Essay: There Will Come Soft Rains Question: Analyse how a character is developed for a particular purpose in a written text you have studied. ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ is a dystopian science fiction short story written by Ray Bradbury. The story is about a house in the future that is left standing after a nuclear bomb. The house continues with its normal routine even in the absence of humans. In the short story a character that is developed for a particular purpose is the house. The houses’
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What is Soft Computing ? (adapted from L.A. Zadeh) Lecture 1 What is soft computing Techniques used in soft computing • Soft computing differs from conventional (hard) computing in that‚ unlike hard computing‚ it is tolerant of imprecision‚ uncertainty‚ partial truth‚ and approximation. In effect‚ the role model for soft computing is the human mind. 1 2 What is Hard Computing? • Hard computing‚ i.e.‚ conventional computing‚ requires a precisely stated analytical model and often a lot of
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Plane and Solid Geometry Formulas ASIAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION COLLEGE Tacloban City Given four sides a‚ b‚ c‚ d‚ and sum of two opposite angles: Prepared by: RTFVerterra 10 sides 11 sides 12 sides 15 sides 16 sides = = = = = decagon undecagon dodecagon quindecagon hexadecagon RADIUS OF CIRCLES Circle circumscribed about a triangle (Cicumcircle) A= (s − a)(s − b)(s − c)(s − d) − abcdcos2 θ s= a+b+c+d 2 ∠A + ∠C ∠B + ∠D θ= or θ = 2 2 The content of this material is one of the intellectual
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high-energy drinks targeted at the youth market. Over the past 10 years‚ the consumption of caffeinated beverages intended to “energise” has increased significantly. Energy drinks were recently shown to comprise 20% of the total convenience store beverage market‚ with “Red Bull” and “V” accounting for over 97% of sales in this multimillion-dollar industry.1 Increasingly‚ toxicity from caffeine overdose is being reported to hospitals and poisons centres. The main active constituents of energy drinks include
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FORMULA SHEET – for student reference only Perpetuity: The value of a perpetuity of $RM1 per year is: Equivalent Annual Cost: If an asset has a life of ‘t’ years‚ the equivalent annual cost is: Annuity: The value of an annuity of $RM1 per period for t years (t-year annuity factor) is: Measures of Risk: Variance of returns = σ2 = expected value of Standard deviation of returns‚ σ = Covariance between returns of stocks
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This essay is to examine both the pros and cons of legalizing “soft drugs”. Hard and Soft drugs are terms to distinguish between psychoactive drugs that are addictive and perceived as especially damaging and drugs that are believed to be non-addictive (or minimally addictive) and with less dangers associated with its use. The term "soft drug" implies that the drug causes no or insignificant harm one such drug is cannabis (marijuana).Cannabis is a psychotic drug. The main psychoactive ingredient
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I. INTRODUCTION Technology today has indeed made people’s lives convenient especial with a computer. It has helped students in making homework‚ research‚ and projects‚ it has helped business in advertising and in making progress‚ and it has connect loved ones to people who live in a different country with the help of the internet. Psychologists are not even sure yet what to call this phenomenon. Some label it an "Internet Addiction Disorder." But many people are addicted to their computers long
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be investigating the sports drinks market in the UK‚ focusing on the overall market and launching a new product. The UK sports drinks market is estimated at £1.2 billion in 2012 with a growth in sales of more than 60% by 2012 (Mintel‚ 2012) showing what a rapidly growing market this is. I will examine how a leading drinks manufacture can expand into this market and launch a new sports drink using Usain Bolt in promotion. THE MARKET The market share for sports drinks grew by 10.7% last year with
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What is the difference between hard and soft Human Resource Management? Improve HRM is an essential and vital function for organizational success. Areas within HRM like Manpower planning‚ Job analysis‚ Selection and Recruitment‚ Compensation and Benefits‚ Performance evaluations‚ Contract negotiations and Labor legislations are parts of hard HRM whereas functions like Organizational development‚ conflict management‚ human resource education‚ leadership development‚ organizational culture
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definitions for Mill’s harm principle. These actions can be known as self-regarding and other regarding actions‚ a self regarding action is known to be an action which only affects the involved persons‚ whereas other regarding actions are defined as any action which causes harm to others (Garner‚ Ferdinand‚ Lawson‚ 2016‚ page 100). My argument for this essay is that the state should not intervene to prohibit self-regarding actions. This is due to the fact that the state does not have the
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