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Trajektorie Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich Bawarii I Małopolski, Zofia Sawicka

Monografie/Monographs

Książka prezentuje oryginalne i oczekiwane przez wiele środowisk podejście do problematyki przemian strukturalnych na wsi i w rolnictwie. Jej autorka udowadnia, że dobrym i godnym rozważenia przykładem reform oraz zmian dla wsi i rolnictwa w Małopolsce mogłyby być przemiany, które dokonywały się przed laty w Bawarii. Publikacja stanowi istotną pozycję na skromnym rynku wydawnictw ekonomiczno-rolniczych, w której przedstawiono studium dróg rozwoju obszarów wiejskich i rolnictwa rozdrobnionego agrarnie. Główne rozdziały książki to: badania porównawcze nad rozwojem rolnictwa i obszarów wiejskich w świetle literatury, drogi rozwoju obszarów wiejskich Bawarii (ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem badanych gmin), stan i scenariusze rozwoju obszarów wiejskich Małopolski oraz …

Proceed To Checkout? The Impact Of Time In Advanced Ticket Purchase Decisions, Brendan Dwyer, Joris Drayer, Stephen L. Shapiro

Human Movement Studies & Special Education Faculty Publications

When purchasing tickets in advance, sports consumers are often faced with uncertainty. Most notably, in today's real-time environment, it can be challenging for consumers to determine how ticket prices and seat availability will change over time. Guided by the generic advanced-booking decision model, the current study investigated the role of time, ticket source (primary or secondary market), and team identification in advanced ticket purchasing by exploring a consumer's perceptions of ticket availability and finding a lower price. The results suggest the perceived likelihood of ticket availability and finding a lower priced ticket increased as the date of the game drew …

Student Attitudes Toward Client Sponsors And Learning: An Analysis Of The Effects Of Incorporating A Client Sponsored Project In An Introductory Marketing Course, Jane Mckay-Nesbitt, Srdan Zdravkovic

Marketing Department Faculty Journal Articles

This study examines i) the effects of a client-sponsored project (CSP) on student attitudes toward a sponsoring client, ii) the effects of a CSP on student attitudes toward learning core marketing concepts, and iii) moderators of student attitudes toward learning core marketing concepts. Introductory marketing course students prepared marketing plans for a client-sponsor who awarded cash prizes. The CSP yielded i) positive student attitudes toward client sponsors and ii) beliefs that CSPs enhance learning of core marketing concepts and increase confidence in academic ability. Positive attitudes toward competition and instructor helpfulness strengthened student perceptions that the CSP enhanced learning.

Technology Argument Frames : Examining The Impact Of Argumentation On The Development Of A Health Information Exchange Initiative, David Murithi Murungi

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation applies the Technology Frames of Reference (TFR) theoretical lens to examine the implementation of a health information exchange (HIE) initiative in southeast USA. It extends the TFR lens by developing Toulminian argument maps to depict frame structure and employing the argument theories of Toulmin, Habermas and Perelman Olbrechts-Tyteca to help analyze the role that argumentation plays in the emergence and development of the technology frames that characterized this HIE endeavor. The argument maps developed in this dissertation helped to assess the level of argumentation within frames and to compare argumentation across frame domains. The argument maps were also …

What's Love Got To Do With It? The Role Of Brand Love In Brand Community Experience, Phillip M. Hartley

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The work presented here explores and conceptually documents the consumer’s experience of brand communities—groups of people brought together by their mutual appreciation of a commercial brand. The relationships between individuals’ motives for joining, their participation, and the social and brand-related outcomes associated with such groups are tested. In addition, the role of Brand Love in the individual’s experience is assessed. The results of the research indicate that Participation may reduce the influence of a person’s original reasons for joining the community on the ultimate outcomes of membership. Further, a person’s degree of love for the underlying brand influences the likelihood …

Finance Newsletter, N01, Winter 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Finance.

Department of Finance Newsletter

News about the activities of the Department of Finance

Unibusiness: The Alumni Magazine Of The College Of Business Administration University Of Northern Iowa, 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Business Administration.

