The evolution of plants has resulted in increasing levels of complexity‚ from the earliest algal mats‚ through bryophytes‚ lycopods‚ ferns to the complex gymnosperms and angiosperms of today. While the groups which appeared earlier continue to thrive‚ especially in the environments in which they evolved‚ each new grade of organisation has eventually become more "successful" than its predecessors by most measures. Probably an algal scum formed on land 1‚200 million years ago. In the Ordovician period
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February 2006 Pairs Trading: Performance of a Relative Value Arbitrage Rule Evan Gatev‚ Boston College William N. Goetzmann‚ Yale School of Management‚ International Center for Finance K. Geert Rouwenhorst‚ Yale School of Management‚ International Center for Finance This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://ssrn.com/abstract=141615 Pairs Trading: Performance of a Relative Value Arbitrage Rule Evan Gatev Assistant
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Unit 3 - Evolution Notes Evolution involves change over time....from a biology standpoint evolution looks at how organisms change over long periods of time over many generations and hundreds of thousands of years. Source of Genetic Change Mutations are the source of genetic change * Neutral mutations - do not seem to benefit or harm the organism * Harmful mutations - negatively affect the life of organisms * Beneficial mutations - positively affect the life of organisms Artificial
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RAD (Rapid Application Development) refers to a development life-cycle designed to give much faster development and higher-quality results than those achieved with the traditional life-cycle "Rapid Application Development is a software development process developed initially by James Martin in the 1980s. The methodology involves iterative development‚ and the construction of prototypes. Traditionally the rapid application development approach involves compromises in usability‚ features‚ and/or execution
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The Evolution of Snakes Rafferty Crawford BIO/101 July 17‚ 2012 Peter Karanja The Evolution of Snakes Snakes are a diverse group of squamates that include about 2900 species of boas‚ colubrids‚ pythons‚ vipers‚ blind snakes‚ mole vipers‚ and sunbeam snakes (Pickrell‚ 2010). Snakes‚ like all living things‚ are a product of the process of evolution. Evolution allows species to change over time in response to environmental factors to produce entirely new species. As diverse as they are today
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Executive summary Along with the development of organization，rapid‚ volatile‚ discontinuous change is emerging in Political‚ Economic‚ Social‚ Technological‚ Environmental and so on. In this paper‚ it will outline what is concept of rapid，volatile，discontinuous change，and how impact on strategic management process‚ Then‚ it is going to suppose if I was a CEO and use models to explain details in recent cases as responding to discontinuous changes. Introduction As a successful Organizations‚ it
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Experiment 6: Relative Density Laboratory Report Jessica Manansala‚ Nathaniel Martinez‚ Maria Pacia‚ Jeanelle Pedrigal‚ Miguel Poblete Department of Math and Physics College of Science‚ University of Santo Tomas España‚ Manila Philippines Abstract The experiment would introduce us to 3 concepts‚ namely‚ the definition of relative density‚ the Archimedes principle and the determination of density by the Archimedes principle. In the first activity‚ we were tasked with finding the density
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THE IMPACT OF RAPID URBANIZATION ON HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA FROM 1950 -2010 (Focus on urban developments and housing problems case study: Lagos) Urbanization according to Aluko O.E is rather subjective and can be given various interpretations. However in this concept it can be defined as the expansion of the number of people living in an urban area that depicts the rate at which people move from rural areas and populate the urban areas. Reports however‚ from the united nation show that the
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TABLE OF CONTENT 1. INTRODUCTION 2. BUS RAPID TRANSIT 3. FINANCING THE OPERATING FLEET 4. INSTITUTIONAL AND REGULATORY CONTEXT 5. CREATION OF THE LAMATA 6. THE INTRODUCTION OF LAGOS BRTS 7. THE BENEFITS OF BUS RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM 8. SUMMARY 9. CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION OF BUS RAPID TRANSIT (BRT) AS A PANACEA TO TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM IN LAGOS INTRODUCTION Lagos city‚ Nigeria’s commercial capital‚ is one the most population dense cities in Africa. Consequently
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establish absolute fixed standards is bound to fail‚ Relative Poverty: The difficulties involved in the application of the concept of “absolute poverty”‚ made some researchers to abandon the concept altogether. In place of absolute standards‚ they have developed the idea of relative standards that is‚ standards which are relative to particular time and place. In this way‚ the idea of absolute poverty has been replaced by the idea of relative
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