... building and maintaining brand The chapter will also highlight the importance of branding inthe marketplace 2.2 What is a Brand? There are many definitions of “brand” Following are some of them: ... are what the company makes; what the customer buys is a brand.” Therefore brand can be understandable as the product inthe customer viewpoint A brand is landmark Buyers are actually purchasing ... increasingly concerned non-tangible factors rather than tangible factors Therefore, branding has become a highly skilled and specialized discipline It concerns with managing and maintaining a...
... With each change, a financial impact is realized and the opportunity for changes to create invoice inaccuracy rises Validating the expected cost of change is an additional activity within the cost ... environmental and service changes Validating financial accuracy is supported with invoice and contract inventories, as they contribute to the validation points of what is invoiced and what should be invoiced ... control is gained over cost and service change Telecom financial management is the practice of understanding, relating and managing the cost of telecommunications services Financial management is...
... Shilpa Ramdas Mahangade, Gaurav Wason, and Maliha Zaman who helped in administrating the entire process Finally, we thank our families, Sharmini, Vinesh, Dharman and Michael, Jessica, and Christa, ... Mirchandani recommends that a human resource manager, rather than an information technology person, spearhead organizational efforts handling PWU inthe organization Chapter by Paulette Alexander takes ... were analyzed using an inverted factor analysis technique In this technique, interpretations are based on factor arrays and factor scores rather than loadings, typically used in factor analysis...
... and play in organizations can seem paradoxical In this regard, it joins a number of other paradoxes to be found in organizational contexts, including that of facilitating managerial control as well ... 70 Anandarajan, Devine and Simmers playing online games, and downloading music These behaviors may have a number of negative consequences for the individual, but the organizations have the greatest ... C .A & Anandarajan, M (2002) Perceptions of personal Web usage inthe workplace: A concept mapping approach Academy of Management Conference Sloan, P (2002) The temptations of the Web Database and...
... shown inthe table The alpha values are greater than 0.6 indicating that the items in each factor belong together Table also contains labels that the author applied to the factors Deterrent and ... factor analysis with varimax rotation was conducted on the 18 measures The factor analysis revealed four factors and explained 64.36% of the variance inthe data Table shows the factor loadings ... checking a personal e-mail account, and staying in contact with friends and family during the workday e-mailing a friend about dinner through a corporate e-mail account searching for restaurants...
... liable for aiding and abetting the activities Instant Messaging Instant messaging (IM) has become another popular means for communications While the phenomemon first became popular inthe mainstream ... “service” (Frackman, Martin, & Ray, 2002) Employees should also be advised against participating in online drawings, lotteries, and other games of chance promising the potential to win valuable prizes ... Between Information and Intrusiveness Less information Wandering around More intrusive Gateway Logging Gateway Monitoring Client Sniffing warrant further investigation This all being said, there are...
... 1996) An important aspect of managing human capital inthe 21st century workplace is managing the interface between humans and information technology — particularly the Internet Many have argued ... personal web usage at work) with increasing industrialization and globalization We recognize that there is a lag inthe chain of change and that there are value dimensions that remain largely divergent ... dependent variables (employee web usage, attitudes and information) are given in Table Table Means and Standard Deviations of Dependent Variables Nigeria U.S Malaysia Web Usage a Mean Standard Deviation...
... generally, and the increased availability of the Internet in particular, have provided for new innovations in, and an expansion of, the field of criminality (and more specifically inthe area of ... extent are engaged in text-based virtual realities and take on other social personas and social identities as a way of making themselves feel good about themselves In these cases, the Internet may ... seen inthe newspapers almost daily are no longer matters like flaming and defamation, which we may call “Internet abuse inthe small.” Instead, the abuse is much broader in scope socially — gang...
... C (2001) Factors influencing Web access behaviour inthe workplace: A structural equation approachIn Anandarajan, M (Ed.), Internet Usage inthe Workplace: A Social, Ethical and Legal Perspective ... from The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Dr Alexander has been on the faculty of the University of North Alabama (USA) since 1981 Her primary research and teaching interests are inthe areas ... performance By understanding the motivational factor and the consequences of these behaviors, the chapter then advocates practical implication of managing personal Internet usage inthe workplace...