UNIBiz

Inside This Issue:
-- Message from the Dean ••• 2
-- Reflections from "Three Boys from the B-School" ••• 4
-- Subject to Debate: Economics, Energy & the Environment ••• 10
-- UNI Department of Economics: A Launch Pad for Careers in Law ••• 12
-- In Memory of Christine Bauman ••• 13
-- UNIBusiness in Action ••• 14
-- UNIBusiness International ••• 16
-- Annual Report on Giving ••• 18
-- Donor Spotlight ••• 22
-- Faculty ••• 24
-- UNIBusiness Diversity ••• 26
-- Professional Readiness Program ••• 27
-- Graduation Celebration ••• 28
-- UNIBusiness Alumni ••• …

Modeling Of Biorefinery Supply Chain Economic Performance With Discrete Event Simulation, Joseph S. Amundson

Theses and Dissertations--Manufacturing Systems Engineering

As competition for fossil fuels accelerates, alternative sources of chemicals, fuels, and energy production become more appealing to researchers and the layman. Among the candidates to fill this growing niche is lignocellulosic biomass. Many researchers have examined supply chain design and optimization for biofuel and bioenergy production throughout the years. However, these models often fail to capture the variability and uncertainty inherent to the biomass supply chain. Multiple factors with high degrees of stochasticity can have major impacts on the performance of a biorefinery: weather, biomass quality, feedstock availability, and market demand for products are just a few. To begin …

النظام المحاسبي الموحد المتخصص ومدى انسجامه مع البيئة المصرفية الدولية, اسعد غني جهاد, اسعد منشد محمد

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تعد المصارف قلب اقتصاد البلد النابض فالنشاط المصرفي له مساهمة كبيرة في ديمومة الحركة الاقتصادية وتعزيز مكانته الاقتصادية من خلال ما تقدمه تلك المصارف من خدمات مصرفيه جمة تساهم في تقوية الاستثمارات وجلب استثمارات جديدة لذا فان مشكله البحث تكمن في عدم تحديث النظام المحاسبي الموحد المتخصص للمصارف ومنذ ثلاث عقود مضت ، لذا فحاول الباحثان تقديم بعض المقترحات لتجديد وتحديث هذا النظام المطبق من خلال الوقوف على الاتجاهات الحديثه التي تتبعها المصارف في تقديم خدماتها المصرفية وقد توصل الباحثان الى ان تحقيق المصارف للتوسع والانتشار من خلال تحرير خدماتها المصرفية والمالية يساعدها في المحافظه على مكانتها المصرفية ومن ثم …

الاستثمار في التعليم ودوره في تحقيق التنمية المستدامة في العراق, نادية خضير كناوي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

أن من أبرز مظاهر التخلف الاقتصادي والاجتماعي هو ضعف الامكانات المادية وانخفاض مستوى الامكانات البشرية الضرورية لإحداث التنمية ، ويعد الاستثمار في التعليم المطلب الرئيس لتحقيق التنمية الاقتصادية والاجتماعية ، وان الاهتمام بتكوين القدرات البشرية عن طريق التعليم والتدريب بهدف اكتسابها المهارات والقدرات اللازمة للمشاركة في العملية التنموية .لذلك فأن للتعليم اهمية في صنع الحضارة وبناء الانسان أذ لابد من ان يحظى قطاع التعليم بإهتمام كبير وان تكون النقلة كبيرة في مسيرة التعليم من حيث وضع اسس انطلاقة النهضة التعليمية بمعطياتها ونتائجها سواء من حيث التوسع النوعي او الكمي او من حيث تفاعل نشاطات مؤسسات التعليم النظامي وغيرالنظامي مع متطلبات …

Digital Media Battleground, Fahad Alhajri, James Bowen, Brian Brewer, Meles Hagos, Farzad Moshfegh, Srujana Penmetsa, Jerrod Thomas

Engineering and Technology Management Student Projects

Current digital media distribution platforms continue their march towards streaming service-based infrastructures, delivering content to users when and where they want it: laptops, set top boxes, home entertainment systems, and the new ubiquity: mobile devices. This model was first demonstrated by utilizing the multicast backbone technology in the early 1990s and took the better part of a decade to make inroads in changing the way individuals consume broadcast, mainstream, and syndicated video media. It took the advent of streaming technology, high-speed internet adoption, and a willingness from content owners to license their treasured content with upstart streaming media platform companies. …

Main Street 2.0: A Guide To Online And Social Media Marketing For Small Business Through The Use Of Online Analytics And Content Marketing Strategies, Peter John Cleary

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project is intended to serve as a guidebook for small businesses interested in developing digital marketing strategies to reach prospective and existing customers online. The guide will serve three main functions. The first is to provide a review of literature on integrated marketing communications, relationship marketing and content marketing to use as a foundation for planning online communications. Business owner interviews will also provide various perspectives to small business online marketing. The second is to provide instruction on evaluating existing website data to gain customer insight in planning communications. The third is a network structure for distributing content through …

