...E-Commerce Introduction An e-commerce solution for a business is the incorporation of all aspects of the business operation into an electronic format. Many well-established businesses have been selling on-line for years. For example, Dell Computers Corp., has been selling computers directly to end-users for years. Currently, Dell is selling excessive of 1 million dollars worth of computers everyday on the World Wide Web (WWW). When a business has incorporated an e-commerce solution, the business will experience a lower operation cost while at the same time increasing its profit. The e-commerce solution will allow businesses to eliminate unnecessary paperwork. All paperwork and data can be transformed into an electronic format. Thus, it will eliminate valuable shelf space and data can searched and accessed in matter of seconds. E-commerce will also automates the sales process. Customers can "point & click" on the products they wish to purchase, fill out the customer information, and the product will be shipped and received in a matter of few days. The administration department does not have to fill out any paperwork because the customer had done it already. Thus, the efficiency will be greatly improved. With an e-commerce solution, the business will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. People from anywhere in the world with an Internet access will be able to visit the site at any time. They will not be restricted to the "normal" business operating hours. A "brick + mortar"...
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...animals, Are they capable of mental time travel? Sarah-Jane Fahed American University Of Beirut Mental Time Travel in animals Episodic memory is a type of declarative memory, it’s the memory for personal events and is distinguished from semantic memory: memory for facts. What characterizes episodic memory is that it involves mental time travel also termed “Chronesthesia”: it is the capacity to mentally project oneself in the past to remember events that took place and projecting oneself to try and predict the future. It is commonly thought to be specific to humans but some studies have been done to research this specific type of memory and see if it can be attributed to animals. The study of episodic memory in non-humans led to many contradictory results and depends on how it is defined. The main focus of this paper is to study the different researches done on the Chronesthesia component of episodic memory in animals: mental time travel to the past and to the future and show their limitations. Tulving originally defined episodic memory in terms of the kind of information it appears to store: what where and when something happened (the www criterion) and later added the concept of autoneotic awareness to the definition (as cited in Suddendorf & Corballisb, 2007): the sensation that a memory was personally experienced In their book Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness Terrace and Metcalfe (2005)...
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...In designing a marketing campaign the process of gaining traffic by purchasing ads on search engines should be considered especially for a company like Premium Outlets; where there are numerous high-end stores located in this one place. This marketing scheme is referred to as PPC (pay-per-click) marketing, because mst search ads are sold on a PPC basis. Pay per Click (PPC) is an advertisement pricing scheme where a mixture of advertisers pay a host website when there is a single click on the advertisement by someone browsing on the internet(Portent, n.d). According to an article by Kumar (2012)the business can use PPC advertising programs provided by Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing and others to pay for traffic. These programs enable the business to display ads in the results section of each of these engine's result page. The business then pays a fee based on the chosen keywords competitiveness. This is whenever a viewer clicks through from your ad directly to the website. AdWords & adCenter ads appear above, below, and to the right side of natural search results It's relatively difficult to forecast precisely where your best clients emerge from. The business may realise that there are a lot of visitors from one particularly engine; at a high cost per click but relatively fewer revenue from these clicks, whereas on another search engine where the cost per bid is much lower, visitors that click on the links are most likely to buy although there may be less on...
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...No one has ever fulfilled every prophesy, yet there has been claims: Bar Cochba, Shabbati Tvi and Jesus (www. Aish.com) 2.2) Jesus did not have the right qualifications Jews believe the Messiah to be a great prophet, greater even than Moses. Prophecy can only be when the majority of people in Israel are Jews, which has not happened since 300 B.C.E. Jesus came on the scene 350 years later, making Him illegible to be the Messiah ( www. Aish.com). The Messiah shall be a descendent from David (Isa 11:1-9). Jesus was born of a virgin; he had no father, disproving Him to be of the line of David. Jews say the Messiah will have human parents, not be a demi-god (www. Aish.com) 2.3) Wrong translations of versus about Jesus in the bible The Hebrew text reveals many mistranslations in the Christian bible and so versus can only be fully understood with the Hebrew text (www. Aish.com). According to Christians, Isaiah 7:14 is seen as “alma” giving birth. In Hebrew “alma” means young woman. Theologians later changed the meaning to “virgin”. This view is the same as the pagan belief that gods can make mortals pregnant (www. Aish....
