the backward countries. For example‚ England did not have any institution to finance its industrialization‚ in contrast to the late-comers‚ who had a whole international financing system built. This advantage of backwardness is what the Gerschenkron model is about. Each country had its own process of industrialization and it did not have to follow certain stages. 3. In order to industrialize‚ backward countries need to import large amounts of capital. The technology imported will come from the advance
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Chinese Culture - The Culture of Shanghai Shanghai University 30.11.2012 Shanghai – Brief Overview Shanghai is an important commercial harbor and the most important industrial town of the People ’s Republic of China. The administrative area has more than 23 million inhabitants. The status of the town corresponds to that of a province; the town is subordinated directly of the central government. Shanghai is an important traffic interchange and an important cultural center and educational
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European Journal of Operational Research 154 (2004) 345–362 www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw Returns to scale in different DEA models Rajiv D. Banker a‚ William W. Cooper b‚ Lawrence M. Seiford c‚ Robert M. Thrall d‚ Joe Zhu e‚* c School of Management‚ The University of Texas at Dallas‚ Richardson‚ TX 75083-0658‚ USA Graduate School of Business‚ The University of Texas at Austin‚ Austin‚ TX 78712-1174‚ USA Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering‚ University of Michigan‚ Ann Arbor‚ MI
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Jesus described the first six seals in the Olivet Prophecy‚ and the apostle John goes on in Revelation chapters 7 and 8 to further describe the seventh seal as the opening up of the second phase of the Great Tribulation on Earth. The first four seals are known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The first seal introduces the antichrist. The second seal causes great warfare. The third seal causes famine. The fourth seal brings pestilence. The fifth seal reveals that those who are martyred for
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modeling was originated 30 years ago and up to date is being used in mostly every field of work. It has become a mainstream practice in managing human resources. Over the years‚ the methods used has evolved. The trends used in the approach of competency models in education‚ training‚ assessments and development of workers has changed mainly because of its response to the changes that also occurs in the organizations and different workplace. It may also change because of the needs of the people. During those
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the heuristics and biases approach) and the ecological approach advanced by Gigerenzer and others. We make a proposal of how to integrate Simon‟s approach with the main current approaches to decision making. We argue that this would lead to better models of decision making that are more generalizable‚ have higher ecological validity‚ include specification of cognitive processes‚ and provide a better understanding of the interaction between the characteristics of the cognitive system and the contingencies
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I. Description of Bio-psycho-social Development and Functioning The biopsychosocial approach to development and functioning was developed by George Engel and John ten year ago. It emphasizes the significance of understanding human health and illness in their fullest contexts‚ by systemically allowing for biological‚ psychological and social factor to be considered interactively (1). To incorporate to biopsychosocial approach one must consider: relationships are essential to one’s health‚ use self-awareness
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support to live their lives. According to Ferrini‚ mental health is described as the ability to engage in productive activities and fulfilling relationships and to cope successfully with change and adversity. (Ferrini‚ 2013). A model developed by Rowe and Kahn in 1998 describes three major points that should essentially be successful points for anyone aging. These points
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INSTRUCTIONAL MODELS Instructional models are the overall approaches to instruction that are designed to accomplish particular instructional goals. It provides orientation on what should learn and direction on how to learn the following specific steps (procedures and structures). Instructional models differ from the specific teaching strategies or techniques in that each of these models has its own theoretical basis behind it and encompasses specific steps (syntax) that are designed to attain the
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Culture • Culture – a community’s set of shared assumptions about how the world works and what ideals are worth striving for. • Culture can greatly affect a country’s laws. • Culture influences what people value‚ so it affects people’s economic systems and efforts to invest in education. • Culture often determines the effectiveness of various HRM practices. Culture • Cultural characteristics influence the ways members of an organization behave toward one another as well as their attitudes
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