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Learning Advising Practice And Reform: A Perspective From The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Alisa Percy, Bronwyn James, Jeannette Stirling, Ruth Walker Jan 2004

Learning Advising Practice And Reform: A Perspective From The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Alisa Percy, Bronwyn James, Jeannette Stirling, Ruth Walker

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

The claim made in this paper is that higher education reform and learning advising practice are not simply part of a natural progression; rather, they are discursively constituted. To illustrate this argument we draw on the work of Michel Foucault to reflect on two iterations of learning advising practice in Learning Development at the University of Wollongong, Australia over the last decade. Our discussion will demonstrate how a multiplicity of discourses underpin educational reform and privilege particular learning advising practices in the Australian higher education context.

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Inspiring Imagination – Education And Learning : The University Experience In The Regional Development Cocktail, Robbie Collins, Laurie Stevenson Jan 2004

Inspiring Imagination – Education And Learning : The University Experience In The Regional Development Cocktail, Robbie Collins, Laurie Stevenson

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This paper suggests that imagination ferments regional development. The paper considers how education, and in particular regional universities, are part of the regional development cocktail. Using contemporary and historical experience at the Shoalhaven Campus the paper explores how Shoalhaven campus can be seen as an integral ingredient in the Shoalhaven development cocktail. In doing so, it provides an analysis that matches other regional campus experiences. What is Shoalhaven Campus? An educational precinct based on a campus co-location model. In this instance, TAFE and University are co-located on the campus grounds and share library, IT, telephone and campus services facilities. The …

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Roman Wall Paintings In The Pafos Theatre, Diana Wood Conroy Jan 2004

Roman Wall Paintings In The Pafos Theatre, Diana Wood Conroy

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

The fragments of painted plaster were first found in the 1996 and 1997 Pafos Theatre seasons in trenches lR and 1J on the south side of Wall 108 (the analemma), where the parodos provides an entrance to the orchestra on the western side of the theatre. Encrusted plaster with faint indications of colour and pattern still adhered to Wall 108. Other coarser fragments of red on cream were found in 1999 in the IR-IJ extension to the west. The extensive excavation of the western parodos area in 2001 (Trench IFF) revealed many more painted plaster fragments, some on curved sandstone …

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Reliability Of Higher Seeding Rates Of Wheat For Increased Competitiveness With Weeds In Low Rainfall Environments, D Lemerle, R D. Cousens, G S. Gill, S J. Peltzer, M Moerkerk, C E. Murphy, D Collins, Brian R. Cullis Jan 2004

Reliability Of Higher Seeding Rates Of Wheat For Increased Competitiveness With Weeds In Low Rainfall Environments, D Lemerle, R D. Cousens, G S. Gill, S J. Peltzer, M Moerkerk, C E. Murphy, D Collins, Brian R. Cullis

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Increasing crop competitiveness using higher seeding rates is a possible technique for weed management in low input and organic farming systems or when herbicide resistance develops in weeds. A range of wheat seeding rates were sown and resulted in crop densities between 50–400 plants/m2 (current recommendations are 100–150 plants/m2) in the presence and absence of annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum Gaud.) in three wheat cultivars at nine experiments in southern Australia. Wheat densities of at least 200 plants/m2 were required to suppress L. rigidum and to a lesser extent increase crop yield across a wide range …

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Renovating Reality Tv, Ian Buchanan Jan 2004

Renovating Reality Tv, Ian Buchanan

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The Block was Australia's hit TV show of 2003. Its viewing audience regularly topped the 2 million mark, easily surpassing all the other 'lifestyle' shows - DIY Rescue, Burke's Backyard, Backyard Blitz, Changing Rooms, Better Homes and Gardens , Location Location, Auction Squad, Hot Auctions , the list is practically endless. Australian made TV drama has meanwhile delivered its worst ratings performance in years, virtually guaranteeing The Block will not only be repeated but cloned as well. David Castran, the managing director of Audience Development Australia, explains it this way: "recent world turmoil has brought people closer to home to …

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Innovation Heterogeneity And Schumpeterian Growth Models, Eduardo Pol, P. Carroll Jan 2004

Innovation Heterogeneity And Schumpeterian Growth Models, Eduardo Pol, P. Carroll

