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  • An Evaluation of Guests Preferred Incentives to Shift Time-Variable Demand in Restaurants

    An Evaluation of Guests Preferred Incentives to Shift Time-Variable Demand in Restaurants

    Asked for their reactions to specific demand-shifting tactics based on revenue management, patrons of a restaurant in Ithaca, New York, indicated that they generally would be willing to shift their dining time to off-peak hours in exchange for discounts on menu items. Better than three-quarters of the 367 respondents agreed that they would accept an incentive for dining at an off-peak time. Specific results and conclusions are detailed below. Keywords: revenue management; pricing strategies As

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    Essay Length: 1,025 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Vika
  • Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture

    Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture

    Humor and the Emergence of the Gay Culture During America’s growth, homosexuality became a very taboo topic, one seldom mentioned and rarely discussed. Just as the Sexual and Racial Revolutions promoted acceptance of once discouraged social matters, the Homosexual Revolution has promoted the acceptance of the gay culture in today’s society. Undoubtedly, humorous homosexual characters in television and in other forms of entertainment are helping to increase the acceptance of the gay culture by portraying

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    Essay Length: 2,378 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Top
  • Changes in the Market and Emerging Promotional Tools

    Changes in the Market and Emerging Promotional Tools

    Changes in the market and emerging promotional tools There has been a tremendous amount of change in the global markets in the past few years. This has predominantly due to the fact that there is a shift in the consumer mindset, consumption patterns, changes in demography and organizational attitude brought through by advancement in technology. This has led to a change in marketing strategies and practices across the world. Marketing thinkers and companies are prompted

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    Essay Length: 1,795 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Emergence of a Supra - National European Citizen

    The Emergence of a Supra - National European Citizen

    Kostas Theologou, Political Scientist, PhD Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law School of Applied Mathematics and Physics National Technical University of Athens, Greece Genikes Edres, Bldg E, 1st floor 9 Heroon Polytechneiou Str, 15780 NTUA Zographos Campus tel. 0030 210 772 2255, cell 0030 6976016195 fax. 0030 210 7721618 e-mail: cstheol@central.ntua.gr The emergence of a supra-national European citizen Kostas Theologou, PhD NTUA The emergence of a supra-national European citizen ABSTRACT This paper examines the

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    Essay Length: 5,027 Words / 21 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Yan
  • Emerging Biofuel Industry in the Eu

    Emerging Biofuel Industry in the Eu

    1. The current situation of biofuels in the European Union Biofuels represent a renewable remedy for fossil transportation fuels such as petrol and diesel. To date, the predominant alternative energies employed in the transportation sector can be categorized into three types namely biodiesel, biogas and bioethanol. There is a vast and stupendous variety of feedstock suitable for the production of biofuels. Nonetheless, sugar beet, wheat, maize and rapeseed oil constitute the majority of resources utilized

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    Essay Length: 3,945 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Bred
  • Emerging Trends in Organizational Behavior

    Emerging Trends in Organizational Behavior

    EMERGING TRENDS IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR A. Globalization 1. Definition a. Occurs when an organization extends its activities to other parts of the world, actively participates in other markets, and competes against organizations located in other countries. 2. Implications for organizational behavior a. Requires new structures and different forms of communication to assist the organization's global reach. b. Creates new career opportunities and potentially brings in new knowledge to improve the organization's competitive advantage. c.

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    Essay Length: 460 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Monika
  • Is Xenotransplantation an Ethical Solution or Disaster?

    Is Xenotransplantation an Ethical Solution or Disaster?

    Is Xenotransplantation an ethical solution or disaster? The audience for this paper is comprised of those readers looking to gain knowledge on the issue of xenotransplantation. This group of people is unaware of the dynamics of the ethical arguments surrounding this current issue. This audience does not have a specific age or belief, reflecting the varied positions of the argument. Due to this hunger for factual information, they do not wish to have someone else’s

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    Essay Length: 1,937 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Emergence of Musical Film and Its Influence on Society

    Emergence of Musical Film and Its Influence on Society

    Essay Question: Critically discuss and describe the emergence of musical film and its influence on society. “The musical is one of the most popular film genres among both audiences and film scholars, probably for many of the same reasons - the spectacle, the music and the enjoyable predictability of the outcome weighed against the pleasure of the varied details.” Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell A proverb once claimed that “in life, you are either being

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    Essay Length: 3,457 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Emerging Network of Networks

