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22 May 2009
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The process of reactive distillation

Tutorials/exercises - 35 pages - Physics

Reactive distillation is the combination of separation and reaction ina single vessel. Today Reactive Distillation is discussed as a part of the broader area of reaction and separation, which comprises of many combination of chemical reaction with separation methods including distillation,...

17 May 2009
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Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly, and Konopaske. Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Process, 13th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2009, Chapter 5 Case for Analysis: What Motivates Entrepreneurs?

Book review - 3 pages - Management

The 13th edition of Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes is based on the proposition that managing people, structure, and processes in organizations is a challenging, compelling, and crucial set of tasks. There is nothing boring about managing organizational behavior. Traditional...

18 Mar 2009
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How behaviorist concepts of learning processes can be used to explain how children learn to talk and think

Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology

This essay will explore the behaviorist approaches to both language and cognitive development, at the same time critically evaluating it in terms of the main alternative approaches of nativism and constructivism (which also includes the social interaction approach to language). To do this it will...

11 Jun 2009
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Speech processing using wavelete transformation and its implementation in digital hearing aids

Thesis - 4 pages - Electronics

Hearing impairment is the number one chronic disability affecting people in the world. Many people have great difficulty in understanding speech with background noise. This is especially true for a large number of elderly people and the sensorineural impaired persons. Several investigations on...

05 Mar 2009
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Study and analysis of extrusion processes

Thesis - 29 pages - Services marketing

Today most of the industries use this Extrusion process, for manufacturing of different components. In this process a block of metal is reduced in cross section by forcing it through a die orifice under high pressure. In general, extrusion is used to produce cylindrical bars or...

16 Jan 2009
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Analysis of the main organizational changes in Carrefour and the role of Informational Technology in this organizational change process

Essay - 6 pages - Management

Contrary to their considerable growth in terms of number and value, the operations of mergers and acquisitions reveals, for more than one operation out of two, a failure from the economic and organizational point of view (McKinsey 2000; Mercer Consulting 2001, 2003). The insufficiency of the...

23 Nov 2009
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Confucian study, East Asia and the process by which women were educated

Thesis - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy

According to the Confucian understanding of gender, “[a] woman is only virtuous if she is untalented. ” They key to this postulate is the word ‘virtuous.' Virtuous, unlike any other synonym that the author could have chosen, indicates a sense of purity, specifically, purity in a...

08 May 2009
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Sales-side process automation to improve integration: An exploratory research

Dissertation - 51 pages - Business strategy

The customer has always been important. Peter Drucker, the dean of management consultants, once remarked: “Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two and only two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results: all the...

23 Apr 2009
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All you need to know about testing - preparation, process, evaluation and analysis

Dissertation - 72 pages - Management

There is a lot of terminology surrounding testing, but not until recently has there been an industry standard. A new standard (first published in August 1998) seeks to provide a standard set of terms: BS 7925-i Glossary of Testing Terms. Although a British Standard, it is being adopted by the...

07 May 2009
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Social cognitive processes mediating the relationship between exposure to television's sexual content and adolescents' sexual behavior by Steven C. Martino, Rebecca L. Collins, David E. Kanouse, Marc Elliot, and Sandra H. Berry

Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism

The article I chose to study is from the volume 89 of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, published in 2005 by the American Psychological Association. It deals with a research supported by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. I chose this one since, like the...

16 Jan 2009
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A "fat tax" to encourage consumers to switch away from fats, sugar and processed foods

Essay - 4 pages - Government finance

People are obviously getting more and more fat. This fact cannot be denied. That is why, to curb this phenomenon, Kelly Brownell launched the idea of applying a fat tax on unhealthy food, in his article published in the New York Times in 1994. Such a tax could encourage people to buy less...

15 Jan 2009
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Pragmatism and idealism in the process of nation-building (1781-1788)

Essay - 7 pages - Modern history

“Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.” (Richard Nixon). Were the very first years of the new nation, born of the American Revolution, marked by a “spirit of pragmatic...

30 May 2009
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A paper outlining the process of implementing a new computer system

Thesis - 9 pages - Computer science

The hardware and software for the computer system for the clinic must be able to support all the information requirement of the clinic and not only the requirements of its operations function. Render and Heizer said that in order to provide services, an organization undergoes three primary...

12 May 2009
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Has the 'war on terror' influenced Latin America and its relationship with the U.S.? What are the implications of this process for the region?

Thesis - 6 pages - International relations

War on Terror was launched by the George Bush administration in respond to the attacks on September 11, 2001 on the US soil. The official term used by the US military, Global war on Terrorism refers to the various military, political, and legal action taken to curb the spread of terrorism. So, to...

