...Down’s Syndrome Sociology of Disability Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal abnormality in humans. Down syndrome is called a few different names like Down’s syndrome and trisomy 21. It is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. Down syndrome is normally connected with growth delays, some intellectual disability and characteristic facial features. An average young adult living with Down syndrome has the mental age of an eight or nine year old child. The average intelligence quotient in a young adult with Down syndrome is fifty. Individuals living with Down’s syndrome also have a learning disability, which impairs their education. Every person is different and this can change from individual to individual. Babies born with Down syndrome are more likely to have certain heart defects or childhood leukemia. It is believed that Down syndrome has always existed. In 1866 an English doctor named John Langdon Down first published a description of the condition. The condition was named after him several years later. It was not until 1959 that Professor Lejeune proved that Down syndrome is actually a chromosomal irregularity and that the individuals with Down syndrome had forty-seven chromosomes where there are normally forty-six. Down’s syndrome affects people of all different races, ages, and economic background. People living with Down syndrome usually need to have a certain order. Many individuals need a certain routine...
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...Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Analysis for problems associated with using models 1 2.1. Model error 1 2.1.1. Wrong or simplifying assumptions 1 2.1.2. Over dependence on historical data 3 2.1.3. Black swans 4 2.2. Implementing a model wrongly 4 3. Improvements of the usage of models 5 4. Conclusion 7 1. Introduction The financial sector plays crucial roles that mobilize savings and allocate credit in economic performance. In recent years, there has been significant technological development within the financial sector, which has enable banks to effectively manage their internal risk through the application of risk models. The use of models to measure risks is the preferred approach by most banks, for example Goldman Sachs applies the Value at Risk model. However, according to Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (2011, p1), “the expanding use of models in all aspects of banking reflects the extent to which models can improve business decisions, but models also come with costs”. Besides, in a recent study (Jorion 2009), it is argued that many financial institutions experienced large losses over the past few decades due to limitations of using sophisticated models. Therefore, it is essential for Andrew Bank Ltd. to have an in-depth understanding of disadvantages relating to using models and solutions to improve these model risks. 2. Analysis for problems associated with using models ...
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...1829) died after six months of being born. When Mark was four years old his family moved to the city Hannibal in Missouri also known as the “slave state” where he was raised. Also Mark noticed the institution of slavery, which was a topic he would use in his writing later in the future. Mark’s father John Marshall Clemens died on March 24, 1847 of pneumonia when he was 11. His father was a local judge and attorney. Soon after his father passed away he became a printers apprentice for a newspaper owned by his brother Orion. He would work on the Hannibal Journal as a typesetter. Later at the age of eighteen he left Hannibal, Missouri to work as a printer in New York City and other states. He also joined the union and studied in public libraries when he could and learning more in the libraries than he could at school. When he was twenty two Mark returned to Hannibal, Missouri. When Mark was on a Voyage to New Orleans going down the Mississippi Mark was inspired be a steamboat pilot Horace Bixby to become a steamboat pilot himself. Two years later Mark received his steamboat license and became a steamboat pilot which gave two hundred and fifty dollars a month which would be around seventy three thousand dollars a year in the...
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...INTRODUCTION Purpose/Justification Problems related to reading comprehension have been besetting both private and public educational institutions all over the country. In the Philippine setting evidences revealed that 2009, 2010 and 2011 NAT results exemplified that the second year students struggled much on reading comprehension as shown by the three mean percentage scores in English subject. In particular, the mean percentage scores of Macario B. Asistio Sr. High School—Unit I for the school years 2008-2009; 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 are 43.11, 36.57 and 36.60 respectively (Department of Educational Testing and Research Center, 2009; 2010; 2011). Likewise, comprehension related studies conducted locally have verified and supported that the students showed difficulty in reading comprehension (Columna, 2013; Ayles, 2009 and Dela Cruz, 2004). In a study conducted by Columna (2013), results revealed that the students were struggling to comprehended texts in their L2 with majority of them fall under instructional level and a significant of them fall under frustration level. In the same manner, Dela Cruz (2004) found that the students in the secondary level have difficulties in reading materials in the content areas especially in Mathematics and Science. The researcher posits that these comprehension problems have rooted from the questioning pedagogical strategy employed by the teachers. Chin (2002) found that questions, particularly those asked in response to wonderment, stimulate...
