...purchase processes including customer satisfaction and consumer loyalty) (Quester, et al. 2011), and compare the differences in response and behavior between the two interviewees. In addition, this report discusses ‘consumers prefer choose known brand’ and the factors influenced consumers’ behavior. 2. BODY 1. Background Information I select Canon DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) 5D Mark II as marketing research object. [pic] Back in August 2005 Canon 'defined a new DSLR category' (their words) with the EOS 5D. Unlike any previous 'full frame' sensor camera, the 5D was the first with a compact body (i.e. not having an integral vertical grip) and has since then proved to be very popular, perhaps because if you wanted a full frame DSLR to use with your Canon lenses and you didn't want the chunky EOS-1D style body then the EOS 5D has been your only choice (Don & Askey, 2009). Three years on and two competitors have turned up in the shape of the Nikon D700 and Sony DSLR-A900, and Canon clearly believes it's time for a refresh. So here is the 5D Mark II, which punches high in terms of both resolution and features, headlining: 21 megapixels, 1080p video, 3.0" VGA LCD, Live view, and higher capacity battery. In other words, a camera that aims to leapfrog both its direct rivals, either in terms of resolution (in the case of the...
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...Treatment Draft Date: Artist: Nesto Song: Just Action Location: East Stroudsburg, PA Time: Day/Night Director: Omar Jones Camera(s): Canon EOS 7D On Set Information: Idea: Nesto is a rapper by day and leader of a crime organization by night. First there are establishing shots of Nesto. It will also start with the final scene just for foreshadowing purposes. Nesto is in a dimly lit place with the spotlight on him. He takes his phone out and makes a phone call. A henchmen is on the other line and nods his head. There will be Shots of the henchmen driving the car around and looking out for someone. B STORY some kid goes into that corner store and picks up a black and mild or a drink or something. He leaves the corner store and turns the corner. The thugs pull up next to him and then the it cuts to the kid being tied up in the car. Maybe there is a shot of one of the thugs drinking liquor and spitting it out the car as they drive around recklessly. The thugs bring him into Nesto’s place tied up and bagged. Nesto rips that the bag off his head and here will be POV shots of the victim. As Nesto is screaming at the guy and smacking his head around it cuts to performance shots. Then the last shot has Nesto punching the guy in the face point of view of the camera and then video goes blank. The video will include various scenes of Nesto performing the song. Locations: Basement || Nesto’s Place Crystal Street ||Corner Store Props: Fake Guns, Money, Bats, Ski masks, Car, Rope...
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...Compare and contrast the toolkit used by hunter-gatherers with that used by farmers. Throughout the ages, there have been tools used and created by man to simplify life as a hunter-gatherer. The earliest tool kits found from the 120,000-35,000 B.C.E. are great examples of simple tools made out of stones. Rough pieces of the stone chipped away to create somewhat of a point on the tip of the rock that could later be used as weaponry such as on a spear or as an everyday tool used for cutting. Through progression of practice and time tools became more evolved. Shapes became more defined and new tools developed. Different materials were used such as bone from animals and natural fibers such as sticks that were used to makes harpoons for hunting and needles for clothes making. As hunting and gathering became insufficient due to growing populations humans began to settle down and domesticate their own crops and animals to feed themselves. Tools of the hunter-gatherer became more sophisticated as they settled into becoming farmers. Farmers used materials of stone, bone, antlers and natural fibers like the hunter-gatherers of the later years. They became more skilled at working the stones and materials polishing them into pieces of functional art. Tool use was not only for food but for other jobs such as clothes making and house building. The difference between hunter-gatherer’s and farmer’s tool kits are the details. The hunter-gatherers did not put as much emphasis on decorating...
