... instructions to ambulance personnel. Because telephone lines and radio channels have low capacity, they can carry only a limited number of signals unless these signals are coded efficiently. For this purpose, we have developed several signal compression methods, which utilize polynomials and imaginary numbers. Polynomials also are used in Engineering. They are used for approximating or curve fitting experimental data, solving different equations ... electromagnetic field. The field has both an electric and a magnetic component, so it takes a pair of real numbers (one for the intensity of...

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... measure numeracy skill levels. To paint a picture of how numeracy is evaluated, Peters referenced an experiment conducted by Lipkus et al., 2001 in which participants were asked to select the number they thought represented the biggest risk of getting a disease. If person A's chances of getting a disease is 1 in 100 In 10 years, and person B's risk is double that of A's, what is ... seeking as opposed to avoidance, and attention to numeric information. In order to make good choices we must also possess the ability to recall numbers, perform number operations, derive meaning from numbers...

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... contact (Magnier). To confront the epidemic head-on, India poured billions of dollars into eliminating the virus and gained access to a more effective vaccine. Because of these drastic measures, the number of reported wild polio cases, the kind that most often results in paralysis, has decreased from hundreds in 2009 to just one case in 2011, none of which were in ... Uttar Pradesh. Furthermore, places such as the slumbs of New Delhi and Mumbai boast record-level numbers of immunizations and virus-free water samples. Lower-risk areas offer children younger than five the oral polio vacci...

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... what is familiar to us today. One remarkable piece of work was his redefinition of irrational numbers in terms of "Dedekind cuts-. His work on mathematical induction, including the definition of finite and infinite sets, and his work in number theory, particularly in algebraic number fields, is also of major importance. Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind was born October 6, 1831 in ... feature of this period, as explained above, was the tendency towards a logical systematization of mathematics. Dedekind's Essays on Number (1872) solidified the logical foundations of calculus. The primary mot...

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... realized through the various readings in the library and internet surfing. CONCEPTUAL LITERATURE Learning Competencies of Grade 7 in Mathematics. Grade 7 Mathematics covers numbers and number sense; measurement; patterns and algebra; geometry and statistics and probability. The learning competencies in Numbers and Number Sense are describes and illustrates well-defined sets, subsets, universal set and the null set; defines and describes the union and intersection ... the different properties of the operations on integers (commutative, associative, distributive, identity, inverse); defin...

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... ", "transport" and "destination". Though a heinous crime, the truth is that human trafficking functions just like any other business. Like a simple exporter, a trafficking organization will obtain its "goods" from a number of supplier countries. These goods will then have to be taken to key transportation areas. In the case of trafficking, this means delivering these "goods" to countries wherein the organization ... still trapped in various exploitative situations throughout the world (Bolton, 2005, p.78). As Director of the ILO Department of Communications and Public Information, Zohreh...

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... Divisibility. Commercial R&D departments and university labs are developing measures to address security for both Internet and private-network transactions. The venerable answer to securing sensitive information, like credit-card numbers, is to encrypt the data before you send it out. MIT's Kerberos, which is named after the three-headed watchdog of Greek mythology, is one of the best-known ... keep a database of serial numbers that records who spent the currency and what the dollars purchased. It is then important to build a degree of anonymity into electric money. Blind signatures are ...

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... Bhaskara: His work, the Siddhanta Shiromani, is an astronomical treatise and contains many theories not found in earlier works. Preliminary concepts of infinitesimal calculus and mathematical analysis, along with a number of results in trigonometry, differential calculus and integral calculus that are found in the work are of particular interest. Bhaskara went deeper into the 'differential calculus' and suggested that the ... of the theory of calculus was then almost fully established. After Cauchy, the most important advancement in the logical foundation of calculus was the construction...

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... of the population previously hidden or unheard. Three House members are openly gay, and two lawmakers, Senator Max Cleland, and freshman Representative Jim Langevin, both democrats, use wheelchairs. These numbers indicate today's Congressional members are overwhelmingly able-bodied and heterosexual. The Senate is prone to even less diversity with 2001 seeing no change in its minority composition. The Senate's fair ... had after the 1992 elections become leaders within the legislature. The census of 1990 was cited as the most important variable in the change of women in Congress. A large ...

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... were forcibly embarked on European vessels for a life of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Many more Africans were captured or purchased in the interior of the continent but a large number died before reaching the coast. About 9 to 10 million Africans survived the Atlantic crossing to be purchased by planters and traders in the New World, where they worked principally as ... after arrival. Many sales occurred on ship deck; other sales took place on wharves or in agents' houses or slave pens. Some planters contracted with merchants to purchase a preset number of slaves. Many slaves were...

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... our prisons due to overcrowding make it ineffective as a punishment. Due to the ever-increasing rate of imprisonment and the continually overcrowded prisons a number of problems occur, for example, poor living conditions, oppressive regimes and so on. In my opinion, imprisonment should only be considered as punishment ... p4) According to Owers (2002) "In the first 9 months of 2002 saw as many self inflicted deaths (72) as whole of 2001, and the numbers appear to be rising. Recently, there were 8 suicides in one week, 5 of them within 24 hours- (p14) and claim that "These statistics are ...

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... Commercial and practical uses of knowledge, especially in agriculture and engineering, created powerful incentives for states to increase financial support for their public universities. In addition, the numbers of students attending college increased dramatically after World War II ended in 1945, which further pressed states and municipalities to expand opportunities for publicly funded postsecondary education. Federal financial ... exams usually have direct consequences for the students who take them, often by permitting or denying access to higher education or positions of employment...

