Using Overhead Transparencies by Lenny Laskowski © 1997 LJL Seminars http://www.ljlseminars.com While the current trend in the training industry is heading toward the use of the LCD Projector technology‚ the overhead projector is still the most popular presentation device used today. Most facilities have an overhead projector in every training room or conference room. Although it is the most widely used‚ it is also the biggest abused. Some presenters continue to misuse the overhead projector
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Using Excel=s Solver Tool in Portfolio Theory Excel contains a tool called the Asolver@ that lets you maximize or minimize functions subject to general constraints. We will use this tool to compute the global minimum variance portfolio and the tangency portfolio for the three-firm example (see the spreadsheet 3firm.xls). The spreadsheet for this tutorial is called solverex.xls. The data for this example are given in the following table Stock 1 2 3 E[R] 0.229 0.138 0.052 VAR(R) 0.924 0.862 0.528
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Improving Productivity Using IT As our organisation is very IT focused there are many different methods and software we use. Our main way of communicating is via email; this saves a lot of time and is also a faster way of letting the whole team know certain information. We use a variety of software to get tasks completed such as word‚ excel‚ PowerPoint‚ internet etc. As we very rarely have customers come into our office‚ most of our communications is by using computers. We have a company website
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Consequences of using drugs Many people would ask: why do people use drugs? Or what is the interesting thing about having that vice? Drugs act as poisons‚ when people have the first time using would begin internal and external situations. Saying that drugs have become the greatest misfortune of society is an exaggerated form of referring to the situation. No one sector of life is free from this outbreak. Crime and violence are obvious consequences‚ but the lack of morality‚ education ruined and
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Children Are Not Using their Imagination Growing up‚ as a child in the mid 80’s and the entire 90’s there wasn’t the holding back children’s imagination‚ sky was the limit; G.I. Joe‚ Barbie‚ E-Z bake oven‚ and the ever so classic Brite-Lite LED art kit. With their imagination‚ a child could become an intergalactic alien slayer‚ or the parent of a tear shedding cabbage patch doll. A technological advancement was created that enslaved and dumb down America’s children. Now it is high definition
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Structure in the World-Economy Using Concepts From Entropy Theory Salvatore J. Babones‚ The University of Sydney Address: Room 131 A26 - R.C. Mills The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Email: sbabones@sydney.edu.au Investigating the Degree of Structure in the World-Economy Using Concepts From Entropy Theory ABSTRACT: The social and geographical structure of rewards in the modern world-economy has been incredibly stable over time. According to data from Maddison (2010)‚ the 188-year
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Professor Kratz ENG 101 Paragraphing Using Quotes The Internet today has given us new and exciting alternatives to the way we live our lives‚ in doing so it has also brought problems with it. I like to note a couple of problems dealing with the media and social networking by using a quote from Christine Rosen and Clay Shirky. I will start with a quote from Christine Rosen from the essay “Virtual friendship and the new narcissism”‚ it highlights a problem of losing personal contact‚
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indicator for the former‚ to improve on the forecast obtained by the univariate model. Both variables are collected over a time range from January 1985 until and including December 1997‚ whereas the last year is not used for constructing the optimal forecast‚ obtained by fitting a model through the data until the end of 1996. This will enable us to forecast the year 1997 using our model‚ and then comparing it to the actual data. Assuming no large one time shock‚ meaning that it is not captured by seasonality
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Benefits of using the Internet Today the internet is one of the most used elements in our daily lives. With its continued development and ever growing data base the internet has become an important part of our daily function‚ from banking to reminders to take the kids to their practices. There are so many benefits to using the internet. A fact to start with is the ease of use today as appose to several year ago. As we know‚ a long time ago it was really hard to communicate with each other
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Using System Configuration System Configuration is a tool that can help identify problems that might prevent Windows from starting correctly. You can start Windows with common services and startup programs turned off and then turn them back on‚ one at a time. If a problem doesn’t occur when a service is turned off‚ but does occur when that service is turned on‚ then the service could be the cause of the problem. This tool can be accessed by typing the command msconfig in the Run or Search tab in
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