Digital Green catalyses a quiet revolution in India Farmers are improving crop yields‚ using new technologies besides learning video-making skills - thanks to Digital Green which is catalyzing a quiet revolution in the little hamlets of India. Its founder‚ Rikin Gandhi‚ has been named as a top young innovator by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Delhi-based Digital Green focuses on educating farmers about farming techniques through locally produced videos in which local cultivators
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Mahidul Shahel 10/25/13 Science Initial Writing Piece Designer Babies: Pros & Cons Designer Babies a.k.a. “perfect babies” are babies who have been genetically engineered and screened by scientists. This concept has raised numerous ethical issues. Are babies always meant to be perfect
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University of Oxford Computing Laboratory MSc Computer Science Dissertation Automatic Generation of Control Flow Hijacking Exploits for Software Vulnerabilities Author: Sean Heelan Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Kroening September 3‚ 2009 Contents List of Figures v List of Tables vii List of Code Listings ix Acknowledgements xi Abstract 1 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Motivation . . .
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>> OPPORTUNITIES Huge Market Potential - In a country of a billion people‚ the Indonesian aviation industry is puny. Indonesia have 12 million people who travel by air every year against 3 million passengers who fly everyday in the US‚ even though its population is one-fourth that of Indonesia. Even if we assumed that only one-fourth of that large middle-class could afford and would be willing to travel by air‚ it would call for at least a 5-6-fold increase in capacity. This points to a huge opportunity
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CASE: E-323 DATE: 11/18/08 IDENTIFYING VENTURE OPPORTUNITIES I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs‚ then I proceed to invent. —Thomas Edison INTRODUCTION One of the biggest questions on every hopeful entrepreneur’s mind is‚ ―how do I come up with a compelling idea for a new venture?‖ While there is no right or wrong answer to this question‚ there are several things to be aware of and thinking
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A GREAT OPPORTUNITY MISSED! A famous bureaucrat once said that IAS stands for… I Am Sorry. I was reminded of that while meeting one yesterday and apparently‚ he had invited me to discuss the social media strategy for his organization. We got off to a bad start when he asked‚ Why Social Media? He might as well have asked‚ Why Gravity? Duh! Then‚ making a pathetic excuse‚ a subordinate walked into the room and remained busy for about 20 minutes explaining her situation about a lost ATM card. We
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B) resources are scarce. C) resources are infinite D) with good planning‚ trade-offs can be avoided. 2. The best measure of the opportunity cost of any choice is: A) the monetary cost of that choice. B) whatever you have given up to make that choice‚ even if no monetary costs are involved. C) the cost associated with not taking full advantage of the opportunity offered by that choice. D) your hourly wage. 3. A busy professor can’t decide whether to stay in his office to grade papers for
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Sector briefing Pharmaceutical Opportunities in Bangladesh. WHY BANGLADESH? Pharmaceutical is one of the highest priority sectors in Bangladesh. With an annual twodigit growth rate the Bangladesh pharmaceutical industry is now heading towards self – sufficiency in meeting local demand. With over US$250 million investments in the pharmaceutical industry of Bangladesh the sector has emerged as the country’s most developed hi-tech one that contributes significantly to the national economy
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experienced some of the negative aspects of it. I will discuss equal opportunities in the workplace‚ and its affect on human resource management. Equal opportunities are very important in the modern workplace. Providing equal opportunities involves providing the same opportunities to all the employees and prospective employees regardless of their sex‚ age‚ disabilities‚ ethnic origins‚ sexual orientations etc. Equal opportunities allow the employee to have rights therefore the employer is unable to
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Advertisement Essay Everywhere we turn; there are ads that sexually exploit women’s bodies to sell products. The use of women ’s bodies in ads is a cheap trick that marketers use instead of making more thoughtful arguments on their products. The secret used in these ads is quite simple: Attractive bodies are employed to grab attention and stimulate desire‚ which advertisers hope will then be transferred to the product. Burger king has a new sandwich called the “Super Seven Incher”. This juicy‚ flame- grilled
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