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Innovation heterogeneity refers to two empirical facts: economic sectors vary according to sources and rates of innovation, and innovations vary in terms of the magnitude of their economic impact. The central focus of this paper is the problem of scale effects in the Schumpeterian growth models. Although these models make endogenous the production of innovations, they assume not only an oversimplified pattern of sectoral innovation but also that major innovations are virtually indistinguishable from minor innovations. The main claim of the a er is that without a theoretical framework revolving around both the existence of realistic sectoral patterns of innovation …

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Source Of Value Online For Recreational Travellers: Customer Information Needs In The Buying Process And Internet Capability, Robert Grant Jan 2004

Source Of Value Online For Recreational Travellers: Customer Information Needs In The Buying Process And Internet Capability, Robert Grant

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The information needs of buyers of high involvement recreational travel products are potentially a source of customer value in their decision making process. The internet's ability to provide large amounts of information in real time with high levels of customer convenience are compounded by the ability to deliver information from multiple sources. In theory then, the internet seems able to largely replace the value delivered by retail travel intermediaries in the physical world. This critical review suggests however that the physical world intermediaries and online information sources are more likely to be complementary rather than competitive resources for shoppers for …

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Young Retail Fashion Shoppers: Hunters And Gatherers, Katerina Korlimbinis, Jennifer Thornton Jan 2004

Young Retail Fashion Shoppers: Hunters And Gatherers, Katerina Korlimbinis, Jennifer Thornton

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Store layout and design are crucial components of a retailer's image and reflect a significant percentage of shopper's first impressions of a store - which can either attract or deter potential buyers. However, the current store layout and design of many retail fashion stores largely reflects the shopping preferences of female shoppers, as they shop more frequently and have a greater interest in fashion than men. Given the recent increase in young males shopping for their own clothes, more research and attention needs to be devoted to this target market. Originally content analysis of 17 men's fashion retailers was undertaken …

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Sex, Soap And Sainthood: Beginning To Theorise Literary Celebrity, Wenche Ommundsen Jan 2004

Sex, Soap And Sainthood: Beginning To Theorise Literary Celebrity, Wenche Ommundsen

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

No abstract provided.

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Human Capital Reporting In A Developing Nation, Indra Abeysekera, J. Guthrie Jan 2004

Human Capital Reporting In A Developing Nation, Indra Abeysekera, J. Guthrie

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

In recent years, a trend in management has been the introduction of human capital (HC) management and accounting. As a result of this trend, there has been a demand from external stakeholders for a different sort of information, and many firms have, in an attempt to meet this demand, become more involved in the creation, measurement and reporting of information other than ‘financial’ data. Using the method of content analysis, this paper reports on human capital reporting (HCR) practices taken from a sample of firms in Sri Lanka, a developing nation. The paper aims first to examine the disclosure patterns …

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Strategic Marketing, Sara Dolnicar Jan 2004

Strategic Marketing, Sara Dolnicar

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Marketing consists of a strategic - and an operational component. Strategic marketing forms the basis of operational marketing action. It signifies gathering information, analysing it, thinking and making directional decisions, whereas operational marketing (covering the classical four P’s - product or *service, *advertising, *pricing and distribution) means implementing these decisions. The importance of these two components is asymmetric. Weak strategic marketing cannot be compensated by excellent operational marketing, like a summit cannot be reached by running at extremely high speed, but in the wrong direction.

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Internationalisation: A Whole-Of-Institution Approach, R. G. Castle, Diana J. Kelly Jan 2004

Internationalisation: A Whole-Of-Institution Approach, R. G. Castle, Diana J. Kelly

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

In this paper we first clarify and analyse notions of what internationalisation is and the ways in which it has become an important strategic goal for higher education institutions in Australia. In particular, this paper seeks to demonstrate the attributes of a whole-of-institution conception of internationalisation, which requires defining and analysing what is meant by whole-of-institution. This is followed by a discussion on the means of achieving a whole-of-institution approach, focusing in particular on the broad pressures on, and underlying potential of, tertiary education in Australia. The basis for, and nature of, the mechanisms and systems for assuring quality in …

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Public Education And Democracy, Anthony Ashbolt Jan 2004

