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List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet - Wikipedia
Google is a computer software and a web search engine company that has been acquiring, on average, more than one company per week since 2010. [1] The table below is an incomplete list of acquisitions, with each acquisition listed being for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Google and the acquisition...
Date: 2017-03-08 19:36:18
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Aggregator - Wikipedia
Aggregator refers to a web site or computer software that aggregates a specific type of information from multiple online sources:
Poll aggregator , a website that aggregates polling data for upcoming elections
Review aggregator , a website that aggregates...
Date: 2017-02-23 15:46:17
Related topics : online social network websites / searching social networking sites / social network search / social networking websites / social network websites
Structural holes - Wikipedia
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This indicator measures the extent to which time and energy is concentrated within a single cluster. It consists of two components: direct, when a contact consumes a large proportion of a network's time and energy, and indirect, when a contact controls other individuals, who consume a large proportion of a...
Date: 2017-02-21 23:20:07
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Society - Wikipedia
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Etymology and usage[ edit ]
A half-section of the 12th-century South Tang Dynasty version of Night Revels of Han Xizai, original by Gu Hongzhong . The painting portrays servants, musicians, monks, children, guests, and hosts all in a single social environment. It serves as an in-depth look into the Chinese social structure of the time.
The term "society" came from the Latin word...
Date: 2017-03-09 23:57:26
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Enterprise social software - Wikipedia
Functionality[ edit ]
Social software for an enterprise must (according to Andrew McAfee , Associate Professor, Harvard Business School ) have the following functionality to work well ( McAfee 2006 ): [3]
Search: allowing users to search for other users or content
Links: grouping similar users or content together
Authoring: including blogs and wikis
Tags: allowing users to tag content
Extensions:...
Date: 2017-03-09 01:13:45
Related topics : business social network software / social marketing software / social network platform software / social network networking software / software social network
Greenwashing - Wikipedia
Usage[ edit ]
Hotel "greenwashed" laundry card
The term greenwashing was coined by New York environmentalist Jay Westervelt in a 1986 essay regarding the hotel industry 's practice of placing placards in each room promoting reuse of towels ostensibly to "save the environment." Westervelt noted that, in most cases, little or no effort toward reducing energy waste was being made by these...
Date: 2017-03-07 08:14:45
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Spin (propaganda) - Wikipedia
Terminology[ edit ]
The term has its origin in the old American expression "to spin a yarn". In the 18th and 19th century, sailors were known for using their spare time on board ship to make thread or string (yarn). Sailors were also well known for telling incredible tales about their exploits when they were back on shore. When someone fooled you, it was said that "he spun me an amazing yarn"....
Date: 2017-03-07 05:53:18
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Welfare - Wikipedia
Canada has a welfare state in the European tradition; however, it is not referred to as "welfare", but rather as "social programs". In Canada, "welfare" usually refers specifically to direct payments to poor individuals (as in the American usage) and not to healthcare and education spending (as in the European usage). [19]
The Canadian social safety net covers a broad spectrum of programs, and...
Date: 2017-03-06 19:31:24
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Stigmergy - Wikipedia
History[ edit ]
The term "stigmergy" was introduced by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to refer to termite behavior. He defined it as: "Stimulation of workers by the performance they have achieved." It is derived from the Greek words stigma "mark, sign" and ergon "work, action", and captures the notion that an agent's actions leave signs in the environment, signs that it and other...
Date: 2017-03-06 09:50:34
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Linear model of innovation - Wikipedia
The Linear Model of Innovation is an early model of innovation that suggests technical change happens in a linear fashion from Invention to Innovation to Diffusion.
Original model of three phases of the process of Technological Change
It prioritises scientific research as the basis of innovation, and plays down the role of later players in the innovation process.
Current models of innovation...
Date: 2017-02-21 15:03:05
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Health care - Wikipedia
Medical train "Therapist Matvei Mudrov" in Khabarovsk , Russia [7]
Primary care refers to the work of health professionals who act as a first point of consultation for all patients within the health care system. [6] [8] Such a professional would usually be a primary care physician , such as a general practitioner or family physician , a licensed independent practitioner such as a physiotherapist...
