STAFF WORKING PAPER IMPACT ASSESSMENT Accompanying the Communication from the Commission ’Horizon 2020 - The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation ’; Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020); Proposal for a Council Decision establishing the Specific Programme implementing Horizon 2020 – The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020); Proposal for a Council
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Hilton‚ James. Lost Horizon. New York: William Morrow and Company‚1939. I read Lost Horizon for my book report. The main characters in this story are Conway‚ Mallinson‚ Barnard‚ and Miss Brinklow. Conway was a man of thirty-seven years old who didn’t have a wife or any other family. Mallinson was a young man of about twenty or so who was not married yet either. Barnard was a middle-aged man that was without a wife or family also. Miss Brinklow was a woman of around the age of fifty. This
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Lecture topic‚ Knowing YACHT Story about Taiwan Yacht Industry & Horizon Group The history shows that the yacht sailing starts from Ming Dynasty “Zheng He’s Expedition”. The business Flow of yacht industry as below‚Boat show→Contract/Spec. Negotiation→Simple Sketch drawing→Manufacturing→Shipping/delivering→After sale service. At class‚ I was thinking the high price of buying a yacht so I raised a question “The yacht price is high‚ is the payment term important for your company? What is the payment
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American Accounting Association DOI: 10.2308/acch.2010.24.2.279 Accounting Horizons Vol. 24‚ No. 2 2010 pp. 279–296 COMMENTARY The American Accounting Association’s Financial Reporting Policy Committee’s Response to the Preliminary Views on Financial Statement Presentation The Financial Reporting Policy Committee of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association Mark Bradshaw‚ Carolyn Callahan‚ Jack Ciesielski‚ Elizabeth Gordon‚ Mark Kohlbeck
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SCAFFOLDING-- ROLE OF THE TEACHER INTRODUCTION A constructivist approach primarily includes interaction and collaboration learning as well as a flexible curriculum and a variety of activities to enable the learners to construct meaning themselves which ensures better retention. Thus in class room learning becomes more dynamic. Need for the study One of the prerequisites in learning language is to become a good communicator using the target language. This sometimes appears to be a difficult
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1) Case Summary (What’s the issue?) Horizon Foods Corporation (hereafter “Horizon”) is a still-growing‚ nationwide foods organization that is widely known for its high quality products. With $300 million sales each year‚ the firm has been relatively successful so far‚ gaining good reputation and arousing much interest of the public through its brokers and local retailers. However‚ as the company prospers and customers demand more‚ Horizon foresees a coming crisis. The distribution issue‚ which the
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The National Commission on the BP Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling released a report in January 2011 to the President of the United States indicating that the April 20th‚ 2011 Deep Water Horizon’s explosion and the resulting oil spill at the Macondo well was a foreseeable and preventable disaster. The Commission’s report indicated that a number of easily identifiable mistakes by British Petroleum‚ Transocean‚ and Halliburton ultimately led to the devastating oil spill which lasted
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The key causes of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster are overconfidence bias‚ incompetence‚ poor decision making‚ and ignored warning signs. As years go by‚ good leaders continue to make bad decisions due to certain cognitive biases which inhibit us from viewing problems as they need to be seen; therefore‚ our minds distort information received and make miscalculations when processing the information (Mackin‚ 2010). Since BP was a very successful organization‚ it had grown overconfident in its projects
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addition‚ animals with fur and feathers may freeze due to the damage of their protective covers (Fominyen‚ 2010). The deep-water spill also known as the Gulf oil spill is identified as the worst oil spill in the United States’ history. By the time deep-water horizon oil rig sank and exploded on April 20‚ 2010. There had been BP pipe leakage of oil and gas on the floor of the ocean located approximately 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. An estimate of 4.9 million barrels of oil had leaked into the gulf
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The decision making of multiple employees and managers contributed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. A non-rational model of decision making was utilized which directly contributed to the malfunction of equipment and the death of employees. The non-rational model attempts to explain how decisions are actually made (Kanicki & Kreitz‚ 2010). The case study focuses on how decisions are actually made rather than how they should have been. Decisions made regarding safety‚ process‚ and collaboration
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