standard gasoline vehicle. However‚ this extra expense is well invested. A hybrid vehicle can reach sixty-one miles per gallon‚ whereas a typical gasoline vehicle can only reach twenty-eight miles per gallon. Currently gas costs two dollars and ten cents per gallon. The average individual can be expected to drive fifteen miles per year. This amounts to a total gas expense of eleven hundred dollars. If one were to own a hybrid vehicle this expense would eventually pay for the extra fifteen hundred dollars
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Efficiency and effectiveness were originally industrial engineering concepts that came of age in the early twentieth century. Management theorists like Frederick Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth designed time and motion studies primarily to improve efficiency. Work simplification efforts again focused primarily on questions like "How fast can we do this task?" Work simplification also led to terminology like streamlined processes and efficiency experts‚ but the emphasis was still on time and
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Hildagard Peplau (1998) defines the therapeutic relationship as the foundation of nursing practice in addition to people who are experiencing threats to their mental health. The therapeutic nurse-patient relationship evolves from. She
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for plants in order for them to survive‚ so we can conclude that plants are an example of an autotroph. Heterotroph refers to the process of collecting energy by consuming substances/products like meats‚ fats‚ carbohydrates‚ fruits‚ etc. Humans are an example of heterotroph since they are the ones who perform this process in order to obtain energy. 2. Can heterotrophs survive without autotrophs? Explain. (1 point) No‚ heterotrophs can’t survive without autotrophs. Plants (autotrophs) like vegetables
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Running head: PYRAMID OF INTERVENTION Module 6: Pyramid of Intervention Stephanie R. Clements Grand Canyon University: EDA 561 May 9‚ 2012 Pyramid of Intervention The Pyramid of Intervention is a term applied to the system of supports that a school provides for its struggling students. It is a three tiered model of instruction and intervention. Teachers begin by using the state curriculum with all student and monitoring student progress. The teacher adapts resources to fit the needs
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Question 1. (20 points) Explain the concept of Pareto efficiency. Question 2. (40 points) The Larry Summers Memo Explain the Economic Logic Summers is referring to in the following memo. DATE: December 12‚ 1991 TO: Distribution FR: Lawrence H. Summers Subject: GEP ’Dirty’ Industries: Just between you and me‚ shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]? I can think of three reasons: 1) The measurements of the costs
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Humans need water to survive. Without water‚ the average man would die in a week‚ considering every living cell in the body needs it to continue functioning. What would one say‚ though‚ if they discovered an animal that could go decades without water? Even more‚ that they could survive nearly anywhere‚ including beyond Earth’s atmosphere? Tardigrades‚ often referred to as “water bears”‚ or even “moss piglets”‚ are intensely small creatures with a knack for survival. Belonging to the Tardigrada
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One of the most important things that people can’t live without is music. Friedrich Nietzsche - a German philosopher‚ once said : ’Without music‚ life would be a mistake.’ First of all‚ we must know the definition of music. According to Wikipedia‚ music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time. The common elements of music are pitch‚ rhythm‚ dynamics and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. No one knows exactly when music existed. Some people even
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languages). In 1953 IKEA opened its first showroom to give customers an opportunity to touch and feel the furniture before placing an order. 1956 marked two revolutionary steps for the company: primarily‚ IKEA decided to design and manufacture its own furniture‚ and secondly the furniture would require customer assembly and be available in flat boxes—a function which serves as the precursor to “design for logistics”. The first IKEA store opened in 1958 in Almhult‚ Sweden; with domestic success
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Bombs exploding‚ desert sand‚ AK-47s‚ RPGs and terrorists have taken over the news in the last twenty years. The Middle East has been a hot topic for as long as I can remember. Iraq‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Kuwait‚ Israel‚ Afghanistan‚ 9/11‚ Al Qaeda‚ and Arab Spring all come to mind when I think of the Middle East. The most current hotspot of activity is Syria. Syria has been in a civil war since 2011 between dictator Bashar Al-Assad and rebels. Since the start of the war‚ over 100‚000 people have lost their
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