"A great battle lost or won is easily described‚ understood‚ and appreciated‚ but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection‚ as well as observation‚ to appreciate it." --Frederick Douglass‚ 1864 "So they sought first to deprive the day [Memorial Day] of any significance to the living. Only the manhood and valor of the dead were to be commemorated. The dead were to be mourned; the cause for which they died forgotten. There was no other way by which the desired object could be accomplished
Premium American Civil War Black people World War I
In 2005‚ Value Trust‚ an $11.2 billion mutual fund managed by Bill Miller‚ had outperformed its benchmark index‚ the S&P 500‚ for a consecutive 14 years. This record marked the longest streak of success for any manager in the mutual fund industry‚ doubling the previous record. While Miller had been beaten in individual years‚ no manager has been as consistent. This has provoked many different questions in academia because it defies current conventional theories such as the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Premium Mutual fund Investment Hedge fund
current technology products from being exploited for example replicating original CDs and selling them as pirated software‚ this unethical behaviour can be controlled by the code of conducts. • Computer ethics is a system of moral standards or values used as a guideline for computer users. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF COMPUTER CRIMES. • The United States Institute of Computer Ethics has come out with the Ten Commandments of computer ethics • This principles consider the effective code of conducts
Premium Ethics Intellectual property Privacy
problems with solution code in C/C++ and Java. Binary trees have an elegant recursive pointer structure‚ so they are a good way to learn recursive pointer algorithms. Contents Section 1. Binary Tree Structure -- a quick introduction to binary trees and the code that operates on them Section 2. Binary Tree Problems -- practice problems in increasing order of difficulty Section 3. C Solutions -- solution code to the problems for C and C++ programmers Section 4. Java versions -- how binary trees work
Premium Trees Reference
Case 11-2(b) Fair Value Disclosures Case 11-2(b) is an extension of Case 11-2(a). For this case‚ assume that the Case 11-2(a) facts remain‚ with the exception of the additional assumptions listed below for each security. As stated in Case 11-2(a)‚ Family Finance Co. (FFC) accounts for its investments at fair value‚ with changes in fair value reflected either in earnings (for trading securities) or other comprehensive income (OCI) (for available-for-sale (AFS) securities). 1 Because FFC uses
Premium Balance sheet Asset Collateralized debt obligation
Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications Version 1.1 Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications Prepared for NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance NASA Headquarters Washington‚ DC 20546 August‚ 2002 Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications Version 1.1 Fault Tree Handbook with Aerospace Applications NASA Project Coordinators: Dr. Michael Stamatelatos‚ NASA Headquarters Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Mr. José Caraballo‚ NASA Langley Research Center
Premium Risk assessment Safety engineering Random variable
Decision Trees for Decision Making The management of a company that I shall call Stygian Chemical Industries‚ Ltd.‚ must decide whether to build a small plant or a large one to manufacture a new product with an expected market life of ten years. The decision hinges on what size the market for the product will be. Possibly demand will be high during the initial two years but‚ if many initial users find the product unsatisfactory‚ will fall to a low level thereafter. Or high initial demand might
Premium Cash flow Decision making Net present value
10 REASONS WHY TREE PLANTING IS IMPORTANT 1. Trees Produce Oxygen Let’s face it; we could not exist as we do if there were no trees. A mature leafy tree produces as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year. What many people don’t realize is the forest also acts as a giant filter that cleans the air we breath. 2. Trees Clean the Soil The term phytoremediation is a fancy word for the absorption of dangerous chemicals and other pollutants that have entered the soil. Trees can either
Premium Oxygen Carbon dioxide Soil
functional strategy. • Banyan Tree Holdings Limited is a leading manager and developer of premi um resorts‚ hotels and spas in the Asia Pacific. After a successful IPO in Jun e 2006‚ Banyan Tree Holdings Limited planned to use parts of the IPO proc eeds to finance an ambitious expansion plan. At the core of this business d evelopment plan was an ambitious proposal to open 21 new resorts over f our years which would span non-Asian territories from Greece to Mexico. • Banyan Tree has several business segments:
Premium Brand Brand management Management
Decision Tree Analysis Choosing Between Options by Projecting Likely Outcomes Decision Trees are useful tools for helping you to choose between several courses of action. They provide a highly effective structure within which you can explore options‚ and investigate the possible outcomes of choosing those options. They also help you to form a balanced picture of the risks and rewards associated with each possible course of action. This makes them particularly useful for choosing between different
Premium Decision theory Decision tree Risk