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...Michael Barton Mrs. Edsen English 1300-1:40 11, November 2012 Believe in Your Smellf “Believe in your smellf,” this is Old Spices catch phrase for their Old Spice Champion ad. When it comes to selling a product Old Spice tries to make the costumer think that if they get their product it will change them. Can think of a company that uses weasel words more than Old Spice does with their advertisement? Old Spice tries to make it seem as if, by purchasing their product, you will all of a sudden have a much more glorious life. Old Spice is notorious for misleading an audience into buying their product. They have multiple commercials where they use doublespeak to try and make their product sound better. Old Spice also frequently uses weasel words as well as doublespeak to get people more interested in their product. Lutz said this about weasel words, “Weasel words appear to say one thing when in fact they say the opposite or nothing at all.” (Lutz 310) Lutz describes doublespeak as, “It is a language which makes the bad seem good, the negative seem positive, the unpleasant to seem attractive, or at least tolerable. “ (Lutz 304) Old spice has multiple commercials making false claims of how you can be changed by their product. As a consumer of any product you must be aware of what ads trying to sell you. Old Spice Champion is trying to get people to “Believe in your smellf.” Many consumers buy Old Spice Champion for misleading reasons, but no consumer should ever buy Old Spice...
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...A Dangerous Moment English class was a place where I could sit back in a chair and let my imagination run wild. I always had As in English not even an A- would ever slip by. Ms. Bottineau was a great ball of joy every day of the week, every day I entered that classroom a sense of relief would flow through my veins, I looked up to her and I know she had trust in me to always give my 100% effort in every assignment. At this point in my sophomore year I was chilling like a villain, it was almost the end of the school year around March in Ms.Bottineau’s class and we had to memorize a poem titled “Our Deepest Fear”. This is where my deepest fear of losing my English teachers trust became a reality. I quite possibly made the most foolish mistake of my life, a mistake that made me, a 16 year old teenager cry in regret. March 27th was a day my life would take a major turn. The night before the test I thought about studying the poem but I really don’t know what was in me that I decided to procrastinate and to not memorize that poem as if I had absorbed the aura of a sloth. The next day as I enter the classroom and I notice the laptop carrier open, ready for us to grab, as if they were taunting me with failure already. I was sweating and almost ready to faint. The pressure was on, I had to make a choice and I made the most horrendous one a human can make. A decision that break bonds, trust, and one's reputation. I am already regretting not being prepared. I had a plan, a very idiotic...
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...treatment. Rationale I determined that EOs would be effective anticancer compounds because: It has been suggested that EOs display antioxidant and antiinflammatory effects which are valuable in cancer treatment because free radicals and chronic inflammation can activate anti apoptotic pathways and pathways related to increased cellular proliferation. Also, EOs can play a role in preventing cancer because DNA damage caused by free radicals can...
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...The advanced hybird CMOS F II achieves high speed, comfortable during Live view and movie shooting and it also comes with Capacitive Touch Screen LCD that enables Touch AF and touch Shutter release. -Market positioning strategy i) By attributes The all new Canon EOS 100d is the smallest DLSR in the world and also the smallest and the lighter among its competition it weight only 370g with the size of 116.8mmx90.7mmx69.4mm, however it still retain the full capabilities expected of an EOS camera, from this point, the Canon is target on the non- professional user, light user or female user because it have the good performance and the highly portable characteristic. ii) By ability surpass the competition The all new Canon EOS 100d is the lighters and smallest DSLR which is other camera company don’t have a categorizes focus on it. The canon companies not only focus on professional photographers but also the light users. The canon EOS 100d have much advantages with the small mirror-less camera because it still have the DSLR functional element in the small capacity is not like the other mirror less camera which is less...
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...IDENTIFYING ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERS IN TODAY’S DYNAMIC MARKETS Ayman Tarabishy, Doctoral Student, The George Washington University 2115 G St. N.W. Suite 403 Washington DC 20052 USA Tel: +1 (202)-468-3133 Fax: +1 202 994-4930 E-mail: Ayman@gwu.edu Lloyd Fernald, University of Central Florida Abstract Organizations regardless of size and industry now exist in the competitive landscape. This landscape is characterized by 1) increasing business risk, 2) decreasing ability to forecast, 3) fluid organizational and industrial boundaries, and 4) a managerial mind-set that demands unlearning many traditional management practices. Researchers and practitioners have proposed that organizations with an entrepreneurial strategic posture will be able to compete in such dynamic markets. Researchers and practitioners have also called for a new type of person to lead these organizations in the new dynamic market arena. They have coined this new person as the “entrepreneurial leader.” This paper will offer an operational definition of the term “entrepreneurial leader” based on the conceptual literature in leadership, entrepreneurship and the results of a pilot study. Executive Summary This paper attempts to explain that today’s markets can be best described as dynamic in nature. Regardless if the organization is established or a new venture they need to be able to deal with a dynamic market that is primarily revolutionary rather than evolutionary in nature. Researchers and practitioners have proposed...
