Geological Factors that contributed to the destructive nature of Typhhon Quinta that hit Iloilo and Capiz last month and measure to address these problems: A Reaction Paper With 52‚172 families (251‚152 persons) affected‚ many Filipinos celebrated their recent holiday vacations with grief as Typhoon Quinta hit the Phlippines destroying millions of properties and owing 15 people their lives. Millions of pesos worth of agricultural crops and infrastructures were also damaged in 544 barangays of the
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Optimal alarm sound design: New design process for noticeable‚ but pleasant sounds Author 193 Track 3: what the beep? ABSTRACT The goal of this research is improving alarm sound design‚ focusing on the paradox of noticeable versus pleasant sounds. The characteristics of annoying sounds correspond in large extend to the characteristics of noticeable sounds. Therefore it is difficult to design an alarm sound‚ which is noticeable‚ but not annoying. A lot of studies are conducted along aspects
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another. Proteins differ from one another primarily in their sequence of amino acids‚ which is dictated by the nucleotide sequence of their genes‚ and which usually results in folding of the protein into a specific three-dimensional structure that determines its activity. What is starch?2 Starch is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by most green plants as an energy store. It is the most common carbohydrate in human
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Abstract People always say that “money can buy happiness”‚ but whether that is true or not depends on how we look at it. This paper discusses to what extent that money can bring happiness to one and how such effects will change after earning a certain level of income. The rich views a rise of their income as insignificant contribution to their happiness because their spending power rises together with their income. The poor views a rise of income as a means to escape poverty hence feeling a rise
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Venice is famous as a heritage city and attracts visitors across the world by its elegant architecture. According to statistics there were a steadily growing number of tourists in the past. In 1952 approximately 500 000 tourists spent 1.2 million bed nights in Venice. The visitors had increased to 1.21 million until 1992 and used up 2.68 million bed nights which kept presenting huge business opportunities (Glasson‚ Godfrey & Goodey 1997; Page 2007). However‚ it cannot be denied that there still exists
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SAMSER STUDENT ID: L0698NINI0210 SUBMITTED DATE: 20/04/2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In economics the market relations between the suppliers and consumers of a product are known as demand and supply. From a demand –supply model we can easily determine the price and quantity sold in a market of a particular good like personal computer. In recent market‚ the affordability of computer plays an important role in high demand of it and to fulfil the required demand suppliers/ producers supply more and
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Review of Financial Economics 21 (2012) 175–187 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Review of Financial Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/rfe What determines the stock market ’s reaction to monetary policy statements?☆ Alexander Kurov ⁎ College of Business and Economics‚ West Virginia University‚ Morgantown‚ WV 26506‚ USA article info Article history: Received 5 October 2011 Received in revised form 30 May 2012 Accepted 26 June 2012 Available
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Introduction The external environment can be defined as forces and factors outside the organization affecting the overall company’s performance directly or indirectly. It can be divided into two components including specific environment and general environment. Specific environment refers to the unique factors of each company that directly relevant to the achievement of goals and affect managers’ actions and decisions directly including suppliers‚ customers‚ pressure groups and competitors. General
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“Optimal Versus Naïve Diversification: How Inefficient Is The 1/N Portfolio Strategy” – A Critique Title: The title of the paper “Optimal Versus Naïve Diversification: How Inefficient Is The 1/N Portfolio Strategy” has been reasonably well phrased. However‚ it can be argued that the title is a little misleading as the principal objective of the paper is to test how efficient different optimal diversification strategies are using the 1/N portfolio strategy as the benchmark and not to try and elucidate
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over the items removed from the property they had purchased from Ahmed that were present during the purchase of the house. Finally‚ the paper is to determine whether Pamela can claim a right over the metal object that she picked at the garage. This paper will make use of case law‚ statutes and legal writings to establish discussions that will determine the rightful interest-holder of the property above. In assessing whether Pamela has a priority over the two mortgagees‚ it is appropriate to first
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