Managers, today, want a balanced presentation of both financial and operational measures. ... In the balance scorecard the financial measures play a dual role. ... Kaplan and Norton then suggest selecting objectives and measures from among three classes of attributes. ... These customer based measures must however be translated into measures which detail what the company must do internally to meet its customers expectations. ... Although each measure within the balance scorecard is important to the overall strategy the best balance scorecard consists of a series of measures with linkages and w...

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Suppose you are compiling a battery of psychological assessment measures for selection of students at a South African tertiary institution. ... The results from these various measures, contribute to a further understanding of the meaning of intelligence. ... This test was adapted for cross-cultural use in many countries because it was a practical measure of intelligence. ... This is currently the most widely used measure of intelligence (Walsh & Betz, 1995). ... Essential elements of measuring intelligence are the education of relations and correlates. ...

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Throughout history, people have developed various tests to measure the intelligence of machines. ... The tests that we use to measure the intelligence of machines compare machines' intelligence with humans and mostly focus on what humans are capable of, ignoring machines' abilities. ...

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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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The Bank of Japan implemented three main policy measures during the financial crisis: reduce the policy interest rate, put forth measures to ensure stability in financial markets, and perform steps to facilitate corporate financing. ... The first policy measure in 2008 following the collapse of Lehman Brothers was to lower the Bank's target for the uncollateralized overnight call rate by 20 basis points lowering it to around 0.3%. ... Following the change in loan rate came a temporary measure that would ensure money market stability. ... In December of 2009, the Bank announced a new mea...

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DAV's management team decided to use the strategies of Statistical Process Control to measure and ultimately improve their process performance. ... Quality is more difficult to measure with services than with manufacturing due to services" characteristics of being intangible, inseparable, and by the fact that they vary with where, when, how, and by whom they are provided. These factors create many challenges in deciding what data is of significant value, how to measure it, and in defining what is indeed a problem with the service being provided.. With services, it may become difficu...

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Therefore, as a matter of urgency, individual security measures should be implemented with speed to avert any possible future occurrences. ... The main problems are that not enough measures were put forward to persuade the country holding Snowden. ... Another possible problem is that proper measures were not put in place to review who got access to the highly sensitive data possessed by the NSA. ... The government should come up with counter measures to curb the rise of other countries giving out safe heaven to criminals. ... Every Security Company working with the government should be monitor...

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Resistance is a measure of how hard it is to move the electrons through the wire. ... This tells me that the voltage measures the amount of energy used up in getting each coulomb of charge through the wire. ... Resistance is a measure of how much energy is needed to push the current through something. ... Stretch out the wire onto the bench and measure with a metre rule. ... Use the E26 wire as it will also be easier to measure any change in resistance. ...

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Introduction In present world, Health safety issues are the supreme conscious of the people because of different kinds of diseases and environmental pollution and food adulteration. Hence most of the organizations in the globe take adequate health and safety policies and procedures. The actual situation underneath gives a definite view of systems, routines and also procedures and it is consequence to advertise security work environment. World Health Organization (WHO) and other health organizations are elaborately taking numerous steps in health care and safety issues. The paper further has a ...

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It generally measures the spearman's general ability. ... However Raven believed that SPM measures the abstract intelligence but Spearman himself did not considered that SPM measures any type of intelligence. ... Wechsler presented the different type of psychological test consisting of verbal and performance task in order to measure the intelligence. ... Fluid and crystallized intelligence are thus correlated with each other, and most IQ attempt to measure both varieties. For example, the WAIS measures fluid intelligence on the performance scale and crystallized intelligence on the ver...

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On measures of cognitive anger, mean scores increased significantly after the story was heard. ... Where previous research used stories as an integral part of empathy measures, in the current study storytelling was not directly involved in the empathy measure. ... The children were also given the Young Children's Empathy Measure (Appendix A), developed by Robert Poresky (1990). ... was used to measure each child's cognitive perspective, and "How do you feel about this?" was used to measure each child's affective perspective. ...

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Measuring cylinder 2. ... I will then fill the test tubes about with water; I will use the measuring cylinder to make sure I put the same amount in each test tube. ... Now I have to measure out the sugar, firstly I will check to see if the scales are on 0 then measure out ½g and put this in test tube 2 because there going to be no sugar in test tube 1. Then measure out 1g and put this in test tube 3, measure out 1 ½g and put this in test tube 4.finally measure out 2g , put this in test tube 5 and then measure out 2 ½g ,put this in test tube 6. ... Also I will put the measuring cylinder o...