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...Analysis of the Denver International Airport baggage system Michael Schloh Dan Stearns, advisor Title Abstract Contents Introduction Reasons For Automation Functionality Of Original BAE Design Problems and Solutions System Complexity Comparative Functionality Opening Delays Financial Hardship Summary Glossary References THE DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AUTOMATED BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM by Michael Schloh Computer Science Department School of Engineering California Polytechnic State University 1996 Date Submitted: February 16, 1996 Advisor: Daniel Stearns ABSTRACT This document discusses events at the new Denver International Airport that resulted in opening delays of the airport. The scope is limited to the automated baggage handling system, which was the primary source of failure warranting the airport's several opening delays. Analysis of the failing system is comprehensive. Research is conducted using a variety of sources. The final report is published on the worldwide web. CONTENTS Introduction 1 Reasons For Automation 2 Functionality Of Original BAE Design 3 Problems and Solutions 6 System Complexity 12 Comparative Functionality 14 Opening Delays 15 Financial Hardship 17 Summary 19 Glossary 20 References 21 INTRODUCTION This research concerns the automated baggage handling system which was built by BAE Automated Systems, Incorporated of Carrollton, Texas for the Denver International Airport. The analysis of this system provides an important topic of study. From the baggage...
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...PROTECT CHILDREN NOT GUNS 2012 THIS REPORT IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF TRAYVON MARTIN AND THE THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS KILLED BY GUNS EACH YEAR IN AMERICA. Children’s Defense Fund Mission Statement T he Children’s Defense Fund Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a strong, effective and independent voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby or speak for themselves. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive investments before they get sick, drop out of school, get into trouble or suffer family breakdown. CDF began in 1973 and is a private, nonprofit public charity supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations. © 2012 Children’s Defense Fund. All rights reserved. Table of Contents Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Stand Up and Take Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Child and Teen Gun Deaths . . . . . . . . . ....
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...September 2013 Mobile Learning: Transforming Education, Engaging Students, and Improving Outcomes Darrell M. West INTRODUCTION E Darrell M. West is vice president and director of Governance Studies and holds the Douglas Dillon Chair. He is founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings. West’s studies include technology policy, electronic government, and mass media. ducation is at a critical juncture in the United States. It is vital for workforce development and economic prosperity, yet is in need of serious reform. American education was designed for agrarian and industrial eras, and does not provide all the skills needed for a 21st century economy.1 This creates major problems for young people about to enter the laborforce. Mobile learning represents a way to address a number of our educational problems. Devices such as smart phones and tablets enable innovation and help students, teachers, and parents gain access to digital content and personalized assessment vital for a post-industrial world. Mobile devices, used in conjunction with near universal 4G/3G wireless connectivity, are essential tools to improve learning for students. As noted by Irwin Jacobs, the founding chairman of Qualcomm, Inc., “always on, always connected mobile devices in the hands of students has the potential to dramatically improve educational outcomes.”2 This paper, part of our Mobile Economy Project, looks at ways that mobile devices with cellular connectivity...
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...A R T I C L E www.hbr.org THINKING ABOUT … The Hidden Traps in Decision Making by John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary The Idea in Brief—the core idea The Idea in Practice—putting the idea to work The Hidden Traps in Decision Making Further Reading A list of related material, with annotations to guide further exploration of the article’s ideas and applications 2 11 Product 5408 THINKING ABOUT … The Hidden Traps in Decision Making The Idea in Brief Making business decisions is your most crucial job—and your riskiest. New product development, mergers and acquisitions, executive hirings—bad decisions about any of these can ruin your company and your career. Where do bad decisions come from? Mostly from distortions and biases—a whole series of mental flaws—that sabotage our reasoning. We all fall right into these psychological traps because they’re unconscious—hardwired into the way we all think. Though we can’t get rid of them, we can learn to be alert to them and compensate for them—monitoring our decision making so that our thinking traps don’t cause judgment disasters. The Idea in Practice The higher the stakes of your decision, the higher the risk of getting caught in a thinking trap. Worse, these traps can amplify one another—compounding flaws in our reasoning. Here are five of the nine traps: Avoiding the Trap: • Get views of people...
