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Diffusion of Culture, 2002.
A study into cultural diffusion.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This is a 4 page paper on the different associations of cultural diffusion and the dynamics involved in it therein.
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The Diffusion of Mobile Service Platforms, 2003.
Examines why Finnish consumers buy mobile phones.
3,512 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 23 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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The future of mobile telephony is closely linked to services. Users are required to purchase new phones with new technical features for the large-scale diffusion of service platforms and the adoption of increasingly advanced services. The survey in this paper indicates, however, that services are not such an important reason for consumer purchases of new mobile phones. In this paper, the authors have chosen a different approach, in which they look at the reasons consumers have bought their recent mobile phones in Finland. Instead of relying on the hopes and expectations of the future, they focus on individual consumer interpretations of past behavior. The paper, first, briefly describes the peculiarities of the Finnish mobile market.Then it looks at how the survey was carried out and what kinds of results were obtained. Finally it discusses the relevance of the results for the evolution of mobile services. The paper includes tables.
Table of Contents:
Abstract
Introduction
Case: Finland
Panel Survey and Methodology
Top Reasons for Purchasing a New Mobile Phone
Consumer Interpretations
Conclusions and Discussions
References
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"The visions of mobile telephony are closely linked to services, gaming, multimedia and mCommerce. For the large scale diffusion of these innovations and applications, users are required to purchase new phones with new features (Kalakota & Robinson 2002, Lindmark 2002). GPRS, Java and Symbian applications are new parts of the contemporary infrastructure in Europe, but even this infrastructure is going to evolve rapidly in the near future. This means that a user with a phone bought today is not likely to be able to take full advantage of the state-of-the-art mobile features and services a few years from now. Correspondingly, the new features and services will not be commercially successful if only few consumers purchase appropriate phones."
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Diffusion, 2005.
An analysis of the adoption rates of new products.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper examines factors that affect the adoption rates of new products and analyzes the adoption rates of XM Satellite Radio, MP3 players, CD players, DVRs and DVD audio as shown on a chart.
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"One of the primary determinants of cell phone banking adoption in South Africa has been trial ability. Researchers compared Internet adoption rates with cell phone banking rates and found that the cell phone banking participants indicated a lower ..."
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Diffusing Religious - Based Tensions, 2008.
A research paper on methods of diffusing tensions between nations based on religion.
18,300 words (approx. 73.2 pages), 40 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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The paper seeks to identify effective legal approaches to diffusing religious-based tensions in states where religious and political affairs are intertwined. The paper examines scholarly and governmental literature to provide an overview of the respective legal systems of six different countries, their experiences with religious-based acts of terrorism in recent years, and what the legal systems of these countries do on their own to address these pressing issues. The paper summarizes the research and salient conclusions.
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Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of Study
Importance of Study
Scope of Study
Rationale of Study
Methodology
Overview of Study
Definition of Key Terms
Review of Related Literature
Summary and Conclusions
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"Finally, and perhaps most regrettably of all, there appears to be an inverse relationship between how authoritarian and restrictive a society's legal system is compared to its incidence of terrorist activities. Those countries where free speech and democratic processes are well established have turned out to be the perfect place for terrorists to find accommodations while they plot acts of violence against the very same societies that allow them to operate with such impunity. How can these same social frameworks be transformed to counter these threats without sacrificing the essential elements of their society that makes them free? This question has perplexed historians, politicians and scholars, and it continues to present policymakers with a number of choices, most of which are bad - from a free society's perspective at least -- it would seem. Because the stakes are so high, there is little room for false starts or experimentation when addressing the fundamental issues involved in addressing a multifaceted and enormously volatile problem such as religious-based international terrorism. It would seem like a reasonable starting point for the respective legal systems reviewed herein would be to clean up their own acts making access to them easier for the average citizen, and to enforce the laws that are already on the books concerning conspiracy and terrorism. Placing further restrictions on a country's citizenry through the legal system only plays into the hands of terrorists who seek to foment unrest and dissatisfaction, just as the propagandists of the past and today. Yet, some limitations need to be considered on just how free a society can be and still tolerate the imposition of religious-based changes and remain a free state."
