...Infinity The first Chapter of “To Infinity and Beyond” by Kent A. Bessey discusses the concept of infinity and how it went from a concept to a noun. The first point made is that the number of even positive real numbers is equal to the number of positive real numbers. Basically, with an infinite amount of something, you can split it up into infinite piles and still have an infinite amount in each pile. On a cosmic scale this is interesting to me. If the Universe is truly infinite then there is no center of the Universe, and our galaxy doesn’t even make up a portion of the universe. If the Universe is not infinite, when you stand at the edge of the universe and extend your hand, where does it go? This chapter continues with a discussion of...
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...INTRODUCTION A mirror is an object that reflects light or sound in a way that preserves much of its original quality prior to its contact with the mirror. Some mirrors also filter out some wavelengths, while preserving other wavelengths in the reflection. This is different from other light-reflecting objects that do not preserve much of the original wave signal other than color and diffuse reflected light. The most familiar type of mirror is the plane mirror, which has a flat surface. Curved mirrors are also used, to produce magnified or diminished images or focus light or simply distort the reflected image (“Mungan,” 1999). Geometrical optics, or ray optics, describes light propagation in terms of "rays". The "ray" in geometric optics is an abstraction, or "instrument", which can be used to approximately model how light will propagate. Geometrical optics provides rules, which may depend on the color (wavelength) of the ray, for propagating these rays through an optical system. This is a significant simplification of optics that fails to account for optical effects such as diffraction and interference. It is an excellent approximation, however, when the wavelength is very small compared with the size of structures with which the light interacts (“Hecht,” 1987). Glossy surfaces such as mirrors reflect light in a simple, predictable way. This allows for production of reflected images that can be associated with an actual (real) or extrapolated (virtual)...
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...Values | In what ways do you see members of the leadership team communicating a strategic vision and a set of actionable values for the school? Please reference Bambrick’s “Leverage Leadership” DVD, Section 5, Student Culture Rubric 4A. | Infinity: The use of the culture rubric to identify how staff is performing. This rubric is normed by leadership team and then given to staff members in order to improve their practice. Hallways have signs reminding scholars of hallway behavior and why it is important to success. Leaders are visible in the hallways and interact with scholars when they do not comply.Laureate: Clear routines and procedures are in place and are the same across every classroom. School leader leads breakfast and lunch—sending the message that these routines and procedures are important enough for him to be involved. | What are the expectation messages about students? Do the adults in the school appear to understand and share the belief that all students can learn and achieve at high levels? If so, what is the leader doing to feed and nourish that belief? If not, what is the leader doing to examine or change that belief? Please reference Bambrick’s “Leverage Leadership” DVD, Section 5, Student Culture Rubric 4A. | Infinity: it is messaged through out the school that college preparation is the key. There are motivational signs through out the building that encourage working hard in order to get smart to build a better world and to get to college. The school...
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...thousand dollars to spend on the vehicle. Lease or finance are two main options if you don’t have a lot of cash available to spend on the car. I have chosen the BMW and Infinity dealership to do my analysis. I picked two similar cars form the both dealerships: X5 xDrive35i Sport Activity from BMW and Infiniti FX50 from Infinity dealership. After analyzing financing and leasing options, there is no clear answer on whether to finance or lease a vehicle. It basically all depends on how much money you have, how many miles you drive, how long you want to keep your car for and etc. BMW offers 0.9% APR for 24 month and 3.9% for 25-60 month with $0 down payment to finance the X5 xDrive35i Sport Activity. The price of the vehicle is $57,700. It’s approximately $1,700 per month for 36 months. The lease option is $699 per month for 36 months with $3,000 down payment, $725 acquisition fee, and $4,424 cash is due at signing. The total lease payment is $25,164. At the end of the lease, lessee will be liable for disposition fee ($350.00), any excess wear and use as set forth in the lease agreement and excess mileage charges of $0.20 per mile for miles driven in excess of 30,000 miles. Purchase option at lease end for $33,866 excludes taxes. After talking to the dealer for 15minutes, he offered me to lower my down payment. Infinity offers 1.9% APR for up to 36 months and 2.9% up to 72 month with $0 down...
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...prosper, with absolutely no regard for its host. It makes sense that people couldn't speak about it — it's not easy to commiserate about a nightmare. And yet, human instinct tells us to band together to fight our enemies, even on the cellular level. Gradually, with scientific breakthroughs and education, cancer became less of a mum word and more of a buzzword. Hollywood jumped on the drama surrounding the disease, and soon films like Terms of Endearment and Beaches were keeping tissue companies in business. Novels and magazine articles highlighted survivor stories; television started adding characters afflicted with illness. Even Sex and the City's carousing Samantha had her share of chemo. In recent years, the trend has gone one step beyond talking about cancer — the goal now, at least for pop culture, is to find the humor in it. Fortunately, John Green is the kind of writer to deliver it. John Green is the New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. John Green is the New York Times best-selling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns. Ton Koene Green writes books for young adults, but his voice is so compulsively readable that it defies categorization. He writes for youth, rather than to them, and the...
