Report (2011) indicates there is a global increase in the volume of non-cash payments transactions by 5% in 2009 to 260 billion in 2011. The payment for goods and services in Ghana is mostly cash based and characterized by long queues and delays. A study by Abor (2004) pointed out that, before the introduction of electronic payment in Ghana customers will have to go to their banks to perform all transaction and with the long queues in most of our banks, payment became a problem. Heeks (2002) described
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Tolerance Using Concurrent Information by FNGenius Abstract Many futurists would agree that, had it not been for the deployment of the lookaside buffer, the understanding of Scheme might never have occurred. In this position paper, we verify the study of the Turing machine. WABBLE, our new solution for extensible epistemologies, is the solution to all of these obstacles. Table of Contents 1) Introduction 2) Related Work 3) Design 4) Implementation 5) Performance Results 5.1) Hardware and
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Trends and Calendar effects in Malaysia Stock Market Mahmoud Khalid Almsafir Nur Hanis Hazwani Binti Husni Ayman Abdalmajeed Ahmad Al-smadi Graduate Business School, College Of Graduate Studies, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. mahmoud@uniten.edu.my, hanis.husni@gmail.com, smadi370@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Investing can help a person's wealth to generate more, and investing in stock is proven as one of the most profitable forms of available investment
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Patient Safety/Quality Care/Improvement Case Study The Patient Safety defines health errors as “the disappointment of a designed action to be finished as planned or the use of an incorrect plan to attain an aim(Longo, D., Hewitt, J. E., Ge, B., & Schubert, S., 2007).” Health errors do not all effect in damage or grievance. Checkup errors that reason damage or hurt are occasionally called avoidable unpleasant actions that are the damage is a reflection to be due to a therapeutic intervention
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This article was downloaded by: [b-on: Biblioteca do conhecimento online UA] On: 01 May 2014, At: 14:22 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK The Service Industries Journal Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fsij20 How to take customers into consideration in service innovation projects
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Case study notes This case has been updated to include the Apple iPad. Principally this is case explores the issue of licensing and how successful firms can become unsuccessful. It is not a case about Apple and why it has become successful. This case study explores the rise of the Apple Corporation. The Apple iPod is one of the most successful new product launches in recent years, transforming the way the public listens to music, with huge ramifications for major record labels. More than 50 million
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La Consolacion College Manila THESIS WRITING GUIDE 2011 (Undergraduate) LA CONSOLACION COLLEGE MANILA 8 Mendiola St., Malacañang Complex, Manila Telephone Nos.: 736-0235 / 313-0513 / Fax: 313-0602 Website: http://www.lccm.edu.ph Thesis Writing Guide June 2011 Prepared by: Dr. Jennifer S. Florida Director, Research and Publications Center La Consolacion College Manila Venancio N. Santos, Jr. Staff, Research and Publications Center La Consolacion College Manila All rights reserved
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Concepts and Models By S. N. Nasirpourosgoei and A-M Coles For many firms the development of new products is a major business activity, although Ettlie (2006) points out that many new products are merely copies or imitations of existing ones. The study of innovation is concerned with identifying how firms use their existing knowledge and technical resources to develop goods, processes and services that are significantly novel. Innovation is often seen as a key driver of economic growth for a country
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quantitative techniques that help managers in decision making process and to build the foundation for courses like Operations Management, Marketing Management and Portfolio Management. B. Instruction Methodology: Case Discussions The students are advised to go through the specified cases along with the specified material for a particular day. C. Suggested Titles (Text and Reference) REFERENCE BOOKS Statistics for Management (Main Text) Quantitative Techniques for Management Decisions Quantitative
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Code. Present paper shows an overview on the EC8 torsional provisions including the code background and the comparison with other codes (UBC, etc.). On the other side the EC8 provisions could be improved during the revision process. In fact recent studies on the static torsional provisions of Eurocode 8 show that the static torsional provisions generally are satisfactory in order to limit additional demands when the building has a large torsional stiffness, but the provision seems to be deficient when
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