Introduction Business summary InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) owns‚ manages franchises and leases hotels and resorts worldwide. The IHG is a British multinational hotels company headquartered in Denham‚ UK. It is the largest hotel group in the world with 675‚982 rooms‚ and has more than 4‚600 hotels across 100 countries. IHG group has various brands such as: InterContinental‚ Crowne Plaza‚ Hotel Indigo‚ Holiday Inn‚ Holiday Inn Express‚ Staybridge Suites‚ Candlewood Suites‚ EVEN Hotels
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Sindhu River Originating from Kailash mountain‚ it covers 550 kms in Jammu and Kashmir. From there it enters Leh‚ and gets mingled with Zanzkar river. In Punjab it is met with five major rivers of Punjab – Jhelum‚ Chenab‚ Ravi‚ Beas and Satluj. The word Sindhu originates from the word sidh meaning to keep off . The river Sindhu has been mentioned 176 times in Rigveda‚ 95 times in plural‚ used in the generic meaning. In Rigveda – the Ancient Indian Scripture( 1500 B.C.)‚ is the earliest chronicle
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS‚ VOL. 9‚ NO. 3‚ SEPTEMBER 2008 377 License Plate Recognition From Still Images and Video Sequences: A Survey Christos-Nikolaos E. Anagnostopoulos‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Ioannis E. Anagnostopoulos‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Ioannis D. Psoroulas‚ Vassili Loumos‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ and Eleftherios Kayafas‚ Member‚ IEEE Abstract—License plate recognition (LPR) algorithms in images or videos are generally composed of the following three processing steps: 1) extraction
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Despite encouraging signs‚ India’s retail market remains largely off-limits to large international retailers like Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Opposition to liberalizing FDI in this sector raises concerns about employment losses‚ unfair competition resulting in large-scale exit of incumbent domestic retailers and infant industry arguments to protect the organized domestic retail sector that is at a nascent stage. Based on international evidence‚ we suggest that allowing entry by large international retailers
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2.1 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 2.1.1 What is Information Retrieval? The construal of the term information retrieval can be very broad. Just getting a credit card out of your wallet so that you can indite in the card number is a form of information retrieval. However‚ as an academic field of study‚ information retrieval might be defined thus: Information retrieval (IR) is finding material (customarily documents) of an unstructured nature (conventionally text) that satiates an information need from within
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FOOD WASTE REPUBLIC CUltURE adise Dirty secr ets of a food par Who? Me? I WASTE? It is tough to draw the line between sociocultural practices and food wastage EstEllE low MIak aw A lmost once A month in Zainah Anang’s five-room flat‚ her living room turns into a visual feast‚ literally. Plates of rice‚ curry fish‚ vegetables‚ dal char‚ chicken biryani‚ murtabak‚ beehoon‚ and 10 other dishes are laid out on a long white mat for her guests of 30‚ mainly family members
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Issues in Educational Research‚ 15(1)‚ 2005 17 Chinese cultural schema of Education: Implications for communication between Chinese students and Australian educators Leng Hui Edith Cowan University Education in China‚ in its various forms and levels‚ is widely conceptualised as integrating the cultivation of ‘human souls’ with the provision of students with knowledge. The English word ‘education’ is jiao ) in Chinese‚ which means ‘teaching [and] cultivating’. The analogy yu ( ‚ -
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The Tragedy of Hassan in the Kite Runner Fancine Abstract The character Hassan is consistently humble and good‚ leaving a great impression in reader’s mind. The role of Hassan in the story is significant. However‚ there are few scholars focusing on the character of Hassan. This essay focuses on the tragedy of Hassan‚ analyzing the causes with the theory Etiology. Etiology is a theory studying on various causes of one phenomenon. Key words: The kite runner; Hassan; Tragedy; Causes; Etiology
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Mengyuan. (2004). Cross-cultural Communication and Translation. US-China Foreign Language‚ Vol.2‚ No.8‚ PP68-69. Harris‚ Marvin. (1993). Culture‚ People‚ Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers. Jia‚Yuxin. (1997).Cross-cultural Communication. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Liao‚ Jing & Tu Guoyuan. (2004.) On the Translator‟s Cultural Awareness and Cultural Creativity. US-China Foreign Language‚ Vol.2‚ No.6‚ PP16-22. Liao‚
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U.S.-born children with immigrant parents Jia Lu Chen New York University Abstract There are lots of different types of families in America because of its diversified culture. Children grew up in different families may be influenced by different elements including family‚ education‚ community and so on. U.S.-born children with immigrant parents are facing much more challenges from the very beginning of their life than children with American parents. The society which as
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