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...What the Heck has Internet Done to Our Brains? Section I: Introduction and Context Imagine going back in time and staying there permanently. Out of all the things that will be missed, there is no doubt that the one thing would be technology. The Shallows: What Internet is Doing to Our Brains is nonfiction book written by Nicholas Carr who asserts and cautions the effects that internet has on everyone to this day and even more so in the future. People nowadays can communicate with people all around the world using many different types of communications such as social networking sites, cell phones, emails, etc. Carr brings in many different scientific research as well as a couple of personal experiences to show the great change in technology and the internet. The author chose to write The Shallows from an epiphany he had realized, “It (his brain) was hungry. It was demanding to be fed by the net feed...I wanted to check email, click links, do some googling. I wanted to be connected” (Carr 16). The way that technology has changed and developed the internet has made Carr want to stress the fact that although technology is very useful, it can be very harmful to peoples’ brain in a way that it affects a person’s deeper level of thinking. Section II:The Author’s Background Nicholas Carr is a columnist, member of the Encyclopedia Britannica's editorial board of advisors, as well as an executive editor. Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics which have made his books...
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...Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics - A - Above the line |In balance of payments[->0] accounting, this refers to those transactions that are included in calculating the balance of payments surplus[->1] or deficit. Transactions below the line, typically official reserve transactions[->2] and sometimes short term capital flows[->3], are not included. | Absolute advantage |The ability to produce a good at lower cost, in terms of real resources, than another country. In a Ricardian model[->4], cost is in terms of only labor. Absolute advantage is neither necessary nor sufficient for a country to export a good. See comparative advantage[->5]. | Absolute advantage trade policy |The idea, advocated by opponents of globalization[->6], that a country should import only goods in which other countries have an absolute advantage[->7], particularly goods that the importing country cannot (or cannot "reasonably") produce itself. | Absolute Purchasing Power Parity |See purchasing power parity[->8]. | Absorption |Total demand for final goods and services by all residents (consumers, producers, and government) of a country (as opposed to total demand for that country's output). The term was introduced as part of the Absorption Approach[->9]. | Absorption approach |A way of understanding the determinants of the balance of trade, noting that it is equal to income minus absorption. Due to Alexander (1952)[->10] | Abundant |Available in large supply. Usually meaningful...
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...Internet and traditional education practices . | 8 | Boundaries of internet applications in education . | 9 | What is information security ? | 10 | What are the methods of control in social E learning ? | 11 | What are the conclusion ? | 12 | References . | 13 | Appendixes . | Introduction to internet and social E learning. What is Internet ? The Internet is known to be as a global system of interconnected computers that are networked together and also that uses the standard TCP/IP which is a protocol suite that works on serving millions and even billions of users throughout the world. Internet is a network from the networks available that consists of huge amount of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet is known to carry a very enormous range of information , resources and also services, as its famous examples : the inter-linked which is the HYPERTEXT documents of the world wide web famous by (WWW) and the also to support emails. However ; people always do get mistaken about the point that the internet and the World Wide Web (www) are both the same terms , or are the same meanings . nevertheless; there is a very big difference between the two and people must know and understand this difference between both the terms. The internet and World Wide Web are known to be networks , however ; the internet...
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...© Path Finance, www. path2finance.com CFA® Level 1 2011 (Also applicable for June 2012) Financial Reporting Analysis (R 22 to R 29) Includes material presented in the video lectures1 © Path Finance, www. path2finance.com Table of Contents 1.1 Financial Statements Analysis (R 22) ..........................................................................................................2 1.1.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................2 1.1.2 Financial Statements and Other Sources ......................................................................................................................2 1.1.3 Steps in financial Statement Analysis Framework .........................................................................................................3 1.2 Financial Reporting Mechanics (R 23) .........................................................................................................4 1.2.1 Classifying Financial Statements Elements ...................................................................................................................4 1.2.2 Accounting Equations ....................................................................................................................................................5 1.2.3 Statement of Owners Equity ...................................................................