    The Emerging Network of Networks

    The emerging network of networks Karl Marx is considered one of the fathers of modern social sciences. You can’t discuss economics, political science, contemporary history, or sociology without seeing the influence of his ideas. Through his primary works, The Manifesto of the Communist Party and Capital, he spelt out a devastating analysis of capitalist economics and class relations that has remained relevant and influential in different ways over the past 150 years. Marx asserts

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    Essay Length: 1,558 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Artur
  • Cow Disaster

    Cow Disaster

    OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's $8-billion mad cow disaster can be squarely attributed the failure of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to assess economic consequences of even a single infection, says a leading expert. ADVERTISEMENT I'm a WomanMan seeking a ManWoman Age: to Postal Code: William Leiss of the University of Ottawa, who is also a past president of the Royal Society of Canada, said the CFIA assessed the risk of mad cow to animal health

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    Essay Length: 516 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • Engineering Disasters

    Engineering Disasters

    On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost due to structural failure in the left wing. On take-off, it was reported that a piece of foam insulation surrounding the shuttle fleet's 15-story external fuel tanks fell off of Columbia's tank and struck the shuttle's left wing. Extremely hot gas entered the front of Columbia's left wing just 16 seconds after the orbiter penetrated the hottest part of Earth's atmosphere on re-entry. The shuttle

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    Essay Length: 725 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Steve
  • Behaviorist Paradigm and the Cognitive Theory of Learning

    Behaviorist Paradigm and the Cognitive Theory of Learning

    Helping students learn more effectively is a major goal of every teacher. As a teacher of 9th grade High School students it is important to realize efficient teaching methods to better achieve this goal. To help accomplish this we look towards two philosophy methods; the Behaviorist Paradigm and the Cognitive Theory of learning. The Behaviorist Paradigm (or classical and operant conditioning) teaches us that we learn based on how we interact with our environment. The

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    Essay Length: 560 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: July
  • Subjectivity Emerges Through Relationships with Others

    Subjectivity Emerges Through Relationships with Others

    Subjectivity thought has always been one of the fundamental contents of western philosophy. It is experienced many difficulties in its development process. Since we were born into this world, we were entered into a process of searching for consciousness of �self’, which affects our behaviours and choices we make. We learn to use the language to communicate with others; we improve our abilities to gain social power; and we start to build our social networks

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    Essay Length: 1,558 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Victor
  • New Shifts in Software Licensing and Pricing

    New Shifts in Software Licensing and Pricing

    Software Licensing and Pricing Software is a mature industry with considerable cost pressures. It costs an incredible amount of money to develop, deliver, market, sell and support a software product. Software vendors are struggling with dwindling margins, increased competition, and bad economy that keep pushing them to sell at lower prices. For many, the only way to overcome that is to make big shifts in licensing and pricing schemes. Traditionally, most software vendors use a

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    Essay Length: 3,038 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • China’s Emergence as a Superpower

    China’s Emergence as a Superpower

    “The 19th century belonged to the British. The 20th century belonged to the United States. But the 21st century belongs to China,” -- Jim Rogers, Hedge fund manager China’s population is one of the greatest natural resources on the planet. Its citizens are becoming more educated, diligent, aspiring and comprise nearly a quarter of the world’s population. The combination of China’s massive size and rapid modernization is creating the framework for an emerging superpower. China’s

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    Essay Length: 522 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Tourisms Effects in an Newly Emerging Market

    Tourisms Effects in an Newly Emerging Market

    In the last few years on the southern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula, tourism has slowly picked up, though compared to Cancun still very sleepy. The southern tip hosts a1.3 million acre areas known as the Sian Ka’an Biosphere, a United Nations World Heritage site, designated to be protected for its rich biodiversity and unique Mayan cultures which have inhabited the peninsula for centuries. The town I’m focusing on, Majahual, is a small fishing village

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    Essay Length: 477 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Top
  • Disaster Management

    Disaster Management

    While typhoon Caloy has claimed eight lives in Luzon and is still raging in some parts of the country, Mount Merapi volcano in Indonesia is also spewing burning lava from its crater, forcing thousands to evacuate. As always, relocation sites could hardly accommodate the evacuees. Someone says, "He who fails to prepare for the night, fails to prepare for the dawn." It is on the least expected moment that a potentially worst calamity would hit

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    Essay Length: 694 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • How the Foundation Stage Has Emerged

