would be without irrational numbers? If the great Pythagorean hyppasus or any other mathematician would have not ever thought of such numbers? Before ‚understanding the development of irrational numbers ‚we should understand what these numbers originally are and who discovered them? In mathematics‚ an irrational number is any real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio a/b‚ where a and b are integers and b is non-zero. Irrational numbers are those real numbers that cannot be represented as
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Case 2-1 Cynthia Cooper and WorldCom Cynthia Cooper details her trials and tribulations about her experiences at WorldCom in the book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower. The following excerpts from the book describe the actions she took to uncover the fraud at WorldCom and reactions of key players in the accounting department‚ top management‚ the audit committee and the external auditors. Cooper was first alerted to the fact that there may have been a problem
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During‚ and leading up to‚ the recent data breach that occurred at Target‚ it is evident that many mistakes were made at the executive level. As any company‚ Target possesses a primary goal of balancing both effectiveness‚ and efficiency; however‚ the organization under CEO Greg Steinhafel did not achieve these goals simultaneously. Prior to the data breach experienced by Target‚ the company primarily focused on efficiency --- the act of determining and implementing the most cost effective method
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Chapter 1 – An Overview of Nutrition Learning Objectives After completing Chapter 1‚ the student will be able to: 1.1 Describe how various factors influence personal food choices. 1.2 Name the six major classes of nutrients and identify which are organic and which yield energy. a. List the six nutrients contained in food and a major use of each nutrient. b. Identify the energy-providing nutrients and calculate the energy available from foods. 1.3 Explain the scientific method
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Real Numbers -Real Numbers are every number. -Therefore‚ any number that you can find on the number line. -Real Numbers have two categories‚ rational and irrational. Rational Numbers -Any number that can be expressed as a repeating or terminating decimal is classified as a rational number Examples of Rational Numbers 6 is a rational number because it can be expressed as 6.0 and therefore it is a terminating decimal. -7 ½ is a rational number because it can be expressed as -7.5 which is a
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risks her life for her. Annemarie also would do anything for her family‚ especially Kristi. She is a good person. All in all‚ Annemarie couldn’t be better! One of Annemarie’s weaknesses is that of being naïve and fearful. One example‚ Annemarie doesn’t know what’s happening to the Jews. She is also fearful when she confronts the Nazis. An other example that shows she is fearful is when she is running with her best friend Ellen and is stopped by some Nazis. Even though Annemarie is very naïve
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underlying attribute values of objects subjected to clustering analysis. In doing so‚ the privacy of individuals’ data would be protected. In this age of data mining‚ we felt that working on data privacy was of paramount importance. We worked in a group of 3 on this and my role specifically was to design and implement the ‘K-means’ algorithm that clusters the data and forms the basis for the data transformation. In addition to my thesis‚ I worked on a solo project which involved developing an inventory
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Ensuring Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing Cong Wang‚ Qian Wang‚ and Kui Ren Department of ECE Illinois Institute of Technology Email: {cwang‚ qwang‚ kren}@ece.iit.edu Wenjing Lou Department of ECE Worcester Polytechnic Institute Email: wjlou@ece.wpi.edu Abstract—Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the nextgeneration architecture of IT Enterprise. In contrast to traditional solutions‚ where the IT services are under proper physical‚ logical and personnel controls‚ Cloud Computing
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Royal Dutch Shell- (RDS) Answer Guidelines: Q1. Discuss Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and how they impact Royal Dutch Shell in doing business abroad. Define culture: “culture is shared‚ learned values‚ norms of behaviour‚ means of communication and other outward expressions which distinguish one group of people from another”‚ or the collective programming of the human mind Main two theorists in Culture- Hofstede as the main and Trompenaars relational dimensions Dimensions are: Power distance
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