A Balanced Participatory Knowledge Management Strategy In International Development Organizations: The Case Of Cida Egypt, Hadia Fakhreldin

Business Administration

This study is focusing on developing and implementing KM strategies in the international development organizations. The aim of the research is to investigate whether there is an agreed upon model for developing a KM system that achieves an effective and successful implementation. It proposes a model based on examining some distinguished attempts made so far in that area world-wide, in addition to focusing on the experience of one international development agency, CIDA, Egypt. The study uses the case study method to examine thoroughly the experience of the Canadian Agency for International Development in Egypt, in designing and implementing a KM …

The Use Of Financial Data To Monitor Competing Models Of Firm Growth, Mohamed Rashwan, Tarek Ibrahim Eldomiaty

Business Administration

This paper examines three possible explanations for firm growth:

1 a firm grows according to the growth of sales revenues

2 a firm grows according to cost savings

3 a firms grows according to the two factors simultaneously

This paper introduces a new measure for firm growth based on sales-weighted growth of fixed assets. The estimation method uses the properties of the discriminant analysis to build three Z-score models, each of which discriminates low-growth firms from high-growth firms based on:

a sales ratios

b cost ratios

c sales and cost ratios together

The results show that the three discriminant models …

The Effect Of Talent Management On Organizational Success: A Comparative Study In The Petroleum Sector In Egypt, Hadia Fakhreldin

Business Administration

Multinational companies started introducing and implementing talent management (TM) in the 1990s. It is now popular in the private and non-governmental sector, as well. The idea is to identify talent and manage it in the best way that benefits both the organization and the employee. There is a significant relationship between investments in talents and the ability to achieve and maintain high performance. When organizations manage human capital as a strategic asset, they will have the type of skilled workforce that is the key to achieve sustained business results and ultimately successful outcomes. This study examines the effect of TM …

Ethical Considerations In The Use Of Pharmaceutical Promotions: The Impact On Egyptian Physicians Prescribing Behavior, Madiha Metawie, Rasha Hussien Mostafa

Business Administration

Purpose - The aim of this research paper is to examine some of the ethical issues which may arise when physicians accept promotional items from pharmaceutical companies and the influence on the prescribing behaviour.

Design/ methodology/ approach – Testable hypotheses were developed with respect to physicians prescribing behavior regarding ethical considerations while accepting pharmaceutical promotional items. A survey questionnaire was designed to capture the data from 134 Egyptian physicians located in greater Cairo. The hypotheses were tested using SPSS package.

Findings – The major finding is that there is a significant positive association between the type of promotional item offered …

Making Change Happen In The Middle (Approaches To Innovation For Library Middle Managers), Robert Farrell

Publications and Research

This paper seeks to provide library managers with a theoretical framework for thinking about how change is effected by those in middle management positions. Starting from the principles that change takes place within socio-culturally bounded contexts and is most successful when approached indirectly, two scenarios characteristic of many situations requiring change middle managers commonly face are then put forward. Following each scenario, a possible solution or path towards change is advanced in order to provide the reader with models for putting into practice the theoretical ideas presented. A methodology that combines theoretical frameworks and practical scenarios is adopted in order …

By Design: Ethics, Theology, And The Practice Of Engineering, Brad Kallenberg

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

Both engineering and human living take place in a messy world, one chock full of unknowns and contingencies. "Design reasoning" is the way engineers cope with real-world contingency. Because of the messiness, books about engineering design cannot have "ideal solutions" printed in the back in the same way that mathematics textbooks can. Design reasoning does not produce a single, ideally correct answer to a given problem but rather generates a wide variety of rival solutions that vie against each other for their relative level of "satisfactoriness." A reasoning process analogous to design is needed in ethics. Since the realm of …

Ua25/2 Finance & Administration Human Resources, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Human Resources.

Ua12/10 Career Services, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Career Services.

Ua3/9/3 President's Office-Ransdell Reading File, Wku Archives, Virginia Brothers, Aaron Shuford

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Reading file of outgoing correspondence regarding the administration of WKU, fund raising, thank yous and letters of condolence.

Ua62/2 Gordon Ford College Of Business Dean's Office, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by Gordon Ford School of Business Dean's Office.

