... is Watching You" (http://jayalalithaiswatchingyou.tumblr.com/). This could be seen as evidence to the difference between the meanings encoded in the images (the benevolent, protective figure of Amma) and the meanings decoded by the receiver (the intrusive, dictatorial, authoritarian figure). Mediation is also an important aspect of identity formation as reflexive social entities, such as selves, ... single women (Bose 2011). These politicians have capitalized on the imagery of these gender roles, especially by taking up monikers such as didi (Mamata Banerjee), behenji (Mayawati) and amm...

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... another way of doing things". Fortunately for IBM, this opinion did not prevail. The management of IBM shifted from the senior Watson to T. J. Watson, Jr. around this time. Watson Jr. had returned from duty in World War II with great respect for the capability of electronics, and directed the IBM ... riding on the strength of the ENIAC experience, it has been said that it managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Under Watson Jr. IBM started expending its research and development activities. In fact, not only did it build effective development labs near its original operating sit...

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... these challenges. Bague (2003) state that change can provide an enormous opportunity to accelerate business growth, increase efficiency and innovation. 2.1 Labor relations According to Watson and D"Annunzio-Green (1996) an integral part of the cultural change efforts is an attempt to improve the general employee relations climate. Confrontational relationship would not ... important cultural values of a company are: passion for customers, trust and respect, achievement and contribution, teamwork, speed and ability, meaningful innovation, uncompromising integrity. According to Watson and ...

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... some particular action or event. Other conceptions of freedom have involved a more positive approach, such as those put forth by Harry Frankfurt or Gary Watson. These accounts are concerned less with free action and more with the notion of the free will. These notions rely upon the ability of an ... agent to identify himself with his will, as in Frankfurt's conception of this notion. Watson suggests that a free will is really the result of inner workings between what he calls the "evaluational system" and the "motivational system". The evaluational ... system, as Gary Watson defines it...

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... like Unilever, Wal-Mart, Sainsbury and Tesco and then main reason behind this phenomenon being the very positive and welcoming brand they have created for themselves. For instance, the Shakti amma project of Unilever Hindustan has not only increased the profitability of the company by penetrating the bottom of the pyramid market but it has also increased the living standards of ... ...

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... Ljunggren & Kolvereid (1996) A survey of 586 Norwegian entrepreneurs concluded that female entrepreneurs were much more motivated by autonomy, while men and women scored equally on challenge, risk, and profitability. Watson, Hogarth-Scott, & Wilson (1998) A study of 166 small-business entrepreneurs demonstrated the evidence of "push- and "pull- factors. "Push- factors were more characteristic for male business owners ... were more likely to be graduates from liberal arts colleges, and therefore were inclined to have less managerial and financial skills. Conflicting conclusions were draw...

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... Draw, Word Perfect). Corel's HR manager believes that programmers "enjoy having something tangible to show for their efforts" (Watson 13), and that programmers that work in other industries, such as telecommunications "don't have a consumer product they can show for their efforts ... " (Watson 13). However, we must realize Corel is a large software company in Canada with substantial financial resources and with a good reputation ... Telemanagement Ltd. that has a workforce of about 100 and has given up on "[attempts] to retain employees" (Watson 13) because trying to retain employees "a...

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... elements of the task that are initially beyond the learner's capacity, thus permitting him to concentrate upon and complete only those elements that are within his range of competence ". J. B Watson (1878-1958) was one of the first psychologists to argue for the impressive cognitive competence of infants. "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world ... merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations and the race of his ancestors"" (Watson, 1924, p. 104) When born our mind is 'tabula ...

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... believes that the benefits of not drinking, and the cost of doing so are negligible. However, this would not explain why drinking increases in the two studies cited (Larimer, 2000; Watson & Sobell, 1992), because if alcohol consumption is purely controlled by the perceived threats, costs and benefits, then alcohol consumption would rise continually until it was perceived as a threat, regardless of ... fraternity residents consumption levels rose more than those who resided elsewhere, and also those with the higher high school drinking rates were not significantly more represented in fra...

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... provided billions of people with access to information, and social media has played a critical role in the spread of the Islamic extremist movement. Violent Islamist extremists originally used password-protected forums, but they are now on mainstream sites like YouTube. The Internet allows individuals who are vulnerable to radicalization to find violent Islamist extremist material easily and to interact only with ... provides an anonymous method for like-minded, conflicted individuals to meet, form virtual relationships, and discuss their radical and extremist beliefs. The virtual netwo...

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... where sex tourism thrives. Although prostitution is legally considered a ˜crime against decency and morality' the business continues to grow. In Indonesia, specifically, sex tourism is growing through online sex forums and prostitutions rings that exist through social media. The availability of sex workers via the internet allows for ratings and facilitates the processes of finding a prostitute creating an efficient industry ... of people worldwide through its members, sex workers, and forced workers. The business is booming, and needs to be put to rest. With the ability for tourists g...

