RESEARCH Proposing a carpal tunnel treatment centre: The Shouldice model revisited Hazim Sadideen, Faddy Sadideen ABSTRACT The Shouldice Hospital prides itself with excellent hernia repair outcomes. The Shouldice concept exhibits a unique, successful business model, and is a clear example of the concept of a highly innovative value proposition. Exploring Shouldice's fundamental principles and extrapolating them to other settings might help healthcare professionals offer improvements to patient
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Organizational Behavior “A Crisis Among Us” By Elizabeth Bullock With each passing day organizations are plagued with situations that many individuals may refer as a crisis. Webster defines crisis as an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change is impending; especially: one with the distinct possibility of a highly undesirable outcome (Webster.com). It seems that the term “crisis” is a term used and
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ÉTRANGÈRES ET RÉGIONALES SPÉCIALITÉ ANGLAIS DESCRIPTIF DES ENSEIGNEMENTS Année universitaire 2014-2015 Page 1 SOMMAIRE L1—PREMIERE ANNÉE SEMESTRE 1 CULTURE DES PAYS ANGLOPHONES 1 E11 AN5 (6 ECTS) LANGUE 1 E12 AN5 (4 ECTS) CIVILISATION 1 E13 AN5 (4 ECTS) VERSION 1 ET LITTÉRATURE AMÉRICAINE 1 E14 AN5 (4 ECTS) PROJET PROFESSIONNEL PERSONNALISÉ (P.P.P.) E1P AN5 (1 ECTS) 5 5 6 8 10 13 SEMESTRE 2 CULTURE DES PAYS ANGLOPHONES 2 E21 AN5 (5 ECTS) LANGUE 2 E22 AN5 (4
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5Frederick E. Webster, Jr. The Changing Role of Marketing in the Corporation New organization forms, including strategic partnerships and networks, are replacing sinnple market-based transactions and traditional bureaucratic hierarchical organizations. The historical marketing management function, based on the microeconomic maximization paradigm, must be critically examined for its relevance to marketing theory and practice in the 1990s. A new conception of marketing will focus on managing strategic
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Smith From: Alyssa Webster Date: [ 2/2/2014 ] Re: Memo summarizing various tax issues 1. John Smith's Tax Issues Issue (a): How is the $300,000 treated for purposes of federal tax income? Applicable Law and Analysis Code Section 61(a) lists fifteen items that must be included in gross income. Number 1 on this list is compensation for services including fees, commission, fringe benefits and similar items. Number 2 is gross income derived from business (¶4301, reference 1). This is important
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that brand; promoting specific institutions, restaurants, accommodations, attractions, activities, and events that take place in the area; and offering information and assistance to visitors. The Growth of Social Media Social media, which Merriam-Webster defines as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (“Social media,” 2011),” has seen
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STUXNET Worm Webster University SECR-5080 Information Systems Security Author Note Certificate of Authorship: This paper was prepared by me for this specific course and is not a result of plagiarism or self-plagiarism. I have cited all sources from which I used data, ideas, or words either quoted or paraphrased. Abstract Discovered in June of 2010, a computer worm called Stuxnet was designed to attack programmable-logic controllers or PLCs that are used to control switches and values
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction............................................................................... . .....2 BMW's Strategic Leadership .........................................................................4 Conclusion.....................................................................................................12 References ..................................................................... .................13 Bibliography ..............................................
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According to Webster, the word's origin is Middle English, injury, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin tortum, from Latin, neuter of tortus twisted, from past participle of torquēre First Known Use: 1586 The word "torture" shares the same linguistic origin, though its present meaning diverged in a very different direction. [edit] Categories Torts may be categorized in several ways: one such way is to divide them into Negligence, Intentional Torts, and Quasi-Torts. The standard
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This article was downloaded by: [80.5.173.244] On: 18 June 2012, At: 04:49 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Journal of Strategic Marketing Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjsm20 Competitive positioning and the resource-based view of the firm a a Graham Hooley
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