...Rosa Mingo 10/ 15/15 Ms. White Alexander Grothendieck One of the foremost mathematicians of 20th century, Alexander Grothendieck is a pioneer of modern algebraic geometry. His contributions to algebraic geometry, homological algebra and functional analysis are so huge and vast, that it antagonized even his most ardent followers who envied him for his achievements. His genius was honored by ‘Fields medal’ and the Crawford prize though he refused both on ethical grounds. During his long career in the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies in Paris, his biggest achievements were not only his theorems and concepts, but also a huge bunch of students and a strong school of thought that, helped him come up with groundbreaking theories in mathematics. The world owes a great deal to this great French mathematician for the increased generalization and formalization of mathematics in 20th century. Though leading a secluded life since his retirement in 1988, Grothendieck’s achievements are well remembered and acknowledged by the mathematical community even now. Alexander Grothendieck was born on March 28, 1928 in Berlin to Russian-born, Jewish father, Alexander Sasha Shapiro, and German protestant mother, Johanna Hanka Grothendieck. Alexander Grothendieck was born out of wedlock, though the couple stayed together all their lives. Grothendieck’s mother was briefly married to a German journalist, Johannes Raddatz and hence, his birth name was Alexander Raddatz. Grothendieck lived...
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...University of Engineering and Technology Lahore Department of Computer Science and Engineering Programming Fundamentals II Problem Set 5 1 Examples ;gets the nth member of a list. Assume n >= 1 (define takeNth (lambda (n lst) (if (empty? lst) "List too short" (if (= n 1) (car lst) (takeNth (- n 1) (cdr lst)) )))) ;length of a list (define listLength (lambda (lst) (if (empty? lst) 0 (+ 1 (listLength (cdr lst))) ))) ;remove the nth member of a list. Assume n >= 1 (define remNthHelper (lambda (n lst index) (if (empty? lst) ’() (if (= n index) (remNthHelper n (cdr lst) (+ index 1)) (cons (car lst) (remNthHelper n (cdr lst) (+ index 1))) )))) (define removeNth (lambda (n lst) (if (> n (listLength lst)) "Given list too short" 1 (remNthHelper n lst 1) ))) ;remove members m through n of a list (define subHelper (lambda (m n lst index) (if (empty? lst) ’() (if (and (= index m)) (subHelper m n (cdr lst) (+ index 1)) (cons (car lst) (subHelper m n (cdr lst) (+ index 1))) )))) (define subList (lambda (m n lst) (if (> n (listLength lst)) "Given list too short" (subHelper m n lst 1) ))) ;we can write removeNth using subList (define remove (lambda (n lst) (subList n n lst) ) ) ; rotates the list left by 1; (rotateL ’(1 2 3)) -> (2 3 1) (define rotateLHelper (lambda (1st lst) (if (empty? lst) (list 1st) (cons (car lst) (rotateLHelper 1st (cdr lst))) ))) (define rotateL (lambda (lst) (if (empty? lst) lst (rotateLHelper (car lst) (cdr lst)) ))) 2 ; rotate the...
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...Prestige Worldwide Project Management Methodology APF is an iterative and adaptive (and I add agile) approach designed to deliver maximum business value to clients within the limits of their time and cost constraints where the always variable scope is adjusted at each iteration. The client decides what constitutes maximum business value and, at the end of each iteration, the client has an opportunity to change the direction of the project based on what was learned from all previous iterations therefore, embracing and managing change, not avoiding it. •Version Scope ◦Develop the Conditions Of Satisfaction (COS) to define what is needed and what will be done to meet that need ◦Develop the Project Overview Statement (POS) which summarizes the problem/opportunity, what will be done and how, the business value, and risks, assumptions and obstacles to success ◦Prioritize functional requirements; this list may change but currently reflects the best information available ◦Develop mid-level Work Breakdown Structure showing goal, major functions, and sub-functions ◦Prioritize scope triangle (consisting of time, cost, resources, scope, and quality, customer satisfaction was left out) •Cycle Plan (iterative) ◦Extract from the WBS those activities that define the functionality to be built in this cycle ◦Decompose the extracted WBS down to the task level ◦Establish the dependencies among these tasks ◦Partition the tasks into meaningful groups and assign teams to each group ...