16 Jan 2009
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The failure of the Arusha Process in the Rwandese Crisis

Essay - 11 pages - Modern history

The 1994 Rwandese genocide happened in the following of a civil war which had begun more than three years earlier. In October 1990, the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), which gathered the Rwandese who were refugees in south Uganda (mostly since the decolonization period at the end of the 1960s),...

15 May 2009
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Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly, and Konopaske - Organizations: Behavior, structure, process (chapter 11): A new leadership position

Thesis - 2 pages - Management

The profile prepared by Management Analysis Corporation is the first step in the process of finding a potentially successful of general managers, but it is not the only step. Actually, after MAC has understood very clearly the needs of Dancey Electronics, they could picture the perfect...

18 Sep 2009
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Understanding the working process of various departments in the garment industry

Thesis - 7 pages - Management

The Merchandising Department plays an important role in the garment industry. The merchandiser works as an intermediate between the buyer and the vendor. Merchandisers represent either the buyer or the factory. Merchandising is all about planning to have the right merchandise at the right time,...

15 May 2009
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Organizations: Behavior, structure and process - Gibson, Ivancevich, Donnelly and Konopaske: Employment opportunities in multinational firms

Thesis - 2 pages - Management

According to the Exhibit 3 which deals with the question of Japanese expatriates and American in executive positions in Japanese firms in the United States, 69.4% of employees in a top executive echelon or in a middle management branch are Americans. For example, 76.5% of employees from the...

17 May 2009
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The features of management processes and structures in terms of Fordism and Taylorism: Why did these models come under pressure during the late 20th Century? Has there been a definitive break from them?

Thesis - 7 pages - Management

Between 1893 and 1911, F.W Taylor published a series of books about management that defines the basis of a new science: The scientific organization of work . On the one hand, he notes “the dawdling” of workers, who are at the same time influenced by their natural way to be lazy and the...

12 Jan 2009
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Children and conflict: Afghan children and post conflict processes

Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences

Historically, the processes of securing peace, reconciliation and reconstructing a country have neglected the specific needs and rights of children. However, the approach to the role of children in post conflict societies is slowly changing. To ensure the long-term peace, security and development...

15 Jan 2009
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SNCF - Short strategic overview: Example of business process redesign

Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy

The SNCF (Société National des Chemins de Fer) is the national railway operator in France and manager of the railway infrastructure owned by the RFF (Réseau Ferré de France). The company is a French public entity with autonomous management established under the special status of an Establishment...

09 Jan 2009
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What role does the media play in the political process?

Essay - 4 pages - Political science

Since its beginning, about five decades ago, the mass media have been intertwined with political processes of every type, ranging from coverage of major political events and institutions to effects on campaigns and elections. In our liberal democracies, the media are central for the public:...

12 Jan 2009
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Why has the European Court of Justice been so central to the process of integration?

Thesis - 10 pages - European union

“Law is often still treated as if it were a separate field, clearly distinct from the economic or political spheres” . As the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has never been given a lot of media coverage, most of the time, its role in the integration process is either disregarded...

16 Jan 2009
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Do U.S. policies towards Egypt and the Muslim Brothers' success affect the democratization process?

Essay - 10 pages - International relations

9.11 attacks and the U.S. reaction to launch a war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, aside with the perpetuating Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the U.S policies toward Egypt triggered an increased popularity of Islamists. In the context of the up coming Anti-terrorist law due to be presented...

22 May 2009
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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 respondents...

05 Mar 2009
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Exploring the effect of introducing olfactory triggers on recall ability in relation to levels of processing in memory

Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology

Experiments by Craik and Tulving (1975) suggest recall is enhanced using deeper levels of processing by giving meaning to words, semantic processing, combined with requiring more attention resources at encoding. Based on this an experiment was designed to test if non-matching olfactory triggers...

28 Oct 2009
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An overview of training and development process in an organization

Thesis - 14 pages - Human resources

The genre of ‘Employees' seems to have evolved through a transformation process. They are now more growth oriented, ambitious, industrious, forward-looking and increasingly vulnerable to the rocking changes in the industry. They have a high self-concept and seek intrinsic motivation...

28 Oct 2009
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A study on the credit rating process and methodology

Thesis - 9 pages - Finance

Credit rating is the process of estimating a firm's ability to perform to its capacity. It also determines the financial worthiness of an organization depending on the performance of the organization in the past. Objectives of credit rating agencies 1. Its primary objective is to provide...

23 Sep 2009
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Software Processes

Presentation - 18 pages - Computer science

A software process model is an abstract representation of a process. It presents a description of a process from some particular perspective. Based on the transformation of a mathematical specification through different representations to an executable program and...

17 Jun 2009
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Business process outsourcing

Thesis - 13 pages - Business strategy

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is generally categorized as being transactional, niche, or comprehensive. Transactions are generally sub-processes such as account payables, account receivables, journal, general, ledger, order processing, medical transcription, etc. Niche support moves...