The equation relates impact (I), to population (P), affluence (A), and technology (T). ... Growing populations and affluence around the world have put growing pressure on natural resources and environmental systems to support the needs and wants of global populations, from now into the future, is part of a developing awareness of sustainability. ... Sustainability is achieved when the environment can tune indefinitely without going into a decline from the stresses that human society imposes on natural systems such as fertile soil, water and air. ... Most likely not, the useful equation IPAT ex...

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What you must learn is that these rules are no different that rules of a computer system.... What was thought to be as "magic" in the pre-technological era - gravity, magnetism, even flight, can now all be explained using mathematical equations. ... He was also able to describe the difference between the present state and the state a small period into the future using a set of mathematical equations called "Differential Equations". ... This universe would be someone else's virtual reality; physics would be the rules set on this universe for order, and we would be the system'...

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Inflationary window is a dangerous critical point in the capitalist economy system. ... Investment, showing as I in the aggregate demand equation, is a primary engine of economic growth (Alesina and Perotti, 1996). ... According to the equation, AD=C+I+G+[X-M], if investment is depressed, money could flow to consumption, which will still cause the inflation. ...

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For example, in electrical engineering we find complex roots in circuit theory where the polynomial is part of the model equation for simple circuits. ... From the perspective of algebra, complex numbers give us a complete system for finding the roots of polynomials. ... They are used for approximating or curve fitting experimental data, solving different equations, calculating "beam deflection" for loading trucks, representing the properties of some gasses, defining functions used in Finite Element computation, defining CAD geometry in CAD (Computer Assisted Drawing) engineering and construct...

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Unfortunately, the prison system does not offer this option to them. If rehabilitation were enacted into the prison system, criminals could see the other side of the equation: the changes they can make to better themselves for the future, the knowledge to succeed in life, approaches on how to deal with their problems and to switch from old to new, better ways. ... But still, the prison system is just the same old thing, more time and more crime. ... It is true to say that the United States prison system is an outright failure. ... If the prison system were to commence this system, many peopl...

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Prior to the invention of the computer chip, society was limited to doing complex mathematical equations with an abacus or a slide rule. ... A vast majority of computers and other electronic devices have microprocessors embedded into their system. ...

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Moreover, I would like to notice that not only this factors led to that but also government strategy of trade and counter-inflationary demand system contributed to (Bean 1994) On the other hand USA labour market didn't have such mechanism which had a great influence on unemployment. ... The main objectives of these two parties give rise to cointegrating vectors indicative of the demand and supply parts of the labour market, with both of these vectors entering the wage equation. ... This model includes evaluation of a dynamic wage equation with two error correction periods. ...

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Mathematics can express simple equations as well as interactions among the smallest particles and the farthest objects in the known universe. ... It is true, that mathematics provides a mean to express relationships and answers to numerical problems and systems. ... At this time, the base number system they used was 60. ...

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The Energy Cycle of the Biosphere The energy that sustains all living systems is solar energy, fixed in photosynthesis and held briefly in the biosphere before it is reradiated into space heat. ... Marine plant cells accumulated for hundreds of millions of years, gradually building an atmosphere that screened out the most destructive of the sun's rays and opened the land to exploitation by living systems. ... The actual amount of solar energy diverted into living systems is small in relation to the earth's total energy budget. ... The total energy fixed is partitioned immediatly ...

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As a computer engineer you need to be able to analyze information to determine software and hardware needs, design or update software using scientific analysis, and mathematical equations. ... To do the job correctly some tools are required to get the job done, like the circuit tester which tests the memory, electronic measuring probe that tells information about the system, network analyzer that tells how good the communication signal is, and a signal generator which makes the signal stronger and can also duplicate signals. " Must make sure that all details are performed and are completed acc...

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Domination by a few large suppliers is a variable any company must add into their equation for success in order to keep their prices down. ... Wal-Mart has in place a distribution system that will allow them to bypass a lot of these variables and give then a competitive edge. ... Expanding existing operational system will also help Wal-Mart become a greater threat, faster, to those already existing companies that might be struggling to survive. ...

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Babbage's first attempt was in 1822 when he proposed a machine to perform differential equations, called a Difference Engine. ... It was slow, taking three to five seconds per calculation, and inflexible because sequences of calculations could not change, but it could perform basic math and also more complex equations. ... They contained all the components we associate with the modern day computer: printers, disk storage, memory, operating systems, and stored programs. ...

