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- 231: Exporting Purell Hand Sanitize
- ... 5.5 percent. Human life expectancy is 62 years for men and 63 years for women. This compares unfavorably to China or Sri Lanka, for instance, which both have life expectancies in the 70s. Mortality rates for children have fallen significantly since 1980 (17.3% v. 8.5%), however famine and poor health care remain rampant. India spent only .7% of GDP on health care in 1990-1995, compared with 2 ... as slums. Lack of plumbing in most areas brings up another gap to which Purell Instant Hand Sanitizer could fill. STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES The strengths of India as a developing country mostly center on its increased interest in foreign direct investment as a vehicle to move their economy forward. Annual Inflation averaged of 9 percent in 1980-1997, as India over the decades has financed a lax fiscal policy with an accommodative ... the small-scale sector, remain subject to licensing, which is also being phased out. Trade policy has been cautiously liberalized, with the conversion of some import quotas into tariffs and phase reductions in import tariff rates. VI. MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS As previously mentioned, some states have issued bonds and encouraged private investment in irrigation, roads, bridges, software development, and agricultural and horticultural projects. Most manufacturing projects take place in the ...
- 232: Gender
- ... no longer worked. Family continued to be much more important to her than a job. When Mela arrived in this country, she began to take care of her grandchildren, while her husband worked. The wage rates or gaps that existed between men and women were not important to her since she completely left the labor market upon her arrival to the United States; her time became valuable in the house, not ... family as her highest priority. Mela worked because she faced the hardships and shortages that a socialist government had to offer. Mela's two daughters will be the ones possibly affected by inequality in wage rates in the United States. Mela's oldest daughter was Alla Veitsman. Alla finished ten years of school and attended college, The University of Leningrad, at the age of eighteen. Alla attended night classes in hopes ... desire a career and then a family. More women went to college and obtained degrees. But since women in this cohort actually wanted a career and not just a job, marital instability and lower fertility rates became evident during this time period. Women in this cohort were just not able to handle both a demanding career and a family. Although Alla's birth year places her in this cohort, Alla ...
- 233: Hackers
- ... to date. Activist Times, Incorporated (ATI): Unlike the other electronically distributed publications, ATI does 15 not limit itself to strictly computer/telephone news. Articles normally include commentary on world and government events, and other "general interest" topics. ATI issues are generally small and consist of articles written by a core group of four to seven people. Unlike the publications discussed thus far, ATI is available in printed "hard copy" form by ... make free long distance phone calls) is arguably an "underground" publication as it is available on some newsstands and at some libraries. Begun in 1987 as a monthly magazine, it is now published quarterly. Subscription rates are $25.00 a year with a complete back-issue selection available. The magazine specializes in publishing technical information on telephone switching systems, satellite descrambling codes, and news about the computer underground. TAP/YIPL: First ... phreakers learning hacking skills and hackers breaking into "telco" computers, reference is usually made to phreak/hacking or "p/hackers." This paper follows this convention. 29 Those who have a deeper and more technically oriented interest in the "telco" (telephone company) are known as phreakers. They, like the hackers discussed earlier, desire to master and explore a system that few outsiders really understand: The phone system is the most interesting, ...
- 234: Fraud
- ... 60,000 per case. Twelve percent of fraud is cause by owners, which on the average costs the insurance companies $1 million per case. Fraud increases the cost of Canadians everyday living. It affects bank rates, insurance rates, credit card rates, and product costs. All companies that suffer losses factor in the loss to the premium and price the consumer pays. Fraud is a white collar crime because no one physically gets hurt. The victims ...
- 235: News and Newspapers
- ... the journalist different techniques of journalism are used to accommodate the respective journalistic purpose. The quality of news is reliant on its clarity. “Clarity of News is reliant on how journalists relate it to human interest through journalistic technique” (Mencher 50). The catastrophic diminishing of blood supply on April 2/97 is reported by Toronto's three major newspapers, with vivid use of human interest in accordance to the characteristics of their readers. The Toronto Sun's article Blood supply At a Critical Low creates human interest through drama allowing for entertainment as well. The injured parties entrance to the hospital “He had massive injuries and required massive blood transfusions, Boulanger said of the man who arrived with severe chest and ...
