A new study shows that children who spend more time watching television spend less time interacting with their family and playing creatively. Children watch television more than any other activity. Researchers from University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Children’s Hospital wanted to understand whether and how this affects children’s health and behavior. Dr. Elizabeth Vandewater and her colleagues surveyed 2‚900 children ages 12 and under around the United States and analyzed all of the children’s
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Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) belongs the genus Cicer‚ tribe Cicereae‚ sub-family Papilionaceae and family Leguminoseae. The genus Cicer encompasses 43 species. Among them nine are annuals‚ 33 are perennial and one with unspecified life cycle. Of the 9 annual species‚ Cicer arietinum L. is the only cultivated species. Based on the morphological characteristics‚ life cycle and geographical distribution‚ Van der Maesen (1987) classified the Cicer genus into four sections. Eight annual species‚ namely
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The advantages and disadvantages of technology The world moves and develops all the time. Technology has also advanced over time. In recent years‚ advanced technology has caused many significant changes in some specific areas. Because of this‚ human society is improving possibly faster than at any point in history. Whilst in the past technology was described as a method of creating some new inventions‚ today it drives the development of human civilization and puts emphasis on using scarce resources
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Wind-Generated Electricity A Renewable Non-Polluting Resource Wind energy is a free‚ renewable resource‚ so no matter how much is used today‚ there will still be the same supply in the future. Wind energy is also a source ofclean‚ non-polluting‚ electricity. Unlike conventional power plants‚ wind plants emit no air pollutants or greenhouse gases. According to the U.S. Department of Energy‚ in 1990‚ California’s wind power plants offset the emission of more than 2.5
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Supply Chain: Nike‚ Inc. Mariapaz D. Ruiz University of Phoenix MBA 550 Supply Chain: Nike‚ Inc. The supply chain plays a critical role in the transformation and global growth of a company especially in the current economic situation. The global supply chain is the transformation flow linking the raw materials‚ parts suppliers‚ manufacturers‚ and service support operations into products and services and distributing these products locally for consumers (Chase
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arches are a symbol recognized immediately by most. Our group chose to do our report on McDonald’s because it is one of the most well-known corporations worldwide‚ and was listed as number three on Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25 List for 2012. This was recently announced at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in May of this year. McDonald’s started in 1937 as a drive-in restaurant by two brothers‚ Richard and Maurice McDonald. Hamburgers were just ten cents. In 1948‚ after realizing that
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of products due to localization often contributed to forecast errors. This innacurate forecasts were the basis for safety stock calculation creating high inventory levels and backorders. DC’s were discoordinated and divided in terms of inventory policys due to the lack of a scientific rule on this. The magnitud of demand helped to this Inventory/Services crisis because having such
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3. FTAs – advantages and disadvantages The principal point of Free Trade Agreements is to secure trade liberalisation. While the traditional debate about FTAs is the danger that they can divert rather than create trade‚ the record to date suggests there has been little diversion and that FTAs and regional agreements have been effective in encouraging wider trade liberalisation. A practical advantage of FTAs is that they are quicker and easier to negotiate than multilateral agreements because fewer
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therefore employee empowerment would be giving official authority and power to employees‚ or giving the employees responsibility for what they do. Employee empowerment‚ or just empowerment‚ has many positive and also many negative or controversial sides‚ throughout this paper I will discuss these points and discuss them in depth. Empowerment is a trend that has been hitting companies since the 1990 ’s. The movement had originally started in the 1980 ’s when managers were encouraged to give their
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Exim policy‚ 1985 and onwards Accordingly the export-import policies (Exim policy were announced by the government first in 1985 and then in 1988 for three year period. Again the exim policy was revised in 1990. All these policies made necessary for provision for extension of import liberalisation measures. All these policies made necessary provision for import of capital goods and raw materials for industrialisation of REP (Registered Exporters Policy) licenses‚ liberal import of
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