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Essay Topic: Analyse the opportunities and challenges that international TV channels will face in the forthcoming years. This essay examines examples of international television channels in terms of the challenges and opportunities they are facing now and will face in the future. International television has grown, and is still growing, as viewers want more choice[...]

CHAPTER 1 – Introduction 1.1. INTRODUCTION: In today’s world information is so vital and complex that there is a compulsion for innovative techniques that enables the processing and management of information for further usage. In this research an overall study of MIS (Management Information Systems) is conducted in terms of decision-making, optimisation of information and[...]

Review of The Capability-Expectations Gap, or Conceptualising Europe’s International Role, by Christopher Hill The recent furore over the ‘Reform Treaty’, which to some was a repackaged attempt to create and implement a European Constitution, has re-ignited the debate about the nature of Europe. What is Europe? What does it mean for a country to sign[...]

Foreign policy and international politics have been observed through a range of disparate and often competing theories, yet realism has somehow managed to consistently dominate the literature on foreign policy. Whilst it is true that, to some extent, all international relations (IR) theories make certain assumptions about state behaviour,1 the inability of realism to separate[...]

Most people who use social capital as a tool in research discussions often begin by noting the difficulty in its definitions, inconsistencies and weakness and the measurement problems in principle and practice of using the concept. Yet, by and large, and in spite of the multiple critics of the subject, the social capital literature has[...]

There is a spring from which gushes a stream of oil, in such abundance that a hundred ships may load there at once. Men come from a long distance to fetch this oil.[1] – Marco Polo Foreign interest in the oil-rich sands of Baku was aroused in the mid-15th century. It was the first oil[...]

ABSTRACT Rheological properties of concentrated suspensions depend substantially on their structure; that is, on the formation of aggregates due to colloidal forces between particles. The aggregate size distribution is determined by the correlation between colloidal, Brownian and hydrodynamic forces in the system. Therefore, an investigation of the rheological properties of a suspension will provide valuable[...]

An overview of the dilemma and propose solutions Abstract This paper talks about the challenges faced by HRD Departments in the public sector due to the traditional traits. Due to these traits HRD struggles with retaining talent, delayed queries handling, and is often seen as an operational department rather than strategic one. The paper talks[...]

ABSTRACT This essay is an attempt to identify the complex relationships that exist between management, organisational change, power and information. From the point of view that the employee is an individual and that the individual is the entity at the core of how organisational surveillances occur, the crux of the argument is how power relations[...]

Variously described as an exercise in political modernisation, the first step towards a democratic political system or an episode in the decline of aristocratic political power, the passing of the 1832 Reform Act in Britain has been the subject of much scholarly analysis and comment. Historians have disagreed on the political significance of the Act.[...]

Abstract From the time unknown, invention and innovation have been vital for human development. In the healthcare sector, pharmaceutical companies have worked extensively on developing new entities that have become therapeutic for diseases. However, these companies face problems with poor revenue generation; without revenue, they cannot develop new drugs. The problems are mainly due to[...]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Azerbaijan obtained a status of independence and became a self-governing republic. During the weak transition conditions, the country had to mainly rely on extractive industries, particularly on oil and gas resources, as main engines of economic recovery. The petroleum industry plays a major role in the[...]

Introduction It has been commonly reported in diary reports (Rescorla, 1979) and confirmed in empirical research (Thomson and Chapman, 1977; Fremgen and Fay, 1980; Gelman and Naigles, 1995) that children aged one to two years generalise word meanings to a wider collection of objects than adults would consider appropriate. For example, a child may refer[...]

An informative e-mail to Kamala Balu, CEO, exploring how to achieve person / organisation fit when recruiting and selecting staff for Benkleys Dear Ms. Kamala Balu, Any organisational intervention needs to be preceded and substantiated by an adequate diagnosis of the current situation, in order to predict its outcomes, in terms of benefits and risks.[...]

Introduction The bursting of the “economic bubble” in the late 1980s and early 1990s, together with fundamental changes in the business environment, has made the Japanese economy alternate between periods of Heisei recession, which in turn has seriously affected employment (Benson and Debroux 2004) (see Table 1). The irony of Japanese economic decline is that[...]

Introduction When a company enters a foreign market, the distribution strategy and channel it uses are keys to its success in the market, as well as market know-how and customer knowledge and understanding (Bellhouse and Hutchison, 1993; Ilonen,et al., 2011). Because an effective distribution strategy under efficient supply-chain management opens doors for attaining competitive advantage[...]

Introduction The sexes are now considered to be largely pliable to the point where they can be considered as no more than a rough signifier of gender. This is a consequence of both the research that has been carried out by scholars in the area of gender as well as the development of disciplines such[...]

ABSTRACT Human error is an unintentional activity caused by decision-making failure. In addition, the criticality of human error is not directly measurable but rather inferred from performance. This paper describes the experimental methodology used to investigate restart errors in procedural steps. The aim is to study the design issues with the occurrence of procedural errors[...]