Bretton Woods Conference Location: Hotel Complex Bretton Woods (New Hampshire - U.S.) Date: Between 1 and July 22‚ 1944. Participants: Forty-four countries were attending‚ half were underdeveloped‚ twenty were from Latin America‚ besides India‚ Iran‚ Iraq‚ China‚ Egypt‚ Ethiopia and the Philippines. Attended Eastern Europe Soviet Union‚ Czechoslovakia and Poland. Fees: On a total capital of 8‚800 million USD‚ the U.S. will be for a fee of 2‚740 million (equivalent to 31.1%)‚ the United Kingdom
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Principally‚ renting a conference room outside the business premises is a direct derivative of the demand of organizations to reduce capital costs and the supply of such conference venues on optimized costs. A higher occupation from multiple business organizations means that the costs of the construction and maintenance are written off over a shorter period of time for the supplying vendor. Meanwhile‚ the organization is benefited by not having to construct a similar conference room as it is an occasional
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The Miranda decision emerges from a case back in 1966 which deals with the rights of the accused‚ mainly with the Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate one’s self(Leo‚1996).In this case Ernest Miranda‚‚ a Mexican-American‚ was facing the state of Arizona for raping and kidnapping an eighteen year old woman.The case led to the Miranda warning which requires the officer to notify a suspect of his rights‚i.e. you have the right to remain silent‚and the right to speak to an attorney(Leo‚1996). That
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life time‚ The chance to travel to New York City. The conference took place in New York City on March 11th and ran intill the 14th. Students were asked to look at the conference schedule and develop a one-page presentation proposal that they could present to the forth-year media studies classes next fall. Kimberley Noble‚ a media studies professor at Guelph-Humber said the goal was to educate the students about the topics at the conference and present them to the transition to work classes next
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Impact of the Berlin Conference Economics‚ politics‚ and social factors are all critical factors of why the Europeans were seeking to take control of Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The drastic and controversial methods the Europeans used back then would leave a long-lasting effect on Africa and their people. The Berlin Conference occurred in 1884 and was the forefront of the partition of Africa. The Scramble of Africa was the precedent of both Berlin Conference and the Partition of
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The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations which has membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world and ensuring to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world. The Organization was established upon a decision of the historical summit which took
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Decision in iiNet case puts burden of policing online infringement back on copyright owners Anita Cade and Lisa Ritson BLAKE DAWSON Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across the country gave a collective sigh of relief when Justice Cowdroy handed down his decision in the Federal Court of Australia on 4 February 2010 in the much-anticipated Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd decision.1 The case appears to be the first of its kind against an ISP anywhere in the world to proceed to both hearing
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PART 4A DECISION THEORY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS 261 QUESTIONS [Fact Pattern #1] Stewart Industries has been producing two bearings‚ components B12 and B18‚ for use in production. B12 B18 ------ ------ Machine hours required per unit 2.5 3.0 Standard cost per unit: Direct material $ 2.25 $ 3.75 Direct labor 4.00 4.50 Manufacturing overhead: Variable
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Potsdam conference The Potsdam Conference was the last of the wartime summits among the Big Three allied leaders. It met from July 17 through August 2‚ 1945‚ in Potsdam‚ a historic suburb of Berlin. Representing the United States‚ the Soviet Union and Great Britain respectively were Harry Truman‚ Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill (who was replaced midway by Clement Atlee as a result of elections that brought Labor to power). Germany had surrendered in May; the war with Japan continued. The purpose
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Stochastic Programming for Big Data Movement via Internet and Shipping Networks Nay Myo Sandar School of Information Technology Shinawatra University‚ Bangkok‚ 10400 Thailand Email: uniquechan014@gmail.com Abstract—In traditional computing‚ with the development and popularity of Information Technology‚ we have been creating and storing many data in our computers. This leads to big data (e.g.‚ terabytes or petabytes). Data comes from everywhere such as business‚ commerce‚ education‚ manufacturing
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