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... ways to service their clients at a higher level Using the structured MP3 mentoring materials and group face to face mentoring sessions, Sarah has the tools to get everyone thinking about how to ... relationship and focuses on getting new business Inevitably, with construction projects, problems often arise due to mistakes being made during the selling stage Internally in BuildCo, conflict happens ... certainly feel it and see it in action You know when it needs addressing even fixing Below are seven common culture challenges companies face even those which are wildly successful can still face...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... variants and transcript diversity Chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIPSeq) provides an extraordinary window into the dynamics of protein-DNA binding Xin Feng (Stony Brook University, New ... compelling talk in which he introduced a technique for turning network diagrams from incomprehensible ‘hair­ balls’ into information-rich schematics New insights from sequencing repetitive elements ... sequenced by combining Roche 454 and Illumina platform sequencing Shiran Pasternak (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, USA) described the current progress on assembling the wheat...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... leading to better infrastructure in India, more consumption in China and more competitive manufacturing in Brazil and Russia The growing prominence of Islamic finance is promising too, with increased ... rebounding somewhat in August Brazil slipped into recession in the first half of the year Argentina’s recent debt default, the ongoing standoff in Ukraine and new political leadership in India and Indonesia ... Furthermore, passive investing is not just about putting one’s money in an index or ETF and waiting for it to rise So-called smart beta investing involves creating tailored indexes that are not...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:11

... averaging the percentage of favorable responses across these four items This results in a single score that reflects the overall employee engagement (see Figure 1) Brazil China Germany India ... immediate manager is influential over an employee’s job satisfaction Indian workers associate an employee’s willingness to their very best and an employee’s sense of job security with having an effective ... are shown in Figure Clerical 56 Technical 55 Professional 55 Service 52 Supervisor 50 Sales 49 The universal results for the six countries indicate that subordinate employees rate their managers...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 11:05

... Increasing revenues requires decreasing operational costs, and this means reducing technician errors, achieving faster service turn-up time, lowering overall maintenance expenses, and resolving ... perform maintenance, or troubleshoot problems Successful fiber management plays an increasingly important role in eliminating potential problem areas that can become both costly and time consuming ... to poor record keeping Contrary to popular belief, record keeping in our industry is often a neglected area For instance, knowing where every patchcord is routed requires routing records that are...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 07:17

... understanding of the instruments may be developed, for example, by understanding the entity’s processes for investing in particular instruments and the information obtained by the entity in connection ... may influence the auditor’s risk assessment with regard to financial instruments include: Management is responsible for establishing an accounting and financial reporting process for determining ... those involved in determining the investment’s valuation • Management’s track record for assessing the risks of particular instruments Challenges may exist for management when fair value accounting...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... equity funding “Investors” in social businesses are really acting as philanthropists Vikram Akula, who runs SKS, a $250 million microinance irm in India, challenges Yunus’s view in the following way: ... clean drinking water include schistosmiasis, trachoma, intestinal Helminths, Hepatitis A, and arsenic poisoning Procter & Gamble (P&G) irst researched new water-purifying technologies in 1991 In 1995, ... Examining these three cases in- depth yields several interesting insights on the key success factors for BOP initiatives The BOP literature is full of exhortations calling for a “revolution” in...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... Tetsuya Sakai 2001 Generic Summaries for Indexing in IR In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 190–198, ... measure for assessing the relative decrease in retrieval performance when indexing summaries instead of full documents The idea behind it is similar to (Sparck-Jones and Sakai, 2001) In that experiment, ... summing over individual judges and normalizing The average interjudge precision and recall is computed by averaging over all judge pairs However, precision and recall not take chance agreement into...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... becoming a main source of Saudi insecurity by turning Iraq into an incubator of jihadis for Al Qaeda as much interested in overthrowing the House of Saud as in driving out the infidel American invaders ... choice but to continue working together as best they could because of strong mutual interests in combating Al Qaeda, maintaining stability in the oil market, and curbing the influence of Iran ... were finding new economic opportunities in China and other countries The Saudis had less reason to remain locked in the U.S embrace; time and a changing world have multiplied their options in international...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 06:22