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...What are some of the main ethical and social responsibility issues involved in this case or dilemma? The main ethical issues in this case include bribery and curruption. It is a unethical for Australia to have business dealings with a dictator that does not comply with the UN resolutions, further the UN had put a sanction on the Saddam government but under the oil for food program scheme Australia was the main trade partner. At the same time Australian company AWD was the bigger fraud and bribery company that dealt with Saddam government. The social responsibility issue was that Australian government had traders with a dictator that was starving his people while he lived in mansions and ruled the country with brutal aggression wasn’t bad enough the Bribery and corruption of these companies are outrageous. AWB, which had control of foreign wheat production from Australia, had ruined Australia’s low corruption image single handedly. Who are the main stakeholders and what are each of their primary interests? • Saddam hussain and iraqi government – sell the oil that noone was buying in exchange for other resources such as wheat • Australian government – get good deals by exchanging wheat for oil What theoretical frameworks or models that you are aware of so far in this course might apply to this situation? • Global Codes of Ethics • Bribery and Extortion • Curruption What actions or decisions would be likely to yield the most ethical and...
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...people living in slums. The prices of clothes are also high and often some people don't even have any money to buy these to cover themselves with. The government goes about imposing taxes after taxes on the citizens. This leads to a lot of money going into the national expenditure and into the pockets of corrupt leaders and the officials. Black marketing is another result of these heavy taxes and people begin to conceal their actual income. The government should impose taxes on hoarders and rich people. Production of agricultural goods should be increased along with industrial goods. Their prices should be fixed. The government should undertake a big scheme of rationing in cities and villages Cheap clothes should be produced and essential items be distributed through government shops. Corruption must be ended at all levels. Corruption adds to the problem of prices. Bribing is common in most government offices and this leads to the rise in the prices of goods. For example, a job that can be done by paying a small amount needs more money because some...
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...Contribution of RTI Act 2005 in last 8 years of Indian Democracy PRIT DAYAL dayal.priti5@gmail.com Contribution of RTI Act 2005 in last 8 years of Indian Democracy In today’s era of power of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, new information and its application hold the key of intense impact on overall productivity gains. Almost every society has made endeavors for democratizing knowledge resources by way of putting in place the mechanisms for free flow of information and ideas so that people can access them without asking for it. People are thus empowered to make proper choices for participation in development process. Every individual or section of society requires wide range of information to be able to effectively function in the knowledge and technology driven economy. Until 2005, an ordinary citizen has no access to information held by public authority. Under the Official Secret Act, 1923, the entire development process has thus been shrouded in secrecy. It was not easy to seek information which affected the citizens, and in lack of such knowledge it was not possible for a common man to participate in meaningful debate on political and economic options available to him. The freedom of speech and expression is guaranteed under the constitution of India. Even then the citizens had no legal right to know about the details of public policies which disables them to scrutinize and rectify the deficiencies in policy planning and the execution program. Thus the...
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...Health care services in India are facing different challenges from inadequate finance and poor management to inequity in terms of quality and access (Ramani-Mavalankar, 2006). However, corruption is that underlying problem, which if not tackled, would prevent from resolving all other kinds of difficulties (Potter, 2003). Therefore, in this essay I have endeavoured to understand the forms in which corruption is prevalent in Indian Healthcare Services. Along with this, I have also tried to suggest certain measures which would help tackle corruption. The former president of Medical Council of India, Mr.Ketan Desai has been charged with corruption both the times he has been elected for the post. Despite his removal in 2001 following the charges, he was re-elected by the Government of India in 2009 (Pandya 2009). Thereafter in 2011 Mr Desai was arrested by the CBI for accepting a highly culpable amount of bribe from two medical colleges seeking recognition. (Chauhan, 2011). Mr Desai justifies the definition of corruption by Transparency International, as the result of misused powers to benefit personally instead of doing public welfare (Vian, 2007). Moreover, this definition would be appropriate for the Government of India who elected a person with history of fraud to be the president of the central health governing body of the nation. Health sector, in any nation, is a vast network involving different participants at each stage ( Hussmann,2011). Therefore it becomes difficult...