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(Chemistry and Industry, 333) In conclusion, Lavoisier is credited with the rejection of the Phlogisten theory, placing the study of gases on the same level as that developed for liquids and solids, the introduction of chemical equations, the first comprehensive system of chemical nomenclature, and organization of chemical science through a book published in 1789 (Chemistry and Industry, 333). ...

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Through the equations of general relativity, these properties alone determine how space-time is distorted by a region of false vacuum. ... Not so, however, say the equations of general relativity. ... A quantum system can make a discontinuous transition from one configuration to another, even when the system would not normally have enough energy to exist in the intermediate configurations. ...

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HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CALCULUS Team Number: 6   Name                                                            ID No 1.    DEEPANSHU TIWARI                                 2014A2 PS512H                                                 2. YELLANKI DAKSHAYANI 2014A2PS513H 3. AYUSH UMRAO 2014A2PS515H 4. MANISHA KALLEPALLE 2...

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Indeed, even the poorest nations have found the opportunity to expand their telecom system to the mass of their populaces because of the portable cell advances. ... Our profits of this innovative upheaval increment, as our system increments, are yet at the expense of continually engaging ourselves to keep up the pace (West D.M., 2014). ... Specially, young generation is affected by this technological advancement, and we utilize applications that Smartphone offers for daily purposes, however, youth also become dependent on mobile media, which can cause problems such as lack of verbal communicat...

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From the data of 128 college men and women enrolled in the first quarter of principles of accounting, Larsen (40) developed four multiple-regression equations, using the following as predictive factors: age; sex; veteran status; size of high school attended; rank in high school class; size of senior class; cumulative high school average; previous study of bookkeeping; grade point average during first quarter in college; grades in college freshmen composition, business mathematics, and introduction to business; and college entrance test scores. The equations were then applied to a group of 10...

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Plus, how do the people whose ancestors did not come to this country until after slavery get taken out of the equation? ... To be quite blunt, reparations, even if they may be deserved, are not possible under any system or economic departure indeed such an undertaking would only not remedy the situation, but it would sink Africa and her people deeper into the cycle of poverty and oppression that they have so struggled to free themselves. While the arguments against reparations may seem shallow or self-serving to advocates of such a system, upon examination, the logistics of what to give, an...

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Positivism is a philosophical system that holds that every rational justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof. ... Marx and a fellow German thinker Friedrich Engels published "The Communist Manifesto," which introduced their concept of socialism as a natural result of the conflicts inherent in the capitalist system. ... Marx and Engels saw class interests as a very important element in any historical equation. Marxism is an economic and social system based upon the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich E...

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The lower ph in the blood which results in the loss of stomach acid causes the respiratory system to slow down to collect co2 in the blood stream. ... The smooth muscle that lines the body's blood vessels allows for blood to flow throughout the entire system allows even the most proximal portions of the body to function and receive oxygen. The respiratory system which supplies the blood with oxygen in the first place is a smooth muscle as well. ... When extensive exercise is added into the equation, there is yet even more of an opportunity for the bulimic to lose fluids; especially thr...

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When the essay "Why the Novel Matters" is approached as rhetorical systems rather than statements of doctrine, it is, I think, significant as critical conceptions of the novel as those of a writer defining his genre in his own terms - dialogically, rhetorically, and artistically, as a novelist would. ... All that is concrete in the entire equation is the literal body itself. ...

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The task of assessing and converting expert knowledge into social action is a particularly crucial one in democratic systems. ... Another important factor in the legalization of marijuana equation is freedom of choice. ...

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To relate this theory to the idea of free will, we can begin by saying that because we are part of nature, we are subject to the same causal chain of unfolding events and that events we regard as "choices" or "judgments" act under a necessity similar to that of a mathematical equation. ... Furthermore our link to God/Nature establishes that we too are not outside of this system and we can only hope to better understand this fact as clearly as possible. ...

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Theoretically, gender separates authors in no more of a respect than do the author's birthstone or favorite color. It is an overanalyzed element that does not factor into the equation of good writing. The variances of the two sexes exist predominantly anatomical: not in thought or greatness of wri...

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The well known Chaos Theory, which supports ideas such as: Monsoons in Hawaii can inadvertently be caused by a slight pressure change from a migrating butterfly flapping its wings in Japan, is the standard that Cohen chooses to base his solitary, paranoia consumed life as he searches for a pattern in the most complex chaotic system known to man, the stock market. ... The closer Cohen grows to conquer his goal of affiliating a logical equation with the spiral and everything around us, the more it wears on him. ...

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