... co-ordinating infrastructure support and improving production practices, amongst other things LIMPUST’s strategy involves seeking to ‘manage business linkages between emerging and commercial farming’ ... Policy Challenges in the Rural Economy Small business in Dihlophaneng Out of five businesses in Dihlophaneng, three shops were visited during the course of the research, and their owners interviewed ... Crops destroyed by floods in 1999/2000, with others not willing to invest and risk production again; • No support from institutions with inputs; • No continuous funding of the project; • Lack...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... are increasingly recognizing the central role that principals play in supporting and ensuring high-quality teaching in schools This realization has piqued interest in efforts to improve the principalship ... principals from different training programs When evaluating a principal training program, these difficulties make it challenging to determine which aspects of principal training programs are the most ... control in the evaluation Information on training programs that a principal attended and the skills and training emphasized in these programs is also lacking, complicating comparisons among principals...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:21

... like the physiological lipoprotein in their clearance from the blood and metabolism in vivo, and in their effects on cultured cells in vitro [28–30] In addition, in earlier work we have demonstrated ... protocol THP-1 monocytes were maintained in suspension in RPMI 1640 culture medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 UÆmL)1 penicillin, 100 mgÆmL)1 streptomycin and 50 lm 2-mercaptoethanol ... cell formation, thus increasing their atherogenicity Experimental procedures Fetal bovine serum (heat inactivated), penicillin, streptomycin and 2-mercaptoethanol were obtain from Gibco (Paisley,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... upwards in a time of declining inflation may seem a little unsatisfactory since it describes people as understanding enough about inflation so as to push nominal rates down in declining-inflation ... 20 An example of the kind of thinking appears in a recent Wall Street Journal article: “Lenders have been doling out increasingly large sums of money and accepting increasingly crummy conditions ... earnings need to be corrected for the inflation-induced depreciation of their nominal liabilities, and investors not make these corrections properly The cause of the downtrend in nominal rates since...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... vaccines for Eurasia a, o and asia -1, the way to go? 27 FMD vaccines and vaccination in India 27 FMD vaccines and vaccination in China 28 Current vaccines and their use in the design of vaccination ... Xujiaping 1,Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China 730046 Introduction Since 1970s, Oil adjuvant vaccines against FMD in which the virus antigen producing by BHK21, and inactivating by binary ... clinical FMD But more importantly, ring vaccination is compromising the routine vaccination (taking away vaccine supply, manpower and financial means) leaving other areas uncovered Monitoring...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20

... neighborhood influences have been investigated by gerontologists interested in housing preferences of older adults (Lawton et al 1980); by psychologists interested in maximizing the health and well-being ... cleanliness and appearance Interviewers were also asked to describe the quality of the neighborhood by indicating distance to other homes/buildings, type of housing in the area (including vacant ... beneficiaries in 1992 He found that individuals living in the most deteriorated neighborhoods (as measured by interviewer assessment of overall condition of dwelling, condition of other buildings in the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... of the actors involved in administration in the EU and their actions In short, this volume is a contribution to the developing understanding of the fast evolving area of EU administrative law ... explores the increasingly integrated nature of administrative procedures in EU law Composite procedures in which actors from national and European administrations interact in multi-stage proceedings ... including administrative rule-making The notion of shared administration originated from the Committee of Independent Experts investigating the alleged misconduct of the Santer Commission in 1999...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... Summary LinkedIn introduced number of enhancement to increase engagement with groups, including group polling options and the LinkedIn Today news aggregator Expect more new LinkedIn features in 2012 ... marketing investment areas: presence, frequency & processes Marketers are looking to invest heavily in social media marketing in 2012 The top quoted areas of social marketing focus include: ⁌ Increased ... SOCIAL MARKETING CHALLENGES IN 2012 STATE OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING With the enthusiasm and increased investment in social marketing come some key challenges that marketers expect to tackle in 2012...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... for asset management? Insurers and reinsurers are important institutional investors: European insurers and reinsurers are the largest investors in Europe in absolute terms and the largest debt investors ... Challenging years for European asset managers – October 2012 Read more product originators who distribute products to retail clients: We are preparing a number of bulletins providing more information ... choice to either inform the client that their advice is not independent – in which case they can continue to receive inducements – or to tell their clients that their advice is independent, which...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20