students out and made it so they could not focus on the tests. As of 2011 there has been no evidence saying that these tests are helping‚ and this suggests that they are not. From 2001-2008 Finland was at the top of the international education rankings. Linda Darling-Hammond and Laura McCloskey inform us that “(Finland has) no external standardized tests used to rank students or schools they have assessments that encourage students to be active learners who can find‚ analyze‚ and use information to solve
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.......... 7 2.1 Background Information ......................................................................... 7 2.2 Healthy Vietnamese food ..................................................................... 12 2.3 Vietnamese in Helsinki – Finland ......................................................... 14 3 How to make a good business plan? ........................................................ 17 3.1 Business Idea .......................................................................
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Is crime cointegrated with income and unemployment?: A panel data analysis on selected European countries by A.H. Baharom1 and Muzafar Shah Habibullah ABSTRACT This paper examines the causality between income‚ unemployment and crime in 11 European countries employing the panel data analysis for the period 1993-2001 for both aggregated (total crime) and disaggregated (subcategories) crime data. Fixed and random effect models are estimated to analyze the impact of income and unemployment on total
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Introduction Traditionally‚ cash basis of accounting has been used in the public sector; however‚ in recent years extensive debates have emphasised whether a move to accruals basis of accounting would be more feasible. The proponents argue for such a change due to the benefits accruals basis has to offer. There are still heavyweight supporters for cash basis such as IFAC – a body that issued 21 IPSAS based on IMF‚ EU Commission‚ and IFRS / IAS (Jorge Faustino‚ 2008). Moreover‚ there are several organisations
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mobile phone producing company. The design of the first mobile phone was very different to the way the mobile phones of today look and operate. Mobile phones were introduced into society in the mid 1980’s in parts of Northern Europe. Countries such as Finland and Switzerland‚ Japan and the USA launched the first cellular networks which meant that any mobile phone connected to that network could communicate with each other. Now‚ nearly all countries are connected to at least one network‚ such as O2‚ Orange
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Oy) and Finnish Cable Works Ltd (Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy).[13] Nokia’s history started in 1865 when mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a groundwood pulp mill on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids in the town of Tampere‚ in southwestern Finland in the Russian Empire and started manufacturing paper.[14] In 1868‚ Idestam built a second mill near the town of Nokia‚ fifteen kilometres (nine miles) west of Tampere by the Nokianvirta river‚ which had better resources for hydropower production
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in some diplomatic form. Nominally‚ creating foreign policy is usually the job of the head of government and the foreign minister (or equivalent). In some countries the legislature also has considerable oversight. As an exception‚ in France‚ Finland and in America‚ it is the head of state who is responsible for foreign policy‚ while the head of government mainly deals with internal policy. Domestic policy presents decisions‚ laws‚ and programs made by the government which are directly related
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Hofstede’s thesis and to test his findings using a cross-cultural comparison of reward preferences in four different countries around the world. Data/Methodology/Approach – This study used data collected from four countries – Hong Kong‚ Canada‚ Finland and the UK. Data was collected from over 120 companies in the banking industry and over 1‚000 people at all different levels were used with different backgrounds. The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate reward preferences
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involved in many of boarder disputes‚ which could have led to war. The LofN was successful in the Aaland Islands incident in 1921. These islands are nearly of equal distance between Finland and Sweden. They had traditionally belonged to Finland but most of the islanders wanted to be governed by Sweden. Neither Sweden nor Finland could come to a decision as to who owned the islands and in 1921 they asked the LofN to adjudicate. The League’s decision was that they should remain Finish‚ but that no weapons
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translate to changes in the Nokia stock in the same direction. When the performance of finland market goes up‚ the Nokia stock performance goes up and vice verser. An increase in the performance in the Nokia stock from the end of July to around mid of September could be attributed to the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft to introduce the first windows 8 phone. The Nokia world event that was held in Finland also increased the awareness of the Nokia stock at that time and more investors were
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