...Assignment 1 - Hip to be Square Sonal Rewanwar Answer 1: The shift into the new mobile payment market started mainly with the advancements in wireless connectivity. The availability of cheap and readily available cellular and WiFi connectivity gave merchants an option to move from the restrictive and geographically limited wired point of sales. The major contributors to this shift were the four payment services using mobile payments that sprung up, namely, 1. 2. 3. 4. Premium Mobile SMS Based payments Direct Mobile Billing Mobile web payments NFC based payments Premium Mobile SMS Based payments: This service allowed for the payments of a purchase to be made via an SMS based service. The charges from the same were added in the users monthly bill or deducted from the prepaid account balance. Direct Mobile Billing: Similar to SMS based billing, this was an utility used on smartphones. This involved a two step authentication procedure to securely authorize payments from the smart phone.This did not require and credit card or bank accounts and the charges were levied on the customers mobile account again. Mobile web payments: Consumers made payments using internet based application or internet browser. Similar to Paypal this required credit cards/debit cards NFC based payments: This technology relied on RFID enabled chips or NFC enabled smartphones to communicate with the radio frequency enabled receiver. The payment information was wirelessly...
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...Square operates in the mobile payment market primarily in the US. The participants in the market are trying to provide their customers with an easy way to make payments in store with the use of credit cards or mobile phones or any other means. Previously, it was the financial institutions that determined which technology to use, however nowadays the competition within the market is high and many different approaches to mobile payments have emerged leaving a high uncertainty on which of the market players will survive in the long run. Consumer demand for easy access to their money through electronic wallets has grown exponentially, and consumers will soon expect mobile money to be accepted almost everywhere. Competition in the market is based on practicality, convenience and fee structure. Many of the current payment systems require stores and merchants to pay high fees in order to allow their customers to pay by credit card or other non-cash payment options. Many of the small organizations cannot afford these kinds of fees and don’t offer mobile payment systems yet. I believe Square should heavily focus on that segment of the market. As the competition is immense and competitors like Paypal and Google have more potential to attract the big corporate players, specializing in small businesses allows Square to avoid the high level of competition and to survive in the long run. There is a big market, up to 26 million American small businesses, that are not benefiting of mobile payment...
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...because each stage is critical to the successful execution of the serve. The Underhand Serve The underhand serve is a great option for beginning players because it is the easiest of the three types of serves to master. Since every rally begins with a serve, the primary goal of any inexperienced server should be to just put the ball into play. Posture Practicing good underhand serving posture prepares you to be a consistent underhand server and can also prepare you for overhand serving. Here are some serving posture tips to keep in mind: * Feet should be slightly staggered with the foot opposite your hitting arm out in front. * The majority of the server’s body weight should be shifted to the back foot. * Hips should be positioned so they are facing square towards the net. The Toss Though the underhand serve does not...
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...does not mean you’ve to stick to that trend, it’s just an idea :) Hope you like it! Slender How to determine if you’re slender: Light weight build, small joints, lean muscle, a flat chest, small shoulders, long limbs and not very curvy. Your hip measurements will be regarding the same as your bust measurement or a little bit bigger and your waist are slightly less, but not same as an hourglass. You are lucky to possess a slender body and most garments will fit you perfectly, but sometimes you may feel you want to highlight your feminine curves some more. Garments with frills, ruffles and fluted edges will create size which will provide you those feminine curves you are looking for. An open back can flaunt your sexy back which is the new fashionable cleavage. Chunky statement necklaces that fall around the bust area are great for putting an impression of bigger breast without having to turn to very padded bras. Swirly floral prints can instantly provide a feminine look. Keep jewellery thin and simple because it goes well to your long and slender limbs. Athletic How to determine if you’ve an athletic body: Athletic body types are toned and well defined. Shoulders are broad, tummy and arms are toned without much curve and your hips are square. “The great advantage of an athletic shape body is you can wear pretty much anything,” says Alain Mehada. “Still, numerous of women's who have this shape complain regarding feeling unfeminine and find it difficult to find...
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...Nutrition Insert Name Course, Class, Semester Instructor Institution Date Nutrition Question One BMI = Weight in Kilograms/Height in Square Meters My Weight: 85 kilograms Height: 187 Centimeters Therefore, my BMI is 85/ (1.87x1.87) My BMI = 85/3.4969 My BMI = 24.3 Kilogram per Square Meters My BMI is classified as Normal. Normal BMI ranges from 18.5 to 24.9. This means that I have an adequate nutritional status. BMI connotes to Body Mass Index. It is a measure of an individual’s nutritional health status as dictated by the way in which an individual’s weight deviates from his/her height. According to the World Health Organization indices, a BMI of less than 18.5 means that an individual is underweight, whereas a BMI of more than or equal to 25 is regarded as overweight. One advantage of using BMI aligns with the fact that it is easy to use and does not require any form of training. Assessing an individual’s BMI only requires an assessment of an individual’s weight and height. The disadvantage of using BMI is that it does not factor in the differences that individuals’ have regarding their anatomy. As an example, BMI when used for men and women is not adequate because men and women have variations attributed to their weights and heights. Two other methods that can be used to assess body fat or weight status are MUAC and Waist-Hip-Ratio. MUAC stands for Mid Upper Arm circumferences and assesses an individual’s nutritional status basing on the circumferences of their...
