United Parcel Service: Moving at the Speed of Business 1. What is UPS's business model? Does it move at the "speed of business"? Explain. 2. Who is UPS's target market? What service(s) is UPS providing? 3. Who are UPS's competitors? What are the limits of their business models? UPS has been rated "America's most admired mail, package and freight delivery company" for sixteen consecutive years by surveys conducted by Fortune magazine, and in 1998 was named "world's most admired" in the same
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Success Through Effective Business Communication 1) Communication is the process of A) transferring information and meaning. B) listening actively. C) writing messages. D) none of the above. Answer: A Explanation: A) Communication is a two-way process that begins with the sender and ends when the receiver acquires information and meaning. Diff: 2 Page Ref: 3 Skill: Concept Objective: 1 AACSB: Communication Abilities 2) When it comes to communication skills, employers express
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ALLEGOR AND IRONY IN 'OTHELLO' Y ANTOINETT B. DAUBER E Othello is Shakespeare's Spenserian tragedy, in which the theme of slandere d chastity becomes a vehicle for exploring the problems of an allegorica l art . Allegory is the mode of selfconscious faith, and Spenser's corpus may be rea d as a portrai t of the artis t as allegorist , wrestling first with the burdens of selfconsciousness and then with the burdens of faith.l In Othello, Shakespeare compresses and objectifies this struggle. Unlike
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Computer Organization and Design The Hardware/Software Interface F I F T H E D I T I O N David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley John L. Hennessy Stanford University With contributions by Perry Alexander The University of Kansas Peter J. Ashenden Ashenden Designs Pty Ltd Jason D. Bakos University of South Carolina Javier Bruguera Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Jichuan Chang Hewlett-Packard Matthew Farrens University of California, Davis David Kaeli Northeastern University
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35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs Scott Meyers More Effective C ADDISON-WESLEY PROFESSIONAL COMPUTING SERIES ++ Conforms to the new ISO/ANSI C++ standard! From the Library of Yuri Khan Praise for More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs “This is an enlightening book on many aspects of C++: both the regions of the language you seldom visit, and the familiar ones you THOUGHT you understood. Only by understanding deeply how the C++ compiler
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| | |PHOTO BY THOMAS PETERS | | |"Action movies with violence take heat from adults who blame | | |them for real life violence because they are closer to reality | | |than other movies." | | "The question whether movie violence should be regulated or not is a difficult and complicated matter." Although many people criticize violent movies, if there is a movie
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driver with a clean driving somewhat giving him company is one of their Google engineers. Their cabs were tested on their roads of San Francisco somewhat also on their Golden gate bridge. Their system prevents accidents by maintaining a safe distance between two vehicles by their use of special type of sensors. Their humans can also take control of their wheel by applying their brakes. Within a year, their Google automobile team claimed to have covered 300,000
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an accessible and exciting writing style which is well-illustrated with boxed key concepts and guides to further reading. • • • This breakthrough textbook has been designed to unravel the complexities of international relations theory in a way that allows students a clearer idea of how the theories work and the myths that are associated with them. Cynthia Weber is Professor of International Studies at the University of Lancaster. She is the author of several books and numerous articles in
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TEACHES MORE THAN EVERYTHING HERE. C O N T E N T S Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Chapter 1. Code Is Law Chapter 2. Four Puzzles from Cyberspace PART I: “REGULABILITY” ix xiii 1 9 Chapter 3. Is-Ism: Is the Way It Is the Way It Must Be? Chapter 4. Architectures of Control Chapter 5. Regulating Code PART II: REGULATION BY CODE 31 38 61 Chapter 6. Cyberspaces Chapter 7. What Things Regulate Chapter 8. The Limits in Open Code PART III: LATENT AMBIGUITIES
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