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...not work? Imperfect K markets Not enough banks, not large enough banks, no international borrowing. Gov’t has skills or information that the private sector doesn’t What could the gov’t do? Subsidize production to move down learning curve faster. Unlike an import tariff, this has no distortion on the consumption side. [pic] Lesson Gov’t should use policies which distort as few decisions as possible. Why might the gov’t still not want to do anything? The costs of the policy may still outweigh the discounted benefits. Political economy suggests that infant industries never grow up. Creating Comparative Advantage: Agglomeration, External EOS & Trade “Economies of Scale” (EOS) When costs fall with the scale of an undertaking. Internal EOS AC falls with the firm’s output External EOS Firms’ costs fall as...
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...1979 EO CPE Text F. CHURCHES AND OTHER RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS Introduction IRC 501(c)(3) exemption for "religious purposes" has always been a sensitive matter, because the First Amendment sets strict limits on government regulation of religion in any form -- church, sect, denomination, ministry, etc. Some self-proclaimed churches may use the administrative and judicial limitations on Service regulation to hinder our review of their activities. We have always been aware of the possibility of abuse, i.e. hiding non-charitable, non-religious activities under privileged church status. See the 1978 EOATRI textbook topic on Churches, pp. 1-29. Public interest in religious groups (exempt or not) is very keen. There is an increase in the number of "religious" tax-avoidance schemes, e.g., mail order ministries, family churches, vows of poverty, etc. Congress has been investigating Reverend Moon's Unification Church and related organizations for illegal activities. The recent mass suicide at the People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, drew international comment and much Congressional interest. And, the press is filled with reports of "brainwashed" disciples and parents "re-kidnapping" their children. The 1978 EOATRI textbook topic on Churches is a good summary of the major problems we encounter in administering the IRC 501(c)(3) "religious purposes" exemption. This discussion is meant to supplement that topic. We intend only to highlight new developments and the increased interest...
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...SHEPHERD2 1 Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Creation, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden and Jonkoping International Business School, ¨ ¨ Jonkoping, Sweden ¨ ¨ 2 Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. and Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping, Sweden ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ While theory suggests that management has discretion in manipulating resources in order to build competitive advantage, resource-based research has focused on the characteristics of resources, paying less attention to the relationship between those resources and the way firms are organized. In explaining performance, entrepreneurship scholars have focused on a firm’s entrepreneurial strategic orientation (EO), leaving its interrelationship with internal characteristics aside. We argue...
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...will be with Canon’s EOS DSLR Camera line which is manufactured by Canon Inc., a Japanese imaging and optics manufacturer based in Tokyo, Japan. ”Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR)” cameras are designed to take high quality digital photographs using a single lens for view-finding and capturing an image. This is done by reflecting the light that travels through the lens with a mirror and a prism and projecting it through the viewfinder. The image projected through the viewfinder at the back of the camera is more or less what is captured by the camera’s image sensor. This provides the photographer with accuracy in terms of capturing the eye sees. This is in contrast to point-and-shoot cameras which uses different lenses for view-finding and image-capturing. (Harris, Tom. N.D.) EOS or “Electro-Optical System” is Canon’s brand name for its autofocus enabled SLR’s—this includes both digital and film system cameras. However, this paper will solely discuss the digital SLR line. Canon EOS DSLR’s also feature an interchangeable lens system which provides flexibility to achieve desired effects and performance. The EF (Electro-Focus) lens mount is the standard for Canon’s EOS product range with different types of lenses compatible with any of the EOS cameras. This enables the photographer to customize the camera depending on what is being photographed (wildlife, portraits, sports and other subject matter), conditions (such as lighting and distance), or budget. EOS DSLR’s are further divided...
