CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL REPORT ON CANDIDATES’ WORK IN THE CARIBBEAN ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION MAY/JUNE 2003 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE Copyright © 2003 Caribbean Examinations Council St Michael‚ Barbados All rights reserved 2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CARIBBEAN ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION MAY/JUNE 2003 INTRODUCTION Environmental Science is a two-unit course‚ each unit consisting of three modules. Unit I‚ which consists of Fundamental Ecological Principles‚ People and The Environment
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DOI 10.1007/s11042-013-1693-4 Complementary relevance feedback-based content-based image retrieval Zhongmiao Xiao & Xiaojun Qi # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract We propose a complementary relevance feedback-based content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system. This system exploits the synergism between short-term and long- term learning techniques to improve the retrieval performance. Specifically‚ we construct an adaptive semantic repository
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True or False? A. True B. False Correct Answer is A (True) if the actor intentionally kills a third person he or she shall not be able to use “duress” as a justified reason for the killing in court. 2) What are the five major types of defenses based on justification defense? A. (1) Defense to others (2) Insanity (3) Necessity (4) Duress (5) Excuse B. (1) Self defense (2) Defense of others (3) Necessity (4) Crime prevention and Law Enforcement (5) Defense of property
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Ethical Dilemmas: Euthanasia Is euthanasia‚ or assisted suicide‚ humane? Should it be accepted in the medical world? Euthanasia is a very serious ethical dilemma faced in modern health care. Euthanasia is mostly a matter of opinion‚ and has different meanings to different people. In my opinion‚ there are many good arguments supporting euthanasia but I believe euthanasia should be ignored. I would personally never be able to perform euthanasia on someone‚ I would feel too guilty‚ but not everyone
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Community based corrections is a program which supervises people who have been convicted or are facing conviction. It is a non-incarcerate system of correction. These offenders have been convicted or are facing conviction. Some offenders have entered these programs before being in jail and some serve a part of their sentence in jail before entering the program. The goals of the community based corrections would be one of providing guidance‚ program opportunities and support to the offender’s
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CASE 01. ETHICAL DILEMMA A CHANGE OF DIRECTION FOR SOUTHERN X LTD John Kolikias‚ managing director of Southern X Ltd‚ fixed his gaze on the numbers on the screen. They were exciting. If correct‚ the innovation would be highly lucrative. The profits of their mobile phone subsidiary would literally explode. John sighed with relief. Southern X had been struggling for the last two years and its share price had plummeted by 40 percent. If the business didn’t turn around soon‚ a major restructuring would
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INTRODUCTION Value-based pricing is a method of pricing products in which companies first try to determine how much the products are worth to their customers. The goal is to avoid setting prices that are either too high for customers or lower than they would be willing to pay if they knew what kind of benefits they could get by using a product. In most firms prices are determined by intuition‚ opinions‚ rules of thumb‚ out-right dogma‚ top management’s higher wisdom‚ or internal power fights1
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT This report explains all the details of development process for the Location tracking of an Android device using SMS [DroidLocator] software system. The main feature of DroidLocator is to provide location tracking functionalities to Android devices using SMS. This application locates device by making device ring and get latitude and longitude of an Android device. Also the DroidLocator have the capability of authentication to share the location
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ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY-BASED EDUCATION: TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIETY Proceedings of the II International Conference on Multimedia and Information & Communication Technologies in Education m-ICTE2003 www.formatex.org/micte2003/micte2003.htm Badajoz‚ Spain‚ December 3-6th 2003 Edited by A.Méndez-Vilas J.A.Mesa González J.Mesa González ISBN Volume I‚ (Pages 1-658): 84-96212-10-6 ISBN Volume II‚ (Pages 659-1335): 84-96212-11-4 ISBN Volume III‚ (Pages 1336-2026): 84-96212-12-2 Published
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GamingAnywhere can be employed by the researchers‚ game developers‚ service providers‚ and end users for setting up cloud gaming testbeds‚ which‚ we believe‚ will stimulate more research innovations on cloud gaming
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