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...1 Describe the difference between distance-vector and link-state dynamic routing protocols. Give an example of each. Distance vector routing is so named because it involves two factors: the distance, or metric, of a destination, and the vector, or direction to take to get there. Routing information is only exchanged between directly connected neighbors. This means a router knows from which neighbor a route was learned, but it does not know where that neighbor learned the route; a router can't see beyond its own neighbors. This aspect of distance vector routing is sometimes referred to as "routing by rumor." Measures like split horizon and poison reverse are employed to avoid routing loops. Link-state routing, in contrast, requires that all routers know about the paths reachable by all other routers in the network. Link-state information is flooded throughout the link-state domain (an area in OSPF or IS-IS) to ensure all routers poses a synchronized copy of the area's link-state database. From this common database, each router constructs its own relative shortest-path tree, with itself as the root, for all known routes. A Comparison: Link State vs. Distance Vector If all routers were running a Distance Vector protocol, the path or 'route' chosen would be from A B directly over the ISDN serial link, even though that link is about 10 times slower than the indirect route from A C D B. [pic] A Link State protocol would choose the A C D B path because it's using a...
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...hands shaking as they dangle over its frail wings. Like you, it’s broken, fragmented. Like you again, it’s alone, left to roam the world in a never-ending solitude. Its outline is jagged, angular, from the protruding bones which have been weathered away to an argent hue. The translucent film covering the skeleton conceals nothing at all. The thestral seems incomplete, as if something has been lost and can never be retrieved. Even the wings, its supposed sign of power, look as if they’ll simply flutter away in the whirls of wind. Thoughts of Mother tend to fade away then. It seems as if when you look at it you realise that you are, perhaps, as insubstantial as everything else in the world. One day, you will be lost in the obscurity of infinity, a mere blot in the world’s life but for this second you...
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...moving to any kind of change, not just change of place. So, if the whole chain of moving things had no first mover, it could not now be moving, as it is. If there were an infinite regress of movers with no first mover, no motion could ever begin, and if it never began, it could not go on and exist now. But it does go on, it does exist now. Therefore it began, and therefore there is a first mover. God is simple, without composition of parts, such as body and soul, or matter and form. God is perfect, lacking nothing. That is, God is distinguished from other beings on account of God's complete actuality. God is not finite in the ways that created beings are physically, intellectually, and emotionally limited. This infinity is to be distinguished from infinity of size and infinity of number. God is unchallengeable, incapable of...
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...Pixar Contents Pushing for Computer Animated Films Boosting the Creative Component Becoming Accomplished Storytellers Pumping Out the Hits To infinity and beyond? Contents KEY POINT Year: 2009 Pixar: a successful studio (animation)firm Disney V.S Pixar Important person: Bob Iger/Steve Jobs/Edwin E.Catmull/ John Lasseter Disney CEO Bob Iger worked hard to clinch the deal to acquire Pixar(one of the world’s most successful animation companies.2006) Steve Jobs make a deal with Disney to split the profits, ticket sales ,video sales , and merchandising royalties . Iger and Jobs try to protect Pixar’s creative culture . Pixar has continued to operate independently of Disney’s own animation studios ,its key talent has overseen combined activities of both Disney and Pixar. In order to ensure that Pixar manages to preserve its freewheeling entrepreneurial culture ,Jobs sits on a committee to protect its unique approach to making movies. Pixar remains committed to making films that are original in concept and execution despite the risks involved. Pushing for Computer Animated Films Boosting the Creative Component Pixar continued to develop computer animation technology. Steve jobs understood after Toy Story, that it would be the marriage of technology and creativity that would allow Pixar to rise above most of it’s competition. Catmull has built the creative innovation by creating programs to develop the employees. Employees are encouraged to devote up...
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...Proton R&D Plan Storage Ring EDM Collaboration, 18 Nov. 2009 7. Spin Coherence Time (C.J.G. Onderwater) Overview The sensitivity with which an EDM can be sought for is to a good approximation given by sd ∝ 1 PE N T tot A Here P is the (transverse) polarization of the beam at the time of injection, E the effective electric field, N the number of particles stored per fill, Ttot the total running time of the experiment, τ a characteristic time scale and A the analyzing power of the polarimeter. The characteristic timescale depends on the lifetime of the beam in the storage ring, tbeam, which is predominantly determined by the extraction towards the polarimeter, and the polarization lifetime tpol. Given a polarization lifetime the former can be tuned to yield optimal sensitivity, typically tbeam≈2tpol. In this case τ is proportional to tpol. The sensitivity is thus inversely proportional to (the square-root of) the polarization lifetime. Maximization of tpol thus optimizes the sensitivity of the experiment. The proposed experimental sensitivity is based on a projected polarization lifetime of 1000 seconds, i.e. 108−109 particle revolutions. Such lifetimes are routinely achieved for the polarization component perpendicular to the beam orbit plane, i.e. parallel to the invariant spin field. This relies on the use of snakes, spin rotators, etc. Little experience is available with transversely polarized beams. Notable examples are the muon g-2 experiment at BNL...
