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The Advancement Of Mayan Civilization
1,426 wordsThe highly advanced citizens of the ancient Mayan civilization used hieroglyphics to keep important historical records, made many advancements in mathematics, and had a highly accurate astronomy system. Throughout their years of existence, the Mayans proved to be one of the most advanced civilizations ever recorded. Their hieroglyphic writing skills have been documented to be some of the most sophisticated in all of ancient America. The Mayans also had an amazing understanding of mathematics and...
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Long Term Debt Past Three Years
1,544 words... serves. As a result, total property, plant and equipment was 85 % of total assets in 1998 compared to 77 % in 1997. In comparison, Unocal's PP&E was 66 % and 64 % of total assets respectively. Long-term debt increased over $ 400 million in 1998, totaling $ 920 million compared to $ 510 million in 1997. The $ 920 million was 113 % in relation to total liabilities and owners equity of $ 813 million. In 1998, current liabilities were $ 131 million compared to current assets of $ 118 million. Th...
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Criminal Justice System Driving Under The Influence
777 wordsEffective as of November 28, 1995, President Bill Clinton signed legislation that forces states to adopt a Zero Tolerance Law, to prevent teens as well as adults from driving under the influence. To the youth of today, it doesnt really matter if drinking is illegal. No matter how much we spend on new laws, there will always be a way that the younger generation will sneak past to continue drinking. The problem shouldnt be considered as who is drinking, but should be referred to as who isnt drinki...
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Carbon Monoxide Noise Pollution
1,206 words... electric car came out a couple of years ago, which people thought would be a great idea. Electric pumps at every gas station, a charger at your house, good idea, right? No, wrong. Two main sources of pollution during the ownership of the electric car (not including its manufacture) are the source of electricity itself, and the production and disposal of the lead and sulphuric acid of the batteries. Two other bad points about the electric vehicle include the fact of how unattractive they are ...
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Parts Per Million Graduated Cylinder
1,007 wordsConcentration of Food Colors in Artificially Colored Beverages Fake Hall rm# 405, SUNY Cobleskill, NY This experiment was performed to investigate and determine the concentration of food coloring in Food Club Brand Cranberry-Ginger Ale. Methods used in the experiment include; comparing the color of the sample to the 3 controls (at 5 ppm, 10 ppm and 15 ppm) by an approximate assessment with just simple eyesight, and the use of a spectrophotometer. The color of the sample of Food Club Ginger Ale s...
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Theory Of Evolution Karl Marx
2,560 wordsIntroduction: Why the Theory of Evolution? Some of the people who have heard of "the theory of evolution" or "Darwinism", may think that these concepts only concern the field of biology and that they have no significance in their everyday lives. This is a big misconception because far more than a biological concept, the theory of evolution constitutes the underpinnings of a dishonest philosophy that has held sway over a great number of people. That philosophy is "materialism", which holds a numb...
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Capital Asset Pricing Asset Pricing Model
2,175 wordsBefore making comparison between the CAPM and APT, we should first see what they are about. The CAPM is a theory about the way how assets are priced in relation to their risk. The CAPM was brought about to answer the question which came from Markowitzs mean-variance portfolio model. The question was how to identify tangency portfolio. Since then, the CAPM has developed into much, much more. CAPM shows that equilibrium rates of return on all risky assets are a function of their covariance with ma...
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Allocation Of Resources Zero Sum
1,929 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Consider this: Could Western management techniques be successfully implemented in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? Granted, they have to be adapted, modified and cannot be imported in their entirety. But their crux, their inalienable nucleus can this be transported and transplanted in CEE? Theory provides us with a positive answer. Human agents are the same everywhere...
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Liquid Hydrogen Natural Gas
725 wordsHelium (Greek helios, "sun"), symbol He, inert, colorless, odorless gas element. In group 18 of the periodic table, helium is one of the noble gases. The atomic number of helium is 2. Pierre Janssen discovered helium in the spectrum of the corona of the sun during an eclipse in 1868. Shortly after it was identified as an element and named by the chemist Sir Edward Franklin and the British astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer. The gas was first isolated from terrestrial sources in 1895 by the Bri...
