Paid Sick Leave All full-time employees will be credited with four hours of paid sick leave for each completed eighty hours during a pay period; hours exceeding eighty will not be counted. Utilization of sick leave must have the approval of the supervisor‚ sick leave shall not be allowed in advance of being earned‚ if an employee has insufficient sick leave hours to cover the period of absence they must elect to use accrued vacation time. In the event the employee does not have enough sick time or
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extracts of Mangifera indica L. leaves The aqueous methanol extracts obtained from mango leaves inhibited seed germination of radish and sand fescue‚ and inhibited seedling growth of root and shoot growth of radish‚ rapeseed‚ sand fescue and crabgrass (Figure 1 and 2). The extract obtained from 0.03 g dry weight of mango leaves inhibited 20 and 50 % germination of radish and sand fescue respectively‚ on day 4 (Figure 2). The extract obtained from 0.03 g dry weight of mango leaves inhibited the root growth
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House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski (a brief analysis) Summarizing this remarkable book in two pages seems to be a futile effort as soon as I begin to type. So instead of trying to achieve such a lofty goal‚ which is better attained by reading online book reviews and commentary‚ I shall use this chance to explain my experience with House of Leaves and my relationship with the text. House of Leaves has had a profound effect on me‚ even in the short time that has elapsed since I began reading
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chemist Dr. Gerhard Schrader was given a task to develop a pesticide. In just two years tabun was born‚ it had extremely high toxicity and was the first of the substances later referred to as nerve agents. A factory was built and produced during the years of 1942-1945 12‚000 tons of the chemical warfare agent tabun was made; in which the allies took large quantities of tabun at the end of the war. Even though Hitler and his army were losing the war‚ Schrader and his co-workers synthesized about 2‚000
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Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide used as a defoliant by the United Stated military forces during the Vietnam War to eliminate the forest. A defoliant is a chemical that removes the leaves from trees and plants. The Vietnamese soldiers were using the forest as cover to attack the enemies. The military also sprayed a chemical mixture on the crops that were used to feed the Vietnamese army and population. The original problem that the U.S. military was trying to solve with the “Rainbow Chemicals”
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known as fall in the US and Canada‚ is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter‚ in September or March when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier. One of its main features is the shedding of leaves from some trees as they pave way for further growth. The equinoxes might be expected to be in the middle of their respective seasons‚ but temperature lag means that seasons appear later than dates calculated from a purely astronomical perspective
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April 2005 Identify and elaborate upon the duties that a principal owes to an agent. Answer: An agency is the creation of a contract entered into by mutual consent between a principal and an agent. By agency‚ a principal grants authority to an agent to act on behalf of and under the control of the principal. A principal owes certain contractual duties to his/her agent by an agent will serve the principal loyally and with obedient. The principal duties can
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Intelligent Agents & E-Commerce Introduction The internet has experienced a rapid shift from information and entertainment to electronic commerce. The amount of information available on the web‚ as well as the number of e-businesses and web shoppers‚ has been growing exponentially and the influx is difficult to process. A major challenge for marketspace participants has become sifting through an unwieldy amount of information to find products‚ services‚ and even each other – often relegating
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The Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf Post-script – What actually happened? The following material is excerpted from the original article and provides some overview of the actual evaluation that took place. * In terms of “hard” financial results‚ SNI produced its first profitable year in 1994-95‚ the first year of the CCP. Until Siemens intervened‚ it remained mildly profitable‚ with reported sales of almost DM18bn and net income of DM500m in 1998. This performance was insufficient
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Although many people thought it was just a weed killer that was only used to wipe out jungles‚ Agent Orange had devastating effects on many humans who were exposed to it. Agent Orange was a toxic herbicide that was sprayed over large areas of thick jungle to kill its vegetation during the Vietnam war. The U.S. military did this so they could identify the North Vietnamese easier. Agent Orange had a mixture of dioxins in it that‚ when exposed to it‚ would later cause all kinds of health problems to
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