Biodiesel: Technology & Business Opportunities – An Insight S Biswas‚ N Kaushik & G Srikanth Technology Information‚ Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) Department of Science & Technology‚ New Delhi – 110 016 Tel: +91-11 -2686 3816‚ Fax: 2696 1158‚ e-mail : biswas@nic.in The concept of bio fuel dates back to 1885 when Dr. Rudolf Diesel built the first diesel engine with the full intention of running it on vegetative source. In 1912 he observed‚ " … the use of vegetable oils for engine fuels
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Organizational Behavior is a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals‚ groups‚ and structure have on behavior within the organizations and its effective use for the purpose of such knowledge towards improving its performance. Similar to the evolution of man and its environment there has been a substantial change in the approach for better productivity within an organization through the brainstorming efforts applied by a good manager. Understanding organizational behavior within
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Walmart China currently sees China as a place full of opportunities and a fast growing market for the company because of China’s uprising middle class and still unexplored markets. However‚ there serious challenges this market entails. Walmart has had a proven success in China because of the following key factors. Cost management – Walmart’s key theme in China was offering the fair prices (versus lowest in the U.S.) prices in the market all year around‚ because its focus is on targeting China’s
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What Are Steroids? "Steroids" has more than one meaning. Your body naturally produces some steroids‚ to help you fight stress and grow bigger during puberty. (But your body knows just the right amount that you need‚ so there’s no need to take any extra.) There’s also a type of medicine called steroids that people might take if they have pain‚ asthma‚ or a skin problem. But these aren’t the kind of steroids getting attention in sports. When people say steroids (say: stare-oydz)‚ they often mean
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India lags behind the first world countries and some of its new world counterparts in the organized sector. An average Indian is widely believed to be a risk-averse individual and this tendency has traditionally led a huge section of skilled and semi skilled population of the country to look for a secure ‘naukri’(Job). However‚ this has primarily been an urban phenomenon. Some facts can help clear the picture. According to the NSSO data (2006-7)‚ there are 16.5 million service sector enterprises
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Date of submission: 01 April 2011 Title: Given that disasters create opportunity for active learning‚ why do they repeat? 1. Introduction Natural and manmade disasters are a gloomy recurrent feature of today’s reality. The 1986 nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl‚ the 2004 hurricane in Brazil and‚ the same year‚ the devastating Tsunami in East Asia; the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan‚ the BP oil spillage in the Mexican Gulf in 2010; the 2010 earthquake in Haiti; and the latest tragic
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advanced approaches to expand their distribution networks. This essay is divided into two sections. The first talks about the types of risks that are present in the global insurance industry. I will take each of these points and discuss them in detail: growth‚ governance and risk management‚ market reporting‚ mergers and acquisitions‚ human capital and lastly compliance and regulation. The second section looks at the opportunities that are available to the global insurance industry within the next
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Private health insurance: opportunities and threats An Essay Presented to the University of Zagreb Date‚ place: 11.03.2014‚ Zagreb Contents 1. Introduction and overview ……………………………………………………………. 3 1.1. Why Germany as an example? ……………………………………………… 4 2. Public health insurance ………………………………………………………………... 5 3. Private health insurance ……………………………………………………………….. 7 4. Difference between public and private health insurances …………………………...... 9 5. Estimation of the difference between
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Marketing 203 Group Assignment 2 Australian Export Opportunities to South Korea Hashanthi Welikala Francesca Coralina Omorogbe Asha Jane D’Cruz Cindy Kuan Sophia Lai Introduction Where once‚ the South Korean society solely relied on the produce of their country as a source of goods‚ they are slowly turning towards imports from other nations‚ such as Australia for their goods and services. Australia is renowned for their agricultural excellence‚
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Opportunity Cost Associated with Merger of Airlines Student ECN 202 February 15‚ 2013 The airline industry on Feb 14‚ 2013 announced the merger of American Airlines and US Airways forming the biggest airline company American (Mouawad‚ 2013). That leaves just three airlines‚ American‚ Delta Air Lines and United Airlines to offer domestic and international service. Airline executives claim that mergers are good for passengers as they provide more service to more destinations. If this
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