When looking at things from an ethical perspective‚ one has to consider how to protect and preserve the basic needs of others as well as their own. There is no difference here when dealing with the well being of animals. Alice Walter and Ted Kerasote are two individuals who deal with ethical issues regarding the well being of animals‚ and while their stories are vastly different‚ their main points have overlapping similarities. In Anthony Weston’s A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox‚ both Walter and Kerasote’s
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simple and fast. There should be no reason ever to use approximate methods based‚ for example‚ on the Central limit theorem. 1 Box Muller It would be nice to get a standard normal from a standard uniform by inverting the distribution function‚ but there is no closed form formula for this distribution 2 x function N (x) = P (X < x) = √1 π −∞ e−x /2 dx . The Box Muller method is a 2 brilliant trick to overcome this by producing two independent standard normals from two independent uniforms
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CATEGORY: APPLIED MATHEMATICS Computational Efficiency of Box-Muller and Polar Method Using Monte-Carlo Application by : Joy V. Lorin-Picar Mathematics Department Davao del Norte State College‚ New Visayas‚ Panabo City picar_joy@yahoo.com ABSTRACT The efficiency of Mean Square Error (MSE) of the random normal variables generated from both the Marsaglia Polar Method and Box-Muller Method was examined for small and large n with Monte-Carlo application using MATHLAB. The empirical
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Box‚ Inc. is a software technology company for businesses that has experienced immense success in their early years of incorporation. This paper focuses on Box‚ Inc.’s growth management. Specifically‚ this analysis addresses the hiring problems and communication malfunctions of Box‚ Inc. and offers solutions to them. The success of a growing start-up company lies on many things‚ but two are found to be of upmost importance: hiring for Person-Group (PG) fit and cultivating clear‚ consistent lines
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Pete Hamill’s article "Crack in the Box" describes how television has the same negative effects as drugs. He states that television is addictive and creates the same influence over a person’s life that a drug can have. The abuse of drugs provides an escape from reality‚ a feeling of indifference towards society‚ and generates an undeserved stimulus to the brain. Hamill is correct in his assessment that watching television produces the same symptoms as taking drugs. The term couch potato did not
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television‚ also known as: TV‚ the boob tube‚ the idiot box‚ as well as many other nicknames‚ has been around for almost a hundred years. Ever since cable TV became popular in the 1950’s‚ there has always been a worry that people watch too much TV. Most people believe that with exorbitant exposure to the popular media both dumbs us down as well as makes us more likely to tolerate acts of violence. Dana Stevens’ “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” argues that television does not make you smarter‚ directly
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English 1210: 6:30 TTH February 2004 "Glory Box" Each townhouse was herded together in packs of eight‚ all exact replicas of one another. They were small and quaint and housed mostly two person families. The yards were bare and uncared for‚ except one. The address decals were bold and faux finished with gold and black tarnish that hung on a silver plaque that was hard to miss. The garden was practically professionally tidy and trimmed; there were Pansies‚ Columbine bushes‚ Tulips‚ and strawberry
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Sex Drugs and Sea Slime Chapter 1: The Invisible Crowd One member of the zooplankton family is the foraminifera. It lives within the photic zone because some have dinoflagellates that perform photosynthesis. The foraminifera is found floating through the ocean‚ and there are actually many different species of foraminifera‚ some even reside on the sea floor. The foraminifera grows by creating more space in their limestone shells. They’re only about the size of one grain of sand. The foraminifera
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in prey. The Medusae is the jellyfish looking creature. They float around in the water and look like umbrellas. The mouths are located on the Concave or the inside of the creature with tentacles surrounding the creature. This type of creature actually has many types of animals within its phylum. The phylum of the creature has a few different creatures and numerous types of jellyfish. To focus upon the creature I would like to focus on three types: Hydrozoans‚ Jellyfish‚ and Sea Anemones. The
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Paleontology Cnidaria and Nematocysts Cnidaria‚ also called Coelenterata‚ is a large phylum of marine organisms with around 10‚000 species. These species are corals‚ jellyfish‚ various plant-like organisms‚ as well as many others. These are all very different from each other‚ except for one similar attribute. They all have Nematocysts‚ which are stinging cells used by all Cnidaria for either defense or hunting. Nematocysts have a variety of functions to fulfill these tasks. The organism can use
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