about 40 miles on the highway using just one gallon of premium gasoline. With the economy being down‚ this feature would save Americans an excessive amount of gas money. Another advantage of the Smart Car is that it is an accessible vehicle for city dwellers‚ and it makes parking in tight spots easy. The Smart Car does have disadvantages though. One important disadvantage is that the vehicle only has two seats‚ making the Smart Car out of range for most American families. Some other disadvantages include
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Ian Borchers Bio201 Case Study #1 Lecture TTh 130-245p Lab W 300-550p Water Can Kill? Exploring Effects of Osmosis Part I – Three True Stories Questions 1. What sort of environment (hypertonic‚ isotonic‚ hypotonic) does consuming excessive amounts of pure water create in the body fluid that surrounds your cells? What effect would this have on your cells? - A hypotonic environment would be created in the body fluid‚ as there would be a lower concentration of solutes outside of the cell than inside
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physical developEuropean Scientific Journal February edition vol. 8‚ No.3 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 TRENDS OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION IN NIGERIA Isah Mohammed Abbass‚ PhD Department of Political Science‚ Ahmadu Bello University‚ Zaria‚ Nigeria Abstract Given the tremendous explosions of urban settlements and the decadence of rural areas during the past two or three decades‚ the myth‚ reality and hope of a sustainable human settlement pattern seem to have been
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Key idea no.1 The rural-urban fringe is under intense pressure due to urban sprawl and the increasing mobility of the population. What is the rural urban fringe? Over time cities have expanded outwards‚ along with their influence on the surrounding area. This transitional zone between the countryside and the city is known as the rural-urban fringe (where residents live in the countryside but tend to work and socialise in the city). Why is the rural urban fringe under pressure? Modern technology
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shrinking (Scott‚ 2009) and political ideologies are becoming blurred. Fringe parties are slowly emerging giving people an alternative choice which is suggesting that perhaps voters are looking for options outside the dominance of the main two parties (Walsh‚ 1998). Nevertheless the Haley Matthews 1649724 1|Page challenge today remains attacking the dominance of the two party system (Marsh‚ 2010). The rise of fringe parties and the increasing popularity of both interest groups and social
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loss caused by monopoly pricing? 4. Show that if a firm is a natural monopoly‚ a government policy that forces marginal cost pricing will result in losses for the firm. 5. Suppose a change in technology available to fringe firms increases their elasticity of supply‚ altering the total fringe supply curve from p = 5 + Q‚ to p = 5 + 2Q. If market demand is Q = 20 – p‚ show the change in the residual demand curve using a graph. Is the dominant firm better off or worse off after the change? 6. If a monopolist
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variance‚ it is helpful to first take note of the individual components of total overhead. As noted in the case‚ fixed overhead includes depreciation‚ utilities‚ salaries‚ and fringe benefit costs of employees‚ whereas variable costs consist of first-line supervisors’ wages‚ costs of set-up labor‚ scrap and rework costs‚ and fringe benefit costs for all direct and variable overhead laborers. It is also noteworthy that several of the factors identified below are material with respect to our analysis regarding
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1. Hardee’s officer behaved ethically. According to Samuelson‚ "The purpose of the FDD is to ensure that the franchisor discloses all relevant facts. It is not a guarantee of quality because the FTC does not investigate to make sure that the information is accurate." (Samuelson‚ 692) The officer delivered the disclosure document and there was no misstatement in the document. As Samuelson explains‚ the document doesn’t guarantee of the document. If the officer has told a lie to McNeely‚ McNeely have
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Absolute poverty is a level of poverty defined in terms of the minimal requirements necessary to afford minimal standards of food‚ clothing‚ health care and shelter. For the measure to be absolute‚ the line must be the same in different countries‚ cultures‚ and technological levels. Such an absolute measure should look only at the individual’s power to consume and it should be independent of any changes in income distribution. The intuition behind an absolute measure is that mere survival takes
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the company sales force would be dedicated to selling products of the Home Office Systems group and the Home Office Systems group would be charged with 40 percent of the budgeted sales force expenditure. The sales director’s budget for salaries and fringe benefits of the sales force and noncommission selling costs for both the Corporate and Home Office Systems groups was $7.5 million. Sales representatives also received a 15 percent commission on sales of home office systems. The advertising
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