Sara Wadlow PS 434 Research Paper May 3, 2015 Introduction The Syrian Civil War has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Since 2011, protests and attacks have been a daily occurrence, and the regime of Bashar Al-Assad has done what it believed was necessary to stop rebel forces and end protests. As such, Assad has committed many questionable, at best, and criminal, at worst, actions against the civilians of Syria in an effort to stop the rebels. The indiscriminate warfare
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Michael stumbles back, mouth open, unable to to breathe. Athena obliges him with a kick to the gut, and he hits the floor awkwardly with his back against the wall but looks relieved as his lungs fill with air. Athena takes her Beretta from the agent lying on the ground, and Michael holds out a hand
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Suicide of Vietnam Veterans The deaths that were experienced in Vietnam due to Agent Orange and other jungle diseases have become well known by the general public. However, it is suicide that has resulted in the deaths of over 150,000 Vietnam soldiers during and after the war. An enormous amount of suicides resulted from what most people call “protecting our country”. The Vietnam War brought more than fifty-eight thousand deaths and is to some one of the darkest battles in United States history
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robots that walk, talk, appear human, and also make friends with people such as a human would do. We need to examine the meaning of the word artificial intelligence. All textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956, defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” Reading these
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discussed will be sulfur mustard, also known as mustard gas and nerve agents. They are the two most popular types of chemical agents that are used during chemical warfare. I urge the reader to be sure that they do everything right the first time when it comes to recognizing when they are in a contaminated area and they protect themselves from contamination. The way people in the military protect themselves from chemical agents will be different from the way civilians when the protect themselves.
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from a hot stove) rational? Can a simple reflex agent be rational? Is it possible to behave rationally in an unobservable environment? What is the relationship between learning and rationality? Would evolution tend to result in systems that act rationally? What goals would such systems be designed to achieve? Are human beings rational agents (in the sense of maximizing expected utility)? If not, does it mean that the "rational agent" framework cannot be the right one for AI?
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i. The executive summary This report is going to focus on my initial business plan which is about a new estate agency named RG2 Estate agency. Partnership is chosen as our legal structure indicating that all partners are responsible for this business. Our objective is to provide satisfying selling and renting service to the public in London. At first, we collect the sources of property by advertising to people who want to sell or rent their properties through newspapers and internet. We also
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the U.S. Army brought in the engineering firm of URS because they realized the extent of the risk that would have to be undertaken. Through the planning process, the team came up with a plan for the first phase which would be to package each nerve agent into different categories or “campaigns” whereas only the designated chemical could be incinerated. By executing this plan the risk would be reduced. This process would be executed over a designated span of months. Forming campaigns assisted the
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What are the reasons for the increase the variability in Barilla’s supply chain? Demand Forecasting: According to figure 5-2, there are four stages in the supply chain. Each stage, use the order amount of previous stage as its demand, and the order amount will fluctuate more than the demand amount. For example, Barilla’s distributers order weekly, and after 10 days (on average) they received the order. As we remember, the order amount is a calculated with the following formula: (r+L)Avg + z×std×√L
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e © Commonwealth of Australia 2009 Developed by: This resource was developed by the Construction and Property Services Industry Skills Council. [pic] Acknowledgement: Thanks to BMA Consulting for their consultation and development work. Version control: Version 1 ( updated October 2009 Contents Introduction 1 Assessment cover sheet 2 Competency mapping 3 Assessment plan 5 Evidence review 7
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