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13 Jan 2009
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Green or environmental logistics

Essay - 5 pages - Logistics

For a number of years, environmental issues have been a growing concerns in society, particularly in the business practices. Under influences of lobby, customers or stakeholders, the idea of sustainable development and of ecological respect has become more popular. Thus, as many other activities...

15 Jan 2009
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The Gender Gap in voting behaviours

Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences

European women first acquired the right to vote in 1906 in Finland. After the First World War, women were given the right to vote in a certain number of European countries. In the UK, it was gained in two stages: first in 1918, it was initially given to married women, women householders and women...

15 Jan 2009
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Global warming may open Northwest Passage

Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment

It is almost daily that television news mention environmental and natural disasters in each area of the world. Thus, the recent environmental events in the last years were cyclones like Katrina, tsunamis, floods, dryness… Scientifics don't give a verdict on these events but public opinion...

16 Jan 2009
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Ben & Jerry's ice cream: Environmental policy report

Essay - 11 pages - Business strategy

Hailing from a single store in Vermont, created by two men making ice-cream, Ben & Jerry's has rapidly become a truly global company, employing 514 people in the US alone, and operating 550 small ‘Scoop Shops' spread across the US and 23 other countries across the world. By their own...

24 Sep 2009
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The four drivers of global warming

Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences

Global warming is recognized by scientists and most world governments as a major climate event that is currently happening. There has been much debate about its causes, which come from many factors and not all of which are known. Several major contributing factors have been identified, however....

24 Feb 2010
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Avian niche lab report

Thesis - 4 pages - Ecology & environment

Surrounding the Ecology subject, we were studying an ecological habitat and the animals that make it up. Their behavior and habitat preference is what most closely relates to this lab. The object of this lab was to attempt to draw connections between habitat preferences (or lack thereof),...

29 Sep 2010
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Advertising and communication - published: 29/09/2010

Case study - 10 pages - Management

In this assignment, we analyze the selection and launch a new product. The product that I have to launch is a new deodorant, produced especially for women who have a sensitive skin and after a depilation. This product is sold in some specific shops only. Few brands are producing this product,...

10 Jan 2011
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The European project of ecotaxes

Essay - 12 pages - Economy general

In October 1991 the European Commission sent the Council a draft action program called the European project of environmental taxes that encouraged members of the European Union to introduce environmental taxes. This project was a sustainable development policy to tax the polluters to make them...

13 Jan 2014
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Casual explanations of child abuse

Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies

The topic, which is always under discussion and attracts the attention of scientists of different fields of investigation, is child abuse. According to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA): Child abuse is any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker,...

20 Apr 2015
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Negative externalities

Case study - 3 pages - Management

With that we are essentially engaged in a race between technology and the exponentially increasing demands of raw materials. The technology can: enable us to recycle waste, more usable resources of a quantity of raw materials, create new methods of production, and provide new sources of energy,...

27 Jan 2011
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Case Study: Launching of the Nissan LEAF in France

Case study - 10 pages - Services marketing

The year, eco mobility was honored saw many automakers put forward the electric cars. Many questions concerning the evolution of the electric car persist but its prospects remains grim. Many consumers want to drive 'green' but the adaptability of these vehicles is difficult because of the...

27 Jan 2011
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Study of the Yves Rocher in China

Case study - 51 pages - Services marketing

The cosmetics industry is currently booming and the opening of foreign markets has spawned new needs. Health, nature, ecology and the environment are now increasingly becoming the keywords of our society, which now demands cosmetics products that respect these concepts. With increasing...

03 Feb 2011
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) faces the challenge of sustainable development

Essay - 5 pages - Ecology & environment

The stakes by which the problems raise the concept of sustainable development, such as environmental protection and the fight against poverty, seems to represent an obstacle for further liberalization in trade as a factor in its favor. However, during the second half of the nineteenth century, it...

19 Jun 2008
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Death and Identity in Ladakh and Rondônia

Essay - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy

Every culture defines different entities and ideas in relation to which the individual can experience his or her identity and physical or mental substances on which one's identities are located. Mortuary rites described in Hiroaki Mori and Yukari Hayashi's film The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way...

21 Nov 2008
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Plant-animal interactions in forest ecosystems

Essay - 7 pages - Ecology & environment

Flowering plants, being sedentary, have co-opted animal partners for purposes of gene exchange and propagule dispersal, through pollination and seed dispersal. To secure these services plants provide a variety of flower or fruit rewards creating some of the most common and obvious mutualistic...

29 Sep 2009
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Flash Travel's business plan

Business plan - 12 pages - Business strategy

The main business activity of the company is transportation of people, and handling important merchandises and mails. Indeed, even if it could be exceptional to transport merchandise (like fruit, raw materials…) or mail (like political mails or parcel), because it is currently expensive to...