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... to that collected by the NEAIS. Using rigorous estimation methods, data were weighted to represent national totals and annualized. The numbers of cases in the data obtained from the states by NCEA were very close to the NEAIS national estimates. The total number of actual reports obtained from the states by NCEA was only 1.4 percent greater than the NEAIS estimated total. The ... using scientific probability sampling methods to obtain a nationally representative sample. As a result, it is possible to make valid projections from the NEAIS data, to make national estimates of the numbers of...

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... to that collected by the NEAIS. Using rigorous estimation methods, data were weighted to represent national totals and annualized. The numbers of cases in the data obtained from the states by NCEA were very close to the NEAIS national estimates. The total number of actual reports obtained from the states by NCEA was only 1.4 percent greater than the NEAIS estimated total. The ... using scientific probability sampling methods to obtain a nationally representative sample. As a result, it is possible to make valid projections from the NEAIS data, to make national estimates of the numbers of...

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... in 2004 and -.51:1 in 2005. Although the risk decreases .21 from 2004 to 2005 the negative number may frighten investors or lenders as the denominator in the fraction that determines the solution (current assets less current liabilities) is negative. I would expect stronger numbers were I to consider investing in a company. Coca-Cola's long-term debt to networking capital ratio ... shows improvement of an already strong number. In a financial statement's consolidated statement of income three years are shown to give a broader spectrum to compare. ... The financial statements from Appen...

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... there were approximately seven thousand British troops in South Africa that were in position and ready to fight. There were, however, an equal number in India that were being prepared for effective deployment by mid-October and there were also the troops being sent from England, which ... man in a white man's war."" (03)Due to inaccurate records that were kept pertaining to them, though, only a vague estimate of the number of blacks can be made. It is believed that roughly one hundred thousand were utilized in various manners in the British army and about ten thousand ... fifty thousand ...

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... only 12% of the population, whereas Caucasians made up 80%. This massive difference in population numbers added to the fact that in 1992 80% of America's drug users were White males proves statistically that the number of Black men in prison is an injustice (Hutchinson). The aim of this paper is ... people put in jail for drug offenses than for any violent crime in America (Johnston). In an effort to calm the public by raising the numbers of arrests, the police have targeted drug users in poverty stricken neighborhoods. This leads to massive arrests of black men who inhabit these areas. ...

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... of deaths and injuries attributed to fighting allocated to the initiator of the violence, namely the allied forces or the insurgents. While precision in the numbers is questionable, the overall trend depicted is that the number of deaths and injuries attributable to insurgent initiated actions is significantly higher than those resulting from allied forces. In measuring October 2011 through March 2012 compared ... to the same period the year prior there is evidence that the numbers have improved by 32 percent which implies a degree of success in reducing the number of casualties from vi...

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... have been seen everywhere in architecture of the past, and even in the design of modern buildings. This Golden Mean proportion is a ratio of numbers, which has fascinated generation after generation, and brought mystery to cultures all over the world in the past. This wondrous ratio can also be seen ... branches and leaves on trees, to the reproductive cycle of certain animals. Numerically shown as 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 with each number being the sum of the two previous numbers going on into infinity. On many trees, branches come forth as you go up the tree in this sequence. You start...

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... of the potential clients in a structured manner so that statistics and hard facts can be produced. Reliable statistics can be obtained by surveying individuals in quite large numbers and to ensure that the participants demonstrate the representative sample of the target market. Structured questionnaires provide an excellent tool for collecting quantitative information (Hines 2013). This ... period is where the organization has established a powerful brand image, for which clients are ready to shop at a higher price (Cheverton 2004). Nevertheless, price skimming provides a number of bene...

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... impact over the loss of an order status agent due to the sheer numbers of responsibilities and length of training one has over the other. To further describe the proactive solution, we must approximate the total number of employees by having the supervisors and managers collect unofficial data through questionnaires ... effects of the departed agents must be measured, and from there we can hire and train the exact number of agents required to bring the center head-count numbers back up to number approved by the executives for our center. The cost of training has become increasingly expens...

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... with hundreds of target words. There were six main findings. First, both R and W's knowledge of target words increased demonstrably as a result of multiple encounters. In both cases, the number of words the participants rated 0 (don't know) decreased dramatically by the end of the experiment. Much of the growth involved acquiring partial knowledge of words. Secondly, much of the total ... at all clear that such contrived texts foster the expected learning results (see the Chapter 5). A variation on this approach is to supplement a text (instead of altering it) to increase numbers of enco...

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... with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, and bulimia each year, almost ten percent are men. It seems that these numbers are directly proportional to the increased number of men undergoing silicone calf and pectoral implants, so they could look like the guys on the cover of hundreds of muscles ... dissatisfied with their weight, 54% were dissatisfied with their muscle tone, and 43% were dissatisfied with their overall appearance. More surprising is that these numbers have risen at least 10% from surveys done in 1986. Yet by far, the most alarming aspect of this new epidemic is that...

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... 20% in 1994 and by 5.4% in 1995. The industrial sector experienced the sharpest loss in output, with annual declines in 1992, 1993 and 1994 of roughly 25%. (Kyrgyzstan in numbers 1999, p.11) In 1997 it seemed that Kyrgyz government had somewhat overcome the consequences of a crisis. But after the notorious August of 1997 the Russian financial market had collapsed and ... potential making a significant contribution to the economic development."(Akaev, p.222) Today the number of small and medium size enterprises is about 27 thousands, whereas the number of farms is approximately 38 thousand...

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... States have been identified as apathetic, indifferent, and disinterested in the process of attaining an education. Many Americans point to the high Mexican-American drop-out rates and the low number of Mexican-American professionals as a confirmation of this stereotype. This Latino group has struggled to dispel the characterization. In response, Mexican-Americans, as well as Anglo-Americans, have ... hope to eliminate chasms in Latino-Anglo relations. Other Educational Programs In addition to implementing bi-lingual and dual immersion systems of education, school districts across the co...

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