...SUMMARY | | * Physical quantity is a quantity that can be measured. * Table 1.1 shows two types of physical quantities:Table 1.1 : Two types of physical quantities Basic quantities | Derived quantities | - fundamental physical quantities- examples: length, mass, temperature and etc. | - combination of several basic quantities- examples: acceleration, force, volume and etc. | * Units are standardized quantities we use to compare our measurements against. * In physics, a standard system of units based on metric system is known as the Systẻme International d’Unitẻs or SI. * SI uses seven base units including meter (m), kilogram (kg), and second (s) for physical quantities length, mass and time, respectively. * Large values in SI unit are normally written in powers of ten. * Another way in writing units in powers of ten is by using prefixes. * Table 1.2 shows some of the powers of ten and the SI unit prefixes used for them.Table 1.2 : SI Prefixes Power of ten | Prefix | Symbols | 10-18 | Atto | a | 10-15 | Femto | f | 10-12 | Pico | p | 10-9 | Nano | n | 10-6 | Micro | µ | 10-3 | Mili | m | 10-2 | Centi | c | 103 | Kilo | k | 106 | Mega | M | 109 | Giga | G | 1012 | Tera | T | 1015 | Peta | P | 1018 | Exa | E | * Significant figures are number of meaningful digits in a numerical quantity. * A significant figure is one that is reliably known * Nonzero digits are always significant. * Zeros are significant when: ...
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...Case Application Living Large Case Application Living Large What growth strategy does Live Nation appear to be using? What competitive advantage do you think Live Nation has? It appears as though Live Nation may be using two kinds of growth strategies; Concentration, which focuses in its primary line of business (in this case the music industry), and “increasing the number of products and services offered or markets served in that primary business”(Robbins & Coulter, 2009), and horizontal integration by combining with competitors. In 2009, Live Nation announced they were merging with ticketmaster to “expand into a complimentary business” (Rapino, 2009). With the concentration growth strategy, Rapino is able to offer many products such as concert tickets, merchandise, videos, and albums when other companies only offer one or a couple of these products. Using the horizontal integration growth strategy Rapino is able to eliminate competition and keep profit inside the company. “The key to Live Nation’s growth strategy is the ability to connect to those millions of people who attend shows every year” (Robbins & Coulter, 2009). By keeping a database that includes contact information for every fan (or client) that Live Nation has ever had, Live Nation is able to “connect” fans to their artists with greater ease. By strengthening the artist to fan connection, the purchase of merchandise and tickets is easier and helps Live Nation to keep growing and profiting. ...
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...supporting the weight of a bridge, roof, or wall above it. | Thorax | Грудная клетка | Кеуде қуысы | the part of the body of a mammal between the neck and the abdomen, including the cavity enclosed by the ribs, breastbone, and dorsal vertebrae, and containing the chief organs of circulation and respiration; the chest. | Basic | Основной | Негізгі | forming an essential foundation or starting point; fundamental. | Cartilage | Хрящ | Шеміршек | firm, whitish, flexible connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It is more widespread in the infant skeleton, being replaced by bone during growth. | Pelvis | Таз | Жамбас | the large bony structure near the base of the spine to which the hind limbs or legs are attached in humans and many other vertebrates. | Ligament | Связка | Байлам | a short band of tough, flexible, fibrous...
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...Argue whether or not "Simple living" would be beneficial or, even, possible in modern society In this contemporary society, simple living is an uncommon practice. However, making one’s life simple requires consistency, determination, and demanding practice. Everyone perceives the meaning of simple living differently since it is a deliberate way of living. For example, some people are willing to forgo everyday amenities such as cell phones, televisions, and the internet whereas some others are not, but instead are ready to give up things like expensive cars, jewelries, large homes, and so on. Although, downsizing one’s life requires people to do without certain things, it’s satisfying and rewarding since it helps to reduce expenses and consumption, alleviate stress and hassles in life, and improve the quality of life. Simplifying one’s life makes one refrain from frivolous spending and excessive consumption, which will consequently increase savings so that expenses can be met on time. One would be well-budgeted to meet unforeseen circumstances. Moreover, most people do not know the difference between needs and wants. For instance, a Mercedes Benz, which is a luxury good could be considered a basic necessity in this modern society. Everyone needs the basic necessities, that is, food, water, clothes, and shelter to subsist. However, reducing unnecessary possession and consumption on these necessities would be of a great deal of help. For example, instead of eating outside...
