Collaborative Consumption: Is it a disruptive business model? Introduction Airbnb (www.airbnb.com) started in August 2008 as a booking service letting private, spare space around the world, a marketplace that connects people who need temporary living spaces, to people who have extra spaces. The extra spaces could be a spare bed, a room, an apartment or even a villa. In five years’ time they now have over 10 million nights booked, have over 300,000 listings worldwide, operate over 33,000 cities
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likelihood ratio test) for whether the drug effect on curing an infection is the same over eight centers. i) Breslow-Day test: The B-D test of homogeneity tests for whether the drug effect on curing an infection is the same over eight centers gave a chi2 = 8.0 with df=7 and p-value = 0.333. Therefore since the p-value is > 0.05, we fail to reject the null that the drug effect on curing an infection is the same over the eight centers. The drug effect is the same over the 8 center ii) LRT
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around talking and not being productive but as soon as they started walking around and saw two co-workers talking those employees would be yelled at and told to ‘get back to work’. I lost respect for the manager and lead because they created a halo effect atmosphere in the workplace; if any employee didn’t want to work hard all they had to do was talk sports, which was the attribute the manager and lead used to develop an overall impression of a person (Uhl-Bien, p. 58). This resulted in tasks not
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---------Illumination studies During 1924 to 1927, Mayo’s group tested a department’s productivity under all levels of illumination in order to discover the effects of light on efficiency. However, they ended in failure for there were almost always increasing output during the process. (But, latter it was considered as an evidence of Hawthorne Effect) 2.2 Experiment Two ------- Relay Assembly Test Room Experiment The second experiment concentrated on the relationship between workers’ welfare and
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Description When people see some new idea or product and wonder if they should adopt it, evidence of others enjoying and having fun is highly influential. Numbers are important for the bandwagon effect to take hold. If we see three people on the bandwagon and know that hundreds have not joined, then the reverse effect will take place and we will be loathe to join. If, on the other hand, we see the wagon nearly full with lots of people we know or admire, then we will desperately try to grab the 'final' places
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sun into chemical energy that can be used to fuel the organism's activities”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis) A solar cell “is an electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell) Photosynthesis and a semiconductor-based solar cell have several similarities and differences. Photosynthesis and solar cells both require solar energy or sunlight for the process to begin. We
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Professional Business Writing April 30, 2011 Global Warming: Fact or Fiction I. Are humans to blame for global warming? a. Human causes 1. Greenhouse effect Global warming is not something that just began. There have been several periods throughout history where surface temperatures have been higher or lower. According to Philip’s Encyclopedia (2008), “The earth is currently in the middle of a warm period that began 10,000 years ago.” The earth’s temperature has been rising since
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Disappointment What compares to the sickly feeling of disappointment? What if it is you who is disappointing someone you love? Throughout life we strive to be the superhero to your children or the perfect angel child for your parents; when something goes wrong it cuts so close because they fail to live up to the lofty expectations placed for them. In the poem “Catch,” by George Bilgere, he tells a story of a boy who becomes discouraged when his above average father fails in his eyes at a crucial
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EFFECTS OF POPULAR MUSIC ON MEMORIZATION TASKS Running Head: Music and memorization Abstract This study investigated the effects that popular music has on memory performance. It was proposed that popular music would adversely affect both studying and memory recall. Forty introductory psychology students participated in the study. Subjects were given a list of fifty words to study in 6 ½ minutes, with music either being present or absent. This was termed the learning stage. In this study
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Effects of Bullying among Children and Adults Jose Vargas PSY325 Prof. Mar Navarro Submitted 5/7/2012 Currently, bullying is a large problem in schools which causes significant stresses to its victims (Voss & Mulligan, 2000). Bullying became a greater concern for school personnel, parents & research after a series of school shootings in the late 1990s, including Columbine (Seals & Young, 2003). The effects of bullying are seen over a long period of time in the lives of participants
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