Date: 2017-03-06 20:10:12
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Health care - Wikipedia
Medical train "Therapist Matvei Mudrov" in Khabarovsk , Russia [7]
Primary care refers to the work of health professionals who act as a first point of consultation for all patients within the health care system. [6] [8] Such a professional would usually be a primary care physician , such as a general practitioner or family physician , a licensed independent practitioner such as a physiotherapist...
Date: 2017-03-02 00:11:45
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Foursquare - Wikipedia
On August 7, 2014, Foursquare 8.0 was launched for iOS and Android devices. The new app has changed the focus of the app to being primarily a local search and discovery tool, where users can "follow" others to receive local recommendations from them.
Local search and recommendations[ edit ]
Foursquare lets the user search for restaurants, nightlife spots, shops and other places of interest in...
Date: 2017-03-09 17:18:52
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Foursquare - Wikipedia
Features[ edit ]
Foursquare 8.0 shows personalised recommendations of places to go around the user's current location
On August 7, 2014, Foursquare 8.0 was launched for iOS and Android devices. The new app has changed the focus of the app to being primarily a local search and discovery tool, where users can "follow" others to receive local recommendations from them.
Local search and...
Date: 2017-03-09 17:13:22
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Recovery approach - Wikipedia
History[ edit ]
In general medicine and psychiatry , recovery has long been used to refer to the end of a particular experience or episode of illness . The broader concept of "recovery" as a general philosophy and model was first popularized in regard to recovery from substance abuse / drug addiction , for example within twelve-step programs .
Application of recovery models to psychiatric...
Date: 2017-03-09 10:58:34
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Buzzword - Wikipedia
Definition[ edit ]
The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines a buzzword (choosing to hyphenate the term as a buzz-word) as a slogan; or as a fashionable piece of jargon. Buzzwords do not just appear, they are created by a group of people working within a business as a means to generate hype (Collins, 2000). Buzzwords are most closely associated with management and have become the vocabulary that is...
Date: 2017-03-06 16:19:02
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Enterprise content management - Wikipedia
Definition[ edit ]
The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) International, the worldwide association for enterprise content management , defined the term in 2000. AIIM has refined the abbreviation ECM several times to reflect the expanding scope and importance of information management :
Late 2005
Enterprise content management is the technology used to capture, manage, store,...
Date: 2017-03-08 04:34:56
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Bachelor's degree - Wikipedia
See also: British degree abbreviations
England, Wales and Northern Ireland[ edit ]
In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, bachelor's degrees normally take three years of study to complete, although courses may take four years where they include a year abroad or a placement year. Degrees may have titles related to their broad subject area or faculty, such as BA or BSc, or may be more subject...
Date: 2017-03-07 22:50:03
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Damages - Wikipedia
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Compensatory or expectation damages[ edit ]
Compensatory damages are paid to compensate the claimant for loss, injury, or harm suffered as a result of (see requirement of causation ) another's breach of duty. (e.g., in a negligence claim under tort law). Expectation damages are used in contract law. [2]
Quantum (measure) of damages[ edit ]
Liability (to pay some...
Date: 2017-03-06 07:44:33
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CP24 - Wikipedia
CHUM era[ edit ]
The channel was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1996 as Pulse 24, [1] and launched on March 30, 1998 as CablePulse 24, under the ownership of CHUM Limited and minority partner Sun Media , owner of the Toronto Sun daily newspaper. The channel was named as an extension of CITY-TV 's newscasts, which were then known as CityPulse...
Date: 2017-03-09 17:46:10
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ECRM - Wikipedia
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From RM to CRM[ edit ]
The concept of relationship marketing (RM) was established by marketing professor Leonard Berry in 1983. He considered it to consist of attracting, maintaining and enhancing customer relationships within organizations . [2] In the years that followed, companies were engaging more and more in a meaningful dialogue with individual customers. In doing so,...
Date: 2017-02-21 14:25:36
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List of social entrepreneurs - Wikipedia
A social entrepreneur is an entrepreneur who works to increase social capital by founding social ventures , including charities, for-profit businesses with social causes, and other non-government organizations. These types of activities are distinct from work of non-operating foundations and philanthropists who provide funding and other support for them.
