Title: Postural control in standing on a wobble board Background: Standing on a small or unstable base of support‚ a person must correct his posture to maintain the position of the body’s center of mass to fall within the area of support. Postural control is facilitated through several movement strategies such as ankle strategy‚ knee strategy‚ hip strategy‚ or stepping strategy when a person loses his balance. In addition to the counter-rotation mechanism‚ a mechanism to prevent a loss of balance
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innovation‚ and social transformation. Its ideas were grounded in the claim that divine truth could be known intuitively. Based in New England and existing in various forms from the 1830s to the 1880s‚ transcendentalism is usually considered the principal expression of romanticism in America. Many prominent ministers‚ reformers‚ and writers of the era were associated with it‚ including Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)‚ Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)‚ Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)‚ Theodore Parker (1810–1860)
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occupational stress which would guide psychologist through intervention strategies to protect workers’ health and safety (Cevenini‚ Fratini‚ & Gambassi‚ 2012). Methods Cevenini‚ Fratini‚ and Gambassi (2012) shortened their questionnaire by using the principal component analysis. PCA was performed by rotating the solutions with Varimax method and Kaiser Normalization (Velicer‚ 1990). Cevenini‚ Fratini‚ and Gambassi (2012) provided a score for each of the six stress dimensions. This was useful to characterize
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PROJECT REPORT ON EFFECT OF PROVOCATIVE ADVERTISEMENTS ON DEORDORANT SALES Executive summary: Today‚ in the market there are thousands of brands‚ millions of products and their different varieties being offered by different companies. In such a situation it becomes very difficult for the customer to take buying decision rationally and wisely. Every day we see lot of advertisements on the television‚ or posters on the billboards‚ or pictures
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observing and checking whether the agent perform their duty ethically and complied with laws and regulation. Second component is bonding costs. Cost to establishing and complying with mechanism to guarantee that agent will behave in the interest of the principal is called as bonding cost. This is the costs of bonding the agent interest to the principle. For example‚ manager (agent) may voluntarily provide shareholders (principle) with quarterly financial statement that the manager has comparative advantage
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ASA University Review‚ Vol. 5 No. 1‚ January–June‚ 2011 Factors Affecting Impulse Buying Behavior of Consumers at Superstores in Bangladesh Wahida Shahan Tinne* Abstract Impulse purchase or impulse buying describes any purchase which a shopper makes‚ through it was not planned in advance. This paper is an attempt to find out the factors that affect consumer impulse buying behavior at superstores in Bangladesh. The impact of various variables like discount offer‚ various scheme‚ promotional activities
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between stockholders and management is called an agency relationship. Such a relationship exists whenever someone (the principal) hires another (the agent) to represent his/her interests. For example‚ you might hire someone (an agent) to sell a car that you own while you are away at school. In all such relationships‚ there is a possibility of a conflict of interest between the principal and the agent. Such a conflict is called an agency problem. Suppose you hire someone to sell your car and you agree
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leaders | 1.000 | .694 | Financially sound company | 1.000 | .696 | Company I can trust | 1.000 | .596 | Known for treating its employees well | 1.000 | .594 | Company does its fair share to help society | 1.000 | .647 | Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis. | Rotated Component Matrixa | | Component | | 1 | 2 | Highly ethical company | .858 | .118 | Company cares about the society | .844 | .256 | Company does its fair share to help society | .731 | .336 | Known for
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administered to 200 respondents in Tricity (Chandigarh‚ Mohali‚ Panchkula). The data was collected over a two month period from December 2011 to January 2012. The collected data was reduced with the help of Factor Analysis. The extraction method used was Principal Component Analysis and the rotation method used was Varimax with Kaiser Normalization. The reliability of the data was establised using Cronbach’s coefficent Alpha. Major results: The study revealed that store atmospherics‚ schemes and offers‚
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relationship is a contract under which one or more persons (the principal(s)) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf which involves delegating some decision making authority to the agent. If both parties to the relationship are utility maximizers and they may have divergent goals and objectives‚ and there is good reason to believe that the agent will not always act in the best interests of the principal (Jensen‚ Michael C.‚ and William H. Meckling. "Theory of the Firm
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