How relevant is CSR in todays business agenda? Corporate Social Responsibility is described as being a company’s ethical‚ economic‚ environmental‚ social and legal attitude towards its stakeholders in order to establish long-term success (Crane at el‚ 2008). These issues have come to have an important role in the running of a business in recent years. CSR was developed over a number of years and has been researched by professional economists. There are many arguments in favour of and against the
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[azimuth to let you know] antenna azimuth for revision Code : MEC522 Course : CONTROL ENGINEERING GROUP ASSIGNMENT-PROBLEM BASED LEARNING ASSIGNMENT Problem Statement: An Armature controlled dc motor is used to control the position of an antenna azimuth in which is shown in Figure 1. While the schematic diagram for this system is shown in Figure 2 and its corresponding parameters are highlighted in the Table 1. Equation of motion which represents the system dynamics
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According to the report “ Email statistics report‚ 2009-2013” written by The Radicati Group‚ the number of email users in over the world is predicted increase from 1.4 billion people in 2009 to 1.9 billion in 2013. In 2009‚ there are approximately 249 millions messages sending each day and the percentage of business emails accounted for 37% of them. In addition‚ corporate workers have to spend about ¼ their working time to send and receive 167 messages per day. According to the article “Email
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Historical Recurrence "A favorite theory of mine to wit‚ that no occurrence is sole and solitary‚ but is merely a repetition of a thing which has happened before‚ and perhaps often”(Twain). This quote from a famous writer‚ Mark Twain‚ talks about how he believes that history can and does repeat itself. Mark is saying that everything takes place for a reason and has occurred sometime before in history. This idea of history repeating itself is present throughout the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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Classroom-Based Research in the Field of Emotional and behavioral disorders This article discusses EBD in the classroom and how students are more effective. A structured classroom tends to show more success with students of this nature. A structured classroom includes consistent organization and presentation of materials. Group design has been shown to have more praise‚ less reprimanding and higher correct responses. To review results of students in structured classrooms two assessments were given:
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Business ethics within business is crucial to the world economy and more importantly to expansion of the MNCs which are growing to meet the needs of the world economy. However there are clear perspectives to take into account when resolving these ethical issues‚ primarily human rights‚ acceptance by the MNCs of foreign cultures and by contrast corruption and exploitation arte closely monitored. Human rights movements are clearly restricted by the United Nations as it prevents any child labour
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1 REVIEW OF THE TYPES OF TESTS 1. Discrete and Integrative Tests Tests have come to be an accepted component of instructional programs throughout the world. The main reasons for testing are: a) to measure individual progress; b) to assess the degree of success of teaching and learning and to identify areas of weakness and difficulty; c) to measure students probable performance; d) to sort new students into teaching groups so that they are approximately the same
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Reasoning: – Facts‚ Inferences‚ Judgments – Premises & Conclusion A fact is information that is verifiable‚ or can be “proven” to be true. How do we verify it? We observe it for ourselves by - looking out the window to see if it’s raining - touching a snake to see that it’s not slimy - tasting the soup to find out if it is salty Or we trust other people to tell us facts - a friend who says the class has been canceled - a newspaper reporter who describes an earthquake in
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PRAGMATIC INTERPRETATION AND DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT IN SPOKEN-LANGUAGE SYSTEMS Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten Institute for Perception Research P.O.Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands e-mail: veldhvz@natlab.research.philips.com ABSTRACT This paper describes the design of pragmatic-interpretation and dialogue-management modules in an automatic inquiry system that can be consulted through spoken natural language over the telephone. The system is designed around a central multi-level
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at the heart is the divisive question of ?whether intelligence analysis is art or science.? 14 Doctor Michael W. Collier acknowledges this issue and briefly surveys the ?art versus science? debate in his essay‚ ?Developing Intelligence Analysts: Pragmatic Tool Kit Approach?. The debate between both camps is framed as positivists‚ which promote application the scientific method‚ versus interpretists‚ which rely on qualitative research designs.15 And although each party has points to be considered
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