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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
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30,1 8 Received October 1994 Revised April 1995 SERVQUAL: review, critique, research agenda Francis Buttle Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK SERVQUAL: a primer SERVQUAL provides a technology for measuring and managing service quality (SQ). Since 1985, when the technology was first published, its innovators Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry, have further developed, promulgated and promoted the technology through a series of publications (Parasuraman et al., 1985; 1986; 1988; 1990; 1991a;
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Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken
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the TCO A ethical strategies include as a first question the following: Is the behavior illegal? A "yes" answer will (usually) lead you to decide automatically that the behavior is unethical, unless the law itself is unethical (as is sometimes the case). Therefore, as we learn what is and isn't legal, we will want to utilize that information in solving ethical dilemmas. When we move our businesses overseas or to Mexico or Canada, as many of our
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Copyright and the Internet Hector L MacQueen*(* LLB (Hons), PhD, FRSE, Professor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh, email hector.macqueen@ed.ac.uk. This is a substantially revised, updated and rewritten version of the chapter which appeared under the same title in L Edwards and C Waelde (eds), Law and the Internet: Regulating Cyberspace (1997). I am grateful to those who commented upon that earlier version, to those who sent me information about developments on the Internet (especially Dr
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moment, but also largely depends on the pace of development of technology-based entrepreneurship. World experience shows that small and medium-sized innovative companies as economic actors most motivated and flexible in achieving output of scientific and technical products to the market and play an important role in the development of new promising niches. However, high-tech companies in the early phase of its development in the majority cases are not attractive to foreign and Russian investors. Not receiving
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Choosing Cost versus Fair Value: International Evidence from the European Real Estate Industry Upon Adoption of IFRS Karl A. Muller, III Pennsylvania State University Edward J. Riedl * Harvard Business School Thorsten Sellhorn Ruhr-Universität Bochum PRELIMINARY – PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE WITHOUT PERMISSION December 2007 ABSTRACT: We examine the determinants of investment property firms’ choice to use the cost or fair value model to account for their primary asset, real estate
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Table of Contents: LIST OF ILUSTRATION 5 Executive Summary 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 7 CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION: 8 1.1 PURPOSE 8 1.2 SCOPE: 8 1.3 BACKGROUND 9 1.4 METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION 10 1.5 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY: 11 CHAPTER TWO: PROFILE OF IBBL 12 2.1 INTRODUCTION: 12 2.2 DEFINITION OF ISLSMIIC BANK: 12 2.3 Historical Background of IBBL: 12 CHAPTERFOUR: FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPERATION 49 OF IBBL 49 4.2 FOREIGN EXCHANGE: 49 4.3 Functions of
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