Notable historical social entrepreneurs[...
Date: 2017-02-18 12:25:01
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Social security - Wikipedia
History[ edit ]
While several of the provisions to which the concept refers have a long history (especially in poor relief), the notion of "social security" itself is a fairly recent one. The earliest examples of use date from the 19th century. In a speech to mark the independence of Venezuela , Simón Bolívar (1819) pronounced: "El sistema de gobierno más perfecto es aquel que produce mayor...
Date: 2017-03-06 08:40:52
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Cleveland State University - Wikipedia
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Cleveland State University (also known as Cleveland State or CSU) is a public university located in downtown Cleveland , Ohio , United States. It was established in 1964, and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the...
Date: 2017-03-09 06:20:15
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Social loafing - Wikipedia
Rope-pulling experiments[ edit ]
Results from Ringelmann's experiment
The first known research on the social loafing effect began in 1913 with Max Ringelmann 's study. He found that when he asked a group of men to pull on a rope , that they did not pull as hard collectively as they did when each was pulling alone. This research did not distinguish whether this was the result of the individuals in...
Date: 2017-03-02 21:33:46
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The War Room with Quinn and Rose - Wikipedia
Quinn and Rose was a syndicated conservative talk radio program hosted by Jim Quinn and Rose Somma Tennent. It was formerly broadcast during morning drive time from 6 A.M. to 9 A.M. and syndicated through Clear Channel Communications from flagship station WPGB .
The series was abruptly canceled after the November 15, 2013 broadcast, with Clear Channel citing an inability to reach a contract extension, later suggestions indicating that Clear Channel budget cuts were at fault, and the show's affiliates claiming the duo was fired. (The contract dispute appears to pertain directly to Quinn, as Rose...
Date: 2017-03-04 00:26:36
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Social actions - Wikipedia
Max Weber[ edit ]
The basic concept was primarily developed in the non-positivist theory of Max Weber to observe how human behaviors relate to cause and effect in the social realm. For Weber, sociology is the study of society and behavior and must therefore look at the heart of interaction. The theory of social action, more than structural functionalist positions, accepts and assumes that humans...
Date: 2017-02-21 15:21:24
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Literary criticism - Wikipedia
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19th-century Romantic criticism[ edit ]
The British Romantic movement of the early nineteenth century introduced new aesthetic ideas to literary studies, including the idea that the object of literature need not always be beautiful, noble, or perfect, but that literature itself could elevate a common subject to the level of the sublime . German...
Date: 2017-03-10 00:01:40
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Social issues in China - Wikipedia
Rural-urban disparity and the wealth gap
Since the economic reforms in China began, income inequality has increased significantly. The Gini Coefficient, an income distribution gauge, has worsened from 0.3 back in 1986 to 0.42 in 2011,. [2] Poverty researchers recognize anything above 0.4 as potentially socially destabilizing.
The growing wealth gap can be seen as a byproduct of China's economic...
Date: 2017-02-27 03:06:19
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National Institute of Industrial Engineering - Wikipedia
National Institute of Industrial Engineering
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National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai
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Urban , 67 acres (0.27 km2)
Website
Nitie.edu
National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) (formerly known as National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering) is one of the top management Institutes in India , located in Powai near...
Date: 2017-03-08 22:14:08
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Microsoft Visual Studio - Wikipedia
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.NET (2002)[ edit ]
Microsoft released Visual Studio .NET (VS.NET), codenamed Rainier (for Washington's Mount Rainier ), in February 2002 (the beta version was released via Microsoft Developer Network in 2001). The biggest change was the introduction of a managed code development environment using the .NET Framework. Programs...
Date: 2017-03-08 06:01:31
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Pricing - Wikipedia
The objectives of pricing should consider:
the financial goals of the company (i.e. profitability)
the fit with marketplace realities (will customers buy at that price?)
the extent to which the price supports a product's market positioning and be consistent with the other variables in the marketing mix
Price is influenced by the type of distribution channel used, the type of promotions used, and...
