Present day energy meters require the energy company’s meter reader to manually check each and every meter located at the customer’s homes. It is a tedious and error prone exercise which is also liable to be manipulated. The proposed system is developed for reading the meters at remote locations or tamper sensitive areas using the technology zigbee. The CMRI monitors automatically and safely different energy meter readings in a locality from a handheld device using zigbee
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Compensation and Benefits Update: Implementing the New Health Plan Laws. This article covers significant developments in late 2011 and 2012 employee benefits‚ including employment taxes‚ executive compensation‚ health and welfare benefits‚ including employment rate taxes‚ and qualified plans. This article focuses on guidance released and changes to the rules for group health plans as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care
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Six Challenges for Educational Technology Chris Dede George Mason University Many exciting applications of information technology in schools validate that new technology-based models of teaching and learning have the power to dramatically improve educational outcomes. As a result‚ many people are asking how to scale-up the scattered‚ successful “islands of innovation” instructional technology has empowered into universal improvements in schooling enabled by major shifts in standard educational practices
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The Influence of Customer Satisfaction and Switching Costs on Customer Retention: A Survey of Retail Internet Banking Users in Hong Kong WONGChjBo BSc(Hons)‚ MBA‚ MA‚ MSc Student ID No. 9911675L International Graduate School of Management Division of Business and Enterprise University of South Australia A Thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business and Management 24 January 2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page No.
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structured questionnaire which was circulated among the interested parties like suppliers‚ consultants and some staff members. The secondary data was collected through internet‚ company profile‚ journals and magazines. The study was limited to period of six weeks. The study also aims at providing suggestions after the study. 2. INTRODUCTION “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it‚ dream of it‚ and live on idea. Let the brain‚ muscles‚ nerves‚ every part
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Metaphysics 1. What is real? Do any of us really know for sure what is real and what is not? A few years ago I read a book‚ although the name of it escapes me‚ that really had me thinking. “Is this life real or are we dreaming? I wondered if what we’re doing is dreaming and if our dreams are actually our reality. 2. Is the physical world more or less real than the spiritual or psychological world? I believe it is all real. The physical world of course is real‚ how else would we feel pain
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ineffective spending around the globe‚ lawmakers looking for cost-saving measures would do well to turn to prisons. Prison reform must attain the lowest economic costs‚ lowering actual taxpayer dollars spent without giving up the benefits of attaining important social goals‚ which represent another form of cost when lost. Undoubtedly‚ the current prison system is doing little to separate the US from its international counterparts in minimizing such cost‚ yet prison privatization has yielded hopeful results
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Period 7 Cost of College In 1983‚ the tuition per term at the University of Oregon was $321. There were three terms per year. In the year 2005‚ the cost of tuition at the University of Oregon is $5853 per year‚ or $1951 per term. This growth in the cost of tuition can be modeled by an exponential function: y = a(b)x. The variable y represents the cost of tuition per term‚ and the variable x corresponds to the number of years that have passed since the initial year. To find this exponential
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In my Sigma Chi career‚ the most contribution I’ve made is owning every position that I’ve held. Up until my term‚ no one had ever done anything with the positions of Tribune/Public Relations. In my tenure‚ I started a bi monthly alumni newsletter‚ and completely redesigned our website. We were able to better involve alumni in chapter operations as well as increased our web traffic six-fold. In Quaestor‚ I was able to redesign how we operated collections from brothers. With this we were able to utilize
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CHAPTER 3 COST-VOLUME-PROFIT ANALYSIS TRUE/FALSE 1. To perform cost-volume-profit analysis‚ a company must be able to separate costs into fixed and variable components. Answer: True Difficulty: 1 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis 2. Cost-volume-profit analysis may be used for multi-product analysis when the proportion of different products remains constant. Answer: True Difficulty: 1 Objective: 1 Terms to Learn: cost-volume-profit
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