Living in the suburbs: is it better than living in the city if you have a family? Why would one want to live so far away from everything? Questions like these are going through the minds off millions of people around the world as suburbanization is becoming increasingly popular. But first what is suburbanization? To put it simply‚ it is the process of citizens migrating from the city to the suburbs (Filion and Bunting‚ 2015‚ p. 446). This has been happening largely since the mid-20th century‚ aligning
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MARC and RAM (Credit rating agencies) To know what is RAM and MARC is doing in the financial sector in Malaysia‚ we need to know what is the credit rating first. So‚ credit ratings are forward-looking opinions about credit risk. A credit rating is an opinion of the general creditworthiness of countries‚ companies and individuals. Lower credit ratings result in higher borrowing costs because the borrower is deemed to carry a higher risk of default. So‚ what does the rating agency do? They will
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More Human than Human is the first episode of the BBC series entitled How Art Made the World. This documentary discusses on how people in the past rarely use realistic human images. From little figurines‚ to cave paintings and murals‚ and up to towering statues‚ Dr. Nigel Spivey investigates on how this has become so. The relics discovered were observed to have some body parts that were exaggerated while others were completely ignored. These exaggerated parts are said to have certain significance
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60 percent in the past decade but those who hold executive positions is still quite small at about 4.8 percent. A research revealed that women still hold less than a quarter‚ about 24 percent‚ of the senior management positions in privately held businesses globally. This figure‚ 24 percent‚ is identical to 2007‚ an improvement from 2004 when only 19 percent of senior level positions were held by women. However‚ it is assuring and satisfying to learn that the Philippines holds the highest percentage
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categorize these points of views are liberalism and conservatism. Liberalism is the ideology of trying to reach equality with personal freedoms‚ however also for government intervention when it comes to the economy. These people feel that the government should only involve in the way the country spends money‚ however when it comes to how the people chose to live their lives‚ the government should have little to no say. Conservatism is a close opposite of liberalism since the people that associate themselves
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EVALUATION OF THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF GLAXOSMITHKLINE 2008 AND 2009 BACKGROUND OF THE COMPANY GSK is the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. It has a 7% share of the global pharmaceutical market‚ 26% of all vaccine sales‚ and 17% of all anti-invectives. It was formed with the merger of two top pharmaceutical companies‚ Glaxo Wellcome Plc and SmithKline Beecham Plc in December 2000. “GSK’s history dates back to 1715‚ when Plough Court pharmacy‚ a predecessor to SmithKline Beecham‚ was
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others. They are open minded and always wanting to give more than what they have. moral character of the rich and the poor and thus they don’t help each other mutually in obstacles they each have to face. Poor people are filled with hope and the desire to help others that are in need of help. They are consumed with goodness and are always seeking to help out theiw on class. The Mexican revolution is very good example of how‚ when in tough times‚ poor families and friends stick together
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QoS based performance evaluation for MANETs Heng Luo Institute for Digital Communications University of Edinburgh Edinburgh‚ UK H.Luo@ed.ac.uk Abstract—QoS support in MANETs is challenging because of unfavourable conditions such as a dynamic topology‚ limited bandwidth and energy constraints. In the past decade‚ significant effort has been devoted to QoS routing design which fails to obtain a one-for-all solution for MANETs. The key reason‚ it is believed‚ is the application dependent nature of
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More Than One Reality By: Ethan Caldwell Reality is kind of like a memory. Everyone has their own different ideas of what it should be but none are necessarily the truth. For example two people who were both in the great depression could have totally different thoughts on the difficult times. While one could have lived on the streets struggling every day to find food and water‚ the other could have been among the few rich people and lived in luxury. Both of them would have very different memories
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES & PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF RAILWAYS Based on European railway reform experiences and applied to Israel Railways J. W. Wolff September 2011 Organizational Structures & Performance Evaluation of Railways Based on European railway reform experiences and applied to Israel Railways Master Thesis September 2011 Jeroen W. Wolff Thesis Committee: Prof. Dr.-Ing. I.A. Hansen (TU Delft‚ Faculty CiTG) dr. W.W. Veeneman (TU Delft‚ Faculty TPM) ir. P.B.L. Wiggenraad
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