... . Customers in this segment require a narrower assortment of paper types, but a wide assortment of paper-related products. The products developed for the second segment, which is the result of a diversification strategy during the 1970s, is today generating the major part of Alpha's revenues. One main difference between the two segments is that Alpha's share of the total purchasing amount is ... a challenge for future research and business practice. Moreover, although a positive and significant link was found between customer satisfaction and repurchase intentions, the former variable ex...

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... dogma of separate creations." Gould concluded that "...Darwin acknowledged the provisional nature of natural selection while affirming the fact of evolution." 1 Species change; there is variation within one kind of animal. There is a predictable range of genetic variation in a species, as well as an expected rate of random mutations. Creationists readily admit that a "kind" (an ambiguous, non-scientific term) can develop ... -like species, a reptilian-like species can evolve into a mammalian-like species, and an ape-like species can evolve into the modern human species. The process (sim...

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... of the results. In correlation, the inability to create exact environments for the natural and human sciences leads to a variability between results. This variation may be due to researcher error or instrumental error or environmental error. While some variation is okay because it is reflective of environmental error, some different results may aid in identifying insufficient methodology. I can say from experience that ... ...

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... create new jobs in the region, entrepreneurs provide in-depth information (evaluation, market analysis, business plan, integration of capital and related businesses, the protection of industrial property) assist in the diversification of regional potentials in the economic category, through foreign partners and international interconnecting networks of classified technological entrepreneurship and the entire region in the global market (Lesjak, 2001, p. 68). Environment ... ...

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... time series events from both engineering and financial domains [1-4]. Previous work in the area of time series predictability has been done by Kaboudan [8, 9]. He developed a method using Genetic Programming (GP) to evolve the fittest regression model that best replicates a time series, and applied this method to predict stock prices. He also developed a metric that quantifies ... techniques a key component of the TSDM framework and developing distributed implementations of the TSDM methods. Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration are numerous. The first opportunity builds on ...

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... suddenly to genetics after reading Erwin Schrodinger's book, "What is Life?" James' curiosity for the meaning of life made him persistent to find the molecule that was responsible for transmitting genetic information. As his research progressed, he became fascinated with the idea that, if the molecule and the structure of DNA were fully understood, then one would be able to evaluate ... how genetic information is passed between people and cells. In 1962, James Watson and two other scientists won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the double helix structure of ... ...

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... that the vast majority of us lose those connections as we develop and grow (Carpenter, 2001). Another hypothesis as to how synesthesia came to exist is that it is simply genetic. Psychologist Peter Grossenbacher, PhD said, "We don't need to posit some abnormal architecture of connections in order to account for synesthesia." Instead, he suggests that in the brains of synesthetes ... single-sense areas are not properly repressed (Carpenter, 2001). In synesthetes' brains, that repression is prevented somehow, allowing the different senses to become scrambled. "The possibility that synesth...

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... the association of co-parents' parenting behavior with youth psychosocial functioning. This is the first study which examined in detail the association between the discrete co-parent parenting behaviors and variation in youth functioning. Summary The authors have used Equal-Status Sequential Multi-type Mixed Method design (both quantitative and qualitative) to study the association between youth adjustment outcomes (maladjustment leading ... ...

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... the recycling treatment. Furthermore, as our brief venture in this direction showed, it is not at all clear that such contrived texts foster the expected learning results (see the Chapter 5). A variation on this approach is to supplement a text (instead of altering it) to increase numbers of encounters with selected items. For instance, Paribakht and Wesche (1997, 1999) tested the effects of ... ...

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... they are a good way to determine whether or not a form of treatment is effective. Alternative medical practices are often based greater on belief than scientific knowledge. Therefore, there is a large variation in what is considered to be the effectiveness of alternative medical practices, since they cannot always be rejected based on scientific evidence. RCTs are important in helping to conclude if ... ...

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... inherent drive to evolve upwards along a linear path, with the culmination of evolution naturally falling upon mankind. This was a good start because it included the basic ideas and accounted for variation and mutation, but fell short because the upward movement would naturally leave gaps in the chain at the bottom, therefore making the theory dependant on the idea of spontaneous generation ... ...

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... advantage of this overarching public sentiment. Thus, from many older historical trends of reform, the concrete division of the Catholic Church emerged. The Reformation, therefore, was as much a continuation as a variation on a familiar historical melody; it was simply the enduring spirit of reform carried out to drastic new levels. The second major theory that historians claim as central to defining early ... ...

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... other hand Einstein says: "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."" I have to agree with Einstein since I believe that there are certain things that could be explained better by science and others that could be better explained by ... ...

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... find discoveries with commercial applicability. In fact, government and university labs have been fertile grounds for many technological breakthroughs, including hybrid seed corn, nuclear energy, satellite communications, the computer "mouse," genetic engineering, and the Internet. Entire new high-tech industries- computers and biotechnology, for example-have sprung up close to major research universities and government laboratories. And nations with strong scientific ... ...

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