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Mongols and Turks, 2002.
A look at the culture and influence of the Mongolian and Turkish empires.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 44.95
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A paper on the influence of the Mongols and the Turks on the western world and the diffusion of the culture they caused through their invasions.
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The Geography of Music, 2005.
Examines the cultural geography of two styles of music.
1,665 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper selects two musical styles and explores their cultural geography, while considering the extent to which they demonstrate diffusion, place creation/environment and resistance/expression. The styles discussed are American Rhythm-Blues of the 1950s (i.e. McKinley Morganfield "Muddy Waters" and Chester Burnett "The Wolf") and British Rocking-Blues of the 1960/70s (i.e. Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones). The geography of music is a fairly new phase of geography and music study, it has only been fully developed in the last 30 to 40 years. Much study has been done into cultural geography's effect of global music and this paper concentrates on American music, which relies heavily on place creation, diffusion, environment and expression to create memorable music that remains viable and fresh for decades.
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"Developed from jazz, blues, and countless other forces, the first rock and roll songs are attributed to bands like Bill Haley and the Comets and Elvis Presley. Historian Barlow continues, "Hence, blues diffusions can be traced to African-American rhythm and blues, soul, and even rap musical styles. Moreover, they can be traced to the flowering of rock and roll, and then rock music, among white youth" (Barlow 61). As rock and roll music grew in popularity, it was simply natural that different cultures would develop their own forms of the music, and this is true with rock, which led to offshoots around the world, including British rockin' blues by bands such as Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. Rock too is a form of social protest, and so, it defines a time and a place in culture and society, just as the blues defined an earlier era, and then helped create other defining musical styles."
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Immigration on the Prairies, 2008.
An analysis of the population diffusion in Canada and the prairie township system.
1,132 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses the population diffusion that Canada saw with its third wave of immigration. It deals with the changes in migration policy and land tenure that allowed this diffusion during Canada's third wave of immigration and specifically focuses on immigration on the prairies. The paper then discusses the prairie township system and how they worked in Canada.
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"With respect to the results of this process for the settlement landscape of the prairies, the most striking consequence was that townships were often organized into small micro-cultures, in order to encourage and facilitate immigration and homesteading. As I discussed in my previous paper, the government was inclined to promote immigration by a variety of cultural groups, such as "Mennonite settlers from Ukraine" (Lehr, 279) and therefore allowed them to gather together in townships, or clusters of townships, such as the "Mennonite West Reserve" (Lehr, 280), created in 1875, which consisted of twenty-two townships. Sifton took this process further, by encouraging immigration and land cultivation "under the colony or hamlet system" (Hall, 65), a move which he believed would encourage single men to consider homesteading. From this perspective, the township system may have encouraged the development of towns and communities, and may well have served as the impetus to immigration it was intended to be, however it also had drawbacks."
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Globalization, 2000.
An overview of the causes and effects of global economic innovations, interdependence, political and cultural adjustments, management functions, technology and agreements and coalitions.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, $ 63.95
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Globalization-the spread of economic innovations around the world and the political and cultural adjustments that accompany this diffusion-appears to be unstoppable. The reason is because globalization it is not the result of a planned activity by government or military power "toward ever larger geopolitical entities.
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"Management of Global Business
Introduction
Globalization-the spread of economic innovations around the world and the political and cultural adjustments that accompany this diffusion-appears to be unstoppable. The reason is because globalization it is not the result of a planned activity by government or military power "toward ever larger geopolitical entities. Nor is it the product of some growing ideological conformity on how we should live. It is, rather, the organic result of the virtuous cycle …, by which economic convergence and the diffusion of innovation raise standards of living over time" (Lewis & Harris, 1992, p. 114).
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n this context, globalization has been occurring in some form for the last three millennia. The Phoenicians "spread innovations almost..."
