The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students forthcoming Economic Journal Robert W. Fairlie University of California‚ Santa Cruz rfairlie@ucsc.edu Rebecca A. London Stanford University rlondon@stanford.edu July 2011 We thank the Community Technology Foundation of California (ZeroDivide)‚ UCACCORD‚ and Computers for Classrooms‚ Inc. for funding. We thank Hardik Bhatt‚ Jesse Catlin‚ Eric Deveraux‚ Oliver
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distributors‚ and many other key players. Any distortion of this information can be very costly and may require permanent changes to a firm’s supply chain infrastructure. Perhaps the most infamous source of this demand data variability is the bullwhip effect. DEFINITION & CAUSES In 1990‚ executives at Proctor & Gamble noticed something odd about the ordering patterns for one of its most successful and well known products‚ Pampers diapers. Retail sales would always vary slightly from period to period
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Bystander Effect Essay In New York City around 1964‚ a 29-year-old woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death. Despite hearing cries nobody reported this incident to the police; only because they assumed that someone else would or has already done it. Although murders in New York are not uncommon‚ the circumstances surrounding Kitty’s death have saved her story to be a strangely literal illustration of what is now a well-known psychological effect: the Bystander Effect. The Bystander Effect states
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Effects of Unethical Ben Carr ACC291 February 28‚ 2013 Tamela Velaquez Effects of Unethical “What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.”-John Stuart Mill. Greed is the motivation behind every major scandal in corporate America. Living a lavish lifestyle also plays a key role when an individual decides to lie‚ cheat‚ and steal in order to take what others have earned. The Tyco International scandal is a great example of which unethical
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Raman Effect : Raman scattering or the Raman effect ( /ˈrɑːmən/) is the inelastic scattering of a photon. It was discovered by Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan in liquids‚[1] and by Grigory Landsberg and Leonid Mandelstam in crystals.[2][3] When light is scattered from an atom or molecule‚ most photons are elastically scattered (Rayleigh scattering)‚ such that the scattered photons have the same energy (frequency) and wavelength as the incident photons. However
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patients is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy in itself is as intricate as the cancer it treats‚ and has a few side effects that go along with it. Chemotherapy can be used to (Chemotherapy‚ 2015; How is Chemotherapy Used‚ 2016) shrink the size of cancerous tumors and kill cancer cells that are spreading. neoadjuvant
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Ecosystem effects of fishing in the Mediterranean: An analysis of the major threats of fishing gear and practices to biodiversity and marine habitats by Sergi Tudela‚ Ph. D. for FAO Fisheries Department (EP/INT/759/GEF) Vialle delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 - Rome‚ Italy November 2000 CONTENTS Contents Foreword 1. The impact of fishing on vulnerable groups and habitats 1.1. The impact of fishing on chondrichthyans 1.2. The impact of fishing on seabirds 1.3. The impact of fishing
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earthquakes definitely stand out as the most widespread one. Even though most of the government takes measures to rout out earthquakes‚ they are disappointed. There are three main effect of earthquake is damaging to buildings‚ loss of human life and psychological effects to survivors. First‚ the most remarkable effect of earthquakes is loss of life. There can be more than thousand people buried in the wreckage is just because of earthquake and most of them definitely is death. For an example‚ there
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Zeigarnik Effect The Zeigarnik Effect is named after the Russian psychologist‚ Bluma Zeigarnik (1926)‚ who noticed an odd thing while sitting in a restaurant in Vienna. The waiters seemed only to remember orders which were in the process of being served‚ but little recollection of the completed orders. Zeigarnik went back to her lab to test out a theory about what was going on with the waiter. More than fifty years after the Bluma Zeigarnik study‚ Kenneth McGraw and his team returned to
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Stroop effect and reading process Abstract This study evaluated the effect of congruency of color ink and color name on reading process. The 30 participants of the experiment were assigned to sets 1(a condition wherein congruent color names and ink color were presented first before the incongruent set of words‚ and 2 (reverse of set 1) by random selection. Participants were called in the laboratory two at a time‚ one of them from set 1 participants and the other from set
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