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Phone Company Internet Connection
1,005 words
Achieving a reliable Internet connection as close
to 56 K as possible is something every Internet
user strives to achieve. However, due to line
conditions and phone companies, the dream of every
surfer is shattered into something reminiscent of
5 year old 33. 6 technology. The general rule of
thumb is that to obtain speeds greater than 33. 6,
one must live within 2 - 3 miles of the telephone
company's switch box. The further out, the more
degraded the connection speed becomes. Connections
speeds...
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Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Vitro Fertilization
781 words
Cloning and the United States Government On
February 24, 1997 Roslin Institute in Edinburgh,
Scotland announced that scientists had cloned an
adult mammal for the first time. These researchers
removed a nucleus from a mammary gland of a sheep
and implanted the nucleus into a sheep's egg with
the egg's nucleus already removed. This embryo was
then inserted into a surrogate sheep's uterus.
This procedure is called somatic cell nuclear
transfer cloning. This process could have a great
impact in med...
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Bank Of The United States Federal Reserve
1,059 words
A common definition of a bank is a financial
intermediary that accepts, transfers, and, most
important, creates deposits. This includes such
depository institutions as central banks,
commercial banks, savings and loan associations,
and mutual savings banks. Banks are most
frequently organized in corporate form and are
owned either by private individuals, governments,
or a combination of private and government
interests. Although non corporate banks-that is,
single proprietorships and partnership...
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Spatial Configuration Competitive Advantage
1,352 words
... should be rare, not substitutable, and they
should not be readily imitable by competitors;
otherwise they will not remain distinctive (Barney
1991). Distinctive capabilities are the foundation
of a firm's position in the marketplace. In
assessing whether these capabilities can be
transferred to international markets to provide
the firm with a sustainable competitive advantage,
two important issues must be considered. The first
is the extent to which the markets targeted are
characterized by ...
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Client Server G G
970 words
There are many different types of networks used
today that could be evaluated. I would like to
take a brief look at three main types of networks,
the host-based network, the client-based network,
and the client-server network. I would like to
look at both the advantages and disadvantages of
each type. In the host-based network there is a
host or server, often a mainframe computer that
does virtually all of the work on the network. The
host computer provides data to all users on the
network, and ...
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Impact On Wide Area Network
1,248 words
PACT OF WIDE AREA NETWORKS ON BUSINESS Where does
one start when discussing the impact of Wide Area
Networks (WANs) on business? It's been huge! WANs
have created an entirely new segment in the
business market and revolutionized many of the
current ones. A person could write for days or
months about all the impacts and effects WANs have
had. This essay will focus on three primary areas
to describe the impact of WANs on business. First,
some specific types of applications will be
discussed and ho...
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Credit Card Companies Financial Institution
1,172 words
ter>Sam Vaknin's Psychology,
Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web
Sites Your credit card is stolen. You
place a phone call to the number provided in your
tourist guide or in the local daily press. You
provide your details and you cancel your card. You
block it. In a few minutes, it should be
transferred to the stop-list available to the
authorization centres worldwide. From that moment
on, no thief will be able to fraudulently use your
card. You can sigh i...
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Birth Mother Birth Parents
652 words
Adopting a child is an experience that promises to
bring great joy as it changes a couple or
individuals life forever. But what happens if the
mother of that child wants to endorse their child?
Those are the issues that many adopting parents
and birth-right mothers are facing today. Many
biological mothers want their child back. There
are many concerns for adopting parents to know-
that there is the possibly that the birth mother
may file for the child. As a birth mother or the
adopting parent o...
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Personality Disorder External Objects
1,446 words
ter>Sam Vaknin's Psychology,
Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web
Sites The Encyclopaedia Britannica
(1999 edition) defines empathy as: "The ability to
imagine oneself in anther's place and understand
the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions.
It is a term coined in the early 20 th century,
equivalent to the German Einfhlung and modelled on
"sympathy. " The term is used with special (but
not exclusive) reference to aesthetic experience.
The most ob...
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Correctional Officers Private Prisons
1,313 words
Private universities, private jails, private
health-care and private water testing. What do all
of these things have in common? They are all
services the Tory government in Ontario has been
trying to privatize with some disastrous results
and possibly more to come. The Ontario government,
lead by Progressive Conservative leader Mike
Harris, has been slowly trying to do away with
services that are currently administered by the
province. The ideology in question, privatization,
has been a hallmark...
