The Midwest Drought: Can Global Warming Be Blamed? The drought which swept across the Midwestern United States in the summer of 2012 has been the most severe and widespread drought of the past 50 years. The population of the Midwest is approximately 61 million people and the region includes the states of Illinois‚ Indiana‚ Iowa‚ Kansas‚ Michigan‚ Minnesota‚ Missouri‚ Nebraska‚ Ohio‚ North and South Dakota and Wisconsin. The percentage area experiencing moderate to exceptional drought in the Midwest
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3. FTAs – advantages and disadvantages The principal point of Free Trade Agreements is to secure trade liberalisation. While the traditional debate about FTAs is the danger that they can divert rather than create trade‚ the record to date suggests there has been little diversion and that FTAs and regional agreements have been effective in encouraging wider trade liberalisation. A practical advantage of FTAs is that they are quicker and easier to negotiate than multilateral agreements because fewer
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A critical analysis of Kenneth L. Sokoloff and B. Zorina Khan’s work The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization: Evidence from the United States‚ 1790-1846 by Abdullah Amani Group 70 Title: A critical analysis of K.L. Sokoloff and B. Zorina Khan’s work The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization: Evidence from the United States‚ 1790-1846 Author: Abdullah Amani Student Number: 100303294 Group: 70 Learning Arrangement:
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www.thetimes100.co.uk Motivation within a creative environment Introduction Siemens is the engineering group that is behind many of the products and services people take for granted in their daily lives. The list of products designed and manufactured by Siemens is almost endless. It includes traffic lights‚ gas turbines‚ superconducting magnets in medical scanners‚ wind generators‚ automated factories as well as domestic appliances like kettles and fridges. It generates about 40% of the UK’s
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Four aspects of human existence: The human being as an individual (individual existence)The individual in relation to other people (social existence)The individual in relation to his/her physical environment (physical existence)The individual in relation to a transcendent environment (transcendental existence). Page:of 77 6Canbe traced back to Plato (427 –347 BC) and Aristotle (384 –322 BC)‚ who laid down the basic principles of human behaviour‚ particularly with regard to the
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Globalisation What is globalisation? According to OECD globalization is “The geographic dispersion of industrial and service activities‚ for example research and development‚ sourcing of inputs‚ production and distribution‚ and the cross-border networking of companies‚ for example through joint ventures and the sharing of assets.” Put simply this means the growth of MNC’s‚ international integration and increased free trade The key characteristics of globalisation are: 1. Free trade: a flow
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Organisational structures Organisational structures Fig. 1: Large organisations tend to follow this type of structure An organisational structure consists of the levels of management and division of responsibilities within an organisation. Organisational structures show all the roles and types of jobs within an organisation. A complete organisational structure will show each type of position and how many of these there are at present. When smaller organisations look at their organisational
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important books ever written. Smith recognised that economic specialization and cooperation was the key to improving living standards. He shattered old ways of thinking about trade‚ commerce and public policy‚ and led to the foundation of a new field of study: economics. And yet‚ his book is rarely read today. It is written in a dense and archaic style that is inaccessible to many modern readers. The Condensed Wealth of Nations condenses Smith’s work and explains the key concepts in The Wealth
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Morris (1992) are four: Functional‚ Temporal‚ Numerical and Financial. Functional flexibility involves the task of multi-skilling where employees are required to possess one specific skill and many other generalist ones. This means a reduced specialisation of roles with individuals being trained to carry out a much wider range of activities than before. The purpose of numerical flexibility is to expand and contract the labour force according to specific demand for it. In times of expansion‚ more
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contracting is preferred to other governance modes and how CPFR can be an effective relational contract to support economic exchange and to create intellectual capital between trading partners. With efficient vertical coordination and enhanced specialisation incentives for mutual commitment‚ CPFR allows contracting parties to avoid the difficulties of formal contracting while realising the benefits that would be anticipated from vertical financial ownership. Keywords: CPFR; information sharing; mutual
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