ALTERNATIVE MEASURES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROGRESS What are some limitations of the Gross Domestic Product measure and some ideas for improving it? GDP has four major limitations: It includes the replacement of depreciated capital. It measures income produced in a country but not how much income people in that country re-ceive. Since GDP only counts monetary transactions (including esti-mates for those in the shadow economy)‚ it misses many other ac-tivities that people value like caring
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PROJECT (FLOOD CONTROL MEASURES ON THE BANKS OF RIVER MITHI) Introduction (pg. 1) The Mythic River is a river in Falsetto Island‚ the island of the city of Mumbai. It is a confluence of tail water discharges of Powai and Vihar lakes. The river is seasonal and rises during the monsoons. The overflowing lakes also contribute to the river flow which is stopped by a dam in other times. During this season the river is a favourite with the anglers who catch large fish that have escaped from the lakes
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Tone of “The Measures Taken” We live in a world where there is always a rationalization for slaughtering‚ political elimination of anyone who stands in our way‚ and with whom we strongly disagree. After the Nazis killed Erich Fried’s father‚ he became aggressive and expressed his feeling through the poem “The Measures Taken.” He argues that the world will be beautiful and peaceful after the “slaughter” of the evil people (Kennedy and Gioia‚ 442). The world is full of suffering‚ and it is caused
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[pic] A Human Resource Management Project On Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal System Title of the Project: A Human Resource Management ProjectOn Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal System Submitted By: Pratik Mehta (PG12077) A Report submitted to the University / Institute in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the curriculum. Under the guidance of: Prof. D
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Pre-AP Language Arts 20 May 2013 Providing Safety Measures within Schools School violence is not just a recent tragedy. In fact‚ the earliest known United States (U.S.) school shooting called “Pontiac’s Rebellion School Massacre” took place on July 26‚ 1764 in Pennsylvania (Wikipedia). These ill-fated events are products of many different factors such as bullying‚ revenge‚ and even mental issues. Unfortunately‚ school violence has become a more prevalent occurrence in society today. However‚
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Experiment: 3A The purpose of laboratory assignment 3 was to measure the rate at which a chemical reaction takes place. For the purpose of this lab we measured the rate a balanced oxidation/reduction reaction between iodine‚ hydrogen‚ and bromate ion occurs. The above reaction occurs slowly so we used a coupled iodine clock reaction to measure the rate of the oxidation/reduction reaction because it occurs much faster but is still dependent upon the other reaction. To accomplish this‚ two mixtures
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Environmental pollution‚ problems and control measures A. Introduction and definition of environmental pollution – We know that‚ a living organism cannot live by itself. Organisms interact among themselves. Hence‚ all organisms‚ such as plants‚ animals and human beings‚ as well as the physical surroundings with whom we interact‚ form a part of our environment. All these constituents of the environment are dependent upon each other. Thus‚ they maintain a balance in nature. As we are the only organisms
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The Perceived Homophily Measure is an assessment composed of eight questions. The questions are built to determine how similar you perceive someone to be like you‚ either in attitude or in background. For the assessment I had to choose an acquaintance I recently met and had to answer the eight questions to determine my perceived similarity between her and I. My results were thirteen for attitude homophily and fifteen for background homoplily. Four to fourteen indicates that you perceive the person to
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By doing so I found that for diabetics the maximum blood glucose increased more quickly than non-diabetics‚ which increased and decreased at a steady rate. With this information I was able to determine that the damaging effects of glucose molecules would be higher in diabetics than in non-diabetics. As defined by our laboratory manual‚ diabetes is when one’s body cannot regulate the amount of glucose being carried to the circulatory system. This can affect the human body in many ways. Some have
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combination of approaches‚ but generally the outcome‚ due to human nature and perception‚ is always mid-point or average. These processes generally fail to identify specific weaknesses or action plans. There is no standard definition for the different levels of maturity‚ but an interesting aspect is that most practitioners working on this use the concept of 5 different levels of maturity‚ this in itself also contributes to most consolidated assessment results ending up at mid-point. The five
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