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Genetically Engineered Recombinant Dna
775 words
Virtually every crop we eat have undergone
hundreds of years of genetic modification by
farmers and scientist in search of desirable
traits. Selective breeding and hybrid strains have
contributed immeasurably to farm productivity
during this time. Over the past 30 years however,
genetic engineering has been revolutionized. While
before, a farmer wanting to develop a frost
resistant tomato would be able to breed towards
one only if the necessary genes were available
somewhere in tomatoes or a nea...
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Gross National Product 000 A Year
1,345 words
Financing the operations of the federal government
is extraordinarily complex. Annual federal budgets
climbed from $ 250 million a century ago to almost
$ 65 billion in 1955; then, in less than 30 years,
they grew tenfold, to nearly $ 650 billion in
1982. Government revenues have not matched
expenditures since the early 1960 s, and deficit
spending has become the ordinary way of doing
business. Almost 47 percent of the federal
governments revenue comes from personal income
taxes, with another 12...
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Dna Gel Electrophoresis Research
1,724 words
The main objective of this lab was to identify
unknown plasmids by observation of their genotype
and phenotype. We observed the plasmids phenotype
by using it to transform bacteria. When the
plasmid is in a bacterial host the antibiotic
resistance gene can be expressed and impart
resistance to the host. We also analyzed the
genotype of the unknown plasmid by performing a
variety of molecular genetic techniques such as
predigestion, electrophoresis in arose gel,
staining with ethidium bromide, an...
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Technicolor Research Topic Report Sound And Image
1,061 words
This is a written report where my partner on the
topic and I presented a ten minute oral summary of
our chosen research topic on Technicolor. We chose
Technicolor as we felt it had most to say to us,
threw the progression of the technology the
problems threw out the years of perfecting the
technology, to the ultimate glory of the
Technicolor experience. As we didn't know too much
on Technicolor we were quite eager and wanted to
broaden our knowledge on the subject. We started
the research primar...
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University Of Minnesota Athletic Departments
2,078 words
With millions of dollars in merchandising and
television contracts at stake, colleges have a lot
of money riding on the recruitment, education, and
performance? both on and off the field of college
athletes. Colleges lure the athletes to their
school, and make sure they meet the eligibility
requirements when there. In order for athletes to
be eligible to play in college they must attain a
minimum of a 2. 0 GPA in 11 designated courses,
and earn a combined 700 on the SAT? s. Athletes
must also me...
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Unification Of Germany Boulder Westview
1,757 words
The shocking fall Communism Communism The shocking
fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe in
the late eighties was remarkable for both its
rapidity and its scope. The specifics of
communism's demise varied among nations, but
similarities in both the causes and the effects of
these revolutions were quite similar. As well, all
of the nations involved shared the common goals of
implementing democratic systems of government and
moving to market economies. In each of these
nations, the commu...
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Masters Degree Department Heads
1,475 words
ERIK TOY CASE STUDY BACKGROUND INFORMATION As the
manager of a highly regarded budget division of
one plant in a multi-plant organization, I must
choose a suitable employee to fill the position of
the head of the budget office in a smaller plant.
I have narrowed my choices down to the leaders of
the two main sections in our department: Sissel
and Tom. To help the ease of decision, we must
compare each candidates qualifications and select
one person, keeping in mind that our own
department will b...
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Genetic Engineering One Organism
893 words
The scientific Biotechnology Jones 1 The
scientific rules of genetics were not known until
the nineteenth century, when Gregor Mendel
determined from his study of plants that particles
that can not be seen carry traits that are passed
on from generation to generation. In 1953, James
Watson and Francis Crick made the makeup of the
genetic code called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA,
the genetic material that is in all living cells.
Deoxyribonucleic acid encodes the order of amino
acids that have pe...
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Boulder Westview Communist Regimes
1,779 words
The shocking fall of communism in Eastern and
Central Europe in the late eighties was remarkable
for both its rapidity and its scope. The specifics
of communism's demise varied among nations, but
similarities in both the causes and the effects of
these revolutions were quite similar. As well, all
of the nations involved shared the common goals of
implementing democratic systems of government and
moving to market economies. In each of these
nations, the communist regimes in power were
forced to t...
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Credit Card Number Points Of View
2,301 words
Marketing the Internet Introduction: As the
internet grows in popularity every day, so too
does electronic commerce. Electronic commerce,
simply put, is the exchange of money for goods and
services via electronic means. In other words,
electronic commerce is usually when you purchase
something off of the internet. Electronic commerce
is often referred to as e-commerce, or e-business.
In this paper I will be discussing the technical
side of e-commerce, security, different points of
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