greatly reduce their longevity.[6] They typically inhabit savanna and grassland, although they may take to bush and forest. Lions are unusually social compared to other cats. A pride of lions consists of related females and offspring and a small number of adult males. Groups of female lions typically hunt together, preying mostly on large ungulates. Lions are apex and keystone predators, although they scavenge as opportunity allows. While lions do not typically hunt humans, some have been known to
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mobile microcomputers can range in between $300 to $1500. Mainframe Computers * Mainframe computers are large computers typically designed for bulk data processes. They can handle nationwide economic statistics, census data and enterprise resource systems. Mainframe processing power is measured in millions of instructions per second (MIPS). Governments and corporations typically use mainframe computers. Multiple users in remote locations can access a mainframe computer at once. According to Thomas
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Activity-based costing systems: a. use a single, volume-based cost driver. assign overhead to products based on the products' relative usage of direct labor. often reveal products that were under- or over-costed by traditional costing systems. typically use fewer cost drivers than more traditional costing systems. have a tendency to distort product costs. 2. Burgoon uses an economic order quantity model and has determined an optimal order size of 500 units. Annual demand is 10,000 units, ordering
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will be carried out. Even if no one else ever reads it, the concept paper helps a researcher spot holes in her or his project that might later prove fatal. It is far better to be clear at the beginning than to put in a lot of effort for naught! Typically, a concept paper contains these elements: 1. A clear description of the research topic, including a summary of what is already known about that topic. 2. A one-sentence statement of the research question that the project will seek to answer. (This
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The American Class System Class system is a universal phenomenon. It is prevalent in all modern and complex social systems. A social class is essentially a status group. Class is also related to status dimension. Status groups are composed of persons having the same life style and in joining similar social honor. Thus, status consciousness separates the individuals both physically and psychologically. Society has developed the concept of social class to group people into a set hierarchical
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Metal Roofing Underlayment -Tips on Choosing the Best System Jeffry Ceruti and Jason Der Ananian -Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. 30 September 2010 1. INTRODUCTION Underlayment products for use beneath metal panel roof systems should be carefully selected to provide a roofing system that performs satisfactorily for its intended service life. Several considerations must be addressed in the roofing system design, including ensuring that the four barriers needed in any building enclosure (Le
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a significant number of firms in the world to invest a significant share of their revenues to conduct the marketing of their product using direct marketing strategies on the best media that has in the recent past unveiled itself, social media. Typically, that is because the internet has virtually merged the real world with the virtual world and its presence in the whole world is overwhelming. Unlike, therefore, the traditional marketing strategies that focused on segmentation with the 4Ps underlying
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1. A. A local loop is a loop of copper wire that allows a current to flow from a telephone to the central office and back. It is a dual-wire physical interface that connects a telephone to the central office and are typically referred to as a twisted pair. Many of these pairs are twisted together to make a cable for a local loop to provide multiple connections for multiple phone to interface with the local central office. b. A Central office is a building to which a
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Very Simple Kaplan Turbine Design Grant Ingram 30th January 2007 Nomenclature b blade height g gravitational acceleration H head k loss coeficient m mass flow rate ˙ P power output Q volumetric flow rate r radial direction R radius U blade speed V absolute velocity, subscripts denote stations and components W relative velocity, subscripts denote stations and components x axial direction α absolute flow angle β relative flow angle ω rotational speed θ tangential direction η efficiency 1, 2, 3, 4 stations
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