financial statements and the securities exchanges for example the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) in Kenya. Historical market data can be used to compute average returns and a measure of risk or volatility. The distribution of past returns can be useful in estimating the possible future returns for investors. Required Rate of Return Estimate The required rate of return has two basic components: the risk free interest rate and a risk premium. The return earned by investors should compensate them for the
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One will always appear just before each QRS complex. The PR interval should fall into a range of .12 to .20 second. The QRS complex should take .10 second or less‚ and be followed by a T wave. Of course‚ this is not the pattern that will occur when an AV block is present. In a first degree AV block‚ the delay in the AV node will be longer than normal‚ marked by a longer PR interval. Over .30 second is considered significant delay. First degree AV block is
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Business Administration‚ University of Louisville‚ Louisville‚ KY 40292‚ U.S.A. KEYWORDS Integrated marketing communications; Social media; Consumer-generated media; Promotion mix Abstract The emergence of Internet-based social media has made it possible for one person to communicate with hundreds or even thousands of other people about products and the companies that provide them. Thus‚ the impact of consumer-toconsumer communications has been greatly magnified in the marketplace. This article argues
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Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 23 (2013) 1–24 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Pacific-Basin Finance Journal journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/pacfin The role of the audit committee and the informativeness of accounting earnings in East Asia Tracie Woidtke a‚ Yin-Hua Yeh b‚⁎ a b Department of Finance‚ Corporate Governance Center‚ University of Tennessee‚ United States Graduate Institute of Finance‚ National Chiao Tung University‚ 1001 Ta-Hsueh Rd.‚ Hsinchu
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they believe is their own sense of meaning and purpose. The path to spiritual wellness may involve meditation‚ prayer‚ affirmations‚ or specific spiritual practices that support your connection to a higher power or belief system. Yoga and meditation can also help you develop spiritual wellness. Having compassion‚ the capacity for love and forgiveness‚ altruism‚ joy‚ and fulfillment help you enjoy your spiritual health. Your religious faith‚ values‚ beliefs‚ principles‚ and morals define your spirituality
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of Pililla Academy and soon you too will be part of the Alumni. Today‚ Pililla Academy will name those outstanding students who brought honors to themselves‚ and to this school. As we‚ you gather here and start viewing those simple and ordinary faces‚ you will realize that these achievers are exactly as everyone else. The only thing different is that‚ they have made their choices. That is to STAND and be recognized in the area where they choose to be the best one. It is a matter of CHOICE. It is
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designating an outcome to one or more external factors. There are two errors in attribution: The fundamental attribution error and the self- serving bias. The definition of the fundamental attribution error is when people tend to aggrandize the role of dispositional factors (something to do with personal or internal factors) and disparage the situational (something to do with external or external factors). The fundamental attribution error occurs when individuals observe other individuals and automatically
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APPLICATIONS AND REVIEWS‚ VOL. 37‚ NO. 3‚ MAY 2007 311 Gesture Recognition: A Survey Sushmita Mitra‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE‚ and Tinku Acharya‚ Senior Member‚ IEEE Abstract—Gesture recognition pertains to recognizing meaningful expressions of motion by a human‚ involving the hands‚ arms‚ face‚ head‚ and/or body. It is of utmost importance in designing an intelligent and efficient human–computer interface. The applications of gesture recognition are manifold‚ ranging from sign language through medical rehabilitation
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evaluate Bruce and Young’s model of face recognition (8+16marks) Bruce young’s model of face recognition starts with structural encoding‚ where the face is seen and the features are analysed. The model then splits up into separate compartments one for familiar faces and the other for unfamiliar faces. [AO1] The first of these compartments is the name generation system‚ which consists of eight separate processes. The first stage being the structural encoding where the face perceived is converted in neural
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said Jackie Fenn‚ a Fellow in emerging trends and technologies for Gartner‚ a market research firm. GESTURE-RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY In the early 1960s‚ users could move a light-emitting pen to control the Sketchpad computer-aided design system. Several subsequent commercial systems also worked with light-emitting pens. Research into camera-based computer vision for gesture recognition began in earnest in the early 1990s at places such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab‚ Japan’s
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