...Let’s look at muscular tension first, All muscular tension means is as you go down in the splits position your muscles panic because the position is new territory to them and they think (oh I don’t think this is a good idea, this is going to hurt or injure me) The result is as soon as the fear of pain kicks in or your muscles feel uncomfortable they will contract or tense up with all their might to stop you going any further. You have to admire the little buggers because they are only trying to protect you but the fact is your own muscles deliberately stop you from doing what you want to do. So what’s the answer? It is simple all you have to do is learn to control muscular tension so that you can delay and eventually stop your muscles from contracting. How do you control muscular tension? There are several methods and you will use all of them in the 6 weeks to splits plan. One, Waiting out the tension, This one is great because it is so easy but works like magic. All you have to do is slide into your splits position and keep going until your muscles tense up and act like breaks to stop you going any further. When this happens and it will unless you can already do the splits perfectly and I’m guessing you can’t or you wouldn’t be reading this article, then the solution is easy you simply stay in the same position and do nothing but relax and wait out the tension (by the way the muscular contraction that stops you going any further is know as the stretch reflex). When I say relax...
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...Digital Media Computing Assignment 1: Video Segmentation ------------------------------------------------- HAND IN DATE: 31st October 2010 WEIGHTAGE: 25 Marks ------------------------------------------------- Student Name Name | Student ID | Robert Johnson | 102122913 | Table of Contents User Guide 2 Video Selection 2 Video Playback and Segmentation Execution 2 First Implementation 2 Second Implementation 3 Third Implementation 4 First Implementation 6 Part A: 50% Split 6 Part B: Custom User Percentile 7 Second Implementation 7 Part A: Uniform N-Splits 7 Part B: Histogram Equalization 8 Part C: Average Frames 8 Third Implementation 9 Order of processing 10 Problems Encountered 10 User Guide All three implementations can be accessed by opening the index.html page. The implementations have been tested to be work on Firefox 15 with any resolution above 1024x768. Due to the extensive use of HTML5 canvas, several legacy browsers may not be able to run the web page successfully. Video Selection Once the page has been loaded, the user has an option to select from 3 different videos. Two of which are stored locally. Please ensure to place both file ‘tracker.ogg’ and ‘video.ogg’ in the same folder as the index page. The user can click on either button 1, 2, or 3 to swap between different videos to experiment on. The video can be seen when user clicks on the play/pause button. Video Playback and Segmentation Execution It is important...
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...gathered in London to wrap up the company’s distribution and growth strategy for Western European country in particular Italy. During that meeting, various difficulties facing the company such as new market penetration and new products to sales rationalization and branding programs were brought to light. However, the core of the issue facing Airwide International is not that revenue is plummeting or profit is at risk, which most companies might be having back in 2001, but the biggest issue for Airwide International is confronted with is internal to the foundation of the sales organization. Regional master distributors (RMD) and local dealers (LD) are not getting along. While the first “RMD” wants the company to eliminate the second “LD”, the opportunity that the second sees is expansion and more responsibilities because of their knowledge of the business and the trust the built for generations. Problem Statement: Regional master Distributors relentlessly pressured Airwide to eliminate Local Dealers so they can serve their local markets even though the dealers in certain areas had a share of their local markets approaching 20 percent compared to 12 to 16 percent of master distributors. Dealers on the other hand want to expand their territories beyond their defined geographical limits. Airwide International is envisioning three-year business plan and improving contribution margin from 38 percent to 40 percent has been one of the key goals. Not addressing the issue with Italy market...
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...Not all split-second decisions are bad ones, like Sammy’s was. Some are good, and there is that chance that Queenie and the other girls could turn around. A chance that things could go well. In “A&P”, unluckily for Sammy, it doesn’t, but it’s a very realistic thing that could happen. Sammy’s change in character, and views, leading up to his quick decision is a very realistic thing that could happen, thus making not only “A&P” a very good story, but shows how things can go wrong instead of going right for...
