Wills‚ T.A. (1981) Downward Comparison Principles in Social Psychology. Psychological Bulletin‚ 90‚ 245-271. Part of social comparison theory (Festinger‚ 1954) Individuals are motivated to gain accurate evaluations of themselves by examining their opinions and abilities in comparison to others Downward comparison (Wills‚ 1981) – a person experiencing negative affect can enhance their subjective well-being through comparison with a less fortunate other‚ the process occurring either passively or
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SONET described as the Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) was designed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for the USA public telephone network in the mid-1980s. With the forced breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) in the United States this created numerous regional telephone companies. The companies quickly encountered network difficulties working together and alone. With the introduction of fiber optic cabling for long distance voice traffic transmission‚ the
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expectations. The main aim of this paper is to measure the customer satisfaction of the GSM users of NTC .Nepal Telecom‚ the largest telecommunication company of the country has been providing various kinds of services‚ namely PSTN landlines‚ ADSL‚ GSM and CDMA mobile phone services. There are about 6 million users of NTC including all the services where around 4.5 million people subscribe GSM mobile phones. NTC is the sole provider of all the services other than GSM mobile. With the entry of Ncell in the
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In today’s highly competitive world‚ where technological changes are occurring at a mind boggling pace‚ and locating production knows no boundaries‚ a country and its industry‚ which has not kept pace with the world cannot hope to survive. It is a well established fact‚ that a healthy industrial sector makes for a healthy financial sector‚ and unless‚ goods markets are healthy and vibrant‚ financial market cannot be the same. This holds for any country. Industrial units proven to be unable to
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Managed Choice Code 300410210 Category State OPEN 23 Course Name M. M. S. SC 7 ST 3 VJ/DT 2 NTB 1 SI 60 CAP 60 NTC 2 MSCAP ALL IND 51 NTD 1 9 OBC 10 PH1 NIL Institutes Seats 0 PH2 NIL PH3 NIL PHC 2 Minority Seats 0 Total 51 Summary : SI: 60 SNDT University MS CAP: OPEN 0 0 23 23 Reserved 0 0 26 26 51 SC 0 0 7 7 All India: ST 0 0 3 3 9 VJ/DT 0 0 2 2 Institute Seats: NTB 0 0 1 1 NTC 0 0 2 2 0 NTD 0 0 1 1 Minority Seats: OBC 0 0 10 10 PH 0 0 2 2 0 Total Category HU OH State Total 0 0 51
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|RANK |PHONE # |EMAIL | |IMCOM |Kemp‚ Darrell |GS-12 |380-7532 |darrell.kemp@us.army.mil | |NTC MP/USAG |Short-Brinkerhoff |SFC |380-3211 |rhonda.s.shorts@us.army.mil | |MEDDAC Co |Perez‚ Lauro |1LT |380-5565 |lauro.perez@amedd
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Efficient working capital management is an integral component of the overall corporate strategy to create shareholder value. Working capital is the result of the time lag between the expenditure for the purchase of raw materials and the collection for the sale of the finished product. The continuing flow of cash from suppliers to inventory to accounts receivable and back into cash is usually referred to as the cash conversion cycle. The way in which working capital is managed can have a significant
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04). Solon: Eliminate ’load ’ expiration. Revived last April 1‚ 2010 from http://www.bncxe.org/archive/index.php/t-37552.html Sarmiento‚ J.V Villafania‚ A. (2009‚ June 16). NTC: Telcos fought rules to protect consumers. Revived last April 2‚ 2010 from http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view/20090616-210837/NTC-Telcos-fought-rules-to-protect-consumers
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Effects of working capital management on the profitability of Portuguese manufacturing firms Sónia Silva* sonia@eeg.uminho.pt Florinda Silva** fsilva@eeg.uminho.pt July 2012 Abstract This study provides empirical evidence about the effects of working capital management on the profitability of Portuguese manufacturing firms. A database covering the period 1996-2006‚ collected from Portuguese Statistical Office‚ is analyzed under panel data methodology. In line with previous research
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REVIEW In intention to discover the relationship between efficient working capital management and firm’s profitability(Shin & Soenen‚ 1998) used net-trade cycle (NTC) as a measure of working capital management. NTC is basically equal to the CCC whereby all three components are expressed as a percentage of sales. The reason by using NTC because it can be an easy device to estimate for additional financing needs with regard to working capital expressed as a function of the projected sales growth. This
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