Check Your Understanding Week 5 (ANSWERS) o Chapter 9: Problems 3‚ 4‚ and 5 3. Electrical generation study of 56 British firms: a. VC = AVC(Q) VC = 1.24Q + .0033Q2 + .0000029Q3 − .000046Q2Z − .026QZ + .00018QZ2 b. MC = 1.24 + .0066Q + .0000087Q2 − .000092QZ − .026Z + .00018Z2 c. Z = 150(thousand) kilowatts SRAVC = 1.24 + .0033Q + .0000029Q2 − .000046Q(150) − .026(150) + .00018(150)2 SRAVC = 1.39 − .0036Q + .0000029Q2 SRMC = 1.24 + .0066Q + .0000087Q2 − .000092Q(150) −
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English Comp 1 4/21/12 Popular Culture in Rap Music The history of rap music started in Africa with rhythmic beats using drums. From Africa to the Caribbean islands it came to America and started its influential change on American Music. The first rap song to take flight and make its mark on the up and coming rap culture was the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979. In 1986 rap music finally reached the top of the music charts and was show on MTV for the first time featuring Run-DMC. Continuing to change
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Week Five Individual Assignment University of Phoenix TECH/401 Human Factors in Technology January 10‚ 2012 Companies now more than ever are able to utilize technology to be able to one ensure that the company’s values and ethics are readily available to their employees and two technologies provide tools for managers to enforce company policies in relation to ethics. Companies use tools such as Microsoft Share point as well as an internal Intranet for posting its values and ethics making
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According to Haller (2012) “Effective training also contributes to your employee retention‚ especially if these individuals learn what they really need to be successful in their jobs and if they earn rewards for their new knowledge”. Human resources use numerous techniques to ensure training is effective and development is imminent. The training consists of learning it‚ showing what was learned‚ proving that the individual can do the task on their own‚ and lastly earning it which ends in development (Haller
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POWERPOINT: SLIDE 1: Title Slide CONTRACTUALIZATION SLIDE 2: Contractualization or labor contractualization is the replacing of regular workers with temporary workers who receive lower wages with no or less benefits Contractuals‚ trainees‚ apprentices‚ helpers‚ casuals‚ piece raters‚ agency-hired‚ and project employees‚ among others A specified and limited period of time “desirable and necessary” SLIDE 3: ADVANTAGES ADVANTAGES and DISADVANTAGES: 1. Cost efficiency 2. Avoid labor unions
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ENGLISH 4U ACTIVE READING NOTES While you read your chosen novels and other relevant material you should be keeping notes. The goal is to jot down ideas and thoughts as you are reading‚ thus making the process active. You should write something every time you read. Your instinct may be to write your opinion of what you have read. While this is okay to include in reading notes‚ reserve these comments for your reading log. Your active reading notes should be of more substance in order to
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between genders‚ we live in a society in which women have become an object. With morality and ethics on the ground‚ the objectification of women has been promoted for several years. For example‚ unfortunately‚ it has become so daily to think of women
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Culture creates who we are as individuals; it guides us in making every day choices and gives us a foundation on which to live our life’s and to run others. Our culture sets us aside from others‚ making us unique to the eye and to the heart. It gives us values to set the norms we live by‚ the capability to communicate and the drive to create the technology of which we use day by day. So what exactly is Culture? Culture is basically a human’s society’s total way of life; which is learned and shared
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the pros and cons of powerpoint Student : Outline: I. Introduction II. Pros and Cons : 1. Pros : * Catch audience’s attention * Easy to follow * Able to review 2. Cons : * Too shorted * Focus too much on the slide show * Wasted time I. Introduction: PowerPoint is presentation software that is part of the Microsoft Office suite of productivity programs. PowerPoint is designed to allow people to create a series of single-page slides that contain information
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In the poem called “Five Ways to Kill a Man‚” by Edwin Brock‚ the poet indicates five different ways to kill a man by using history to relate the topic. A woman named Gerda Hoogenboom said‚ “The key to understanding the poem is to look at the setting of each stanza. Then‚ the rest follows” (Plagiarist Poetry Archive). By going through time and using various poetry techniques‚ Brock was able to get his point across to the reader in his poem. In Brock’s poem‚ there are five stanzas and each of them
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