http://en.oboulo.com/html/rss/en/rss.xml en Oboulo.com 20 http://en.oboulo.com/image/en/logo.png http://en.oboulo.com/ 326 110 http://en.oboulo.com/working-of-the-front-office-department-in-the-hotel-industry-65992.html Hotel Industry is the oldest commercial endeavors in the world. It is understood that the first hotel goes back to the 6th century BC, and were the services of the urge to travel, spurred by the invention of the 'wheel'. The earliest inns were ventures by husband and wife teams who provided large... http://en.oboulo.com/invasion-of-the-body-snatcher-65991.html A doctor must make a moral decision. He works in a hospital and has five deathly ill patients to look after. Each patient needs one organ to stay alive. A pizza delivery man enters the hospital. The delivery man is an organ match for all of the patients who are desperate and in need. The doctor... http://en.oboulo.com/the-evolution-of-black-films-movies-65990.html Stereotypical and demeaning roles were originally created for Blacks in film, since the emergence of the first full length feature film, Birth of a Nation (1913). Blacks did not have power in the motion picture industry when it was originally formed. Films by Black writers, producers, and directors... http://en.oboulo.com/analysis-of-there-eyes-were-watching-god-by-zora-neale-65989.html The novel starts by saying that men and women are different. Men wish for what they can't have in vain, while women on the other hand are more realistic in that their goals are actually attainable. And like other women of her time the lead character Janie Mae Crawford aims for a real give-and-take... http://en.oboulo.com/conflicts-abound-in-slumdog-millionaire-a-film-analysis-65988.html The text, Intercultural Communication in Contexts by Judith M. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama defines culture as "learned patterns of behavior and attitudes shaped by a group of people" (Martin, Nakayama 81).They also stress that culture has held many acceptable definitions due to its complexity as... http://en.oboulo.com/black-roles-in-film-then-and-now-65987.html Black roles in film have expanded and transcended within American pop culture to include genres of vast variety. Today, the roles of Black actors are more diverse with actors such as Morgan Freeman playing God in Evan Almighty (2007), and Jamie Foxx playing an FBI special agent in The Kingdom... http://en.oboulo.com/how-black-panthers-party-empowered-the-black-community-and-the-65986.html The topic I wish to know more about is the Black Panther Party's acts of empowerment in the Black community and what led the party to its demise. The emergence of the Black Panther Party began some 40 plus years ago, which makes it a part of the post-Civil Rights era, pertaining to contemporary... http://en.oboulo.com/tea-ceremony-a-history-of-tea-and-the-tea-ceremony-65985.html The history of tea began in the Pre-Classical period before 618 AD. Myth says that an emperor in ancient China named Shen Nung was the first individual to drink tea (The History of Tea 1). Shen Nung was an herbalist and scientist that required his drinking water to be boiled. This hygienic... http://en.oboulo.com/the-problem-of-increasing-tourism-in-fulton-missouri-65984.html The main source of concern is increasing tourism in Fulton, Missouri. Mikhail Gorbachev's planned speech at the Winston Churchill Memorial at Westminster College in Fulton will officially bring an end to the Cold War. It will also be the anniversary of the 1946 Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain"... http://en.oboulo.com/film-aesthetics-in-chris-rock-s-i-think-i-love-65983.html The 2007 motion picture I Think I Love My Wife was directed and written by Chris Rock, who also stars in the film as the leading character. With screenwriting control and director credential Rock can tell the story of a man in a bland marriage from his point of view without outside influences. The... http://en.oboulo.com/pinochet-a-man-both-loved-and-hated-65982.html On December 10, 2006, Augusto Pinochet, former President of Chile died in Santiago due to heart complications (Gatica 1). He was a man both loved and hated during his 17 years as head of state. Pinochet was loved for overthrowing socialist President Salvador Allende in the United States supported... http://en.oboulo.com/raisin-in-the-sun-and-its-parallels-to-the-black-65981.html Raisin in the sun is a play of epic proportions. The lives of the younger' uncovers the hopes, dreams, and despair of Black Americans as a whole. In this play we are engulfed into the quest of one black family's pursuit of the American Dream. James Truslow Adams used the term "American Dream" in... http://en.oboulo.com/geisha-tea-ceremony-65980.html The life of a Geisha is often glamorized or simplified by Westerners. Many in the West think of geishas as something of royalty due to their high status in Japanese culture, and fashionable dress. On the other hand, Westerners also think of geishas as Japanese versions of prostitutes, not knowing... http://en.oboulo.com/the-black-pages-book-review-65979.html In the poem "I hope You Believe Me", Heru strives to teach about the oppression faced by people of African descent through metaphors. Heru's poem has three strengths. It is provoking, articulate and subtlety reflects on various black thoughts on oppression. The