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Uncapping The Bottle: A Look Inside The History, Industry, And Regulation Of Bottled Water In The United States, Joyce S. Ahn Dec 2007

Uncapping The Bottle: A Look Inside The History, Industry, And Regulation Of Bottled Water In The United States, Joyce S. Ahn

Journal of Food Law & Policy

"Agu chupa! Agu chupa!" As we drove through the lush rolling hills of northwestern Rwanda, a crowd of young children appeared from the tea fields and repeatedly shouted these words to us. The taxi driver explained that the children wanted our "water bottes." Aware that visitors often drink bottled water, the children run alongside taxis with the hopes of obtaining the plastic bottles. Although Rwandan children typically carry their drinking water in tightly-woven baskets, the modern plastic bottles have become popular and prized possessions.


As Business Globalizes, So Should Country Names, Constance S. Bates Dec 2007

As Business Globalizes, So Should Country Names, Constance S. Bates

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Emphasizing Foreign Language Use To International Marketing Students: A Situational Exercise That Mimics Real-World Challenges, Tracy L. Melin, Nina M. Ray Dec 2007

Emphasizing Foreign Language Use To International Marketing Students: A Situational Exercise That Mimics Real-World Challenges, Tracy L. Melin, Nina M. Ray

Global Business Languages

An international marketing exercise consists of students orally providing an introduction in a chosen foreign language of what they, as potential salespeople, might say to a client in that country. Students speak (not read) their prepared statements to the class and are leniently, yet constructively, evaluated on language use and pronunciation and marketing credibility. The objective is to emulate a real business situation and to show students the challenges of working with different languages and cultures in international marketing and the imperfections of direct translation. Results of a student survey showed that a majority of students believed the exercise to …


Embedding Language Learning In The Business School Curriculum And Mission, Michael Bryant, David Sheehan, Mary Vigier Dec 2007

Embedding Language Learning In The Business School Curriculum And Mission, Michael Bryant, David Sheehan, Mary Vigier

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Teaching Professional German With The Use Of A Cd-Rom, Michael Hager Dec 2007

Teaching Professional German With The Use Of A Cd-Rom, Michael Hager

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


A Hypothetical Business Plan Highlighting Approaches To International And Trans-Cultural Education, Michael E. Jones Dec 2007

A Hypothetical Business Plan Highlighting Approaches To International And Trans-Cultural Education, Michael E. Jones

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Can We Get Tenure While Teaching Online Language For Professional Purposes?, Rafael Gómez Dec 2007

Can We Get Tenure While Teaching Online Language For Professional Purposes?, Rafael Gómez

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Taking French Into The Next Century: The Development, Production, And Dissemination Of Multimedia Instructional And Promotional Materials, Eileen M. Angelini, Steven Loughrin-Sacco, William J. Thompson Dec 2007

Taking French Into The Next Century: The Development, Production, And Dissemination Of Multimedia Instructional And Promotional Materials, Eileen M. Angelini, Steven Loughrin-Sacco, William J. Thompson

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Study-Abroad And Internship Programs: Reflection And Articulation For Lifelong Learning, Ikuko Kurasawa, Ayumi Nagatomi Dec 2007

Study-Abroad And Internship Programs: Reflection And Articulation For Lifelong Learning, Ikuko Kurasawa, Ayumi Nagatomi

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Op Ed -- Another Humble Opinion -- Response To Rick Anderson's Imhbco (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) Reference Services, Scalability, And Starfish Problems, Celia Rabinowitz Dec 2007

Op Ed -- Another Humble Opinion -- Response To Rick Anderson's Imhbco (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) Reference Services, Scalability, And Starfish Problems, Celia Rabinowitz

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Full Page Ads, Editor Dec 2007

Full Page Ads, Editor

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Oprhan Works -- Bringing The Past Into The Present?, Karen Oye Dec 2007

Oprhan Works -- Bringing The Past Into The Present?, Karen Oye

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


From The University Presses -- How To Establish A Research Agenda For Scholarly Communication, Part I: A Paranoid View, Sanford G. Thatcher Dec 2007

From The University Presses -- How To Establish A Research Agenda For Scholarly Communication, Part I: A Paranoid View, Sanford G. Thatcher

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Design Of An Active Orthotic Device For Joint Management., Steven Clayton Anderson Dec 2007

Design Of An Active Orthotic Device For Joint Management., Steven Clayton Anderson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Existing treatment programs and procedures are incapable of addressing the complications encountered with patients who experience spasticity and hypertonia related joint contractures. Current passive therapy procedures and devices are only capable of managing the extent of joint contractures on patients with chronic and acute onset severe neurological disorders. The project was conceived as a means to develop an active device that is capable of adapting to the state of the joint to mange the extent of contractures and to permit consideration for the prevalence of spastic activity episodes and hypertonia. The project focused on the design of the physical prototype …


Language For The Professions: A New Perspective On Course Design, Maria Florencia Tebano Basaluzzo Dec 2007

Language For The Professions: A New Perspective On Course Design, Maria Florencia Tebano Basaluzzo

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of German And American Graduate Business Students, Stefanie Borst Dec 2007

