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- Bankruptcy - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2009 from Peter RadfordGeographical Interpretations Australia Continued There are normally two principal sources from which funds can be realised, viz. the assets and wages of the bankrupt. However, the bankrupt is granted the facility whereby certain assets are set aside and their value cannot be realised. ...
Views: 1273(2 votes) - Beauty - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2009 from Peter RadfordInner Beauty This is a particular concept which is commonly used to describe the distinctive characteristics of a specific subject or object that cannot be studied or observed physically. In the natural world, most species of animals rely on physical traits or, in some cases, a chemical ...
Views: 1273(3 votes) - Bankruptcy - How To Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2009 from Peter RadfordGeographical Interpretations Brazil In the case of Brazil, the Bankruptcy Law applies solely to private companies. However, there are a few specified categories that are deemed to constitute an exception, and these include: Financial institutions, credit cooperatives, those designated as ...
Views: 1266(1 vote) - Bankruptcy - How To Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2009 from Peter RadfordGeographical Interpretations Australia In Australia, all forms of bankruptcy are governed by legislation that is entitled The Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Commonwealth). According to this, the act of becoming bankrupt is only available to individuals. In the case of companies classified as ...
Views: 1252(3 votes) - Beauty - How To Succeed - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2009 from Peter RadfordOverview The concept of Beauty can refer to a particular person, a special place, an object of interest or even the concept of an idea, all of which can provide a perceptual experience related to pleasure, meaning or satisfaction. The study of beauty is intrinsically a part of aesthetics, ...
Views: 1251(3 votes) - Branding - How To Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2009 from Peter RadfordBrand Management Types of Brand: Part 2 Brand Equity - When a product has its own brand name, certain benefits will be associated with the product. On the other hand, should the same product not have such a brand name, then the associated benefits will be greatly reduced. Consider ...
Views: 1249(3 votes) - Acne - How To Succeed 6 - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2010 from Peter RadfordCauses of Acne Continued Consider the following evidence: An Australian study conducted in November 2006 found that, over a period of 12 weeks, there was a 50% reduction in mild to moderate facial Acne when the subjects were placed on a diet that consisted of high levels of protein and ...
Views: 1246(2 votes) - Body Building - How To Succeed - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2009 from Peter RadfordHistory Early Years Bodybuilding has its roots in India in the 11th century when men would lift a specifically sized piece of stone in order to determine which of the participants had the greatest strength. However, bodybuilding became established in the West sometime during the 1880 ...
Views: 1240(1 vote) - AdSense - How to Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Peter RadfordHow AdSense Works Part 2 Site Targeted Advertisements When considering such advertisements, the advertiser decides which page or pages on which to display advertisements, and pays on the basis of cost per mille, or CPM. This is a commonly used method in advertising. This means that the ...
Views: 1236(5 votes) - Body Building - How to Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2009 from Peter RadfordNatural Bodybuilding Drug testing – continued There are numerous organisations associated with the sport of Natural Bodybuilding. The more significant are as follows: INBA - International Natural Bodybuilding Association INBF - International Natural Bodybuilding Federation NGA - ...
Views: 1224(1 vote) - Bankruptcy - How To Succeed 2 - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Peter RadfordHistory: Continued Since such banking practices were common in Italy, it has been suggested that the Italian words banco rotto, or broken bank, represents the true meaning of the term bankruptcy. Alternatively, some derive the word from the French banque, or table. Finally, it has been ...
Views: 1218(1 vote) - Blogging - How To Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2009 from Peter RadfordTypes Continued By Device - A novel way to produce a blog used a Wearable Wireless Webcam. In this way, text, video, and pictures could be incorporated into an online diary. Live data was transmitted to a website using a computer, which could be easily worn, together with an EyeTap device. ...
Views: 1216(5 votes) - Alternatives - How To Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2009 from Peter RadfordALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Conventional Comparison Continued What is alternative medicine? The answer to this conundrum is dependent not only upon the discipline of the protagonists but also on geographical considerations. Consider the following two examples: (1) The Physical Medicine & ...
