...Microeconomics UNIT 10: Sample Case 9 “A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem. In order to be patentable, the invention must fulfill certain conditions.” (www.wipo.int/patientscope/en/, 2012) To translate, if you develop a new method or procedure of constructing a product that has never been done before, no one else can copy or use the process for a set amount of time. By granting ownership on the basis of a filed patent application by a nation and/or regional authority to be enforced within the same nation and/or region, it protects your invention from being commercially exploited and may extend to most known countries within one year of filing the patent application known as ‘priority’, that may be extended as much as 20 years from the date of filing. It is enforced by the proprietor and is meant to protect industrially applicable/technical inventions only. (Nissen, 2012) Patents ensure that the payoff from R&D and a business’ competitive advantage are maximized, they can also be valuable in generating interest and investments in new and also growing business. This is especially important in new business’ attempting to establish themselves in high tech industries where a new technique can mean the difference between making it in the industry and going bankrupt. It also serves as a readily available and accessible public...
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...QUESTION 1 ● An inter-vivos gift is different than a Will in that… ○ An inter-vivos gift is only valid if the donor is alive at the time of the gift ○ An inter-vivos gift requires consideration to be binding, while a Will does not ○ A Will is irrevocable, while an inter-vivos gift can be revoked ○ All of the above QUESTION 1 - ANSWER ● An inter-vivos gift is different than a Will in that… ○ An inter-vivos gift is only valid if the donor is alive at the time of the gift – correct answer ○ An inter-vivos gift requires consideration to be binding, while a Will does not ○ A Will is irrevocable, while an inter-vivos gift can be revoked ○ All of the above QUESTION 2 ● Archie tells Edith, “Edith, because I love you so much I hereby give you my piano. It’s still sitting in my living room. But you can take it whenever you like.” Is this gift valid? ○ Yes ○ No, because donative intent has not been established ○ No, because there was no delivery ○ No, because there was no acceptance QUESTION 2 - ANSWER ● Archie tells Edith, “Edith, because I love you so much I hereby give you my piano. It’s still sitting in my living room. But you can take it whenever you like.” Is this gift valid? ○ Yes ○ No, because donative intent has not been established ○ No, because there was no delivery – correct answer ○ No, because there was no acceptance QUESTION 3 ● Which of the following could constitute a valid delivery of a gift of a car? ○ Parking the car in the donee’s driveway ○...
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...Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance – LEG 500 Section 001003 Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations Reviewed Strayer University Alexandria Campus Touraj Behmand SID:1121701137 Professor Glen A. Trimper March 02, 2011 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Book I: Of the division of labour 4 Book I: Of the origin and use of money 5 Book I: Of the natural and market price of commodities 6 Book II: Of the Division of stock 7 Bibliography 10 Abstract Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy in 1723. He entered Glasgow University at the early age of fourteen. He studied logic, metaphysics, math and later Newtonian physics and moral philosophy under some of the leading scholars of his day. He is famous for his theory that nations achieve their wealth and function best where individuals are free to use their skills and capital in their own self-interest, at their own good judgment and risk. But isn’t that the same as entrepreneurship? In today’s capitalism society each individual is seeking prosperity by risking his or her own capital to gain self-interest. The availability of such option for individuals is what Smith calls freedom. Is that why Smith is also known as ‘the father of capitalism’? Smith taught that prices and wages will automatically reach optimal levels when such freedom is permitted. For instance, jobs that require special training will result in fewer people making that investment and, therefore, ultimate higher wages. This explains why engineers make more money than...
