The concept of ride sharing has evolved immensely over the last 50 years from its onset – as carpooling served as a way for commuters to circumvent the high gas prices of the 1970s. To the present day‚ where hipsters and business men alike utilize companies such as Uber‚ Lyft‚ and SideCar as an alternative to a crowded and often unreliable public transportation system as well as the price-gouging from taxi drivers. From my interviews with a part time Uber driver and frequent passengers‚ the consensus
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What is a knowledge-based system? A system which is built around a knowledge base. i.e. a collection of knowledge‚ taken from a human‚ and stored in such a way that the system can reason with it. Example: System: What is the patient’s name? User: George Smith System: What is the patient’s age? User: 52 years System: Is the patient male or female? User: Male System: What are the symptoms? User: Headache dizziness upset stomach high fever System: When did these symptoms first appear? User:
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Peter O’Hara 11/19/09 ENGL 101-26 Dr. Winner Paper #4 Why the BCS should implement a playoff system In five out of the last ten seasons in Division One college football‚ there has been an undefeated team that did not get the opportunity to play for a national championship‚ and three of those times they were beaten out by a one-loss team. Also‚ in nine of the last ten seasons‚ there have been more than two teams with the same amount of losses as a team that got the opportunity to play for
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FILE SHARING Ethical Debate with Today’s Technology (INTRO) You may have illegal content on your computer right now! File sharing has become a very large issue today in society even though it has existed for decades. It has been the recent advances in our technology that has made it main stream and in the eyes of the general public. File sharing today tests the limits of technology along with our ethics making it a fuzzy grey area. When discussing file sharing’s effect on society‚ first
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September 8‚ 2009 M03 Some are More Equal than Others On August 5‚ 1997‚ Korean Airlines management received news that no airline wants to hear- one of their planes had crashed. Korean Airlines flight 801 crash-landed three miles away from Guam airport. Plane crashes are an unfortunate and rare occurrence in the airline industry‚ but Korean Airlines had a problem. Their planes were crashing at a rate many times higher than other airlines. In comparison‚ Korean Airlines’s crash rate was
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SHARING RESPONSIBILITY – ROLE OF LOCAL AND STATE BODIES The following ministry is assigned the responsibility of providing emergency support (i) Ministry of home affairs (ii) Ministry of health and family welfare. The officials from the health‚ irrigation water‚ sanitation‚ police and fire services department and representatives of national and international NGO’s forms that District Disaster Management committee. . The officers from the social welfare‚ health‚ water and sanitation‚ police
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monthly due registration fee. The head have to update the upcoming activities to the group or the leaders. The researcher proposed a system which allows the officials and membersso tomake it easy to organize for theYoung Entrepreneur Society (YES) to have an efficient and convenient way of communication and transaction through WEB-BASED SYSTEM OF THE SACLI YES. The system contains 6 main landing pages: HOME features the history of Young Entrepreneur Society. LOG-IN/LOG-OUTfor the administrator. VIDEO
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Tutorial 2: Introduction to Using the PicoBlaze Microcontroller 2 Xilinx Spartan-3E Project Navigator Version 14.3 Tutorial 2: Introduction to Using the PicoBlaze Microcontroller 3 Acknowledgements Parts of this tutorial are based on an earlier version written for Project Navigator version 9.2‚ written by Michael Bakker‚ Matthew Grace and Warwick Kilroy‚ as part of ENB345 – Advanced Design in 2008. Xilinx Spartan-3E Project Navigator Version 14.3 Tutorial 2: Introduction
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difficulty. As the CEO of this LCC‚ you however believe that if the airline manages to control the cost‚ your airline can survive. You therefore decide to reduce the operating expanse including the labour cost but you would avoid lay-offs. What cost reduction measures would you implement and why? In airline industry‚ the cost can break to two parts: fixed cost and variable cost. And there is very hard to cutting off of the fixed cost which is including the cost of fuel‚
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1) What are some obstacles faced by middle schools transitioning from a traditional grading system to standards-based grading? 2) How to support teachers transitioning from a traditional grading system to standards-based grading? 3) Why is standards-based grading not being used in more school districts? 4) How to transition from traditional letter grading to standards based grading in middle school? 5) How does standards-based grading improve student
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