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...bleeding-related complications. This study examines the incidence and costs of bleeding-related complications and/or blood product transfusions occurring as a consequence of surgery in various inpatient surgical cohorts. Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted using Premier’s Perspective™ hospital database. Patients who had an inpatient procedure within a specialty of interest (cardiac, vascular, non-cardiac thoracic, solid organ, general, reproductive organ, knee/hip replacement, or spinal surgery) during 2006-2007 were identified. For each specialty, the rate of bleeding-related complications (including bleeding event, intervention to control for bleeding, and blood product transfusions) was examined, and hospital costs and length of stay (LOS) were compared between surgeries with and without bleeding-related complications. Incremental costs and ratios of average total hospital costs for patients with bleeding-related complications vs. those without complications were estimated using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, adjusting for demographics, hospital characteristics, and other baseline characteristics. Models using generalized estimating equations (GEE) were also used to measure the impact of bleeding-related complications on costs while accounting for the effects related to the clustering of patients receiving care from the same hospitals. Results: A total of...
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...great addition to any yogis practice. As I mentioned a few weeks ago in the Choosing a Yoga Strap 101 post you can even use a tie if you don't have a strap yet though I do believe they're worth buying. There are endless ways you can use a yoga strap to deepen your practice through proper alignement and support. Here are a few poses to get you started! How to use a yoga strap: Seated Poses The two pictures above display two variations of cobbler’s pose. This pose is for stretching the inner thighs and hips though people with tight hips will have trouble with this one. Begin in an upright seated position, make a loop with your strap placing it around your sacrum (around the top of the hip bones) and around the feet. If you’d like your legs closer to your body tighten the strap. Using the strap in this pose keeps the body in proper alignment assisting the pelvis to tilt forward while keeping the spine straight. You can also lay on your back allowing the hips to open. ...
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...Circuits Squats :work your butt and upper legs. Either with your hands on your hips or holding dumbells with your arms down at your sides (you can also hold your arms out in front of your torso or your fists in at your chest to create a counterbalance, or put them in the overhead position to challenge your posture), stand with your feet as wide apart as your hips and place your weight slightly back on your heels. Let your arms hang down at your sides. Pull your abdominals in and stand tall with square shoulders. Sit back and down, as if you’re sitting into a chair. Lower as far as you can without leaning your upper body more than a few inches forward. Don’t lower any farther than the point at which you’re parallel to the floor, and don’t allow your knees to shoot out in front of your toes. When your thighs are parallel to the floor, straighten your legs and stand back up. Don’t lock your knees at the top of the movement. Obliques curls: These curls work the obliques, the sides of your core area midsection. Lie on your right side with your arms crossed in front of you. Bending sideways at your waist, lift your upper body off the ground a few inches. You may need to brace your feet under a bar or sturdy piece of furniture. Repeat. On your second circuit, lie on your left side. Lunge: Lunges are amazing for the glutieus maximus, hips and upper legs. Stand upright with your feet shoulder-width apart. Take a large step forward, and plant your foot on the ground. Keeping your front...
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... | | Introduction It’s 1980 and in the park in New City there is a crowd gathered. They are a mix of music that is both somewhat offensive and exciting. The music embodies the rhythm of the African Diasporas as well as added beats of artist of a bygone era. The people are both drown to this strangely intoxication music as well as the troop of dancers that are a kind of visual representation of the music that exist alongside the dancers. You see the dancers but you just barely saw this square box sitting on the small bench. You can just make out the lights flashing in the midday sun. It has two oversized speakers that seem to reproduce a sound that is far greater than its size. What is this strange new device? Where did it come from? And where can I get one? Select the single cultural artifact that you believe best represents the culture in which you live today. Its 1980 and this is the beginning age of Hip Hop. Hip Hop was and is the music of the young and disenchanted. They are seeking a voice in the crowd of society that seems to want to drown them. They needed a way to raise their...
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...of bar areas that they would need to accommodate that amount of quest anticipated. Their personal experience as well as the knowledge obtained in their studies not only gave them insight on the business but also gave them an idea of what they would like to have in their own place of business. Lisa and Ruben maintain the office and all of the business related records for the club. The club has under gone extensive remodeling to accommodate the quest and is designed to cater to multiples types of crowds and be a fun energetic environment. Ruben and Lisa have done an excellent job as it pertains to making the club a live energetic atmosphere that will be safe and comfortable for their quest. “The club occupies about 6,000 square feet of space with a 600 square foot dance floor, seating for 220, a kitchen for appetizers and short orders, and a bar with four pour stations.” (About Club IT). The mission statement of Club IT (from the owners) “We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ’s,...
