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1) The Arrhenius concept defines an acid as a substance that produces hydrogen ions (H+) in aqueous solution, and a base as a substance that produces hydroxide ions (OH-).
2) The Brønsted-Lowry concept defines acids as proton donors and bases as proton acceptors. This allows any hydrogen-containing compound to act as an acid through proton transfer.
3) The Lewis concept further expands the definition of acids and bases to include compounds without hydrogen, such as AlCl3 acting as an acid and Na2CO3 acting as a base by accepting or donating electron pairs.
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This thesis examines the spatial distribution of energy efficiency upgrades in Boulder County, Colorado through a mixed methods approach. GIS cluster analysis identified neighborhoods with high and low instances of upgrades. A survey targeted these areas to understand homeowner knowledge, attitudes, and the impact of peer effects. Demographic analysis identified groups underserved by the program. The results provide recommendations to increase participation and reduce exclusion from energy efficiency upgrades.
Louisa and David Stone operate Bicycle Recycle, a program in Williamsport, PA that aims to promote cycling culture and the benefits of biking. Through their volunteer-run shop, they teach bike repair skills, redistribute donated bikes, and advocate for more bike-friendly infrastructure like lanes and racks. Their goals are to cultivate community, encourage responsibility, and make Williamsport a more livable city by strengthening urban cycling connections. While they have made progress growing local interest, more work remains to fully realize a bike-integrated community and accommodate cyclists at local events.
The Soul Searchers is a paranormal investigation group in Williamsport, PA that mentors children interested in ghost hunting. During a recent investigation at the Snyder House farm property in Montoursville, about 10 children joined the group's 7 members. The group uses technology to investigate reports of paranormal activity and teaches children proper investigating techniques. The Snyder House is an abandoned old house the group has investigated for a year, where they have experienced unexplained paranormal events.
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Successful people often face failure on their path to success. Many famous entrepreneurs and business leaders experienced multiple failures and rejections before achieving major success, including Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, J.K. Rowling, Bill Gates, and others. The one common trait among all radically successful people is that they never give up in the face of failure or rejection, but rather learn from their mistakes and keep pursuing their goals with determination and perseverance.
O&M saw potential in product X due to its indigenous nature. They originally considered the slogan "Phirbhidilhai Hindustani" but felt it did not do justice to the product. The identified X as a shampoo brand and the slogan created by O&M for X was "Infinite Bounce".
AOL began in 1983 as Control Video Corporation and focused on connecting video game systems to phone lines. It was renamed AOL in 1985 and grew to become a leading internet service provider before being acquired by Verizon in 2015 for $4.4 billion. The main challenge for AOL post-acquisition was integrating its culture, which focused on employees, with Verizon's outwardly focused customer-centric approach. Eli Lilly founded its pharmaceutical company in 1876 and was a pioneer in research and development as well as mass production. It launched its first medication in 1883 and became a global force through continued innovation, including introducing the first commercially available insulin in 1923.
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The document discusses strategies for independent game studios to survive and thrive in 2023, given concerns about an "Indiepocalypse" where the indie games market fails due to increased competition. It outlines eleven steps: understand risks, don't chase trends, test business cases, assume failure, rise to challenges, build a brand, embrace sincerity, avoid obvious choices, fail faster through testing, get lucky, and that there is no Indiepocalypse since unique high-quality games will find audiences. It advises studios to focus on developing their own unique style consistently rather than trying to copy popular successes.
The document provides a preview of the prelims for the KQA Business Quiz with 30 multiple choice questions and answers. Some key details:
- The prelims are for teams of 4 members or less with no negative marking.
- Questions cover a range of topics from current events to history to brands.
- The top 8 scoring teams will advance to the finals.
BUSS2067 - Lecture 4 - Cultural Environment of International BusinessPreston Teeter, PhD
In this lecture on culture, we review some of the most prominent theories and frameworks by which to analyze the culture of a country and an organization. Hofstede's cultural dimensions, high vs. low context, and other frameworks are covered. We look at the examples of Japan's corporate culture and the Wal-Mart culture as examples of how culture can both aid and impede business progress.
This document provides a summary of the success story of Walmart. It discusses the history of Sam Walton and how he founded Walmart in 1962. It outlines Walmart's growth from 18 stores in 1969 to over 8,500 stores globally today. It attributes Walmart's success to Sam Walton's strategies of opening stores in rural areas, keeping costs low, and discounting heavily. The document also summarizes Walmart's social media presence, sustainability and diversity initiatives, joint ventures in Mexico and India, and Sam Walton's mantra of cutting costs to provide the lowest prices.
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This document discusses using social data to enhance engagement for World Cup advertising campaigns. It provides examples from Ford's global launch of the Mustang. The key recommendations are:
1. Segment social media users who have engaged with World Cup content to identify target demographics, like males aged 25-34.
2. Analyze which unique media platforms and influencers have the highest concentrations of the target demographic to place ads cost-effectively.
3. Consider the dominant brand personalities of engaged World Cup fans, like "Wholesome", to tone advertising content accordingly and improve responses. Testing content alignment helped some brands like Nike and Adidas better match the shifting personalities over time.
The document profiles 10 of the greatest salespeople of all time, including Dale Carnegie, John H. Patterson, David Ogilvy, Mary Kay Ash, Zig Ziglar, Napoleon Barragan, Joe Girard, Meg Whitman, Steve Jobs, and Thomas Edison. It provides a brief overview of each individual's background and their impact and innovations within the field of sales.
