Executive Summary Merck & Company has been presented with an opportunity to invest $30 million for the purchasing rights of an obesity and high cholesterol lowering drug‚ KL-798 from Kappa Labs. Based on the expected probabilities of success through each product-development phase for this new drug‚ as well as the costs involved‚ the net present value of the project is -$1.16 million and is therefore recommended that Merck passes on the investment. Sensitivity analysis also show that adjusting
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People need to eat balance nutrition at least three times a day but today most of people in developing country get food once a day or they cannot get that much food. For that reason they get sick easily‚ especially children. For instance‚ so many parents and children died each day by starvation in the third worded countries. According to How Many. Org‚”One billion people‚ one out of every seven people alive‚ go to bed hungry. Every day‚ 25‚000 people die of malnutrition and hunger-related diseases
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Pradeep Kumar Chagantipati Cuw id: F00437246 Security Architecture: Explain why a security architecture should be “layered.” The Technology is also one of the key factor in information security program as companies carry most of their function electronically which exposes them to many security threats. In this information security program‚ for an effective architecture we should provide layered security program in order to provide multiple levels of defense. This is firmly known as Defense-in-depth
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MANAGER SHOULD‚ OR SHOULD NOT‚ BE CONSIDERED Why a Manager Should‚ or Should not‚ be considered a Stakeholder Stakeholders are those groups from whom the organization has voluntarily accepted benefits‚ and to whom the organization has therefore incurred obligations of fairness. Typically‚ this includes groups such as financiers‚ employees‚ customers‚ suppliers and local communities. I believe that managers should not be considered stakeholders. Managers should acknowledge
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What (and How) We Should Eat It is no surprise that with the increased popularity in fast food chains‚ America’s obesity rate has dramatically increased. In a survey done by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)‚ obesity is the number two cause of preventable death‚ with approximately sixty-two percent of American adults overweight‚ up from thirty- two percent in 1994 (Profiling Food Consumption in America). In Susan Brink and Elizabeth Querna’s article “Eat This Now”‚ they discuss
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I believe that Medicine C should be researched further. Some reasons why I believe that Medicine C is the best is because for one‚ the side effects are low and are not of high severity‚ there are very few restrictions and they are minor‚ and also even though only 35% of people got their headaches to go away that is still a pretty high number‚ and with some more research they could get that number up. In the data table provided in the book it showed that the only side effects were dry mouth and slight
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Emergency services are available for every kind of situation‚ and you should have no problem getting an emergency plumber for problems such as a backed up sewer‚ a leaking water heater or when your boiler stops working. Having a professional plumber in your contact list can really spare you a lot of trouble in an emergency. However‚ you also need to take some things into consideration before you choose your emergency plumber. How much will it cost? Your first response in an emergency would probably
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How Should We Treat the Homeless? I think that to treat all homeless people in one certain way would be hard for me to do because there are many reasons for a person to be homeless‚ and some of them should be treated differently from others. I feel that the runaways and drug addicts don’t deserve as much as the unemployed and war veteran types. But I feel in my heart that all people with no homes‚ or lives for that matter‚ should get some sort of help to survive and get back on their feet so
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the "tyranny of the shoulds." She described the "tyranny of the shoulds" as being are the forces pressed on us by parents‚ peers‚ socio-economic class‚ teachers‚ career counselors‚ pop psychology‚ opinionated relatives and friends and the elusive conventional wisdom ’ (Richardson‚ 2006) . They tell us the many things we should or shouldn ’t do. These "shoulds" can be seen in anyone ’s life‚ especially in the lives of college students. Three particular "tyranny of the shoulds" that could apply directly
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It Should Be Law! Handguns and teens do not go together. Why then is the number of young people being killed by handguns increasing each year? It is against the law for anyone under the age of twenty-one to handle a gun‚ but it seems that this law isn’t being followed by the world today. Many people have guns in their homes‚ for “protection” they say‚ but one cannot honestly say that the weapon killing young people is a good means of protection. As a nation‚ a society‚ the people of today should
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