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...allowing Bolivia to grow into a prosperous nation. Analysis & Discussion What are the Main International Management Problem(s)? After viewing the video, it is found that the major problem lies in the poverty and lack of education of its people and the corruption of its politicians (Buckley, 2009). There are many reasons why other countries, both within and outside of the region, would not want to see Bolivia prosper and increase its financial potential. Many of Bolivia’s neighbors are economically stable and their strength grows yearly. On the other hand, Bolivia itself is going in the opposite direction i.e. the standard of living in this country is extremely low (Eun and Resnick, 2007). One of the biggest problems or issues associated with this managerial problem is the lack of education within the region (Folsom, Gordon and Spanogle, 2001). Many large businesses based in other countries would like to keep Bolivia totally deprived from the education. This lack of education allows them to take advantage of the local population. One reason that is playing a vital role is the fact that most of the foreign businesses leaders believe that if Bolivia begins to...
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...Drugs in 1971. Most people today go on throughout their entire lives from birth to death without knowing compounds like these psychedelic drugs even exist, let alone know how profoundly it can change their views on life forever. To understand how these drugs can change the world, this paper will address these following questions: 1. Why are these substances illegal in most civilized societies? 2. How do these compounds affect human consciousness? 3. What kind of experiences does one have while on these substances? 4. How can these substances change the mindset of an individual? This paper focuses on addressing these questions. Once addressed, one can see how these substances can change the world for the benefit of all living beings and the planet itself. Why Are These Substances Illegal In Most Civilized Societies? In society today, most countries on Earth have most psychedelic drugs added to their list of illegal substances. With little to no scientific research done on psychedelics, these drugs have been banned for public possession and usage. An individual can face serious criminal charges for possessing and/or consuming these substances even if that individual is not hurting himself or anyone else. While legal drugs such as Alcohol and Tobacco kills and destroys lives of millions...
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...Complications after abdominal surgery: The term abdominal surgery broadly covers surgical procedures that involve opening the abdomen. Surgery of each abdominal organ is dealt with separately in connection with the description of that organ (see stomach, kidney, liver, etc.) Diseases affecting the abdominal cavity are dealt with generally under their own names (e.g. appendicitis). Complications of abdominal surgery include: * Bleeding * Infection - Local infection of the operative field is prevented by asepsis (using sterile materials), and prophylactic antibiotics are often given in abdominal surgery or patients known to have a heart defect or mechanical heart valves (that would be more prone to endocarditis * Post-surgical adhesions - abnormal bands of tissue that grow in the human body. They may be thought of as internal scar tissue. In the case of frozen shoulder (also known as adhesive capsulitis) adhesions grow between the shoulder joint surfaces, restricting motion. Abdominal adhesions are most commonly caused by abdominal surgical procedures. These adhesions may grow over time and become attached to the walls of the abdomen, as well as to internal organs. The adhesions may cause internal organs to attach to one another as well. One common complication of abdominal adhesions is intestinal obstruction, in which an adhesion wraps around an intestine and prevents the flow of material through the digestive tract. Depending on the severity of the obstruction...
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...Another incentive to increase the minimum wage is the fact that living costs simply do not add up for minimum wage workers. That is to say, the current minimum wage simply does not match the current living wage for most of these Americans. A living wage is essentially the income necessary for a person to provide for themselves or their family. In a 2014 article for CUNY’s New Labor Forum, Peter Dreier recalled the introduction of the term “living wage” itself removed stigma attached to low-wage workers because it revealed the problem not as a situation of people who are in poverty due to bad decisions and lack of intelligence or motivation but rather as a situation where mothers, fathers and children’s can’t even make the means to meet their basic physiological needs despite working full-time, (Dreier, 2014). Economists calculate recommended living wages based on the cost of living in a given area and the housing size as well if it is a single parent household. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the current minimum wage was determined by amendments passed by the Fair Labor Standards Act in 2007 that proposed it would be incrementally be raised to $7.25 per hour effective on July 24, 2009, (U.S. Department of Labor). This rate has not increased since then despite ever-increasing living costs and despite the fact that productivity has risen, where productivity is measured by how much output can be produced in an average hour of work. According to analyst Lawrence Mishel...
