Oglethorpe Power Corporation Decides about Investing in a Major Transmission System A D A M BORISON Applied Decision Analysis. Inc. 27W Sand Hill Road Mcnio Park. California 94025 Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC) provides wholesale power to consumer-owned distribution cooperatives in Georgia. Late in 1990‚ OPC managers learned that Florida Power Corporation wanted to expand its connections to Georgia with another transmission line. To decide whether to build this line‚ OPC worked with Applied
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What did you do? To get a deeper insight into creating decision trees on the laptop‚ I started to inform myself about possible supporting tools that can be used. As I am using an Apple MacBook‚ I found out that the software “XMind” cannot just help for drawing decision trees‚ but also for developing flowing charts‚ mind maps or to-do-lists. I thought about using Microsoft Excel as a tool for sorting the data. However‚ I finally looked up the necessary information in the given table without using
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Tree Plantations Introduction For over 10‚000 years‚ man has been the greatest factor affecting biodiversity through habitat destruction and fragmentation‚ overexploitation and pollution. With an ever increasing population and human activities‚ man is consuming more and more natural resources by increasing the use of energy‚ fuel‚ and production of consumer products that are not necessarily needed. Man is very egotistic and believes that he owns everything that he has discovered; using most
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New Criticism on Poison Tree “A Poison Tree" is rightly an extended metaphor to describe the poet’s mental and emotional attitude towards enemy and the conflict between his inner and appearances. We use a metaphor when we use word to mean something different. Thus the poet has use the word "tree" not to describe the common green tree with green leaves and branches‚ but he means the great hatred that he has for his enemy. So we know that the central conflict in the poem is probably between friendship
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The Giving Tree The message of the Giving tree speaks about an unconditional love of the Tree to the boy. It is a kind of relationship that is sometimes one sided. Sometimes we can relate this story on the virtue of giving and not expecting something in return. Many of our parents give their unconditional love to their children. As sons and daughters‚ we must be to learn to reciprocate the love our parents. Remember that we too will also become parents and grand parents. Life is a cycle of giving
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mother‚ nicknamed "the Generalessa" because of her Austrian military ancestry‚ worries at first about Cosimo’s falling. (His brother Biaggio‚ who becomes both observer of and commentator on Cosimo’s unusual way of life‚ finds this concern ironic‚ noting that it would not have bothered their mother in the least to see her sons under cannon fire.) Eventually‚ she rather enjoys catching sight of Cosimo in one tree or another through her telescope‚ and she sends him messages with her military signal flags
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Trees and Graphs Pat Hanrahan Tree Drawing Page 1 Why Trees? Hierarchies File systems and web sites Organization charts Categorical classifications Similiarity and clustering Branching processes Genealogy and lineages Phylogenetic trees Decision processes Indices or search trees Decision trees Tournaments Two Major Visual Representations Connection: Node / Link Diagrams Containment / Enclosure F6 G6 H6 J36 U8 B10 C30 L7 M7 V12 O4 P4 Q4 R4 S4 T4 W8 Page
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“A Poison Tree” Poetry Analysis “A Poison Tree”‚ by William Blake is a poem of four stanzas‚ with a rhyme scheme of aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff-gg-hh‚ and in which the poet examines the negative effects of unresolved anger. Blake cleverly presents this idea by way of an extended metaphor in order to make the point that if you let anger fester and build up‚ deplorable actions may occur. Blake also employs allusions and tone to help convey this theme. An extended metaphor is a literary device that compares
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The Sacred Tree Introduction by Dr. Jane Goodall DBE Authors: Phil LaneJr.‚ Judie Bopp‚ Michael Bopp‚ Lee Brown and elders Native American Religion Session 1 10/15/12 I have lived on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation here in Belcourt‚ ND basically my whole life. I am ashamed to say I do not know a lot about my culture. However‚ I am not ashamed about my beliefs. I was raised in a Christian home we went to the Assembly of God church every Sunday‚ Sunday night and
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Our topic is about tree kangaroos. They are one of the many endangered species on our world‚ and we think that the tree kangaroo should be saved. This essay is going to tell the reader about tree kangaroos‚ and give reasons to preserve this species. Tree kangaroos should be saved because they are a type of animal in our world and they should stay that way. In the vast planet we have learned to call home‚ every animal counts. The tree kangaroos’ population is slowly disintegrating. Before we talk
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