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...Nokia has detailed many personality characteristics for its brand, but employees do not have to remember every characteristic. They do, however, have to remember the overall impression of the list of attributes, as you would when thinking about someone you have met. As the focus is on customer relationships, the Nokia personality is like a trusted friend. Building friendship and trust is at the heart of the Nokia brand. And the human dimension created by the brand personality carries over into the positioning strategy for the brand. Nokia Positioning When Nokia positions its brand in the crowded mobile phone marketplace, its message must clearly bring together the technology and human side of its offer in a powerful way. The specific message that is conveyed to consumers in every advertisement and market communication (though not necessarily in these words) is "Only Nokia Human Technolgy enables you to get more out of life" In many cases, this is represented by the tag line, "We call this human technology". This gives consumers a sense of trust and consideration by the company, as though to say that Nokia understand what they want in life, and how it can help. And it knows that technology is really only an enabler so that you-the customer-can enjoy a better life. Nokia thus uses a combination of aspirational, benefit-based, emotional features, and competition-driven positioning strategies. It owns the "human" dimension of mobile communications, leaving its competitors wondering...
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...English Language Proficiency Assessment in the Nation: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PRACTICE Edited by Jamal Abedi U N I V E R S I T Y O F C A L I F O R N I A , D AV I S • S C H O O L O F E D U C A T I O N Copyright © 2007 The Regents of the University of California The work reported herein was supported in part by the National Research and Development Centers, PR/Award Number R305A050004, as administered by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The findings and opinions expressed in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of the Institute of Education Sciences, or the U.S. Department of Education. T his study required the participation of all fifty states, their assessment directors, particularly those involved with the NCLB Title III assessments. Their cooperation and patience is much appreciated, and their dedication to educating young people is greatly admired. We cannot thank the states enough for their collaboration with this project. Many people generously contributed to the development of this report. We are especially indebted to the chapter authors for their invaluable contributions and for their patience throughout this process. Sue Rigney from the U.S. Department of Education contributed greatly to the quality of this work by providing excellent comments and suggestions. We are so grateful for her support, advice and contribution to this report. Kathleen Leos of the U.S....
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...Legal Studies Research Paper Series Research Paper No. 07 - 25 E-marriage: Breaking the Marriage Monopoly Adam Candeub Mae Kuykendall This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1491704 Candeub-Kuykendall: Draft. Do Not Cite or Quote Without Permission E-MARRIAGE: BREAKING THE MARRIAGE MONOPOLY Adam Candeub and Mae Kuykendall ∗ ABSTRACT: This Article advocates updating the law governing marriage formation to recognize the shift in social interactions from real to virtual life. We argue that couples can use internet communications not only to marry when separated by great distance but also to choose which state’s laws will authorize their marriage. In particular, same sex couples could marry under the laws of a state that permit such unions, regardless of where they exchange vows. States inadvertently have created geographic monopolies, requiring each marriage receiving the benefits of their licensing laws to be performed within their borders. This Article’s model builds upon established precedents, such as proxy marriage and choice of law for multijurisdictional and internet contracts. Using the power of internet communications, our proposal allows states to compete over marriage’s procedures and substance. Depending on a couple’s preferences for “e-ritual” and a state’s desired level of regulatory control, couples could consume the trappings of a traditional ceremony...
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...[pic] RATIO ANALYSIS A PROJECT REPORT UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF MISS. CHHAYA CHAVDA (INCHARGE) SUBMITTED BY Patel Arpita A. ROLL NO. 520910160 IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MBA IN FINANCE [pic] [pic] [pic] BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE Certified that this project report titled “Ratio Analysis” is the bonafide work of Patel Arpita Arunbhai who carried out the project work under my supervision. SIGNATURE SIGNATURE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT FACULTY IN CHARGE PREFACE Any industrial training is very helpful aid to get idea about management and working of the industrial undertaking. MBA is one of the master courses which has its own unique role clarify likely others. But unlike the other professional courses one of its basic requisite for the students of IV semester MBA during the study terms is to undertake practical training in any one public limited industry. From this industrial training, I can visualize that there is much difference between theory and practical life. After training period, we have good management student. The industrial training is very important for MBA program. In industry or company, there are many problem arises. Often during the time period of industry training, I come to know that how successful management team solves this entire problem. Thus, I visited KAIRA DISTRICT CO-OPERATIVE MILK PRODUCER UNION LIMITED...
