particularly eco-conscious‚ but they have now made their way into the mainstream. Most major motoring brands offer Hybrids with models like the Toyota Prius‚ the Honda CR-Z and the Lexus CT proving popular. They work by combining a fuel engine with electric batteries‚ which reclaims energy when the car brakes or converts energy from the petrol in the fuel engine. However‚ more manufacturers are developing ’plug in’ Hybrids‚ which offer the option to recharge more powerful batteries through a common
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Investments Analysis and Management Group 5: Dimensional Fund Advisors‚ 2002 DFA Overview Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment firm founded in 1981 by David G. Booth and Rex Sinquefield‚ both graduates of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. The firm has three Nobel Laureates sitting on its board: namely Myron Scholes‚ Robert C. Merton‚ and the late Merton Miller. Other directors include leading economists such as Eugene Fama and Kenneth French; they jointly
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GCE 2002 COMPREHENSION SUGGESTED ANSWERS : SINGLISH 1. ‘the less educated … will suffer economically and socially’‚ (lines 24 – 26) What two kinds of handicap is Mr Lee thinking of here? a He means that the less educated will be at a financial disadvantage / they will not do as well (as the better educated) in business 1 b in addition‚ they will lose out in relations with other people / they will not be able to communicate with other people effectively / they will not be well understood by
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General Motors General Motors is a well known American company that is responsible for the fabrication and production of vehicles under others subsidiaries or brands such as Buick‚ Chevrolet‚ Cadillac‚ GMC‚ Oldsmobile‚ and Pontiac. Besides of the American brands there are other brands working through joint ventures like Opel‚ Wuling‚ Vauxhall‚ Holden‚ and Faw Jiefang. It seems to be an interesting strategy of market power the diversity of vehicles and models oriented to satisfy the necessity of the
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An electric car is powered by an electric motor instead of a gasoline engine. The electric motor gets energy from a controller‚ which regulates the amount of power transmitted throughout the vehicle‚ based on the driver’s use of an accelerator pedal. The electric motors give electric cars instant torque‚ creating a strong and smooth acceleration pattern. Electric cars are about three times more efficient than cars with an internal combustion engine. A pure-battery electric car uses energy stored
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level of success without its incentives system. The system had four key components; wages for most factory jobs based solely on piecework output‚ a year-end bonus that could equal or exceed an individuals regular pay‚ guaranteed employment and limited benefits. James Lincoln strove to erase hierarchical distinctions and managements approachable style- all of these measures built a sense of ownership and trust amongst managers and employees. Lincoln Electric had a extensive precut lime that tapped
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"August 2002- Night Meeting"- Central Idea In the touching "Night Meeting‚" a human and a Martian meet on a deserted road only to discover that each is a shadowy image‚ perhaps a ghost of one other. The story revolves around the concept of time and the idea of communication between a human and a Martian. Tomás is a human who migrates to Mars from the planet earth. Stopping for gas on his way to a party‚ he meets another human‚ a gas station owner‚ who praises the unpredictable life on Mars and
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Dollar General Case Study [Author Name(s)‚ First M. Last‚ Omit Titles and Degrees] [Institutional Affiliation(s)] Dollar General Case Study 1. Explain why the old‚ nonintegrated functional system created problems for the company. Be specific. The rapid growth of the Dollar General places strain on its existing IT systems. Because the old non-integrated functional system was not scalable‚ there was a negative impact on meeting the working demand. There were two major problems created. The
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DeShawn Parrish 12/4/12 Language Arts (2) Becoming a General Surgeon What if life can be planned? No thinking on the spot and no instant decisions. Having to make a decision in less than a second that can possibly take someone’s life or further injure them sounds pretty hard‚ right? T¬hat’s¬¬¬ why I want to be a general surgeon because everything is planned and is a simple basic level surgery. General surgery was the first of its kind in the medical field. As a result‚ this field has vast amount of
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The electron is a fundamental subatomic particle that carries a negative electric charge. It is a spin-½ lepton that participates in electromagnetic interactions‚ and its mass is less than one thousandth of that of the smallest atom. Its electric charge is defined by convention to be negative‚ with a value of −1 in atomic units. Together with atomic nuclei‚ electrons make up atoms; their interaction with adjacent nuclei is the main cause of chemical bonding. The name "electron" comes from
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