Competition and Innovation: A Comparative Study of Telecommunications and Insurance (WIP)

Introduction The project is based on the telecommunications industry as an example of how a price war over many years quietly suffocated market. The starting point lies first in the \”explanation\” of the telecommunications industry\’s history, which is based in both the markets development and government regulatory areas of the market. The telecom industry is … Read more

Islam and Germany – misconceptions and perception

• Islam’s presence in Germany, misconception and perception – Is fear of Muslims justified? – analysis of perception with appropriate explanation. •  Islam in the German Media – Is the German Media negatively biased against Islam/Muslims? – a look at positive and negative aspects of German media articles. Chapter I: Introduction The world has changed … Read more

Strategic workforce planning process

How could a strategic workforce planning process for aging ground technical staff in the international Airline business with the goal of creating a new staffing process look like, by using the example of Austrian Airlines? In the current world, many companies cope with different types of challenges. Considering how globalization has changed and connected the … Read more

Processions (religion)

Chapter One MEANING OF PROCESSION INTRODUCTION Religion is one of the binding elements of humanity. Religion unites the people to live morally and socially. In other sense, we can say that it is an institution. Every religion has its own liturgical elements, worship, rituals etc. Among the various religions, Christianity is one of the greatest … Read more

The Prevalence of Rh Phenotypes and the Distribution of the Major Rhesus antigens…

The Prevalence of Rh Phenotypes and the Distribution of the Major Rhesus antigens among Saudi Blood Donors in Aseer Region The Rh system is the most significance blood group system after ABO in the field of transfusion medicine, and the primary cause of the hemolytic disease of fetal and newborns. In addition, Rh antibodies are … Read more

Bio-Butanol Production Potential in the UK from Marine Macro-Algae

1. Introduction 1.1 Current situation on fossil fuels and biofuels In the past decade, the world has been facing critical environmental issues about fossil fuels exhaustion, carbon dioxide emission and also climate changes. Since people realise that fossil fuels will not last longer, then biofuels were introduced into the market. Presently, biofuel is one of … Read more

ROLE OF FDG PET-CT IN COMPARISON WITH ENHANCED CT

ROLE OF FDG PET-CT IN COMPARISON WITH ENHANCED CT IN DETECTION OF POST THERAPEUTIC COLORECTAL CANCER RECURRENCE AND METASTASIS       INTRODUCTION   INTRODUCTION Colorectal cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. It accounts for over 9% of all cancer incidence. It is the third most common cancer worldwide … Read more

Improving athletic performance

Abstract Endurance exercise and high altitude are two common ways to improve the exercise performance by adaptations in skeletal muscular cells. The hypothesis that the adaption of muscle metabolism due to exercise training is caused by cellular hypoxia in the muscle tissue will be discussed by comparing the effects of high altitude and exercise training … Read more

Leadership traits

1 Introduction Prominent leaders such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are often portrayed in the media as exceptional and as possessing personality traits such as charisma, innovativeness or empathy that enable them to be successful. However, there is a significant difference between those at the top of billion-dollar companies and the individuals at the … Read more

Marketing – national branding

Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction Nation branding has gained vital attention of academicians in recent times mainly because of enhanced thrust upon the globalization (Kaneva and Popescu, 2011). The concept of country’s image on product is prevalent for many decades (Papadopoulos and Heslop, 2002; Shimp, et al, 1993) but nation branding is a relatively new … Read more

PARAMETRIC MEASURE OF EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY IN KENYA

  ABSTRACT Real exchange rate has proven to be an important factor in economy of a country therefore its volatility information is of importance to investors, policy makers, government and also other researchers. Exchange rates volatility has increase a lot of doubts in many economic sectors (industrial and agricultural) in Kenya. This study modelled KSH/USD … Read more

Universal jurisdiction

This article analyzes and evaluates the principle of universal jurisdiction and the difficulties in its implementation. There is still a number of obstacles legal and non legal to proper and better implementation even if this principle is well known. About the principles of universal jurisdiction can something original or new be discovered or asserted? Universal … Read more

The CJEU case-law on horizontal direct effect

The CJEU case-law on horizontal direct effect of directives arguably lacks consistency in regards to the application of the general principle. The principle of direct effect was established in Van Gend en Loos v. Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen. Although there is no set definition of direct effect, a broader definition was provided in Van Gend … Read more

Requirements for a valid trust

A trust involves both a legal and an equitable title. Lord Langdale identified the three requirements required to validly create an express trust in Knight v Knight . This essay focuses on how ‘flexible’ the certainty of subject matter should be, with regards to the problem that arises when it is defined as a portion … Read more