By: joe The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the French province of Louisiana by the United States in 1803. The province stretched from the Mississippi River westward to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico northward to Canada‚ covering an area equal to that of the United States‚ prior to the purchase. Except for the Mississippi River on the east and Canada on the north‚ the boundaries were indefinite. The United States also claimed West Florida between the Mississippi and Perdido
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What is the need of Operating System in a Computer? Explain the facilities provided by an operating system to its users. Also explain the services that are offered by the Operating System Ans: An operating system is an essential software component of a computer system. The basic objectives of an operating system are to make the computer system convenient to use and to utilize computer hardware in an efficient manner. We can define an operating system as a large collection of software‚ which manages
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Strategy and Buying Decision Making The purchase of a refrigerator is a high involvement buying decision and it requires a lot of deliberation on the consumer’s part. There are a lot of challenges involved in such a purchase which include not getting complete information about the market‚ not being able to define the parameters on which that they should base their decision on and finding out ways to overcome the risks involved. It is an extensive problem solving procedure and a long term commitment
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How effective is sweating at cooling you down? DC The temperature of each test tube that contains water which had different conditions that was measured each minute Temperature (±0.05 °C) Minute Dry Dry/Windy Wet Wet/Windy 1 77 82 70 76 2 75 80 64 70 3 72 76 59 65 4 69 73 55 60 5 67 71 53 57 6 65 68 50 53 7 64 66 48 51 8 63 64 46 48 9 61 61 44 46 10 59 60 42 44 11 58 58 41 43 12 56 56 40 41 13 55 55 39 40 14 54 53 38
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October 16‚ 2012 READING ASSIGNMENT #1 Chapter 5: The Printed News System Answer the following Questions: 1. What is a Gatekeeper as it is portrayed in the chapter? How does the Gatekeeper influence the news we see on a news-page? On the reality that we know? What can you say about this? Gatekeeper from what I have learned from the article acts like a filter of a printing press. S/he
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Austin‚ Texas has become a bit of a media sensation as the newest “cool” city. It was always what we “Austinites” considered to be the world’s best kept secret. The heart of Austin was its artistic community‚ and residential support for the “mom and pop” businesses. A place where artists and college kids were able to have a safe and comfortable life due to low crime rate and reasonable cost of living. Austin was a city that had a small town feel. We were all able to encounter Leslie Cochran on
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Sales and purchase: The terms ¨sales order¨ and ¨purchase order¨ are not interchangeable‚ they are two very different documents. A sales order‚ abbreviated in business as SO‚ comes from a business to a customer. By comparison‚ a purchase order comes from a business to a vendor. Both are fulfillment methods‚ the sales order representing outside sales‚ and the purchase order representing internal corporate goods or service requests. Sales orders and purchase orders are tools for tracking business
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Introduction: The community considered Tucker very fortunate for his marriage‚ and so did Tucker‚ nevertheless he had no knowledge of modern women and the marriage had bought changes he had not predicted. This is a statement made early in the short story “Heating the world” written by Owen Marshall. This story is set in a rural Northern area of the South Island. The story is a fiction piece classified under social genre‚ it is also written in third person‚ so it is narrated from an on-lookers perspective rather
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www.ccsenet.org/ijms International Journal of Marketing Studies Vol. 3‚ No. 1; February 2011 Factors that Influence Customers’ Buying Intention on Shopping Online Yulihasri School of Management‚ Universiti Sains Malaysia‚ Malaysia Md. Aminul Islam School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship‚ Universiti Malaysia Perlis‚ Malaysia Ku Amir Ku Daud School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship‚ Universiti Malaysia Perlis‚ Malaysia Abstract On-line commerce through Internet
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and business use. To better estimate costs‚ the company recently adopted an activity-based costing system. Last year‚ the company incurred $300‚000 in overhead costs. Based on an intense study of their company‚ the following activities‚ allocation bases‚ and percentages of overhead costs were determined: Activity | Allocation Base | Proportion of Overhead Cost | Purchasing | Number of purchase orders | 25% | Materials processing | Number of square feet | 50% | Sales | Number of sales orders
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