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...Wednesday Strength workout Thursday Cardio at a steady pace Friday Off (Optional: Yoga class or DVD) Saturday *Cardio in intervals or Strength workout Sunday Cardio at a steady pace *Note: You can double up any workout to do both cardio and strength on the same day. If weight loss is your goal, however, Gregory Joujon-Roche recommends doing the cardio component first, to take advantage of higher energy levels and maximize fat burning. The 21-Day Total-Body Workout Get lean and super-sculpted with this combo of muscle-toning strength moves and calorie-blasting cardio. Lose Every Bulge in 3 Weeks, continued www.fitnessmagazine.com 1. Snap-Kick Lunge Fitness Focus: Quadriceps, Calves, Glutes, Hips, Abs • Stand with feet hip-width apart, fists under chin. • Lunge forward with right...
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...In this paper we will address the Club IT’s mission and primary clientele. We also will address their information resources which includes intranet resources. Also, we will discuss a strategy that will be able to put the Club IT over the top of its competition and make the most money possible. The club occupies about 6,000 square feet of space with a 600 square foot dance floor, seating for 220, a kitchen for appetizers and short orders, and a bar with four pourstations. The mission for Club IT is “"We, Ruben and Lisa, offer you live music, DJ's, dance space and refreshments that suit your lifestyle. You are our friends, and we seek to build a community that meets regularly at Club IT." The primary clientele for the Club IT is among the age group of 18-30 yrs old. The reason of this age group is because of the music that is being played at this club. The club plays hip-hop, techno, electonica, Is this Essay helpful? Join OPPapers to read more and access more than 350,000 just like it! GET BETTER GRADES MP3 and live music. The information resource that Club IT uses is the intranet resource. An intranet is computer network that is private which uses the Internet protocol technologies. The objective of that is to secure and share any part of the organizations information or their network operating system within the organization. There are some very uses on here that are able to help Club IT. One of its uses are uses is to be able to help the club do a culture...
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...and side lying hip abduction 10mins Training implementation Football:- Juggling for controlling and passing skills practice 10mins Cooling Down Stretching exercises IIIrd & IVth Weeks Training Time Session Exercises Reps/ Sets Rest between Sets Intensity 10mins Warming Up Jogging Each- 30 sec 4-5 sets 30-45 Seconds 50-60% 5 mins Fundamental exercises Stretching and Mobility exercises 15mins Main Exercises Plank, side plank, bridge, side lying hip abduction and oblique crunch 15mins Training implementation Shooting with right and left foot and heading practice 10mins Cooling Down Stretching exercises Vth & VIth Weeks Training Time Session Exercises Reps/ Sets Rest between Sets Intensity 10mins. Warming Up Jogging Each- 30 sec 4-5 sets 30-45 Seconds 60-65% 5mins. Fundamental exercises Mobility exercises 15mins. Main Exercises Plank, side plank, bridge and side lying hip abduction, oblique crunch straight leg raise and cycling 15mins Training implementation Dribbling and shooting at target practice 10mins. Cooling Down Stretching exercises VIIth & VIIIth Weeks Training Time Session Exercises Reps/ Sets Rest between Sets Intensity 10mins Warming Up Jogging Each- 25 sec 6-8 sets 45-60 Seconds 60-65% 5mins Fundamental Movements/ exercises Mobility / Dynamic exercises 20mins Main Exercises Plank, side plank, bridge and side lying hip abduction, oblique...
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...There have been many studies to try to find the best way to hit the serve, but this study focuses on the anthropometric factors of the body and the body’s kinematics effect on the speed of the and to improve the training of athlete’s serves. (Wong, Keung, Lau, Chung, Chow, 2014) Methods The author used twelve male elite tennis players with major match play experience from the Hong Kong national tennis team. The players had a mean age of 20.5, 8.3 average years of training and 36.9 average hours of training per month. The BMI was determined by the formula of the player’s body mass divided by the square of his body height. (Wong, et, al. 2014 p. 22) In order to find the body and racket kinematics of the serves, the movements were recorded by an 8-camera motion analysis system. The ball speed was measured by a radar speed gun in kilometers per hour that was placed on the baseline of the tennis court. To find the kinematics themselves, 43 “retro-reflective” markers were placed on the participant and the racket to measure body kinematics and the moment of ball to racket...
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...United States by African Americans, hip hop culture and music is now global in scope. Youth culture and opinion is meted out in both Israeli hip hop and Palestinian hip hop, while Canada, France, Germany, the U.K., Poland, Brazil, Japan, Africa, Australia and the Caribbean have long-established hip hop followings. According to the U.S. Department of State, hip hop is "now the center of a mega music and fashion industry around the world," that crosses social barriers and cuts across racial lines. National Geographic recognizes hip hop as "the world's favorite youth culture" in which "just about every country on the planet seems to have developed its own local rap scene." Through its international travels, hip hop is now considered a “global musical epidemic,” and has diverged from its ethnic roots by way of globalization and localization. Although some non-American rappers may still relate with young black Americans, hip hop now transcends its original culture, and is appealing because it is “custommade to combat the anomie that preys on adolescents wherever nobody knows their name.” Hip hop is attractive in its ability to give a voice to disenfranchised youth in any country, and as music with a message it is a form available to all societies worldwide. From its early spread to Europe and Japan to an almost worldwide acceptance through Asia and South American countries such as Brazil, the musical influence has been global. Hip hop sounds and styles differ from region...
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