A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of German And American Graduate Business Students, Stefanie Borst

Global Business Languages

This paper reports on results of a comparative assessment of MBA students at highly ranked business schools in Germany and the USA. The results from a demographic and attitude questionnaire, and the results from a reading and writing assessment are discussed, and areas of significant variation between the German and American students are highlighted. Striking differences were found in several areas, even though the German and American students were similar with respect to educational level and professional goals. Since international MBAs like these students will ultimately work with each other in the global business community, I propose that understanding these …


Creative Internationalization: The Importance Of Institutional Culture, Michael Bryant, David Sheehan Dec 2007

Creative Internationalization: The Importance Of Institutional Culture, Michael Bryant, David Sheehan

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Case Studies In Collection And Technical Services -- Case Study Seven: A New Employee -- What Do I Do?, Anne Langley Dec 2007

Case Studies In Collection And Technical Services -- Case Study Seven: A New Employee -- What Do I Do?, Anne Langley

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Biz Of Acq -- The Wiki Of Acq, Xan Arch Dec 2007

Biz Of Acq -- The Wiki Of Acq, Xan Arch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Library Marketplace -- Looking Forward-Looking Back, John D. Riley Dec 2007

Library Marketplace -- Looking Forward-Looking Back, John D. Riley

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Us-Asian Communication Strategies To Develop Trust In Business Relationships, Christine Uber Grosse Dec 2007

Us-Asian Communication Strategies To Develop Trust In Business Relationships, Christine Uber Grosse

Global Business Languages

Personal relationships matter in Asian business, in contrast to their lesser role in US business. As a result, US managers do not always understand the need to establish trust and build business relationships with Asian partners and clients. This study investigates strategies that US managers can use to develop trust in business relationships with Asian partners. In the process, it examines the knowledge, attitude, and skills that US and Asian managers can use to establish business relationships. The research findings suggest that language and cultural knowledge are of primary importance in building trust. Attitudes of patience, humility, friendship, interest, respect, …


Doing International Business: From Cultural Perspectives, Charles Calvert, Shinyi Lin, Lynda Martin Dec 2007

Doing International Business: From Cultural Perspectives, Charles Calvert, Shinyi Lin, Lynda Martin

Global Business Languages

The remarkable growth of the global economy over the past 50 years has been shaped by the dynamic interplay of various driving and restraining forces. From business and HRD (Human Resource Development) aspects, an understanding of globalization as it applies to the field of training and educational programs enables organizations to develop competencies and skills to respond to these emerging challenges faced by globalization. In recent reports (Yager, 2001; O’Regan, 2001), employers are increasingly having trouble finding workers who have excellent (1) soft skills, (2) business etiquette, (3) interpersonal communication skills, and (4) intercultural communication skills. An international business organization …


The Business Communication Model For Teaching Foreign Business Languages, Virginia Yonkers Dec 2007

The Business Communication Model For Teaching Foreign Business Languages, Virginia Yonkers

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Experiential Learning In Business German Workshops, Charles A. Grair Dec 2007

Experiential Learning In Business German Workshops, Charles A. Grair

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Comment Dit-On «Standard Deviation»?: An Effortless Business-Language Curriculum, Robert F. Graboyes Dec 2007

Comment Dit-On «Standard Deviation»?: An Effortless Business-Language Curriculum, Robert F. Graboyes

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch Dec 2007

If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


Group Therapy -- Database Trials, Christine Fischer Dec 2007

Group Therapy -- Database Trials, Christine Fischer

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


What's So Free About Freelancing? -- The Second Circuit's Decision In Muchnik V. Thomson Corp. (In Re Literary Works In Elec. Databases Copyright Litig.), William M. Hannay Dec 2007

What's So Free About Freelancing? -- The Second Circuit's Decision In Muchnik V. Thomson Corp. (In Re Literary Works In Elec. Databases Copyright Litig.), William M. Hannay

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.


The Continued Vitality Of Prophylactic Relief, Tracy A. Thomas Dec 2007

The Continued Vitality Of Prophylactic Relief, Tracy A. Thomas

Akron Law Faculty Publications

The categorization of a separate type of “prophylactic” injunction and its continued prevalence in the courts provides a framework by which to evaluate the legitimacy of broad injunctions. Such broad injunctive relief has been conventionally theorized as simple judicial activism, and has been attacked accordingly. The theory of prophylaxis provides an alternative narrative by which to evaluate injunctive relief in order to retain valuable and effective judicial remedies. Rather than striking down all broad injunctive relief as the dominant discourse demands, the concept of the prophylactic injunction provides language through which jurists and lawyers can navigate the real issues of …


The Slider-Pinning Problem, Audrey Lee, Ileana Streinu, Louis Theran Dec 2007

The Slider-Pinning Problem, Audrey Lee, Ileana Streinu, Louis Theran

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

A Laman mechanism is a flexible planar bar-and-joint framework with m ≤ 2n-3 edges and exactly k = 2n-m degrees of freedom. The slider-pinning problem is to eliminate all the degrees of freedom of a Laman mechanism, in an optimal fashion, by individually fixing x or y coordinates of vertices. We describe two easy to implement O(n2) time algorithms.