is said to have used more operating leverage. Those businesses with lower fixed costs and higher variable costs are said to employ less operating leverage. explains ’Operating Leverage’ The higher the degree of operating leverage‚ the greater the potential danger from forecasting risk. That is‚ if a relatively small error is made in forecasting sales‚ it can be magnified into large errors in cash flow projections. The opposite is true for businesses that are less leveraged. A business
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Energy Budget of plants: Plants are the source of energy for all of us and all living things on earth. Energy is the currency of the universe = $ (work) * Energy budget= must be balanced Energy budget * Plants collect and process energy * Basic source SUN * Diffuse – need to collect a lot to get fixed energy * (sugar)- LEAVES = solar collector * Everything must be paid for and pay for itself over time Plants are sentient beings * Perceive environment and
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depending on the territorial presence of the supplier and the consumer at the time of the transaction. The GATS covers services supplied a. Cross border trade: from the territory of one Member into the territory of any other Member. b. Consumption abroad: in the territory of one Member to the service consumer of any other Member. c. Commercial presence: by a service supplier of one Member‚ through commercial presence‚ in the territory of any other Member. d. Presence of natural persons: by
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For a great period of time emigrants from Lebanon have been establishing communities throughout the world‚ and have been talking a lot about migration‚ until the number of Lebanese people outside Lebanon became greater than the double the number of Lebanese citizens. The Lebanese migration seems to have several principal causes. Hence‚ how are those causes really affecting the Lebanese migration? The first one is the economic causes‚ the second one is the social cause the third one is the weakness
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feel or experience consciousness. Ritualistic use of drugs has been commonly practiced by various cultures such as the mushroom induced trance state utilised by Native American Indians to commune with the Great Spirit. Pacific Islanders drink Kava as a means of connecting with the supernatural‚ healing illness and welcoming guests to the community. Whilst Indians referred to being consciously high as the state of ‘Shiva’ and associated this process with the worship of one of their prime
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race‚ and age. Therefore‚ strain theory may be helpful in explaining the causes of cyberbullying. DISINHIBITION THEORY Disinhibition theory maintains that the Internet can promote an abandonment of some inhibitions‚ leading to greater disclosure‚ less restraint‚ and greater expressiveness. These types of behaviors have been classified as the "online disinhibition effect‚" which can fall into one of two categories: benign disinhibition (e.g.‚
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August 22‚ 2012 Sub-Fields of Anthropology: 1. Biological Anthropology – can demonstrate: how populations vary (biological variations; hair color‚ blood type‚ etc.) that past populations have evolved that modern human populations are evolving and changing through time. Biological/Physical Anthropology: Foundations in 1900’s – recognition of variation‚ concern over how species came to be. Major research areas: Paleoanthropology – anthropology concerned with fossil hominids; study of
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patient factors on diagnosis and treatment. Clinical Presentation The clinical presentation of CKD will vary based on many factors such as the severity and presence of other system involvement. According to Buttaro et al. (2013)‚ CKD is a "reduction in kidney function that has been present for
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membrane. These changes in charge occur within milliseconds‚ meaning the action potential travels very quickly down the axon in order to convey information over long distances. This transfer of information occurs within six phases and requires the presence of multiple pumps and channels embedded in the membrane to control ion concentration. Phase 1: The Resting Phase The first phase of the action potential is the resting phase. A neuron at rest has a membrane potential of -65 mV. The resting potential
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tradition also affirmed the existence of evil. The presence of evil‚ this privation of the good‚ is taken to be one of the arguments against the existence of God. The presence of evil has presented philosophers since the earliest times of thinkers like Socrates and Plato with a difficult‚ a problem‚ of how its presence can be explained. To Christian philosophers‚ the problem of evil has become a problem of how its presence can be reconciled with the presence of a God who is said to be omnipotent‚ omniscient
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