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Partnership (Australia) Typically, a limited partner would make a contribution to the capital or assets of the partnership. An interpretation of s.60(2) suggests that the limited partner's liability would not exceed the contribution made or promised. Other key points to note are that: Dissolution of a partnership occur...
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Limited Partnerships in England and Wales In the United Kingdom, a limited partnership consists of: Limited partners may not: If they do, they become liable for all the debts and obligations of the firm up to the amount drawn out or received back or incurred while taking part in the management, as the case may be. Gene...
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Limited Partnerships in England and Wales In addition, the names of limited partnerships are controlled by the Business Names Act 1985. The general partners are responsible for the delivery of Forms LP5 and LP6 whether or not the preparation of the documents was delegated to accountants or to anyone else. The Limited P...
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Corporate structure A normal corporate structure consists of various departments that contribute to the company's overall mission and goals. Common departments include Marketing, Finance, Operations management, Human Resource, and IT. These five divisions represent the major departments within a publicly traded company...
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Corporate structure This model is commonly used in single-program organizations. It is basically the standard structure mentioned earlier, which is organized around departments. This structure is most appropriate for all small organizations. Divisional structures are also called "cstructures"" because they are based on...
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Corporate structure Horizontal or "flat" companies, however, have almost no middle-managers, which implies that high-level managers get involved in daily tasks and interact with customers and front-line personnel. A centralized organizational structure describes how a company's direction and decisions are set by one in...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income Taxpayers in the United States may have tax consequences when debt is cancelled. This is commonly known as COD (Cancellation of Debt) Income. According to the Internal Revenue Code, the discharge of indebtedness must be included in a taxpayer's gross income. There are exceptions to thi...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income Likewise, the lender's loss of wealth by lending out that money is offset by the borrower's promise to pay back the entire amount. Ignoring interest, both sides will be in exactly the same position when the loan is repaid as they were in before the loan was even made. When debt is canc...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income In "Commissioner v. Rail Joint Co.", a corporation issued its own bonds as a dividend to its shareholders. When the bonds declined in value, Rail Joint repurchased them for less than their face amount. Ordinarily, retiring bonds for less than the issue price would result in taxable can...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income Generally, while the net gain or loss is the same regardless of the classification of the debt (it will always be the difference between the basis of the burdened property and the amount of the debt), there are potentially huge tax differences. When property burdened by nonrecourse deb...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income (This intuitively makes sense because with recourse debt, any cancellation of the outstanding balance of the debt, after it has been satisfied to the extent of the FMV of the property given up, really is a termination of personal liability to pay that amount, unlike in a situation wher...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income However, as the court decided in "Zarin", the Disputed Debt Doctrine can also apply if the debt is not legally enforceable. Not all COD income must be included in gross income. There are several exceptions: In addition, the Code recognizes a Purchase Price Adjustment exception. In orde...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income A Title 11 case is one that falls under Title 11 of the United States Code (relating to bankruptcy). A taxpayer is insolvent when their total liabilities exceed the fair market value of assets. For example, if a taxpayer has $100,000 in liabilities, but only $50,000 in assets, they are...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income A qualified real property business indebtedness is indebtedness which However, this exclusion will only reduce the basis of the depreciable real property of the taxpayer. Sometimes a price agreement will be reached between buyer and seller, but for some reason both agree to reduce that...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income In the case of excluding COD income from gross income, that policy prevents creating a new tax burden on insolvent and bankrupt taxpayers, who are likely in a situation where they financially need that benefit, and who would likely be difficult or impossible to collect from. However, i...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income Each shareholder must treat any loss or deduction that exceeds their stock and debt basis as a suspended (disallowed) loss, which carries forward indefinitely until applied toward future earned income pass through by the S Corporation. So that the shareholders of an S Corporation do no...
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Cancellation of Debt (COD) Income If a separate bankruptcy estate was created, the trustee must reduce the bankruptcy estate's tax attributes by the cancelled debt. The taxpayer then "inherits" the ending tax attributes of the bankruptcy estate.
