brands retailers and shoppers why the long tail is wagging the dog
mind and cosmos why the materialist neo darwinian conception of nature thomas nagel
... B, the display on the screen of the figure “8.” It is a further fact that this figure is the symbol for the number 8, and the figures I tapped in are the symbols for a certain sum, so we have the ... materialistic or theistic explanation to provide a complete understanding of the world, it would have to be the case that either the laws of physics, or the existence and properties of God and therefore ... account of why those faculties exist that is consistent with our confidence in their reliability—neither a naturalistic account nor a Cartesian theistic one The existence of conscious minds and their...
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Tài liệu MARRIAGE LAW AND PRACTICE IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ppt
... promise of marriage and then abandoned, thereby contributing to the rise in illegitimacy.14 The operation of the Act has attracted just as much criticism as the motivations of the legislators It has ... England and Wales existed both before and after the 1753 Act,69 and the complexities of Scottish marriage law will need to be unravelled at a later date The scheme of the book is both thematic and ... satisfied that a contract existed The promises of the parties had to be mutual: as Ayliffe put it, ‘if the man says to the woman, I promise that I will marry thee, and the woman does not promise...
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Unfolding the Future of the Long War - Motivations, Prospects, and Implications for the U.S. Army docx
... for the United States To understand the effects that this long war will have on the U.S Army and on U.S forces in general, it is necessary to understand more precisely what the long war is and ... world by strengthening established regimes, giving them more resources, and making them less brittle The theory here is that the main driver behind the Salafi-jihadist surge is the existence of ungoverned ... confronts the dominant power of the time—from the anarchists in the early 20th century to Nazism and communism and now Islamic extremism These ideologies attract individuals who are disaffected with the...
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Blindsided Why the Left Tackle Is Overrated and Other Contrarian Football Thoughts doc
... will not bother attacking the left tackle To further illustrate this point, let’s take two teams with identical sack numbers, the Cleveland Browns and the St Louis Rams The Browns and the Rams ... section of the book will review some of the NFL’s business practices and the damage they could possibly cause the league The last section of the book is titled “A Call for a Historical Statistical ... conventional wisdoms: The true value of the left tackle position Whether free agency and the salary cap have killed the dynasty Whether the 2007 Patriots will be the last undefeated team we will see this...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Cutting the Long Tail: Hybrid Language Models for Translation Style Adaptation" doc
... instance, the word sequence and so on [/s] ” is ranked 4th in the TED and 157th in the NEWS while “, you know [/s] ” is 5th in the TED and only 1652th in the NEWS These figures confirm that the talks ... to translation hypotheses before LM querying8 The order of the additional LM is set to 10 in the Arabic-English evaluation and in the English-French, as these appeared to be the best settings ... approach are larger and all statistically significant The hybrid approach is significantly better than the unsupervised one by TER in ArabicEnglish and by BLEU and METEOR in EnglishFrench (these siginificances...
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Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond
... shelves and picks up a bottle of Pantene brand, reads the front label, then picks up a bottle of the store brand and reads the front label, then reads the price tag On the Pantene, then reads the ... about the front: We all want to be there, at the front of the pack., the head of the line, the top of the class To the front-runner go the spoils In the retail environment, however, up front is ... to the greatest number of shoppers We tracked shoppers from table to table, seeing where they stopped, what signs they read, whether they noticed the video monitors, and how they handled 14 WHY...
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PROJECT TITLE: “UNDERSTANDING THE STATEMENT OF PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS OF THE THANG LONG INFORMATICS JOIN STOCK COMPANY” ppt
... the leader of the company, along with uncles, brothers, sisters worked at Thang Long Informatics JSC, especially, the women in finances and accounting office of the company has helped us in the ... organization and management comply with the ISO standards and the software development process closely, science, served the demand of indigenous customers with different demands, customers and partners ... attract and retain talent Individual employees of the company are active and creative In iThangLong, the brand has the contribution of each individual brand - the best employees Each employee is orient...
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Long-Term Care for the Elderly with Disabilities: Current Policy, Emerging Trends, and Implications for the Twenty-First Century docx
... defined by the reimbursement mechanism rather than by the goals of the care, the skills it requires, or the characteristics of the recipients THE ROLE OF RESIDENCE IN LONG- TERM CARE In long- term ... Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wyoming—use the terms “assisted living” and “board and care” interchangeably (Mollica and Snow, 1996) For the other states, key characteristics differentiating assisted ... established to meet the needs of the elderly long- term care population and their families The most common form is adult day care, in which elders with moderate disabilities receive supervision and...
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american gridlock why the right and left are both wrong commonsense 101 solutions to the economic crises
... consider the plight of anyone attempting to understand the issue of distributive justice, the subject of who should receive how much of the “pie,” and why This is arguably the most important and least ... capitalism and redistribution from the lucky to the unlucky go hand in hand They represent two sides of the same coin Nonetheless, despite the strong implications of economic theory for distributive ... my thesis topic the problem of distributive justice, that is, the issue of who owes how much to whom, and why This topic had been moribund for decades until the 1971 publication of the magisterial...
