...This ecosystem consists of a treeless flat land. The soil of a tundra is often times permanently frozen, which is known as permafrost, however it does melt slighting during the summer season, allowing plant growth. In general, all of the tundra ecosystems are found in the regions closest to the north pole, for obvious reasons (the further north you go the colder it gets which allows for the permafrost soil that a tundra is known to have. These regions are also flat and treeless which are helps to classify it as a tundra). If one were to look at a flat map of the world the top most section of the map would be considered a to have a tundra ecosystem (the top portions of Russia, Scandinavia, Alaska, Iceland, Canada, Greenland are a few...
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...The Arctic Tundra Introduction The Arctic Tundra is a really cold and harsh environment, which supports very little life including Arctic Foxes, Polar Bears, Grey Wolves, Caribou, Snow Geese and Musk Oxen. These are very harsh conditions and these animals are hanging on to life. The rainfall in The Arctic Tundra is also very low. Location The Arctic Tundra extends between the edge of the Arctic Ocean and the coniferous forest of the Taiga How they formed Tundras form at high angular distances (Latitude). Tundras form if an area takes more carbon dioxide than it produces. Tundras are one of the three biggest takers in of carbon dioxide. The soils of the tundra are called gelisols, which means that permafrost needs to be 100cm under the soil...
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...Biomes have changed and moved ordinarily amid the historical backdrop of life on Earth. There are fourteen biomes on the planet. Fields are isolated into savanna and mild prairies. The sea-going classification is partitioned into freshwater, freshwater wetlands, marine, coral reef and estuaries. Earthbound biomes are significant districts in the Earth that have a similar atmosphere in spite of being in various geological areas. The sea-going biome is the biggest of them all. Tundra The tundra is the coldest biome and is a treeless territory. The tundra is described by low temperature, little precipitation, low supplements, and organic assorted qualities. The Tundra has a considerable measure of vegetation inside this biome. Some regular plants...
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...We here at AutoNation Toyota Cerritos are proud to offer our 2015 Toyota Tundra Overview, and we encourage you to come by to take one out for a test drive. This truck proves to be a capable workhorse among the rest of the full-size pickups out there on the road. It also proves incredibly efficient at handling off-road performances. Our dealership sales force is well-versed in all things Toyota, and encourages you to stop on by to take the 2015 Toyota Tundra for a spin. Keep reading for all the technical details you need to help you make an informed decision about your next Toyota purchase. Lively Design of the 2015 Toyota Tundra in Cerritos The 2015 Toyota Tundra Overview provided by our sales force at AutoNation Toyota Cerritos shows that this full-size pickup is offered in three different body styles: Two-door regular cab, four-door extended cab (AKA “double cab”), and a four-door crew cab (AKA “CrewMax”). These body styles come from two...
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...3 miles, the ozone layer is a requirement for the advancement of not only mankind, but Earth itself. An increase of carbon in the atmosphere leads to the weakening of the planet’s shield, allowing the Sun’s ultraviolet rays to penetrate the Tundra Biome. The rays given off by the Sun produce heat waves that impact ice-covered areas, but the Tundra is also covered by a blanket of Carbon, which is integrated with the thawing ice, and is eventually released. Carbon increases the temperature, leading to more ice melting and excessive carbon is released once more, beginning a cycle that will never end until the Tundra Biome is melted away into a Grassland. The condition of the Tundra Biome is an unwelcoming landscape. Its ice freezing...
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...Global Issues | Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Gender equality is a human right,1 but our world faces a persistent gap in access to opportunities and decision-making power for women and men.2 Globally, women have fewer opportunities for economic participation than men, less access to basic and higher education, greater health and safety risks, and less political representation.2 Guaranteeing the rights of women and giving them opportunities to reach their full potential is critical not only for attaining gender equality, but also for meeting a wide range of international development goals. Empowered women and girls contribute to the health and productivity of their families, communities, and countries, creating a ripple effect that benefits everyone. The word gender describes the socially-constructed roles and responsibilities that societies consider appropriate for men and women.17 Gender equality means that men and women have equal power and equal opportunities for financial independence, education, and personal development 3 . Women's empowerment is a critical aspect of achieving gender equality. It includes increasing a woman's sense of self-worth, her decision-making power, her access to opportunities and resources, her power and control over her own life inside and outside the home, and her ability to effect change.4 Yet gender issues are not focused on women alone, but on the relationship between men and women in society.5 The actions and attitudes of men and...