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B. G. Henry Brian Glynn Henry (1926–2003) was a powerful figure in TV and newspaper advertising in the UK in the 1950 and 1960s. Brian Glynn Henry was born in February 1926 in Liverpool and was educated at Stowe School under JF Roxburgh from September 1940 to April 1944 where he obtained School and Higher Certificates,...
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B. G. Henry He wrote to the Secretary of the Cambridge University Appointments Board in May 1949: “It seems strange that I should have been looking for almost any job in which selling was not required and then should have found this one so much to my liking. In actual fact, what I am doing now is selling, and, moreover...
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B. G. Henry By 1960 over 8 million homes had televisions and advertising on TV had become the most powerful media in the UK with over £1 million spent on advertising new products each week. Brian Henry was one of the most powerful men in the industry. On 21 June 1961, after a year making a record breaking profit of £8,...
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B. G. Henry In 1984 Brian Henry completed work on his book "British Television Advertising: The First 30 Years", which has since become a popular reference for modern media historians. Brian Henry was a Fellow of The Institute of Marketing, The Chairman of The Oxford Playhouse, Trustee of the Bournemough Symphony Orche...
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Partnership (China) A partnership in the People's Republic of China is a business entity governed by the Partnership Enterprise Law passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to authorize and govern partnership enterprises. A partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with ...
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Partnership (China) A general partnership (普通合伙) may be formed by general partners who bear unlimited joint and several liability for the debts of the partnership. the general partners share unlimited liabilities for the debt of the partnership. A limited partnership (有限合伙) is formed by a combination of "general partne...
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Partnership (China) If the partnership is a general partnership then the partners bear joint and several liability. A limited partner may not conclude partnership operations nor may such a partner represent the partnership to 3rd parties. A partner may contribute capital to the partnership to garner a share of the part...
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VSM Group AB (Viking Sewing Machines), previously named Husqvarna Sewing Machines is a company based in Huskvarna, Sweden. Founded in 1872, the company is best known for "smart" (computerized) sewing machines and sergers under the brands "Husqvarna Viking" and "Pfaff". The VSM brand produces several lines of sewing mac...
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Medicon Valley Alliance (or MVA for short) is the Danish-Swedish cluster organisation representing human life sciences in the cross-border region of Medicon Valley. As a non-profit member organisation, (MVA) carries out initiatives on behalf of the local life science community in order to create new research and busine...
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Medicon Valley Alliance The Life Science Ambassador Program provides life science companies and research institutions a unique opportunity to find partners, collaborators, investors, and sponsors around the world. There are currently +260 MVA-members including numerous big and small private biotech companies and public...
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Depreciation recapture (United States) Depreciation recapture is the USA Internal Revenue Service (IRS) procedure for collecting income tax on a gain realized by a taxpayer when the taxpayer disposes of an asset that had previously provided an offset to ordinary income for the taxpayer through depreciation. In other wo...
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Depreciation recapture (United States) When a taxpayer purchases an asset, the original basis is the purchase price, or cost, of the asset. Different factors, including tax deductions for depreciation, can lead to an adjusted or recomputed basis for the asset. ("See" IRC § 1016 and IRC § 1245(a)(2)(A)). An adjusted bas...
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Depreciation recapture (United States) When a taxpayer purchases a tax-deductible asset for use over several years, the taxpayer can deduct a percentage of the asset's value from his or her yearly taxable income over the life of the asset. ("See" IRC § 167, 168 and the IRS tables of class lives and recovery periods). T...
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Depreciation recapture (United States) The taxpayer took $400 worth of depreciation deductions from his ordinary income over the course of four years. At the end of those four years, the taxpayer's adjusted basis in the asset had changed to $600. If the taxpayer then sells the asset for $700, then they would realize a ...
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Depreciation recapture (United States) The portion of Accumulated Depreciation which corresponds to straight line depreciation is called "Unrecaptured Section 1250 Gain" (though sometimes informally called "Unrecaptured Depreciation", and it is taxed at a maximum rate of 25% (also to the extent of any gain realized). T...