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Beach nourishment is an effective coastal protection measure. ... Also, sand on the re-nourished beaches will just be eroded again unless other coastal protection measure are undertaken. ... Groynes are also an effective coastal protection measure. ... Tetrapods are also an effective coastal protection measure. ... Also, as tetrapods are pre-casted, they can be placed quickly compared to the other measures. ...

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It will try and determine whether or not security is up to standards by exploring the modern safety issues which digital business relates to; and also examine the types of measures taken to fight computer crime. ... When strong security measures force criminals to seek out alternative ways of harming Digital Business, many companies may even lose more money than before the security was implemented. When we analyse security measures in Digital Businesses, we can conclude that there are two different types of security: Unsafe security, and Safe security. Unsafe security', are meas...

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However in 2009, the Singapore government implemented the first round of property cooling measures to maintain the affordability of private residential properties. Even though the first round of property was not successful in reducing the prices of the properties, property developers saw such cooling measures as a threat to their profitability and therefore, the units of residential properties developed in 2009 was significantly lesser than the units developed in 2008. The government implemented additional property cooling measures in the following years and the measures started to have an eff...

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Because there are several methods of measuring hardness, the hardness of a material is always specified in terms of the particular test that was used to measure this property. ... We then measure the amount of penetration and compare it to a scale. ... This behavior is called yielding and the deformation that occurs is called plastic deformation. [3] When yielding has ended, a further load can be applied to the specimen, resulting in a maximum stress referred to as the ultimate stress. oUTS can be estimated from the hardness which is a measure of a material's resistance to localize...

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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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However throughout his reign Akbar adopted a number of measures in the religious sphere that have been termed as liberal. ... It was these measures and especially the new state policy that became a major controversial factor with Akbar's critics accusing him of being a heretic. However, one needs to have a better understanding of these measures and the motivating factors behind their adoption before drawing conclusions about their nature. ... Before we go on to study this process and the various measures adopted by Akbar it would be important to understand the context and environment u...

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There are various ways of measuring the rate of reaction: Collecting and measuring a gas product. However this can be very difficult to measure for this particular reaction because the gas produced in the reaction is Sulfur dioxide which will react with oxygen and react with the solutions to produce acid rain, which will dissolve in the solution, preventing me from collecting the volume of gas formed. ... So therefore I will take the reciprocal of the time taken for the Sulfur precipitate to obscure the cross and use it as a measure of the relative rate of reaction. ... The dependent variab...

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Abstract Management accounting has been defined as the process of identifying, measuring, accumulating, analyzing, preparing, interpreting and communicating information that helps managers fulfill organizational objectives its not just about money. ... Du Pont first came out with a measure of their business, which was the return on investment (ROI) they were growing and it needed to measure return on investment to measure the profitability of individual business units. It used a measuring rod to measure the different business activities of it business units. With this measure the managers of...

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Liquidity Measures All of the typical liquidity measures, Current Ratio, and Quick Ratio indicate that Cannondale is adequately positioned to meet its short-term obligations although these numbers have trended downward slightly since Cannondale's financial peak in 1997. ... This measure is being dramatically affected by increasing fixed costs. ... In 1999, all of these measures had fallen to levels equal to a third to a half of their peaks in 1997. ... Leverage Ratios When looking at the leverage ratios, it is apparent that these debt-related measures clearly explain the financia...

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Definition of Ratio Analysis A ratio is simple arithmetical expression of the relationship of one number to another. It may be defined as the indicated quotient of two mathematical expressions. According to Accountant's Handbook by Wixon, Kell and Bedford, "a ratio is an expression of the quantitati...

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"There is evidence that insufficient attention is given not only to non-sampling errors and other problems that can exist in improperly conducted multicultural studies, but also to the appropriateness of consumer research measures that have not been tested in multicultural contexts." ...

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Managerial Use of Scales Measuring Personality The main issue for managers is to make use of personality scales. ... The way to make the results more reliable is to take multiple measures of behaviour. Single measures are not reliable and valid. Validity occurs when the scale can be shown to measure the trait that it is designed to assess. ...

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Measures have been taken to help reduce the problem, but we need something more drastic to insure American security. ... Sadly enough, the entire country is aware of the illegal immigrant problem, yet not enough measures have been taken to do anything about it. ... More drastic measures need to be taken. ... There are many more measures that the United States can take to enhance our border control. ...

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