Making the Grade Kurt Wiesenfeld Kurt Wiesenfeld is a physicist who teaches at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. He wrote this essay for the “My Turn” column of the June 17‚ 1996‚ issue of Newsweek. It was a rookie error. After 10 years I should have known better‚ but I went to my office the day after final grades were posted. There was a tentative knock on the door. “Professor Wiesenfeld? I took your Physics 2121 class? I flunked it? I wonder if there’s anything
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HISTORY OF TABLE TENNIS The origin of table tennis has never been exactly pinpointed‚ even though it’s a relatively young sport‚ younger than lawn tennis and not much older than basketball. The earliest known form of the sport‚ called indoor tennis‚ was played in the early 1880s by British army officers in India and South Africa‚ using lids from cigar boxes as paddles and rounded corks from wine bottles as balls‚ with a row of books set up across the middle of a table to form the net. Other versions
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PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM VIOLENCE IN SPORT a review with a focus on industrialized countries PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM VIOLENCE IN SPORT a review with a focus on industrialized countries The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in Florence‚ Italy‚ was established in 1988 to strengthen the research capability of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and to support its advocacy for children worldwide. The Centre (formally known as the International
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The Tables TurnedWilliam Wordsworth’s stanzaic poem The Tables Turned (1798)‚ expresses his belief that true knowledge is learned through and by nature‚ not by reading books. Wordsworth uses his friendly relationship with the reader to convince them to quit their books and go out into the world and discover what it has to offer. Wordsworth’s welcoming relationship with the reader‚ his ongoing petitioning‚ and his assurance of true knowledge leaves the reader with a sense of his insight. William
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THE WELCOME TABLE SHEILA TODD ENGLISH 125 NOVEMBER‚ 24‚ 2013 INSTRUCTOR: RONALD SION At its basic level‚ literary criticism‚ like all criticism‚ reflects personal preferences and emotional responses. It’s an activity that requires looking back on a reading experience just as you would look back on a journey you’ve completed and analyzing what you gained from it. Your experience is the central focus. You are the one initiating
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GRAMMAR– ENGLISH – 10TH GRADE – TEACHER LAURA GRILO A. Write sentences using the comparative of the adjective in brackets. 1. London/Lisbon (big) - London is Bigger than Lisbon 2. The Pyramids/The Eiffel Tower (old) 3. Chinese/English (difficult) 4. Leonard DiCaprio/Sean Connery (young) 5. Reading books/playing games (interesting) 6. A month’s holiday/A week’s holiday (good) 7. Finland/Portugal (cold) B. Use the comparative or the superlative of the adjectives in brackets. 1. Serra da Estrela
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are two main branches of statistics that include descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.Descriptive statistics gives numerical measures that describes the features of a given set of data. Inferential statistics on the other hand takes a sample of a given population‚ analyses the sample‚ and from it draw conclusions about the population .Malcolm.O.Asadoorian and Demetrius Kantarelis in their book: Essentials of inferential statistics argue that descriptive statistics organize ‚ summarize and
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Question 1 Stdev VAR Period 14% 0.0196 12 a) Check whether it can be asserted with 98% confidence that the underlying yearly real variance of the portfol Sigma^2= 440 Ho: sigma^2 = 440 H1: sigma^2 not = 440 Statistic 4.9 With 98% confidence Lower limit 3.05348411 Upper limit 24.7249703 With 98% confidence we cannot reject Ho since the statistic is inside the acceptance
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Random number tables have been used in statistics for tasks such as selected random samples. This was much more effective than manually selecting the random samples (with dice‚ cards‚ etc.). Nowadays‚ tables of random numbers have been replaced by computational random number generators. Tables of random numbers have the desired properties no matter how chosen from the table: by row‚ column‚ diagonal or irregularly. The first such table was published by a student of Karl Pearson’s in 1927‚ and
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children to get good grades. Many of my classmates are given cash‚ iPods‚ and even cars as rewards for good grades. This obsession with grades comes from the belief that school success means more opportunities for higher paying jobs and a better life. Since grades are indicators of school success‚ good grades are seen as essential. But can grades in high school predict future success? While good grades may indicate the mastery of content‚ what they really demonstrate is that students have the skill set
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