THE IMPACT OF INVESTMENT AND CONCENTRATION AMONG FOOD SUPPLIERS AND RETAILERS IN VARIOUS OECD COUNTRIES Gabor Konig‚ PhD Session 2.2. Promoting responsible international investment in agriculture This paper is distributed as part of the official conference documentation and serves as background material for the relevant sessions in the programme. The views contained within do not necessarily represent those of the OECD or its member governments. OECD Global Forum on International Investment
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ABSTRACT: This paper presents a novel multi-level wavelet based fusion algorithm that combines information from fingerprint‚ face‚ iris‚ and signature images of an individual. The effectiveness of the fusion algorithm is experimentally validated by computing the matching scores and the equal error rates before fusion‚ after reconstruction of biometric images‚ and when the composite fused image is subjected to both frequency and geometric attacks. The complexity of the fusion and the reconstruction
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where heroin use was involved. By the year 1995 the number had more than doubled to 76‚000. In the mid-1980’s about ten percent of patient population was identified as being IV drug users. Now‚ the number is up to about twenty percent. (Source # 4‚ Gabor Kelen‚ Professor of Emergency Medicine in the School of Medicine and director of Hopkins Emergency room). What are the causes of this heroin obsession? Some say it could Hollywood’s apparent fascination with the drug. Heroin has been a theme in
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organization goals. Business Ethics and Morale Attitude. I. Introduction Not only criminals but also citizens who are not habitually in conflict with the law exhibit dishonesty‚ or engaged in actions harmful to their fellow citizens (Gabor 1994). Most members of the society are aware of the rules that govern the truthfulness of our actions‚ namely morale and ethics‚ however studies indicate that many engage in dishonest behavior frequently and show for example that
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E-commerce is an outcome of globalization and technology outbreak of 21st century. Increasingly‚ more products and services are sold over Internet; hence‚ there is a growing need for a combination of legislation and technical solutions to globally secure customer privacy. Credit card fraud is one of the crimes especially when it is used for web-based transaction. In this paper‚ a technical solution using Iris authentication technique is proposed for protecting identity theft in
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The Spot-Overlay Ames Test was used in the lab to find the mutagenesis of Diet Coke and ThermaFlu. Along with these substances three mutant strains of salmonella were also tested. TA 1535‚ TA 1537‚ TA 1538 all lacked the ability to grow the amino acid histidine unless reverted back by the potential mutagens. After the first week of testing‚ results showed that both of the potential mutagens‚ Diet Coke and ThermaFlu were in fact mutagenic. This was established if colonial growth was at least twice
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GROUP is a leading manufacturer and a major international player who now employs 17‚000 people in four different countries (CIEL Textile Annual Report 2012). 4 – CORPORATION & SBU BACKGROUND 4.1 –THE CORPORATION A corporation according to Gabor (2004) is a separate private or public legal entity that aims at making profits. This form of business is of limited liabilities and the legal rights of the owners are separated from the business. CIEL TEXTILE LIMITED is a public Company incorporated
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How has Frederick Taylor influenced the practice of management today? Frederick Taylor (1856-1915) was a steel worker who looked for ways to improve industrial efficiency. Taylor believed that it was the manager’s duty to understand workers and their jobs. He wanted to come up with a way to ensure that workers complete their tasks with maximum production and minimum costs (Madeheim‚ Mazze‚ Stein 1963). In order to achieve that he came up with a concept known as scientific management to try and
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army up by sending part of them to Tilly and taking the rest in pursuit of Mansfeld. Tilly caught up with Christian in the Village of Lutter where he was then defeated. The Danish army was broken and the Hungarian campaign came to nothing. Bethlen Gabor and Wallenstein signed a truce and it was later that Mansfeld fell ill and died. On March 6‚ 1629 the Edict of Restitution was put in place. All properties seized by Protestants since 1552 were to be returned and a special commission was created to
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05-15-01 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=114491&tocid=0‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ Britannica‚ 05-20-01 Mason‚ Lorna C‚ William Jay Jacobs‚ and Robert P Ludlum. The History of the United States. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 1992. 521-522. Gabor S. Boritt‚ Lincoln‚ Abraham. ‚ World Book Encyclopedia‚ 01-01-2000. John Keegan‚ The Assassiantion of Abraham Lincoln‚ Great battles of the Civil War‚ 1992 World Book Encyclopedia‚ World Book Incorporated‚ Lincoln‚ Abraham 1992
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