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Straight Sided Figures Zero As A Number Lord
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Profit Maximization Perfect Competition
1,017 wordsWhen we talk about perfect competition we mean a market structure that leave firms in a unique brand of competition. In fact a firm does not actually compete under perfect competition, it reacts to the market conditions, taking price and other market factors as beyond its control. A market is a perfect competition if it meets four basic criteria. The product of all sellers must be identical. All participants in the market, buyers, sellers, must be small relative to the entire market. As a result...
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Build A Fire Knowledge And Experience
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Federal Reserve Bank Fourth Quarter
872 wordsInflation Index Bonds According to opinion of numerous financial analysts and market participants, the extraordinary volatility of the financial markets, current disturbance in the American financial system and possible prognoses concerning increase of inflation are the issues of todays US financial market. However, not all market participants consider that inflation will impose a significant threat to American financial markets. For example, William Poole in his article Is Inflation Too Low? co...
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Mutual Funds Brokerage Firms
1,738 wordsInvestment Class For millions of investors, a frantic rush to contribute to Individual Retirement Accounts before filing their tax returns has become a rite of spring. But procrastinator or not, you have new choices for your IRA this year, including more bank certificates of deposit at attractive market interest rates, now that nearly all government ceilings have been removed. And if this is your second or third year of funneling money into just one type of IRA, it's time you diversified. Invest...
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Rate Of Return 000 Per Year
1,231 wordsDetermine if CU box, Inc. needs new machine. 2. What method - NPV or others. At present almost every organization tries to use any opportunity (external or internal) with the purpose to attract, reward and retain its shareholders and potential investors. A competitive environment makes companies estimate all possible ways to reach better results and make greater profits. The simplest way is to add up the costs and then to compare the result with expected revenue increases and cost savings. It ca...
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Positive Or Negative 1 And 2
760 wordsINTRODUCTION: Basic binary digits Complements COMPLEMENTS INTRODUCTION: Basic binary digits are described as UNSIGNED values. This is because if you look at the string of bits (zeros and ones) there is no indicator whether or not this value is positive or negative. You must use an additional symbol + or - to indicate the sign of the number. There are some types of number systems where you can determine the sign of number without using an addition symbol. You can tell whether it is positive or ne...
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Zero Tolerance School Violence
1,418 wordsSchool Violence Shoots Up, Students Are Shot School Violence Shoots Up, Students Are Shot Down: What To Do Corey Rasch English 1301 Mrs. Mansfield 20 November, 2000 School Violence Shoots Up, Students are Shot Down: What To Do After shootings at Jonesboro, Ark, Paducah, Ky, Springfield, Ore, Pearl, Miss, and Littleton, Co, serious questions arise such as has school violence risen, and, if so, what can we do to fix it. The truth is, school violence is on a rise, and it can be attributed to factor...
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J R R R
2,171 wordsBefore to discuss the? dalembert's Paradox? , I would like to present the life and the work of this extraordinary man. His work in various fields of Science, makes of him one of the man who contributed the most to our modern Mathematics, Aerodynamics thats why I would like to present the global life of this great scientist. The following information are issued from the encyclopaedia Britannica. Alembert, Jean Le Rond d His work in Mathematics: In 1739, he read his first paper to the Academy of S...
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Coast Guard Gps Receivers
1,954 wordsFINDING YOUR WAY. Andrew Smith I couldnt agree more with Kenneth Grahame's Water Rat in Wind in the Willows: There is nothing-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of em, it doesnt matter. Nothing seems really to matter, thats the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you dont; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, youre always busy, and you never do anything ...
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Low Self Esteem Drugs And Alcohol
1,715 wordsThe problem we are facing today with violence in the schools is a major concern with communities everywhere. Juvenile homicide is twice as common today as it was in the mid 1980 s. It isnt the brain that the kids are born with that has changed in half a generation; what has changed though is the easy access to guns and the glorification of revenge in real life and in entertainment. Crime in and around schools is threatening the well being of students, as well as the staff and surrounding communi...
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