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Depreciation recapture (United States) However, under IRC § 1(h)(1)(D), real property that has experienced a gain after providing a taxpayer with a depreciation deduction is subject to a 25% tax rate--10% higher than the usual rate for a capital gain. This higher tax rate serves as a rough surrogate for depreciation re...
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Honesty box An honesty box is a method of charging for a service such as admission or car parking, or for a product such as home-grown produce and flowers, which relies upon each visitor paying at a box using the honor system. Tickets are not issued and such sites are usually unattended. When used in camping sites and ...
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LOHAS Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) is a demographic defining a particular market segment related to sustainable living, "green" ecological initiatives, and generally composed of a relatively upscale and well-educated population segment. The author Paul H. Ray, who coined the term "Cultural Creatives"...
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Trueblood Committee The was a study group formed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in 1972 to develop the Objective of Financial Statements. The committee's goal was to help accountants create financial statements that provided external users with sufficient information to make educated ...
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Amount realized Amount realized, in US federal income tax law, is defined by section 1001(b) of Internal Revenue Code. It is one of two variables in the formula used to compute gains and losses to determine gross income for income tax purposes. The excess of the amount realized over the adjusted basis is the amount of ...
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Amount realized A good illustration for determining realization for income tax purposes is stock. For example, at the beginning of the taxable year, Sally buys stock in XYZ Corp. for $10 per share. By the end of the taxable year, Sally's stock in XYZ Corp. is worth $20 a share. Would Sally have to report the appreciati...
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Amount realized "The fair market value of the package of participation interests exchanged by each side was approximately $4.5 million." (Essentially, CSA and the four savings and loans associations exchanged $4.5 million worth of mortgage interests.) The Supreme Court held that a realization event under § 1001 had occ...
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Amount realized To describe realization as a matter of timing should, nonetheless, not be seen as a dismissive comment. In taxes, as in life, timing can be everything..."
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Oracle WebCenter is Oracle's portfolio of user engagement software products built on top of the JSF-based Oracle Application Development Framework. There are three main products that make up the WebCenter portfolio and they can be purchased together as a suite or individually: Each of these products are in separate but...
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Oracle WebCenter For the development community and advanced business users, WebCenter provides a development environment that includes WebCenter Framework and WebCenter Services along with an out-of-the-box application for team collaboration and enterprise social networking. According to Oracle, this is the strategic p...
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Oracle WebCenter WebCenter Services includes Oracle ADF user interface components (called Taskflows) that can be embedded directly into ADF applications. In addition, APIs can be utilized to create custom UIs and to integrate some of these services into non-ADF applications. Finally, WebCenter Spaces is a closed source...
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Oracle WebCenter Personal Productivity Services - Focuses on the requirements of an individual, rather than a group. WebCenter Framework supports the following standards: On 22 February 2012 Oracle released WebCenter 11g Release 1 Patch Set 5. It includes many bug fixes in addition to several new enhancements. This pat...
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Global march against child labor The global march against child labour came about in 1998, following the significant response concerning the desire to end child labor. It was a grassroot movement that motivated many individuals and organizations to come together and fight against child labor and not an annual march. Th...
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Global march against child labor For those students that were not able to physically participate in the march, they were able to participate in an Online March sponsored by the Massachusetts-based Kids Campaign to “Build a School for Iqbal”. Over 3,000 classrooms with students published messages on the Global March web...
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Global march against child labor Out of all of those people who participated in the march, only the select few known as the core marchers moved on to Geneva, Switzerland where the ILO were meeting for a possible revision of a new international convention on the most intolerable forms of child labor (Convention no. 182)...
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Global march against child labor Kailash Satyarthi is largely responsible for taking the initiative of organizing this march. He had a vision of eliminating child labor everywhere and allowing education to become highly accessible for children. Kailash Satyarthi was the moving force in shifting our attention to child l...
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Global march against child labor The selections for the Congress were made through democratic consultation processes (nominated by other children) at the national and local levels. Most of the representatives were former child laborers that got assistance from education and vocational training in local civic organizati...
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Global march against child labor Political candidates were invited in hopes of convincing them to incorporate child labor issue in their platforms. The candidates were introduced to the issue of child labor and conversed with the children. After the traditional signing of the RA 9231 all participants joined hands in gi...
