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    Staff Turnover as a Possible Threat to Knowledge Loss Urbancová Hana‚ Linhartová Lucie Abstract The article focuses on labour turnover as a potential threat to knowledge loss. Labour turnover results in an organizations inability to ensure knowledge continuity. In this study‚ induction was used to identify factors within organizations that determine employees’ exit from organizations. The verifiability of these factors was tested by means of correlation and regression. Subsequently‚ the presented

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    http://www.hidayat.org/blog/2008/12/28/islam-astology-astronomy-the-knowledge-of-unseen-fortuneteller-palmistry/ Written by admin on 28 December 2008 retrieved on 12/7/2013. The following sub-topics have been discussed in this compilation: * 1 – Islam & Astrology * 2 – Did Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) know the Unseen? * 3 – Why does Islam forbid prediction of the future through astrology and other sources like these? If we use these methods to find out what a person’s true personality

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    Bias Indiana Wesleyan University School of Business and Leadership MGMT- 515: Business Communication Dr. Jeff Boyce Cognitive Bias The cognitive bias that affects my critical decision making processes is the Hindsight and Curse of Knowledge bias. I predict outcomes without acknowledging the correct outcome. I often use this bias when I watch sports. I am an avid fan of basketball‚ and I typically like to predict the outcome of games and even the entire season. Cognitive bias is processing

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    The problem of garbage disposal and its possible solutions. Problem-Solution Essay Alexandra ID Almaty 2010 Problem/Solution Outline Title: The problem of pollution from garbage and its possible solutions. I. Introduction a. The average resident produces seven and a half pounds of garbage every day that is buried down in landfills and litters human’s lands costing a great amount of money. b. Each year‚ millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is

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    so many problems in the world and they do not do anything good. He explains this to Montag by stating three claims that all support his opinion. These claims are: the need for intelligence was cut down when technology had started to advance; books do not make everybody happy‚ they offend at least somebody which makes controversy throughout the globe; and books make people worry about things that they should not being worrying about. The first claim that Beatty had made was that knowledge or need

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    Have you ever felt that some provinces cause major problems to Canada. Well I can tell you that Quebec definitely is. First Quebec is taking a lot of money from the Canadian Government. Secondly people who live in Quebec think that their French culture is being assimilated. Quebec is causing problems that will take time to fix money to fix. Quebec is using far more than what they are earning and we need to deal with it. On the Department of Finance Canada page is says that in 2015-2016 all provinces

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    PHI 332 Course Paper What is wrong the claim that knowledge is true judgment (or belief)? What is knowledge? What is truth? How can we really know for sure if one judgment holds more truth than another? My theory of knowledge is information passed on from one person to the next. Before I am able to answer the above questions I have asked‚ the question of this idea that is true knowledge must be defined first. Knowledge can be any new piece of information that I come across

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    Max Weber cited in Blakely and Saward (2009 P. 361) defines the state as ‘An organisation that successfully claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of force in a given territory. The word legitimate also appears in the question for this essay‚ so legitimacy appears to be the key word‚ and its definition is‚ “able to be defended with logic or justification” (Oxford dictionaries online). In a democracy the Government is voted in by the people‚ and it could be argued this process makes it legitimate

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    Claims and Arguments A. Statement- or claim is an assertion that something is or is not the case; it is either true or B. Argument- an argument is a group of statements‚ one of which is supposed to be supported by the rest. In an argument the supporting statements are known as premises; the statement being supported is known as a conclusion. C. Indicator Words- are terms that often appear in arguments and signal that a premise or conclusion may be nearby. Arguments Good and Bad

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    Critically examine the claim by states to be the legitimate governing authority in a territory. This essay will first define ’the State ’‚ and then look at evidence to examine the above claim. The state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules and laws that govern the people within a defined territory. Max Weber‚ cited in “Exploring Social Lives”‚ defined the state as claiming “a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory”‚ (Bromley

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