To Help or Not to Help: The Samaritan dilemma - Nivedita Ravi The Samaritan dilemma is a dilemma in the act of charity. This was proposed by James M Buchanan. According to this theory‚ when given charity‚ a person will act one of the two given ways: using the charity to improve their situation or look for charity as a means of survival. A similar situation arises when a country receives foreign aid. The donor country
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FedEx Corporation A Strategic Marketing Analysis Student Number: 1324449 Word Count: 2000 words Pages: 16 (including cover) 1324449 MMS Assignment Executive Summary Every generation expects easier access to more of what the world has to offer; more products and services‚ more information and ideas‚ more people and places. Today‚ a number of companies‚ FedEx Express‚ FedEx Ground‚ FedEx Freight‚ FedEx Kinko’s Office and Print Services‚ FedEx Custom Critical‚ FedEx Trade Network
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Management (Gomez-Mejia/Balkin) [PIV] Chapter 3 Managing Social Responsibility and Ethics 1) A code of ethics in an organization A) guarantees employees will act in an ethical manner. B) describes what is legal and illegal. C) eliminates ethical dilemmas. D) can create consensus regarding ethical principles. Answer: D Diff: 2 Page Ref: 94 Objective: LO1 AACSB: Ethical understanding and reasoning abilities 2) About 50% of workers surveyed admitted to engaging in at least one unethical
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April 4th‚ 2006 A Technical Report: Wireless Sensor Networks and How They Work Prepared for Ann Holms University of California Santa Barbara Prepared by Ethan Culler-Mayeno University of California Santa Barbara Abstract Wireless sensor networks are a budding technology with the potential to change the way that we live. This report explains the workings of each network as a system of tiny computers called motes and the parts of the network. Furthermore‚ this report goes on to
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HOW TO HELP OUR COUNTRY By Ramon J. Farolan Philippine Daily Inquirer Sunday‚ 31 July 2005 There’s a booklet making the rounds in Metro Manila ‚that every Filipino who loves his country should get hold of and read‚ and hopefully put the points it raises into practice ‚in order to help our nation. It doesn’t dwell on a shift to a parliamentary form of government or a federal system ‚which are politicians are so fond of talking about as the answer tour problems‚ or as a way of providing a
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field of networking and communications. Tsinghua University‚ with its rich legacy‚ now boasts a 99 year history of excellence. Tsinghua’s progress throughout its history has been closely linked with that of China‚ and she is endeavoring for the future to contribute to the creation of a prosperous China and a harmonious world. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the IWQoS TPC Chair‚ Prof. Bin Liu of Tsinghua University‚ Prof. Chunming Qiao of State University of New
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west miton Drive Bolder Creek‚ California 95006 School of Business Administration University of Western Ontario London‚ Ontario N6A 3K7 Canada WALTER CARLSON DUNCAN COPELAND Federal Express Corporation has used operations research (OR) to help make its major business decisions since its overnight package delivery operations began in 1973. An early failure pointed out the need for scientific analysis. Subsequently‚ a successful origin-destination model followed by models to simulate operations
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line 1. INTRODUCTION Wireless ad hoc networks have emerged to support applications‚ in which it is required/desired to have wireless variety of devices without relying on communications among a any infrastructure or central management. In ad hoc networks‚ wireless devices‚ simply called nodes‚ have limited transmission range. Therefore‚ each node can directly communicate with only those within its transmission range (i.e.‚ its neighbours) and requires other nodes to act as routers in
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performance‚ within the organization‚ for the purpose of making adjustments and needed changes. In a recent decision FedEx canceled their order for ten global air freighters from Airbus. The huge A380 super jumbo airplanes were originally scheduled for delivery in 2008 but Airbus delayed the date to year 2009 and then to 2010. Frederick Smith‚ chairman and chief executive of FedEx‚ cited Airbus’s recent decision to delay delivery of the super jumbo amid production bottlenecks as the reason for shifting
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Supplier Measurement helps FedEx Manage a Worldwide supply base FedEx is one of the few companies that have realised that suppliers affect its total costs to a large extent. Hence‚ it has introduced measures like detailed supplier scorecard to evaluate supplier performance for goods‚ services and fuel. This supplier scorecard maintains a level of uniformity among the many supply management groups and is available to all its suppliers and employees through its intranet. The scorecards for suppliers
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