... price competition.While deploying theInternet can expand the market,then, doing so often comes at the expense of average prof-itability. The great paradox oftheInternet is that its verybenefits ... integrate theInternet into their proven strategies and thus neverharness their most important advantages.Words for the Unwise: The Internet s Destructive Lexicon march 200175Strategy andthe Internet ã ... estimating the size oftheInternet opportunity. march 200173Strategy andthe Internet remains more difficult to customize packaged applica-tions, the very difficulty ofthe task contributes to the...
... understand-ing of individuals’ preferences and expectations is required inorder to weight and time the influence of each of these events on the relationship between the supply ofandthe demand ... screenfor their loot, the fictitious clothes spun by the intellectualsto hide the naked plunder ofthe Emperor. The task of the historian, then, is to penetrate to the essence ofthe transac-tion, ... formoney. The ceteris-paribus laws of economic theory are strictlyqualitative and only indicate the direction ofthe effect each of these events has on the purchasing power of money and that the change...
... growth of a scale and speed unique in human history. This growth underlay the collapse of colonial rule, the destruction of apartheid, andthe instability of successor regimes. It was the chief ... University of Cambridge and is aFellow of St. John’s College. He is the author of several books on Africa, includingAmodern historyof Tanganyika andThe African poor: A history, which was awarded the ... fatalto cattle. By the first half ofthe second millennium bc, cattle were herdedclose to the top ofthe Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad.Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...
... ESTABLISHMENT. The Secretary shall estab-10lish within the Office ofthe Administrator ofthe Health 11Resources and Services Administration, an office to be 12known as the Office of Women’s Health. The ... COMPOSITION. The Coordinating Com-12mittee shall be composed ofthe official designated 13under subsection (a) andthe directors ofthe centers 14 and offices ofthe Agency. 15‘‘(3) CHAIRPERSON. The ... COMPOSITION. The Coordinating Com-17mittee shall be composed ofthe directors ofthe cen-18ters ofthe Administration. 19‘‘(3) CHAIRPERSON. The Director ofthe Of- 20fice shall serve as the Chairperson...
... orthodoxy. Therefore, it also seems likely that the recent financial and economic crisis the Great Panic and Recession of 2008 and 2009—will both rearrange the economic landscape and affect the focus of ... within the model change after the introduction ofthe liquidity facilities. The hypothesis of constant parameters is overwhelmingly rejected, suggesting that the behavior of this factor, and thus of ... expectations ofthe macro variables; that is, possiblechanges in risk premiums are often ignored, andthe expectations hypothesis ofthe termstructure is employed. Of course, differences between the...
... Moscow Meeting ofthe Conference on the Human Dimension ofthe CSCE and in breach of Article 19 ofthe International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 10 ofthe European Convention ... namely the conclusions ofthe Final Act of Copenhagen andthe conclusions ofthe Final Document of the Moscow Meeting as well as with Article 10 ofthe European Convention on Human Rights, and ... for the outbreak of conflicts andof their prevention, settling and dealing with their aftermaths. The development of democratic institutions andthe protection of human rights are among the...
... EU ENLARGEMENT AND THE CONSTITUTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEIn the wake ofthe EU’s greatest enlargement, this book explores the adaptation ofthe constitutions of Central and Eastern Europe ... GeneralRapporteur ofthe Asser Institute andthe Netherlands Foreign MinistryMATRA multicountry project The Impact of Accession on the NationalLegal OrdersofCandidate Countries’. CONTENTSList of tables ... 8overview ofthe accession processinvolved theadaptation of nationalconstitutions and theholding of acces-sion referendums, which will be the key topic of this book.As already mentioned, the process...
... in the form of a labeled tree, andthe relation between a string of terms and a structural representation is defined as a mapping between elements ofthe set of substrings of the string and ... is the design ofthe multilevel structures, while the grammar formalism is the tool (notation) for expressing these multilevel structures, their related sentences, andthe nature ofthe correspon- ... ABSTRACT The paper introduces a grammar formalism for defining the set of sentences in a language, a set of labeled trees (not the derivation trees ofthe grammar) for the representation of the...
... papacy andofthe monastic orders andthe emergence of a feudal civilization out ofthe chaos ofthe Dark Ages, the constant preoccupation of architecture was to evolve from the basilica type of ... phases of Western art; one under the influence of Mohammedan civilization, another in the Brahman and Buddhist architecture of India, andthe third in China and Japan. The first of these is the ... to harmonize in a building the requirements of utility andof beauty. It is the most useful ofthe fine arts andthe noblest ofthe useful arts. It touches the life of man at every point. It...
... influence of Foucault (1973) whose historical work on the birth ofthe clinic demonstrated the intimate connections between the FrenchRevolution, the growth of anatomy andthe transformation ofthe ... that the growth of CAM representsa major transformation ofthe relationship between doctors and their patients, and between doctors andthe larger scientific community. The consolidation of professional ... health sociology and is the author of Medical Power and Social Knowledge andThe Body and Society. He is also, with Mike Featherstone, the foundingeditor ofthe journal Body and Society. He...
... obtained another order to the Governor of Peru, andthe old weather-beaten mariner THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND FROM 1606 TO 1890 BY ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND, M.A. AND ... to the bottom. The task ofthe boy was to bale out the water, which, in spite of every care, the sea threw in upon us. The night was perfectly dark, and we knew of no place of shelter, andthe ... account ofthe resemblance of its coasts to the southern shores of Wales. was no hope of defending themselves till the powder was ready. Flinders, knowing the fondness ofthe natives for the...
... school in the categories of actio and passio; andthe relation of such of them as are active, to their objects, andof such of them as are passive, to their causes, Chapter X. OfThe Inverse ... it is situated at the mouth ofthe Dart. But it is no part ofthe signification ofthe word John, that the father ofthe person so called bore the same name; nor even ofthe word Dartmouth, ... the same way, or nearly the same way, in which they would have worked if they had been in possession of principles. But the bulk of mankind require either to understand the theory of what they...
... self-regulation and other symbols of professionalism. THE ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION IN THE UK : FORMATION, COMPETITION AND COLONIZATION The development ofthe accountancy profession in the UK8 ... to the size and comparative strength ofthe accountancy profession. In addition to arguments rehearsed within the sociology ofthe professions - such as the growth of corporate capitalism, the ... directors and chief executives- are themselves members ofthe same profession, and often the same association, as their major providers, such as their auditors. Moreover, whilst the movement of accountants...
... younger users have the highest proportion of those mobile phone users who access theInternet via their phone. 78% ofthe 10-20 year olds, and 72% ofthe 20-30 year olds. The use ofthe phone is ... fast, andthe market andthe use of these devices is very likely to expand. The mobile phone must be easy to use for children. Children are frequent users ofthe products and have them on ... Protecting the brand: The operators are not the arbiters of taste, but from a branding perspective, O2 and other networks must take the high ground in the proactive development of filtering and barring...