Portugal’s journey to democracy started in 1910 by first attempt of the Portuguese people to establish the country as a democracy. Before 5 October 1910, Portugal was ruled by the principles of constitutional monarchy. However, a putsch lead by the Portuguese Republican Party established the First Republic by abolishing the constitutional monarchy regime. The constitution that was adopted inaugurated parliamentary regime with a president as a head of state. Unfortunately, the republican regime lasted
1974, Portugal’s experience with democracy had not been particularly successful so it is fair to wonder. Its First Republic lasted from 1910 to 1926 before the May 1926 coup d’état occurred. The Ditadora Nacional followed soon after by the Estado Novo, which was greatly inspired by conservative and authoritarian ideologies, was developed by António de Oliveira Salazar, ruler of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. The aim of this research paper is to examine why Portugal did not fall back into fascism or
Jeans have become one of the most popular articles of casual dress around the world. Nothing speaks louder than consumers’ demand; estimated over 800 million pairs of blue jeans are produced worldwide, which represents a multi-billion dollar business. According to market-research firm NPD Group, Americans bought $13.8 billion of jeans in the year ended April 30, 2011. Another resource claims that North America alone accounts for 39% of global purchases of jeans, followed by Western Europe at 20%
Pharmaceutical marketing is the growing trend used by pharmaceutical companies to sell medications. Although pharmaceutical companies spent millions of money in research, they spend same amount of money advertising their product. Recent data provided by IMS and CAM shows that pharmaceutical companies spent more than twice amount of money on marketing than they spent on research and development. These companies to increase their sales do various marketing strategies in the form of advertisements.
Endocrine system is made up of glands that produce and secrete hormones, chemical substances produced in the body that regulates the activity of cells or organs. These hormones regulate the body’s growth. The hormones are released into the bloodstream and may affect one or several organs throughout the body. 2. Define homeostasis and explain its role in the endocrine system? Homeostasis the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements especially as maintained by
Summary The case “Should You Use Your iPhone for Work” is about how millions of people use their devices for their personal life as well as at work. With everyone having access to their own smartphones it can save companies their own money but IT departments have to spend a lot of time configuring the devices. The use of personal devices can pose difficult problems for the companies such as security, inventory management, support and more. Furthermore, a lot of IT resources go into managing and
According to Moss (Schuiling and Moss, 2004), pharmaceutical companies have not worked proactively in identifying a brand identity for their products and in communicating this identity to consumers. They have not done market research to determine their brand identity and to verify if this is how consumers view them. Although brands exist in both the consumer goods and pharmaceutical industries, only the consumer goods industry is using brands as a competitive tool, managing its brands with care and
Product development is a strategy of growth that involves new product in market or goods and services. In this presentation of Product Development to determine the practice of Lexington Medical Center, Columbia South Carolina. Lexington Medical Center is a teaching hospital and also have a residency program. LMC is a 414 bed medical complex, 600 physicians, and 5,900 employees. The product development management system I have chosen is Levemir Flex-touch insulin pen. Justify the purpose Levemir
People have been altering the genomes of plants and animals for many years using traditional breeding techniques. In recent decades, however, advances in the field of genetic engineering have allowed for specific control over the genetic changes introduced into an organism. New genes can now be incorporated from one species into a completely unrelated species through genetic engineering. Biotechnology is the application of biological research techniques to create new processes and products while
Porter's Five Force in relation to Eli Lilly Threat of New Entrants Threat of new entrants is relatively high. Companies forming alliances are potential rivals. Even if earlier such company was not considered to be a threat, after merging with some research and development company or forming alliance with another pharmaceutical company it would become a rival to Eli Lilly. The threat is however weakened by significant research and development costs necessary to successfully enter the business
The idea of companies existing in order to make money for their investors is widely accepted as the core business concept. In recent years, the involvement of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the business model can be clearly observed. CSR can be described as the undertaking of initiatives which benefit other members of society. However, there is a great ambivalence and uncertainty about what CSR really means as well as what drives corporate units to pursue it. This part will describe the
actively changed, except in the case of circulating insulin antibodies, which in rare cases may cause insulin resistance (Christian et al., 1984). Belligerently marketing different insulin forms are pharmaceutical companies such Sanofi-Aventis, Novo-Nordisk, and Eli Lilly. These companies are currently promoting the newest form of insulin known as insulin analogue due to its function in altering the absorption, distribution and metabolism rate of insulin. It has been stated that some of these insulins
This section reviews and compares transactional, transformational, servant, ethical, and spiritual leadership to identify differences and overlaps in leadership styles. Jamaludin et al. (2011) conducted a study with political workers to determine if transactional, transformational, and spiritual leadership attributes overlapped, and the findings proved the three leadership styles did not overlap and were distinct. The primary differences were transactional leadership is associated with economic