Focusing on the art of haggling in the Middle East, this seminar paper explores effective strategies for students and tourists to navigate local bargaining practices. By merging theoretical insights with practical experiences from Israel, it serves as a comprehensive manual for anyone looking to enhance their negotiation skills while traveling in the region. The paper aims to equip readers with the necessary tools to successfully engage in local commerce, making it a valuable resource for both leisure and educational purposes.
The paper explores India's rise as a leading destination for offshoring high-tech services over the past two decades, highlighting its success despite widespread poverty. It references the A.T. Kearney Global Services Location Index, which ranks India at the top for offshoring. The analysis also considers competing nations, particularly China, which aims to attract investors with lower costs and enhanced quality. The paper raises critical questions about the future of service offshoring and the potential shifts in the global market landscape.
The book delves into the challenges of measuring at millimeter-wave frequencies, particularly focusing on the parasitic effects caused by RF probes that can skew results despite calibration. Through electromagnetic field simulations of integrated circuits combined with RF probe models, the research aims to identify and understand these distortions, ultimately providing solutions to mitigate their impact on measurement accuracy.
This book reviews the geochemical and petrological characteristics of potassic igneous rock complexes, and investigates the different tectonic settings in which these rocks occur. The authors provide an overview and classification of these rocks and elucidate the geochemical differences between barren and mineralized potassic igneous complexes. High-K rocks host a number of epithermal gold and porphyry copper-gold deposits. In recent years, there has also been growing recognition of an association of such rocks with iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposits, intrusion-related gold deposits (IRGDs) and possibly even Carlin-type gold deposits. This book is not only relevant to academic petrologists working on alkaline rocks, but also to exploration geologists prospecting for epithermal gold and/or porphyry copper-gold deposits in modern and ancient terrains. This fourth, updated and expanded edition incorporates new data and references from Africa, Australia, Brazil, China, Greece, Iran, Mongolia, North America, Russia and Turkey, including new maps and sections and new color plates of high-grade gold-copper ore from major deposits hosted by potassic igneous rocks.
This thesis comprises three essays across various economics fields. The first essay investigates microfinance and inflation in low-income countries, analyzing their welfare effects through a monetary search model that incorporates a moral hazard problem. It demonstrates how access to financial services influences borrowing, saving, and money-holding decisions. The group lending mechanism fosters peer monitoring, enhancing entrepreneurship. A key finding is the existence of an inflation threshold beyond which entrepreneurship declines, with the positive impact of microfinance peaking at moderate inflation rates before diminishing significantly.
The second essay explores doping behavior among heterogeneous athletes in a private information context, modeled as an all-pay auction. Athletes, possessing private knowledge of their abilities, decide on the use of performance-enhancing drugs, which come with costs but lack regulation. The analysis reveals a doping threshold, where only stronger athletes engage in doping. This threshold is influenced by doping costs and prize levels, with increased competition incentivizing doping among strong athletes while discouraging weaker ones.
The third essay addresses the substitutability patterns in Swiss manufacturing industries amid energy policy challenges, particularly following the nuclear phase-out and Kyoto protocol commitments. It fills a gap in estimating sectoral substitution elasti
A Theoretical Integration and Empirical Test of Technology Acceptance and IS Success Research
The first objective of this study is to derive a multidimensional research framework simultaneously outlining and concretising particular aspects being relevant to and surrounding the elicitation and evaluation of VLE design characteristics. Based on this, the second objective of this study is to elicit for the first time a holistic set of well-defined, simultaneously detailed and operative VLE design characteristics systematically. In reply to a recently articulated call for research (Venkatesh & Bala, 2008), the third objective of this study is to evaluate for the first time the impact of the desired set of VLE design characteristics to be elicited on crucial behavioural determinants of users’ behavioural intention to use and actual use of a VLE in terms of the VLE success measures of this study. Such an investigation may reveal further, more detailed and operative, knowledge about design-related and behavioural drivers of users’ current VLE use/refusal.
This book reviews the geochemical and petrological characteristics of the potassic igneous rock complexes and investigates the different tectonic settings in which these rocks occur. The authors provide an overview and a classification of these rocks and attempt to elucidate the geochemical differences between barren and mineralized potassic igneous complexes. Many epithermal gold and porphyry copper-gold deposits are hosted by high-K rocks. Therefore, this book is not only relevant to the academic petrologists working on alkaline rocks, but also to the exploration geologists prospecting for epithermal gold and/or porphyry copper-gold deposits in modern and ancient terranes. The 2nd updated and enlarged Ed. contains new subchapters and 3 chapters have been completely rewritten.
Eine krimisüchtige Maus? Ein Papagei mit Mutterkomplexen? Eine Ente mit Fernweh? Ein liebestrunkener Okapi? Elke Heidenreich und Daniel Müller haben sich im Tierreich umgehört und einen Blick durchs Schlüsselloch gewagt.
Mangos und Chilis, relaxtes Easy-Going und strikte Etikette, buddhistische Sanftheit und brutale Tierkämpfe: Thailand und seine Menschen zu verstehen ist – verwirrend. Hinter zuweilen verwestlichten Kulissen haben sich im »Land der Freien« viele Bräuche, Regeln und Marotten unverfälscht erhalten. Zahlenmystik, frivole Glückssymbole und ulkige Maskottchen gehören ebenso zum Alltag wie Schnupperküsse, Miniaturgärten und Essensschnitzereien. Klar, dass es beim Eintauchen in das schillernde Thai-Universum zu mancherlei Wellenschlägen kommt. Auch Martin, Susanne und Lisa haben in ihrer neuen berufsbedingten Interimsheimat einige kulturelle Schwimmeinheiten zu absolvieren. Ob sie nun mit ihrer zu forschen Wissbegier anecken, kein Feingefühl für die Sphäre des Übersinnlichen aufbringen oder Lockerheit mit Ungezwungenheit verwechseln – es braucht einige Übung, um den Thai Way souverän zu gehen. Aber alles halb so wild: Thais sind Experten in Toleranz, und ihre spielerische Lässigkeit macht jede Lektion zu einem einzigartigen Erlebnis. Aktualisierte und vollständig überarbeitete Neuausgabe mit noch mehr Fettnäpfchen