poem is provoking due to its strong... http://en.oboulo.com/observing-the-life-and-times-of-a-kaffir-boy-65978.html Emotion and sensitivity engulf the reader into the world of this powerful memoir that rightfully and adequately portrays the story of a youth coming of age in apartheid South Africa. On all levels the main character in Kaffir Boy, Johannes was demeaned by whites for being African with a tribal... http://en.oboulo.com/changes-in-the-lives-and-roles-of-women-1300-to-65977.html The lives and roles of women have changed monumentally since the 1300s. Today, women in the West and Southeast Asia enjoy benefits, like legal rights and educational opportunities which were not available to the women before them. This paper will analyze the many changes in the lives and roles of... http://en.oboulo.com/defend-or-oppose-the-necessity-of-actions-taken-to-expand-65976.html Interaction between the peoples of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas during 1300-1789 C.E. brought about cultural fusion, trade, commerce and the foundation of the current state of political affairs. Expansion into the New World and Africa created numerous benefits such as ship building and... http://en.oboulo.com/learning-while-black-65975.html There were no African-American literature or history courses at Northern Michigan University, so when I learned that the concentration for American Literature III would include the Harlem Renaissance, I jumped into the course. Two months later and the only black person we'd talked about in the... http://en.oboulo.com/does-uninspired-media-coverage-cause-uninspired-crime-65974.html Once upon a time, cave man hunted and gathered while cave woman looked after cave kids and cave kitchen. Life was a struggle. Survival was the only goal. Then came, not too soon after, trains, cars, welfare, television, the microwave, celebrity big brother and so on. For most of us, survival is... http://en.oboulo.com/is-the-american-dream-a-reality-if-so-how-far-65973.html The American Dream is a term that has been used to encompass the founding ideas that have existed since the birth of the United States. Its definition is broad and has been open to many interpretations, which have adapted and changed over the course of American history. Liberal philosophers such as... http://en.oboulo.com/the-hope-of-the-poet-65972.html Not until the end of his career as a poet, albeit a mere couple years, does Keats write perhaps his most illuminating lines, clearly communicating the end to which he aspires as a writer: 'The poet and the dreamer are distinct / Diverse, sheer opposite, antipodes / And that the height of poetry can... http://en.oboulo.com/the-need-of-customer-relationship-management-crm-to-succeed-in-65971.html A woman once purchased a car, and several days before the scheduled delivery date, she got a call all from the sales manager at the dealership. Fearing the expected bad news about the potential delay in the delivery date, she answered the call with trepidation. To her surprise manager asked her few... http://en.oboulo.com/motivation-theories-cycle-and-motives-65970.html Motivation is derived from Latin word 'movere' that means 'to move'. Motive means 'that which move the will'. Motivating means to take more initiative & interest in the work assigned. It is an art of getting things done willingly from others. Motivation means that an individual in such a way it... http://en.oboulo.com/the-credit-crunch-and-its-impact-on-the-property-market-65969.html The report provides an evaluation of the consequences of the credit crunch for property in UK. It demonstrates that the credit crunch is having a comprehensive impact on investment, development and occupational markets and due to effect of credit crunch on the wider economy the result for property... http://en.oboulo.com/a-research-study-on-absenteeism-of-employees-in-an-organization-65968.html According to Picoars and Payers 'unexpected absence disturbs the efficiency of the group as the jobs are inter-connected, if one single man remains absent without prior notice the whole operation process is distributed. This absenteeism results in production losses because, due to absenteeism,... http://en.oboulo.com/organizational-behavior-and-its-importance-for-an-organization-65967.html To make the topic clear we can take the example of the ubiquitous search engine - GOOGLE. Google servers' process more than 200 million search queries in 90 languages every day, over half of them form users outside the United States. Google's success is more amazing as this profitable company of... http://en.oboulo.com/financial-ratios-meaning-calculation-and-application-65966.html A financial statement generally refers to the basis statements, which are as follows i) The income statement ii) The balance sheet iii) Statement of retained earnings iv) Statement of charge in financial position in addition to the above two statements. Financial statement analysis is the... http://en.oboulo.com/a-research-study-on-performance-management-system-in-an-organization-65965.html A company reviews the existing appraisal system of senior executive levels. The revised performance management system has components of performance planning, monitoring, review and development through involvement of the appraisee is being introduced. The focus of the performance management