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...Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands CIESAS, México DF, Mexico Thora Tenbrink (tenbrink@uni-bremen.de) SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition, Bremen University, Germany Lisa Hüther (lisa.huether@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de) Department of Psychology, Freiburg University, Germany Space is a fundamental domain for cognition, and research on spatial perception, orientation, referencing, and reasoning addresses core questions in most of the disciplines that make up the cognitive sciences. Consequently, space represents one of those domains for which various disciplinary interests overlap to a substantial extent. For instance, the question of whether and how spatial cognition and language interact has been one of the core questions since early on (e.g., Clark, 1973; Miller & Johnson-Laird, 1976), and yet, consensus between psychologists and linguists is difficult to achieve (e.g., Li & Gleitman, 2002, vs. Levinson et al., 2002). Perhaps most controversial in this dispute is the extent to which spatial cognition is culturally variable (for linguistic variability, see also Evans & Levinson, 2009, and comments there-in). Expanding the space of cognitive science research to ‘nonstandard’ cultures (Henrich et al., 2010; Medin et al., 2010) is thus crucial for the advancement of cognitive science. For this very reason, cross-disciplinary...
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...The Importance of Children’s Literature Learning Team E ENG/290 December 5, 2013 Ron Tatum Ph. D Eskimo Children’s Literature A child’s education is the backbone of any society. From the richest country in the world, to the poorest, without an educated population following behind, that country will not grow. From poetry, to science fiction, educating a child’s mind produces what we as a society will be exposed to and learn from. Ancient myths were the first tools used to teach our children where we came from and how the world around them came to be. Then there were the Greeks, introducing writing and a way to record our thoughts more accurately. With each generation, new concepts were discovered to teach with. It wasn’t until the invention of the movable type printing press in the 1400’s, that more children had a better chance for an education. Cheaper production meant less expenses, and more opportunities for widespread publication of books and reading material. The Bible was still the main teaching format used, but the printing press allowed more people to own their own bible. Most writing was still directed toward the adult population, but slowly, adults started realizing there was a need for information directed toward the child, more easily understood. By the mid-eighteenth century a man named John Newberry came along with the idea of creating books specifically for the child, publishing “A Little Pretty Pocket...
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...ANWR Position Paper Jennifer Piper Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a 19 million acre area that lies in the northeast corner of Alaska. The Coastal Plain area, comprising 1.5 million acres on the northern edge of ANWR, is bordered on the north by the Beaufort Sea, on the east by the U.S. Canadian border, and on the west by the Canning River. The Coastal Plain of ANWR is being considered for oil and gas development since it potentially holds billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable gas. Of the 1.5 million acres of the Coastal Plain, less than 2000 acres would be affected by development. However, because it is an important wildlife habitat, some are concerned that development would hurt the land, endanger wildlife, and not recover enough oil to make the effort worthwhile. ANWR is about the size of South Carolina, and the proposed development area in the Coastal Plain is about one-fifth the size of Washington, DC’s Dulles International Airport. Although ANWR could produce greater than a million barrels of oil per day, more than enough to replace U.S. imports from Iraq, we have to look at the potential social, economic and ecological benefits and consequences to exploring/drilling in ANWR. Environmentalists want to protect ANWR from any drilling because of its environmental and ecological value. They believe that there is too great a danger to the refuge, which is home too many species of birds and fish as well as both land and...
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...experience throughout the course work. Finally, we would like to offer our thanks to our group members for providing various facilities, help and the moral support to accomplish the work properly. Letter of Transmittal 7th August, 2014 Kashfia Ahmed Department of Business Administration East West University Subject: Submission of a Term paper on the STP and Marketing mix of Toyota Honorable instructor, We would like to draw your kind attention to the fact, that it is a great pleasure for us to submit this assignment about ‘Term paper on the STP and Marketing mix of Toyota ’. Six of us have worked together on this paper and tried our best to make this term paper up to the ideal standard. We have enjoyed at every instant of doing this assignment. However, if some of the aspects are unintentionally disregarded, we hope that you would ignore discrepancies considering our limitations. It would be very kind of you if you can give us further suggestions for the future prospects of our assignment. We state that, this term paper has not been submitted or used for any other degree or course. It will be a great honor for us if you require us to explain any sort of queries. Sincerely yours, Group name- The Eccentric Members | ID | Signature | Muhammad Rakib Hassan | 2013-2-10-072 | | Chandan Bormon | 2014-1-10-242 | | Md. Nasim Iqbal |...
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...regain market share and sales. Some considered this to be the biggest crisis in the auto industry since the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler while others thought that Toyota would not be able to rebound from this problem in a short period of time. This paper will explore the decisions that Toyota faced with its problem of regaining its reputation, market share and sales. In efforts to assess this problem, I will be using the PrOACT approach. According to our textbook, “an effective decision-making process will fulfill these six criteria: • It focuses on what’s important • It is logical and consistent • It acknowledges both subjective and objective factors and blends analytical with intuitive thinking. • It requires only as much information and analysis as is necessary to resolve a particular dilemma. • It encourages and guides the gathering of relevant information and informed opinion. • It is straightforward, reliable, easy to use, and flexible. (Hammond, 1999, p.4) The PrOACT approach does just this. It simplifies the problem and provides more clarity to the decision situation. Problem, objectives, alternatives, consequences and tradeoffs are elements of smart choices that will be discussed within this paper to simply Toyota’s decision scenario. Problem and Objectives The objectives in Toyota’s quest to discern how to regain its reputation,...