Public Education And Democracy, Anthony Ashbolt

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

As a political system, democracy depends upon a vibrant public sphere. Democracy in liberal democratic societies is sometimes confused with doctrines upholding individual rights. Thus it is that matters of individual choice come to be perceived as inalienable democratic rights when they are nothing of the sort. Private choices and desires fit neatly into a concept of social good defined essentially by the market. They are things to' be bought and sold, their value adjusted to the vicissitudes of market forces. If we begin to think of education in this way, we have begun also to sacrifice democracy at the …

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'A Thousand Points Of Spite' - Crowding Out The Bridging Community, Roger Patulny Jan 2004

'A Thousand Points Of Spite' - Crowding Out The Bridging Community, Roger Patulny

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Now as in the past, studies of community are lacking in their analysis of structural factors that influence communities. Theoretical analysis of community lacks regard for structure and agency. I suggest that Bourdieu's theory of practice and Honeth's ideas concerning recognition provide mechanism and motivation to address the structure and agency conflict, and inform more sophisticated studies of community. Communities are best served when the practices by which they operate are generalised and inclusive in nature, thus maximising interaction between people of difference and multiplying pathways of recognition. Such communities are characterised by norms of generalised trust and networks of …

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International Education: Quality Assurance And Standards In Offshore Teaching: Exemplars And Problems, R. G. Castle, Diana J. Kelly Jan 2004

International Education: Quality Assurance And Standards In Offshore Teaching: Exemplars And Problems, R. G. Castle, Diana J. Kelly

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The massification of university education is being replicated in many emergent and newly-industrialised countries, as universities from older economies have begun to offer educational services overseas. Initially, these were small-group programmes, but in recent years many more subjects, programmes and degrees have been taught offshore to increasingly large groups. This kind of education is dissimilar both to distance education and to local (campus) education, and provides particular challenges for those ensuring and assuring quality from a global perspective. Drawing on the significant experience of the authors, this paper takes a case-study approach to investigating the principles and processes of assuring …

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Drug Companies And Schizophrenia: Unbridled Capitalism Meets Madness, L. R. Mosher, R. Gosden, Sharon Beder Jan 2004

Drug Companies And Schizophrenia: Unbridled Capitalism Meets Madness, L. R. Mosher, R. Gosden, Sharon Beder

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

While the major thrust of this volume is an examination of the psychosocial origins and approaches to dealing with the problem labeled as “schizophrenia” it must also provide a historical context and examine critically how the current complete domination of schizophrenia’s “treatment” by the neuroleptic drugs (we’ll use this term and antipsychotic interchangeably) came to be. Not only do they dictate practice but they also buttress the biomedical theorizing that dominates thinking about the problem.

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Nonviolence Insights, Brian Martin Jan 2004

Nonviolence Insights, Brian Martin

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

‘You’ve been working a long time towards a more nonviolent society. What have you learned? Can you tell me?’ That’s basically what we asked eleven experienced and committed individuals. We wanted to learn some of the insights they had acquired over many years of action and reflection. Our interviews were open-ended. We talked to nonviolent activists, trainers, educators and community-builders. Six were from the Netherlands and five from Australia. Six were men and five were women. Their ages ranged from 20s to 60s. Many are quite well known in nonviolence circles and beyond. We took extensive notes on the interviews, …

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Sexing The Nation: Normative Heterosexuality And The ‘Good’ Singaporean Citizen, Lenore T. Lyons Jan 2004

Sexing The Nation: Normative Heterosexuality And The ‘Good’ Singaporean Citizen, Lenore T. Lyons

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Extract: What does it mean to sex a nation? In the discourses surrounding nationalism, nations frequently take up gendered positions – as ‘motherlands’ or ‘fatherlands’, with their leaders as the ‘mothers’ or the ‘fathers of the nation’. In the family of the nation, gendered subjectivity is built around heterosexual reproductive relations in which men and women perform their ‘natural roles’ within families2. Where the language of nationalism reveals the gender of the homeland as female (Britannia, Mother India), the nation-as-woman is built on a particular image of woman as chaste, dutiful, daughterly or maternal” (Parker et al. 1992: 6). And …

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The Time Of Their Lives: Time, Work And Leisure In The Daily Lives Of Ruling-Class Men, Mike Donaldson, S. Poynting Jan 2004