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...they can be sold at almost any time as long as there is someone willing to buy. A bond, on the other hand, is a fixed interest financial asset issued by governments, companies, banks, and other large entities. Bonds also are called funds. Bonds pay the owner a fixed amount a specific date, or on specified dates depending on the type of bond. If the bond is a discount bond, then there is one pay date at the end. If the bond is a coupon bond, then it pays a fixed amount over a specific time. The time could be by month, or by year. My team was assigned the task of investing 120,000 dollars over ten years. We were to invest 80% of 120,000 dollars in stocks and 20% in bonds. We invested in six different stocks and two bonds. Also, we split the money. Therefore, we each invested 6,000 dollars per year in three stocks and one bond. The first stock I decided to invest in was Nike Inc. Nike Inc. is a strongly advertised and a well-distributed company (Nike). Nike Inc. is known well across the world (Nike). When it comes to shoes, clothes, or sports apparel, everyone has at least one item of Nike. In most cases, people own multiple things of Nike equipment. Nike Inc. spends great amounts of time and money on their products (Nike). Also, Nike Inc. is extremely popular among sports. That is relevant because I am an athlete, and own many Nike products. Almost every pair of shoes I own is Nike, besides dress shoes. This all proceeded to tell me, as an investor, to get involved...
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...would survive. To start the lab, we need seven different beans together, which includes split pea, kidney bean, large white bean, black bean, pinto bean, small white bean, and red bean. Each type of beans has to be 100. Once each of these collections of beans is measured out, the entire collection can be dumped on lawn for the predators to pick up. Then we select 15 students and divided evenly into 5 groups: knife, fork, spoon, hand and clothespin. These mouthparts are the only part of the predator that can touch the ground. Each predator can then receive a cup, which will serve as the stomach into which the prey will be placed. The prey gathered. Only their mouthparts may pick up the beans. The beans must then be placed into their stomach. The predators had 5 seconds to simultaneously pick up as many prey as they can. At the end of 5 seconds, each predator counts the number of beans. The predators are then ranked according to the number of prey they picked up. The result of first generation are 0 knife survivors, 2 fork survivors, 3 spoon survivors, 2 hand survivors and 1 clothespin survivors. For the prey, split pea has the most survivors which is 72, the least is large white beans. Then we repeated the same steps of preparation for the 2nd and 3rd generations. The results for both 2nd generation and 3rd generation are spoon and hand predator have the most survivors. Split pea has the most survivors while large white bean has the...
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...The Economic Journal, 114 (April), 265–280. Ó Royal Economic Society 2004. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA. THE INEFFICIENCY OF SPLITTING THE BILL* Uri Gneezy, Ernan Haruvy and Hadas Yafe When agents are ascribed selfish motives, economic theory points to grave inefficiencies resulting from externalities. We study a restaurant setting in which groups of diners are faced with different ways of paying the bill. The two main manipulations are splitting the bill between the diners and having each pay individually. We find that subjects consume more when the cost is split, resulting in a substantial loss of efficiency. Diners prefer the individual pay to the inefficient split-bill method. When forced to play according to a less preferred set of rules, they minimise their individual losses by taking advantage of others. Economic theory is unambiguous in its prediction that if externalities exist, outcomes are likely to be inefficient when agents selfishly maximise. The literature on externalities, as well as its derivatives in public goods, tragedy of the commons and moral hazard studies, has shown that externalities lead to inefficient levels of production and consumption. This result depends crucially on the general assumption taken by such studies that human agents maximise selfish payoffs without regard for others. With the emergence of behavioural economics, economists have come to question whether...
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...Vincennes were very complex. In both situations, the commanding Officers of the ships had to make split second decisions in a war environment. Commander Kirk Lippold of the USS Cole was the commanding Officer when Al Qaeda terrorists piloted an explosives-filled rubber boat into the side of the USS Cole. The crew of the Cole followed US Naval rules of engagement and it was later determined that Commander Lippold had done everything he could have done to protect his ship. Commander Lippold was responsible for what had happened that day but to a certain extent. Commander Lippold was responsible because he was the Commander of the ship at the time and everything went through him first. However, Commander Lippold did what he was trained to do in these situations. For that reason, I believe the treatment of Commander Lippold was not justified. Commander Lippold was cleared by the Navy’s Judge Advocate General stating that the Captain of the Cole had done all he could to protect his ship and had committed no act of...
