of acting as the main factor. Businesses include manufacturing, health care, wholesale, retail and services which help the economy to propel, survive and maintain the people that control it. This role depends upon business enterprises operating within the framework of a competitive market economy. To compare and contrast the roles of profit and non-profit organizations in the economy, one has to understand the meaning of profit. In business, profit is a word used to describe earnings. It is the difference
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S.Afr.J.Bus.Manage.2011,42(3) 17 Agency costs, corporate governance mechanisms and performance of public listed family firms in Malaysia H. Ibrahim* School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Penang, Malaysia haslindar@usm.my F.A. Samad Faculty of Business and Accountancy, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia mfazilah@um.edu.my Received June 2009 We compare corporate governance and performance between family and non-family ownership of public listed companies in
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RESEARCH ARTICLE EEG Changes Due to Experimentally Induced 3G Mobile Phone Radiation Suzanne Roggeveen1*, Jim van Os1,2, Wolfgang Viechtbauer1, Richel Lousberg1 1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2 King’s College London, King’s Health Partners, Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom * s.roggeveen@maastrichtuniversity.nl Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Roggeveen S, van Os J, Viechtbauer
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Once the first Business Process Management (BPM) project is completed, opportunities begin to emerge from all corners of the organization. Executives and Line of Business (LOB) Managers soon appreciate the potential for BPM technology to help them radically improve business performance as they drive the organization to achieve its Key Business Objectives (KBOs). Moreover, the cost equation is attractive - development and maintenance of a typical BPM enabled application is between one and two thirds
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software are taken into account: ActiveX control, Telnet, and NetBIOS. They are explained first, then the risks user can face if his computer is infected with that malware are given, and the countermeasures which should be taken in order to combat the malware. After that, the compare and contrast of the three forms of malware mentioned above is given. In the end, two recent forms of malware, Flame and FinFisher are explained. ActiveX control What is an ActiveX control? ActiveX is a software component
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CORPORATE OWNERSHIP IN LATIN AMERICAN FIRMS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DUAL-CLASS SHARES Luiz Ricardo Kabbach de Castro Rafel Crespi i Cladera Universitat de les Illes Balears Ruth V. Aguilera University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign We assembly new data on dual-class firms in Latin America and analyze the relationship between the largest shareholder characteristics and its decision to leverage voting rights. First, we describe who are the largest shareholders in Latin American firms. Second
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show that not only does the child’s school environment affect their level of anxiety but so does the parent to child relationship. Is it up to the child figuring their own mechanisms or should their parents be more involved? Introduction A group of scientists wanted to focus on the parent’s latency control and reinforcement of a child’s anxious behavior. Research has shown that parents encourage avoidance in anxious situations and that parents and children together shapes ways
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| | |Learning Outcome 1 |Understand the relationship between organisational structure and culture |Report | |AC 1.1 |Compare and contrast different organisational structures and cultures | | |AC 1.2 |Explain how the relationship between an organisation’s structure and culture| | |
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XI`AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY TRANSFORMING TADL MODEL TO UPPAAL FOR CONTEXT AWARE SYSTEM SHEN LU Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering ©SHEN LU, 2008 ABSTRACT The focus of this paper is on the design and development of a model translation tool for context-aware system based on the existing research outcome of Naseem [2] and Shujun [5]. This tool, named as T2Uppaal, facilitates automatic conversion from TADL description to Uppaal model. This paper will
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9130139 Edexcel registration no Contents Page P1. Compare and contrast different organisational structures and cultures 3 P2. Based on the scenario given, explain how the relationship between an Organisation’s structure and culture can impact on the performance of the business. 4 P3. Discuss the factors which influence individual behaviour at work. 5 P4. Compare the effectiveness of the different leadership styles in two or more
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