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...Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Journal of Interactive Marketing 23 (2009) 61 – 69 www.elsevier.com/locate/intmar Probability Models for Customer-Base Analysis Peter S. Fadera,⁎ & Bruce G.S. Hardieb a 749 Huntsman Hall, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 3730 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340, USA b London Business School, UK Abstract As more firms begin to collect (and seek value from) richer customer-level datasets, a focus on the emerging concept of customer-base analysis is becoming increasingly common and critical. Such analyses include forward-looking projections ranging from aggregate-level sales trajectories to individual-level conditional expectations (which, in turn, can be used to derive estimates of customer lifetime value). We provide an overview of a class of parsimonious models (called probability models) that are well-suited to meet these rising challenges. We first present a taxonomy that captures some of the key distinctions across different kinds of business settings and customer relationships, and identify some of the unique modeling and measurement issues that arise across them. We then provide deeper coverage of these modeling issues, first for noncontractual settings (i.e., situations in which customer “death” is unobservable), then contractual ones (i.e., situations in which customer “death” can be observed). We review recent literature in these areas, highlighting substantive insights that arise from the...
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...Universidad de la Sabana Escuela Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas Mercadeo 2013 – 2 Case 4: From “Expect More” To “pay Less” Agosto 23 - 2013 * Camila Andrea Pinzón Gómez 201213506 WHAT IS ALL THIS CASE ABOUT? The principal idea of the case is examine Target, a discount retailer who was always known for their ‘cheap chic’, “Expect More, Pay Less” value proposition. The evaluation between BACKGROUND: Target Corporation originally the Dayton Dry Goods Company and later the Dayton Hudson Corporation, 1902–61: 1902: Dayton Dry Goods Company was founded in 1902 by George Draper Dayton, a banker who built his wealth by buying farm mortgages in southwest Minnesota and an active member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in downtown Minneapolis 1903: In 1902, Dayton, looking for tenants, convinced Reuben Simon Goodfellow Company to move its nearby Goodfellows department store into his newly erected building. Goodfellow retired and sold his interest in the store to Dayton.[8] The store's name was changed to the Dayton Dry Goods Company in 1903, later being changed to the Dayton Company in 1911. Dayton, who had no prior retail experience yet maintained connections as a banker, held tight control of the company and ran it as a family enterprise. The store was ran on strict Presbyterian guidelines, which forbade the selling of alcohol and any kind of business activity--opening the store, advertising, and business travel--on Sundays. It refused to advertise...
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...……………………………………………………………………………………11 Socioculture……………………………………………………………………………………...14 Demographics……………………………………………………………………………..……..15 Economic Environment………………………………………………………………………….17 Political, Legal Environment…………………………………………………………………….18 Technological Environment……………………………………………………………………...19 Competitive Environment………………………………………………………………………..20 Industry Analysis………………………………………………………………………………...21 Summary of Opportunities and Threats………………………………………………………….24 Internal Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………29 Personal Issues…………………………………………………………………………………...33 Organizational Structure…………………………………………………………………………33 Culture……………………………………………………………………………………………34 Marketing Issues…………………………………………………………………………………34 Financial Issues…………………………………………………………………………………..35 Technology, R&D, and IS Issues………………………………………………………………...36 Production and Operation Issues………………………………………………………………...38 Summary of Strengths and Weaknesses…………………………………………………………39 Review Current Mission, Objectives, Strategies………………………………………………...42 Revised Strategies and Objectives……………………………………………………………….43 Alternative Strategies…………………………………………………………………………….44 Discussion of TOWS Analysis…………………………………………………………………..46 Discussion of BCG Matrix……………………………………………………………………….48 Recommended Objectives and Strategies………………………………………………………..48 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….49 References………………………………………………………………………………………..50 Appendices……………………………………………………………………………………….53 EXCUTIVE SUMMARY Yahoo! is a digital...
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