But the Pain Remains: A Response to Verpaelst

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On the individual optimality of economic integration

Ce document est une version mise-à-jour du document "On the individual optimality of economic integration", mars 2011 : http://hdl.handle.net/1866/4829

Activités pédagogiques en laboratoire favorisant l'intégration de connaissances conditionnelles

Rapport de stage présenté à la Faculté des sciences infirmières en vue de l’obtention du grade de Maître ès en sciences (M.Sc.) en sciences infirmières option formation en sciences infirmières

Internet Banking and Customer Acceptance: The Indian Scenario

Indian economy is witnessing stellar growth over the last few years. There have been rapid developments in infrastructural and business front during the growth period.Internet adoption among Indians has been increasing over the last one decade.Indian banks have also risen to the occasion by offering new channels of delivery to their customers.Internet banking is one such new channel which has become available to Indian customers.Customer acceptance for internet banking has been good so far.In this study the researcher tried to conduct a qualitative and quantitative investigation of internet banking customer acceptance among Indians. The researcher tried to identify important factors that affect customer's behavioral intention for internet banking .The researcher also proposes a research model which has extended from Technology Acceptance Model for predicting internet banking acceptance.The findings of the study would be useful for Indian banks in planning and upgrading their internet banking service.Banks could increase internet banking adoption by making their customer awareness about the usefulness of the service.It is seen that from the study that the variable perceived usefulness has a positive influence on internet banking use,therefore internet banking acceptance would increase when customers find it more usefulness.Banks should plan their marketing campaigns taking into consideration this factor.Proper marketing communications which would increase consumer awareness would result in better acceptance of internet banking.The variable perceived ease of use had a positive influence on internet banking use.That means customers would increase internet banking usage when they find it easier to use.Banks should therefore try to develop their internet banking site and interface easier to use.Banks could also consider providing practical training sessions for customers at their branches on usage of internet banking interface.

Dismissal in industrial employment

This is a study in labour law.. Dismissal of workmen in private lndustrial sector is the area of this study. Confined within the framework of the Industrial Disputes act 1947, the study is an analytical assessment of the decisions of the supreme Court of India. on dismissal in industrial employment. Few attempts were made in the past to analyse on identical lines the problems in this area. Hence what is| written in this thesis is ones own. Dismissal carries a stigma. the dismissed employee may find it difficult to get alternative employment especially in a land of severe unemployment. The need for law with built in safeguards against arbitrary dismissal cannot be overemphasized. From this perspective the study examines to what extent the industrial disputes act 1947 provides protection and how far the protection is adequate.

Studies on the production management in the seafood processing industry in Kerala

Kerala was the pioneer in modern seafood processing and exporting. But now the industry is Iacingalot of problems due to low productivity and deterioration in the quality of the products. only about 17% of the installed freezing capacity in sea food processing industry was reported to be utilised during 1979-80. The price of the export commodities its decided by the buyers based on international supply and demand pattern and based on the strength and weakness of dollar/yen. The only way to increase the profitability of the processors is to reduce the cost of production to the possible extent. The individual processors find it difficult to continue in this field due to low productivity and quality problems. The main objectives of the research are to find out how the production is being managed in the seafood processing(freezing) 17industry in Kerala and the reasons for low productivity and poor quality of the products. The study includes a detailed analysis of Location of the factories. Layout Purchase, production and storage patterns. Production planning and scheduling. Work Measurement of the processing of important products. Quality Control and Inspection. Management Information System

Marketing Management in Small Scale Industrial Units of Women Entrepreneurs in Kerala - A Study with Reference to Ernakulam District",

The women entrepreneurs, who set up business units with encouragement and institutional support, find it difficult to market their products. The marketing concept is yet to be grasped in its entirety. Women entrepreneurs especially find the marketing fiinctions difficult to carry out. Hence, this study is carried out to understand the marketing management in SSI units of women entrepreneurs

A New Model For Reliability Centered Maintenance In Petroleum Refineries

Refiners today operate their equipment for prolonged periods without shutdown. This is primarily due to the increased pressures of the market resulting in extended shutdown-to-shutdown intervals. This places extreme demands on the reliability of the plant equipment. The traditional methods of reliability assurance, like Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance and Condition Based Maintenance become inadequate in the face of such demands. The alternate approaches to reliability improvement, being adopted the world over are implementation of RCFA programs and Reliability Centered Maintenance. However refiners and process plants find it difficult to adopt this standardized methodology of RCM mainly due to the complexity and the large amount of analysis that needs to be done, resulting in a long drawn out implementation, requiring the services of a number of skilled people. These results in either an implementation restricted to only few equipment or alternately, one that is non-standard. The paper presents the current models in use, the core requirements of a standard RCM model, the alternatives to classical RCM, limitations in the existing model, classical RCM and available alternatives to RCM and will then go on to present an ‗Accelerated‘ approach to RCM implementation, that, while ensuring close conformance to the standard, does not place a large burden on the implementers

