Trust online and the opinion of former consumers
Dissertation - 72 pages - Economy general
This study examines the issue of trust and the influence of the opinion of former users in electronic commerce. The lack of trust is the main reason why people are still reluctant to purchase online. Lack of trust is due to many reasons in online business, no physical contact, risk of theft of...
Privacy and Internet
Dissertation - 25 pages - Civil law
The Internet is a wonderful tool for information and communication but the fact remains that many applications that are related to it latter raises many questions about the protection of the privacy of the user. The computer has invaded our lives, whether in the workplace or at home. At the same...
Music, emotion and Zipf's law
Essay - 59 pages - Linguistics
The hypothesis of Zipf concerning a universal Principle of Least Effort, manifesting itself in Zipf 's law and modeled by Ferrer i Cancho and Sol´e in a signal-object reference matrix, gave rise to the idea that maybe the elements in music that elicit our emotional responses...
Project plan proposal
Essay - 10 pages - Management
Company ABC Inc. is the leading provider of quality and performance management. As a small company we are in the enviable position of catering primarily to the fortune 500. While we offer a variety of services to help enhance their sales and customer satisfaction performance, all of our service...
Report on the workforce monitoring and surveillance practices: a practical guidance for employers
Essay - 8 pages - Human resources
Employers have always been monitoring theirs employees in one way or another to assess the quantity and the quality of a worker's performance. Monitoring should be understood in a broad meaning: employers can decide to use hidden cameras, CCTV cameras, they can open e-mails or keep records of...
Biometric research as experimental method in science
Essay - 5 pages - Biology
Any discussion of research in a scienti?c ?eld is subject to caveats because research must of necessity be less de?nitive than a discussion of the ?eld's established operational practices. First, enumerations of current research topics will be dated and subject to the perspective of the...
Estimating market risk premium using Markov switching : Tunisian Case
Dissertation - 97 pages - Finance
The general increase in volatility of the …nancial markets can be partly explained by the growing uncertainly of the economic environment. It is, on the other hand, a reflection of the growing efficiency and integration of the financial markets allow the almostinstantaneous move of capital...
Domain name service
Dissertation - 93 pages - Computer science
DNS began in the early days of the Internet when the Internet was a small network created by the Department of Defense for research purpose. Before DNS, computer names, or hostnames, were manually entered into a file located on a centrally administered server. Each site that needed to resolve...
Managerial economics focusing on cost and revenue analysis
Thesis - 19 pages - Economy general
Health service providers have to carefully manage the use of scarce resources while meeting a growing demand for services and rising expectations for quality. Conducting cost and revenue analysis can greatly increase a managers' understanding of the factors that affect resource use, including...
Outsourcing: Why companies do it?
Thesis - 34 pages - Business strategy
According to Wikipedia, Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) is a form of outsourcing, including legal process outsourcing. These are both high-value-added forms of business processing outsourcing (BPO). KPO firms provide domain-based processes and business expertise, rather than just process...
How to conduct a market research with special reference to Cadbury
Market study - 28 pages - Services marketing
Research in common parlance refers to a search for knowledge. One can also define research as a scientific and systematic search for pertinent information on a specific topic. In fact, research is an art of scientific investigation. The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English lays down...
The impact of brand ambassadors/celebrity endorsements through advertisement in brand building and their influence on consumer behavior
Thesis - 51 pages - Services marketing
Over the years, many growing and grown brands have jumped on to the celebrity endorsement bandwagon. Marketers are aware of the power of celebrities in advertisement and branding and their influence on consumer buying decisions. Endorsement is a medium of brand communication in which a celebrity...
VSAT: Satellite communications
Thesis - 29 pages - Physics
This report provides a review and assessment of satellite technologies for providing broadband data communications using Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network systems. In this context, “broadband” means that the application requires a data transfer rate greater than...
Marketing strategies of IBM Global Service India
Dissertation - 54 pages - Services marketing
IBM India's revenue is up 45% from a year ago, largely contributed to by a strategic approach and highly penetrative marketing strategy, and it keeps winning its share of large deals, such as a 10-year, $750 million contract it signed in 2004 with Bharti Tele-Ventures, India's No. 1...
Bandwidth discovery: A demand side analysis of the bandwidth requirements of India's IT and ITES sectors
Tutorials/exercises - 45 pages - Business strategy
Frost & Sullivan is an international market-consulting firm headquartered at Palo Alto, CA and with offices across the globe. The focus of work done at Frost & Sullivan is to interact with clients, understand their requirements and use the relevant domain expertise to develop innovative growth...
