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    Management controls‚ their limitations‚ and the nature of social constraint: the implications for corporate governance practice Draft (M.Phil/Ph.D) research proposal by Peter Carroll University of Greenwich‚ Business School Paper presented at the Management Control Association workshop at The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales‚ Friday 27th February 2009 Draft research proposal (approval by University’s research committee to be obtained) Please do not quote without permission

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    In this assignment I will describe the limitations and constraints of marketing for Barclays. Within this I will discuss legal Acts that Barclays have to comply with when advertising‚ collecting data and market researching. Any and every organisation has limitations and constraints that they have to submit too within marketing‚ when it comes to market research‚ advertising or collecting data there are three laws every business has to obey. These laws are: Data Protection Act 1998 Trade

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    The Societal Machine

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    factor to people’s dreams—it is no exception in the novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. Narrator Chief Bromden refers to society as the Combine. The definition of a combine is “an agricultural machine that cuts‚ threshes‚ and cleans a grain crop in one operation‚” or a machine that cuts and levels out that which it consumes. Society is like a combine in that it restrains‚ manipulates‚ and obliterates anyone who tries to stand up against it. Through his recount of the story of McMurphy

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    does not have the strength or desire to adequately care for herself or her developing baby. Babies born to mothers who are depressed may also be less active‚ show less attention and are more irritable and agitated than babies born to moms who are not depressed (“American Pregnancy Association”). In the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath‚ her choice of words for the poem seem to express her feelings of depression toward the issue of her pregnancy. Plath chose many metaphors to describe her pregnancy

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    LIMITATIONS OF RATIO ANALYSIS The debt-equity ratio gives an indication of an enterprise’s ability to sustain losses without jeopardizing the interests of creditors. This ratio is based only on information provided in the balance sheet. Although stockholders’ equity serves as a buffer to protect the creditors’ interests‚ it should be kept in mind that the earning prospects of the enterprise are also relevant in judging a firm’s ability to survive the long run. Although the use of ratios can prove

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    Wayback Machine: AOL.com circa 1997 The World Wide Web is a powerfully fluid and dynamic network of information‚ accessed over the medium of the Internet‚ that was popularized in the mid-nineties. Revolutionizing the way people can learn‚ entertain‚ communicate‚ and share‚ the World Wide Web is responsible for the ease that we have grown so accustomed to within our lives. Tim Bernes-Lee‚ a British scientist at CERN‚ conceived the web as means of sharing information between scientists and government

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    MAN AND MACHINE

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    Machines This is an age of machine. Machine has acquired a high priority in the modern era. It has come to occupy a place of major importance in the life of man. In all spheres and walks of life machine comes to the aid of man. Right from the time of waking up in the morning till going to bed at night‚ man continues to make use of some machine or the other. For example‚ man wakes up with the help of a machine (alarm watch)‚ takes bath with the help of water brought by and heated by machine‚ enjoys

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    c) d) 5. A shaft intermediate between a line shaft and a driven machine. a) Counter shaft b) Transmission shaft c) Machine shaft d) Axle 6. A shaft that is used to transmit power between the source and the machine absorbing the power. a) Line shaft b) Transmission shaft c) Machine shaft d) Counter shaft 7. A shaft forming on integral part of the machine itself is known as: a) Line shaft b) Machine shaft c) Counter shaft d) Transmission shaft 8. A rotating member that

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    1791 First sewing machine was patented by Thomas Saint He was an Englishman‚ and he built his sewing machine during the first industrial revolution. It was meant to sew leather and canvas‚ but a working model was never built. Walter hunt invented the lockstitch machine 1833 He eventually lost interest in his machine and sold it without patenting it. John Greenough patented the first machine in the US 1842 Elias Howe gets his first patent 1845 Singer was granted his first

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    The Machine Conscience

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    certain objects such as machines every single day to perform jobs and tasks that would require human intelligence and judgment. Artificial Intelligence allow machines to send information in a matter of seconds‚ regulate ground and air traffic‚ guide missiles‚ and can perform any human task‚ but what if machines are create more like humans in the near future. Would we welcome them into society as ‘one of the guys ’ or would we discriminate their kind? The excerpt on Machine Consciousness by William

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