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Helen of Troy's marketing strategy for acquired product lines

Helen of Troy has just completed the acquisition of the PERT Plus and Sure product lines to add to its already successful Vidal Sassoon product line. Also, the company can not afford to neglect its already existing products such as the Infusium 23 product line.

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Benefits and development of open source software

Open source software has been in existence for some time as a reaction to restrictive copyright laws on software use. This type of software is generally freely available to the public, under certain types of license agreements.

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JobPoint Group: global recruitment and human resources services

As the global economy becomes more of a reality, and as various developing countries increase the amount of business they do with developed countries, many cultural issues arise.

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Parasitic hookworms and non-parasitic planaria in scientific research

Specifically, it will discuss the parasitic hookworm, and the non-parasitic worm planaria, including research into the organisms.

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Chemical warfare development and deployment in twentieth-century conflicts

The twentieth century has witnessed some of the violent battles in the history of mankind. The two world wars followed by Vietnam and the gulf wars have resulted in largescale destruction and loss of life than ever before.

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EMV standard implementation risks and challenges in Iranian banks

In order to successfully migrate to EMV system of payment/transactions, the Iranian banks must be able to consider a series of factors that are all crucial to the successfully rolling out of the banking technology across the entire nation.

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Human nature and moral complexity in Faulkner's Light in August

William Faulkner's novel, Light in August, represents the complicated nature of life, mankind's complicated responses to life, and the intrepid spirit of all men.

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IT systems and innovation in the hospitality industry

The rapidly changing needs and expectations of global travelers are a primary catalyst in the continual improvement and innovation of hospitality information technologies and systems.

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Amazon's promotional strategies and market dominance in online retail

Predictions from the past decade have now been realized and the era of the brick and mortar bookstore can now officially be closed -- as of January 2009, Amazon.com became the world's largest book retailer in the world.

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Organizational structures of business model disruptive start-ups

New venture creation in emerging economies is being driven by product, process and paradigm forms of innovation at a macro level (Bessant, Tidd, 2007) and the ability to quickly and economically translate knowledge into value at the micro one (Eshun Jr., 2009).

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