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...THE LIVING WAGE AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ECONOMY INTRODUCTION The topic of our study investigates the living wage and its effect on the economy. A survey will be distributed asking questions about wages, cost of living, and making ends meet. Our conclusions and recommendations on the topic of living wages will result from this survey. BACKGROUND The definition of living wage is “a term used to describe the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve some specific standard of living. This means a person working forty hours a week, ”should be able to afford housing, food, utilities, transportation, health care and recreation” at a basic level. (Wikipedia.org). Currently, a living wage is set by local municipalities based on a local cost of living assessment, and applies only to government employees and/or contractors. This is different from minimum wage, which is set by law through the Federal government. The federal minimum wage is the minimum amount that a worker can be paid an hour and this law applies to nearly all workers. In Michigan, the minimum wage is currently $7.40 an hour. Minimum wage does not always meet the requirements of a living wage. (Wikipedia.org). For example, in 2008, East Pointe, MI paid its employees a living wage of $10.40/hr , while Detroit, MI paid its employees and contractors $8.25/hr, both with health benefits in comparison to $7.40/hr Federal minimum wage.(laborstudies.wayne.edu/ According to the Economic Policy Institute...
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...Innovations in technology Case 1 1. What factors do you think enabled Iddan, an engineer with no medical background, to pioneer the development of wireless endoscopy? To innovate in a field, one does not have to be an expert in the field, but one with the ability to come up with a creative solution for a problem. Such is the case of Iddan, an engineer by profession, he had worked on many major military projects and worked to develop a guiding system for missiles. In short, Iddan was a very intelligent engineer, so when his friend had Dr. Scapa taught him about the limitations of existing tools of his field and urged Iddan to develop a better way to be able to see inside a patient’s intestine, Iddan took it upon himself and tried to come up with a solution. Iddan was told about charged-coupled devices (CCD’s) and began to dwell on the idea of an independent device that could use the body’s natural peristaltic action to propel the camera through the intestines. Iddan’s idea went through many changes, but still followed the same principal. It was his creative solution to an existing solution and the creative implementation of existing technologies that allowed him to develop the wireless endoscopy. 2. To what degree would you characterize Given’s development of the camera as “science-push” versus “demand-pull”? The development of Given was due to a science-push, when Dr. Scapa requested Iddan to develop a non-invasive means to study the small intestine, Iddan went and pitched...
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...Queen Green MNGT 5950 June 7, 2007 WOMEN AT WORK IN CONNECTICUT: 1880-1920 In 1977 the average women could expect to spend 27.6 years of her life in the work force, compared with 38.3 years of men. Women workers are concentrated in low paying dead end jobs. As a result, the average women worker earns only about three-fifths of that a man does, even when both work full time year round (U. S. Department of Labor, “20 Facts on Women Workers,” 1980). How did women inherit this inferior position in the United States work place? Has it always been this way? Has their position improved since the country industrialized at the turn of the century? Do male or female workers have control over the types of jobs they get and the working conditions they find there? Though most American women have always been relegated to low-level, subservient jobs in and out of the home, many have been able to exercise varying degrees of choice in their work lives. Between 1880 and 1920 the choices available to women expanded due to the change in job definition, technology, the production pressures of World War 1, the growing militancy of women workers riding the tide of labor unrest during the war, and the increased acceptance of women in the work force. The period of 1880 to 1920 is of particular importance in our economic history because the structure of our present economic world developed at that time. Many new jobs were stereotyped by sex, while many jobs opportunities opened up for...