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... know more about how to develop their unit's effort by learning from the progresses. At BP employees associated with each other and the knowledge base through the expertise locators, discussion forums and intranet. Because many communities of BP connect different geographic locations and functions, span organizational boundaries, they were watched as the super glue holding the processes and people together (Greenes ... total BP knowledge source section on Refinery Turnarounds. This basic language repository is people-focused and attractive, and it contains links and stories to discussio...

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... school of psychology primarily involved with learning and behaviors. In fact, the basic idea of behaviorism is that behaviors are learned, and learned through mode of conditioning. John B. Watson, founder of the school, Watson and other famous behaviorist, B.F. Skinner, qualified that behavior can be studied and measured through observations. They also disregarded the aspect of the involvement of any cognitions or emotions ... ...

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... for all aspects of professional practice (NMC 2002). Furthermore, Vivian's humanistic and caring approach to nursing, could also be an influence in her behaving they way she did. According to Watson (1998), human caring involves a will and a commitment to care. It also involves knowledge, caring actions and consequences. Caring is the essence of holistic nursing (nursing the whole person). The element ... caring is related to inter-subjective human response to health and illness, environmental, personal interaction, a knowledge of the nursing caring process, self knowledge, knowledge of...

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... . Further analysis showed one turn of the helix contains ten nucleotides and the diameter of the DNA suggests it is composed of more than one strand. With this information, James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the true structure of DNA in 1953 and created a 3-D model showing the double-helix (Figure3). In the model, nitrogen-containing bases (nucleotides) pair up: adenine pairs ... with thymine (A-T) and guanine pairs with cytosine (G-T). (Figure 4) Watson and Crick noticed that for hydrogen bonds to form properly between the base pairs in DNA, the two nucleotide strands of the DNA ...

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... advanced by documents of reconciliation. Reconciliation is now on the national agenda. At the end would like to sum up my conclusion with a statement of a Brisbane based Aboriginal educator, Lilla Watson: "If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.....But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work ... ...

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... exhibition itself was an object of criticism and discussion, and the curators became hyper-visible personalities within the art world. Independent curators began to partake in symposia, publications, and public forums, situating their own practice as the subject of critical discourse. By the 1990s, curating had emerged as a global profession and curators enjoyed art-star status on an international level. Driven ... ...

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... arguments in support of curtailing the practice show various flaws. In recent years, the topic of copyright protection and anti-piracy measures has been a hot button issue inside the legislative forums of the United States. One product of this trend is the DCMA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and it allows for easy takedown of content by way of claim-filing ... ...

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... having equal right, opportunities, status, and advantages without discrimination and disparity among the people living in the same boundary. Equality as defined by Lowery (2012) is a term which detects the forums and the stages of all the opportunity that defies the things in the society and the world wide territory. However, as stated by Brittain (2010), though the existing laws and ... ...

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... they do best and feeling valued. In the event of significant organizational change which directly impacts on employees, HSBC consults them and their representative bodies, including unions, works councils and forums. Where roles are transferred to one of the Group Service Centers, it is HSBC's policy to redeploy employees and avoid redundancy wherever possible. It has been estimated that 40 per ... ...

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... authority must be shared equally among qualified practitioners" (Longino 76). We can clearly see the first objective measure with the German acupuncture trials, because there are various journals, public forums, and conferences that discuss the criticism s of acupuncture and the effectiveness of such treatments. Logino is implying that the more widespread the criticisms and discussion of the research, the more ... ...

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... their consumers to purchase games, and learn about new products, EA could utilize space on their website to advertise their upcoming products and promotions. Furthermore, EA can set up online forums and communities for their consumers, to discuss games or anything EA related. Setting up an online community will gather consumers from different target segments, and increase online website views, meaning ... ...

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... on the medical facilities purchasing patterns and on the medical supply manufacturer. The Health Industry Distributor Association (1999) is one of the agencies that have addressed this issue in several forums. They want to encourage medical facilities to work closely with their distributor or directly through the manufacturer rather than stock piling products. Allegiance Healthcare Corporation (1999) is one of many ... ...

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... backing of most - if not all - of the townspeople or community members in order to avoid a catastrophic situation as that of Kanab's. Questions to ask both in private and public forums include: - How do local people feel about tourism growth? - Are there certain groups within the community that are less supportive? - What specific issues or concerns do residents have that must ... ...

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... level plus I believe, the more international they are, the more their potential effects are doomed to fading away) in the sense of a revolution "from below": local or regional humanitarian/political forums that would organize campaigns and open debates in order to raise a global awareness towards terrorism and fundamentalism (but not necessarily link them together) and towards religious tolerance from both parts ... ...

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