will seek the lowest price for products that serve basic needs such as food, whereas in self-treating and small luxuries, the value of feeling indulged is given precedence. The Lipstick Effect endures. Consumers still appear willing to splurge on prestige items. This has led to a huge wave of websites on how to be frugal but also keep up appearances. . Commentators, journalists and bloggers are certainly signalling 2009 as a year of fear, anxiety and uncertainty for consumers who, in order to fight
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Literature…………………………………………………………………… Related Studies…………………………………………………………………………… Chapter II METHODOLOGY AND DATA GATHERING PROCEDURES Research Design……………………………………………………………………………. Description of Respondent………………………………………………………… Description of Instruments…………………………………………………………. Data Gathering Procedures………………………………………………………… Statistical Treatment of Data………………………………………………………. Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction This research study concern
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operates the storage and inquiry of employee data. The personnel-in-charge of this section has to work hard consume long period of time in browsing and producing employees data if somebody asks for a certain individual record. With there of this technology can make or issue faculty profile in a short span of time with less effort and with preciseness and accuracy. Before the advent of the computer, the major problem in data management was to get the data from its original source into a usable state
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1. Introduction Specific employee attitude relating to job satisfaction is of major interest in the field of organizational behavior and the practice of human resources management now. The interest steamed from the belief that the satisfied employees are more productive than dissatisfied employees are. This interest induces the management academics to conduct many researches regarding different issues in the field of job satisfaction. Employees spend most of their time at work but they are not
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safety, fleet complete, network-intensive services, caring and meticulous service that includes their current and future customer service programs, human capital investment for providing excellent customer service, and professional management. With these excellent customer-oriented services, Eva Air proves that they are already world-class air carrier and robustly have an edge to compete in international market with the low-cost airline carrier, prestige airline carrier, and even the government-controlled
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Secure Data Sharing in the Cloud Danan Thilakanathan, Shiping Chen, Surya Nepal and Rafael A. Calvo 1 Introduction Cloud systems [1, 2] can be used to enable data sharing capabilities and this can provide an abundant of benefits to the user. There is currently a push for IT organisations to increase their data sharing efforts. According to a survey by InformationWeek [3], nearly all organisations shared their data somehow with 74 % sharing their data with customers and 64 % sharing with suppliers
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Encarnacion Head, Disclosure Dept. Dear Ms. Encarnacion: We are submitting herewith SEC Form 17-A for the year ended December 31, 2010. Very truly yours, ROSANNA A. PARICA Corporate Information Officer Head Office: Unit 1704 17th Floor, Prestige Tower Condominium, F. Ortigas Jr. Road, Ortigas Center , Pasig City 1605 Tel. Nos.: 706-2805/706-2806 * Fax No.: 706-2804 Minesite: Maco, Compostela Valley COVER SHEET 4 0 6 2 1 S.E.C. Registration Number A P E X M I N I N G C O
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acquiring technologies that will suit to their needs, especially when it is applied to their studies. However, many students are spending a lot of their time in social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and other social networking services while spending less time on their studies. This occurring incident aroused us to look into social networking sites and how they affect the student’s academic performance. In this study, the researchers will review how social networking sites might
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OVERVIEW In 1998, more than 13 million children (19 percent of all children) under age eighteen lived in families with incomes below the official poverty threshold. Although children age eighteen and under represent 26 percent of the United States population, they comprise nearly 40 percent of the poverty population. Despite a steady decrease from 1993 (23%) to 1999 (17%) in the rate of children in poverty, the United States still ranks highest in childhood poverty among all industrialized nations
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the relationship between attribute performance and overall satisfaction. The “service-dominant logic” focuses on the firm and the customer co creating value, as defined by the customer. Achieving this orientation requires firms to understand which components of the service concept are most important to different subsets of customers. However, research on the relative importance to customers of core and peripheral service components has produced mixed results. The results show that these factors indeed
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