This is an extract from: Byzantine Garden Culture edited by Antony Littlewood‚ Henry Maguire‚ and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Washington‚ D.C. © 2002 Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University Washington‚ D.C. Printed in the United States of America www.doaks.org/etexts.html The Vienna Dioskorides and Anicia Juliana Leslie Brubaker Dioskorides of Anazarbos‚ a physician and pharmacologist‚ wrote the Materia medica
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Are Porter’s Five Competitive Forces still Applicable? A Critical Examination concerning the Relevance for Today’s Business Author: Fabian Dälken University of Twente P.O. Box 217‚ 7500AE Enschede The Netherlands f.dalken@student.utwente.nl Abstract‚ Porter’s Five Forces model is a powerful management tool for analysing the current industry profitability and attractiveness by using the outside-in perspective. Within the last decades‚ the model has attracted some criticism because of the developing
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1. Introduction We live in a new age of computers and the Internet where more information than ever before is being shared around the world. Teaching and learning methods‚ as well as the qualities of competencies‚ can be more easily evaluated and compared. This process has led the European Union and its individual countries‚ such as Germany‚ to look more closely at their education successes and failures. One of the hopes for Europe is to integrate its countries closer together in order to stabilise
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Marketing Strategies Adopted in the Japanese Automotive Industry Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 1 2.0 The Marketing Mix and 4Ps 2 2.1 Product 3 2.2 Price 4 2.3 Promotion 5 2.4 Place 6 3.0 Green Vehicles 6 4.0 Toyota Marketing Strategy 7 4.1 About Toyota 7 4.2 Case Study - Toyota Prius 8 4.2.1 Product 8 4.2.2 Price 10 4.2.3 Place 12 4.2.4 Promotion 13 5.0 Honda Marketing Strategy 15 5.1 About Honda 15 5.2.1 Case Study – Honda Civic GX 16
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Abodunrin Rogba Publishers. Ajayi‚ Taiwo (1988). A system approach towards remediation of academic failure in Nigerian schools. Nigeria Journal of Educational Psychology‚ 3‚ 1‚ 28-35. Aremu‚ A. O. (2000). Academic performance 5 factor inventory. Ibadan: Stirling-Horden Publishers. Aremu‚ A.O. & Oluwole‚ D.A. (2001).Gender and birth order as predictors of normal pupil’s anxiety pattern in examination. Ibadan Journal of Educational Studies‚ 1‚ (1)‚ 1-7. Aremu‚ O. A & Sokan‚ B. O. (2003). A multi-causal evaluation
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------------------------------------------------- Robotics The Shadow robot hand system Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design‚ construction‚ operation‚ development and application of robots [1] and computer systems for their control‚ sensory feedback‚ and information processing. These technologies deal with automated machines that can take the place of humans‚ in dangerous or manufacturing processes‚ or simply just resemble humans. Many of today’s robots are inspired
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Research Article Soft Drink Consumption Patterns Among Western Australians Sarah French‚ MPH1; Michael Rosenberg‚ PhD2; Lisa Wood‚ PhD3; Clover Maitland‚ PGradDip4; Trevor Shilton‚ MHP5; Iain S. Pratt‚ PGradDip6; Peter Buzzacott‚ PhD4 ABSTRACT Objective: To examine soft drink consumption across age‚ gender‚ socioeconomic‚ and body weight status groups within an adolescent and adult population. Design: Cross-sectional telephone survey. Participants: Western Australian residents (n ¼ 1‚015) aged 16–65
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Political parties and instability in Oyo State in the Nigerian Fourth Republic · Political parties are an important institutional component of liberal democracy and successful electoral machination and processes. Parties produce the candidates‚ set the parameters of issues and political agenda within which elections are to be fought and are furthermore expected to perform these duties from one election to another (IDEA‚ 2000: 226-227). Political parties are a form of human organization concerned
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Accounting & Finance Testing the inefficient management hypothesis: Are United Kingdom mergers and acquisitions disciplinary? This thesis is provided in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Stirling May 2007 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank various people to whom I am indebted for assisting me in producing this thesis. I am greatly indebted to Professor Robin Limmack for assisting me with the groundwork for this study. I am greatly
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ecprov.gov.za Tel: +27 (040)6084293 Fax: +27(040) 6084748 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On the 4th-6th of March 2013‚ the Eastern Cape Department of Education held the first CSTL provincial conference. It was held at the Education Leadership Institute‚ Stirling‚ East London‚ South Africa. The conference was held against the background of the Eastern Cape Department of Education’s intention to
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