John wiley & sons economics of conflict private sector activity in armed conflict

... Taylor Emerging Conclusions March 2002 Economies of Conflict: Private Sector Activity in Armed Conflict Emerging Conclusions These Emerging Conclusions offer a preliminary analysis of the findings of ... private sectors are en- gaged in trying to identify what mix of private and public policies will be most ef- fective in addressing the role of private sector...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:30

... is not a good thing (again — well, duh!). Similarly, one may graph numbers of patents against patent age. This is intended to provide an indication of portfolio aging and warn of impending expiration ... 1), the filing of a patent application gen- erally results in a loss of the underlying trade secret pertaining to the invention, a patent applicant must be convinced that the ensu...

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2012, 15:42

... Be careful: You’re walk- ing a fine line here. It’s one thing to be genuinely interested in an- ticipating the needs and wants of your customers, but it becomes something completely different ... touch points, you’re never going to outswim or evolve into a shark. CASE STUDY: Toshiba INTEGRATING MARKETING SCIENCE INTO CRM Toshiba is a perfect example of how to integrate marketing techniq...

Ngày tải lên: 07/02/2013, 09:52

... proteins 251 14.1.5 Recombinant vaccines 252 Producing vaccines as recombinant proteins 252 Recombinant vaccines in transgenic plants 253 Live recombinant virus vaccines 253 14.2 Identification of ... identification of crime suspects 283 16.1.1 Genetic fingerprinting by hybridization probing 283 16.1.2 DNA profiling by PCR of short tandem repeats 283 16.2 Studying kinship by DNA profi...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:20

... particularly costly. The cost of selling a single copy of a piece of software is small compared to the cost of maintaining, monitoring and billing a network service. It is not surprising that cost, among ... of their customers. This outsourcing of the management of the communication assets of large companies may be a substantial source of income and a new business model in...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:12

... statement (gain/loss on disposal of a discontinuing operation). Certain line-item disclosures on the face of the income statement will be eliminated, including results of operating activities, profit ... be incorporated into the revised standard, indicating that the following sources are to be applied in descending order of authoritativeness: International Financial Reporting Standa...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:12

... Materials Lighting and Electrical Equipment Medical Devices Publishing and Printing Metal Mining and Manufacturing Entertainment Building Fixtures and Equipment Sporting, Recreational and Children's ... quality, through setting standards, improving curricula, and involving the private sector in governance • Vietnam lacks a skills training system • Companies have launched own trai...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... 12 Caring for Your Carers 167 Avoiding jadedness in front-line staff 168 Avoiding inconsistent service levels 169 Taking a meaningful interest in your staff and their problems 170 Promoting openness ... buying patterns, buying sequences, product purchase or complaints, data is being collected and stored. The sad fact is that too often this data is not INTRODUCTION 3 being utilised. Offer...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 18:07

... only include indexes when necessary. This chapter also introduced you to some of the GUI tools that can be used to administer a MySQL installation. In the end, most find that using some type of ... and running in an organized and efficient way. The book does not go into arcane detail of every aspect of either of these tools. For example, in this book you will not find a discus...

Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2014, 18:08

... 352 Finer Points These chapters contain discussion of some of the finer points of practical project management. They assume a working knowledge of the basics, and an interest in understanding ... in project management. Yet others may be looking for some of the finer points of this discipline. To this end, we have identified four categories for use in classifying the chap- te...

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