The Time Of Their Lives: Time, Work And Leisure In The Daily Lives Of Ruling-Class Men, Mike Donaldson, S. Poynting

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

This chapter is about what ruling-class men do in their daily lives. How do they invest, pass or spend their time? We are dealing here with the exceptional life conditions and activities of the richest and most powerful men in the world: the richest one to five per cent, whose interests and decisions so widely determine, that is rule, the conditions and activities of the rest of us. A 1996 United Nations Human Development Report identified 358 men whose wealth equals the combined income of 2.3 billion people, forty-five per cent of the world's population. Most such people are, of …

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Failures And Successes: Local And National Australian Sound Innovations, 1924-1929, Brian M. Yecies Jan 2004

Failures And Successes: Local And National Australian Sound Innovations, 1924-1929, Brian M. Yecies

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

This article aims to expand our knowledge of the success or failure of sound technologies in the Australian exhibition market in the years between 1924 and 1929. Crucial to this issue are the complex relations between previously unrecognised groups and individuals involved in promotion of sound technology and in the wiring of Australian cinemas. The process by which all 1,420 of Australia's cinemas were finally wired for sound by 1937[1], was not one in which an American monopoly had demonstrated unchecked power over a passive Australian market. There were a large number of national and international contributors to this process …

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Minor Literature, Microculture: Fiona Mcgregor's Chemical Palace, Guy R. Davidson Jan 2004

Minor Literature, Microculture: Fiona Mcgregor's Chemical Palace, Guy R. Davidson

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

SYDNEY'S QUEER DANCE PARTY subculture has received little readily accessible documentation, and a felt need to make up for this lack animates Fiona McGregor’s Chemical Palace (2002). Tracing the transition from the mid-1990s to the early years of the current century, the narrative follows a group of self-styled “freaks art sluts and outcasts” (198) as they move through the vicissitudes of friendship, romance, and creative collaboration, and between and within the spaces of inner-city Sydney.

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Book Review - Allison Levy, Widowhood And Visual Culture In Early Modern Europe, Louise D'Arcens Jan 2004

Book Review - Allison Levy, Widowhood And Visual Culture In Early Modern Europe, Louise D'Arcens

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The past decade has witnessed the appearance of a number of excellent edited essay collections dealing with widowhood in the European past, including Louise Mirrer’s Upon My Husband’s Death: Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe (1992), Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl’s Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages (1999), and Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner’s Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1999). The essays assembled by Allison Levy in Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe offer a distinctive contribution to the existing scholarship, shifting the focus away from social, legal, …

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What Does It Mean To Be Human?: Racing Monsters, Clones And Replicants, Robyn L. Morris Jan 2004

What Does It Mean To Be Human?: Racing Monsters, Clones And Replicants, Robyn L. Morris

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

In her first novel When Fox is a Thousand (1995), Calgary-based author Larissa Lai incorporated into her narrative selected scenes from the movie Blade Runner (Director’s Cut 1992) to interrogate a contemporary filmic definition of humanness that is premised on racialised, sexualised and gendered hierarchies. Lai’s intertextual engagement with Blade Runner articulates an awareness of the power of the Hollywood viewing apparatus to colour the look (white) and perpetuate dichotomies of racial difference. In the opening pages of Fox, however, the protagonist Artemis Wong watches and contemplates pivotal scenes from the movie in a way that suggests the novel’s vision(w)ary …

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Mechanised Horsemen: Red Cavalry Commanders And The Second World War, Stephen M. Brown Jan 2004

Mechanised Horsemen: Red Cavalry Commanders And The Second World War, Stephen M. Brown

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

A casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that there were two Red Armies in the Second World War. By the end of September 1941, the Red Army had effectively lost Ukraine, eastern Poland, Byelorussia, the Baltic States, much of European Russia and about half of the five-million-strong force with which it began the war three months earlier. It was seemingly powerless in the face of the Nazi invasion. The Red Army of 1943-45 reconquered all of this territory, albeit at the cost of millions of lives, and drove the Nazis back to Berlin achieving total victory in May 1945.

