... Africa Western Ghats, India Kinabalu National Park, Borneo Riviere Bleue, New Caledonia Barro Colorado Island, Panama Barro Colorado Island, Panama Atherton Tablelands, Australia Kununurra, Australia ... Australia Vicosa, Brazil Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania Popondetta, Papua New Guinea Sarapiqui, Costa Rica Catanduanes Island, The Philippines Dimona and Porto Alegre, Brazil Lambir Hills National Park, ... ants and the age ofa tropical rain forest Proportional abundance was defined as the ratio of number of ant individuals ofa functional group to the total individuals collected in a sample A second...
... MacDonald can be said to have a larger degree of dispersion of data around the mean than Max hamburger in those attributes Max hamburger had a larger standard deviation than MacDonald in these attributes“its ... competitive advantage ofthe fast food restaurant The basic attribute ofa fast food restaurant are also important for a fast food restaurant to excel because the strength ofa brand commonly provide the ... mean value than Max hamburger In terms of standard deviation, we found out that MacDonald had a larger standard deviation than Max hamburger in these attributes the food quality ofthe restaurant...
... • • What is the soul ofthe brand? What are the fundamental beliefs and values that drive the brand? What are the competencies ofthe organization behind the brand? What does the organization ... and manages its brand to get the full benefit from it, astudy into thecaseofthe LiOA brand at Nhat Linh Co., Ltd., an auto voltage stabilizer (AVS) manufacturer, is undertaken Thecasestudy ... not easy to create and maintain a strong brand To understand more how a company builds and manages its brand to get the full benefit from that, astudy into thecaseof LiOA brand at Nhat Linh...
... examining the costing plan for a two-layer jacket (Appendix 5, Table 2) After calculating manufacturing cost, 10% of profit rate is added then 10% of VAT (value-added tax) and another 10% retail ... sustain this advantage to maintain high profit rate over a number of years This definition uses profit rate as a measurement to rate the competitive advantage In other view, we can say that a product ... age and body-build Thaloga focuses on mass market as their target market Customers in this market are featured with average income and average living standard Geographically, the market of the...
... and water quality analysis ofthe biogas plants were conducted BACKGROUND Study area Bangladesh lies in the northeastern part ofSouth Asia, and has an area of 147,570 km2 It is one ofthe most ... canal and ponds It was partly because the people had considered the biogas plant as maintenance free and they did not any maintenance at all with lack ofthe appropriate technical knowledge Also, ... populated countries ofthe world, with a population of about 129 million in 2001(Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 2002) Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh, and Bauniabad is one ofthe urban...
... on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation ofthe biogas potential ofthe sludge the quality ofthe sludge was analysed and the ... 2007 [7] Barelli D., Csambalik L., Mestas C and Santos D Economical and Environmental Analysis ofa Biogas Plant within the Context ofa Real Farm The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, ... and technology (KNUST) generates a colossal amount of waste (solid and liquid) The solid waste is dumped at a site far away from the inhabited part of campus and the liquid waste is sent to a...
... female humans and animals Eg: Lion (Noun): a large powerful animal ofthe cat family that hunts in group and lives in parts ofAfrica and southern Asia Lioness (Noun): a female lion 15 g/ The ... learners a large of vocabulary and grammar There are many reading texts and basing on these reading texts, learners have the chance to know about the culture, the people of many countries in the ... morpheme may be defined as the minimal linguistics sign, a grammatical unit that is an arbitrary union ofa sound and a meaning and that cannot be further analyzed This definition may be too...
... comprehension as a process of acquiring the meaning ofthe message based on the incoming language data from sounds, to words, to grammatical relationships, and ultimately to the meaning Schemata are hierarchically ... absence of complete knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, or other target language elements Language based clues may come from aspect ofthe target language that the learner already knows, from the learners’ ... partner, and exploring cultural and social norms) help the learner work with others and understand the target culture as well as the language As a language is used as a means of communication, the...
... with their work The results are valued on a Likert scale of to for the different items Over the last few years, the average satisfaction index—calculated as the average ofthe values given to each ... be measured via these same factors, even if the individual case is a strategy for which new tools are used The analysis revealed that one ofthe essential organizational factors, because of its ... knowledge and information: that is, an interaction between actions and behaviors The action ofCASESTUDY creation does not consist ofthe processing of information or data, since the obtaining of tacit...
... spectrum ofthe graph’s Laplacian matrix rather than the adjacency matrix It is increasingly popular these days to analyze the spectral properties ofthe graph’s Laplacian matrix However, for reasons ... Series in Mathematics American Mathematical Society S V Shanmugam 1972 Dental and alveolar nasals in Dravidian In Bulletin ofthe School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 35, pages 74–84 ... sounds, some of which are (a) nasals in Tamil (Shanmugam, 1972) and Malayalam (Shanmugam, 1972; Ladefoged and Maddieson, 1996), (b) laterals in Albanian (Ladefoged and Maddieson, 1996), and (c) stops...
