ICTS AS ENABLERS OF DEVELOPMENT: A MICROSOFT WHITE PAPER December 2004 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are transforming societies and fueling the growth of the global economy. Yet despite the broad potential of ICTs‚ their benefits have not been spread evenly. Indeed‚ using ICTs effectively to foster social inclusion and economic growth is among the key challenges facing policymakers today. As one of the world’s leading ICT firms‚ Microsoft brings a unique
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Introduction Importance of the Study Chicken broiler and egg production are the most progressive animal enterprise in the Philippines today. The poultry industry in fact began as the backyard enterprise but has shifted to the formation of very large contract farming operations. Majority of the present supply of chicken meat comes from broilers. Broilers are chickens that grow fast and convert feeds into meat more efficiently. Poultry are kept in most areas of the world and provide an acceptable
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Introduction to literary theory Theory Kind of speculation‚ it’s analytical Interdisciplinary discourse (debate) with effects outside an original discipline (Culler) Critique of common sense‚ of concept taken as natural What is literature? Elusive term (always changing) Modern sense – 200 yrs old Prior to 1800 literature was „memorized“ not interpreted In fiction the relation of what speaker say to what authors think is always a mater of interpretation Dictionary: imaginative or creative
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Leah Lloyd World Philosophies 1330 Term Paper I- Introduction Intro‚ thesis In this paper I will describe Plato’s metaphysical dualism in the history of western philosophical and religious traditions and then compare it to the Chinese naturalistic metaphysics. Following the comparison‚ I will discuss the differences with a knowledge theory between a ratiocinative Hellenistic view and an intuition-based Doaist position. II- Metaphysical Dualism Plato‚ a student of Socrates Johnson‚ rejected*
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TITLE: EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING EVALUATION I. INTRODUCTION One reality of teaching is that many events occur simultaneously and in rapid-fire succession.1 Events happen quickly and it is difficult to predict what effect any one action by the teacher will have on any particular student. Often teachers must make quick decisions that have uncertain outcomes. The complexities of classroom do not allow effective teachers to follow a “one-size-fits-all” approach to teaching (Diaz‚ 1997)
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RESEARCH PROPOSAL RESEARCH TITLE IMPACT OF MEDIA ON YOUNG GENERATION’S DEPORTMENT INTRODUCTION. Information is an essential input for decision making while media is an important source of such information. Media including print media and electronic media is an excellent mode of communication‚ entertainment and information which exert different impacts on different people depending upon their age and perception. A mature person will perceive things differently whereas a child or an adolescent
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and price-fixing among manufacturers of heavy electrical equipment in the 1960s‚ including General Electric. * An attempt by Major League Baseball owners to restrict players’ salaries in the mid-1980s. * The sharing of potential contract terms by NBA free agents in an effort to help a targeted franchise circumvent the salary cap ------------------------------------------------- Explicit Collusion: Also termed overt collusion‚ this occurs when two or more firms in the same industry formally
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the tone or state of the market. It is a state when there are more buyers than sellers and as a result the prices show an upward trend. Arrivals: Fresh stocks of commodities that are brought to the market in a given period are called arrivals. The term is used in contrast to the opening balance of stock in hand. A market may open with some previous stocks brought forward on a particular day. The arrivals are the new stocks reaching the market on the same day. It does not mean the total supply of
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Enforceability of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Internally Displaced Persons in the Philippines By Bernard Velo Tumaru I. INTRODUCTION The United Nations Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (UNGPID) is a non-binding body of principles presented by the Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on Internally Displaced Persons to the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) at its fifty-fourth Session in 1998‚ and is recognized as an important international framework for the protection
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