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...reflected/revealed/shown/illustrated in the graphs, the number/percentages surged/subsided/fluctuated/differed of …surged/subsided/fluctuated/differed dramatically/gently + 时间 Eg. 1. This bar chart displays the number of men and women enrolled in future education in Britain during three periods. 2. It is immediately apparent from the diagram that in 1970 the professions in Malaysia were almost totally dominated by men. 3. As is revealed in the diagram, the number of hours per week spent on unpaid work is unequally distributed between men and women. 4. A glance at four indicators of economic and social conditions in four countries, Canada, Japan, Peru and Netherlands, in 2001 reflects the great differences that exist between wealthier and poorer nations. 时间的描述 Patterns In + 月份/年/年代 For/during + 时间段 Over the period … to … From…to…/between…and… At the end of the year/century Until… Before/after/around/about � � � � Examples In 1980s In the period between … and … During the first/second half of the year During the remainder of the year Over a ten year period/ over a decade Throughout the 19th century From 1980 onwards till… Endings Endings From the diagram it can be safely concluded that_________. As a whole/In general/To sum up/In conclusion/In summary/In a nutshell, the data suggest that_______. What is worth mentioning is that____/noun. Example: � From the diagram it can be safely concluded that in the years 1978~1987 Florida developed much more rapidly than the United States...
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...Winter 2013 NTRS 351: Adult Nutrition Term Project Name: Number: Section: WWW address: http://jn.nutrition.org/content/119/4/591.full.pdf+html?sid=1a093595-ff74-47b2-be96-8b9ebdcb7415 TITLE OF THE ARTICLE: Biochemical Markers for Assessment of Niacin Status in Young Men: urinary and Blood Levels of Niacin Metabolites I. Answer 14 Screening Questions and Subparts (10%) 1. Who maintains the site? The Web site is maintained by American Society for Nutrition, a non-profit organization. 2. Who pays for the site? ASN Research Foundation pays for the site. a. Does it sell advertising? Yes, there are advertisements but very few and not disturbing. b. Is the Web site sponsored by a drug company? No, it is not sponsored by a drug company. 3. What is the purpose of the site? The Web site claims that the purpose is to develop and extend knowledge of nutrition, provide reliable nutrition information, and improve public health. 4. Where does the information come from? Most of the information comes from two of the major journals, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and The Journal of Nutrition. c. Can these people be contacted if visitors to the site have questions or want additional information? Yes, they can be contacted in the “Contact Us” section of the Web site. 5. What is the basis of the information? The basis of the information is mostly formed by statistics and researches...
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...Advantages and disadvantages of using SWOT analysis to develop corporate strategy. Discuss using examples related to at least two companies. Introduction SWOT analysis SWOT analysis can also be called as SLOT analysis which is a strategic planning or direction for making decision based on available resources to determine valuate the Strength, Weaknesses/limitations, Opportunities, and Threats involved in a project or in a small business (business venture). It mentions the objective of business or a collaborative enterprise project and recognizes the internal, external factors which come in the achieving of objective. This method of analysis is prepared by an American businessman and a management consultant named Albert S Humphrey (Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s). An objective of a project or a business venture should be only started after the SWOT analysis has been carried out. It would be easy for the organization to achieve its targets/objective. With the help of SWOT analysis decision makers are able to ascertain after a calculation that whether the objective they are planning is capable of been done or not. If not they must choose the distinct objective and the process is done over again. (Source : http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://swotanalysistemplate.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Slide5.jpg&imgrefurl=http://swotanalysistemplate.com/&h=302&w=604&sz=36&tbnid=ntJM-sR_xbjS7M:&tbnh=61&tbnw=121&prev=/sea...