system... http://en.oboulo.com/understanding-the-effectiveness-of-performance-appraisal-through-a-survey-65964.html In the business world investment is made in machinery, equipment and services. Quite naturally time and money is spent ensuring that they provide what their suppliers claim. In other words the performance is constantly appraised against the results expected. When it comes to one of the most... http://en.oboulo.com/organized-retail-sector-in-india-65963.html Retailing is defined as a definite set of activities or steps used to sell a product or a service to consumers for their personal or family use. It is responsible for matching individual demands of the consumer with supplies of all the manufacturers. Retail is India's largest industry, accounting... http://en.oboulo.com/a-study-on-organizational-change-65962.html Change is inevitable in the life of an organization. In today's business world, most of the organizations are facing a dynamic and changing business environment. They should either change or die, there is no third alternative. Organizations that learn and cope with change will thrive and flourish... http://en.oboulo.com/a-study-on-the-significance-of-information-technology-in-various-65961.html The outcome of the integration of computer and telecommunications technology is today called as Information Technology which is popularly known as Info Tech. Businesses use IT in many different ways. Some IT applications automate a variety of basic business activities, from production control... http://en.oboulo.com/the-mindset-of-the-people-towards-the-concept-of-event-65960.html The present study has been undertaken to get the first hand exposure on the mindset of people towards the Event Marketing concept and their involvement in events, as and when they come across, if any. A questionnaire was designed keeping in mind the requirements for study & analysis of the thesis... http://en.oboulo.com/steps-and-processes-involved-in-advertising-65959.html "With realistic goals for advertising, you can satisfy both, those who are investing in the advertising and those who are creating it." Almost every person involved with advertising wants to measure their advertising results. Those who pay the bills want to know the return on their investment,... http://en.oboulo.com/food-aid-distortion-and-the-wto-65958.html The first of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Specifically, this goal aims to "halve the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. Yet, today 963 million people are hungry. To help fill the apparent void, the international community... http://en.oboulo.com/antidumping-the-obstacle-in-free-trade-65957.html Many countries are hesitant to sign the draft agreement of World Trade Organization. There has been wide spread protests whenever the conference of World Trade Organization is held. Protests are carried out to demand tighter environmental standards for MNC's and developed countries but little work... http://en.oboulo.com/methods-of-decision-making-65956.html All individuals make perceptions in their own way based on different individuals and assorted situations. A perception is defined as how people view others or objects by interpreting an impression to give meaning to their surroundings. Perception is the process of organizing ones sensory data. An... http://en.oboulo.com/automotive-industry-65955.html The automotive industry includes the development, model, manufacture, marketing, and trade of motor vehicles. In the 20th century automobiles have increasingly developed the world and changed the way individuals do business and travel. Automotive fabrications are amongst the biggest companies... http://en.oboulo.com/bead-bar-s-superior-computer-system-65954.html A standard business depends on information technology for their continued existence. Information technology can provide a business with efficiency which assists a business to be highly successful. Recently, information systems have been recognized as a tool for obtaining a competitive advantage.... http://en.oboulo.com/entering-the-global-market-65953.html In today's world of business competition, entering a product into the foreign market is a great opportunity for a business to become highly successful. However, there are several aspects the company should consider before entering into the business world of exporting to foreign countries. The... http://en.oboulo.com/protecting-children-in-cyber-space-65952.html Advent of any technology brings about positive and negative aspects with it. The negative aspects of cyberspace have diminished the social and cultural norms of societies. Cyber bullying, child abuse are part of them. The unchecked use of cyberspace can cause children fall into wrong ideologies and... http://en.oboulo.com/mcdonalds-strategic-audit-65951.html The case time setting is the year 2007. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, McDonald's common stock is publicly-traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MCD. The mission statement: to be the world's best quick service restaurant (2). Being the best means providing... http://en.oboulo.com/starbucks-going-global-fast-case-study-65950.html The international coffee market is a very competitive market. There are increasing numbers of competitors, such as full service restaurants and other coffee shops, entering the growing specialist coffee market in recent years. Starbucks must be aware of this strong competition all over the world... http://en.oboulo.com/importance-of-benchmarking-of-e-business-sites-65949.html Benchmarking is an important activity in the analysis of E-Business web sites. The primary reason being that today E-Business is highly competitive, with customers having lot of options and hence the E-Business web sites have to keep up with standards or else risk losing customers. Benchmarking... http://en.oboulo.com/3d-graphics-tools-for-java-65948.html There are several packages for 3D graphics in Java that have come up in the past decade with varying degrees of success. This paper does a survey of not only the features of these tools, but also about their importance and the future prospects of Java based graphics tools. There are powerful... http://en.oboulo.com/environmentally-friendly-companies-diversified-natural-products-inc-and-ics-cleaning-65947.html As an environmentally friendly cleaning products and services company, the London-based ICS Cleaning works in teams to give an "intelligent clean." Taking great pride in their work, the company proves thorough and banks on skill instead of sizeable amounts of chemicals. With 25 years industry... http://en.oboulo.com/monetary-policy-65946.html Monetary policy changes have influence over unemployment, short-term production and in the long-run affect prices and inflation rates. What monetary policy can do to heighten economic performance is a challenge that must be understood by economic policymakers. What monetary policy cannot do to... http://en.oboulo.com/ben-edwards-the-return-65945.html He was the best, once, now reduced to this. The decaying rooms of this dilapidated construction are not fit for humans to reside, just birds and perhaps the odd rodent. Walking through the huge floor to ceiling windows he heard the crunch of broken glass under his feet, vandals and time really... http://en.oboulo.com/witchcraft-in-east-anglia-hopkins-stearne-65944.html In 1995 Seth Nthai, the Minister for Security and Safety in South Africa, admitted that witchcraft accusations in South Africa seemed to be connected to the political situation. This was arguably illustrated by the increase in witch burnings during 1990, when Mandela was released, and in 1994... http://en.oboulo.com/automated-image-tracking-and-surveillance-the-vigil-master-65943.html Surveillance is monitoring of behavior. Surveillance cameras have become widespread: Public places, shopping centers, offices, transportation, and much others. Increasingly, the sheer volume of data requires automated analysis. Surveillance is touted as a tool against crime. Surveillance techniques... http://en.oboulo.com/curvature-scale-space-css-based-trade-mark-recognition-65942.html Information is inherently multimodal. Humans can efficiently and effectively process information simultaneously in multiple dimensions. These multiple media, that aid effective communication, can be characterized into speech, audio, image, video, and textual data. Advances in computing and... http://en.oboulo.com/texture-analysis-and-classification-65941.html Texture classification is an image processing technique by which different regions of an image are identified based on texture properties. This process plays an important role in industrial, biomedical and remote sensing applications. One of the major developments recently in texture segmentation... http://en.oboulo.com/fault-management-of-lan-a-hierarchical-adaptive-distributed-diagnosis-algorithm-65940.html As computer networks have grown in into complex enterprise wide systems, managements of operation and associated risk has become a critical task. The goal of the network management is to monitor, interpret and control network operations, optimizing costs and reducing failure downtime using minimum... http://en.oboulo.com/real-time-software-gps-receiver-with-new-fast-tracking-method-65939.html This work is part of an effort to develop a receiver that solely depends upon software based processing. Correlation operations are performed in software rather than using a hardware correlators. The receiver consists of RF front end and a SHARC DSP processor. The RF front end converts the L1... http://en.oboulo.com/e-i3t-for-agro-systems-65938.html The term e-i3t is for the use and impact of technologies based on electronics, communications and information technology. It is a process by which organizations, institutions, industries and societies guide themselves for better management of their operations and optimal utilization of resources.... http://en.oboulo.com/stream-data-mining-techniques-issues-and-challenges-65937.html Data stream mining is the process of extracting knowledge structures from continuous, rapid data records. Examples of data streams include computer network traffic, phone conversations, ATM transactions, web searches and sensor data. Data mining is the interdisciplinary field of study that can... http://en.oboulo.com/binary-diversification-and-unique-cipher-strategiesto-assist-in-net-centric-65936.html The current computing monoculture of Open Architecture, COTS, GOTS leaves our infrastructure vulnerable to a massive, rapid attack. The main reason for this is the enormous number of machines executing identical code. One technique that has been proposed to