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Intention economy The intention economy is an approach to viewing markets and economies focusing on buyers as a scarce commodity. The consumers' intent to buy drives the production of goods to meet their specific needs. It is also the title of Doc Searls book: "" published in May, 2012. Doc Searls coined the term in an...
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Intention economy A computer manufacturer can be geared for assembling a computer just for me, to my specifications. A travel agency can construct a travel plan particularly for me." Searls gives an example of intention economy scenario: "A car rental customer should be able to say to the car rental market, 'I'll be sk...
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Corporate university A corporate university is any educational entity that is a strategic tool designed to assist its parent organization in achieving its goals by conducting activities that foster individual and organizational learning and knowledge. Corporate universities (CU) are a growing trend in corporations. In ...
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Corporate university These are to: CUs offer valuable training and education to employees, but they also help organizations retain and promote key employees. Although a CU may sound attractive, there is a lot of work that goes into the planning and implementation of such a project. J.P. Morgan and Co. is an example of ...
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Corporate university Indeed, corporate universities tend to be cost centers with dedicated training facilities servicing an often global workforce through a dedicated curriculum. To manage this complexity, specific Enterprise resource planning systems have been developed for Corporate Universities, such as a Training m...
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Scott Bedbury Scott A. Bedbury (born October 3, 1957) is an American branding consultant. He is CEO of Brandstream, a branding firm, and co-founder and chairman of Upstream Research, an analytics startup. He was Nike's advertising director from 1987–1994, and Starbucks' chief marketing officer from 1995–1998. In 1980, ...
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Scott Bedbury Bedbury worked with former Nike and Starbucks insights director Jerome Conlon to create the "Third Place" positioning, which is described as, "not home (1st place) or work (2nd place) it's somewhere in between, a public hang out." Bedbury left Starbucks in 1998 and started his own branding consulting firm...
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Business Center (TV program) Business Center is a primetime a business news television program that was broadcast on CNBC Asia. It debuted in October 2000 to replace the Asian Edition of "Global Market Watch". The program took its name from CNBC United States' flagship evening show, "Business Center" and while it share...
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Mark Abrams (27 April 1906 – 25 September 1994) was a social scientist and market research expert who pioneered new techniques in statistical surveying and opinion polling. was born Max Alexander Abramowitz in Edmonton, North London in 1906 to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Lithuania and Latvia to the East End o...
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Mark Abrams Abrams's contacts with other social scientists working abroad during this period led to his work retrieving refugees from Nazi Europe (in 1939 helping Sigmund Freud make his final move to England). During World War Two Abrams was employed first in the BBC Overseas Research Department, then at the Psychologi...
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Mark Abrams Two of his most influential market research reports coined the phrase 'teenage consumer', drawing attention to the new significance of a rapidly expanding youth market for products and advertising. Abrams was one of the founding members of the Market Research Society and an advisor of the Consumers' Associa...
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Corporate services are activities that combine or consolidate certain enterprise-wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners. The term corporate services providers (CSPs) is also used. In...
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Corporate services A registered agent, also known as a resident agent or statutory agent, is a business or individual designated to receive service of process (SOP) when a business entity is a party in a legal action such as a lawsuit or summons. Some examples of related services include: such as finance and banking we...
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Corporate services Where local Corporate Service Providers (CSPs) offer bundled basic services to support tax residency tests such as "central management and control" type tests (typical in UK law) of a brass plate company, shell company or other special-purpose vehicle that has been set up in the jurisdiction. Usually...
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Shared services center A shared services center – a center for shared services in an organization – is the entity responsible for the execution and the handling of specific operational tasks, such as accounting, human resources, payroll, IT, legal, compliance, purchasing, security. The shared services center is often a...
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Shared services center Tasks not organized in shared service centers include corporate control, corporate legal, management development policy, IT-governance and other support typical for the statutory duties of the executive board. Shared services training: Many organizations in private and public sectors use a compet...
