within the earth. Included in the definition is electricity and heat generated from solar, wind, ocean, hydropower, biomass, geothermal resources, and biofuels and hydrogen derived from renewable resources.” (Conference on New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development, Afgan & Carvalho, 2004). This chapter attempts to look at the various sources of renewable energy and how they can be applied in the shipping industry. The renewable energy resources are available across the globe
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ownership. The advantages of partnership include four key advantages: one is the ability to pool financial resources with more people investing in the company; secondly, the ability to share responsibilities by sharing the burden of running the business and earning skills and interests of splitting up the task; thirdly, ease of forming of a business with two or more people and last are the possible tax advantages of a partnership business will be taxed as personal income. Disadvantages of a partnership
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learn about from reading history books, or hearing from their families. Today I am going to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of social networks. The good being origins and advantages, the bad being disadvantages and the ugly being the dangers of social networking. In today’s society, where technology is the driving force for almost everything, there is no escaping social networking. Whether it’s being told to follow someone on Twitter, taking a photo and uploading it to Instagram or
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Statement “Our research topic is - The Impact of Social Media on the workplace and our research statement states that Social Media have a significant and positive impact on the workplace.” Social media is turning into an inevitable part of our society. It serves as medium to globally link people together, regardless of their physical location. Generally, people are using social media for various reasons, such as to share information, to get in touch with their loved ones, and to look for business
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Managers need not travel for Business In this world of advancement in technology we have reached a stage where we can communicate instantly. Advancements in communication technology with the developments in IT sector have led to a tremendous growth in virtual reality. As a matter of fact most of the IT systems are replacing traditional practices like maintaining large documents in offices. Everything is computerized But even today a lot of companies expect their managers to travel for Business
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Introduction This report will examine the world economy in general these issues. In this way, people can learn basic information about the world economy. Also global economy can be seen as the economy of global society and national economies – as economies of local societies, making the global one. It can be evaluated in various kinds of ways. It is inseparable from the geography and ecology of Earth, and is therefore something of a misnomer, since, while definitions and representations of the
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……………………………………………………………………………. 9 .................................................................................................. 13 3.1 Discuss how the Internet has transformed the world. (10) ................................. 13 3.2 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the Intranet? .................... 16 QUESTION 4 18 BIBLIOGRAPHY ...................................................................................................... 24 FIGURES Figure 1: Information Processing Cycle …………………………………………………8
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Case Analysis By: Omar B. Caligan TITLE OF THE CASE: Positioning Southwest Airlines through Employee Branding VIEWPOINT: Top Level Management – Executive TIME CONTEXT: 2005 I. PROBLEM STATEMENT * The use of employee branding as a process to gain an organizational “position” in the minds of customers II. OBJECTIVES: * To determine how employee branding works * To determine how employee branding can be utilized to position the organization in the minds of customers, employees
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3G Technology 3G is the next generation of technology which has revolutionized the telecommunication industry. Apart from increasing the speed of communication, the objective of this technology is to provide various value added services like video calling, live streaming, mobile internet access, IPTV, etc on the mobile phones. These services are possible because the 3G spectrum provides the necessary bandwidth. Technically speaking 3G is a network protocol which refers to the generations of
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and businesses in markets across the economy. We start our study of microeconomics by looking at the resources which an economy may have available to supply and produce goods and services to meet the ever-changing needs and wants of individuals and society as a whole.In economics we classify goods as “tangible” products, example might include food and drink, cars, digital televisions, flat-screen televisions, energy products and cricket bats! Services are sometimes known as intangibles, education and
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