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... behind the implementation of changes in a particular organization On the other hand, desire refers to willingness ofthe people to follow the proposed changes Knowledge is the understanding the ... be given the chance to offer input in the technical aspects ofthe project They can focus on the technical side ofthe process, know what the competition is up to, the technology that the business ... for change When the CRM change is coming, the C-Level executives need to be out there letting the organization know that the customer will become the center of their business activities And the...
... generation of real-time, insight driven, shopping and financial tools End ofthe days of consumers being “dumb” at point of sale Consumer empowerment to the max 19 There are a variety of hurdles ... phones Financial inclusion 24 Mobile Payments andthe Digitization of Money will Change Everything…Or will it? 25 From Theory to Action: The work of SapientNitro 26 Q&A 27 Thanks Donald Chesnut, ... enable the “check-out” process to occur in-aisle, at home, anywhere As a result, mPayment will challenge and redefine– long-standing assumptions of how stores are designed 18 The arrival of mobile...
... grow at the southern limit of their range Therefore,I expect widespread forest decline throughout the worse range It is likely that some trees will survive The great genic diversity of most of our ... for the maintenance of seedbanks and provenance tests past the tenure ofthe scientists who initiated them Howard Kriebel provided cases in point With the exception of his provenance test of red ... model the effect of climate change on the range of another Fagaceae, American beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh) An increase in mean annual temperature of 2.5 °C will eliminate beech from most of its...
... paper presents the first systematic study ofthe law of mobility to assess the sensibility of diabetic subjects, comparing the law of mobility of TPD in the upper and lower extremities of DM patients ... dysfunction in the development of diabetic foot ulceration andthe differences between the left and right, andthe lower and upper extremities In another study, Joseph [16] describes the decline of tactile ... combination of these techniques could better evaluate the use of law of mobility for microvascular dysfunction The law of mobility shows the degree of axonal loss The law of mobility for TPD of diabetic...
... shows thechange over time as the left-hand panel (error bars are standard error) The right-hand plots are from a repeated measures analysis ofthe effects of treatment over the years ofthe study ... view ofthe pivotal nature of these studies, it is important to understand the nature of these improvements and factors that may influence them We have used data from the TORCH trial to explore these ... CJ, JCY and JV contributed to the initiation, design, and conduct ofthe study, the interpretation of data, and manuscript development; MDS contributed to the interpretation of data and manuscript...
... describes the structure ofthe Poissondistributed network The vector, vj, is the viral load ofthe jth network contact of person i, and P is the population These assumptions lead to the following ... at the beginning ofthe simulation, and remained static for the duration of that simulation Weight of network connectivity between people and infection spread One ofthe most obvious features of ... values ofthe connectivity coefficient (ωi = 1.0 × 10-3) shortened the time required to spreadthe disease through the population, as well as the peak ofthe outbreak (blue line) Lower values of the...
... stayed in the orphanage and shared the meals with the children and played with them in their free time Analyses All variables except one met the preconditions for the analyses The sum of depressive ... mental health and development ofthe children The decline in PTSD severity and violence experienced in the orphanage after the implementation ofthe new instructional system andthe individual ... assesses the severity of symptoms based on the frequency of symptoms reported by the child The occurrence of each DSM-IV symptom within the last month is scored on a scale ranging from none of the...
... from the 19th century to now My thesis also involve a in-depth elaboration ofthe clan, ritual and society of both Teochews and Hakkas ethnic Tracing the long-term and diverse evolution ofthe ... Southern Asia After the settlement’s founding, a number of local temples dedicated to the Sanshan Guowang were set up They transplanted the cult of Sanshan Guowang from their homeland in Southeast ... members ofthe NUS Department of Chinese Studies, such as Associate Professor Koh Khee Heong and Associate Professor Yung Sai-Shing They are always ready to share their astute observations and creative...
... determine the impacts of climate change, risks and damage caused by the impact of climate change, the adaptability andthe vulnerability ofthe sectors andofthe community These tools consist of an ... 2.2.3 The mountainous and midland area The mountainous and midland area of Vietnam can be divided into the following regions: the Northern mountainous and midland area; andthe Central and Highland ... include: the Northwest, the Northeast, the Red River Delta, the North Central Coast, the South Central Coast, the Highlands andthe Southern area Thechange in temperature, precipitation and sea...
... resisted the Chinese, they had a strong culture and were far from the Chinese center They took what they wanted from Chinese culture The Han dynasty demanded tribute, later they conquered and ruled ... more and more control Fujiwara family came to dominate Peasants and artisans lost even more power The Warrior Elite Warrior leaders (BUSHI) governed and taxed their lands for themselves, not the ... involved in court life Lady Murasaki The Tale of Genji This was the first novel published anywhere, it is a story of love and intrigue in the Imperial court The Decline of Imperial Power Aristocratic...
... in the 1180’s (Gempei Wars) The Minamoto family won because they had the support of provincial lords and good commanders while the Taira family lost in spite of their control ofthe emperor and ... (Cambodians) and Tais They reflect the culture of southeast Asia They had a strong tradition of independence (autonomy) They differed culturally in: preference ofthe nuclear family over the extended ... There was great distance between them and imperial controls, mountain barriers, and few Chinese bureaucrats and soldiers in the area ofthe Red River • The Vietnamese also took advantage of the...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning ofthe New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning ofthe end ofthe New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature ofthe South African...
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief ofthe ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result ofthe crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy andthe rise of new aspirations for democracy andthe self-determination of peoples The ... testimony both to the warlike character ofthe Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities ofthe Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end ofthe process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal andthe informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... affected by the creation and use of fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus ofthe theory, however,...
... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK andthe US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level ofthe variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects ofthe collapse ofthe bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...
... kinds: + Thechangeof consumer-demand modal, market andthe attitude to the availability and diversity of goods + The pressure of reducing cost + The development of Information technology + The pressure ... learning and expanding With their experiences, they have learned the value of offering quality services In the way of growing, they have also open branches to establish a worldwide presence These ... The Association has the role of coordinating the activities ofthe members in order to protect the interests ofthe members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding...
... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity ofthe FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average ofthe baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI andthe risk of type DM Red meat consumption...