An article “Deep Change: How Operational Innovation Can Transform Your Company” in the Harvard Business Review‚ by Michael Hammer speaks about operational innovations that take on the simple changes in everyday operations results to lower prices and better services than competitors. It basically talks about how operation innovation transformed the progressive insurance‚ an automobile insurance company. In 1991‚ Progressive Insurance‚ an automobile insurer based in Mayfield Village‚ Ohio‚ had approximately
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‘’Explain the methods taken by Stalin to transform the Soviet Union in the period 1924-1939’’ Commencing from the year 1924 and ending in 1939‚ Stalin undertook many methods to change the Soviet Union socially and economically. Socially‚ he developed a ‘cult of personality’‚ which portrayed Stalin as an all knowing and powerful figure‚ consequently ensuring his position as leader of the communist party and justifying many of his policies and actions. However‚ to maintain his position as dictator
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Visual Categorization with Bags of Keypoints Gabriella Csurka‚ Christopher R. Dance‚ Lixin Fan‚ Jutta Willamowski‚ Cédric Bray Xerox Research Centre Europe 6‚ chemin de Maupertuis 38240 Meylan‚ France {gcsurka‚cdance}@xrce.xerox.com Abstract. We present a novel method for generic visual categorization: the problem of identifying the object content of natural images while generalizing across variations inherent to the object class. This bag of keypoints method is based on vector quantization
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How did Lenin and Stalin transform the society and economy of the USSR? After the devastation of World War I‚ the Revolution‚ and Civil War‚ Russia was a total wreck. Factories were in ruins and half the working class gone‚ either dead or returned to the farms. Millions had died‚ mainly from the famine and disease accompanying war. Two million more‚ mostly nobles‚ middle class‚ and intellectuals‚ had emigrated to other countries. Lenin returned to Russia from exile in 1917 and it was up to him
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Technological inventions are not just scientific advancement but also cultural practices The paper is to explain Hugh Mackay’s arguments regarding how technology is always “cultural through and through”. In relation to his conceptions‚ cassette-based Walkman‚ Discman and iPod are used as examples to illustrate how technological inventions are not just scientific advancement but also cultural practices. In the book Consumption and Everyday Life published in 1997‚ Hugh Mackay argued that
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Jenny Tae English 100 Professor Nicole Pekarske I’m Sorry‚ What? Robert Samuels‚ “Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms.” Reading Popular Culture pages 9-12 I completely agree with this article that technology makes people oblivious to everything around us and be consumed in our own technology. This article portrays exactly what is becoming of the society with the progressing technological advances. Samuels explains how technology can be a barrier to
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How did nationalism form or transform Europe during the 19th century? In the beginning of the 19th century‚ 1830s‚ lots of revolutions happened and failed‚ but some succeeded. Charles X‚ the French Monarch‚ tried to take voting rights away from the middle class‚ causing the second French Revolution. It succeeded and a new constitutional monarchy was created. Poland revolted against Russia and Italy revolted against Austria for freedom and failed‚ while Belgium rebelled against the Dutch and became
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Charlie Barnet was one of the first to integrate his band. Glenn Miller successful band leader. Signature music: "In the Mood." Played trombone in the Dorsey brothers. Played in Ben Pollack’s band. Bud Powell piano‚ instrumental in the development of bebop. Kenny Clarke House drummer at Minton’s playhouse. Jay McShann pianist and band leader; his band features the likes of Ben Webster and Charlie Parker. Swing Street reference to 52nd street which hosted major jazz clubs during
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How did European nations of Spain and Portugal transform themselves from relatively poor nations to wealthy nations between 1400 and 1600? Be sure to give specific historical information to support your thesis. The Europeans nations of Spain and Portugal transformed themselves from relatively poor nations to wealthy nations between 1400 and 1600 was mainly through their various expeditions. The first documented source was the voyages in which Prince Henry would oversee and brought him the
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