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Shared services center It is equally important that deploying a shared service center in a multi-unit organization makes the executive board accountable to the managers of the business unit for the performance of the shared service centers. This is because the use of the services of the shared service centers is mandat...
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Shared services center The superior solution for cost charge out is cost allocation based on the deployment of a corporate wide general ledger, which includes the recording of the internal use of resources for products and customers. This method eliminates the effect of double marginalization inherent to transfer price...
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Shared services center In sync with the shift in business firms from budget-driven strategy execution to strategy execution based on validated cause-effect diagrams, the specific performance of shared service centers needs to be defined through cause-effect relations, "linking the customer value proposition to back-off...
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California Office of Tourism The California Office of Tourism, popularly referred to as the Division of Tourism, is a statutory office within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. Created by the California Tourism Marketing Act, the office's primary responsibilities are oversight of the California Tourism Se...
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Brainsworking refers to a strategy in business development, based on the capacity to transfer knowledge from wide and diverse fields of experience, connect them and create entirely new and innovative results with the goal to foster sustainable business development (which also includes personal development, entrepreneur...
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Anonymous work Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the case of very old works, the author's name may simply be lost over the course of history and time. There are a number of reasons anonymous works arise. In the United States, anon...
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Online auction tools Online Auction tools is application software, that can either be deployed on a Web server or a Desktop. This software is used by customers of online auctions such as eBay. Online Auction companies have opened up their applications to third party application developers to extend the capabilities and...
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Online auction tools Auction Portal Software provides the auctioneers to develop their own auction system with the tools & service provided in the system. The system now adopts the Web 2.0 compatibility and able to match with the new data structures and technologies. This will help the entrepreneurs to step in the busi...
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Space trade is interplanetary or interstellar trade. Plans and ideas on how trade functions have been published by Futurists and pundits since the 1960s, though science fiction writers have been envisioning such trade for several more decades. Though the existence of interstellar trade is unknown, there are several the...
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Space trade Robert Zubrin, of Lockheed Martin Astronautics, in a paper on the economic viability of colonizing Mars, puts forward interplanetary trade as one way in which a hypothetical Martian colony could become rich, pointing out that the energy relationships between the orbits of Earth, Mars, and the asteroid belt ...
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Space trade That threatens the possibility of conducting business in a genuinely common currency and of enforcing debt agreements incurred by governments. Building high-capacity commercial spaceports may require connection with other modes of transportation, such as railroad or sea, which would make spaceports another ...
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Ripper (food) Ripper is the slang term for a type of hot dog. The name derives from a hot dog which is deep fried in oil, which sometimes causes the casing to burst, or "rip". "Rippers" were featured in the Travel Channel special "Hot Dog Heaven" and served as a major plot point in a first-season episode of the interne...
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Zeppelin University (German: "Zeppelin Universität", ZU) is a small and highly selective private research university on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen, Germany. It is named after the German general and airship constructor Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, whose foundation is the main financier of the univer...
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Zeppelin University From 2007 to 2008 (until the closure of the airport), had an additional location in the foyer of Tempelhof International Airport in Berlin, the so-called “Institute for the Art of Swimming on Air”. In 2018 the Fallenbrunnen campus was named one of four new exceptional constructions in Germany by the...
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Zeppelin University For the postgraduate programs, the tuition costs between 4.380 Euro and 7.612 Euro per semester. Students not in receipt of a scholarship are offered low-interest loans by "Sparkasse Bodensee." More than two thirds of students avail of such loans. Alternatively, students can apply for grants from "Z...
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Zeppelin University There are some 59 student groups and projects, such as groups affiliated with political parties ("LHG, Jusos, RCDS"), a debating club ("Soapbox"), the Club of International Politics ("CIP"), a Model United Nations group (MUN), which also organizes "LakeMun", entrepreneurial groups, a cultural club w...
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Zeppelin University is a small and exclusive private university and offers fewer programs than traditional universities in Germany. Because it is relatively new and small, it typically goes unranked in international comparisons. Nevertheless, "Handelsblatt Karriere" magazine, in edition 07/08 dated April 27, 2007, appe...