    How the Foundation Stage Has Emerged

    Examine the history of provision for 0-5 year olds in Britain showing how the foundation stage has emerged and discuss its strengths and weaknesses. Early year’s education, in Britain has traditionally been child centred, emphasizing the child's individual interests and experiences along with integrated learning (for exam-ple, the three ‘R’s) and free play. Historically, there has been very little government intervention in pre-school provision, however, in order to improve the quality and in-crease the

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    Essay Length: 2,887 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: regina
  • A Conceptual Framework of Prestige-Seeking Consumer Behavior

    A Conceptual Framework of Prestige-Seeking Consumer Behavior

    Vigneron and Johnson / A Review and a Conceptual Framework of Prestige A Review and a Conceptual Framework of Prestige-Seeking Consumer Behavior Franck Vigneron The University of Sydney California State University Northridge Lester W. Johnson Monash University Franck Vigneron is assistant professor of Marketing, College of Business & Economics, California State University Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge CA 91330-8376, USA, franck.vigneron@csun.edu. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Professor Lester W. Johnson, Monash Mt.

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    Essay Length: 262 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Victor
  • Evaluating the Framework of the Integrative Model of Work Attitudes, Motivation and Performance,

    Evaluating the Framework of the Integrative Model of Work Attitudes, Motivation and Performance,

    Evaluating the framework of the Integrative Model of Work Attitudes, Motivation and Performance, by Raymond A. Katzell, Donna E. Thompson, 1990 
Motivation is Psychology drive to achieve goals. There are many theories of motivation that can be combined then the capacity of each theory will predict the reality of people’s behaviour in work environment. Katzell and Thompson developed in 1990 a comprehensive theoretical model of work attitudes, motivation, and performance based on a key constructs

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    Essay Length: 872 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • To Understand Something You Need to Rely on Your Own Experience and Culture. Does That Mean That We Are Trapped in Our Own Cultures and Paradigms, and Can Never See an Objective Truth?

    To Understand Something You Need to Rely on Your Own Experience and Culture. Does That Mean That We Are Trapped in Our Own Cultures and Paradigms, and Can Never See an Objective Truth?

    People have been arguing whether our own culture and experience are barriers that keep us from not seeing the objective truth. To clearly discuss this argument, a few definitions and views need to be considered. First of all, the objective truth comes from an understanding. To understand something, we need to have knowledge on it. Knowledge is defined as true justified belief. Therefore, to obtain knowledge for a better understanding, we need to rely on

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    Essay Length: 784 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Significance of Disaster

    The Significance of Disaster

    THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DISASTER . Introduction:- 2. The significance of disaster in today’s environment sometimes comes under question. Why do we need to bother so much? After all, disaster has been with us as long as recorded history, and presumably even longer. Generations of people have had to withstand disaster. They have suffered the consequences and recovered from them, and life has continued on. Basically, this is true. However, there are certain factors which need

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    Essay Length: 1,731 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: July
  • Shifting Efficiency

    Shifting Efficiency

    Shifting Efficiency One of the most important and life-altering inventions in history is the creation of the automobile. The first model was built with a manual transmission, meaning the operator of the vehicle was responsible for manually changing gears to increase speed. This method of acceleration, while efficient, required the complete attention of the operator, and it sometimes took away the enjoyment of driving. This led to the invention of the automatic transmission, a method

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    Essay Length: 370 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Monika
  • Johnstown Flood Disaster

    Johnstown Flood Disaster

    Johnstown Flood May 31, 1889 was a day that brought terror to the small town of Johnstown Pennsylvania. The small town was established in 1794 as a steel town and had a population on 30,000. The cause of the flood actually starts not at the town but 14 upstream at the South Fork Dam were the Little Conemaugh and Stony Creeks rivers meet as you can see in the image below. At this place is

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    Essay Length: 1,251 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: David
  • The Ibm Application Framework for E-Business

    The Ibm Application Framework for E-Business

    The IBM Application Framework for e-business As companies race to transform their businesses into e-businesses, they are discovering that the transformation process is not always straightforward. The IBM Application Framework for e-business (the Framework) is a means for achieving business transformation and a foundation framework for developing and extending e-business processes and applications. This paper describes the Framework, showing it is based on industry standards, including enterprise Java™ technologies, and focuses on enabling complete e-business

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    Essay Length: 7,839 Words / 32 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Steve

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