Sandhya Kal IME 402-06 Professor Erik Jackiw 4.29.15 Midterm Paper: Three Cat Book stories Analysis Case I: Should We Sacrifice One to Save Five? A. This case is about a train driver that is facing a dilemma that has three different options to approach it. He has been given notice that his locomotive has a design fault that means that his train will blow up if it is going under fifty mph‚ which would kill the five hundred passengers on board. If he does not slow down‚ he would kill five people that
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Isabel & Peter /NUS Business School_2013 BSP 2005 Asian Business Environments /Syllabus ‚ Lecture and Tutorial Guide Course Outline Module Code Module Title Description BSP2005 Asian Business Environments This module builds an understanding of business environments in Asia. The first part of the course focuses on macroeconomic fundamentals‚ politics‚ culture‚ and institutions in Asian countries and regions. The second part of the course explores relationships between national and regional
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Trolley Problem The "Trolley Dilemma" can be considered an ethical experiment which involves numbers of hypothetical scenarios created by Philippa Foot in 1967. In addition‚ it has been an important part of neuroethics and cognitive science. The original concepts can be formulated as follows. There is a heavy‚ uncontrollable trolley runs down the railways. On the track‚ there are five people tied to it. Fortunately‚ there is a lever pulling which you can switch and‚ thus‚ change the direction of
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can access - A community (MINI Space)‚ interact well with Facebook for dealers and users to share news‚ events and ideas. * Weaknesses * Higher price: the prices are higher than its competitors’ (almost double the prices of Fiat 500 and Smart) * Not attract men as well as women * Opportunities * Fuel efficiency‚ low carbon emission fits the emerging trend of eco-consciousness. * Appeal to the countries where gasoline is expensive and where need a small
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Umair Zia Houghton English June 30th‚ 2013 Book Smart vs. Street Smart In the article‚ “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff discusses the topic of book smart versus street smart. Being street smart means having interest in other activities more than in school work‚ while being book smart is the complete opposite of that. Graff believes that having the personality of a street smart person can benefit society if one knows how to channel their potential correctly. He persuades his views
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Reflection #9 The first article was about the Trolley Dodgers. In 1890‚ they joined the National League. Unfortunately‚ for them they did not have the finances to compete with teams like the New York Yankees. The Dodgers’ losing went on for about 70 years. As a result‚ they moved to Los Angeles in 1958; what we know today as the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 1997‚ the team was sold for 350 million dollars to Rupert Murdoch. In the closeout interview by Peter O’Malley (the former owner)‚ he was grateful
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GSM techniques: 1. µc based security system and parameters controlling for building automation using GSM technique. 2. Home Security with multiple sensors and mobile messaging facility using GSM techniques. 3. Micro Controller based SMART HOME with automatic image capturing and multiple sensors. 4. Remote Process data acquisition and controlling using GSM Techniques. 5. Micro Controller based wireless automation of Power Substation using GSM techniques 6. Wireless train
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Street Smarts over Book Smarts Gerald Graff is a Professor of English and Education in the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Graff’s essay‚ “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ Graff compares street smarts to book smarts. Graff debates the common belief that having book smarts gives one an intellectual advantage over other forms of intellectualism. Gerald Graff supports this belief by telling a personal story‚ explaining where the education systems fails‚ and stating that people stereotype intellect with
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Many students’ street smarts greatly surpass their book smarts. I believe that instructors can strengthen students’ book smarts by encouraging them to write‚ read‚ think‚ and learn about personal areas of interest. They can accomplish this by taking students on field trips so they actively experience what their learning in the class room‚ and use these “street smarts” to build a stronger foundation of what their trying to teach. So what exactly are street and book smarts? There are many definitions
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Abstract- A smart home is an application of computing to the home environment and it is monitored by ambient intelligence to provide services and facilitate remote home control. This paper presents an overview of previous research on smart home as well as the related technologies. A brief discussion about smart homes and their interrelationships is presented here. It describes combined information about sensors‚ communication protocols‚ multimedia devices‚ and systems‚ which are widely used in smart home
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