PowerPoint - basic skills training

This step-by-step guided worksheet and accompanying PowerPoint file introduce some key skills: - reorganising slides and bullets - creating speaker notes - printing slide handouts - including hyperlinks - adding images Simple stuff, but many find it useful - it uses Office 2004 (XP)

Thanatos Empresarial : muerte empresarial en el sector minero causas y consecuencias

Este trabajo hace parte del proyecto de investigación de Thanatos Empresarial, el propósito del tema fue seleccionado con el fin de encontrar un factor o patrón común existente entre las empresas del sector minero colombiano, teniendo en cuenta aquellas que hayan sido liquidadas, estén cursando un proceso de liquidación obligatoria o aun estén desarrollando actividades. El trabajo fue dividido en tres partes principales. En la primera expresamos la problemática que cursa el país por la mortalidad prematura de empresas en el país, problemática que en lugar de disminuir sigue aumentando, pese a que desde hace más de cuatro décadas se han venido creando y modernizando leyes que buscan fomentar la creación de empresas sostenibles y de la misma manera ayudar a aquellas que se vean en la necesidad de entrar en un proceso de liquidación. La segunda parte de la investigación esta nutrida de datos recogidos por entidades, principalmente del estado, durante los últimos 15 años, por medio de los cuales se puede ver detalladamente las cifras de empresas que han venido entrando a procesos de liquidación, concordato, reorganización etc. y como pese a las leyes, muy pocas son las que logran sobrevivir a este proceso. Los resultados obtenidos mediante el análisis de estos datos corroboran de manera precisa esta premisa, las leyes existentes no están siendo suficientes para frenar la mortalidad de empresas en lo que respecta al sector minero nacional. Las empresas no toman decisiones por si solas, al mando de ellas están diferentes personas que como capitanes de un barco dirigen el rumbo de la misma, dependiendo de qué decisiones se tomen desde la dirección y la gerencia la empresa lograra recorrer el camino del éxito o del fracaso. Lamentablemente muchos de los emprendedores colombianos deciden dirigir su compañía sin buscar ayuda de algunos estamentos que fueron creados para ayudarlos y evitar la crisis de las empresas, tales como las cámaras de comercio, y por lo mismo debido a su inexperiencia o al abuso de toma de decisiones arriesgadas terminan por echar por la borda la empresa y poniendo en dificultades a todos los que de una u otra forma interactuaban con esta. Esta investigación cobra importancia cuando aquellas personas que desean crear empresa, buscan informarse con anterioridad sobre los problemas pueden cursar cuando entren en el mercado, encontrando en este trabajo una herramienta valiosísima en la gestión de la crisis la cual hace las veces de guía para evitar repetir el patrón que causa la muerte prematura de muchas empresas en el sector minero y en general en la economía Colombiana.

University Logo in Vector and Raster (Smoother Version)

These are a range of logos created in the same way as Mr Patrick McSweeny http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/11157. The logo has been extracted from PDF documents and is smoother and accurate to the original logo design. Many thanks to to McSweeny for publishing the logo, in SVG originally, I struggled to find it anywhere else. Files are in Inkscape SVG, PDF and PNG. From Mr Patrick McSweeney: This is a selection of University of Southampton Logos in both vector (svg) and raster (png) formats. These are suitable for use on the web or in small documents and posters. You can open the SVG files using inkscape (http://inkscape.org/download/?lang=en) and edit them directly. The University logo should not be modified and attention should be paid to the branding guidelines found here: http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/10481 You must always leave a space the width of an capital O in Southampton on all 4 edges of the logo. The negative space makes it appear more prominently on the page.

1st Year Nursing and Midwifery UG Powerpoint

Overview of what they should be using and where to find it

Using the Table of Authorities functionality to make a Glossary in Word 2010

Word does not contain a Glossary creation tool, you may find it easiest to just create a the list yourself manually. If you want to use Word then the only tool that can be co-opted to help is the Table of Authorities and this document sets out step by step instructions on how to do this.

Using the Table of Authorities functionality to make a Glossary in Word 2011

Word does not contain a Glossary creation tool, you may find it easiest to just create a the list yourself manually. If you want to use Word then the only tool that can be co-opted to help is the Table of Authorities and this document sets out step by step instructions on how to do this in Word 2011.

Information provision in procurement auctions

We analyze the optimal provision of information in a procurement auction with horizontally differentiated goods. The buyer has private information about her preferred location on the product space and has access to a costless communication device. A seller who pays the entry cost may submit a bid comprising a location and a minimum price. We characterize the optimal information structure and show that the buyer prefers to attract only two bids. Further, additional sellers are inefficient since they reduce total and consumer surplus, gross of entry costs. We show that the buyer will not find it optimal to send public information to all sellers. On the other hand, she may profit from setting a minimum price and that a severe hold-up problem arises if she lacks commitment to set up the rules of the auction ex-ante.