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    Private Security

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    Private Security ESSAY #1 The three human and physical needs that are important in the relation to employee embezzlement are: need‚ rationalization‚ and opportunity. The employer should try and eliminate these elements up front‚ so there is less chance of embezzlement happening‚ but there will always be some way around all the obstacles NEED as explained in our text is a physical condition that may be the cause of unusual debts and may cause an employee to think seriously about how to convert

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    Prison Environment CJS/230 April 29‚ 2014 The prison environment could be define as a place to help persons convicted of crimes change their way of lifestyle‚ if it is a problem and serve out their sentence. The prison discussed in my readings is an environment where anyone from the cook to the janitor could influence someone to make a change in their thinking and their actions. What was once ran like a country under dictatorship‚ has now become a place where inmates are treated

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    Management positions in prisons are known to be very demanding. Correctional facilities are difficult to operate and are forced to deal with overcrowding which leads to an outnumbered staff and a continuous flow of violent and dangerous inmates. An issue that management faces is the occurrence of riots. According to dictionary.com‚ a riot is a disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons acting together in a disrupting and tumultuous manner in carrying out their private purposes. Some riots

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    Efficient Propeller Design | AbstractHow does a helicopter generate enough lift to fly? How does a speedboat get moving fast enough to pull someone on water skis? Here ’s a project on designing propellers to do the job. ObjectiveThe goal of this project is to investigate how changes in chord length affect the efficiency of propellers.IntroductionA propeller‚ like an airplane wing‚ is an airfoil: a curved surface that can generate lift when air moves over it. When air moves over the surface of

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    Private Equity

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    FIN 527 Alternative Investments | Private Equity | Project 1. | | Wei Chen‚ Ye Zhang | | | Part 1. Performance Measurement for Private Equity a) Summary statistics for venture capital and buyout returns: Histograms of returns: The return distribution of venture capital has a kurtosis of 23.25 and a skewness of 3.63‚ which means it is leptokurtic and skews to the right. It is not close to normal distribution. Mainly due to the high returns in late 1990s during the

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    The Cost of Prison

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    cost-saving measures would do well to turn to prisons. Prison reform must attain the lowest economic costs‚ lowering actual taxpayer dollars spent without giving up the benefits of attaining important social goals‚ which represent another form of cost when lost. Undoubtedly‚ the current prison system is doing little to separate the US from its international counterparts in minimizing such cost‚ yet prison privatization has yielded hopeful results‚ as private correctional facilities seem to have a striking

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    TASK 1 The statement by Henry Kravis that private equity was in its “golden era” might sound like hubris to the unacquainted observer but may actually not be far off from the reality given the growth of private equity funds under management since the advent of large-scale leveraged buy-outs (LBOs) in the 1980s. Henry Kravis as a principal partner in Kohlberg‚ Kravis & Roberts (KKR) pioneered LBOs in the late 1970s and KKR has been a major private equity firm since having reportedly invested in over

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    Prison Overcrowding

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    Prison Overcrowding In America’s tough economic society‚ over population has become an exceedingly hot topic issue. However‚ overcrowding in America’s prison system has been a severe problem since the 1970’s. The majority of the changes have come from different policies on what demographic to imprison and for what reason. The perspective of locking up criminals because they are "evil" is what spawned this (Allen‚ 2008). Because of this perspective the prison system in America is in need of serious

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    Safe Haven

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    A young woman flees her house after being shown in possession of a bloody knife. She is shown moments later buying a bus ticket‚ her hair now cropped and bleached‚ and stops at a small North Carolina town called Southport. At the general store‚ she introduces herself as Katie. After acquiring a job as a waitress and buying a small house on the edge of town‚ Katie becomes friends with her neighbor‚ Jo and meets handsome Alex Wheatley‚the manager of a local convenience store‚ and his two children‚

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    Energy Efficient Buildings

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    Shading: Shadow Angles When attempting to shade a window‚ the absolute azimuth and altitude of the Sun are not as important as the horizontal and vertical shadow angles relative to the window plane. These can be calculated for any time if the azimuth and altitude of the Sun are known. Horizontal Shadow Angle (HSA) This is the horizontal angle between the normal of the window pane or the wall surface and the current Sun azimuth. The normal to a surface is basically the direction that surface

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