Views: 1199(3 votes) - Affiliate - How To Succeed 6 - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2010 from Peter RadfordMulti Tier Programmes There are those advertisers who offer multi-tier programmes in which the commission is distributed in the form of a top-down referral network involving new sign-ups. This format may be described as follows: Publisher 1 signs up to an advertisers’ programme and receives ...
Views: 1191(4 votes) - Affiliate - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2009 from Peter RadfordPrincipal Methods of Compensation In today’s affiliate programmes, it has been found that around eighty percent use revenue sharing or cost per sale (CPS) as the preferred compensation method, whereas nineteen percent use cost per action (CPA), and the remaining one percent of programs use ...
Views: 1180(2 votes) - Breast Cancer - How To Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 13, 2009 from Peter RadfordEpidemiology Continued Even though numerous epidemiological risk factors have been fully documented, it is still evident that the formation of many specific breast cancers has not been determined. Accordingly, epidemiological research derives the manner in which breast cancer manifests ...
Views: 1180(3 votes) - AdSense - How to Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2009 from Peter RadfordAdwords Overview This is Google’s main source of revenue, at US$21 billion in 2008, and their foremost and most prestigious advertising product. Adwords offers both pay-per-click (PPC) advertising together with site-targeted advertising suitable for both text and banner ads (which is a ...
Views: 1174(1 vote) - AdSense - How to Succeed 6 - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2010 from Peter RadfordPay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC) Continued Websites that make use of PPC ads will display an advertisement when a keyword query coincides with one on an advertiser's keyword list, or when a content site displays corresponding content. These advertisements will be termed sponsored links or ...
Views: 1157(2 votes) - Acne - How To Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2009 from Peter RadfordCauses of Acne Carbohydrates Continued In certain quarters, it has been proposed that a link exists between processed foods as well as diets that are high in refined sugars, and the incidence of acne. This supposition is based on the fact that easily digestible foods that are high in ...
Views: 1152(2 votes) - Young Baby - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2009 from Peter RadfordNewborn Senses Continued An interesting characteristic of a newborn infant is its quite unremarkable vision. In fact, it is only able to focus on a subject that is about 18 inches, or 45 cm, immediately in front of its face. An initial impression might point to the fact that this could ...
Views: 1152(2 votes) - Auctions - How To Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 07, 2009 from Peter RadfordThe English Auction Candle Auction Auction by candle was popular from around 1490 through to about 1893. In fact, it is still used on occasions even today, but kept limited to only ceremonial purposes. From 1674, the Candle auction began to lose its popularity and was eventually replaced ...
Views: 1148(2 votes) - Body Building - How to Succeed 6 - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2010 from Peter RadfordBodybuilding Supplements Overview Bodybuilding supplements consist of a number of different substances used by athletes or individuals participating in a variety of physical activities, including weight training. Their purpose is to act as an aid in the building of lean muscle mass or to ...
Views: 1143(3 votes) - Alternatives - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2009 from Peter RadfordALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Conventional Comparison There is a long standing view held by many medical researchers that rejects the notion of a classification of medicines which proposes that any therapy should be characterised as Alternative Medicine. The view taken by such proponents is that ...
Views: 1135(3 votes) - Young Baby - How To Succeed 6 - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2010 from Peter RadfordInfant Mortality Continued Infant mortality is an epidemiological (epidemiology considers the factors affecting the health and illness of populations) indicator and is widely recognised as representing an important measure of the level of healthcare in a country. This is because there is a ...
Views: 1134(3 votes) - Acne - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2009 from Peter RadfordCauses of Acne Continued Diet In previous decades, it was widely believed by doctors that diet had little influence on the incidence of acne. However, many patients currently believe that their acne is brought about by factors related to their diet. The fact is that there is ...