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...Assignment 1.1 Chart one Who was the sender? Friend | | Who was the receiver? Myself | | What was the message? To meet up at southland mall at 7pm in the parking lot. | | What channel was used to send the message? Verbal channel was used | | What was the misunderstanding that occurred? The miss understanding happened during the decoding process | | How could the misunderstanding have been avoided? The miss understanding could have been avoided if I would have paid more attention to the end portion of the message. | | 1. What did you learn about the communication process from this activity? What I learned about the communication process in this exercise is the complexity of the communication process steps. Every step is important to the complete success of the message leaving the sender and arriving to the receiver. In this example the message was distorted by distractions or noise that cause me to miscode the message during the decoding process. 2. What seemed to be the main causes of the misunderstandings? The main causes of the misunderstanding was the fact that I was excited and in a hurry to meet up with my friend that I didn’t pay enough attention to the details of the message and missed understood. Chart Two Who was the sender? Myself | | Who was the receiver? Coworkers | | What was the message? Grab large packages off the belt before they jam in curb. | | What channel was used to send the message? Verbal channel...
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...Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 7(6), 839–847, June 2014 ISSN (Print) : 0974-6846 ISSN (Online) : 0974-5645 A New Approach for Inter Process Communication with Hybrid of Message Passing Mechanism and Event based Software Architecture Farhad Soleimanian Gharehchopogh*, Esmail Amini and Isa Maleki Computer Engineering Department, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, West Azerbaijan, Iran; bonab.farhad@gmail.com, es.amini56@gmail.com, maleki.misa@gmail.com Abstract In this paper, we use software architecture style based on event-driven and message passing communication method and determine a framework for interaction among practicable processes on Operating System (OS). In the proposed method, the required data are sent to the process or other processes in a standard message frame and with determined structure to the OS, then, the OS distributes the received message considering its recipient processes in the system, rather a process communicates directly with other specific process. The major features of the proposed method include the synchronization among the processes, the simplicity of implementation, easy extensibility, remote access which finally can improve the interaction between the OS and processes. Along with producing the systems based on an integrated frame, we obtain a determined standard in Inter Process Communication (IPC) by mediating an OS. 1. Introduction Keywords: Event-driven, IPC, Message Passing, OS, Software Architecture ...
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...In today’s businesses information systems are a very important part of almost every company. The company I am choosing to write about is the Department of Veteran Affairs for which I work for. Information systems within the Department of Veteran Affairs make the job a lot easier. It simplifies the way we write letters to veterans because we have a program that once you put in the veterans file number it puts in all of his information into the letter such as his address and then it comes up with prompts to choose what to input in the letter. It requires little modification once you choose all the prompts. Information systems also stores most of the veterans information making it quicker to process claims because we don’t have to look into the veteran’s paper file all of the time. They also reduce the amount of mistakes that we make because if you input wrong information most of the time the system won’t process the claim, if it won’t process you know something isn’t matching up and you did something wrong. Our information systems also act as a tracking system. We have a program that can look up a veteran’s file anywhere in the country and can tell who has the file and when they scanned it in. Of course the accuracy of this program still relies on the human input but it is a VA policy that you must scan all the files into your desk as soon as they get to you and you are supposed to scan them to the next location when you send the file away. All the information systems at the...
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...Experimentation Critique of The Balance Evaluation Systems Test to Differentiate Balance Deficits RES/320 Patti Moser July 5, 2010 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY: I certify that the attached paper, which was produced for the class identified above, is my original work and has not previously been submitted by me or by anyone else for any class. I further declare that I have cited all sources from which I used language, ideas and information, whether quoted verbatim or paraphrased, and that any and all assistance of any kind, which I received while producing this paper, has been acknowledged in the References section. This paper includes no trademarked material, logos, or images from the Internet, which I do not have written permission to include. I further agree that my name typed on the line below is intended to have, and shall have the same validity as my handwritten signature. Student's signature (name typed here is equivalent to a signature): Sherri L. Eveland___________________________ ___ Experimentation Critique of The Balance Evaluation Systems Test to Differentiate Balance Deficits This article presents the theoretical framework, interrater reliability, and preliminary concurrent validity for this new instrument, the Balance Evaluation Systems Test (BESTest). The goal of this study was to develop a clinical balance assessment tool that aims to target 6 different balance control systems so that specific rehabilitation approaches can be designed...