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...Annual Report Questions Note: All study questions are to be kept in a Word file and submitted by the week of Class 6. Include the question or provide and answer with the question included. Using your annual reports, answer the following questions: 1. Does the company issue bonds? Explain in DETAIL (interest rates, payments, amortization of premiums/discounts, amounts remaining, etc.). CVS issued two $1.25 billion portions of 2.25 percent, five-year notes at a relative yield of 85 basis points more than similar-maturity Treasuries and 4 percent, 10-year securities at a spread of 125 basis points, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The company also sold $750 million slices of 1.2 percent, three-year debt at 65 basis points and 5.3 percent, 30-year bonds at 145. 2. Explain in detail the various types of stock the company sells. Include par values, shares, amounts, etc. 3. Does the company have treasury stock? Does it use the cost or par value method to record the transactions? 4. Does the company use stock warrants? Explain in detail. 5. Does the company use stock options? Explain in detail. 6. What types of dividends does the company pay? Explain in detail. Include amounts, dates, etc. |Declared |Ex-Dividend |Record |Payable |Amount |Type | |03-06-2014 |04-18-2014 |04-22-2014...
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... Correlation between the first half (first half included items 1-7) and second half (second half included items 8-15) is .79. • Second, the researchers calculated the average inter-item correlation among all 15 items in USF Neuroticism scale and used it to determine that the Cronbach’s alpha is .87. • Third, the researchers calculated the correlation between USF Neuroticism scale and IPIP Neuroticism scale and found the correlation coefficient to be .78. • Fourth, the researchers calculated the correlation between USF Neuroticism scale and Self-Esteem Scale and the correlation coefficient was -.34. • Fifth, the researchers correlated USF Neuroticism scale with Openness to Experience scale and found the correlation to be .11. 3. What is the internal consistency reliability coefficient and split-half reliability coefficient of the USF Neuroticism Scale? The internal consistency reliability coefficient is 0.87. The split-half reliability coefficient is 0.79 a. Why are these two coefficients different? These two statistics are computed differently, yet are related. Split-half shows the correlation between scores on two halves of a test, and provide the correlation for either half of the test. Internal consistency is measured using the Cronbach’s alpha. This is interpreted as the mean of all possible split-half coefficients. The internal consistency reliability coefficient is computed using the split-half correlation. The inter-item correlations and the average of these make...
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...plate glass window. Lola runs past. Lola Running Manni at window Split Screen (first time we see this technique) Manni POV with Lola in distance / Lola POV with Manni in distance All in the same shot!!!! Skim when he is starting robbery Then magical scene at the window, because he could not hear her voice in reality—but her voice gets through. They have a conversation. Will you help me? Can’t we just get out of here? You see the shit I’m in. Why didn’t you wait for me? I did. You got here too late. Then torch song by Dinah Washington as they escape the bank. No other sound! Circling camera, like a roulette wheel, as they are trapped. Why does Manni choose to throw the bag high into the air—and have such a mean expression on his face? His CHOICE leads to cop firing gun accidentally because cop is distracted. ENDS BADLY—SHE GETS SHOT—SO THE FIRST RUN ENDS WORST WAY-WITH LOLA’S DEATH RED SCENE 1 Spirals on the pillow Lola’s head rests of Mani’s arm—he is supporting her He asks same question of Manni that girlfriend asked of the Dad—“Do you love me?” She says if you never met me, you’d be saying same thing to someone else She doesn’t want to hear what he thinks—she wants to know what he feels His response: “You want to leave me?” Shows how little faith he has in love!!!!! Her response: “I think I have to make a decision.” YET SHE IS WEAK HERE—DEATH OF HER SPIRIT, UNCERTAINTY DOMINATES SECOND RUN STARTS BADLY--Boy on stairs is mean to her, trips her—first two...
