Police Discretion Police discretion is the ability to choose a course of action because of broad limits of power. It "refers to the autonomy an officer has in choosing an appropriate course of action" (The Police In America‚ 113). It "includes authority to decide which of the various means of helping the helpless‚ maintaining order‚ and keeping the peace are best suited to particular circumstances" (www.worldandi.com/specialreport/1989/january/Sa15878.htm). The police need to have discretion
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he ’s doing. It will all work out” (Young 22). 5. In recent years‚ the number of domestic violence attacks has escalated. Domestic violence is just not confined to the victim ’s home anymore‚ it could occur anywhere at any time (Blumenthal 196-205). 6. “The study of human adaptability examines the biological responses of individuals to environmental change and the variability in such reaction norms both within and between populations” (Blangero 523). 7. A building under demolition collapsed
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1. Revenue hours" represent the key activity that drives costs at Salem Data Services. Which expenses in Exhibit 2 are variable with respect to revenue hours? Which expenses are fixed with respect to revenue hours? Expenses Spase costs: Rent Fixed cost1 Custodial services Fixed cost2 Equipment costs Computer leases Fixed cost3 Maintenance Fixed cost4 Depreciation: Computer equipment Fixed cost5 Office equipment and fixtures Fixed cost5 Power Variable cost6 Wages and salaries
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The controversy surrounding new religious movements seems to be foremost concerned with whether or not the members of these religions come of their own freewill or if they convert as a necessary and inevitable response to advanced coercion‚ or "brainwashing" techniques employed by the cult leaders. <br> <br>The concept of brainwashing came into popular existence in the 1950 ’s as the result of attempts to try and explain the behaviour of some American GI ’s who defected to the Communists during the
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Life of Pi - Option 2 In The Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ Pi Patel and Richard Parker travel in a liferaft for many days while stranded in the Pacific Ocean. However‚ the setting helps aid the story in multiple ways. The setting guides the character’s feelings and actions to grow dynamically and adds foreshadow to the storyline. In the beginning of the plot when the weather started to become rough‚ Pi admitted that he was “very afraid” (Martel 101) and he was so frightened to where “his mind could
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Case Study 2 Springfield Express is a luxury passenger carrier in Texas. All seats are first class‚ and the following data are available: Number of seats per passenger train car 90 Average load factor (percentage of seats filled) 70% Average full passenger fare $ 160 Average variable cost per passenger $ 70 Fixed operating cost per month $ 3‚150‚000 Formulae’s: Revenue = Units Sold * Unit price Contribution Margin = Revenue – All Variable Cost Contribution Margin Ratio =
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be reduced thereby saving on labour costs. If all these costs are compared this will give a clear indication of the more profitable option and this will give good guidance in decision making II) Assuming the company demand for service will average 205 hours per month‚ what level of commercial sales of computer use would be necessary to break even each month? Firstly‚ let’s have a look at the reports which Rowe received from the Prestige Data Services to do the Cost -Volume – Profit analysis. The
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refrigerator only requires 1-2 times their weight in fossil fuels and chemicals to be made while an average 24 kg desktop computer requires at least 10 times of its weight. (UNU‚ 2004) This means that an average desktop with 17-inch cathode ray tube (CTR) is made with 240 kg of fossil fuels‚ 22 kg of chemicals and 1‚500 kg of water. Also‚ in 2009 about 969‚863 computers are sold daily which 11 computers are sold every second! (Randall Hand‚ 2010) In short‚ computers used up a lot of natural resources
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Chapter 7: User Creation and Management TRUE/FALSE 1. Authentication is the process of ensuring that the individuals trying to access the system are who they claim to be. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 196 2. User names in Oracle10g can consist of up to 30 characters. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 196 3. The password for a user can be set with the PASSWORD clause of the CREATE USER command. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 197 4. Permissions allow users to execute certain SQL statements in Oracle10g. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF:
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Week 3 HC491 Homework Chapter 5 1. Describe how we measure the clinical performance of an HCO as a whole? For example‚ can you aggregate good performance in cardiology and poor performance in obstetrics‚ and say “overall‚ performance is average”? It depends on how measurement is being done. If a scorecard is used‚ yes the performance could be aggregated. However‚ the book mentions moving the departments off the scorecard that do not need improvements and focusing on the departments that
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