Views: 1132(3 votes) - Blogging - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2009 from Peter RadfordBlog Communities Continued Blogging and Advertising It is not uncommon for blog posts to include advertisements. These may either be in the form that benefits the blogger financially or that simply promote a cause that the blogger has an interest in. A fake blog, also known as a ...
Views: 1126(6 votes) - Blogging - How To Succeed 2 - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2009 from Peter RadfordTypes There is a wide variety in the types of blogs. Such differences may relate to either the subject material of the blog or the manner in which such content is presented or the style in which it is written. Consider the following: Personal Blogs - This takes the form of a continuously ...
Views: 1120(5 votes) - Body Building - How to Succeed 2 - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Peter Radford1970’s Onwards In 1977, the film Pumping Iron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the famous bodybuilder, was released. This gave the sport a huge publicity boost. At about this time the IFBB, the International Federation of Bodybuilders, were the pre-eminant force in the sport. Conversely, ...
Views: 1120(1 vote) - Acne - How To Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Oct 02, 2009 from Peter RadfordTerminology The term acne has its roots in the Greek language. Quite simply, it means a skin eruption. In fact, the name acne refers to the occurrence of: Pustules, which relates to the accumulation of pus in the top layer of the skin, called the epidermis, or beneath the skin in the ...
Views: 1116(2 votes) - Attractions - How To Succeed - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2009 from Peter RadfordFLORIDA Climate - 1 The fact that Florida is a peninsula and is surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico in both the west and south, and the Atlantic Ocean in the east, is the most important determinant in the climate of the state. In the region to the north of Lake Okeechobee, the prevailing ...
Views: 1111 - Breast Cancer - How To Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2009 from Peter RadfordClassification The accepted form of Breast Cancer classification divides all the different forms of breast cancer into four distinct groups, viz. pathology, the particular grade of the tumour, the expression (by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a gene product, such as ...
Views: 1110(3 votes) - Adsense - How To Succeed 2 - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2009 from Peter RadfordHistory AdSense is Google’s advertising programme, in which website owners can join in order to add advertisements to their websites in the form of text, image, and even video. These advertisements are able to generate revenue on either a cost-per-click or cost-per-view basis. AdSense was ...
Views: 1103(2 votes) - Beauty - How To Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2009 from Peter RadfordRecent History Continued In terms of evolution, it is not unreasonable to believe that sexual creatures should be attracted to a mate who possesses predominantly features that are coincident with their own. Natural selection is the natural process in which characteristics passed down from ...
Views: 1099(3 votes) - Young Baby - How To Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2009 from Peter RadfordNewborn Senses Conclusion A newborn can respond to and readily differentiate between substances with a number of different taste sensations, such as sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. However, it should come as no surprise that, of all of these, there is a marked preference towards ...
Views: 1095(3 votes) - Alternatives - How To Succeed 2 - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Peter RadfordALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Overview Alternative medicine practices may incorporate into their procedures or base themselves on concepts as diverse as traditional medicine, which describes medical knowledge developed over centuries within various societies before the era of modern medicine, or ...
Views: 1081(1 vote) - Attractions - How To Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2009 from Peter RadfordFLORIDA Introduction The State of Florida may be found in the south eastern portion of the United States. Its position is such that it borders on Alabama in the northwest and Georgia in the northeast. The land mass of the state constitutes a peninsula, surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico in ...
Views: 1070(2 votes) - Auctions - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2009 from Peter RadfordHistory Concluded In the time of the American Civil War which occurred between 1861 and 1865, it was common practice for whatever goods and chattels were commandeered by the various armies to be sold at auction. The actual auction process was the responsibility of the most senior officer ...
Views: 1064(3 votes) - Attractions - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2009 from Peter RadfordHistory of Florida Archaeological research has uncovered the fact that that Florida had been inhabited for thousands of years, and long before any European settlements had been established. The largest known tribes to originally inhabit the region were known as the Ais (who ranged from ...
