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E-business failure during the dot-com bubble: WebVan and eToys case studies

E-business may have been the most innovative idea to emerge from the birth of World Wide Web, but it was also the most misunderstood technology. Most firms believed that e-business would be easy.

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The evolution of memory across historical periods and cultures

Memory is basically a process through which all the relevant information is encoded, accumulated, and the recovered when needed. In first step we receive information from our surrounding, friends and family and we add it up in our memory. Here we start screening the relevant data.

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Guinevere's transformation from silent companion to active adulteress in medieval Arthurian literature

Depictions of Guinevere in Medieval Texts: From Silent Companion to Active Adultery in the Span of a Century The Arthurian legends have been a subject of intense fascination and inspection by readers and scholars alike since they first appeared towards the end of the eighth century or perhaps the…

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Social entrepreneurship solutions for Turkish urban slum housing

A slum is a dwelling that is built on public or private real estates unlawfully. In Turkey, these illegal settlements started with movement of people from urban to rural areas in the 1950's.

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Gender differences in middle school mathematics achievement and spatial relations

Gender differences inherently affect the learning styles of students. This fact is demonstrated at quite an early age and accounts for the fact that in several instances, girls are more prepared for reading at the time they begin the formal education process found in schools than boys are (James,…

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Alzheimer's disease: types, risk factors, and symptoms

Alzheimer's disease is a neuro-degenerative disorder that currently affects close to 4 million people in the United States (National Institutes of Health). By 2025, the number of Alzheimer's cases is expected to increase by 44% in the United States (Alzheimer's Association, Fact Sheet).

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Voltaire's critique of utopia in "Candide" through El Dorado

Voltaire's "Candide" nowadays is considered to be one of the most famous variants of a Utopia provided by authors that dedicated their works to the creation of a "perfect" society.

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Sir Alexander Cuming's diplomatic mission to the Cherokee nation

The character of Sir Alexander Cuming is draped in mystery and legend. Respected and even loved by the Cherokees, marginalized by his own aristocratic English society to which he belonged, Alexander Cuming was deemed simultaneously a madman, an adventurer, a true patriot or even a diplomat,…

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Continental Airlines' response to September 11th and market challenges

When we are discussing the airline industry and the companies involved here, we need to differentiate between two periods: before the attacks of 11th of September 2001 and after the attacks, because the changes in the economic, social and political environment were so tremendous that they have…

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Art therapy and cultural identity reconstruction for ethnic clients

The psychological needs of the ethnic child, teen, adult, and senior - from prelinguistic to senescent - have been historically underestimated and under treated. While there are many reasons for the limited offering, access, or availability, therapists are one of the intrinsic factors.

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