General Motors Corp.‚ the world ’s largest automaker‚ has been the global industry sales leader for 75 years. Founded in 1908‚ GM today employs about 327‚000 people around the world. With global headquarters in Detroit‚ GM manufactures its cars and trucks in 33 countries. In 2005‚ 9.17 million GM cars and trucks were sold globally under the following brands: Buick‚ Cadillac‚ Chevrolet‚ GMC‚ GM Daewoo‚ Holden‚ HUMMER‚ Opel‚ Pontiac‚ Saab‚ Saturn and Vauxhall. GM operates one of the world ’s leading
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Discuss explanations for insomnia and/or narcolepsy. (8 marks + 16 marks) Explanations of narcolepsy are in majority biological. Scientists have discovered that narcoleptics often are lacking in hypocretin which is a chemical in the brain that control sleep and wakefulness. A lack of this chemical may explain the sudden attacks of sleep. Sakurai (2007) highlighted how there are about 10‚000-20‚000 hypocretin-producing cells in a normal hypothalamus‚ but people with narcolepsy have a significantly
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Income Elasticity of Demand Income Elasticity of Demand is a measure of responsiveness of demand to the changes in income and it involves demand curve shifts. It provides information on the direction of change of demand‚ given a change in income and the size of the change. Formula for YED: Percentage change in quantity demanded = %ΔQ Percentage change in income %ΔY Normal goods have a positive value of YED‚ while Inferior goods have a negative value of YED as shown
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GENERAL KNOWEDGE India Gate to Gholkoda Fort Part India Gate :- Sir Edwin Lutyens (1931) New Delhi :- Sir Edwin Lutyens ‚Herbert Baker Rastrapathi Bhavan :- Sir Edwin Lutyens Secretariat (SansadBhavan) :- Sir Herbert Baker Konnaught Place :- Robert torr Russell Purana Quila :- Humayun Humayun Tomb :- Mirak Mirza Ghiyas Jami Masjid :- Shajahan Red Fort :- Shajahan Khooni Darwaza :- Sher Shah Qutab Minar :- Qutab-ub-din-Aibak --- Iltutmish Suarjkund Lake :- Suraj Pal of Tomar dynasty
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CH1 10. a) State Income - regressive b) Federal State Tax – Progressive (larger the state; larger the tax) c) Corporate & franchise tax - Progressive d) Property tax – Proportional (value of property is taxed at flat rate) e) State Sales Tax – Proportional 12. Who uses a) Property Tax – State Local b) Excise Taxes – All three (State‚ federal‚ and local) c) Sales – State and Local d) Income Tax – Federal‚ State‚ Local e) Employment – Federal‚ State‚ and
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The four concepts which organizations use to design their marketing strategies (product concept‚ production concept‚ selling concept‚ and societal marketing concept) are important because they serve as a guide for businesses to plan and carry out their marketing and selling efforts. The production concept is the oldest of the concepts in business. It proposes that customers prefer products that are cheap and widely available. organizations that focus on this concept are likely to concentrate on
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Students that originate from low-income or working class families face many challenges within the pursuit of an advanced education. Most research demonstrates that the rising cost of education negatively impacts low-income students and creates an added barrier to their success‚ graduation rates and social economic status after graduation. The is the rising cost of Higher education’s impact on students from students from lower income and working class families. Students receiving their high school
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Essay 1 Lumley and Armstrong discuss how the origins of sustainability concepts where theorized prior to and during the 19th century‚ and that the idea evolved through a combination of factors linked together (politics‚ economics‚ environmental and social policy). Thus making the concepts of sustainability not a ‘new beginning’ in human thought. Over the time of history human thought has changed depending on the environmental influences we as a species have had to encounter causing the changes
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Substitution and Income Effects Nicole Sherwood BUS 640: Managerial Economics Kevin Kuznia November 1‚ 2012 Gas prices have continued to increase over the last seven years‚ which has drastically changed the way people spend money. In just the last week‚ the price of gas per gallon fluctuated 50 cents a gallon‚ making it difficult for consumers to budget their gas spending. Regardless of the price of gas‚ few Americans are likely to drive less‚ but rather cut spending
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PATNA – 800 001. Email : pkadvoc@yahoo.com *************************************************************************** Income of a Political Party - Whether taxable under Income Tax Law in India What is a Political Party ? A political party means a political party registered under section 29-A of the Representation of the People Act‚ 1951. Section 29-A of the
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