ECG is a powerful tool in the diagnosis of heart disease. It is exciting to unlock the codes behind the squiggles and spikes and actually decipher a patient’s heart patterns. However‚ I was having trouble identifying atrioventricular (AV) heart blocks. Therefore‚ I was extremely reassured by the first sentence of this article. Apparently‚ it is common to have difficulty decoding these rhythms‚ which gives me hope that with knowledge and practice‚ I will master them. Part of
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ESTIMATING THE RISK PREMIUM USING HISTORICAL DATA: A CASE OF THE NSE Introduction This study seeks to estimate the risk premium of a company using historical data. Analysts use historical data to estimate the risk premium of a company’s equity. This is because the historical data is readily available from the company’s financial statements and the securities exchanges for example the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) in Kenya. Historical market data can be used to compute average returns and a measure
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Caution Creates Chaos Trigger Warnings alerts to the audience used to inform that the content being presented contains potentially distressing material. Several students and administrators are pushing towards the practice of trigger warnings in the classroom environment to avoid offending students with post-traumatic stress disorder who have experienced sexual violence‚ child abuse‚ military combat‚ or any other type of traumatic situation. Trigger warnings are being enforced to protect students
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Business Horizons (2009) 52‚ 357—365 www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor Social media: The new hybrid element of the promotion mix W. Glynn Mangold a‚*‚ David J. Faulds b a b College of Business & Public Affairs‚ Murray State University‚ Murray‚ KY 42071‚ U.S.A. College of Business Administration‚ University of Louisville‚ Louisville‚ KY 40292‚ U.S.A. KEYWORDS Integrated marketing communications; Social media; Consumer-generated media; Promotion mix Abstract The emergence of Internet-based
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Trigger warnings have been a highly argued topic amongst college professors‚ students‚ and parents. A trigger warning is defined as‚ “A statement at the start of a piece of writing‚ video‚ etc.‚ alerting the reader or viewer to the fact that it contains potentially distressing material.” Some agree that trigger warnings are a good way to help students with sensitive subjects by providing caution. Others‚ however‚ object to the idea of holding back information in order to satisfy a compact amount
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of major debate. A trigger warning is a way to warn students about graphic material that may be disturbing for some students. In theory‚ trigger warnings allow students to be prepared for content that may trigger unexpected emotions that would interrupt the student’s ability to focus on the lesson. In reality‚ however‚ the results of trigger warnings damage not only the student’s education‚ but their ability to be prepared to join society in the real world. In some cases trigger warnings not only
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Pattern recognition is a useful tool for mathematics‚ mathematical visualization‚ and art. After a brief description of Bongard’s methodology in the field of pattern recognition‚ the author introduces the concept of colour modularity and evaluates how it affects pattern recognition classification. Combining Bongard’s methodology and colour modularity‚ the author attains a richer‚ more persuasive dynamic in pattern description and recognition of five- and ten-pointed star polygons.". Keywords: pattern
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“Thoughts” on Redistribution and Recognition The ideas of redistribution and recognition by Fraser‚ really intrigued me to further my thoughts on these concepts. Fraser explains that recognition can be a cultural group looking for recognition of difference whereas redistribution is classified as a transfer or reduction of socioeconomic classes. This made me wonder‚ does redistribution include a progression of taxes according to income? If this is true‚ I can see a strong indication of how this
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said Jackie Fenn‚ a Fellow in emerging trends and technologies for Gartner‚ a market research firm. GESTURE-RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY In the early 1960s‚ users could move a light-emitting pen to control the Sketchpad computer-aided design system. Several subsequent commercial systems also worked with light-emitting pens. Research into camera-based computer vision for gesture recognition began in earnest in the early 1990s at places such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab‚ Japan’s
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Facial recognition technology is a very well-known technology because of the high security it provides to crucial businesses and government agencies. According to the FBI this technology was‚ "Developed in the 1960s‚ the first semi-automated system for facial recognition required the administrator to locate features (such as eyes‚ ears‚ nose‚ and mouth) on photographs before it calculated distances and ratios to a common reference point" (Facial Recognition). Government agencies and crucial companies
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