1. Introduction With the rapid development of new communications technology and network technology‚ some industries such as information industry show significant network externality characteristics. Network externality has been defined as "a change in the benefit‚ or surplus‚ that an agent derives from a good when the number of other agent consuming the same kind of good changes" (Liebowitz & Margolis‚ 1996). In other words‚ the product will be more valuable if more people use it. For example
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Hepatitis C Virus Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver‚ which can be caused by several different viruses. It can also be acute or chronic‚ depending on the particular virus and stage of the disease. The different types of hepatitis are hepatitis A (HAV)‚ hepatitis B (HBV)‚ hepatitis B- associated delta (HDV)‚ hepatitis C (HCV) (Porth 2005). These viruses are capable of being transmitted in many different ways but each one will instigate a viral response and inflammation within the liver
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How well does Zara’s advantage travel globally? Zara has several advantages when it expands its operation in global markets. Firstly‚ Zara has always promoted its products via its stores and it had its own centralized distribution center which will translate to low advertising and logistics costs when it enters new markets. As opposed to its competitors who would invest heavily on advertising and organize a distribution system. Secondly‚ apparel retailing was witnessing increasing concentration
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What is intelligence? Sattler describes a famous symposium conducted in 1921 at which 13 psychologists gave 13 different definitions of intelligence (1992‚ pp. 44-45). Some of these definitions are paraphrased below: Intelligence is. . . the tendency to take and maintain a direction. . . judgment‚ otherwise called good sense‚ practical sense‚ initiative. . . everything intellectual can be reduced to . . . relations or correlates. . . adjustment or adaptation to the environment. . . global capacity
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needs to be a specific rubric and data collected the score reflects appropriately and if any manager evaluates the employee they would get the same score. 2. In your opinion‚ at what point does “fine-tuning” evaluations become unacceptable distortion? I think that any kind of fine-tuning is an unacceptable distortion. What if an employee has a score of 5.4. If one manager fine tunes down to a 5 and another fine tunes up to a 6‚ then these are two separate scores for the same evaluation. This is
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What does it mean to be a WestJetter? The airline industry rides a train that is propelled by many different factors‚ such as the state of the economy‚ jet fuel prices‚ people’s view of the industry itself and the image of the individual airline entity. Founded by Clive Beddoe‚ Don Bell‚ Mark Hill and Tim Morgan‚ WestJet has been riding a different train from the get-go since its inauguration in 1996‚. Nobody would have thought that a bottom-up management structure in an airline business would
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I have chosen the handheld scanner and Wi-Fi for my wireless technologies service. First‚ Wi-Fi is an internet service. The service allows Party Plates to analyze the total concepts for our company. These concepts are going to complement pricing‚ profits‚ expenses‚ and advancements. Pricing Main categories include: Flat-rate subscriptions‚ pay as you go‚ metered subscriptions‚ and unmetered access. The Flat-rate subscriptions feature a fee once a month. The fee is supported by the technical department
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partner why. 1 Economics is only the study of money. 2 Economics is something governments take care of. 3 An economist basically decides how money is spent. What does economics study? What do you think of when you hear the word economics? Money‚ certainly‚ and perhaps more complicated things like business‚ inflation and unemployment. The science of economics studies all of these‚ but many more things as well. Perhaps you
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History of C+ The creation of C++ was first put into motion in 1979 by its creator Bjarne Stroustrup. Bjarne was working on his PhD thesis at Cambridge University. He was using a large and detailed simulator‚ that he had written in Simula‚ to simulate running software over a network of computers. He found programming in Simula enjoyable and was impressed by how the programs class structure helped him organize his code. As the size of his program increased‚ he found that the language became increasingly
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4G Wireless Network 4G Wireless Networks: Opportunities and Challenges ABSTRACT Abstract With the major wireless service providers planning to start deployment of 4G wireless networks by mid 2010‚ research and industry communities are racing against time to find solutions for some of the prominent still open issues in 4G networks. The growing interest in 4G networks is driven by the set of new services will be made available for the first time such as accessing the Internet
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