its gentle image is a tough‚ highly lucrative bank. Banco Compartamos portrays itself as the gentler lender to Mexico’s poor. Compartamos means "let’s share‚" reflecting the philosophy of its founders‚ the two Carlos’. The non-profit Grameen Bank model and the commercial for-profit Banco Compartamos have many differences‚ the fundamental distinctions between them is in their funding methods. Grameen Bank funds microloans primarily through local funds usually from savings deposits‚ while Compartamos
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ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY A Model Theory for Generic Schema Management Models Kinan M Al Haffar UM4699SIT10550D 07/08/2007 Abstract The core of a model theory for generic schema management is developed. This theory has two distinctive features: it applies to a variety of categories of schemas‚ and it applies to transformations of both the schema structure and its integrity constraints. A subtle problem of schema integration is considered in its general form‚ not bound to any particular
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Nursing Team Models & Expectations One’s Team Model One’s team model is team nursing. Team nursing is a system of integrated care that was developed in 1950s (under grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation) directed by Eleanor Lambertson at Teachers College‚ Columbia Universityin New York‚ NY. Because the functional method received criticism‚ a new system of nursing was devised to improve patient satisfaction. “Care through
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African Journal of Business Management Vol. 4(8)‚ pp. 1457-1463‚ 18 July‚ 2010 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM ISSN 1993-8233 ©2010 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The impact of liberalization‚ privatization‚ and globalization (LPG) on life insurance corporation of India (LIC) R. Rajendran* and B. Natarajan Department of Business Administration‚ Annamalai University‚ New Delhi‚ India. Accepted 19 April‚ 2010 The Indian life insurance industry has
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A....Attention: You must quickly attract the potential clients attention with some relative information about your product or services. Make the potential client aware of the value of your offering or business opportunity . Statistics show that you have about 3-5 seconds to accomplish this feat or the person will go to the next site. If the person goes to the next site....you can forget about making the sale. You lost their attention. I....Interest: You must be able to spark the customers interest
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Inlämningsuppgift Internationell ekonomi 1. Ricardomodellen förutsäger att länder tenderar exportera de varor där deras relativa produktivitet är hög (relativ export bör ha hög positiv korrelation med relativ export). Diagram 1 visar positiv korrelation mellan relativ export och relativ export vilket modellen förutsäger. Korrelationskoefficienten 0‚2736 visar däremot ett relativt svagt samband. 2. Efter rangordning efter relativ export mellan EU och NAFTA går det att avläsa både skillnader
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Gagne’s Eight Distinctive Types of Learning To complete this assignment‚ you will need to fill in the following boxes: 1. In the first box you will identify one of Gagne’s Eight Distinctive Types of Learning. 2. In the next box you will provide a description of the Learning Type you identified. 3. In the last box you will discuss how this Learning Type does or does not apply to you and your learning. 4. Repeat steps until all Eight of Gagne’s Distinctive Types of Learning are identified
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SCIENCE SOURCES OF ENERGY {SAMPLE QUESTION AND ANSWER} 1. Which of following is more environment friendly? (1) (a) Burning of coal (b) burning of fire wood (c) burning of charcoal (d) Burning of diesel. 2. Major problem in harnessing nuclear energy is to (1) (a) split heavy nucleus (b) sustain nuclear reactions (c) Convert nuclear energy into electricity (d) dispose off nuclear waste. 3. Fusion
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UNiS 2011 II. Proposed Committees: Committee 1: Security Council Topic: Korean Crisis Brief Summary of the issue: The date is 25th November‚ 2010. Two days ago‚ on the 23rd‚ North Korea opened fire on the South Korean Yeonpyeong Island. Two South Korean Marines and an additional two civilians died as a result of this bombardment. Numerous homes and shops were destroyed due to the shelling and ensuing fires. This attack was done in retaliation to South Korean military exercises along the
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I will be explaining a little more in-depth of how the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) operates. The SDLC process is a Systems Development Methodology (SDM) “which is basically the process most businesses go through to develop and maintain an Information System.” (Ross A. Malaga‚ (2005) Information Systems Technology‚ Published by Prentice Hall. Page 285. Copyright 2005 Pearson Education) The SDLC contains seven major phases; I am going to start on the first which is‚ Planning. Planning is
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