In his film‚ Traffic (2000)‚ Steven Soderbergh provides a detailed critique of the US Government’s method in the war on drugs of stopping the supplier. In doing so‚ Soderbergh highlights the US Government’s lack of concern with providing treatment for drug addicts. He allows the life of the new leader of the war on drugs‚ Bob Wakefield (Michael Douglas)‚ to serve as his mouthpiece against the attacking the supplier method of the drug war. He accomplishes this by flipping the drug war stereotype
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Towards an Entrepreneurial University d i n o a r nau t Master’s Student at the University of Zenica‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina t h e t r a n s f o r m at i o n of a traditional research university into an entrepreneurial university is a current phenomenon‚ and the number of such transformations is increasing due to the reduction in the university funding from government sources and the emergence of a competitive market for education and research. If universities do not become agents of innovation
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Forecasting Problem Discussion Questions 1. Develop a forecasting model‚ justifying its selection over other techniques‚ and project attendance through 2007. 2. What revenues are to be expected in 2006 and 2007? 3. Discuss the school’s options. Case Study (Southwestern University) Southwestern University (SWU)‚ a large state college in Stephenville‚ Texas‚ enrolls close to 20‚000 students. The school is a dominant force in the small city‚ with more students during fall and spring
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Publication International Open Access Publisher Volume 2012‚ Article ID sjsa-289‚ 7 Pages‚ 2012. doi: 10.7237/sjsa/289 Moodle Adoption at the University of Zambia: Opportunities and Challenges Pilate Chewe (Mr.) Acquisitions Librarian University of Zambia Email: pchewe@unza.zm Eness M. Miyanda Chitumbo (Mrs.) Serials Librarian University of Zambia Email: echitumbo@unza.zm Accepted 23�� September‚ 2012 ABSTRACT Using the Internet to enhance e-learning has become a trend in modern
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driving through the busy streets of Hollywood‚ traffic on the highways and streets of Los Angeles can often be a hassle. In Dagoberto Gilb’s short story Love in L.A.‚ first published in 1986‚ the troubles of traffic are experienced first hand by our main character Jake. Jake is a common fellow with a steady occupation who is merely trying to make his way to work through the busy streets of Hollywood. As he is working his way through the piled traffic‚ not paying complete attention to the road in front
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ESSAY: The items that should be covered in a pre-university study skills course for non-native international students. Effective study skills are essential for international students because it will make students to be more motivated to learn as they know what are they learning and how they will do in the learning (Burns & Sienfield ‚ 2008). In the context of tertiary education‚ international students have big responsibilities in learning since they are learning in a new environment that
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Flight of the Phoenix Flight of the Phoenix is a movie that displays the dynamics of a group in terms of power‚ decision-making‚ communication‚ group roles‚ group atmosphere and norms‚ and leadership in the group. The movie’s story line follows a diverse group of oil workers‚ military men‚ a doctor‚ a pilot and a navigator among others that sets out on a rickety plane to cross the Arabian Desert. Not long into the flight the plane is caught between two sand storms and is blow off course. The plane
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A Sensitivity Analysis of Retailer Shelf Management Models NORM BORIN California Polytechnic State University PAUL FARRIS University of Virginia A shelf management model was developed to assist retailers with the decision of which products to stock and how much space to allocate to those products. Due to the non-linearities in the formulation a closedfotm solution is not possible. Borin‚ et al. develop a search heuristic based on simulated annealing and compare the solution against
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definition for a model According to Wilson’s definition a model is the explicit interpretation of one’s understanding of a situation‚ or simply of one’s idea about that situation. It can be expressed in mathematics‚ symbols or words. But it is essentially a description of entities‚ process or attributes and the relationships between them. It may be prescriptive or illustrative‚ but about all‚ it must be useful. Describe the purpose and uses of models There are various use of models; here I am
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International Review on Computers and Software (I.RE.CO.S.)‚ Vol. 8‚ n. 7 July 2013 Traffic Protection as a Service in MPLS Cloud Network Mouhannad Alnouri1 and Rand El-Koutly2 1 2 Faculty of Information Technology Engineering‚ Damascus University‚ Syria Associated professor‚ Faculty of Information Technology Engineering‚ Damascus University‚ Syria Abstract – Data network is the nervous system and the heart of digital information transferring‚ it’s hold all applications information
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