performance we will be considering performance data ranging anywhere between three to five years (3-5 yrs.). Reviewing the industry performance list published by Morningstar and the Industry Research published by Market Watch of the Wall Street Journal‚ the performance data indicate that the following industries are better or poor performers in the medium and long-term: • The following industries tend to be better performers in the medium and long-term: (1) Oil & Gas Sector: Pipeline industry
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Introduction Any discussion of the thinking of University of California-Berkeley professor‚ John R. Searle must include an understanding that a machine has the ability to “think” just because it has been fed the “correct” computer program that he calls “Strong AI” (artificial intelligence). However‚ he points out that “Strong AI” misses the basic point that any software program is simply a framework that designates the ways in which certain symbols are managed. That manipulation cannot be
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teenagers be allowed in R-rated films?" Purpose statement: The purpose of this speech is to persuade or reinforce that teenagers ages 14 and up should be allowed in R-movies without an adult. Capture Statement: Imagine this; you’re at the movies with your friends and you’re waiting in line to buy a ticket. As you approach the salesbooth and tell the ticket holder which movie you wan tto see‚ he informs you that he cannot sell youna ticket because you need an adult to see an R-rated movie‚ seeing
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Project 1 Virtual Presentation-ECOM15616 Company: M&R Security Inc. Business Process: Inventory Management EDWARD ROCHA-MARTINEZ (ROCHAMAE) GULSHANVIR SINGH KHAIRA(KHAIRGUL) SARABJIT SINGH (SING2932) RAJVINDER KAUR KANG (KANGRAJV) JASKARAN SINGH GILL (GILL326) April 13‚ 2015 Carlene Blackwood‚ Monday: 10-12PM Company Introduction M&R Security Inc. was created in October of 2014 by Cristhian Martinez and Amy Raad-Martinez. They provide the following services: Automation Monitoring
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divisions in reserve. Six German divisions held the line opposite‚ in a front position and a reserve position the R-Stellung (R-Position) further back. French artillery observers benefitted from good weather but on the night of 24/25 September‚ heavy rain began and fell until midday.[1] The German front position was broken in four places and two of the penetrations reached as far as the R-Stellung‚ where uncut barbed wire prevented the
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The antioxidant property of R. discolor is correlated to the phytochemicals present in the plant. Yet‚ there is no existing claim that the anthocyanin content of this plant is the sole compound that exhibit the antioxidant property. Plants contain a wide variety of antioxidants‚ and it is difficult to separately measure the antioxidant capacity of each compound (Medini‚ Fellah‚ Ksouri‚ & Abdelly‚ 2014). As a result‚ this study was conducted to evaluate the total antioxidant capacity of the crude
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Ordinary Men By Christopher R. Browning Review by Roaland The holocaust presented the horrors committed against human beings at the hands of other humans. Adolf Hitler obviously is the one everyone blames for destroying the Jewish population but is he really the only one at fault? Who actually committed the actual genocide? I wasn’t actually fully aware of the atrocities committed during the holocaust until I read Ordinary Men in which Christopher R. Browning explains how men who weren’t even
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The New York Times article “The New Science of Mind” written by Eric R. Kandel‚ focuses on the idea that scientists are starting to understand the underlying basis of psychiatric diseases. The article starts off with an explanation of a shared frustration that many people experience over the belief that we will never understand the exact reason why psychiatric diseases occur. The article‚ however‚ takes a hopeful spin and explains how scientists are starting to understand the neural circuit that
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SITUATION AND CENTRAL ISSUES. This case has a generally positive slant in that there it does not describe many weaknesses and problems present in many others with which students would be familiar. Toys R Us (TRU) has followed a path of international expansion from the US via more than 13 countries‚ starting from Canada in 1984 and entering Japan in 1991. By any standard this is a rapid expansion of markets. This case illustrates several elements of developing market strategies that have been
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Assignment Name: Maximos Nathanailidis Date: 28/4/2014 Table of Contents 1. Introduction The purpose of this report is to conduct a comparative ratio analysis of the financial statements of J. Sainsbury PLC and Tesco PLC for the year-ending 2013. The financial information that is provided from each company’s annual report and the comparison between them will help possible users of this analysis to understand not only the differences between these two companies
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