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The aim of this article is to analyze friendship ties and the emotions connected to them in some particular phases of … these circumstances, friendship ties and emotions take on exceptional intensity. To investigate this moments I will use the … light on the way that trial phases of life are the periods in which the relation between friendship and emotions becomes …
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Bloggers devote significant time not only producing content for others to read, watch or listen to, but also paying attention to and engaging in interactions with other bloggers. We hope to throw light not only on the factors that gain bloggers significant readership and lively interactions with...
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One third of entrepreneurs are going to withdraw within the next future in Europe. Business transfers are complex and suffer from lots of imperfections. Business transfers suffer not only from informational asymmetries but from the revision of stakeholders?beliefs as soon as they know the...
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Excessive preoccupation with self-image has been pinpointed as a factor contributing to the proliferation of food disorders, especially among young women. To provide an economic basis for this argument this paper models how ‘self-image’ and ‘other people’s appearance’ influence...
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toughness. (ii) Keeping the knowledge secret involves no licence revenue but ensures a monopoly profit. (iii) The firm can also …
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Excessive preoccupation with self-image (or identity) is regarded as a factor contributing to the proliferation of food disorders, especially among young women. This paper models how self-image and peer effects influence health-related behaviours, specifically food disorders. We empirically test...
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To protect intellectual property (IP), organizations use different kinds of mechanisms such as patent, secret or trade … secret (Hannah, 2005; 2007). Patent grants to the holder a temporary monopoly position including the right to sue for … infringement (Hussinger, 2005). Secret or trade secret is defined as “any valuable piece of information that is not commonly known …
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le choix entre plusieurs mécanismes : brevet, marque, secret, copyright. Ces entreprises cherchent à avoir de l …’application il est préférable qu’elle maintienne les processus voire le produit lui-même secret. Il peut également s’agir pour l …’entreprise de breveter ses inventions de base puis de garder le processus commercial secret. L’objectif étant de rentabiliser les …
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-i-Font and Mireia Jofre-Bonet. Their research confirms the widespread belief that the proliferation of anorexia and bulimia among …
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established biomedical ideas surrounding the treatment of anorexia, based on the \'normalisation\' of the body shape and weight … maintained. The group offers non-judgemental support and guidance in managing anorexia. Referring to feminist writers such as … Bordo (1993), MacSween (1993) and Brain (2002), it is suggested that feminism enables a conceptualisation of anorexia that …
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