Reading Between the Lines: PREPARING FOR THE CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION Designed‚ Written and Compiled by Nikhil Pavan Kalyan‚ IAS Contributions by: Ravi Shankar Shukla‚ IAS Shena Aggarwal‚ IAS Vibhu Goel‚ IAS Ajay Singh Tomer‚ IAS Ramachandran R‚ IAS K Thavaseelan‚ IAS Anupam Saha‚ IAS Harshika Singh‚ IAS Bhuvnesh Pratap Singh‚ IAS Rukmani Riar‚ IAS Nitesh Patil‚ IAS Suhas Sivanna‚ IAS Prince Dhawan‚ IAS Surabhi Malik‚ IAS Mangeh Kumar‚ IAS Dr. Piyush Singla‚ IAS Rajanvir
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Drama writers find it difficult to shift scenes rapidly than writers of prose fiction. The latter may whisk their readers from heaven to earth and back again very fast‚ but playwrights usually stick to one setting for a long period of time and may feel constrained to do so for the whole play. Playwrights cannot also present events too big for the stage‚ for example movement of armies and warfare. Plays are usually separated by an intermission‚ they are written so that its central meanings
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The Concept of Culture The article “European Lawmakers Reject Tight Restrictions on E-Cigarettes” by Andrew Higgins discusses the decision by European Parliament to abandon proposals by health officials that electronic cigarettes be regulated for medical use‚ supporting a hands-off approach to the sale and use of e-cigarettes. The European Union legislation did not address the issue of where smoking electric cigarettes can be allowed leaving that to national and local jurisdictions. The Food and
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What is Performance Management? Accountability is the central concepts within which Performance management is situated. Armstrong (2000) defines performance management as a “strategic and integrated process that delivers sustained success to organisations by improving the performance of people who work in them and by developing the capabilities of individual contributors and teams.” (McAdam‚ 2005‚ p.257). Moullin (2002) and de Bruijn (2001) explain how the objectives of performance management
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goods-dominant (G-D) logic. The concept of the Four Ps of marketing mix – product‚ price‚ place and promotion became treated as the basic model at that time. (Grönroos‚ 1989) Today‚ this paradigm is beginning to lose its position. Service marketing is one leading new approach to marketing. Four main characteristics of services defined by Kotler et al. (2009) are intangible‚ perishable‚ variability and inseparability (see Appendix A). Thus‚ Booms and Bitner (1982) turn services marketing into 7Ps by adding
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International Journal of Service Industry Management Emerald Article: A comparison of service delivery processes of different complexity Peter J. Danaher‚ Jan Mattsson Article information: To cite this document: Peter J. Danaher‚ Jan Mattsson‚ (1998)‚"A comparison of service delivery processes of different complexity"‚ International Journal of Service Industry Management‚ Vol. 9 Iss: 1 pp. 48 - 63 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09564239810199941 Downloaded on: 02-02-2013
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Our business idea has been to develop a holistic health-service related smartphone application as we have identified the growing market potential of using mobile technology to digitalise healthcare services. The application we have designed‚ eMed‚ will provides two main functions: emergency call and notifications‚ and medication monitoring and reminder. The aim of eMed is to simplify and speed up access to health and emergency services in the event of an emergency‚ and also to facilitate patient
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companies that understood mass production strategy had become obsolete‚ after almost a century of dominance. Applicable successfully to the manufacturing industries‚ the lean philosophy will be analysed in the present synopsis through the perspective of services industry‚ usually dealing with intangibles. Lean Manufacturing In their research on the Toyota manufacturing system‚ The Machine that Changed the World (1990)‚ Womack‚ Jones and Roos formulate the theoretical framework of lean manufacturing.
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PART ONE Mathematics Fundamentals and Business Applications Chapter 1 Review of Arithmetic Exercise 1.1 A. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Exercise 1.2 A. 1. also 2. also 3. also 4. also 5. also 6. also 7. also 8. also 9. 10. 11. 12. B. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. C. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. D. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 6. 7. 8. E. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9
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paradigm believed that key concepts such as: Patient Behavior‚ Nurse Reaction‚ Nurse Action are dependent on a positive patient outcome.
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