In advanced economies, the potential consequences of a tapering and eventual halt of quantitative easing in the United States, the aggressive yet still incomplete financial and structural measures adopted in Japan, and the persistent unemployment and economic recovery challenges in Europe are factors that could put future economic performance at risk. ... Overall, although there are indications that economic policies and measures are shifting in the right direction, efforts must be sustained in order to safeguard the progress achieved and to keep the global economy on a sustainable growth path...

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It enables the organization to focus on identified risks and take enhanced measures in situations according to the level of the risks. ... Risk entities are categorized into low and higher risks to ensure effective practical measures are applied in tackling them. Higher risk requires long-term investigative measures compared to low-risks. They are conducted by more seasoned analysts and the measures applied depend on the outcome of the analysis, (Răşinar). ... Communication helps in understanding geographical, volume and size of the risk factor and appropriate measures are applie...

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It enables the organization to focus on identified risks and take enhanced measures in situations according to the level of the risks. ... Risk entities are categorized into low and higher risks to ensure effective practical measures are applied in tackling them. Higher risk requires long-term investigative measures compared to low-risks. They are conducted by more seasoned analysts and the measures applied depend on the outcome of the analysis, (Răşinar). ... Communication helps in understanding geographical, volume and size of the risk factor and appropriate measures are applie...

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This quantification, or mathematical relationship, would provide a measure of how well roadways accommodate pedestrian travel. Essentially it would provide a measure of pedestrian level of service within a roadway environment. Such a measure of walking conditions would greatly aid in roadway cross-sectional design and also help evaluate and prioritize the needs of existing roadways for sidewalk retrofit construction. Furthermore, the measure can be used to evaluate traffic calming strategies and streetscape designs for their effectiveness in improving the pedestrian environment. Such a measu...

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In a follow-up study of 100 Harvard students to their midlife, Vaillant (1977) found that intellectual ability was not significantly associated with any of his measures of adjustment, which included mental health, physical health, family relations, and success in work. ... It follows that if one wishes to understand and predict success in living, it would be very helpful to have a measure of the intelligence of the experiential system. It was to this end that the Constructive Thinking Inventory (CTI), a self-report measure of automatic constructive and destructive thinking, was developed. ...

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As we have mentioned, many researches that measuring or estimating attitudes towards taxation are based on the intrinsic motivation for individuals to pay taxes which is sometimes termed their "tax morale ". ... The difficulty of measuring tax morale is to quantify subjective norms and include fairness perception in study. ... However, these variables can be difficult to measure through questionnaires merely and many different economic techniques have been used to account for certain biases in results around it. ... They derived tax morale data from the World Values Survey as dependent variab...

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With all the changes in the hospitality industry, it turns to be a great need and significance to strive for efficient measures to better cope with different crisis which may exert serious influence on the future of a hotel. ... Finally, I also came up with several specific measures for the hotels to take in the long way of achieving excellent crisis management. ... The measures available for the hotels to take to perfectly respond to different emergencies, which the outbreak of virus in large scale or the unexpected natural disasters, could be summarized as the following ones. ... Based on ...

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This section shall analyze the types of metrics available for measuring marketing program efficacy and/or ROI, together with those methodologies appropriate for evaluating impact of the company's integrated marketing communications (IMC) strategies. ... In terms of hard metrics, or measurement on return, ROI is the standard bearer, measuring profit earned from each of Priceline.com's investments in marketing. ... Priceline.com would be well served to look the following: 1) return on impression-the actual number of people who eyeball your product or services on line, easily tracked ...

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These endeavors can be complemented by some practical measures taken by the service providers; they will have to implement policies that make the anonymous use of the services very difficult or even impossible. The measures that are designed to protect people's right to be forgotten should also be implemented; this will further decrease the chances for violating people's privacy rights by enabling the users to control the dissemination of "unwanted" personal information before it becomes uncontrollable. ... Social movements aimed at bringing public recognition of such problems w...

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The Core Hardware examination measures basic knowledge of installing, configuring, upgrading, troubleshooting, and repairing microcomputer systems based on standards defined by CompTIA's test specification. The Operating System Technologies exam measures basic knowledge of Command Line Prompt, Operating Systems for installing, configuring, upgrading, troubleshooting and repairing microcomputer systems. ...

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The development of health and safety measures, procedures and policies have been discussed with the mention of the governing authoritative bodies responsible for regulating these practices. ... It is very important for employers to understand that it is their responsibility to take the necessary steps and measures to protect their employees from the health and safety concerns they face in the workplace. ... Safety Pays, also calculates and provides the employers with the actual difference in the profit margins if they promote health and safety measures in the workplace to minimize workplace h...