Brand management in retailing in India
Dissertation - 38 pages - Business strategy
Research can be defined as “A careful investigation or inquiry especially through search for new facts in any branch of knowledge”. Data collection is an elaborate process in which the researcher makes a planned search for all relevant data. Data is the foundation...
Business tourism in France
Thesis - 13 pages - Business strategy
Working in a family business, named DESERTOURS™, we perform in a challenging and competitive market: tourism. With twenty years experience, DESERTOURS™ is the 4WD and motorcycle adventure travel leader in the French market. Our company offers trips around the world, including Morocco,...
Business community and automation of business processes
Tutorials/exercises - 36 pages - Business strategy
The goal of this study was to understand the needs of business community for the automation/computerization of business processes and the level of automation that exists in business. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire through a direct interview method. One hundred...
Aspen: Analysis or simulation
Dissertation - 42 pages - Computer science
A process consists of chemical components being mixed, separated, heated, cooled, and converted by unit operations. These components are transferred from unit to unit through process. Process flow sheet can simply be defined as a blue print of a plant or the language of chemical processes. Like a...
Human resources management in Siemens
Tutorials/exercises - 57 pages - Human resources
The outsourcing history of India is one of phenomenal growth in a very short span of time. The idea of outsourcing has its roots in the 'competitive advantage' theory propagated by Adam Smith in his book 'The Wealth of Nations' which was published in 1776. Over the years, the...
Maintaining records in a library using C++
Dissertation - 84 pages - Computer science
The language used in the project is C++. C++ is a very good tool for the Object-Oriented programming. It provides all features of object-oriented programming. The foremost advantage of object-oriented programming is the Re usability feature. The project is a Library system, which is developed...
Business intelligence
Presentation - 47 pages - Computer science
This presentation tells about business intelligence. It begins with evolution of BI, tools used and a pictorial representation of its services. It then moves on to a precise definition of Business Intelligence warehousing concept and its features. Next it explains data warehouse tool...
Information technology as an enabler of sales and distribution
Dissertation - 47 pages - Business strategy
A competitive edge in sales and distribution network provides much needed muscle to the companies to compete in market place as has been epitomized by companies like HLL, Marico & ITC etc. Use of IT in sales and distribution promises to provide a consistent source of competitive advantage that...
Non inclusion property in chip multiprocessors with multi-level cache
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics
Difference between speed of processor and memory is increasing with the advent of new technology. Chip Multi Processors (CMP) has further increased the pressure on the memory hierarchy. So it has become important to manage on chip memory very judiciously to reduce average memory access time....
A brief overview of the Human Resources Information System with special references to India
Case study - 31 pages - Human resources
Human resource departments require large amount of detailed information the quality of personnel management department's contribution largely depends upon the quality of information held by it. Many personal activities and much effort by personnel professionals are devoted to obtain and define...
One dimensional cellular automata based security scheme with both authentication and confidentiality
Thesis - 11 pages - Electronics
In the past few years organization have widely adopted local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) and internet to take advantages of advancement in technology1, 2. As a result of connecting private and internal network to the outside network, exchange of information is greatly facilitated....
Reviewing laws after September 11th
Thesis - 11 pages - International relations
After 9/11 attacks the law making bodies all over the world observed a tremendous alter in their playback, these changes mostly affected the legal documents for those who took down the laws imposed by the legislative bodies. In another way you can say that these changes made the local governments...
Using a meta-modeling knowledge management layer: A new approach to designing the enterprise information architecture
Thesis - 10 pages - Computer science
As organizations continue to evolve with Inter/Intranet -based applications in this fast moving era of electronic commerce, organizations should adopt an Information technology architecture that conserves knowledge and enables decision-makers to use information systems at an even higher level of...
Reasons for doing qualitative research into strategic decision-making process
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Business strategy
Strategic decision-making process is a crucial part of strategy formulation and implementation. However, most inquiries into strategic decision-making process use quantitative methods. Even if there have been calls for more qualitative method for decision-making research, most researchers still...
Box-Jenkins vs. artificial neural networks in predicting commodity prices forecasting the export prices of Thai rice
Essay - 8 pages - Economy general
International commodity prices are determined by supply and demand, and to a large extent, governmental interventions through trade barriers and subsidies. Forecasting rice prices has always been a great challenge to researchers because determinants of supply and demand such as agricultural and...
