBMLE) asked why I supported its promotion even it meant possibly losing my job as an English teacher. The question did not surprise me as it was something that I often encountered whenever teachers, especially English teachers in Metro Manila, are confronted with this unfamiliar creature that is MTBMLE. ! To many stakeholders of the English language--lawmakers, school administrators, teachers, and parents--MTBMLE is perceived as a threat. It is specifically perceived to be anti-English. These perceptions may be traced to beliefs about English that may largely be considered as myths. Facts about the English language ! What do we know about the English language? Let’s consider some facts. Paper presented at the Panel Presentation on ENGAGING ELT IN THE MTBMLE DISCOURSE 2nd Philippine Conference - Workshop on MTBMLE, 16 February 2012, Iloilo City (page 1) • There are approximately 375 million English L1 speakers, 375 million L2 speakers, and 750...
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...HISTORY AND THEORY STUDIES FIRST YEAR Terms 1 and 2 Course Lecturers: CHRISTOPHER PIERCE / BRETT STEELE (Term 1) Course Lecturer: PIER VITTORIO AURELI (Term 2) Course Tutor: MOLLIE CLAYPOOL Teaching Assistants: FABRIZIO BALLABIO SHUMI BOSE POL ESTEVE Course Structure The course runs for 3 hours per week on Tuesday mornings in Terms 1 and 2. There are four parallel seminar sessions. Each seminar session is divided into parts, discussion and submission development. Seminar 10.00-12.00 Mollie Claypool, Fabrizio Ballabio, Shumi Bose and Pol Esteve Lecture 12.00-13.00 Christopher Pierce, Brett Steele and Pier Vittorio Aureli Attendance Attendance is mandatory to both seminars and lectures. We expect students to attend all lectures and seminars. Attendance is tracked to both seminars and lectures and repeated absence has the potential to affect your final mark and the course tutor and undergraduate coordinator will be notified. Marking Marking framework adheres to a High Pass with Distinction, High Pass, Pass, Low Pass, Complete-toPass system. Poor attendance can affect this final mark. Course Materials Readings for each week are provided both online on the course website at aafirstyearhts.wordpress.com and on the course library bookshelf. Students are expected to read each assigned reading every week to be discussed in seminar. The password to access the course readings is “readings”. TERM 1: CANONICAL BUILDINGS, PROJECTS, TEXTS In this first term of...
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...and other cities all over England. A major debate arose about the inner causes of the insurrections and the media and politicians promptly pointed out several hypothesis. The August 2011 events have been primarily interpreted, especially amongst the political class, through a lens that emphasises criminality. ,one prominent argument advocates that the cause of the unrest was the moral decay of ‘a feral underclass’ (Scrambler; Grover 2011) However, many of such explanations tend to be mostly speculative and they often fail to provide a consistent account of the causes of the riots based on solid evidence (the LSE/theguardian, 2011, Solomos, 2011). Against this background this essay attempts to disentangle the motives of the London 2011 riots, by focusing on the relations of causality between factors and events that led to the burst of the unrest. It argues that urban social inequalities as well as uneven processes of exclusion and inclusion of a marginalised class are the main factor underlying the disturbances. Yet this essay claims that these riots need also to be analysed in the very specific context in which they have arisen: the financial crisis, a society which is becoming increasingly consumerist in its orientation, the disputable role of the police, loss of faith in the political class and hopelessness towards the future amongst the urban youth. In the first part this essay analyses inequality indicators and trends embracing the multidimensional nature of social...
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