Propositions for amending the Constitution of the United States, /

"Ammendments to the Constitution of the United States, submitted for consideration by Mr. Hillhouse. April 12, 1808. Printed by roder of the Senate": 7 p. at end.

Desegregation : some propositions and research suggestions /

Includes bibliographical references.

Remarks, propositions and calculations, relative to a rail-road and locomotive engines to be used upon the same, from Baltimore to the Ohio River /

Lee, J. Baltimore and Ohio RR Co,

Ballot measure report : Proposed amendments to Constitution, propositions, and proposed laws to be submitted to the electors of the State of California at the General Election, Tuesday, November 8, 1960.

"This report was prepared with the assistance of a grant from The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation".

Positioning terrorism in management and marketing: Research propositions

Terrorism poses both direct and indirect threats to the operations of the firm. It represents a market imperfection that increases transaction costs and creates barriers to the free flow of goods, affecting potential gains that would occur in the presence of unhindered exchange. Terrorism reflects the risk or actual encounter of violent acts, whose goal is to engender fear, coercion, or intimidation. We investigate terrorism and its association with marketing strategy and operations. Key concepts on terrorism are reviewed and a collection of propositions is offered. We highlight the pivotal roles of sourcing, production, distribution, pricing, communications, and general business strategy as functions influenced by, or capable of influencing, terrorism. Lastly, we offer managerial implications, as well as directions and guidelines for future research.

Adopting the experiential values propositions as e-atmospherics:an illustration through the case of e-banking

For a couple of years now, the Columbia Business School and in particular Bernd Schmitt have been advocating for more work to be done regarding 'experiential marketing'. Taking the case of e-atmospherics in Turkish e-banking practices, we revisit the theory of strategic experiential modules which are sense, feel, think, act and relate. Two major ebanking experience providers' types of communication, product design, retail presence and epresence have been unpacked. These are Garanti Bank, who's known with its many award winning web site, and Akbank who has a standard web site. The Turkish banking at the border of the EU and under global influences has expended and liberalized dramatically over the last decade making the most of new technologies, hence offering an interesting perspective in a non-homogenous society where the technological divide remains important. First a qualitative content analysis of both bank's homepages is conducted. This is followed by 43 online surveys, where 18 is Garanti Bank consumer, 19 is Akbank consumer and 6 is both Garanti and Akbank consumer, to explore how e-atmospherics experiential features currently recognized by users. Our findings indicate that experiential marketing in e-banking can be expected to be the key to greater online migration of consumers and differentiation among the players. Yet, while the first two steps sense and feel are explicitly developed by both players, act and relate still remain poor. Moreover, 'think' is discovered to be a key moderator where both banks seem to lack clear strategy.

Schematic structure and the modulation of propositions in economics forecasting text

Working within the framework of the branch of Linguistics known as discourse analysis, and more specifically within the current approach of genre analysis, this thesis presents an analysis of the English of economic forecasting. The language of economic forecasting is highly specialised and follows certain conventions of structure and style. This research project identifies these characteristics and explains them in terms of their communicative function. The work is based on a corpus of texts published in economic reports and surveys by major corporate bodies. These documents are targeted at an international expert readership familiar with this genre. The data is analysed at two broad levels: firstly, the macro-level of text structure which is described in terms of schema-theory, a currently influential model of analysis, and, secondly, the micro-level of authors' strategies for modulating the predictions which form the key move in the forecasting schema. The thesis aims to contribute to the newly developing field of genre analysis in a number of ways: firstly, by a coverage of a hitherto neglected but intrinsically interesting and important genre (Economic Forecasting); secondly, by testing the applicability of existing models of analysis at the level of schematic structure and proposing a genre-specific model; thirdly by offering insights into the nature of modulation of propositions which is often broadly classified as `hedging' or `modality', and which has been recently described as lq`an area for prolonged fieldwork'. This phenomenon is shown to be a key feature of this particular genre. It is suggested that this thesis, in addition to its contribution to the theory of genre analysis, provides a useful basis for work by teachers of English for Economics, an important area of English for Specific Purposes.

