Summary: “Business model innovation: it’s not just about technology anymore” by Henry Chesbrough According to Henry Chesbrough’s article‚ technologies can no longer be relied upon to earn a satisfactory profit‚ but instead innovation must include business models. A business model needs to function as both value creation and value capture. Value creation is the defining of activities that will yield a new product that in turn will create a net value. Value capture‚ in comparison‚ is turning those
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advancesindifferenceequations.com/content/2013/1/57 RESEARCH Open Access Global dynamics in a class of discrete-time epidemic models with disease courses Lei Wang‚ Qianqian Cui and Zhidong Teng* * Correspondence: zhidong@xju.edu.cn College of Mathematics and System Sciences‚ Xinjiang University‚ Urumqi‚ Xinjiang 830046‚ P.R. China Abstract In this paper‚ a class of discrete SIRS epidemic models with disease courses is studied. The basic reproduction number R0 is computed. The main results on the permanence
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Sociology/SS310 Cultural pressures to be thin Have you ever taken a second to compare the size of men and women today to the sizes years ago? Recently there is a huge new trend of becoming as thin and fit as possible and thinking this how one becomes beautiful. No one actually knows where this idea has emerged from. In the past big has been known as being healthy and beautiful. Take for instance Marilyn Monroe‚ she was the pin up girl for many men and wasn’t exactly thin to today’s standards. Today’s
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art‚ her connection with Johannes Vermeer and the help of Maria Thins. Tracey Chevalier’s Girl With A Pearl Earring tells the story of a sixteen-year-old servant girl who is sent to work for a painter and his family due to her father losing his trade. Thinking that she is there for cooking‚ cleaning and child minding she is also allowed into the studio‚ where the painter’s wife is not allowed. When she is asked by Vermeer to be a model for his painting‚ she agrees but is also driven by fear to keep
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Hawthorne’s Thin Line When thinking of great American authors‚ one usually thinks of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne is best known for his classic work‚ The Scarlet Letter. This novel is a story about a women named Hester and her sin of adultery. In the preface to the novel ‚ Kurt Neilson writes that‚ "Hawthorne sees a very thin line‚ if any‚ between the "real" world and the spiritual and/or imaginary one." Hawthorne’s writing throughout The Scarlet Letter fulfills this claim made by Neilson in
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Database Models s L11: ER Diagrams Kieran Herley Summary The database design process and the role of ER modelling in same. Basic constituents of ER diagrams: entities‚ relationships and attributes. While designing database it’s handy to have notation to “sketch” schema s Two common diagrammatic notations: x x s UML diagrams (Universal Modelling Language) ER diagrams (Entity Relationship) → cs1106 choice Captures the information requirements of our database: what data it con and how
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CAPITAL ASSET PRICING MODEL The Capital Asset Pricing Model deals with independent investor problems that needs to undergo the procedure of selection of securities involving risks. The investors need to select the most advantageous security that produces the best possible outcome. This model deals with the estimation of securities as well as it links the risk and return (the expected shares). There is a direct relationship and risk and return provides higher expected return from that security
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Chapter Chapter 12 Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (ARCH) and Generalized ARCH (GARCH) Models Section Section 12.1 Introduction ARCH and GARCH Models • ARCH and GARCH models are designed to model heteroscedasticity (unequal variance) of the error term with the use of timeseries data • Objective is to model and forecast volatility Example: Understand the risk of holding an asset; useful in financial situations • ARCH -- Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity
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How far the Capital Asset Pricing Model has been successful in explaining asset returns‚ defining its approach and assumptions. Semester 2013 Department of Accounting and Finance Lord Ashcroft International Business School Anglia Ruskin University Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………......... 3 What’s Capital Asset Pricing Model…………………………………………………..... 3 1. Definition………………………………………………………………………………
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of finance. For asset pricing‚ the concepts of risk and return‚ and state prices will be introduced as a stepping stone towards the discussions of more advanced topics including the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)‚ the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)‚ and other more recent asset pricing models. Other topics in finance such as options and behavior finance may also be covered on an optional basis. Besides the theoretical frameworks‚ recent developments in empirical asset pricing and empirical finance
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