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The Utilization of Alternative Therapy in Long Term Care Facilities: Patient, Employee, and Profit Implications

Introduction
Geriatric patients entering nursing homes or assisted living facilities often give up contacts with their family members, close friends and personal possessions. Often the number of personal items they are allowed to bring to long term care facilities is limited.  In addition, relationships with pets often have to be severed, resulting in residents experiencing depression, [...]

Beyond Convenience and Competition : The Impact of Personalized Information Technology on the Way Communities Work

Abstract:
Having already transformed business beyond recognition in barely two decades, information technology is now further expanding into the general culture and transforming society at an equally rapid rate due to the growth and popularity of personal and personalized computing.  While the computer was once only a factor in the production of other goods, it is [...]

Hispanic National Archives and information management of their web sites

By Celia Chaín and Navarro Amalia More Bleda
Abstract:
In this paper we want to find out, on the one hand, the characteristics of the Latin American national archives (mainly referring to installation, deposits and resources), and the other hand, the current situation Relating to the creation, development and maintenance of these institutions. For [...]

The Salesperson’s Role in the Sales Forecasting Process

Introduction
As the competition in markets for products and services continue to become more intense, it is imperative for organizations to improve their attempts to plan for the future (Smith & McIntyre, 1994). One of the tools that organizations use to plan for their futures is the sales forecast. Sales forecasts have become a key component [...]

The Gray Market as a Growth Tool for Small High Technology Firms: A Conceptual Framework

Gray market activity has received much attention in academic journals, trade publications, and popular periodicals.  These studies argue that long term gray market activities are harmful to distributor relations, trademark image, profits, (Cavusgil and Sikora, 1988), sales force morale, and customer service efforts (Myers, 1999).  While there are few reliable statistical sources on the level [...]

Cross-cultural Issues in the 21st Century Marketing

Introduction
The late 1990’s have been proved to be the beginning of the most exciting and opportunistic years in the history of marketing. Mass marketing, as we know it is “out” and customized marketing becomes more and more important as we are entering the 21st Century. It is clear that marketers in the 21st Century [...]

ROLE OF LIBRARIES IN ERADICATING ILLITERACY IN BANGLADESH, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SITUATION IN THE SAARC COUNTRIES

INTRODUCTION
Illiteracy is a universal problem, and even Europe and America arc not free from this scourge. Illiteracy is not a problem peculiar to South Asia. It is estimated that in 1995 there were 885.1 millions of illiterate people in the world.1 In the 25th September 1989 issue of Newsweek, an article titled “When Europeans can [...]

Cultural Awareness and Learning: An Anthropological Study of the Consumers at a Chinese Buffet in North America

INTRODUCTION
Recent studies find out that the population in the United States has kept growing and become even more diversified since last decade.  According to the US Census, the total population of the nation has increased 10.34% from 248,791 thousands in 1990 to 274,520 thousands in 2000. It is suggested that one-third of the growth is [...]

The Tax Enigma of Saying “I Do”

Abstract

As George W. Bush steps into the job as President, tax reductions will be one of the issues at the top of the legislative agenda.  With these tax reductions, issues are sure to arise about the elimination of the [...]

Library Organization, Management and Administration

Prof. Dr.  K.M. Saiful Islam
Dept. of Information Science & Library Management,
Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
e-mail: ismk99@yahoo.com
This study delineates subtle distinctions in organization, management and administration which may be equally important for organizers, [...]