Categorizing Efficient Xml Compression Schemes, John N. Dyer

Journal of Business, Industry, and Economics

Web services are Extensible Markup Language (XML) applications mapped to programs, objects, databases, and comprehensive business functions. In essence, Web services transform XML documents into and out of informationtechnology systems. As more businesses turn to web services data transfer,XML has become the language of web services. Unfortunately, the structure of XML results in extremely verbose documents, often 3 times larger than ordinary content files. As XML becomes more common through Webservices applications, its large file sizes increasingly burden the systems that must utilize it. This paper provides a qualitative overview of existing andproposed schemes for efficient XML compression, proposes three …

Finding Practical Knowledge In Entrepreneurship, Edward Mcmullan, Thomas Kenworthy

Management and Marketing Faculty Publications

Research in the pre-paradigmatic, applied scientific field of entrepreneurship is characterized mainly as exploratory. This article advocates for a considerable shift toward a more effective applied research agenda. An applied research program is proposed based on modifications to a Lakatosian research program. The agenda extends beyond typical calls for more replication work to include a focus on practical outcomes, practical significance, and surprising findings among other things. The intent is to produce substantially more practical knowledge—knowledge that is useful to entrepreneurs, policy makers, educators, and scholars.

Success In Gateway Courses: What Matters And What Can We Do?, Thomas Berry, Lori Cook, Nancy Hill, Kevin Stevens

College of Business Faculty and Staff Works

No abstract provided.

Wild Geese Restaurant Dessert Menu, 2013, Wild Geese Restaurant

Menu Collection

The Wild Geese Restaurant (Proprietors David Foley and Julie Randles) is located on the main street of Adare Village, Co. Limerick. As a chef David Foley has established a reputation for excellent cuisine. He has always has a keen interest in cooking. and spent many years learning his trade in such fine establishments as The Park Hotel Kenmare, The Kildare Hotel & Country Club, the Waterside Inn, Bray, Berkshire. Stephen Bull’s Restaurant, Blanford Street, London. He then progressed to his first Head Chef position when he took over in the Hibernian Hotel Dublin 4. During his six years there, the …

Ard Bia@Nimmo's Dinner Menu, Winter, 2013, Ard Bia Restaurant

Menus of the 21st Century

Ard Bia @ Nimmo's is located in the Spanish Arch, Long Walk, Galway. The restaurant is located beside the river Corrib, under the Spanish Arch and across from the Musuem.The proprietor is Aoibheann McNamara.

One of Galway’s most enduring restaurant operations which is now housed in one of the city’s most iconic restaurant spaces, Ard Bia has always placed as much emphasis on community experiences and aesthetic stimulation as on serving great food in a fun environment. We believe in having roots in a place whilst having an identity that transcends location and takes inspiration from around the world.

Ard …

Ard Bia@Nimmo's Back Of The Menu, 2013, Ard Bia

Menus of the 21st Century

Ard Bia @ Nimmo's is located in the Spanish Arch, Long Walk, Galway. The restaurant is located beside the river Corrib, under the Spanish Arch and across from the Musuem.The proprietor is Aoibheann McNamara.

One of Galway’s most enduring restaurant operations which is now housed in one of the city’s most iconic restaurant spaces, Ard Bia has always placed as much emphasis on community experiences and aesthetic stimulation as on serving great food in a fun environment. We believe in having roots in a place whilst having an identity that transcends location and takes inspiration from around the world.

Ard …

Ard Bia@Nimmo's Set Menu, Spring, 2013, Ard Bia

Menus of the 21st Century

Ard Bia @ Nimmo's is located in the Spanish Arch, Long Walk, Galway. The restaurant is located beside the river Corrib, under the Spanish Arch and across from the Musuem.The proprietor is Aoibheann McNamara.

One of Galway’s most enduring restaurant operations which is now housed in one of the city’s most iconic restaurant spaces, Ard Bia has always placed as much emphasis on community experiences and aesthetic stimulation as on serving great food in a fun environment. We believe in having roots in a place whilst having an identity that transcends location and takes inspiration from around the world.

Ard …

Cashel Palace Hotel A La Carte Menu, 2013, Cashel Palace Hotel

Menus of the 21st Century

The Cashel Palace Hotel is located on the Main Street, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. The proprietors are Patrick and Susan Murphy. This Queen Anne style house dating from 1730 is now a four star family owned and managed hotel.

The Bishops Buttery Restaurant is open seven days.

“If food is your passion, then you will be pleased to know that we are passionate about serving the finest of modern Irish cuisine. Our Bishop’s Buttery Restaurant inspires the palate and the mind, with vaulted ceilings and its magnificent open fireplace.All ingredients are sourced locally from producers who are known to us. …