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Specific inhalation challenge The specific inhalation challenge (SIC) is a diagnosis tool to assess airway responsiveness to "sensitizing" substances as opposed to nonspecific stimuli such as pharmacological agents (i.e. histamine, methacholine), cold air and exercise. Subjects are exposed to a suspected occupational a...
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Specific inhalation challenge Alternately, the agent can be delivered using the recently developed closed-circuit technique. This test requires the patient to breathe aerosols of the suspected agent (asthmagen) through an oro-facial mask or mouth piece. These asthmagens are aerosolized using closed-circuit chambers, an...
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List of celebrity-branded perfumes Many celebrities have signed contracts with perfume houses to associate their name with a signature scent, as a self-promotion campaign. The scents are then marketed; the association with the celebrity's name usually being the selling point of the campaign.
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List of perfumes This is a list of some of the most widely known commercially available perfumes from the fourteenth century onwards, sortable by year, name, company, perfumer, and the authority for its notability.
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Land Line Magazine is an American nationally distributed business publication written for professional truckers operating trucks and semi-trailers in for-hire transportation of exempt and regulated commodities. It is the official publication of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. was established in 1975...
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Young worker safety and health Around the world, nearly 250 million children, about one in every six children, ages 5 through 17, are involved in child labor. Children can be found in almost any economic sector. However, at a global level, most of them work in agriculture (70%). Approximately 2.4 million adolescents ag...
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Young worker safety and health Although safety requirements and child labor laws prohibit or restrict teen employment in certain kinds of industries and occupations, young workers may yet face risks on the job because an employer or a young employee may not be aware of applicable laws and may not be aware that a hazard...
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Young worker safety and health According to the "Occupational injuries among young workers" report, most of these transportation accidents occurred either by truck or by tractor. Tractor accidents alone counted for 1/4 of the youth worker fatalities from 1993 to 2002. For workers 13 years old and younger, agricultural ...
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Young worker safety and health Additionally, Hispanic and Latino young workers made up 35% of the young worker fatalities in the construction sector. Hispanics make up 14.4% of the United States' general population. The second highest number of workplace fatalities between 1993 and 1997 among workers younger than age 1...
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Young worker safety and health In addition, certain types of machinery prohibited for use by young workers under current child labor laws are commonly found in retail establishments—including food slicers, paper balers, forklifts, dough and batter mixers, and bread cutting machines. Young workers may choose to operate ...
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Young worker safety and health The NIOSH funds the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety. A workplace may be fully compliant with OSHA regulations and yet may place young workers at risk of injury or illness if applicable federal and state child labor laws are not followed. One study e...
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Child care management software Child care management software, also referred to as child care administrative software or daycare accounting software, is business software designed specifically for use by child care centers, preschools, and similar child-oriented facilities. They can be either run from local computers o...
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Fédération nationale des transporteurs routiers The (FNTR: in English, National Federation of Road Transport) is a French employers' association representing transport companies. Created in 1933, its goal is to defend and promote its members, including the long-term health of firms in the French trucking sector. Offici...
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The Use of Knowledge in Society "The Use of Knowledge in Society" is a scholarly article written by economist Friedrich Hayek, first published in the September 1945 issue of "The American Economic Review". Written (along with "The Meaning of Competition") as a rebuttal to fellow economist Oskar R. Lange and his endorse...
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The Use of Knowledge in Society " The article also discusses the concepts of 'individual equilibrium' and of Hayek's notion of the divide between information which is useful and practicable versus that which is purely scientific or theoretical. "The Use of Knowledge in Society" was a sensation among economists, setting...
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ABC analysis In materials management, "ABC analysis" is an inventory categorization technique. divides an inventory into three categories—"A items" with very tight control and accurate records, "B items" with less tightly controlled and good records, and "C items" with the simplest controls possible and minimal records...
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ABC analysis <br> Examples of ABC class are Another recommended breakdown of ABC classes: Major ERP packages have built-in function of ABC analysis. User can execute based on user defined criteria and system apply ABC code to items (parts). Computed (calculated) delivers a precise mathematical calculation of the limits...
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