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Statistical forecasting of housing prices in Orange County, California

The property chosen for predicting its selling price using statistical analysis techniques including multiple regression, correlation analysis, and factor analysis is shown to the right. The property is located at 2834 N. Danbury Street in Orange, California.

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Profit Impact of Marketing Strategy: assessment and competitive advantage

As a thirty-four-year-old manager for a glass coatings firm, it is difficult to be unaware of the presence of the theory of Profit Impact of Marketing Strategy or (PIMS), a way of assessing and thus gaining and competitive advantage within any given indstury -- but particularly manufacturing…

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Assumption of risk and product liability in business law

Product liability and assumption of risk are important concepts in business law. In most cases, when a company manufactures or sells a product, it is assumed that the product is free from any special risks or dangers for the purchaser.

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Borat's influence on Kazakhstan's culture and international identity

Borat may have genuinely if not inadvertently "make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan." Although initial publicity for the former Soviet nation seemed negative, the enormous popularity of the Borat character and feature film has lent a cult mystique to Kazakh culture.

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The Colon family's immigration and disillusionment in New York City

The Colon family came from the Dominican Republic, immigrated to the United States, and found it was not a land of opportunity but a land of broken dreams. Life was hard in New York City, but it was even harder in the Dominican Republic, as the children see when they return for a visit.

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Consumer choice and brand loyalty in the smartphone industry

IT'S 3 am. Do you know where your mobile phone or tablet is? Of course you do. It's in the bedroom somewhere, probably within reach on a bedside bureau. In a recent survey of a few thousand business travellers, 38% of respondents admitted to actually reaching for it occasionally.

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Marketing communications campaign for Smith & Nephew's Anthology hip replacement system

Innovations in medicine, improved diets, and the eradication of many diseases have all combined to contribute to longer lifespans for many people today, particularly in the industrialized nations of the world.

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European economic depressions before and after 1870

An economic depression is more severe than a recession due to the fact that a depression involves drastic decline in a national or international economy, characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices, and high levels of unemployment.

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Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development stages

Lawrence Kohlberg's psychological theory of moral development is broken into three levels and a total of six stages (two stages for each level). Level One is the pre-conventional level of moral reasoning.

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Kozloff's analysis of Hugo Chavez and Latin America's leftist rise

Kozloff, Nikolas. Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left. Palgrave-Macmillan, Nikolas Kozloff's book Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008) details the changing political structure of Latin America.

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