mitigate this threat is to artificially... http://en.oboulo.com/modeling-and-design-techniques-for-the-central-data-warehouse-65935.html This paper presents the techniques required for modeling the central data warehouse (CDW). It promotes end-user requirements driven data warehouse development process, consisting of sub-projects which develop departmental warehouses (data marts) that can be made to fit within a corporate data... http://en.oboulo.com/graphics-api-testing-tool-for-image-comparison-65934.html The image comparison uses image-filtering techniques to ignore minor differences that are expectable and acceptable between two implementations. The tool presented is a reliable tool in detecting faults in output images and performs in this task far better than prior image comparison... http://en.oboulo.com/optimization-of-network-bandwidth-using-image-compression-65933.html In the early days of computing, data was numerical. Later, textual data became more common. Today, we see many other forms of data: voice, music, speech, images, computer graphics, etc. Although such data has been in use for a long time, their use is becoming increasingly prevalent due to... http://en.oboulo.com/secure-corba-adapter-business-applications-integration-with-ssl-security-65932.html CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) added great values to Distributed computing by providing RPC architecture. This CORBA is based on Object Model developed by OMG itself. This architecture supports object oriented languages like C++, JAVA, Small Talk, Ada, COBOL etc. i.e.... http://en.oboulo.com/a-fractionally-spaced-dfe-with-exponential-step-size-lms-algorithm-65931.html In a multi path environment within time disruptive channels, modulation bandwidth greater than the coherence bandwidth of the radio channel introduces inter symbol interference (ISI) resulting into high bit error rate (BER) [1]. The performance of communication links under such hostile conditions... http://en.oboulo.com/comparative-study-of-memory-consistency-models-in-prevalent-software-dsm-65930.html Often computational resources at a single location are not enough for computation. In addition, it is not financially viable to invest in high-end machines. Currently, network of computers and clustering technologies has gained significant attention for high performance computing because of the... http://en.oboulo.com/parallel-algorithm-for-solving-the-system-of-simultaneous-linear-equations-65929.html The problem of solving the system of simultaneous linear equations with large number of unknowns often takes more time in unprocessed systems. Since parallel computing systems are now available, these can be solved exploiting the large processing power of the system. Thus we need an efficient... http://en.oboulo.com/neural-network-implementation-65928.html CMOL circuits seem more suitable for the implementation of naturally defect-tolerant architectures, including artificial neural networks. Neural Networks designed using CMOL are named as "Cross Nets" and they may eventually exceed the mammal brain in a real density, at much higher speed and... http://en.oboulo.com/modified-locally-delayed-latching-approach-for-data-synchronization-in-gals-65927.html IP core based Systems on chip (SOC) require multiple frequency domain clocks and it become difficult to obtain all cores in SOC's of the same frequency. As IP core based SOC's offer multiple advantages such as high degree of modularity, less time to market, effective integration of complex systems... http://en.oboulo.com/role-of-optical-cdma-in-access-networks-65926.html Optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) combines the large bandwidth of the fiber medium with the flexibility of the CDMA technique to achieve high-speed connectivity. CDMA was originally investigated in the context of radio frequency communications systems, and was first applied to the... http://en.oboulo.com/code-division-switching-65925.html Code division may be considered as a generalized method for access and switching in communication networks. Such an approach may be viewed as a user encoding process where the choice of the code and spreading types can create a large set of access and switching techniques in which the traditional... http://en.oboulo.com/an-application-layer-communication-interface-for-a-combat-management-system-65924.html The objective of the system is to provide a state of the art technology "Decision Support System" to the command. The system is referred as "Combat Management System: CMS-SNF ". The system is hosted on the naval ships. The CMS-SNF system is envisaged to be a major project consisting of both... http://en.oboulo.com/image-based-watermarking-and-authentication-mechanism-65923.html Popular transforms include the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and the Discrete Wavelets Transform (DWT) that allow us to place the water mark easily into the perceptually significant parts of an image. This leads to a mark that is more resistant to an attack, since it is harder to remove the... http://en.oboulo.com/security-issues-in-on-demand-grid-computing-65922.html Utility computing is defined to be the on demand delivery of infrastructure, applications, and business processes in security-rich, shared, scalable, and standards-based computer environment over the Internet through