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...Alaska Brand Audit Brand Inventory History Alaska has been a unique brand for many years. Originally known as Russian America because it was owned by Russia, the origin of the name Alaska is a misconception from the first Russian explorers to venture into Alaskan waters (the original Aleut word "alaxsxaq" literally meaning "object toward which the action of the sea is directed"[Alaska]). When the United States bought Alaska, even though the price was only two cents an acre, it was known for many years as “Seward’s Folly” or “Seward’s Icebox”, after William Seward, the Secretary of State who was primarily responsible for pushing the purchase from Russia through Congress. In the early days Alaska’s brand image was mostly negative. It was known as the “Frozen North”, the “land of ice and snow”, the “land without summer”. Many of these images are from the stories and poetry of Robert Service, Jack London and their contemporaries. A good example of this writing is the poem “Cremation of Sam McGee”— see appendix II, (Service). All these extreme brand images dominated perceptions of Alaska prior to the discovery of gold in the Klondike in the late 1800s. After gold was discovered these negative perceptions were softened somewhat, though they remained rather negative—in large part due to the difficulty of living in the far north. Our Brand Survey We did a brand audit of Alaska to see how well Alaska has worked past these harsh criticisms. To accomplish this we surveyed...
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...they've been happy with. It doesn't take lots of fat tires or fancy styling to keep them happy, most want just plain old reliability and most miles per their money spent (not just for fuel, but ALL costs). “Do that and you're the winner” that's the Toyota method. Toyota system responds also more quickly than competitors. The chief engineer have the responsible for the product to marketing. There are a number of features to this system that make it customer oriented. * The Toyota system responds more quickly than competitors, allowing the company to correct any mistakes and react to market trends faster than competitors. * The system has a chief engineer responsible for the product from design to marketing. This may allow consumer research to function as a direct input into engineering specifications rather than become a secondary concern after the product is designed. * Since the corporate philosophy is to serve customers, consumer inputs are more likely to be used develop better new products. 2. In what ways is Toyota’s manufacturing system designed to serve customers ? Toyota's manufacturing systems that are designed to serve customers, including : * Employees, even on the assembly line, are trained to consider their output as a product that should satisfy the next employee (the "customer") who receives it. If everyone in the company is satisfied with the quality of the work received from others, it is more likely that the ultimate consumer will be satisfied...
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...unintended acceleration. Toyota ultimately recalled millions of its cars for floor mat issues, brake problems and "sticky" gas pedals. Methodology: Data was collected online, by the help of some selected search engines. Information was collected from Toyota’s national website as well as other private sites. Findings/results: Most organization should seek for customers or consumer’s satisfaction rather than targeting of making high profit. Arrogance and choosing to ignore quality warnings when failures begin to happen is also a problem facing most organization. Implications: Companies or organizations should design and manufacturing information and traceability data that can be shared with suppliers for effective root cause analysis. Paper type: case study Keywords: recall, unintended acceleration, floor mat, sticky gas pedals. Introduction Toyota has long been recognized as seventh largest company in the world and the second largest manufacturer of automobiles, with production facilities in 28 nations around the world (Toyota Assembly and part, 2011). As been the world third largest manufacturer of automobiles in unit sales and in net sales, Toyota has also created good customer relationship and provides customers with the products they need. Toyota Motor Company Ltd. was established in Koromo Town, Japan in 1937 by Mr. Kiichiro Toyoda. Koromo was a major producer of silk and before the founding of the automobile company, the Toyoda family was involved in the manufacture...
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...unintended acceleration. Toyota ultimately recalled millions of its cars for floor mat issues, brake problems and "sticky" gas pedals. Methodology: Data was collected online, by the help of some selected search engines. Information was collected from Toyota’s national website as well as other private sites. Findings/results: Most organization should seek for customers or consumer’s satisfaction rather than targeting of making high profit. Arrogance and choosing to ignore quality warnings when failures begin to happen is also a problem facing most organization. Implications: Companies or organizations should design and manufacturing information and traceability data that can be shared with suppliers for effective root cause analysis. Paper type: case study Keywords: recall, unintended acceleration, floor mat, sticky gas pedals. Introduction Toyota has long been recognized as seventh largest company in the world and the second largest manufacturer of automobiles, with production facilities in 28 nations around the world (Toyota Assembly and part, 2011). As been the world third largest manufacturer of automobiles in unit sales and in net sales, Toyota has also created good customer relationship and provides customers with the products they need. Toyota Motor Company Ltd. was established in Koromo Town, Japan in 1937 by Mr. Kiichiro Toyoda. Koromo was a major producer of silk and before the founding of the automobile company, the Toyoda family was involved in the manufacture...
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