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McDonald¶s, the leader in the fast-food wars, faced a crossroads in the early 1990s. Domestically, sales and revenues were flattening as competitors like Burger King, Wendy¶s, and Taco Bell encountered new challenges Sonic and Rally¶s competed using a back-to-basics approach of quickly serving up burgers, just burgers, for timeless consumers. McDonald¶s was gathering flak from environmentalists who decried all the litter and solid waste its restaurants generated each day To counter some…

didactic concepts of a business process reengineering course at the University of Bahrain. He found, for instance, that in addition to traditional teacher-centered teaching, the courses included web-based collaboration (whereby, however, the participants still meet physically in class), case studies, role-playing, and group assignments. When the students were asked to assess the didactic concepts, they evaluated role-playing as the best way of teaching. Role-playing provides students…

together with the relationships among them that permit the identification of a boundary-maintaining entity or process. Since social and psychological phenomena tend to resist quantitative modeling by posing basic difficulties already on the plane of boundary identification, alternative approaches must be relied upon. One such approach draws on the body of knowledge derived from General System Theory and its application in the domain of human activity systems. The line that separates the…

situação econômica. The household violence is a issue discussed in the presente. This article analyse the economic situation as a factor that contribute to the increase of this violence. The study is illustrated with a research realized in a women’s police headquarters in Florianópolis, where the position of the women and their trouble to understand their rights are observed. But, is necessary to discuss the issue, because of this way we’ll can help the woman to put an end to the…

experience beyond the experience curve, including the possibility of ‘‘learning to learn’’: the pace of learning increases over time by building on what has already been learned. We compare the extended deterministic learning model with Jovanovic and Nyarkos’ [26] stochastic learning. The theoretical models are tested with data on the total factor productivity of a car-assembly plant in its first months of operation. We find that the deterministic ‘‘mixed learning model’’, where the…

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Buddhism and Nineteenth-Century German Philosophy Author(s): Heinrich Dumoulin Source: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1981), pp. 457-470 Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2709187 Accessed: 25/02/2009 14:33 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use…

abstract The fights are part of the context of physical education in school and are present in human life from its beginning, thus, Capoeira, a brazilian fight feature assumes key role in student education. This study aims to present Capoeira as a tool of emancipation of the individual being and can meet their needs in various ways, whether physical, disciplinary, cultural and cognitive. The purpose of the study, descriptive in nature, aims, through literature review, noting the importance of

for a midlife crisis in great apes consistent with the U-shape in human well-being Alexander Weissa,b,1, James E. Kingc, Miho Inoue-Murayamad, Tetsuro Matsuzawae, and Andrew J. Oswaldf,g a Scottish Primate Research Group, bDepartment of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, United Kingdom; cDepartment of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; dWildlife Research Center of Kyoto University, Sakyo,…

MOST OF US THINK OF Lou Gerstner and the tumaround of IBM, we see a great business story. A less-told but integral part of that success is a people story-one that has dramatically altered the composition of an already diverse corporation and created millions of dollars in new business. By the time Gerstner took the helm in 1993, IBM already had a long history of progressive management when it came to civil rights and equal employment. Indeed, few of the company's executives would…