Views: 1063(4 votes) - Body Building - How to Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 28, 2009 from Peter RadfordNatural Bodybuilding This is sometimes referred to as a form of body modification, which refers to the deliberate alteration of the human body for non-medical purposes, such as aesthetic reasons, and self-expression. However, it is more commonly referred to as a version of bodybuilding in ...
Views: 1055(2 votes) - Breast Cancer - How To Succeed 4 - by Submitted on Nov 18, 2009 from Peter RadfordEpidemiology This is the study of the various factors that affect not only the health, but also the incidence of illness in a population. In the study of diseases that not only spread within a population, but also those that do not, the role of an epidemiologist ranges from investigation into ...
Views: 1046(2 votes) - Body Building - How to Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Nov 14, 2009 from Peter Radford1970’s Onwards Continued There was an attempt by the IFBB, in the early 2000s to make bodybuilding an Olympic sport. In 2000, it successfully obtained full membership of the influential IOC. It then attempted to have the sport classified as a demonstration event at the Olympics. The ...
Views: 1042(1 vote) - Affiliate - How To Succeed 2 - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Peter RadfordOrigins The idea of revenue sharing, in which a commission is paid for all referred business, is an idea that was conceived before the advent of affiliate marketing, and the Internet itself. The World Wide Web was launched in November 1994. The adoption of this revenue sharing concept by ...
Views: 1031 - Attractions - How To Succeed 1 - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2009 from Peter RadfordFLORIDA Climate - 2 Florida is known throughout the world as the "Sunshine State." However, severe weather is not uncommon across the state. A case in point is that of central Florida which has the unfortunate nickname of the lightning capital of the United States. This is because the area ...
Views: 1027(3 votes) - Beauty - How To Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2009 from Peter RadfordEffects on Society Continued The film Malena, an Italian drama/romance film made in 2000, is set in Sicily in 1940 during World War II. The silent, engagingly beautiful outsider one day hears that her husband has been killed in the war. Malena becomes sad and attempts to cope with the loss ...
Views: 1020(1 vote) - Beauty - How To Succeed 5 - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2009 from Peter RadfordEffects on Society Continued The film Malena, an Italian drama/romance film made in 2000, is set in Sicily in 1940 during World War II. The silent, engagingly beautiful outsider one day hears that her husband has been killed in the war. Malena becomes sad and attempts to cope with the loss ...
Views: 1015(1 vote) - Auctions - How To Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2009 from Peter RadfordHistory: Continued Popular in some parts of England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, auction by candle was the preferred method for the sale of goods and leaseholds. The auction began with the lighting of a candle at which point bidding began. The process continued until the ...
Views: 972(1 vote) - Auctions - How To Succeed 2 - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Peter RadfordHistory A bronze sculpture of "Artemis and the Stag," reputed to date from the Roman-era, was sold, in 2007, at Sotheby's in New York for US$28.6 million. Such a price, which surpassed all pre-auction estimates, produced a new record in so much as it represented the most expensive sculpture ...
Views: 963 - Attractions - How To Succeed 2 - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2009 from Peter RadfordFLORIDA Early Property Boom In the 1920’s, Florida experienced its first taste of land and property speculation, which led to a land boom. The bubble finally burst in 1925. Leading up to the 1920’s, the state’s economic fortunes had been on a steady uptrend. This was particularly true ...
Views: 958(2 votes) - Alternatives - How To Succeed 3 - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2009 from Peter RadfordALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Background: Continued Alternative medicine and Complementary medicine are often thought of as mutually exclusive. Accordingly, the two are usually classified under the general term of complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM. On the other hand, there are those ...
Views: 944(2 votes) - Breast Cancer - How To Succeed 2 - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Peter RadfordSigns and Symptoms A lump that appears in the breast that feels at variance with the surrounding breast tissue is typically the first symptom or indication of the presence of breast cancer. The prestigious Merck Manual has indicated that, in the vast majority of breast cancer cases, it is ...
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