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An Ethnographic Film: "Trobriand Cricket", 2005.
This paper uses movement analysis to evaluate the ethnographic film "Trobriand Cricket" (1973) by anthropologist Jerry W. Leach and filmmaker Gary Kildea.
2,920 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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This paper explains that, in the film "Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism", made in 1973 by anthropologist Jerry W. Leach and filmmaker Gary Kildea, the film narrative is devoted primarily to the historical context of the cricket game in the Trobriands, providing an illustration of some of the processes of cultural diffusion. The author points out that movement analysis, which focuses on some of the visible aspects of ethnographic films that are often left unrecognized in the film narrative, results in a more profound ethnological appreciation of its contents and is especially valuable for films that focus intentionally on cultural performance. The paper concludes that (1) "Trobriand Cricket" has severe constraints concerning the anthropological "statement" made by the film and (2) movement analysis may yield valuable insight in the initial stages of understanding performance.
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"The cultural interpretation of any performance--no matter how transparently the performance is represented to the observer (as it is so effectively in ethnographic film)-relies on the kind of close observation that organizes several details of performance into a system. It is not simply growing and shrinking that are at issue in the Trobriand design, not simply linear formations that are at stake in the British style. The relationship of those features to other features, the relationship of growing and shrinking to force and speed and clusters of bodies, the relationship of lines to individual bodies and to a stabilizing energy field bring out distinctive patterns. The value of movement analysis lies in its ability to construct an articulate representation of particular and even peculiar performances in terms of the very general features that all movement processes share so that various patterns of association can be traced throughout the action of a given culture and between performances of various cultures. A system like LMA can abstract principles of conduct and can represent them accurately in their full complexity and peculiarity."
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E-Commerce, 2000.
An examination of the development of the Internet-based business as well as finance, planning, innovation, diffusion, security, impact on economies and corporations, regulation and the future.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, $ 55.95
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"How the Internet and Electronic Commerce Will Fundamentally Change the Nature of Global Business and Finance
This paper will discuss how the internet and electronic commerce will fundamentally change the nature of global business and finance. There is a trend for the global business and financial world to continually embrace the Internet and electronic commerce, or e-commerce. It is imperative, since this trend shows no sign of cessation, that a strategy based on E-commerce will be essential for survival and success in any industry or profession.
More and more consumers are giving e-commerce a chance. The Boston Consulting Group predicts that U.S. shoppers will spend over $61 billion online in 2000 and that the business to consumer (B2E)..."
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Agricultural Innovations, 2004.
This paper discusses the societal effects of the diffusion of agricultural innovations.
1,095 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper explains that, of all the innovations discovered during the Middle Ages, the plow is considered the greatest transformer of social and cultural change. The author points out that the initial effect of the shift from horticulture to agriculture was an increase in food production because societies that adopted the plow were able to produce more food in a given territory than those that relied on the hoe and digging stick, thus leading to the development of permanent settlements. The paper relates that one of the most profound changes associated with the plow was the development of a system of writing because the trade of agricultural and other goods had to be tracked.
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"So deep were the diffusions of the agricultural techniques that before the First World War, farmers composed the largest single group in every country. They no longer made up the population everywhere, as they had from the dawn of history to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a hundred years earlier. But farmers still made up a near-majority in every developed country except England and Belgium--in Germany, France, Japan, the United States--and, of course, in all underdeveloped countries, too. And with the current transformation, these agricultural producers are not "farmers" in most senses of the word; they are "agribusiness," which is arguably the most capital-intensive, most technology-intensive and most information-intensive industry."
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Associated-Dependency Theory, 1994.
This paper discusses the development of the associated-dependent theory of relations between developed and underdeveloped nations:Alternative models (diffusion, structuralist, social), politics and economics.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 12 sources, $ 47.95
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"Following the end of Second World War, the industrialized countries of the world began to loosen their political control over those countries that were formerly their colonies. Most capitalist and anti-imperialist economists had postulated that once free of the colonial yoke underdeveloped countries would move rapidly toward industrialization and higher standards of living. Marxist economists did not share this opinion, contending instead that the proletariat in these countries would need to wrest control of the state from the oligarchy before an improvement in the economic well being of the masses could occur.
