place a person thinks of when they want to take a vacation. But what it does contain is my home. Ten months of my life was spent in the Yaak mountains, where everyday I looked out the window and saw the exact same scene every day. Ten months of absolute pain, hatred, anger, and growth. Ten months of living with stranger’s who are now my family. Ten months of waking up with no familiar face in sight, no comfort from family, and ten months of knowing you are truly alone. And these were the best months
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three quantitative threshold tests are then applied to identify segments of sufficient size to warrant separate disclosure. Any segment meeting even one of these tests is separately reportable. 1. Revenue test—segment revenues, both external and intersegment, are 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, external and intersegment, of all reported operating segments. 2. Profit or loss test—segment profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater (in absolute terms) of the combined
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the kernel and consumer space must be at least 340MB at device implementation. Hardware machinery such as broadcasting systems, video, and other devices as that are not under the kernel's control are excluded from the 340MB designated memory. The absolute value "true" for ActivityManager.isLowRamDevice occurs when the implementation memory accessible to the kernel and user space is less than 512MB. A minimum of 1GB of non-volatile storage space available is required for application confidential data
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state of deprivation in well-being. The conventional perspective connects well-being basically to control over commodities, so the poor are individuals who do not have sufficient income or consumption to place them above some adequate bare minimum threshold (Lyman et al, 2004). Poverty is also tied to a particular type of consumption, for instance people may be considered health poor, house poor or food poor. The poverty dimensions can often be determined directly. For instance it can be measured by
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Introduction The positive relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction is not automatic. In Bangladesh, development expenditures have been growing in various proportions in agriculture, rural development, water resources, infrastructure, education and health sector. Each of these sectors impacts growth and poverty reduction differently. Allocation on agriculture, rural development, health, education and social safety net impacts poverty reduction at a higher rate and impacts economic
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News Video Indexing and Retrieval System Using Feature-Based Indexing and Inserted-Caption Detection Retrieval 1 News Video Indexing and Retrieval System Using Feature-Based Indexing and InsertedCaption Detection Retrieval Akshay Kumar Singh, Soham Banerjee, Sonu Kumar and Asst. Prof. Mr. S. Ghatak Computer Science and Engineering, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar, India. Abstract—Data compression coupled with the availability of high bandwidth networks and storage capacity
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How IC 555 timer works? Fundamentals of IC 555 timer & its basic applications VSagar • December 16, 2011 This article was first written on 16 Dec. 2011 and now it is rewritten in simple language with more practical approach, due to huge demand from visitors. Pin-wise functioning of IC555 timer Pin-1, GROUND: It is the GROUND PIN of the IC. The negative terminal of DC power supply or battery is connected to this pin. Here note that IC555 works always on single rail power supply and NEVER on dual
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determining the ability of Malaysia to become a high-income nation by 2020 will achieve its target. 2.0 INTRODUCTION The middle classes from an economic perspective can be defined in two terms such as absolute level of income terms and relative level of income terms or a combination of two. For absolute terms referring to a specific income level which is equal for all countries,
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levels between $3,000 and $10,000 per year.) In Russia there is already significant evidence of the growth of consumerism during the past decade. There are also early signs of similar trends in China and India, but they have yet to cross the threshold. However the BRICS stated that Russia middle class is showing rapid growth. It is expected that within a decade or so, each of the BRICs will show higher returns, increased demand for capital, and stronger national currencies. Thus, foreign firms
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The Educated Ideal The U.S. Census Bureau reports that over 1.5 million bachelor’s degrees were earned in America in the year 2007, alone. Combining all degrees of higher education, over 3 million were earned. For these millions of degrees, how many students are considered to be educated? Certainly the majority of these students are educated by the present standards of their respective fields of study. However, one field of study is but a single facet of the manifold realm of Education as
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