... With each change, a financial impact is realized and the opportunity for changes to create invoice inaccuracy rises Validating the expected cost of change is an additional activity within the cost ... environmental and service changes Validating financial accuracy is supported with invoice and contract inventories, as they contribute to the validation points of what is invoiced and what should be invoiced ... control is gained over cost and service change Telecom financial management is the practice of understanding, relating and managing the cost of telecommunications services Financial management is...
... spontaneously The study was cleared by the ethics committee of the Institute Informed consent was taken for each subject Statistical Analysis Quantitative and qualitative data are expressed as median [inter-quartile ... distinct disease entity.8 These differences can lead to a delay inthe diagnosis of TB inthe elderly, which in turn, can lead to an increase inthe morbidity and mortality in them.9, 10 A recent ... with ageing and hence must be kept in mind during the diagnostic evaluation of elderly patients.11 Several findings of the current study are in accordance with the results of this meta-analysis In...
... explore all the ideas and developments outlined above Along the way, we are able to acquaint the reader with the culture of mathematics: who mathematicians are, what they care about, and what they ... a Ph.D in mathemat16 There is a grand tradition in mathematics of not leaving a trail of corn so that the reader may determine how the mathematical material was discovered or developed Instead, ... mathematician He/she spends a lifetime making mistakes and trying to learn from them There is hardly any other profession that can make this claim The mathematician in pursuit of a particular...
... countries The Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO) EPI Revolving Fund, which pools vaccine purchasing demand from participating countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and negotiates a low ... Thailand has adopted and scaled this approach throughout the country Today, over 1,175 nurses and 150 physicians have been trained, and the single-visit approach is available in rural clinics in ... necessary treatment.7 Panama soon followed suit by announcing the first national HPV vaccination program ina middle-income country.8 Since that time, national HPV vaccination programs have been launched...
... stealing away at each side among the bushes The Boy had heard 70that the beavers were accustomed to begin their dams by felling a tree across the channel and piling their materials upon that as ... water turned the watchers’ attention up-stream Another beaver came in sight, and then another, each partly floating and partly dragging a straight sapling like the first It seemed that the dam-builders ... majestically, the tall birch swung forward straight down the 57slope, its top describing a great arc against the sky and gathering the air in its branches with a low but terrifying roar The final crash...
... provided, always, that the husband's circumstances warrant him in establishing and maintaining a home Granting, then, the right kind of a wife, and the ability to make a home, the young man, with the ... has attained majority; thought, and a certain spiritual manhood, ready for all work that man can do, endures there The Scotch national, character originated in many circumstances; first of all, ... of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light, quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." CHAPTER VIII 24 CHAPTER...
... between A- and B-chains In WT thrombin, the A- chain assumes an overall boomerang-like shape interacting with the B-chain surface opposite to the active site [17] Stabilization within the A- chain and ... theory on acid ⁄ base-catalyzed Functions of the thrombin A- chain reactions indicated that inthe thrombin amidase cycle the His57 imidazolium form acts as a general acid to facilitate amine expulsion ... steady-state amidase activity and binding of the high-affinity inhibitor a- NAPAP showed pKa values of the catalytic His57 higher in DK9 mutant than in WT thrombin Application of the Brønsted theory...
... the late Sharon Davies of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic The editors thank Helena Rosenfeld-Alvarez, the editorial coordinator in New York City; and also thank Alana Balaban for her editorial assistance ... community after 9/11 231 Randall D Marshall Part IV A New York area 16 PTSD in urban primary care patients following 9/11 Yuval Neria, Raz Gross, Mark Olfson, Marc J Gameroff, Amar Das, Adriana Feder, ... an approach for mental health, including the importance of core baseline data and surveillance programs (Commonwealth of Australia, 2000) There is also the pluralism which is so essentially American;...
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