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...Bus 643 Case Study 6 Tiffany Smith 8/13/2013 Professor McIntyre Abstract Wally’s Wonder Wash (WWW) is a full service, high tech, high touch car wash Company owned by Wally Wheelspoke. It is located in a city of 200,000 people and another 100,000 in surrounding suburbs. Wally wants to add four additional car washes within the next two years. Wally is dedicated to providing the best service to customers and is opened seven days a week from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. He looks mostly for fulltime workers to work either 7:30am to 4:00 pm or 11:00am- 8 pm. The two main positions are attendant or washer who’s job is to vacuum, wash/dry cars, wash/fold towels, perform light maintenance on machinery, and engage customers in small talk and ask them to inspect the vehicle. The custom service specialist (CSS) details the car. So far he has a staff of 70 attendant and 20 CSS’s. Wally promotes from within so the only way to become a CSS is to be promoted from attendant and the only way to become manager is to be promoted from CSS. Attendants make $8/hr with a $0.50 raise every six months while CSS’s make $1 more with the same $0.50 promotion every six months. Managers make $27,000 annually and receive a “merit” raise if Wally ever gets around to their performance appraisal, however, attendants and CSS’s do not receive performance appraisals. Based on last year’s data, Wally had a turnover ratio of 65% for attendants, 20% for CSS’s and no managers left....
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...and University of Kassel International Food Business and Consumer Studies Innovation Management for the Food Industry 3D Systems Inc. “ChefJet” first commercial 3D food printer: an innovative new product in the food industry Examiner: Prof.Dr. Tonia Ruppenthal Ing.Agr. Emilio José Martínez Pietri 02.07.1981, Valencia, Venezuela. Matriculation Number: 32253922 emiliomarpie@gmail.com Witzenhausen, 07.02.2014 Student Declaration Hereby I assure that I have completed the written test independently and without unauthorized help and have not used aids other than those cited in the written test. I have marked all places which are taken verbatim or analogously from published or unpublished writings. No part of this work has been used in another written test. The citation standard used was APA (6th edition) __________________________ ________________________________ Place, Date Signature Table of contents 1. Historical Background and their products 3 2. Types of innovation the company applies/applied 3 3. Why the ChefJet is innovative 4 4. The innovation potential of the company and the product 5 5. The factors for success 6 6. The factors for Failure 7 7. The process of innovation 7 8. Map of the innovation process 8 9. Innovation Phases 9 10. Possible barriers to innovation 9 11. Analyse the market / competitors 10 12. Specify the product development...
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...Accessing Geographical Information Systems over the World Wide Web: Improving public participation in environmental decision-making Steve Carver, Andy Evans, Richard Kingston and Ian Turton School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK Abstract. This paper describes work carried out as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Virtual Society? Research Programme and presents some initial developments in the field of spatial decision support systems (SDSS) on the World Wide Web (WWW). Particular attention is paid to the development of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and webbased SDSS with the principal aim of increasing public involvement in environmental decision-making. Discussion focuses on public access issues and the implications for online approaches to public participation. Examples of three online SDSS are given covering local, regional and national scale case studies. 1. Introduction The rise of the Internet and the WWW has created many opportunities for those involved in GIS and decision support research. In the last few years many GIS have appeared on the WWW giving the general public, or at least those with a connection to it, access to both GIS and spatial data. With this increased availability, previous criticism of GIS as an elitist technology voiced by Pickles [6] may no longer be valid. We are now beginning to witness the popularising of GIS, at least within computer user circles. However, most GIS on the web are merely demonstrations...
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...Massachusetts and is known for helping his clients make tough choices. Ralph L. Keeney is a professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and is especially known for his work on making difficult tradeoffs. Dr. Howard Raiffa has been a professor at Harvard and is a pioneer in the development of decision analysis, negotiation analysis and the theory of games. Authors’ big thought: Decisions shape our experiences, from choosing which job to accept, to having the right car, to selecting a good accountant. How do we know which is the smart one? How can we be consistent and confident in our decisions? In this award-wining bestseller, readers learn how to approach all types of decisions with a simple set of skills developed from professors from Harvard, MIT, and the University of Southern California. 1. Making Smart Choices How to think about your whole decision problem: a proactive approach Our decisions shape our lives. Made consciously or unconsciously, with good or bad consequences, they represent the fundamental tool we use in facing the opportunities, the challenges and the uncertainties of life. Making decisions is a fundamental life skill. Making good decisions is one of the most important determinants of how well you meet your responsibilities and achieve your personal and professional goals. In short, the ability to make smart decisions is a fundamental life skill. The need to make a difficult decision puts us at risk of anxiety, confusion, doubt...
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