Date: 2017-03-09 01:00:50
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Collaboration graph - Wikipedia
Types considered in the literature[ edit ]
The most well-studied collaboration graphs include:
Collaboration graph of mathematicians also known as the Erdos collaboration graph , [3] [4] where two mathematicians are joined by an edge whenever they co-authored a paper together (with possibly other co-authors present).
Collaboration graph of movie actors, also known as the Hollywood graph or...
Date: 2017-02-21 19:40:27
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Nimsoft - Wikipedia
Nimsoft was an independent company software vendor that offered information technology (IT) monitoring and service desk products and services. It was acquired by CA Inc. in 2010, and since October 2012 its products were integrated into that business. The Nimsoft brand is still used by CA.
Nimsoft products monitor and manage business services and specific systems within the IT infrastructure,...
Date: 2017-03-04 06:44:11
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Multi-level marketing - Wikipedia
Multi-level marketing companies have become an accepted and legally sanctioned form of pyramid scheme in the United States" [13] while another states "Multi-Level Marketing, a form of Pyramid Scheme, is not necessarily fraudulent." [14]
In October 2010 it was reported that multilevel marketing companies were being investigated by a number of state attorneys general amid allegations that...
Date: 2017-03-09 20:52:08
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Asa Briggs - Wikipedia
Early life[ edit ]
Asa Briggs was born in Keighley , West Riding of Yorkshire in 1921 to William Briggs, an engineer, and his wife Jane. [2] He was educated at Keighley Boys' Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge , graduating with a BA (first class) in 1941, and a BSc in Economics (first class) from the University of London External Programme , also in 1941. [3]
Military service[...
Date: 2017-03-08 22:36:17
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Game theory - Wikipedia
Main article: Perfect information
A game of imperfect information (the dotted line represents ignorance on the part of player 2, formally called an information set )
An important subset of sequential games consists of games of perfect information . A game is one of perfect information if, in extensive form, all players know the moves previously made by all other players. Simultaneous games can...
Date: 2017-03-07 07:13:25
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Sociology of scientific knowledge - Wikipedia
The sociology of scientific knowledge in its Anglophone versions emerged in the 1970s in self-conscious opposition to the sociology of science associated with the American Robert K. Merton , generally considered one of the seminal authors in the sociology of science. Merton's was a kind of "sociology of scientists," which left the cognitive content of science out of sociological account; SSK by...
Date: 2017-03-07 09:32:40
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Birmingham - Wikipedia
Birmingham shown within the West Midlands county
Birmingham
103.39 sq mi (267.77 km2)
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Birmingham (
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Date: 2017-03-10 08:08:16
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Public service - Wikipedia
Main article: Public Administration
In modern democracies, public service is often performed by employee s known as civil servant s who are hired by elected official s. Government agencies are not profit-oriented and their employees are motivated differently. [3] Studies of their work have found contrasting results including both higher levels of effort [3] and fewer hours of work. [4] A survey...
Date: 2017-03-07 12:23:01
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Social shaping of technology - Wikipedia
According to Robin A. Williams and David Edge (1996), "Central to social shaping of technology (SST) is the concept that there are choices' (though not necessarily conscious choices) inherent in both the design of individual artifacts and systems, and in the direction or trajectory of innovation programs."
If technology does not emerge from the unfolding of a predetermined logic or a single determinant, then innovation is a 'garden of forking paths'. Different routes are available, potentially leading to different...
Date: 2017-03-08 14:56:30
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Trans-Asian Railway - Wikipedia
The Trans-Asian Railway Network Agreement is an agreement signed on 10 November 2006, by seventeen Asian nations as part of a United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) effort to build a transcontinental railway network between Europe and Pacific ports in China. [1] The plan has sometimes been called the "Iron Silk Road" in reference to the historical Silk...
Date: 2017-03-07 01:34:03
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City University of Seattle - Wikipedia
City University of Seattle
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City University of Seattle, also known as CityU, is a private not-for-profit institution of higher learning based in Seattle, Washington . In 2015-16, CityU enrolled 6,372 students worldwide. The university consists of the School of Management, Albright School of...
Date: 2017-03-06 23:56:47
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