Control of electronic channel affiliates:an exploratory study and research propositions

Electronic channel affiliates are important online intermediaries between customers and host retailers. However, no work has studied how online retailers control online intermediaries. By conducting an exploratory content analysis of 85 online contracts between online retailers and their online intermediaries, and categorizing the governing mechanisms used, insights into the unique aspects of the control of online intermediaries are presented. Findings regarding incentives, monitoring, and enforcement are presented. Additionally, testable research propositions are presented to guide further theory development, drawing on contract theory, resource dependence theory and agency theory. Managerial implications are discussed. © 2012 Elsevier Inc.

Profils mentaux de bons et de mauvais compreneurs de 6e année primaire suite à la lecture de textes didactiques

Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Profils mentaux de bons et de mauvais compreneurs de 6e année primaire suite à la lecture de textes didactiques

Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Exploring value propositions and service innovation : a service-dominant logic study

This paper presents an eight-firm study, conducted from the service-dominant logic perspective, which makes a contribution regarding knowledge of the anatomy of value propositions and service innovation. The paper suggests that value propositions are configurations of several different practices and resources. The paper finds that ten common practices, organized in three main aggregates, constitute and fulfill value propositions: i.e. provision practices, representational practices, and management and organizational practices. Moreover, the paper suggests that service innovation can be equated with the creation of new value propositions by means of developing existing or creating new practices and/or resources, or by means of integrating practices and resources in new ways. It identifies four types of service innovation (adaptation, resource-based innovation, practice-based innovation, and combinative innovation) and three types of service innovation processes (practice-based, resource-based, and combinative). The key managerial insight provided by the paper is that service innovation must be conducted and value propositions must be evaluated from the perspective of the customers’ value creation, the service that the customer experiences. Successful service innovation is not only contingent on having the right resources, established methods and practices for integrating these resources into attractive value propositions are also needed.

L’éducation religieuse en Angleterre : analyse de documents didactiques

Au cours de la première moitié des années soixante-dix, on a vu naître dans quelques pays occidentaux un certain nombre d'initiatives en vue d'introduire dans le milieu scolaire une perspective non confessionnelle en éducation religieuse. Cette éducation religieuse non confessionnelle ou sécularisée véhicule dès lors des objectifs qui ne se définissent plus en fonction de la mission évangélisatrice des églises chrétiennes, mais en fonction des objectifs éducationnels de l'école. L'Angleterre est l'un des seuls pays où ces initiatives de sécularisation ont connu un succès relatif; tout au moins, il n'y a pas eu de sérieux ralentissements dans leur application à la fin des années soixante-dix et au début des années quatre-vingt, comme cela a pu être constaté ailleurs, par exemple, au Canada et aux États-Unis. D'où l'intérêt de se pencher plus particulièrement sur les caractéristiques de l'éducation religieuse en Angleterre. En Angleterre même, on a beaucoup discuté des caractéristiques originales, des objectifs, de la valeur éducative de cette nouvelle forme d'enseignement religieux et de sa spécificité face à l'enseignement religieux confessionnel. Au Québec, le Pr Fernand Ouellet a traité de ces questions de façon assez élaborée dans un récent ouvrage qui porte également sur l'éducation religieuse au Canada et aux États-Unis. Dans la partie de l'ouvrage consacrée à l'éducation religieuse en Angleterre, le Pr Ouellet aborde, outre le contexte institutionnel et légal dans lequel s'insère cette éducation religieuse, les différents éléments et problèmes discutés par nombre d'intervenants et spécialistes dans le domaine; les objectifs de l'éducation religieuse; le pourquoi de ce type d'éducation dans les écoles, c'est-à-dire les différents arguments pouvant justifier la présence de l'éducation religieuse à l'école; les attitudes des élèves face à l'étude des religions; la formation des professeurs et le matériel didactique. [...]