- 236: Suicide
- ... average. Research has shown this is due to age-related illness, untreated depression, loss of importance in community, loss of finances due to retirement, and loss of a spouse or friends due to institutionalization. Suicide rates have tripled for the 15-24 age group, due to an increase in mental illness in young people, increased drug use, and availability of firearms. Gender also plays an important role. According to the National ... warning signs, although they may not be obvious. A person contemplating suicide may talk about it, might not be sleeping or eating like they did, or may withdraw from friends and family. They may lose interest in work or in their hobbies. They may give away things, which are their prized possessions. A person thinking about killing him or herself may be preoccupied with death, or speak of worthlessness and hopelessness. They may be signs of increased drug use, or a lack of interest in their appearance. Prevention of suicide involves, not only removing guns and pills, or other methods of harming one self, but treating the mental illness or the substance abuse problem. Telephone suicide-prevention hotlines ...
- 237: Aquinas And Hobbes
- ... rules to protect them. Hobbes states that reason will tell us that we need to do something to insure our survival and that we should attempt to secure peace because that is in our self-interest. He believe that we will secure peace through a social contract in which each individual in the society transfers his/her collective strength to a sovereign authority which Hobbes calls the Leviathan. To Hobbes, the ... This equality means that anyone has the capability to kill everyone else. This is important because it means that everyone has something to fear, and this fear drives us to act in our own self-interest by seeking peace. The second condition is equality of prudence. This means that everyone in the scenario has the same ability to learn from their experience. May proposes that this learning from experience allows us to use reason to pursue our own self interest. He proposes that this first two conditions led to the third condition of equality of hope. The equality of strength and ability means that each person has an equal hope of surviving, and this ...
- 238: Serial Killer: Ted Bundy
- ... well respected in high school and maintained a high grade point average. Although he became more confident and popular with the transition from junior high to high school, he did not date and took little interest in the opposite sex. His interests lay in politics and skiing. After Ted graduated from high school in 1965, he won a scholarship to the University of Puget Sound and later transferred to the University of Washington. There he began an intensive interest in Chinese and his interests for politics bloomed. Although Ted maintained a high grade point average, he was less consistent with his jobs. He took low paying, entry level jobs to pay for school. His ... the University of Washington in 1968 and broke of her relationship with Ted. It was something that he never got over. Depressed over the break up he dropped out of school. He had trouble keeping interest in anything after his true love left him. They kept in touch through letters, but Stephanie made it clear she did not want to be together. This break up would lead to a spiraling ...
- 239: Invisible Man
- ... wrote was the Prologue and the Epilogue, thus his most developed state of character lies within the pages of this final part of text. In this study, the character who writes the novel is of interest, not the character who lives the novel. Because of this the study will focus on the Prologue and the Epilogue. According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., " ‘Race,’ in much of the thinking about the proper ... over it, like a garrison in a conquered city.(18) Thus, civilization has lost its mastery over the invisible man because he feels the need "to strike out" with his fists. A second point of interest while pursuing a Freudian critique comes on page fourteen, where the invisible man says, "I was the irresponsible one; for I should have used my knife to protect the higher interests of society."(19) This ... the darkness and the cave in which he lives. These two images are important to his unconscious mind, and Jung sees their existence as an indicator of a rebirth to come. The next line of interest to this Jungian interpretation shows signs of the rebirth Jung predicted. In the Epilogue, the invisible man says, "The hibernation is over."(28) It is important to note that Jung believes: Rebirth is not ...
- 240: Computer Mediated Evnvironments
- ... Web-based advertising? One perspective on evaluating the effectiveness of Web-based advertising relates to advertising objectives. The most common framework for thinking about objectives is the classic “hierarchy of effects” model, or AIDA, Awareness - Interest - Desire - Action. Are these appropriate objectives for Web-based advertising? How should a site visit be counted? Conventional measures of “eyeballs,” i.e. exposure are not really useful because users jump quickly from one “page” of hypertext to another as well as from one site to another. At the same time, better measures of “interest” can be obtained from “clickstream” data which record the flow of a user’s mouse clicks through a site and between sites. A person who clicks on an ad at a site, moving to the site sponsored by the advertiser, and going through several pages of hypertext at the site produces a quantitative measure of interest. In addition, there has been a considerable amount of econometric work in the area of evaluating advertising effectiveness and advertising carryover effects. These models have tended to focus on sales or market share as ...
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