fee. Customers will hit into IT resources - and pay for them - as easily as they... http://en.oboulo.com/biometric-security-system-65921.html One of the most common causes of network security breaches is easily guessable or insecure passwords. Many users choose common names or words that are in any dictionary; others use the same passwords everywhere or write them down where they can be discovered. Wouldn't it be great if you never had... http://en.oboulo.com/reliable-group-key-distribution-protocol-with-source-authentication-65920.html IP multicast provides efficient group communications. It conserves network resources by transmitting a single copy of the packet on each link. It also supports large multicast groups with frequent membership changes. But it does not ensure secure and reliable communication of multicast data. For... http://en.oboulo.com/data-warehouse-65919.html Nowadays data is everywhere and yet we are not able to access proper data that we want effectively. You can't get the data that you want, you can't understand the data you found and you can't effectively use the data you found. There is data in network but you are not able to access because it is... http://en.oboulo.com/resveratrol-and-calorie-restriction-65918.html If an organism can remain lean, lifespan is increased--as long as it avoids any excess fat accumulation. But this must be done without diminishing dietary intake. Research attests that those who practice calorie restriction have (in a statistically significant way) better cardiovascular health. ... http://en.oboulo.com/across-the-board-leadership-and-new-value-development-organizes-changing-65917.html InterClean, a major sanitation competitor realizes that in today's environmentally friendly atmosphere, customers express increased interest in solutions and services (rather than products) to contour cleaning endeavors. InterClean, through its reorganization, hopes to offer increased turnkey... http://en.oboulo.com/running-header-riordan-benchmarking-65916.html Riordan Manufacturing faced several issues but none that are uncommon in any growing organization going through a transitional period. By simply looking at companies such these General Motors and Wal-mart, Royal Bank of Scotland and Goodyear, Hudson Highland Group (Hudson Employee Index) and... http://en.oboulo.com/the-problem-of-definitions-in-telecommunications-regulation-in-the-convergence-65915.html The following document will expound upon the role of definitions in the telecommunications regulations arena during the modern technological era of convergent technologies and ideological spheres. The document will overview the importance of defining the object being regulated (in this case,... http://en.oboulo.com/this-is-what-it-means-to-say-phoenix-arizona-a-65914.html The following dissertation will focus on the short story, "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona," by Sherman Alexie. This document will outline continual themes on cultural assumptions regarding identity, and based on the perspective of the short story and its interplay, will show how the... http://en.oboulo.com/biographies-of-three-african-american-aviators-65913.html The following document presents an overview of three distinct and influential African American pilots from the 1920's and 1930's era. Following World War I and II, many African American men and women began to dream of become pilots. Unfortunately, the situation in the United States did not allow... http://en.oboulo.com/two-health-care-law-case-studies-65912.html Drs. Allison Jones and Emily Johnson will have to abide by several standards when attempting to open their practice in Tesson, Allstate, particularly in regard to their desire to enlist a physician's assistant to do many of their main undertakings in the new their office, especially as he/she will... http://en.oboulo.com/cross-culture-aspects-of-play-and-childhood-development-models-65911.html Piaget (1962) described play as imitating and practicing behaviors, oftentimes associated with symbolic . Play happens through the assimilation of facts, events or behaviors, or through the distortion of reality, in order to put reality back together. Sometimes child play involves the... http://en.oboulo.com/teacher-empathy-and-its-impact-on-bullying-in-schools-65910.html Bullying has been a difficult term to define, particularly before state legislatures began to define bullying in precise language for the purpose of law-making. Oftentimes, it was left up to teachers, or individual students, to express their own qualitative and subjective definition of the... http://en.oboulo.com/descartes-views-on-mind-body-and-substance-dualism-65909.html French philosopher Descartes makes it very clear, when making the comparison between body and mind, two substances which he calls the 'thinking thing' (res cogitans) and the 'extended thing' (res extensa), that these two parts of the human experience are very different. In this sense, we cannot,... http://en.oboulo.com/the-role-of-private-equity-firms-as-an-alternative-investment-65908.html The global economic reality has witnessed a recent international increase in the private equity markets. This fact has brought up many concerns as to whether this will have a positive or negative outcome (Financial Services Authority, 2006). 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