The Art of Love in Renaissance Italy: An Exploration of Sensual Pleasure in Architectural Space Xiaoyi Chen FAH335 #1 Exhibition Catalogue Printed Book: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Date: 1499 Author: Francesco Colonna Location: Venice With elegant woodcutting and hybrid language, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (translated in English as The Strife of Love in a Dream) depicts…
its profitability. Overall, as retail sector is highly dependent of overall country’s economic situation, this stagnation in economic situation can limit opportunities to further company’s development. Monte-Carlo Simulation. We performed a Monte Carlo Simulation to understand the sensitivity of our model to variations in our adopted assumptions – terminal growth rate, weighted average cost of capital, the number of new stores launched, Like-For-Like growth, Rent…
Literature Review Ⅰ. HOTSPOT MAPPING Hotspot can be defined as aggregations of raw crime data that identify geographic locations of highest incident concentration (Ratcliffe and McCullagh, 1999; Chainey and Ratcliffe, 2005). Hotspots have been formally recognized in the literature as early as 1751 when Henry Fielding suggested focusing on areas of high crime to deter offenders. A notable example of policing with hotspot is the study by Sherman et al., (1989), which found that over 50.4% of all…
000 kilometer challenge, one of the formula one drivers drove a Tesla Roadster and beat 96 other competitors to win the championship which he won for range, efficiency and performance. In 2010 Tesla Roadster was the first electric car to win the Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally. It can travel approximately 245 miles at a single charge and depending on the model it can rush from 0 to 60 miles per hour in just between 3.7 and 3.9…
It was in early June of 2006, a pleasant, exciting Saturday evening. One hundred of us sit anxiously, one after the other, in cold metal chairs in the cafeteria of my elementary school. We wore purple silky gowns. We wait nervously for our names. Once all our names are called, we wait patiently for what happens next, and look for our parents faces, we had just heard that we were the 2006 graduating kindergarten class at Elgin Elementary. For all of us, this was the beginning of everything we’d…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The ROYAL SHELL DUTCH usually called as SHELL by people all over the world. And, is known as SPDC in Nigeria (Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited). SPDC along with JV with NNPC, NAOC and TOTAL had planned to develop the Dodo - NAG Wells Project to meet the objectives of the company. Along with business objectives the idea of SPDC was to help locals by supplying domestic gas and bring the gas flares down (Flaring into atmosphere also known as emission of…
Hyundai 's first offerings in the United States were a failure, due to their reliability problems. The Excel and Scoupe sedans often fell apart with low mileage, and had numerous mechanical issues involving transmissions, electrical components, and the engine itself. After not being able to land a substantial chunk of the American marketplace, this South Korean automaker decided to double its efforts, in releasing new vehicles that would offer years of service at a reasonable price. They have…
Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…