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...The cosmological argument (i) Examine the view that the cosmological argument provides an explanation for the world and is a trustworthy basis for belief in the existence of God. (21) The cosmological argument, also known as the first cause argument, is a classical argument for the existence of God. The word cosmological comes from the Greek for order and it is an inductive argument as the premises are true but the conclusion may not be, and it is also synthetic where the truth is determined by experience and needs to be proven. It is also a posteriori and also based on natural theology. The Cosmological argument finds its answer for the start of the universe through causes, meaning everything is caused by something, or everything is dependent on something else. The argument attempts to find proof for God’s existence stating that as something cannot come from nothing God must exist in order for anything and everything else to exist. The origins of the cosmological argument come from Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. Plato 428-347 BC records one of the earliest versions of the Cosmological arguments in his book of ‘Laws’. Plato writes about the argument through an exchange between an Athenian and Clianis. The Athenian attempts to prove the existence of the gods by arguing that, of all the different types of motion, the motion “which can move itself” is “necessarily the earliest and mightiest of all changes”. It is clear from his argument that infinite regress...
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...How Descartes Use Methodological Skepticism to Articulate a Foundationalist Conception of Knowledge Descartes is the first modern philosopher who rejects Aristotelianism and starts foundationalism, which is of great controversy but extreme importance in modern philosophy. In Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes utilizes methodological skepticism to present the foundationalist conception of knowledge, in which a belief can only be considered knowledge when it is based on basic principles, or principles that are justified without appealing to any external ideas or facts. Under the methodological skepticism, a person can test a belief by asking the question “Could it be false?” If the answer is “Yes,” the belief is not necessarily true and is not considered knowledge. This is the perfect tool for presenting a foundationalist conception of knowledge, unless there is an omnipotent being who can deceive people to think wrongly about these basic principles. Therefore, the existence of an omnipotent God and proof that God is not a deceiver is then presented in order to reject all doubts about the foundationalist conception of knowledge. A foundationalist conception of knowledge is a conception of academic discipline: one can only trust real knowledge that is based on basic principles. If a principle is wrong sometimes or is possibly wrong, it is not basic. If the principle is self-evident, showing its own truth, or is justified without appealing to any external ideas or facts...
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...that preoccupied all of us in the 1970s afflict only CRAY X-MPs — J90s now. Now atrophy threatens features of IEEE 754 caught in a vicious circle: Those features lack support in programming languages and compilers, so those features are mishandled and/or practically unusable, so those features are little known and less in demand, and so those features lack support in programming languages and compilers. To help break that circle, those features are discussed in these notes under the following headings: Representable Numbers, Normal and Subnormal, Infinite and NaN Encodings, Span and Precision Multiply-Accumulate, a Mixed Blessing Exceptions in General; Retrospective Diagnostics Exception: Invalid Operation; NaNs Exception: Divide by Zero; Infinities Digression on Division by Zero; Two Examples Exception: Overflow Exception: Underflow Digression on Gradual...
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...Internet user base was an estimated 9 lakh; it was expected to reach 90 lakh by 2003. Also, while only 1% of these Internet users utilized the Internet banking services in 1998, the Internet banking user base increased to 16.7% by mid- 2000. Many of the major banks like ICICI, HDFC, IndusInd, IDBI, Citibank, Global Trust Bank (GTB), Bank of Punjab and UTI were offering Internet banking services. Based on the above statistics and the analysts' comments that India had a high growth potential for Internet banking, the players focused on increasing and improving their Internet banking services. As a part of this, the banks began to collaborate with various utility companies to enable the customers to perform various functions online. ICICI's 'Infinity,' which was already a leader in the Indian Internet banking arena, began to allow its customers to pay their online real time shopping bills. HDFC, through its 'payment gateway' feature, allowed its Internet banking customers to make online and real time payments for their purchases. | | | HDFC also entered into tie-ups with various portals to provide these business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce transactions. Centurion bank acquired an equity stake in the teauction.com portal to bring together buyers, sellers, suppliers, registered brokers and...
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...See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228180753 Arcadian Microarray Technologies, Inc. ARTICLE · OCTOBER 2008 READS 516 2 AUTHORS, INCLUDING: Robert F. Bruner University of Virginia 287 PUBLICATIONS 1,490 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Available from: Robert F. Bruner Retrieved on: 25 January 2016 Username: TO ACCESS THIS DOCUMENT This is a protected document. The first two pages are available for everyone to see, but only faculty members who have verified faculty status with Darden Business Publishing are able to view this entire inspection copy. Submit VERIFIED FACULTY If you have verified faculty status with Darden Business Publishing, simply enter the same username that you use on the Darden Business Publishing Web site, and then click “Submit.” Please note that this is an inspection copy and is not for classroom use. Faculty Register UNVERIFIED FACULTY If you are teaching faculty and do not yet have verified faculty access with Darden Business Publishing, please click on the “Faculty Register” link and submit your information requesting verified faculty access. Buy Case Now OTHER USERS If you would like to read the full document, click on “Buy Case Now” to be redirected to the Darden Business Publishing Web site where you can purchase this and other Darden cases. If you have any questions or need technical help, please contact Darden Business Publishing...
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