BEST PRACTICE Waking Up IBM How a Gang of Unlikely Rebels Transformed Big Blue Six years ogo, IBM was a hasbeen. Today, it's an e-business powerhouse. It didn't turn around by imposing change from the top. It let ideas, initiatives, and enthusiasm bubble Lip from below. Maybeyour company should do the same. BYGARYHAMEL D o YOU REMEMBER WHEN IBM was a case study in complacency? Insulated from the real work! by layer upon layer of dutiful manaj;ers and obsequious staff, IBM's executives
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Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons Vijay Kothari*, Meera Panchal, Namrata Srivastava Institute of Science, Nirma University *Corresponding author: vijay.kothari@nirmauni.ac.in; vijay23112004@yahoo.co.in Abstract Hydrocarbon contamination in the environment has been a notable problem since years. Particularly the major oil spills in last few decades, and resulting loss to biodiversity has brought public attention to this problem. Bioremediation is a promising approach for recovery of environmental
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Instruction Division SEATING ARRANGEMENT FOR THE TEST I & II Course No. Roo m No. No. of Stu den ts 1 7 ALL THE STUDENTS 12/9,4/11 8.00 -- 9.00 AM B310 ALL THE STUDENTS 12/9,4/11 8.00 -- 9.00 AM F102 2011B1AA557H 2012AAPS176H 12/9,4/11 8.00 -- 9.00 AM F103 2012AAPS181H 2012AAPS891H 12/9,4/11 8.00 -- 9.00 AM F105 2011B1A3696H 2012A3PS302H 12/9,4/11 8.00 -- 9.00 AM F103 2012A3PS303H 2012A3PS931H 12/9,4/11 8.00 -- 9.00 AM F106 ALL THE STUDENTS 12/9,4/11 8.00 -- 9.00 AM F106 ALL THE STUDENTS 12/9
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New perspectives on Web search engine research Dirk Lewandowski Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany This is a preprint of a book chapter to be published in Lewandowski, Dirk (ed.): Web Search Engine Research. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9781780526362
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(Quadrillion BTUs) 250 Quadrillions British Thermal Units 2010 200 150 100 2040 2040 2010 From its peak in 2025, coal will decline by more than 10 percent of total Hydro/Geo 2010 2040 Latin America and China are the biggest users of hydro power, which makes up over 80 percent of total Hydro/Geo supplies 2040 50 0 2010 2010 2040 2010 2040 2010 2040 Source: The Outlook for Energy: Aview to 2040 Pakistan’s economy has been growing at an average growth rate of
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1 Twitter mood predicts the stock market. Johan Bollen1, ,Huina Mao1, ,Xiao-Jun Zeng2 . : authors made equal contributions. arXiv:1010.3003v1 [cs.CE] 14 Oct 2010 Abstract—Behavioral economics tells us that emotions can profoundly affect individual behavior and decision-making. Does this also apply to societies at large, i.e. can societies experience mood states that affect their collective decision making? By extension is the public mood correlated or even predictive of economic indicators
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Agricultural Development Corporation Category Activity Description Agro-Industry/Agriculture Performance Testing- Performance Testing is the principal method used to Beef cattle identify high ranking individuals within a breed through the identification of such individuals within a herd. This systematic method will enable an increase in the rate of genetic improvement in the traits being measured. Newly weaned (average 8-10 months) bull calves are placed in a 140-day trial and given equal opportunity
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Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy replaces conventional fuels in four distinct areas: electricity generation, air and water heating/cooling, motor fuels, and rural energy services. Based on REN21's 2014 report, renewables contributed 19 percent to our global energy consumption and 22 percent to our electricity generation in
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ships named the Monarch of the Seas, Majesty of the Seas, Legend of the Seas, Grandeur of the Seas, and Splendor of the Seas, in the 1990s. In the 2000s Royal Caribbean also added several more lines including the Explorer of the Seas that had marine labs, then Adventure of the Seas,
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-“Strauss versus Brains and Genes or the postmodern vengeful return of positivism.” This essay first started as an answer to what I deemed very problematic, i.e. the disputation which I found in bad faith (un-authentic to use a philosophical term or an existentialist term), of the mediatic, dashing Harvard cognitivist/linguist, Steven Pinker, in his article “Neglected novelists, embattled English professors, tenure-less historians, and other struggling denizens of the Humanities, Science is not
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