CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS AND ITS IMPACT ON CUSTOMER RETENTION Economic literature has been focusing frequently on the impact of systematic coordination of all communication instmments, coming to the result that well managed corporate communications may strengthen return on sales. The justification of this assumption is the concept of market focused management, i.e. the strict orientation of all...

1997 continues China's long march toI + Enterprise bonds were issued by sevwards affluence. GDP growth was 8.7% in 1996, preceded by two years of 10% growth, and forecast to increase again in 1997. Patriarch Deng Xiaoping's death in early 1997 did little to stem the flow of bullish economic statistics. China's gross domestic product reached US$ 3.6 trillion at purchasing power parity1 or about ...

A soluble Pt nanocluster catalyst (Pt-GLY) is efficient in the absence of base for aqueous-phase aerobic oxidation of, in particular, non-activated alcohols with high recyclability.

In paper I [M. Znojil and G. Lévai, Phys. Lett. A 271 (2000) 327] we introduced the Coulomb Kratzer bound-state problem in its cryptohermitian, PT −symmetric version. An instability of the original model is revealed here. A necessary stabilization is achieved, for almost all couplings, by an unusual, negative choice of the bare mass in Schrödiner equation.

Psychophysical sensitivity to interaural time differences (ITD) in the envelope of highfrequency sinusoidally amplitude-modulated (SAM) tones is generally poorer than that to lowfrequency pure tones (PT). ITD sensitivity at high frequencies might be improved using “transposed stimuli” (TS), which seek to produce the same temporal discharge patters in highfrequency neurons as in low-frequency ne...

We discuss several PT -symmetric deformations of superderivatives. Based on these various possibilities, we propose new families of complex PT -symmetric deformations of the supersymmetric Korteweg-de Vries equation. Some of these new models are mere fermionic extensions of the former in the sense that they are formulated in terms of superspace valued superfields containing bosonic and fermioni...

The electrocatalysis of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) on carbon supportedPt-V (1:1) catalyst in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFC) was investigated. Atan oxygen pressure of one atm an enhanced electrocatalytic property of Pt-V/Ccompared with Pt/C is revealed. These results indicate the occurrence of adifferent electrocatalytic mechanism for the ORR on Pt/C and Pt-V/C. Anincrease of mas...