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Accelerating New Product Development: The Experience Of Concurrent Engineering In Australia, Paul Couchman Jan 2004

Accelerating New Product Development: The Experience Of Concurrent Engineering In Australia, Paul Couchman

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Concurrent engineering (CE) is a distinctive approach to the organisation and management of new product development (NPD) which seeks to achieve cross-functional integration, product life cycle design integration and high levels of project task concurrence in order to reduce development lead times. To address the limited research to date on CE in the Asia-Pacific region, the paper presents findings from a survey of Australian manufacturers (n = 150) and from five in-depth case studies on the application of CE in Australia. The survey found that just over one-half (54%) of the companies surveyed used CE to some extent and that, …

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The Role Of Trust In The Marketing And R&D Interface During The Npd Process: A General Framework, Elias Kyriazis, Janette K. Rowland Jan 2004

The Role Of Trust In The Marketing And R&D Interface During The Npd Process: A General Framework, Elias Kyriazis, Janette K. Rowland

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

A gap exists in our understanding of the role that "trust" plays within organisations that produce new products. Recent organisational research suggests that trust plays a more significant role in modern organisational structures than previously thought. Trust encourages efficient information sharing, it limits defensive behaviours, encourages citizenship behaviours, it leads to co-operation and teamwork, and encourages collaboration. The NPD literature has traditionally focused on "integration methods" which promote information sharing and interaction amongst participants. Trust has been viewed as a "by product" of these approaches. A framework is proposed which highlights the important role that management play in creating an …

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Prospects For An Fta Between Australia And Korea, Charles Harvie Jan 2004

Prospects For An Fta Between Australia And Korea, Charles Harvie

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Since the I 960s, trade opportunities based on complementary economies have driven the Australia-Korea economic relationship. Australia exported raw materials, principally minerals and energy, which Korea processed and subsequently sold on domestic and international markets. In return Australia purchased increasing volumes of Korean manufactures, initially textiles, clothing and footwear and later automobiles. With the onset ofthe financial and economic crisis in Korea during 1997-98 trade and investment opportunities were severely constrained. However, in the wake of the crisis, and the rapid recovery of the Korean economy underpinned by corporate and financial sector reforms, trade and investment opportunities in traditional areas …

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Savings, Investment, Foreign Inflows And Economic Growth Of The Indian Economy 1950-2002, Reetu Verma, Edgar J. Wilson Jan 2004

Savings, Investment, Foreign Inflows And Economic Growth Of The Indian Economy 1950-2002, Reetu Verma, Edgar J. Wilson

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

There is a large research literature on the roles of domestic savings and investment in promoting long run economic growth. This paper attempts to identiy the major interdependencies between savings, investment, foreign capital flows and real output for India since independence. An endogenous growth model of an open economy, with government, is adapted to specify the complicated theoretical interrelationships between sectors of a growing economy. The time series of real household, private corporate and public savings; private and public investment; foreign capital inflows and GDP are tested for stationary under structural change. Empirical estimation of the possible long run and …

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Rhetorics Of Division: Miners' Narrative Sense Of 'Self' And 'Other' During Performance Appraisal At An Underground Coalmine, James Reveley, Peter Mclean Jan 2004

Rhetorics Of Division: Miners' Narrative Sense Of 'Self' And 'Other' During Performance Appraisal At An Underground Coalmine, James Reveley, Peter Mclean

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Underground coal mining has long been perceived - both by the public and the people who do the work - as a unique occupation. Since Orwell's day, mining has been reshaped by the introduction of mechanised coal extraction and the ongoing incorporation of this occupation into large organisations within multinational corporations. To date, neither development has alleviated the perennial personnel problem in the mines - how to control the activities of people who work underground, far from the gaze of managers.

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Customer Relationship Success, Tim Coltman, Timothy Devinney Jan 2004

Customer Relationship Success, Tim Coltman, Timothy Devinney

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

What makes companies such as National Australia Bank in Australia, Otto Versand in Germany, Tesco in the United Kingdom and Capital One in the US so much better at managing customer relationships than their competitors? This question was the basis of a large survey of senior managers in medium to large Australian companies. The findings demonstrate that relationship leaders outperform their rivals by proactively identifying new market developments and seeking to meet latent or unarticulated needs of their customers. To punch above their weight in today’s competitive environment, companies need databases and software to gain a deep understanding of customer …

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