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...James F Sloan III 4/2/15 IT250 Chapter 5 1. The “who” command helps you determine who is logged in on a specific terminal. 2. Give the command “mesg n” to keep other ordinary users from writing to your terminal. You can take this action when you do not want to be disturbed or are viewing something on your screen that you do not want overwritten. 3. $ cp to_do done – it will overwrite the done file with the new file names to_do. $ mv to_do done- it will do the same as cp, the to_do file will overwrite the done file. 4. Give the command apropos editor. Most systems have vim, ex, ed, and more. 5. $ grep "Ace Electronics" phone $ sort phone $ uniq phone 6. When you compare binary files with diff, diff displays a message saying the files differ when the files differ or no message when the files are the same. The diff utility compares ASCII files on a line-by-line basis; it is not designed to compare binary files on a byte-by-byte basis. Use cmp to compare binary files in that manner. 7. The answer is system dependent. 8. The utility displays a message saying that the command you are looking for is not in the list of directories that are in your search path. For example, $ which me /usr/bin/which: no me in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6bin:. 9. No. However, some commands that are built into a shell have an executable counterpart that exists as a file (for example, echo). 10. Approximately twenty, not counting...
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...This week I worked on virtual taxes for the first time. I did a few preps and a quality review, it is pretty much the same process but without the pressure of the clients in front of you. It was helpful when there were notes for some situations. For example, the calculations were already done for tuition so it made it easy to just input the numbers. I did run into one where they did not include their birthday or did not answer the healthcare portion, therefore, I was not able to continue with the return. Towards the end of the night I had a client that just recently got married last year and wanted to file separate. The problem I came across was that she did not know her husband’s social security. I was then informed we could not process her return at this time and to come back once she has the information. Amy also explained to me and the client that is always better to file jointly if the couple is married and on good terms and it could really only benefit them more versus filing separately. The highlight of this week of VITA for me was on one of my virtual returns a client wrote a sweet message at the end stating how thankful she was for the program and all of the volunteers. It really shows that what we are doing is so great and just knowing that we are helping people out is so heart...
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...You can access the Main forum by singing into your student webpage. Once there you click on the Classroom tab and then the Discussion section. From here you will see a forums menu box you will then click on the section titled Main. You can access the Individual forum by singing into your student webpage. Once there you click on the Classroom tab and then the Discussion section. From here you will see a forums menu box you will then see a section titled Individual Forum you will click on your name under that section. To find the Orientation Workshop readings you will sign into your student webpage, click on the classroom then the materials section. All the reading materials you will need underlined in blue text and are clickable all beginning with the word Reading. After you log into your student webpage you will go to the classroom tab and then click on the Assignments section. From there you will click on the week you are doing the assignment for in the Assignments menu under the summary section. You then will see the list of assignments for the week; you will click on the due assignment and then upload it from your folder on your computer by clicking the browse button. It will automatically upload when you select the file from your computer. Class discussions for participation take place in the Discussion section in the Main Forum. For participation you will reply to the DQ threads two times a day for four days. To read replies in the main forum you will click the Discussion...
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...Distributed Operating Systems Communication (II) Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz ens@ia.pw.edu.pl Institute of Control and Computation Engineering Warsaw University of Technology E&IT Department, WUT DOS / Communication (II) – p. 1 Communication (II) 1. Message-oriented Communication 2. Stream-oriented Communication E&IT Department, WUT DOS / Communication (II) – p. 2 Message-oriented Communication – Introduction √ When it cannot be assumed that the receiving side is executing at the time a request (in RPC or RMI) is issued, alternative communication services are needed. The inherent synchronous nature of RPCs and RMIs, by which a client is blocked until its request has been processed, sometimes has to be replaced. Message-oriented communication is proposed. √ √ The message-passing paradigm is widely used approach for programming parallel machines, especially those with distributed memory. E&IT Department, WUT DOS / Communication (II) – p. 3 Message-passing Paradigm – Attributes Two key attributes characterizing the message-passing paradigm: √ it assumes a partitioned address space, √ it supports only explicit parallelization. The logical view of a machine supporting the message-passing paradigm consists of P processes, each with its own exclusive address space. E&IT Department, WUT DOS / Communication (II) – p. 4 Communication System (1) Assumption – communication system organized as follows: √ applications are executed...