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...I have jello shots in my pockets. It's not comfortable, in fact it's wet and sticky. I don't like it. However, I still have them there and have made no effort to clean up myself. This is because, as I write this, I am drunk and have been my entire life. I have a rare condition that constantly ferments my food and drinks and produces alcohol inside my own body. This is an actual condition where a human is born with an abnormal amount of yeasts inside their intestines. When I eat my food is processed normally and enters my colon where it becomes fecal matter. This is where it gets interesting folks. The crap stays inside my intestines in preparation for exit from my you-know-where but as it stays inside the intestines, the yeast begins to consume any nutrients left, much like dogs eat their own steaming piles after taking a good one, and they create gases that are actually alcohol. The alcohol enters my bloodstream and provides me with a constant drunk feeling. Let me tell you folks, it sucks. I constantly take whizzes on cop cars, fall down laughing, and throw up on my best friend, whoever that may be that day. I have gone to doctors looking for a cure, but even the best ones just say to have a cup of coffee and try to balance the alcohol with caffeine. One actually hypothesized that the removal of my intestines would solve the problem. However, he also proposed the implanting of a snake carcass as snakes have roughly the same length and consistency of a human intestine. The...
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...given near linea alba, if abdomen is much enlarged than the gas of caecum should be relieved by external device of needle otherwise there is chances of rupture while opening the abdominal cavity. Anesthesia with Xalazine and ketamine are sufficient. Large amount of normal saline is required for washing the exposed parts of intestine. The parts of intestine must be repositioned properly. Care must be taken while horse is recovering from anesthesia. It may injure itself. Proper broadspectrum antibiotic coverage after surgery is necessary. Period of first five days after surgery is critical after surgery. 5.4 PANCREATITIS Pancreatits is not an uncommon disease in horses. Clinical signs included repeated attack of mild colic, body weight loss, increased or normal appetite and diarrhoea. Disease can occur both in foals and adult horses both. The affected foal can’nt grows well even after good appetite and nutrition. Faeces become large in volume and having bad odour. The affected horse responds well to the treatment with pancreazymine (combination of pancreatic enzymes, in a dose 5 times to the human dose) for one month and than withdraw the treatment in a tapering way. 5.6 HYPERLIPEMIA...
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...Submitted By: Ali Tahir Roll Number: FA14-EMBA-034-CVC Assignment 2 ------------------------------------------------- Do you think that Higher GDP shows higher standard of living? Explain your answer with logical justifications. Higher GDP does not show a higher standing standard. GDP does not measure happiness, or well-being, or what economists call utility. As a gross measure, it aggregates data for a geographic area, ignoring important distributional questions and individual preferences. It does not account for the value of a nation’s stock of assets and liabilities. GDP is not a good measure for the well-being of a nation because more populated countries generally have a higher GDP whereas the people as a whole may not be enjoying a high living standard. Some reasons how this is justified can be: 1. Free time or leisure is not included in GDP analysis. While someone may be happier only working three days a week, that additional day off will reduce the GDP value. It is possible for very industrious country have a very high GDP, but its entire people could be overworked and sick which would turn to a poor wellbeing number. 2. GDP measures total production for a nation, and GDP per capita gives an average amount of output per person. However it does not tell how GDP is divided among its residents. 3. Some services and products included in the GDP measure actually lower our well-being. When expenditures on services are made it doesn’t necessarily...
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...Bottle Fed By Jon R Conibear I Giardia is an infection of the small intestine caused by a microscopic organism (protozoa), Symptoms: Abdominal pain; Diarrhea; Gas or bloating; Headache; Loss of appetite; Low-grade fever; Nausea; life-threatening if untreated. Mode of Transmision; Waterborne. Cholera is an infection of the large intestine caused by a microscopic organism (Vibrio cholera), Symptoms: Diarria, dehydration; life threatening if untreated. Mode of Transportation; Waterborne. Dysentery is a microscopic gastro-intestinal Entamoeba histolitica amoeba (Shingella dysenteriae bacteria), Symptoms; severe, often bloody diarrhea, vomiting, fever; life-threatening if untreated. Mode of Transmission; food/waterborne Cryptosporidiosis is a microscopic gastro-intestinal parasite (Cryptosporidium parvum protozoa), Symptoms; severe diarrhea; will cause death if immune system is impaired. Mode of Transportation; waterborne; resists chlorine; ozonation process is highly effective. These diseases are microscopic with funky names, causing...
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