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    competencies to take advantage of various opportunities and grow. Please carry out the analysis of the internal environment of this company and identify its strengths‚ weaknesses‚ and core competences. 3. Dell Inc. in 2009 Throughout the years‚ Dell INC. had built up a set of competitive advantages that seemed unassailable until the early 2000s. Since then‚ the company felt behind but it would like to come back in its leading position. Analyze the internal environment of this company and

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    Topic: Newton’s Reflecting Telescope Patrick Doan & Kevin Le & Kevin Tumang 30/4/08 Principle Aim: To construct a recreation of the Galilean refracting telescope and a Newtonian reflecting telescope Aim: To recreate Newton’s experiment in building a reflecting telescope‚ aiming to further the field of optics. We hope to use the theory studied in this experiment and produce a working Newtonian telescope (that Newton designed). He wanted to create a telescope that was not affected by chromatic

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    Hubble Space Telescope was created by and named after astronomer Edwin P. Hubble. He was known for his creation of Hubble’s Law which is used to calculate the rate at which the universe is expanding. He is also known for his discovery of the galaxies that are outside the Milky Way. The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope that is placed in orbit around the earth. Scientists have figured out that by placing a telescope in space‚ putting it outside of earth’s atmosphere‚ a telescope can escape

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    JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE Lachlan Milligan   Part 1: Research of an Optical Instrument or Device The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)‚ named after James Webb who played a pivotal role in the Apollo program‚ is renowned for replacing the Hubble space telescope due its uncontested visibility (HubbleSite‚ 2015)‚ created by modern technology. The JWST cost $8.7 billion US (NASA JWST‚ 2016) and is scheduled to be launched in October 2018 and will offer unparalleled resolution from long-wavelength

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    The Hubble telescope is a telescope that takes pictures of the universe and has transformed the way scientists look at our universe. The Hubble telescope circles the Earth in 97 minutes at a speed of about 5 miles per second. The telescope has taken hundreds of thousands of fascinating pictures of our universe and all the amazing parts of it. The Hubble telescope was named after Edwin Hubble who had made some of the most important discoveries in astronomy. Hubble travels more then 150 million

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    A disgraced NASA Pilot gets a second chance when he’s sent into space to fix the Hubble Telescope‚ but when he uncovers a conspiracy to destroy Earth‚ he must stop it. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: CHARLIE HIM (40’s) is a disgraced NASA pilot that was fired from his job when he tested positive for marijuana. Charlie now struggles to pay his rent and care for SHE DOS SANTOS (30’s) a former orphan that he rescued and considers his sister. She has a noticeable Blue Parrot tattoo. She also has a reoccurring dream

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    70‚000 units 80‚000 units 90‚000 units Sales $1‚400‚000 $1‚600‚000 $1‚800‚000 Cost of goods sold 840‚000 960‚000 1‚080‚000 Gross profit on sales $560‚000 $640‚000 $720‚000 Operating expenses ($90‚000 fixed) 370‚000 410‚000 450‚000 Operating income $190‚000 $230‚000 $270‚000 Income taxes (30% of operating income) 57‚000 69‚000 81‚000 Net income $133‚000 $161‚000 $189‚000 Assume that the cost of goods sold and variable operating expenses vary directly with sales and the income taxes remain

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    Physics & Theory • SETI o The Allen Telescope Array - The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is a LNSD‚ also known as a “Large number of small dishes” array and is a new piece of technology to radio astronomy. What is different about it is that it is not one big dish‚ but a series of smaller dishes combined to make one larger one. - The ATA is highly effective and much cheaper for SETI to conduct more than one survey at once in the search of extra-terrestrials. - The ATA detects radio waves that can be

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    The Science of Stars Paper Astronomy/151 Robert Austin‚ PhD. December 30‚ 2013 University of Phoenix The Science of Stars Paper The stars are the majority and most widely acknowledged astronomical components that symbolize the most essential development of the galaxies. The disbursement‚ age‚ and the framework of the night sky in the galaxy maintain a record of the heritage‚ evolution and characteristics of our galaxy. More important the stars are integral to the fabrication and allocation

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    Greek Mythology in Astronomy The creatures and deities in Greek mythology are said to have connection with the astronomy and the star constellations. In this fragment of Hesiod’s poem “Nymphs like the Graces‚ Phaesyle and Coronis and rich-crowned Cleeia and lovely Phaeo and long-robed Eudora‚ whom the tribes of men upon the earth call Hyades.” (Hesiod‚ Homeric Hymns‚ Epic Cycle‚ Homerica.  1922) titled Astronomy‚ he mentioned and catalogued many of the constellations based on creatures and gods

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