The document provides advice on how to address concerns about bad press, including forwarding legal responses to media articles that question the company or its products. It also shares examples of successful entrepreneurs like Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, and Walt Disney who experienced bankruptcy or business failures but later found success. Associates are reminded to make informed choices and consider the strengths of the company's management team, products, and financial position.
This document contains a quiz with multiple choice questions about various companies and business terms. It includes questions about the origins of terms like EPSON and HITACHI, companies like DENA Bank, products like Rubik's Cube, and business concepts like ESOPs and ambush marketing. The document is in a question and answer format testing knowledge of business, history, and current events.
Finals of the Business, Management & Entrepreneurship Quiz organised by IIT BHU Quiz Club. Held on 17th September 2015 at G7, Mechanical Engg Dept, IIT (BHU) Varanasi.
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emember, you can always learn from
your failure and mistakes as well as of
others. This issue contains the stories
and thoughts of pioneers who, before attaining
incredible success, met with failure. Their desire
and dedication towards their goal were the
extreme factors that build the bridge for them to
move further towards achieving the goal, even
after meeting with failure. The only thing that will
make a goal worthy to achieve is one’s own
dedication, enthusiasm, strong desire and
positivity to achieve whatever you want to. It may
happen that the problems that they faced may be
vastly differet from ours, but we can always learn
from their failure and success by looking at the
efforts that they made, wisdom they have now
and prompt actions towards their work.
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1) Henry Ford
t’s difficult to consider Henry
Ford as a
something
besides a
crushing
accomplishment
in the car
business. Ford’s
first organization
– Detroit
Automobile
Company, went bankrupt in 1901, in
the midst of client protests of “high
costs and low quality". Henry Ford
Company was relinquished because
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6. The FACFS 6– July 2015
of a battle with his accomplice, while
a third organization about crumpled
from low sales numbers.
This disappointment said to
Henry Ford- loud and clear was
"listen to your market!" Which he
did amazingly and without a doubt.
With the help of angel financial
specialists and the lessons of his
past failures, Ford reincorporated as
Ford Motor Company and
concentrated soundly on mass-
creating vehicles. Thusly, we all
think about Ford Motor while
scarcely anybody recalls Detroit
Automobile Co.
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2) Akio Morita
oday, you
know Sony
as a digital
electronics
powerhouse.
However,
The company
was remarkably
low-tech in the
good old days.
Rice cookers were the early day’s
product in search for selling the
same by its founder Akio Morita. The
issue was that the rice cooker
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essentially blazed more rice than it
cooked. Calling it a primitive item
and in addition that "delicious rice
was a rarity" and the task turned
into a "paramount disappointment"
for Morita and accomplice Masaru
Ibuka." Ultimately, less than 100
units were sold to people in general.
Morita and Ibuka's hard-
battled intelligence from the rice
cooker venture was to fizzle rapidly
and fall flat shabby. Because of
failure from such a substandard
product, they may never have
handled the much more lucrative
assignment of building an
Electronics Empire.
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3) Harland David Sanders
arland David Sanders also
called "Colonel
Sanders" suffered
through a percentage
of the harshest early
failures of all. In spite
of having what we
now know is an
unquestionably well-
known chicken
formula. Nobody needed it at first.
Actually, Sanders suffered more
than 1,000 dismissals before at last
discovering an eatery that was
willing to work with him. At an early
H
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stage, KFC says, Colonel Sanders
actually conveyed the mystery zest
blend with him in his car looking for
business accomplices.
Colonel Sanders' initial failures
are a demonstration of the force of
determination. It would have been
very simple and truly reasonable to
surrender in the wake of being told
"no" a hundred times – don't bother
one thousand times. However,
Sanders knew his formula had
esteem and continued pushing until
he discovered somebody who
agreed.
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4) R.H.Macy
.H. Macy was not really a
moment prosper in
retail. Truth is, the
initial four store
areas that he
opened were
disgraceful failures
including the first
genuine Macy's
store in
Massachusetts. Amid 1843-1855,
each one of these dry merchandise
stores perished from neglect on poor
customer interest and dull sales.
R
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There is an expectation to
absorb information in pretty much
every kind of business you can
envision. For R.H. Macy, retail was
the same. Seemingly, what at last
made ready for him to be fruitful
was opening a store in a head area
in the New York City rather than in
zones with feeble interest.
Regardless, it’s reasonable that
Macy persevered through his initial
disappointments with eyes totally
open, splashing up the greater part
of the lessons he could and evading
the same mix-ups later on.
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5) Albert Einstein
t the point when Einstein was
young, his guardians
thought he was
rationally impeded.
His evaluations in
school were poor to
the point that an
educator requesting
that he must quit
studying. Saying that, "Einstein, you
will never add up to anything!"
Additionally he didn't talk until
he turned 4 and didn't read until he
was 7.
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We know him as the
Theoretical Physicist broadly viewed
as the most imperative researcher of
the 20th century. He was granted
the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for
his clarification of the Photoelectric
Effect in 1905 and "for his
administrations to Theoretical
Physics".
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6) Walt Disney
isney began his own particular
business from his
home garage and his
first cartoon creation
went bankrupt.
Amid in his first
public interview, a
daily paper editor
criticized Walt Disney
on the grounds that he had poor
thoughts for film creation.
Disney was an American film
maker, executive, screenwriter,
voice performer, and animator. A
D
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standout amongst the most surely
understood film makers on the
planet, Disney established a
production company. The company
is presently well-known as 'The Walt
Disney Company'.
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