... lower than Cenibra in all parameters Votorantim, Suzano Bahia Sul, Ripasa and International paper are integrated producers ofthe writing and printing paper By calculating the average ofthe three ... Klabin and Aracruz that present data for years 2003, 2004 and 2005 and Cenibra which data are available only for 2005 ** The companies not have this value calculated All plants, excepting Aracruz and ... Brazilian companies and comparing with the international Paper performance, the Brazilian group reaches an average lower than foreign subsidiary in five ofthe six parameters The values reached...
... gives an estimate ofthe "reliability ratio" (the ratio ofthe variance ofthe signal to the combined variance ofthe signal and noise) The estimated reliability ratios are fairly high, ranging ... Report Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs, May 1990 Labor Relations Reporter Wages and Hours Manual Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs, irregular Card, David "Using Regional Variation ... NJ, is a dummy variable that equals for stores in New Jersey GAP, is an alternative measure ofthe impact ofthe minimum wage at store i based on the initial wage at that store (W,,): GAP, = =0...
... studies, and many other fields The goal of qualitative research is to gather a deep understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern behavior Qualitative methods also are investigating ... performance 2.3.3 Formal arrangements Another factor that affects corporate culture is the formal arrangements that organize tasks and individuals These arrangements include the structure ofthe ... and shape the artifacts and the espoused belief ofthe branch 4.4.1 Artifact level and its manifestations According to Edgar Schein, artifacts include all the phenomena that one sees, hears and...
... on the general look at financial statement, the general approach applied in analysis of financial statements, the nature of globalization, and the impact of globalization on the financial statement ... manufacturers and service industries The nature ofthe enterprise involved dramatically affects the kind of data available in the financial statements The purposes ofthe user dramatically affect ... intangible assets, and its managers‟ abilities Financial managers and analysts often talk about the quality ofa firm‟s earnings or the quality of its balance sheet This has nothing to with the...
... than the opportunities, as well as analyze and explain the changes in the area of methodology and organization ofa company, after activity-based costing implementation The research findings are ... 41 the machine hours are the underlying cause ofthe factory overhead, that may have been reasonable or at least sufficient for the Savina‟s external financial statements If Savina wants to calculate ... units and positions also should incorporated by the application Then the factor of assembling and training ABC team is analyzed because the size of this team depends on the expectation about ABC approach...
... in agricultural hinterlands As a result, the gawalas keep only the animals that are lactating or very close to the lactation stage Dry buffaloes and cows are either sold back to farmers or to the ... the Ravi between Balloki and GugeraSaddar/Akbar Chawk This area consists ofthe western parts ofthe administrative districts Kasur and Okara In the Idara-e-Kissan lexicon, this is IK-1 Now the ... benefits The latter approach capitalizes on the comparative advantages ofthe public and private sectors and is likely to achieve better results An important observation during thecasestudy was the...
... Salaga Damongo Walewale Guinea savannah Guinea savannah Guinea savannah Brong Ahafo Nkoranza Transition Ashanti Sekyere West Adansi East Amansie West Transition Forest Forest Western Dorma-Ahenkro ... Impacts Assessment and Evaluation Group (IAEG) ofthe Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) An additional objective ofthe Ghana study was to generate information that ... in the sparsely populated Guinea savannah to a low of 5.1 acres in the densely populated coastal savannah Considering that average household size is much larger in the Guinea savannah, land availability...
... considered as one ofthe most beautiful National Parks in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) A major area ofthemountain has been designated as National Park by virtue of Proclamation No 75 dated ... preservation ofthe Mt Pulag as a National Park by conducting an ex-post economic valuation ofthe recreational value of Mt Pulag What is really the true value of this program? The overall goal ofthe ... (1995) at Lake Danao, Ormoc City entitled “Economic valuation ofa protected area: Lanao Danao National Park” Based from the findings ofthe study, variables affecting preservation demands and total...
... elements are further defined below 1) Language Data Learners need samples of listening and speaking language Learners can access to appropriate samples of oral language in contexts that make transparent ... language areas required Learning a foreign language for them is a process than for the trainees who have not yet a clear conception of what they have to learn in their native language Several ... information about the language needs to meet the learning needs ofa particular groupof learners The needs ofa specific groupof learners must be satisfied by the suitable teaching methods based...
... affecting the student’s satisfaction: acasestudy at the Da Nang University of economics” is carried out and formed basing on argument above RESEARCH BACKGROUND Ø Nowadays, tertiary educators are ... to the appearance of physical factors such as equipment, facilities used by a service based company as well as to the appearance of service employees • Empathy refers to caring and individualized ... & Zeithaml, V .A (1991) Refinement and reassessment ofthe SERVQUAL scale Journal of Retailing Parasuraman, A. , Zeithaml, V A. , & Berry, L L (1985) A conceptual model of service quality and its...