The body mass index (BMI)‚ or Quetelet index‚ is a measure for human body shape based on an individual’s mass and height. Devised between 1830 and 1850 by the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet during the course of developing "social physics"‚[2] it is defined as the individual’s body mass divided by the square of their height - with the value universally being given in units of kg/m2. † † The factor for UK/US units is more precisely 703.06957964‚ but that level of precision is not
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Theoretical frame work: The Brand Luxury Index (BLI) designed by Franck Vigneron and Lester W. Johnson in 2004 is a scale to measure the different aspects of what makes a brand luxurious. The model measures how luxurious a brand is‚ through personal and non-personal oriented. First non-personal oriented perceptions: perceived Conspicuousness: is defined as the image associated with consuming a luxury item. perceived Uniqueness: the scarcity of items highly reflects on the preference towards a brand
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Purchasing Disability insurance is an important and responsible thing for any professional to do. Depending on your occupation and interest‚ there are many ways that a person can obtain Disability insurance: through a group plan at work‚ individually or even through a professional association. Although many associations offer individual policies‚ many times they do not offer as quality of a product as is available on the individual market. For Veterinarians who are interested in obtaining Disability
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in 1991‚ in New York‚ Long before their company history‚ MAC cosmetics founders directed their product line towards professionals in the beauty and fashion industry who had to rely on heavy cosmetics‚ cake makeup and stage makeup to create the visual effects needed to withstand bright lighting during photo shoots. Who better to rise up to this demand than a fashion photographer? With a glamorous image and a celebrity endorsed product line‚ MAC cosmetics took the beauty industry by storm. Finally the
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Part I HPI To show that measuring overall sustainability and enjoyment of life is more important in order to progress as a species than measuring just profit or just production. Rank the countries of the world using criteria that accounts for life expectancy‚ economic footprint‚ and experienced well being Showing that the path towards a happy planet‚ and in turn happy humans‚ is all about balance between man‚ nature‚ and technology. 1. It quickly become apparent that most nations who are at
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the Refractive Index? The aim of this experiment is to investigate the relationship between the refractive index and the wavelength. We will be testing 5 different wavelengths: 630nm (red)‚ 570nm (yellow)‚ 532nm (green)‚ 445nm (blue) and 405nm (violet). Figure 1 Figure 1 What is the refractive index? The refractive index is the measurement of how hard it is for light to pass through a certain substance‚ thus affecting the speed of light. By knowing the refractive index of a substance
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A New House-Readiness CheckPoint Whether to buy a house or not is a life changing decision. The principle that played a big part of purchasing a house was the cost of something is what you give up to get it. I had to compare the costs and benefits of either buying a house or renting a bigger apartment now that living in a studio is no longer an option because of the baby. In a house we will have more space‚ and it will be closer to schools‚ but I will have to cut back on spending because I will
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Professional (64-bit) Install DVD * Mac OS X Snow Leopard Boot Camp DVD‚ only $39 from the Apple Store * Ubuntu 10.04 (amd64) Desktop Edition + blank CD to burn it to‚ only $0 from all the generous developers around the world * iBoot Supported ISO (download) + blank CD to burn it to - Used to boot the system before installing Chameleon * MultiBeast (download) - Used to install additional kexts after Snow Leopard installation * Mac OS X 10.6.4 Combo Update (download) - Used
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Big data‚ Big rewards 1.Describe the kinds of big data collected by the organizations described in this case. There are mainly three kinds of big data collected by the organizations described in this case. First‚ IBM Bigsheets help the British Library to handle with huge quantities of data and extract the useful knowledge. Second‚ State and federal law enforcement agencies are analyzing big data to discover hidden patterns in criminal activity. The Real Time Crime Center data warehouse contains
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Employee Fraud and Purchasing Department There is a phenomenon in middle/small size companies in China that purchasing agents of the companies collaborate with vendors to create fake receipts‚ in order to receive more reimbursement from the company. This also happened in the hospital I used to work for‚ where the purchasing agent had to buy food from different vendors for everyday dinning purpose. The fraud got exposed when one day a vendor called us and revealed the fact that
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