birthing the organisms are shed in high numbers within the amniotic fluids and the placenta. The organism is extremely hardy and resistant to heat‚ drying‚ and many common disinfectants which enable the bacteria to survive for long periods in the environment. Infection of humans usually occurs by inhalation of these organisms from air that contains airborne barnyard dust contaminated by dried placental material‚ birth fluids‚ and excreta of infected animals. Other modes of transmission to humans‚ including
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FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT OF MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRI ABSTRACT Microfinance is the provision of savings accounts‚ loans‚ insurance‚ money transfers and other banking services to customers that lack access to traditional financial services‚ usually because of poverty. It is the provision of financial services to the low income households and micro and small enterprises. The general objective of this study was to investigate the impact of Microfinance on financial empowerment of Micro and Small Enterprises
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Maladaptive resource management in prior and present societies The situation with the Vikings on Greenland gives a good example of this. Trading walrus ivory with Europeans was an important part of the Economy. The iron was important for the Vikings in fighting against the Inuit people. The Europeans essentially started to trade for elephant ivory instead. There were good growing conditions in some western parts of Greenland in the summers and they lived off animal products‚ i.e. pastoralists. During
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Lesson 1 BUSINESS AND ITS ENVIRONMENT NATURE OF BUSINESS Business may be understood as the organized efforts of enterprise to supply consumers with goods and services for a profit. Businesses vary in size‚ as measured by the number of employees or by sales volume. But‚ all businesses share the same purpose: to earn profits. The purpose of business goes beyond earning profit. There are: • It is an important institution in society. • Be it for the supply of goods and services • Creation of
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PERSPECTIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES THIS PAGE IS BLANK Copyright © 2004‚ New Age International (P) Ltd.‚ Publishers Published by New Age International (P) Ltd.‚ Publishers All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced in any form‚ by photostat‚ microfilm‚ xerography‚ or any other means‚ or incorporated into any information retrieval system‚ electronic or mechanical‚ without the written permission of the publisher. All inquiries should be emailed to rights@newagepublishers
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What are Micro-Inequities and Micro-Affirmations? How do they affect employees and Manager-Employee relationships? Micro-Inequities According to Mary Rowe‚ Micro-inequities are “apparently small events which are often ephemeral and hard-to-prove‚ events which are covert‚ often unintentional‚ frequently unrecognised by the perpetrator‚ which occur wherever people are perceived to be ‘different.’” Bernice Sandler‚ Senior Scholar at the Women ’s Research and Education Institute in Washington‚
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Understanding the External Marketing Environment INTRODUCTION “All businesses operate within an environment‚ which directly or indirectly affects the way in which they function‚ just as we as consumers live within a cultural and social environment which to a greater or lesser degree determines the way in which we behave as individuals.” said Elaine O’Brien‚ University of Strathclyde. Unlike the controllable marketing mix variables‚ the environmental forces are not controllable by marketers
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STUDY GUIDE COSTS OF PRODUCTION: Total Physical Product (TP)- total output or quantity produced Marginal Product (MP)- the additional output generated by additional inputs (workers). Average Product (AP)- the output per unit of input. Stage 1: Increasing Marginal Returns Stage 2: Decreasing Marginal Returns Stage 3: Negative Marginal Returns TC- Total Costs: Sum of Fixed and Variable Costs VC- Variable Costs: Costs for variable resources that do change with the amount produced
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Project 1 – Microeconomic Analysis Situation A By: Unknown ECON545 September 21‚ 2014 Professor Andrew Appelson Introduction “To Be on not to Be‚ that is the question‚” a famous quote from Shakespeare poem Hamlet. My niece is interested in attending medical school and has solicited my professional opinion on whether it would be economical feasible for her to attend medical school and if so‚ the best location to practice medicine. There are many variables in determining the maximum
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