The article highlights the risks of using self-evaluation as a substitute for primary and secondary market research when designing and monitoring marketing programs. Included is a study of 110 management teams that suggests internally dominated marketing analysis may breed illusory evaluations of a company’s own marketing programs versus competitors. If acted upon, such illusions could lead to ...

We present a framework for coordinating autonomous planning agents. Together, these agents have to achieve a set of interdependent (elementary) tasks. Each of the agents receives a unique subset of tasks to achieve, but an agent may be dependent on other agents completing (some of) their tasks first. Each of the agents needs to make a plan in order to achieve its set of subtasks. Task dependenc...

The wedding industry in Indonesia is growing very rapidly, including organizer and planners. This included the red ocean business because of many new growths this area. Excellent marketing skills are needed to stay business. One them by implementing entrepreneurial marketing. study uses quantitative methods using SmartPLS for data processing. Research respondents were 112 employees organizers p...

listening comprehension means the process of understanding speech in a second or foreign language. it is the perception of information and stimuli received through the ears. iranian efl learners have serious difficulties in english listening comprehension because iranian universities pay more attention to grammar and reading. the researchers used a set of authentic materials to improve iranian ...

The Editorial in Addiction on 2 August by Mitchell et al [1] on the closure of addiction libraries highlights an issue that has been going on for a decade or more. It is only part of a wider phenomenon of equal interest to researchers in the addictions field, especially in respect of drugs. The authors have rightly flagged up in respect of the UK the downsizing/closing of specialist addiction l...

What is the best distribution strategy to ship materials from a source to multiple destinations on a regular basis? This is a common question confronting logistics planners in many industries. This paper examines this issue in the context of the ocean freight industry. In particular, we tackle the economics of freighting raw materials through a transshipment hub, and propose a method to synchro...

the study of learning strategies had been the focus of attention of many language specialist in recent years and many researchers showed their significance in attainmg mastery of second language skills. the current explosion of research on reading strategies aim at finding out the thoughts that drift through the reader's mind, the quest and endeavor for meaning, the representations and ass...

23/10 Dr. Adrien Lefieux University of Pavia, Italy On the use of anisotropic triangles in an immersed finite element approach with application to fluid-structure interaction problems 23/10 Dr. Diego Misseroni University of Liverpool, UK Tensile buckling, multiple bifurcations and Eshelby-like forces in elastic structures 24/10 Dr. Davide Grazioli University of Brescia, Italy Multiscale modelin...