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...The 2 Sides of Power Sam Pinsky Patrick Halpenny Wednesday November 13th, 2013 ENG4U Power is a very vague terminology. Power is like a disease, very epidemics. Power can be a success or a failure, depending on the individual. Power in the right hands creates justice. Power in the wrong hands creates injustices. It corrupts human feelings and converts friends into enemies, therefore having power in the wrong hands succeeds in persuading one, using the power in a cruel and oppressive way. In the novel "Kindred", written by Octavia Butler, the novel presents revolving themes like power corruption of emotion, friendship and racism.Most of the times possessing the power can destroy the freedom of others. Power corrupts human feelings. Whenever an individual achieves the power, one becomes a different person. Rufus, the main character in the novel, possessed the power after his father's death. He became very possessive, even to Dana. The first time when Rufus met Dana he had a good reputation and liked her very much. Later on as he became mature and powerful his friendship to Dana changed to possessive love. He became very jealous of Kevin and was eager to kill him. Whenever Dana asked if he had received a response from Kevin, he would deny it. That did not last long, she soon found out that Rufus betrayed her. ->quote This shows that power can corrupt human emotions entirely. Power can turn allies into enemies. Friendship can last...
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... “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”(Lord Acton,1887) Power is something only the right person should have, it could turn into an absolute mess if it's not handled correctly. Having power means others look up to you, and you could change the way they see things. This effect a person has on someone could cause dangerous events. It can also cause something really good. Meaning the outcome of having power could be either positive or negative. A person could easily abuse power and think that people won’t retaliate. The book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell is a great example of how power can be abused. Mr.Jones, the owner of Manor Farm is an alcoholic who doesn’t treat his animals right. He sees it as he can do whatever he wants and nothing will happen.The animals decide take the power into their own hands. They are sick and tired of Mr.Jones treating them unfairly so they decide to start a revolution. In the book Mr.Jones comes back to the farm to try and take it back. The animals don't let him, they are in power now because Mr.Jones was abusing his. This shows how Mr.Jones using his power to hurt the animals turns into a negative thing. Once Mr.Jones loses his power and it turns over to Snowball. Snowball is a pig who decides to use his power to make the environment of the farm better for the animals. He sees this revolution as an opportunity to make things right. He starts getting the animals to be able to provide for themselves...
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...Jayate”, is so corrupt in all fields of life? India which is aspiring to be a super power by 2050 has many barriers on its way. Corruption stands first on the list. India being a country of great leaders is now in shortage of a leader who can lead India to new heights by eradicating corruption from its roots.Satyameva Jayathe, a divine phrase which inscribed India’s national emblem, has been really ignored by its citizens. A country which won its freedom following this motto is forgetting this motto and running after the money, they have changed the motto to “Dhaname jayathe”, succeed only through money. Corruption has become a part and parcel of our llife. From a chills birth he it gets indirectly indulged in corruption. From getting a Childs birth certificate to his entire life he gets into the trap of corruption one way or other. Corruption had made peoples life miserable. For even making his dream house or getting a dream job an individual has to fill the pockets of these corrupt officers, who are so greedy for money. Individuals have to give their hardly earned money, who without any shame, accept this money. These people take benefit of their position and status to harass the individuals for their monetary benefit. In India, most government officers and ministers are involved in corruption. From past few years many cases of corruption has really shocked the country. Ministers, who misused their positions for their personal benefit causing huge amount of loss to...
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...Internal Analysis Report Report No: 2408-1 Request: Simulation of EEPROM corruption Requester: Ann Portia Yturiaga Dinglasan <Ann.Dinglasan@finisar.com> Sample Module Submitted: FTLF1318P2BTL Date: August 16th, 2013 Prepare by: Chew Yoon Kit ------------------------------------------------- Solution details After sample module finish Module testing, sample module will proceed for Label test. In Label test, sample module will proceed with standard labeling test without customization; 1. Initialize the MapDef 2. Serial number checking 3. Part number checking 4. Memory map archive which include; a. EEPROM [Table 0] b. FCC Albany [Table 0 to 33] 5. EEPROM check with reference file 6. FCC table check with reference file Sample module will proceed to Custom Label test which test include; 1. Initialize the MapDef 2. Serial number checking Later sample module will proceed to Barcode test which test include; 1. Initialize the MapDef 2. Serial number checking 3. Part number checking Suspected area which may corrupt EEPROM; 1. Serial number checking 2. Part number checking 3. Memory map archive 4. EEPROM checking *Note: Not likely will corrupt EEPROM since it’s just only read access the EEPROM only* ------------------------------------------------- Strategy [I] Simulate 20,000 cycles of continuous read and compare; 1. Serial number checking 2. Part number checking ...