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...Dynamic Computation Migration in Distributed Shared Memory Systems by Wilson Cheng-Yi Hsieh S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988) S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988) Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY September 1995 c Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1995. All rights reserved. Author : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science September 5, 1995 Certified by : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : M. Frans Kaashoek Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Thesis Supervisor Certified by : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : William E. Weihl Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Thesis Supervisor Accepted by : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Frederic R. Morgenthaler Chairman, Departmental Committee on Graduate Students 1 2 Dynamic Computation Migration...
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...Interdependence and Conflict: An Introduction Edward D. Mansfield and Brian M. Pollins Over the past few decades, there has been a surge of interest in the relationship between economic interdependence and political con›ict. One view that has gained considerable popularity and empirical support is that heightened interdependence fosters cooperative political relations. Voiced with increasing regularity in both academic and policy circles, this claim has been used to help justify the formation of the European Economic Community, Richard Nixon’s opening to China, Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik, and Henry Kissinger’s conception of détente with the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, critics of this argument have not been stilled. Some observers maintain that, rather than fostering cooperation, increased interdependence generates political discord. Even more widespread is the argument that economic exchange has no strong bearing on the high politics of national security. This debate is hardly new. For centuries, the nature and strength of the links between interdependence and con›ict have been the subject of heated disagreement. Until lately, however, these links remained the subject of remarkably little systematic scrutiny. In recent years, a growing number of studies have attempted to ‹ll this gap in the literature, but they have yet to resolve various crucial questions. Most important, how and to what extent does interdependence in›uence political antagonism? What are the causal...
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...Question#1 There is only two other possibilities 1. Process is blocked while it was in ready state. 2. Process running from blocked state. Only transition 2 is possible because when it is possible that process is waiting for input that is yet not available and it is also possible that operating system has decided to allocate CPU time to any other process. The transition 1 is not possible because when a process Is in ready state it cannot block itself while it is not waiting for input and only in ready state. Question#2 In this problem we have five process i.e. Customer, order takers, cook, packaging specialists, cashiers. We have sequential inter process communication between processes which uses pipes for communication between processes. Our chain of communication should be like this Customer Order Takers Cook packaging specialists Cashiers Question#3 In this problem T=Running time for any process S=switch time for a process Q=time Quantum (a) Q = infinite Process has infinite time quantum Q so it will run until it blocks itself CPU efficiency=Q/Q+S In reality it will be CPU efficiency=T/T+S Since it has infinite time quantum and switch time will be very little as compared to quantum Then efficiency will be CPU efficiency=T/T=1 (b) Q > T In this case CPU has also time quantum greater than process completion time then its efficiency will be CPU efficiency=Q/Q+S This will be CPU efficiency=T/T+S (c) S < Q < T Since Q<T ...
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...Walden University MMPA-6420-1 Organizational Management and Leadership January 21, 2016 “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant” (Jones-Burbridge 2012, pg. 46). The principle of service guides servant leadership. When applied as a style of management in an organization, servant leadership requires leading by serving others. In the general context of leadership, serving others is oxymoronic. Leaders dominate, delegate, direct, and monitor. They do not often take it upon themselves to 'grow' employees into capable decision makers or self-directed project leaders'. Servant leadership offers a paradigm shift; moving from self-interest to primus inter pares: first among equals. It optimizes team and individual efforts by building leaders among peers. Servant leadership does not support micromanaging staff, or missing opportunities to develop authentic leadership. Servant leadership leads from behind. Sadri and Bowen (2011) explain that Motivated employees move beyond basic work duties to provide their organization with their genuine efforts. They take ownership of the mission and vision of the company building organizational effectiveness. Lichtenwalner (2010) believes servant leadership emphasizes service to all stakeholders regardless of title or position. The focus of this type of leadership is the individualized support that enhances the ability of employees to develop leadership...
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