High-growth‚ strong-competitive-position businesses are called stars. These businesses require heavy investment‚ but their strong position allows them to generate the needed revenues. Low-growth‚ strong-competitive-position businesses are called cash cows. The business generate revenues is excess of their investment needs and therefore fund other business. Finally‚ low-growth‚ weak-competitive-position businesses are called dogs. The remaining revenues from these businesses are realized‚ and then the
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proteins are not. Or‚ at least‚ they never used to be. Prions entered the public’s consciousness during the mad cow epidemic that hitEngland in 1986. For decades‚ however‚ scientists had searched for unusual‚ atypical infectious agents that they suspected caused some puzzling diseases that could not be linked to any of the "regular" infectious organisms. One possibility was that slow viruses-viruses that spent decades wreaking havoc in their hosts-might be the culprits‚ and these putative viruses
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don’t think evolution changed the functions of eyeball in mammals that differently to each other. We all live in similar environment and we all use eyes for the same purpose. The Exterior of the Eye A table comparing the exterior of the eyeball in cows and humans Optic Nerve It looks exactly like in the text book‚ except that I think that the white ’wall’ or ’membrane’ surrounding the nerve fibers in the pig was thicker; I could hardly see the nerve fibers. Pupil The shape of the pupil in cow’s
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product portfolio that includes products with high growth where it is necessary to inject cash and products where growth is weaker but which generate a lot of cash. Growth in market Slow Question marks Need investment‚ but emit more liquidity Need to develop liquidity‚ Brings in nothing Cash Cows Strong Stars Dogs Realizes a lot of liquidities‚ they finance other activities Difficulties to survive‚ reduce all costs or stop the product. Strong Weak Market share
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an organization to locate the position of each of its SBUs on a growth-scale matrix. Vertical axis is market growth rate. Horizontal axis is the relative market share Cash-Cows (bottom left) – SBUs that generate large amounts of cash‚ far more than they can invest profitably in themselves. They have dominant shares of slow-growth markets and provide cash to cover the organizations overhead and to invest in other SBUs. Stars (top
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122176870268453547.html 4. The Google of China: The Secret of Baidu’s Runaway Search Engine Success‚ Retrieved March 9‚ 2013 from http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0‚8599‚2111545‚00.html 5. Lorraine Day‚ M.D. Mad Cow Disease: What the Government didn’t Telling You. Retrieved March 9‚ 2013 from http://www.drday.com/madcow.htm 6. 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal. Retrieved March 9‚ 2013 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal#Chinese_industry 7. Pharmaceutical
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ever-changing skies and compares them to a “brinded cow”. The poet uses a simile because‚ just like the cow‚ which is usually white with streaks of brown or black‚ the sky too is streaked with different colours: red‚ yellow‚ purple‚ blue‚ white and orange. And while most of us acknowledge the brilliance of the sky (“most of us” meaning those who take the time “to stop and smell the roses” as the saying goes) we rarely ever give a second thought to cows— let alone ever perceive them as an object of beauty
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included stones and in cases of a siege‚ rotting corpses of cows and humans. The catapult was good because it could be fired from a long range. It was bad because It was quite hard to transport. Siege A siege was the most common way of attacking a castle and it was when an army of men stood around a castle until the people inside the castle starved to death. Sometimes the siege would last for months. They threw rotting meat‚ dead humans and cows inside the castle so they could spread a disease inside
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Cruelty to Animals – Freelance Writer It has been a worrying trend over the years in Jamaica where animals are extensively abused; these acts occur in instances of starvation‚ negligence‚ improper or no health care and violence towards animals. In addressing the latter first‚ recently I was going home along the prospect main road in Port Antonio and saw three dogs within a 10-chains distance -dead on the roadway seemingly being hit by cars. The JSPCA is a registered charity and was founded
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‘couple-coloured as brinded cows’ show the mottled white and blue colours of the sky‚ the “brinded” skin of a cow emphasises the effect of the many different things that there are to admire about God’s creation. The poet then moves into the sentence ‘For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;’ which then emphasises the patches of contrasting soft pink‚ speckled dotted colours on a trout‚ compared to the streaks of blues and whites in the sky‚ and the browns on a cow. Next‚ the poet moves onto
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