If you’re planning to build a new home, or renovate an existing one, you should consider hiring roofing companies to do the job. Whether you’re building a single story home or a multi-story edifice, you need to know that a roof is essential for protecting your home. Aside, from providing structural support to the roof, a properly-installed roof also prevents heat loss and lowers the risk of fire. For these reasons, it’s important to get the job done right. There are many contractors out there who can give you the service you need. When searching for a new roofing company,…
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In recent years, football betting has become extremely popular all over the world. In particular, the growing trend of smartphone use has a great deal to do with this trend. Numerous online casinos can be played on these devices, which allows enthusiasts to still play online casino games such as baccarat even without taking a laptop or other portable device with them. This helps people still enjoy the game while on the go. As technology improves, gambling and other types of gambling are following suit. One example is UFABET. Online Thai gambling websites are starting to pop up in the…
Legal measures adopted by the European Union can influence egg production and consumption in both direct and indirect ways. There are measures that directly hit egg producers, like strict controls to avoid food contamination, while others aim at regulating agricultural sector in general and at protecting consumers’ health. Food safety is a priority in the EU policy agenda and many programmes are addressed to strengthening it. But what is food safety? If we mean food safety in a broader sense, it is clear that it can be interpreted both as a credence or a search attribute. For example, if we…
When we think of sewing, we automatically think of the sewing machine. But there are some wonderful specialty sewing machines that can make sewing quicker and easier and more professional. In addition to a quality sewing machine, a fully outfitted sewing studio will include: a serger, a blind hemmer, and an embroidery machine. The serger seams, overcasts, and trims in a single pass at roughly twice the speed of the home sewing machine. It is used as a mainstay in garment construction and home décor, but has great usefulness in all areas of sewing. It even has some wonderful decorative…
EIS was adapted for deployment in Higher Education contexts by modifying the mission, the characters, the formal and informal relationship networks, the culture, the interventions, and the unplanned events to reflect specific features of change dynamics in academia. We named this adaptation EduSynergy. The EduSynergy mission. The mission can be briefly summarized as follows: Humfeld University wants to implement a university-wide quality assurance system called AcadQual. The implementation process has successfully evolved so far, apart from one exception. Humfeld University’s Graduate School of Management (GSM), a successful and highly renowned business school, is reluctant to adopt the new system. The…
Two research projects aiming to promote student-centred teaching approaches (through the development of students’ questioning competence), and ultimately to enhance the scholarship of teaching and learning, are being developed in science and engineering courses at the University of Aveiro, in Portugal. One of the projects is being developed in a 1st year chemistry course and the other in a master photogeology course. These action research projects are being developed in full collaboration between an educational researcher from the Education Department, a professor from the Chemistry Department, and a professor from the Geosciences Department. The main purposes of these projects are…
Combining these perspectives raises interesting research questions going forward. In some cases, these perspectives offer complementary explanations that enhance our understanding of the phenomena of interest here. In other cases, additional work is needed to tease out the contingencies that might reconcile conflicting perspectives. One common theme in all three streams of literature, but particularly in the organization ecology and evolutionary economics perspectives, is the primacy of selection over adaptation. Organizational ecology originated because researchers wanted to identify environmental conditions rather than factors related to adaptation in determining failure rates (Hannan and Freeman, 1987, 1988). Ironically, although many evolutionary economists…
The seminal first purchase model is the Bass (1969) model of the timing of first purchase of new products, especially consumer durables. The Bass model is based on the assumption that the timing of a consumer’s initial purchase of a new product is related to the number of its previous buyers. The behavioral rationale for the model is rooted in two types of customer behavior: innovative and imitative. The model is given by St = (a + bCSt)(M − CSt) + εt (1) where St is first purchases of a product category at time t, CSt is the cumulative first…
Management simulation games are widely used for training management teams and students [6], [7]. “Business Management Simulation Game” is an interdisciplinary course at the College of Management’s School of Business Administration [8]. It is a mandatory course for all undergraduate students during their last year of studies. Integrative approaches used in this course enable students to gain managerial skills and to develop a broad-minded approach to the diverse operations associated with running a business corporation: Accounting, marketing, finance, human resources management, manufacturing, resource planning, international activity and more. Decision-making processes and teamwork are inherent, by simulating a management board of…
Paid search is a deceptively complex channel and one that, like many other marketing channels on and offline, takes many years to understand in detail. There are two primary reasons for this. First, paid search has more jargon and acronyms than any other form of digital marketing and so the above key terms may be useful to refer to throughout this chapter. This is ironic, considering that good marketing copywriting involves avoiding exactly this type of situation but, irony aside, it is essential to understand the language of the channel to be able to communicate your strategy effectively. Second, it…