Audit report on the City of Grimes, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Grimes, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of LeClaire, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of LeClaire, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Carter Lake, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Carter Lake, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Wilton, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Wilton, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Nevada, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Nevada, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Logistics-production, logistics-marketing and external integration: Their impact on performance

Highly competitive environments are leading companies to implement SupplyChain Management (SCM) to improve performance and gain a competitiveadvantage. SCM involves integration, co-ordination and collaborationacross organisations and throughout the supply chain. It means that SCMrequires internal (intraorganisational) and external (interorganisational)integration. This paper examines the Logistics-Production and Logistics-Marketing interfaces and their relation with the external integrationprocess. The study also investigates the causal impact of these internaland external relationships on the company s logistical service performance.To analyse this, an empirical study was conducted in the Spanish Fast MovingConsumer Goods (FMCG) sector.

Records of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) (Diptera, Culicidae) in artificial containers in Ribeirão Preto City, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Thirty immatures of Anopheles darlingi Root, Anopheles argyritarsis Robineau-Desvoidy and Anopheles rondoni (Neiva & Pinto) (were found in an artificial lagoon situated near Pardo River, in Ribeirão Preto City, State of São Paulo, Brazil. The presence of immatures of Anopheles darlingi breeding in a lagoon is suggestive of the potential capacity of that species to adapt and occupy new habitats and to invade urban areas along the species distribution range and also disperse to new localities.

Audit report on the City of Jesup, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Jesup, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Johnston, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Johnston, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Knoxville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Knoxville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Special investigation of the City of Rathbun for the period July 1, 2003 through November 30, 2007

Special investigation of the City of Rathbun for the period July 1, 2003 through November 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Sabula, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

Audit report on the City of Sabula, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2006

The effects of uncertainty avoidance on brand performance: Marketing creativity, product innovation and the brand duration

This paper investigates the link between brand performance and cultural primes in high-risk,innovation-based sectors. In theory section, we propose that the level of cultural uncertaintyavoidance embedded in a firm determine its marketing creativity by increasing the complexityand the broadness of a brand. It determines also the rate of firm product innovations.Marketing creativity and product innovation influence finally the firm marketingperformance. Empirically, we study trademarked promotion in the Software Security Industry(SSI). Our sample consists of 87 firms that are active in SSI from 11 countries in the period1993-2000. We use the data coming from SSI-related trademarks registered by these firms,ending up with 2,911 SSI-related trademarks and a panel of 18,213 observations. We estimatea two stage model in which first we predict the complexity and the broadness of a trademarkas a measure of marketing creativity and the rate of product innovations. Among severalcontrol variables, our variable of theoretical interest is the Hofstede s uncertainty avoidancecultural index. Then, we estimate the trademark duration with a hazard model using thepredicted complexity and broadness as well as the rate of product innovations, along with thesame control variables. Our evidence confirms that the cultural avoidance affects the durationof the trademarks through the firm marketing creativity and product innovation.

Audit report on the City of Wapello, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007

Audit report on the City of Wapello, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2007