cybersex‚ child pornography‚ identity theft‚ illegal access to data and libel.[ While hailed for penalizing illegal acts done via the Internet that were not covered by old laws‚ the act has been criticized for its provision on criminalizing libel‚ which is perceived to be a curtailment in freedom of expression. On October 9‚ 2012‚ the Supreme Court of the Philippines issued a temporary restraining order‚ stopping implementation of the Act for 120 days‚ and extended it on 5 February 2013 "until further
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Literacy rate in India: An investigation Submitted by: Nguyen Le Ngoc Thao Student NO: L9921251 Class: S71305A Teachers: Jeff and Crystal Table of contents I. Abstract page 3 II. Introduction page 3 Purpose page 3 III. Findings page 4 Finding 1 page 4 Finding 2 page 4 Finding 3 page 5 Finding 4 page 6 Finding 5 page 7 IV. Conclusion page 8 V. Recommendations page 8 Reference list page 10 I. Abstract: The report examines many reasons which caused low literacy rate and some projects which have
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I know? 1. Explain the challenges of and responses to declining birth rate • Responses: Explain how Singapore’s population policies change from the 1970s to the 21st century to meet the changing needs of society and nation. Questions a. How far do you agree that the main [most important] reason for promoting population growth from the 1980s [topic] was an ageing population [given factor]? Explain your answer. [12] (N‚ 2008) – Challenges I agree to a certain extent that
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QUESTION ONE WHY MULTINATIONALS FIRMS MUST ASSESS THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT OF COUNTRIES THEY OPERATE AND INTEND TO OPERATE IN. Multinational Corporation/Firm is a business that produces or distributes products or services in one or more foreign countries by establishing a branch or affiliate there. These multinational Corporations operate in a complex business environment. Cultural‚ social‚ economic‚ political and technological systems vary from country to country. In order to operate successfully
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Federal Reserves’ discount rate‚ monetary policy‚ and stimulus program through the money multiplier. What are the factors that would influence the Federal Reserve in adjusting the discount rate? According to Chron if prices rise too fast or the economy starts slowing down‚ the Federal Reserve uses the discount rate as a way of manipulating interest rates to stabilize the economy. This change can either increase or decrease how much you ’ll pay to borrow money. How does the discount rate affect the
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paper is to employ a vector autoregressive model to investigate the impact of stock market and saving rate on GDP growth. The result indicates that the lagged values of both stock index and saving rate don’t have influence on the current value of GDP. However‚ we find that the lagged value of stock index does have impact on saving rate. We conclude that one of the most important reason lead to this result should due to small sample size and data of saving rate still remains non-stationary under the condition
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where non-linearity and randomness are the norm‚ the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is widely accepted despite it being a linear model‚ and this is probably due to the simplicity of the model and its pre-computer age birth (see equation below). A well recognized and utilized metric in finance is beta (β)‚ which is the slope in the linear CAPM. To derive β one simply plots the returns (capital gains plus dividend yields) of an individual stock (y-axis) against the returns of a well diversified portfolio of stocks ( x-axis)
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Bonus assignment 1. For April 30‚ 2013 Federal funds rate – 0.13 Federal Reserve discount rate – (Discount window primary credit) - 0.75 For December 23‚ 2005 Federal Reserve– 4.23 Discount rate – 5.35 As we can see from the information above‚ the short-term rates have decreased since the end of 2005 (4.230.13; 5.35 0.75) 2. The schedule of minutes can be found on http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm and the press releases can be found on the News&Events
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of this practical is to investigate the effect of exercise on heart rate and breathing rate. We will use a digital heart rate monitor strapped on our chest while we perform different levels of exercise. A digital watch is also provided which receives signals from the heart rate monitor and displays your current heart rate on the screen. To measure the breathing rate at different levels of exercise‚ we measure the breathing rate before physical activity by counting the number of breaths in 10 seconds
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ON THE GROWTH RATES OF GREEN ALGAE 12‚’3 CONSTANTINE SOROKIN 4 AND ROBERT W. KRAUSS DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY-. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND‚ COLLEGE PARK‚ MARYLA‚-ND Aimong the environmental factors affectingf the growth rates of unicellular algae‚ light is frequently at an improper level. In many laboratory cultures used for physiological research the light intensity is too low to permit logarithmic growth. In nature the intensity is well above saturation and may be high enough to inhibit growth during
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