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...GROUP - 1 GROUP - 1 Du Pont- Conoco IPO Carve Out and Split Off Case Analysis Du Pont- Conoco IPO Carve Out and Split Off Case Analysis SUMMARY E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, global leader in the technological innovation in business and the fifteenth largest company in the US in 1999, decided to divest its subsidiary Conoco, major and integrated oil and energy company, previously acquired through an M&A deal of $7.8 billion. In fact DuPont decided to move the company from its traditional energy and chemical businesses towards life science (agriculture, biotechnology, pharmaceutical) in a major operation of refocus on the core business. What became clear to DuPont shareholders was that they were not benefiting from being either a special chemical company, life science company or oil company: the price-earning multiple of the entire company was less than any of its representative sectors. Initially, the strategy of the new CEO was to increase share price through the division of the company in three sectors, of which life science represented the one most heavily funded. However, while company share price was predicted to rise to $90, it fell to $60. For these reasons it was opted for a divestiture through a split-off: DuPont would allow to trade each DuPont stock for 2.95 Conoco stocks, up to a total of 148 million DuPont shares. Once the deal was announced, DuPont shares soared 11% at an all-time high of $79.50 per share The strategy would have been...
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...granted to a corporation to cover dividends received from another corporation that it partly owns. As a result, it is a rare example of a deduction applied to money that has been received by the taxpayer, rather than spent. The purpose of the dividends received deduction is to limit the effects the same money being taxed repeatedly. US policy does allow for double taxation, which is the circumstance by which a company's profits are taxed and then shareholders are taxed on the dividends they receive from the company's post-tax profits. Without the dividends received deduction, there would be an extra layer of taxation: tax would be taken from a corporation's profits, the dividend paid to a second corporation with an ownership stake in the first corporation, and the dividends paid by the second corporation to individual stockholders. Source: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-dividends-received-deduction.htm 14-51What is the purpose of the reconciliation of taxable income with book income? Generally, Sec. 446 requires taxable income to be computed under the same method of accounting as the taxpayer uses for its books. However there are differences in the accounting method used for GAAP versus tax....this could be cash method vs. accrual method, depreciation methods, expenses disallowed for tax but recorded in books and so on. Reconciliation of taxable income to book helps to quantify how much of the aggregate book-tax differences are due to differing rules for grouping entities...
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...frontal lobe; areas in right hemisphere receive information from and are concerned with activities on left side of body. * Sperry believes studies involving split-brain patients reveal ‘true’ nature of two hemispheres because commissurotomy disconnects the two hemispheres. This means they only work independently. * Previous research on animals showed behavioral effects. * Other research by Sperry on humans and monkeys suggested the behavioral effects of the surgery might be less severe than other forms of cerebral surgery, e.g. frontal lobotomy. * Akelaitis (1944) found that there were no important behavioral effects of surgical section of corpus callosum in humans, provided other brain damage was excluded. Research Method Aim and Hypothesis * Aim of the study was to investigate if each brain hemisphere: (i) Possesses an independent stream of conscious awareness (ii) Has its own separate chain of memories that are inaccessible to the other Method/Design/IV & DV/ Controls * Quasi experiment * IV- having a split brain or not * DV- participants ability to perform a variety of visual and tactile tests * Argued that because such extensive tests were carried out on...
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...par value, 2,000,000 shares authorized, 400,000shares issued, and 360,000 shares outstanding..................$2,600,000 c)= 0.60 x 360,000 = 216,000 $ d) It is likely that the company has repurchased its shares and retired them. 8.10 a. Annual dividend per share= $3.25 b. Preferred dividends= $3,900 Common dividends= $4,500 Total dividends received= $8,400 Exercise 8.18 a. 800 shares after the stock split b. Dividend income before the stock split= $3,600 $4.50 per share c. 33 1/3% stock dividend would accomplish the same Problem 8.22 a. Dr. Treasury stock- 330,000 Cr. Cash 330,000 b. Shares outstanding at beginning of year 574,600 shares purchased for treasury in first quarter (4,400) Shares outstanding during second quarter 570,200 Cash dividend per share *1.20 Dividend paid at the end of second quarter $684,240 c. assets=liabilities+owners equity<-net income=revenues-expenses cash Treasury stock +117,000 +105,000 additional paid in capital +12,600 d shares outstanding second quarter 570,200 treasury shares sold in third quarter 1,400 shares outstanding in fourth quarter 571,600 cash dividend per share *1.20 dividend paid at the end of fourth quarter 685,920 e...
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