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...Applied Energy 80 (2005) 383–399 APPLIED ENERGY www.elsevier.com/locate/apenergy Theoretical performances of various refrigerant–absorbent pairs in a vapor-absorption refrigeration cycle by the use of equations of state A. Yokozeki * DuPont Fluoroproducts Laboratory, Chestnut Run Plaza 711, Wilmington, DE 19880, USA Accepted 27 April 2004 Available online 28 July 2004 Abstract The vapor-absorption refrigeration cycle is an old and well-established technique, particularly with ammonia/water and water/LiBr systems. New types of refrigerant–absorbent pairs are also being actively studied. Modeling the cycle performance requires thermodynamic properties, which have been largely based on empirical correlation equations fitted to a large amount of experimental data such as solubility at various temperatures, pressures, and compositions. In this report, we have demonstrated, for the first time, a thermodynamically consistent model based on the equations of state for refrigerant–absorbent mixtures. Various commonly known binary-pairs for the absorption cycle are used as examples. Cycle performances and some new insights on understanding the cycle process are shown. Ó 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Vapor absorption cycle; Equations of state; Refrigerant; Absorbent; Modeling; Cycle performance; Solubility; Enthalpy 1. Introduction The vapor-absorption refrigeration cycle is more than 100 years old. Although the vapor-compression cycle took over most of...
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...things: · · · · · · Reduce or eliminate voltage or current spikes Limit dI/dt or dV/dt Shape the load line to keep it within the safe operating area (SOA) Transfer power dissipation from the switch to a resistor or a useful load Reduce total losses due to switching Reduce EMI by damping voltage and current ringing There are many different kinds of snubbers but the two most common ones are the resistorcapacitor (RC) damping network and the resistor-capacitor-diode (RCD) turn-off snubber. This application note will show you how to design these two snubbers. Switching waveforms Before getting into the design of snubbers it is important to understand the waveforms which occur naturally in power circuits. These provide both the motivation for using snubbers and the information needed for their design. There are many different types of circuits used in power converters, motor drives, lamp ballasts and other devices. Fortunately all of these different circuits have a common network and waveforms associated with the switches. Figure 1 shows four widely used circuits. All of these circuits, and in fact most power electronics circuits, have within them the same switch-diodeinductor network shown within the dotted lines. The behavior of this network is the same in all these circuits which means that we only have to solve the snubber design problem for one circuit to apply it to all of the others. This tremendously simplifies the problem and allows generalized snubber design techniques. A...
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...Material Balance Calculations for Oil Reservoirs A general material balance equation that can be applied to all reservoir types was first developed by Schilthuis in 1936. Although it is a tank model equation, it can provide great insight for the practicing reservoir engineer. It is written from start of production to any time (t) as follows: Expansion of oil in the oil zone + Expansion of gas in the gas zone + Expansion of connate water in the oil and gas zones + Contraction of pore volume in the oil and gas zones + Water influx + Water injected + Gas injected = Oil produced + Gas produced + Water produced Mathematically, this can be written as: C S N ( B t - B ti ) + G ( B g - B gi ) + ( NB ti + GB gi ) w wi ∆ p t 1 - S wi Cf + ( NB ti + GB gi ) ∆ p t + W e + W I B Iw + G I B Ig 1 - S wi = N p B t + N p ( R p - R soi ) B g + W p B w Where: N Np G GI Gp We WI Wp Bti Boi Bgi Bt Bo Bg Bw BIg = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = initial oil in place, STB cumulative oil produced, STB initial gas in place, SCF cumulative gas injected into reservoir, SCF cumulative gas produced, SCF water influx into reservoir, bbl cumulative water injected into reservoir, STB cumulative water produced, STB initial two-phase formation volume factor, bbl/STB = Boi initial oil formation volume factor, bbl/STB initial gas formation volume factor, bbl/SCF two-phase formation volume factor, bbl/STB = Bo + (Rsoi - Rso) Bg oil formation volume factor, bbl/STB gas formation volume...
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