The quest for the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid: potential and challenges Dennis A. Pitta The University of Baltimore‚ Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ USA‚ and Rodrigo Guesalaga and Pablo Marshall ´ Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile‚ Santiago‚ Chile Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) proposition‚ where private companies can both be profitable and help alleviate poverty by attending low-income consumers. Design/methodology/approach
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Within linguistic theory‚ two extreme positions concerning the relationship between language and thought are commonly referred to as ’mould theories’ and ’cloak theories ’. Mould theories represent language as ’a mould in terms of which thought categories are cast ’ (Bruner et al. 1956‚ p. 11). Cloak theories represent the view that ’language is a cloak conforming to the customary categories of thought of its speakers ’ (ibid.). The doctrine that language is the ’dress of thought ’ was fundamental
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several people. Don Francis is an epidemiologist who worked on the Ebola outbreak in Africa in the late 1970s‚ and researched on HIV and AIDS. Dr. William Darrow helped in the discovery of HIV. Dr. Robert Gallo is the discoverer of HTLV (the human T-cell leukemia virus)‚ and co-discoverer of HIV. Bill Kraus was a gay rights and AIDS activist and congressional aide who served as a liaison between the San Francisco gay community and Congress. These four characters are real life people. Don Francis retired
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS‚ MAN‚ AND CYBERNETICS—PART C: APPLICATIONS AND REVIEWS‚ VOL. 37‚ NO. 5‚ SEPTEMBER 2007 971 Real-Time Iris Detection on Coronal-Axis-Rotated Faces Claudio A. Perez‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE‚ Vanel A. Lazcano‚ and Pablo A. Est´ vez‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE e Abstract—Real-time face and iris detection on video sequences is important in diverse applications such as‚ study of the eye function‚ drowsiness detection‚ virtual keyboard interfaces‚ face recognition‚ and multimedia
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my brother my executioner I.BOOK DATA: Title of the book: My brother‚ my executioner Author: F. Sionil Jose Publisher: Solidaridad Publishing House Date Published: 2006 Number of pages: 192 pages II. GENEALOGY Luis was a illegitimate son of Don Vicente. Trining was his first degree cousin and also his lover. Ester was just a fling partner of Luis and also Trining’s classmate in school. Victor is Luis’s half brother. III.LITERARY MAP Baclaran Church‚ it is where Luis and Ester
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In this paper‚ I will argue that all lives are not equally meaningful. I believe this because though all lives have meaning‚ there are some lives that‚ when viewed from more than one perspective‚ have more meaning than others. This imbalance can be explained through the discussion of the three main “measurements” of meaningfulness such as the egoistic perspective‚ the reasons of love and the two endoxa as well as how happy or fulfilled people feel in regards to their lives. At the moment‚ the most
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doing without realizing it: prolonging in time‚ as I grew‚ matured‚ and aged‚ the stories that filled my childhood with exaltation and adventures. I wish my mother were here‚ a woman who was moved to tears reading the poems of Amado Nervo and Pablo Neruda‚ and Grandfather Pedro too‚ with his large nose and gleaming bald head‚ who celebrated my verses‚ and Uncle Lucho‚ who urged me so energetically to throw myself body and soul into writing even though literature‚ in that time and place‚ compensated
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Outline The Teachers in my Life as a Student Introduction 1. Discoverer Teachers 2. Craftsmen Teachers 3. Builder Teachers Conclusion The Teachers in my Life as a Student As we know‚ the teacher’s tasks are the transmission of knowledge‚ and their main goal is to diffuse that knowledge to a person or group of people through the teaching process. I have met a lot of teachers in my life as a student. I have great memories of most of them‚ particularly those who taught
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The modules of the OC-AHPPSO cluster constructor are‚ criteria computation‚ relative weights estimator and cluster-head nodes’ selector. In the criteria computation module‚ criteria such as the Energy‚ coverage Area‚ Mobility‚ QoS are considered for computation. Each node computes its criteria components‚ and then periodically broadcasts the MEMB messages to identify its neighbors. Each node sends the MEMB packets to receive the criteria components of its neighbors. Each node stores its own criteria
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Andean Cocaine There were two men who made drugs Alfredo Bignon and Eduardo Balarezo. Coca is a dried leaf of the “subtropical Andean shrub Elthycoxylon.” The traffic of cocaine is over whelming controlled by home grown‚ successful and eminently “Latin” entrepreurs and middle men. Pharmacist Alfredo Bignon had a laboratory of his Droguera Botica Francesa around the corner of main plaza. On March 13‚ 1885 he was going to present his findings of this cocaine to Academia Libre de Medicina de Lima
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