DISCUSS EFFECTIVE MEASURES FOR COUNTERACTING VIOLENCE IN OUR CITIES The first point that has to be clarified here is the meaning of the word violence. There are‚ after all‚ many types of violence in our cities‚ ranging from baby battering to the suppression of political demonstrations by police. For the purposes of this essay we can limit discussion to the violence which most concerns city dwellers nowadays: riots‚ robbery and physical assault on the streets. What measures can be taken to combat
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The Drug that is Taking Australia’s Streets In Pandemic Measures Why should people not use the drug methamphetamine or otherwise known as Ice? The rapid increase of popularity in the drug ice (methamphetamine) is gripping Australia’s population in pandemic proportions. The recent publicity about the growth of ice usage has been alarming. Every day there is a new explicit case‚ graphic image or documentary being aired by the media to frighten and discourage society from using the drug called Ice
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The Power Crisis in Tamil Nadu Viable Remedial Measure to Over Come K Chandrasekar1* C Bharath Kumar2 Load shedding which was originally meant for an hour or so‚ has now been extended to Abstract: Electric generation system in Tamil Nadu is suffering with a serious problem of load shedding‚ power shortage due industrial and technological development without having any proper intension for increasing the resource of power. But we have the immense resource to fulfill our power need. As India is subtropical
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Introduction When we say a particular country is economically developed‚ three determinants come to our mind‚ i.e.‚ human‚ physical and financial. Out of these important resource factors‚ human resource factor appears to be the most strategic and critical. This is true because a country may possess abundant natural and physical resources and the necessary machinery‚ equipment and capital‚ but if there is no man power to use these resources‚ growth is not possible. Similar to ‘Physical capital
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Chapter 2. Question 4. How would you measure risk of being a victim? I would measure the risk of being a victim by incorporating the NCVS summary findings for 2009. This survey gives me a broad range of information to use to minimize the risk of being a victim of a crime. It gives us great information such as the following: 1. Gender: men are a little more being victimized then women. 2. Reporting: almost half of the crimes were only reported to police. 3. Race: the highest with 27% for 1000 persons
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IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF PARAMETERS THAT MEASURE FITNESS OF EACH PRODUCT I. INTRODUCTION Potato is a cool-season vegetable that ranks with wheat and rice as one of the most important staple crops in the human diet around the world. The white potato is referred to as the "Irish potato" because it is associated with the potato famine in Ireland in the 19th century. Potatoes are not roots but specialized underground storage stems called "tubers." Maximal tuber formation occurs at soil
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AND NEW PERFORMANCE MEASURES: SOME EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN COMPANIES BY DR. (MRS.) S. L. ADEYEMI DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN ABSTRACT This paper reports the findings of a survey on the usefulness of selected traditional and new performance measures used in some Nigeria companies that have adopted a flexible manufacturing strategy. The results indicate that majority of these companies considered the new performance measures useful particularly
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Return on Investment and Economic Value Added as Performance measures in an Organisation. Introduction Performance measurement in an organisation is a fundamental requirement by management‚ investors and other stakeholders. This ultimately guides stakeholders to make appropriate decisions based on information available to them to determine what the organisation wants to achieve and how the performance will be measured. Organisations that are large in structure and operations focus has been to
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Our national government as well as the European Union play a big part in influencing business activity today: • through taxation and spending • through laws‚ directives and regulations • through encouraging business activity through subsidies and support • by providing advice and support for business. Here are some examples of the way in which government influences business activity today: 1. Employment Policy Governments play a major part in trying to stimulate employment. For example‚ the
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In the media there are numerous reports and news involving crisis. One of them is the environment. Pollution‚ deforestation‚ climate change and global warming have been the highlight in the newspapers. Some of these problems are man-made. The main goal for publishing this kind of news is to send the message to the people globally and make them more aware about the importance of the environment. Thus‚ it is mankind’s responsibility to ensure that the environment does not suffer by our mistake. In
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