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...Branch. It can be used for both hard projects, such as buildings and roads, and soft projects, such as scholarships and medical expenses. We are not speaking about 100pesos amount of money or 1000pesos, we are speaking about millions and billions of money here, so, don’t be amaze if the persons holding this big amount of money tend to be a greedy one. I will give you some reasons why pork barrel should be abolish, the People of the Philippines cannot monitor what happens to their money, we cannot monitor if our money really goes to where it should be, if it really used for the convenient of the many or by few only, we cannot monitor what really happens to our money. Another reason is that this pork barrel system can easily be used for corruption, in the means of allocating millions of pesos for a road or building projects but instead of using competent materials they used sub-standards ones so that they can filch some of the money allocated for the project. Another reasons is the congress can manipulated the money and make it disappear little by little until its gone, then they will make some report that they used it to make road projects, medical projects and other projects. Pork barrel is a system that allows persons in position to be corrupt. For me I can say it is like a virus that when you are in this system you’re likely to be a corrupted one if your immune system is weak. I can compare pork barrel to a fire, it may light up a house or it may burn the house, it is in the...
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...How Are Power and Corruption Related? by Sebastian Sandoval "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." – Lord John Dalberg-Acton Macbeth and Lord of the Flies depict power and corruption. However in Macbeth's case it is his fear of being forgotten that leads to his ambitions for power and in turn corrupts him. In Lord of the Flies we see Jack's ambition to become chief corrupt him into doing whatever it takes to achieve that position. Both works seem to coincide with Hobbes theory that "man is naturally savage" and that savagery combined with the notion of power can only lead to one thing, corruption. In this essay the relationship between power and corruption will be explored through the lens of three texts: Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1623), Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954), and Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651). Let us begin with The Tragedy of Macbeth. Throughout the play, we see Macbeth change from a noble and brave soldier into a shadow of his former self. In the beginning we see an internal struggle with the decision to kill King Duncan. This is most clearly depicted in act I when Macbeth says, "We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honored me of late,"(1.7. 28-30 ). It is after the murder of Duncan that we begin to notice a sinister change. Macbeth begins to murder anyone who has or could get in his way even his friend Banquo. In act 3 Macbeth's plan is first revealed in his conversation...
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...governments, it is written, rigid and supreme, i.e. laws of the nation must conform to it. The governments, union or state, are formed through elections held every five years, by having the majority of members in their respective lower houses. CORRUPTION IS WIDESPREAD IN INDIA, SAYS THE US REPORT…. Corruption in India is a major issue that adversely affects its economy. A study conducted by Transparency International in year 2005 found that more than 62% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or influence peddling to get jobs done in public offices successfully. In its study conducted in year 2008, Transparency International reports about 40% of Indians had firsthand experience of paying bribes or using a contact to get a job done in public office.[4] In 2012 India has ranked 94th out of 176 countries in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, tied with Benin, Colombia, Djibouti, Greece, Moldova, Mongolia, and Senegal. Most of the largest sources of corruption in India are entitlement programmes and social spending schemes enacted by the Indian government. Examples include Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and National Rural Health Mission. Other daily sources of corruption include India's trucking industry which is forced to pay billions in bribes annually to numerous regulatory and police stops on its interstate highways. Indian media has widely...
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...Problem Fraudulent Disbursements Fraudulent disbursements are schemes which result in a building owner making payments to the contractor based on false pretenses. Here are just a few: Falsified wages Falsifying wages involves invoicing labor in excess of actual cost and/or submitting falsified payroll information. In addition to hours not worked, individuals may be invoiced at the incorrect labor classification rate. For example, Corrupt Practices In the ACFE report, the most common instances of fraud involved corruption, which occurred in 27 percent of all cases. Corruption typically includes two bribery schemes: kickbacks and bid rigging. Both are avoidable with preventive controls. Kickbacks Kickbacks are undisclosed payments the contractor makes to an employee of the building owner. In the construction industry, this may include approval of a change order as part of the overbilling With respect to bid rigging the main concern is not the type of bidding process that is used, but whether there is an aggregate segregation of roles so that the project manager is not the one receiving and opening bids, as well as receiving information on the contract. Controlling Risk at all Stages To ensure building owners are only paying for the goods and services that were specified, internal auditors need to ensure implementation of key controls has occurred. The following controls should be implemented for each stage of the six stages of the construction life cycle...
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