Eastern Economic Journal‚ 32(1)‚ 133-148. This paper investigates the idea that the recent rapid increase in obesity rates are due to economic changes that have in turn caused behavioral changes in the lives of Americans. These changes in the environment have changed habits and redefined social and cultural norms. “We realize that obesity is a health problem‚ and may be one of the costs of economic progress.” Attributed to; reductions in job strenuousness [Philipson‚ 2001; Lakdawalla and Philipson
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RECRUITING AND RETAINING EMPLOYEES IN A SEASONAL ENVIRONMENT November 1‚ 2011 Many organizations do not have the luxury of having a constant demand in their businesses. Some companies face a large increase in business for the holiday season‚ summer vacation‚ or for a major event throughout the year. These predictable trends allow many businesses to hire additional employees to help with the demand. The organizations are then forced to lay several employees off when the demand returns to
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birth” [Above] The narrator is aware of unequal nature of the American society in the early 20th Century. [Above] He seems to be criticising this – he is socialist/ communist – challenging the unequal society. [Above] ‘Decencies’ – basics & more required for good quality of life – life is unfair‚ general theme – Why is he not judgemental? Emotive language “vulnerable” Young was unaware. Needed his Father’s advice. Easily led‚ victim and target Father has had a strong impact on him- still
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The Church as Forgiving Community: An Initial Model Liberty University Summary To forgive is not to condone‚ excuse‚ forget‚ or even to reconcile. To forgive is to offer mercy to someone who has acted unjustly (Magnuson; and Enright‚ 2008). The study of forgiveness in this research article leads us down a path of insightful hopefulness for reconciliation‚ peace‚ trust‚ self-esteem and greater self-actualization. Along with humanistic values this article gives the reader a deeper comfort in
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Software Engineering Notes Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 5 Definitions 5 Characteristics of a software Product 5 Components of software 6 Types of Software Product 6 History 6 Software Crisis:- 1965-1985 6 Software myths 7 The 4Ps of Software engineering 7 Software Development Life Cycle(SDLC) 8 Waterfall Model 8 Waterfall Strengths 9 Waterfall Deficiencies 9 When to use the Waterfall Model 10 Spiral SDLC Model 10 Spiral Model
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Nokia evaluates alternative solutions to drive better management of electronic waste With regulators introducing taxation on electronic waste‚ Nokia has taken a proactive stance‚ exploring solutions to assist the company to prepare for possible future legislation. The report on deposit models that it has developed with the help of Accenture looks at how end-of-life mobile phone returns can be increased. New leasing models that encompass manufacturers‚ operators and consumers were also reviewed
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Research Paper Comparison of the Enterprise Functionalities of Open Source Database Management Systems April 26‚ 2005 Herausgeber und Urheber Fabalabs Software GmbH‚ Honauerst. 4 A-4020 Linz Bearbeiter: Dipl.-Ing. Daniel Fallmann Dipl.-Ing. Helmut Fallmann Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Pramböck Horst Reiterer Dipl.-Ing. Martin Schumacher Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Steinmaurer Univ.-Prof. Dr. Roland Wagner Research Paper Page 1 Copyright © Fabalabs Software GmbH‚ 2004-2005‚ Honauerstr. 4 A-4020 Linz Index 1 Introduction
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a. UPNOW: UPNOW software is privately held company which was founded in 1996 to sell innovative software for building‚ operating and monitoring ecommerce websites. The sales team from the organization used to store all their data into spreadsheets. This involved a lot of manual effort. The IT initiative addressed these problems by building a system that would enable the sales representatives to consolidate prospective customer information in a database and make it available to everyone who needed
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Sensitivity Analysis Source: Introduction to Management Science 10 e‚ Anderson Sweeney Williams Example 1 Max s.t. 5x1 + 7x2 x1 < 6 2x1 + 3x2 < 19 x1 + x2 < 8 x1‚ x2 > 0 x2 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 x1 + x2 < 8 Max 5x1 + 7x2 x1 < 6 Optimal: x1 = 5‚ x2 = 3‚ z = 46 2x1 + 3x2 < 19 x1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 x2 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 5 5 Feasible Region 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 4 3 3 2 2 5 6 7 8 9 10 x1 Example 1 • Range of Optimality for c1 The slope of the objective
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free and open source geospatial software has experienced some major changes. For instance‚ the website FreeGIS.org currently lists 330 GIS related projects. Besides the advent of new software projects and the growth of established projects‚ a new organisation known as the OSGeo Foundation has been established to offer a point of contact. This paper will give an overview on existing free and open source desktop GIS projects. To further the understanding of the open source software development
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