14 Dec 2010
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Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman: A book review

Book review - 6 pages - Ecology & environment

Friedman's book Hot, Flat and Crowded motivates change and action for businesses, consumers, and political forces by increasing their awareness of trends, behaviors, and regulations that hazardously impact economic and environmental conditions. The book evokes a sense of urgency to preserve...

21 Dec 2010
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The control of water in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Thesis - 6 pages - Political science

Since the creation of Israel in 1948 and the massive arrival of Jews in the Palestinian territory, the conflicts between the Israelites and Palestinians have regulary taken place. In addition to the religious and political problems, there remains the issue of water as well. This point is...

27 Jan 2011
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Decathlon: A Competitive and strategic study to develop recommendations to establish a specific communication in the bicycle market for women and children

Case study - 39 pages - Business strategy

Michael Leclercq established Decathlon in France in 1976. Decathlon was the first mass producer of sports equipment and caters to all a sportsman's needs whether he is an athlete or just a sports enthusiast. Decathlon is the leading innovator, producer and retailer of a broad range of sports...

27 Jan 2011
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Case study: Leadership and management of Starbucks

Case study - 11 pages - Management

Starbucks' CEO, Orin Smith, and the Board of directors play a central role in the organizational context of the company since they can arbitrate between the internal and external constraints and thus decide what organizational structures and policies have to be implemented. Mission and goals:...

16 Feb 2011
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The decision-making process of purchase of a solar panel at IDS Energy

Case study - 8 pages - Business strategy

We use hydrocarbon products in all areas of our everyday life, such as in the fields of transportation, production, clothing, and high technology. For the purpose of our study, we also include habitat and comfort. In recent years, the issue of sustainable development has been emphasized in order...

23 Mar 2011
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Mercedes: Should it introduce a small, 'clean' family car?

Market study - 5 pages - Services marketing

Mercedes Benz is a German automobile brand, distributed worldwide and known for its high-end vehicles. Like all other car manufacturers, it faces a severe economic crisis that has been particularly detrimental to the automotive sector. In this context, car manufacturers must innovate and artfully...

18 Dec 2007
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Fallen Leaves

Essay - 3 pages - Literature

Environmentalism is a concept that has been long argued on many fronts. There is a large rift between those who scream for the need to protect our planet and those who could not care less. Now, with the planet moving closer and closer to possible biological peril, we find ourselves stopping to...

19 Apr 2008
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The History of Abolition: A Global Interplay of Events

Essay - 7 pages - International relations

Historical phenomena such as the abolition of slavery cannot be explained by isolating them from the larger global context that created the conditions for their existence. In his chapter titled Whose Abolition? Popular Pressure and the Ending of the British Slave Trade, Seymor Drescher states:...

30 Jun 2008
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Environmental ethics

Essay - 3 pages - Ecology & environment

As a society, we strive for progress and we have come to view progress as a state of productivity and consumerism. Along this road of mass consumption and industrialization, we have negatively affected the environment; in the U.S. alone, 24 acres per person is consumed but only 4.5 acres are...

13 Jan 2009
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Market Research: The launch of a hybrid diesel engine by PSA group

Market study - 4 pages - Services marketing

In 2004, Toyota launched a hybrid car: Prius. The principle of this car is the addition of an electric motor to the traditional petrol engine. The objective is to request the electric motor with starting and low speed and to request the petrol engine at higher speeds. The goal of this technology...

16 Jan 2009
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Critical review of Robert Putnam's Making Democracy Work

Book review - 6 pages - Political science

In the 1970s, new representative institutions were created in the twenty regions that make up Italy. The Italian government wanted to bring governance closer to the people, so that 'the citizens of Seveso and Pietrapertosa were now directed to nearby Milan and Potenza rather than distant...

17 Mar 2009
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Employee welfare measures

Thesis - 7 pages - Human resources

“Welfare” is a broad concept referring to a state of living of an individual or group, in a desirable relationship with the total environment - ecological, economic and social. Labor welfare includes both the social and economic contents of welfare. Social welfare is primarily concerned...

22 May 2009
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Mathematical modeling for axial voidage distribution in CFB

Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Physics

Kwauk proposed that the characteristic fine particle distribution in fast fluidization could not be accounted for by the one-dimensional analysis on accelerative motion of particulate fluidization, and presented a physical model for a gas-solid fast fluidization system. The average solid...

26 May 2009
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A survey on recruitment advertisements

Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Human resources

Advertising is a phrase used for the announcements made by the seller to promote the sales of their products. Advertising refers to the mass selling techniques used when direct face to face selling is not possible or is too time consuming and expensive. It is different from propaganda, publicity...