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Why the User Experience of Enterprise Software sucks and what you can do about it
... YOU MAKE THE ENTERPRISE IS BECOMING CONSUMERIZED EXPERIENCE DESIGN IS AN ENABLER OF BUSINESS STRATEGY ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE VENDORS MUST REINFORCE THEIR BRAND IN THE PRODUCT TO STRENGTHEN OFFLINE ... Source: WHY HAVE ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE VENDORS #FAILED WITH USER EXPERIENCE? THE BUYER & THE USER ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE USERS ARE A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE IS RARELY ... NAME IS SEAN RANKIN, AND I DESIGN ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE I MAKE TECHNOLOGY EASY AND FUN TO USE ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE RUNS ORGANIZATIONS, GOVERNMENTS, & BUSINESSES WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE...
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empires of belief - why we need more scepticism and doubt in the 21th century
... between and away from the binary categories of existence and non-existence the and/ or” which is between the and/ or” of existence and nonexistence, identity and non-identity, causality and non-causality’.48 ... works how low his opinion is of organised religion and the religious impulse Hume is particularly critical of monotheism, arguing in the Natural History of Religion that polytheism is the preferable ... summation, the Pyrrhonist sceptic ‘lives undogmatically, following his natural inclinations, the appearances 18 Scepticism: A Brief Philosophical History he is aware of, and the laws and customs of his...
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the undercover economist exposing why the rich are rich the poor are poor--and why you can never buy a decent used car nov 2005
... between the meadowland and the marginal land (in this case, the scrubland) When Cornelius arrived, the grassland became the marginal land, meadows became yet more attractive relative to the marginal ... West into the International Square plaza, and they are not easily turned aside from their paths They want to get out of the noise and bustle, around the shuffling tourists, and to their desks ... between meadowland and whatever land is available rent-free to new farmers Economists call this other land “marginal” land because it is at the margin between being cultivated and not being cultivated...
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state university of new york press the perils and promise of global transparency why the information revolution may not lead to security democracy or peace oct 2006
... that “Islam is under attack in the name of the war on terror.”9 Urdu- and English-language newspapers in Pakistan gave the story front-page coverage and the Pakistani parliament debated the matter ... and have a right to understand why they must sacrifice their lives Citizens abide by laws and are punished if they not They have the right to expect that their leaders will uphold similar standards ... circumstances the risk is that transparency becomes the end and not the means to an end Without further steps toward dialogue and toward the resolution of underlying security issues, it is not at...
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the long tail
... Google and eBay have discovered new markets and expanded existing ones This is the power of the Long Tail The companies at the vanguard of it are showing the way with three big lessons Call them the ... of this is much more diversity, reversing the blanding effects of a century of distribution scarcity and ending the tyranny of the hit Such is the power of the Long Tail Its time has come | iss ... who follow them ("Customers who bought this also bought ") In each, the aim is the same: Use recommendations to drive demand down the Long Tail This is the difference between push and pull, between...
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what governments maximize and why the view from trade
... for this assumption One is that it is consistent with the existence of lobbies that pay the legislators for producing these rents The other is votes: the electoral competition model in which the ... sweeping the districts becomes more remote and the distinction between the two systems disappears A rejection of Hypothesis would then indicate that the world is well approximated by the GH96 ... party This leads to our third prediction: i Hypothesis 3: The greater is the perceived difference in the fundamental characteristics of the two parties in the eyes of voters, the lower is a, and conversely...
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Scientific report: "Characteristics of poultry systems and cost analysis - the benefits of vaccination campaigns HPAI prevention in livestock systems in Long An Province" pptx
... (DLP), FAO, the General Statistics Office (GSO), the Veterinary Services and Stations and the concerned communes The various poultry production systems and sub-systems were then identified; the poultry ... allow the characterization of the poultry production (sub-) systems, the scale of breeding and the realisation of the cost-benefit analysis of the mass vaccination campaign against H5N1 in these ... on the bird flocks are directed from the central government to villages in the regions, provinces, districts, communes and villages Vaccines are imported and given to the provinces and then distributed...
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Báo cáo y học: "Closure of the NCBI SRA and implications for the long-term future of genomics data storage" doc
... deleted RK: If there is a good chance that the data are going to be used by others, then yes, there is a good case for storing them Just storing the raw data for the sake of it, however, is probably ... In the long term it is probably better to just store the samples and then resequence them with improved technology MG: It’s extremely important that there is a proper archive to put things in The ... computer disks will RK: The EBI’s SRA has a better data submission pipe line than NCBI’s, and I understand the EBI is keen to involve communities to ensure the database is better tailored to...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Long-term survival of a woman with well differentiated papillary mesothelioma of the peritoneum: a case report and review of the literature" docx
... researched and composed the literature review and the patient history PH was a major contributor to the patient history and to critical revision of the manuscript Both authors read and approved the ... differentiation and atypia [1,4,5,8,12] The case presented above is unusual in two respects She maintained follow-up and remains alive with disease after 24 years from her initial diagnosis This is the second ... Additional information obtained from other case reports describing the long- term behavior of this tumor should also help to elucidate the precise roles for observation and therapeutic intervention Consent...
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Báo cáo y học: "Onset of efficacy and tolerability following the initiation dosing of long-acting paliperidone palmitate: post-hoc analyses of a randomized, double-blind clinical trial" doc
... On Day 8, and then on Days 36 and 64, patients received their assigned treatment per the randomization schedule, injected in the deltoid or the gluteal muscle at the discretion of the investigator ... CB, and JKS participated in the design of this analysis YM performed the statistical analyses for this manuscript All authors (LA, CB, JKS, YM, and DF) developed the draft of the manuscript and ... Within the atypical class of agents the risk for extrapyramidal events is often dose-related [16] In this analysis, the incidence of extrapyramidal symptoms was less than 2%, with akathisia being the...
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