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    that controls crime heavily is a clear example of Robert Merton’s Strain Theory‚ which explains how people adapt to attain‚ or reject‚ the various goals set by society. Psycho-Pass shows the principles of Merton’s Strain Theory when showing how the different main characters live under the Sybil System and adapt to a heavily law enforced society. The character of Akane Tsunemori might be labeled as conformist under Merton’s theory. She is one of the many

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    Hamstring Strain

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    Hamstring strain Have you ever experience a hamstring strain? Do you know how unsafe it can be? One of the common groups of people to go through hamstring injuries‚ are athletes who indulge in sports that involve jumping and explosive sprinting. In addition of hamstring injuries‚ they can be very frustrating to deal and treat with. The hamstrings are composing of tendons that attach three large muscles‚ the biceps femoris‚ semitendinosus‚ and semimembranosus. These three muscles

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    Stress and strain

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    Simple Stresses and Strains Stress • No engineering material is perfectly rigid and hence‚ when a material is subjected to external load‚ it undergoes deformation. • While undergoing deformation‚ the particles of the material offer a resisting force (internal force). When this resisting force equals applied load the equilibrium condition exists and hence the deformation stops. • These internal forces maintain the externally applied forces in equilibrium. Contd… • Stress = internal

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    Andromeda Strain

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    William John Andromeda Strain-Response Ranger The part of the text that I chose to respond to was when Jaggers‚ Comroe‚ Mancheck‚ and Wilson were reviewing the footage that Lieutenant Wilson captured during his flybys. The footage captured an old man walking amongst the dead bodies. My first reaction was of shock about the horror of the grisly scene‚ but then I thought “Why does that guy seem to create the deaths?” “Isn’t the bacteria supposed to be the cause of so many deaths?”.

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    The Andromeda Strain

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    In the book‚ The Andromeda Strain there is a problem that faces mankind. This problem is a strange virus that comes to Earth from an unmanned satellite‚ which was in space. This satellite crashes into a small town in Arizona‚ which has a population of 38 people. When this satellite crashes into the Earth‚ it kills everyone‚ except for an old man and a two-month old baby. There are two scientists who have the job of going to the crash site and gathering up the remains from the satellite. While the

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    Strains and Sprains

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    Strains and sprains One of the most common sports injuries to today’s young athletes When you think of sports injuries you think of things like broken bones‚ dislocated body parts‚ blown knees‚ head injuries. Yes‚ all of those are injuries that are related to sports‚ but there not exactly common. There are many types of common sports injuries like Growth Plate injuries‚ Repetitive motion injuries‚ and even heat injuries. The most common injury in today’s young athletes is strains and sprains

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    Stress-Strain

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    The stress-strain diagram is generally accepted as the plotted results of a tensile test completed under carefully controlled conditions on a speciman of a metal. The stress-strain diagram important for design engineers in that it establishes the physical properties of the material under test including the yield strength‚ the ultimate strength‚ the elongation at fracture‚ the elastic limit etc. Ductile materials‚ which includes structural steel‚ as well as many alloys of other metals‚ are characterized

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    Strain On Family

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    3 Less Strain on the Family Mental illness affects families as well as individuals. The children of people with mental illness are at greater risk for abuse‚ neglect‚ and a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. #4 Avoidance of Crime and Victimization Some studies suggest that people with untreated mental illness‚ especially in conjunction with other risk factors‚ may be at increased risk of committing violent crimes or‚ even more likely‚ becoming victims themselves. The risk increases substantially when

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    D-Merton Case Study

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    Person A is Alex Frayn. He is the CFO at D-Mertons. He is responsible for determining and reporting the financial information of a company for the previous years as well as for the future as the accuracy and the timeliness of the report helps greatly in the decision making of the company for future decisions as well as ensure that the financial information has been properly maintained and shared with the shareholders so that they know what the financial situation of the company is. Being the right-hand

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    Question 1 With the use of Merton Model‚ the probability of Default (PD) of each firm is summarized as follow: Company Name | ASX Code | Probability of Default | Adelaide Brighton Limited | ABC | 0% | Buderim Ginger Limited | BUG | 26.079% | FFI Holdings Limited | FFI | 0.056% | McPherson’s Limited | MCP | 0.003% | Reece Australia Limited | REH | 0% | Vietnam Industrial Investments Limited | VII | 2.472% | Question 2 Using 15 Sep 2008 as a cut-off point‚ the pre and post results

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