1.4 The macroeconomic impacts of oil price shocks 1.4.1 A short history of a controversial topic Since the 1973 OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) oil embargo, the role of rapid, unanticipated increases in oil prices has been a topic of intense interest, among both economists and the lay public. Considering the magnitude of widespread national recessions during the 1970s, the controversy surrounding research on the macroeconomics of oil price shocks may seem surprising:
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along grade-separated concrete viaducts allowing exclusive right-of-way before ending in Baclaran. Including the extension's two recently opened stations, Balintawak and Roosevelt, the LRT-1 has twenty stations (21). The MRT-2 or Line 2 consists of eleven stations (11) in a general east–west direction over 13.8 kilometers (8.57 mi) of mostly elevated track, with one station lying underground, Katipunan Station. Commencing in Recto, the line follows a corridor defined by Claro M. Recto and Legarda Avenues
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University of Nottingham Measuring Service Quality in Distribution Logistics Using SERVQUAL and AHP: A Case Study in a Pharmaceutical Wholesaler in Turkey HARIKA KARPUZCU MSc Operations Management University of Nottingham Measuring Service Quality in Distribution Logistics Using SERVQUAL and AHP: A Case Study in a Pharmaceutical Wholesaler in Turkey by Harika KARPUZCU 2006 A Dissertation presented in part consideration for the degree of “MSc Operations Management” Contents
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A background subtraction technique is presented in this paper that learns the variation of each pixel throughout the video in terms of differences of averages. And also the pixels colors of current frame with previous frame are learnt with average differences. Background subtraction differentiating foreground objects from the stationary parts of the scene is one of the modules of annotation. Valuable low level cue information is obtained by the module for performing high-level tasks of motion analysis
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Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management skills Task: Assessing your own leadership capability and performance There are so many definitions of leadership and it is difficult to establish a specific definition; The Oxford English Dictionary definition of leadership is: "The action of leading a group of people or an organization, or the ability to do this." Drucker’s summed up leadership as “The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers” whereas, John C Maxwell
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Final Paper: Case Study of WorldCom Financial Statement Fraud Introduction This paper will discuss the financial statement fraud committed by WorldCom by examining what led up to the fraud, who committed it and why, and the impact it caused on various stakeholders and the economy. WorldCom applied aggressive and undisclosed accounting tactics to provide financial statements that reflected a $10 billion profit for the years 2000 and 2001, rather than the actual combined loss of $73.7 billion
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SAFETY RULES AND REGULATIONS 5. SECTION FIVE: DISCILINARY POLICY 6. SECTION SIX: HAZARD RECOGNITION, PREVENTION AND CONTROL 7. SECTION SEVEN: ACCIDENT/INCIDENT REPORTING 8. SECTION EIGHT: EMERGENCY PLANING AND RESPONSE 9. SECTION NINE: SAFETY AND HEALTH TRAINING AND EDUCATION 10. SECTION TEN: SAFETY AND HEATH ASSISTANCE RESOURCES 11. SECTION ELEVEN: CONTACT INFORMATION SECTION ONE SAFETY POLICY Safety is a team effort – Let us all work together to keep this a safe and healthy workplace
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1. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its Importance: 1.1 Definition of CSR: What does Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR mean? The World Business Council for Sustainable Development in its publication Making Good Business Sense by Lord Holme and Richard Watts, used the following definition: Corporate Social Responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and to contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and
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Children as Consumers: Advertising and Marketing Children as Consumers: Advertising and Marketing Sandra L. Calvert Summary Marketing and advertising support the U.S. economy by promoting the sale of goods and services to consumers, both adults and children. Sandra Calvert addresses product marketing to children and shows that although marketers have targeted children for decades, two recent trends have increased their interest in child consumers. First, both the discretionary income of
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