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In light of positivists strong belief in official statistics, Durkheim believe that suicide statistics were sufficiently reliable and valid to measure the extent and social distribution of suicide. ... The latter can be likened onto longitudinal studies as annual statistics can be used to measure changing behaviors and attitude over long periods. ...

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Argentina needs a large scale international monetary aid and must develop an endurable economic plan in order to take proper fiscal and monetary measures to come out of the recession and the economic quagmire it has entrapped itself in. The IMF and US have set a number of conditions in order to enable Argentina to qualify for such international loans such as overhauling its tax system, fixing the problem of provincial overspending, letting the peso float freely in the international market, adopting anti-inflationary monetary policy, a plan for lifting a freeze on foreign financial transactions...

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WHO initiative represents one of the most serious new global regulatory threats to the tobacco industry and the tobacco industry is retaliating with extreme measures. ... They went and continue to go to extreme measures in attempting to achieve this goal. ... The tobacco industry retaliating with such extreme measures proves the fact that WHO is a very powerful organization and views that the WHO initiative will be enforced is the most serious new global regulatory threats to the tobacco industry based upon the powerful influence of WHO. ... Tobacco consumption is increasing all over the ...

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The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast the two various approaches to managing people which are; scientific management introduced by Federick Taylor and the views of the human relations approach of the management of people at TGI Fridays and UNICEF UK. To start with scientific management i...

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These extreme authoritarian measures were necessary for developing a new coercive machinery of power. ... War Communism comprised of centralized control over both urban and rural economies with the compulsory requisitioning of grain (prodrazverstska) and the nationalization of banks, transport, and heavy industry, reinforced in Lenin's "Decree on the nationalization of large-scale industries." War Communism implemented a systematic use of terror; many who reacted against these new measures were arrested, imprisoned or sent to labor camps. ... Despite betraying Marxist principles, the...

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Ruggieri was able to measure the results of these learning activities by having her students take a grade-less, stress-free test which would compare their learning with Ruggieri's previous classes. ... She discusses that educators can no longer measure intelligence solely through rote memorization or even application, but rather that they must consider a fresher definition of intelligence as the ability to respond successfully to new situations and learn from experience. ... These articles also discussed many effective assessment measures, such as portfolios, journaling, and "show you kno...

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At the same time, criminal measures have their differentiated and significant position in the system of special measures of the necessary government response. ... The mechanism of this control assigned criminal and customs laws the place of last chance when other economic, social and legal measures to solve this problem are clearly insufficient. ...

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The main benefits attributed to the ecological approach are the holistic approach it provides, the ability to determine long term impact of pollution (including temporal parameter) and its ability to track the effectiveness of remediation measures. ... Assessing the condition of biological communities provides a basis both to determine ecological potential and to measure success in achieving that potential. Biological indicators and data are the hub for: • setting protection or restoration goals; • determining what to monitor and how to interpret what is found; • priorit...

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Mercenary Activities in International Law - Customary Law and the United Nations Legal measures to fight mercenary activities find its source in laws adopted at the end of the XIX century regarding the obligation to respect neutrality which were codified in The Hague Convention (N° V) of 1908 concerning the rights and duties of neutral powers and persons in land warfare. ... Indeed, one of the main purposes of the UN Charter is: To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measu...

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An example of this representation is in the Season 3 Finale "Full Measure" where Walter has seemingly been trapped into a corner with nothing left to do and to protect him and those that he loves he must kill an innocent, aloof character. ... An example of this in "Full Measures" is the scene where a confrontation between the two representations of evil is being taken place and how all those involved are wearing the colour black to signify evil, nefariousness, deception and power all traits that question our moral opinion and a clear indicator of a moral dilemma. ...

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Earthquake losses can be reduced in any country. Strategically, the best approach is to create a balanced long-term earthquake risk management program, through which losses (i.e. damage, causalities, loss of functions, and economic impacts) can be controlled within limits set by community profession...

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What is Economic Development? Economic development can be illustrated as the sustainable process of developing and preserving apposite economic, social and political environments, in which economic opportunity is created for all citizens, business investment is enthused for the private se...

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The experimenter first took a baseline measure of participant's physical stamina with a handgrip and then asked participants to complete a mood measure (in line with the cover story). ... The dependent variable has high construct validity because a handgrip task is an informative measure of self-control and understanding the correlation between stigma-induced ego depletion and self-regulation as a limited-capacity resource. ...

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In the end of the first part Russia would not admit that is taking any part in this conflict, while on the other side NATO in response to the Russians will not increase for now the defense measures, but we know it all very well how to Russians play so in response to their dirty play NATO has to play its card very well for it may trigger a preventive war. ... These are dire times we are facing, time when both NATO and Russia should reconsider their strategy especially the Russians with their Near Approach Strategy, which in a great measure is a mimic of the USSR Strategy used during the Cold Wa...

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