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  • Berlin – Modern Architecture

    Berlin – Modern Architecture

    Around the world architects are forever designing buildings with innovative and interesting structures, but in Berlin this creative process is happening on an unprecedented scale. The city is a vast melting pot of trends and styles, where the world’s greatest architects scramble for new commissions...

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  • THE BARRI GOTIC (Gothic Quarter)

    THE BARRI GOTIC (Gothic Quarter)

    The site chosen by the Romans in the reign of Augustus (27 BC–AD 14) on which to found a new colonia (town), and has been the location of the city’s administrative buildings ever since. The Roman forum was on the Plaça de Sant Jaume, where...

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  • Corporate portals

    Corporate portals

    One of the new areas in the knowledge management field. Corporate portals use Web-based technology to create sites specifically for a particular company’s employees. Corporate portals are an extension of an earlier concept, the intranet, which is also a site for internal consumption. Intranets typically publish corporate information such as news,...

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  • Correlation coefficient ‘r’

    Correlation coefficient ‘r’

    A bivariate descriptive statistic, appropriate in dealing with two intervally-scaled variables, which provides a measure of the linear direction and strength of the relationship between these variables. It is also sometimes known as product moment correlation. Karl Pearson originally proposed it, therefore it is also...

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  • Cooptation

    Cooptation

    (1) It refers to a cultural process by which the original meanings of a product or other symbols associated with a subculture are modified by members of mainstream culture. (2) In the context of consumer behaviour, particularly, with reference to the acceptance of American consumption...

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  • WILHELM AND ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

    WILHELM AND ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

    The Humboldt brothers rank among the most distinguished Berlin citizens. Wilhelm (1767– 1835) was a lawyer and politician, occupying various government posts. It was on his initiative that the Berlin University (later renamed Humboldt University) was founded, and he conducted studies in comparative and historical...

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  • What about my Age?

    What about my Age?

    As everyone knows the look of a person is a reflection of his age. But how I look? How people see me in their eyes? That’s the question and I will give you a chance to find out the truth. How? Really easy! Just visit...

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