Philippine Wholesale Electricity Market Spot (WESM) January 21-22‚ 2004 Wholesale Electricity Market Spot (WESM) is an innovation in market trading of electricity between generators and suppliers‚ as well as wholesale consumers. The whole idea of WESM is that the market is price-driven‚ therefore‚ competition in electricity production and supply is assured. Basically‚ WESM will work as an intermediary to ensure that the demand bids of the wholesale buyers of electricity will be met by the generators
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FRAUD‚ CORRUPTION AND CYBER CRIME IN A GLOBAL DIGITAL NETWORK Economics‚ Management and Financial Markets‚ June 2011 Journal Article Authors: Blajan‚ Adrian; Ionescu‚ Luminita; Mirea‚ Viorica ISSN: 1842-3191 Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Start Page: 373 ABSTRACT. Fraud cannot be eradicated‚ but fraud and corruption risks can be managed like any other risks. The economic crunch created the premises for a substantial increase of the computer crime and fraud. Computer crime or cyber crime refers
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The Effect Of Mobile Phones On Society There are many reasons why people own and use mobile phones; they are a big part of society today‚ so much so that as a mobile phone owner myself‚ it is difficult to imagine what life would be like without one. Presently there are over sixty million people world wide who own a mobile phone. One main effect of owning a mobile phone on society is that people can be contacted when they are not at home or in their place of work. This is useful in business if a
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physical features‚ i.e. their physical attractiveness‚ plays an enormous role in the formation of relationships and opportunities to climb the socio-economic ladder. The effect of physical attractiveness reaches across cultures and plunges into every age group. Diseases such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa‚ which tend to effect young girls‚ can be attributed to their desire to enhance their physical features. Older people do not escape the vortex of desire for physical beauty either‚ seeing that
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Effects of the Bottleneck and the Founders effect Cecil Smith GS102 Grantham University Online The bottleneck effect happens when something of a great devastation has happened‚ causing a great amount of people to lose their lives and leave behind very few people at the most. The bottleneck effect happens at random and can kill of a whole population and with it can also wipe out the gene pool by doing so. An example of the bottleneck effect would be something like a tsunami‚ or an earthquake‚ which
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Football League‚ without a doubt has a huge impact on American society. This impact however‚ can have many positive or negative effects on our culture. It can bring people together with a common interest‚ raise or lower the morale of a city‚ and influence the economy. However‚ either the good or the bad aspects must outweigh the other. Most Americans would say that the positive aspects of football are very important to our and the negative effects are much more minimal. Having a home team to cheer for
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What Effect Does the Media’s “Thin Ideal” Have on Society? Magazine articles‚ TV shows‚ advertisements‚ and music videos continually depict images of unreasonably thin models and celebrities. Many of these celebrities suffer from eating disorders‚ and yet they remain the iconic symbols of our society. American men and women strive to obtain the perfect body‚ or the “thin ideal‚” that the media presents as normal. This was true for my friend‚ who dreamed of going to fashion school beginning in middle
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millions of lives and having serious consequences still visible today. Not only did the Soviet invasion influence Afghanistan’s economy‚ it also had major effects on the Afghan people. After the invasion‚ the country was left in shambles. Moreover‚ the Afghan society suffered both devastating short-term effects and long-term effects. Immediate effects The Soviets tried to eliminate civilian populations from the Afghan countryside‚ where resistance was based‚ because the rural population fed and housed
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Search Results transnational labor migration‚ OFWs‚ transnational families www.academia.edu/.../transnational_labor_migration_OFWs_transnation... transnational labor migration‚ OFWs‚ transnational families ... Cinema Studies. 501 ... A case study revealing lessened masculinity for “left-behind” husbands of ... A case study revealing lessened masculinity for “left-behind ... www.academia.edu/.../A_case_study_revealing_lessened_masculinity_fo... (30/03/12) A case study
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What should be done about how America’s social class is represented by the show “2 Broke Girls” and its effects on society? What is the best explanation for how the social classes in “2 Broke Girls” is viewed? What is the relationship between female characters in the show compared to its views on the real world and who they are as an individual? Completely different characters coming together. One was the rich dumb preppy girl too poor‚ vs one born poor was a young prostitute achieving for more.
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