As it happened, political freedom did not translate into the economic transformation that had been predicted for the former colonies. "
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Homeostasis, 2008.
A detailed presentation of homeostasis, a dynamic process in the human body that balances fluids and electrolytes.
3,295 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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This paper explains that disorders of homeostasis, fluid, and electrolyte balance occur in every setting, with every disorder, and with a variety of changes that affect healthy people. The paper also describes body fluids and electrolytes and the process of regulation of body fluid through osmosis. In addition, the paper discusses issues of homeostasis in the kidneys, skin, lungs, and the gastrointestinal tract.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Body Fluids
Electrolytes
Regulation of Body Fluid Through Osmosis
Diffusion
Diffusion
Filtration
Sodium-Potassium Pump
Electrolyte Balance
Kidneys
Skin
Lungs
Gastrointestinal Tract
Laboratory Tests for Evaluating Fluid Status:
Osmolality
Osmolarity
Homeostatic Mechanisms
Kidney Functions
Heart and Blood Vessel Functions
Lung Functions
Pituitary Functions
Adrenal Functions
Parathyroid Functions
Baroreceptors
Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System
Antidiuretic Hormone and Thirst
Osmoreceptors
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"The hypothalamus manufactures ADH, which is stored in the posterior pituitary gland and released as needed. ADH is sometimes called the water-conserving hormone because it causes the body to retain water. Functions of ADH include maintaining the osmotic pressure of the cells by controlling the retention or excretion of water by the kidneys and by regulating blood volume.
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Italy'S Foreign Policy, 2003.
Contends that the country has a diffused foreign policy program.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 9 sources, $ 39.95
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The paper presents an overview of Italy's foreign policy, including its involvement in geopolitical affairs. It shows Italy's attitude regarding the European Union (EU) and the euro. It also touches on its support of the anti-terrorist program of the U.S.'s stance on the Middle-East crisis and its pro-Israeli position.
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"Italy's Foreign Policy and Concerns
Italy's foreign policy in recent months has consisted of a set of seemingly contradictory positions regarding her involvement in geopolitical affairs. On the one hand, Italy seems to be skeptical regarding the ..."
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Rogers' Five Attributes of Innovation, 2008.
An explanation of the introduction of an innovation into an organization.
2,008 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 63.95
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This paper looks at the diffusion of a particular innovation within a farm goods retailer. It discusses the history of the diffusion process at this organization and identifies the opinion leaders and change agents promoting the decision and the ensuing results. The author then goes on to describe the innovation-decision process within the organization and the communication channels that exist within the organization.
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"In the course of one's organizational life, decisions about whether to adopt or reject a new innovation are fairly frequent; as most of us well-know, sometimes the decisions taken are wise, and sometimes the decisions taken are bad. With that in mind, the following paper will look at the diffusion of a particular innovation within a farm goods retailer for which I once worked. Specifically, I will begin by discussing the history of the diffusion process at this organization as best I can. From there, I will identify the opinion leaders and change agents promoting the decision and the success - or lack thereof - they encountered. With that out of the way, the essay will next look at the innovation-decision process within the organization as it unfolded when the new technology was adopted. From there, time will be set aside to looking at whether or not the organization adopted the new innovation and, if it did so, whether or not it was slow or fast in doing so. Pressing onward, an examination will be undertaken of why the change diffused at the pace it did and what role the organizational social structure played in the diffusion of the innovation. Finally, the paper will identify the communication channels and network existing within the social structure of the organization and how knowledge about the innovation was distributed and the role played by change agents in cultivating an acceptance of change. In the end, what will become evident is that long-standing institutional barriers - particularly organizational culture, the perception that one's interests are not served by the innovation, and the adaptability of older workers - all determine the rate of diffusion for an innovation."
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