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Compilers and Their Programming Functions

Questions, 2001). However, compilers, even ones written for the same programming language, can differ greatly. Wong (2003) asser...

Taoism, Buddhism, and Zen's Basic Philosophical Differences

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

Oligopolies and Monopolies

in technology, the number of companies already in the industry and their market positions, human capital, and more (Basto, Noyola-...

Policy Analysis and Systems Theory

to cybernetics and to systems dynamics, which demonstrate changes in a network of variables (Heylighen and Joslyn, 1992). Systems...

Real Wage Rates, Wage Differentials, and Human Capital Investment

to answer the call of marriage and motherhood, ultimately leaving the workforce not long after having what would be a tremendous a...

OPEC's Influence, Nation States, and Power

seen as having its routes in economic rather than military force. It is the power of trade embargos that have aided in seeking to ...

NPO and Effects of the New Policy Agenda

Agenda (NPA) is an ideological preference for markets over state controls in the allocation of of scarce resources (Copestake, 199...

Definition and Examples of Virtual Communities

formation of a virtual community may occur in many environments and as a result of many different pull factors, from entertainmen...

Interest Rates of Eurocurrency

factor that it is made up of large high quality clients and also the fact that there is no deposit insurance. These are all elemen...

Definition and Use of Global Intellectual Property

experience is valuable only at the place where they work. It is not portable" (Drucker, 1999; p. 79). In contrast, knowledg...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Paradise Lost, and Cinema Verite

Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...

Commercial Environment and Political Risk

helped to raise the awareness of this risk. Whilst it is known that there is often little that an individual company may do to imp...

Overview of Positivism

later in the nineteenth century; those of evolutionary ethics, where there was a duty to pursue the already existing processes and...

Critical Thinking and Perceptual Blockades

logic (formal and informal), critical thinking is generally considered to be part of the informal variety. When a person employs c...

Great Britain, is It Class Driven or a Meritocracy?

more on ability and skills rather than family background and inheritance; a meritocracy. Class mobility between the generation and...

Past and Present Definitions of Hero

rap artists came to be regarded as heroes by many. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001, however, we have once again com...

Strategic Alliances and Definitions of Multinational and Transnational

or technology (Todeva and Knoke, 2001). There are a number of types of strategic alliances, including: * Joint Venture where two o...

Management, Organizational Structure, and National Culture

of Texas, Pan American, 2003). There must be interaction between the two. One author explained: "National culture relates to an in...

The Changing South and American Culture

colonial era provided this workforce. While, like the Northeast, the South was settled by highly religious people, these people ha...

Citizenship Concept

for certain jobs. Many very well educated immigrants (doctors, teachers) found themselves working as general laborers because they...

Biodiversity and Globalization's Impact

they were the same species, and researchers found 950 different varieties of beetles, where eighty percent of the species had been...

Analyzing the Bombing of Oklahoma City

may help one understand how and why the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah building occurred. Conflict theory, unlike functionalism o...

Homeostasis and Universal Intelligence

and complimentary or alternative therapies (Chang, 2001). Travelbee (2002) in particular recognizes the spiritual dimension of ho...

Committed Relationship Conceptual Definition

the world would be and how others would act" (Leiser 465). Russell believed that "human actions derive from three sources: instinc...

Nursing and Critical Thinking

should be emphasized that some nurses see their function in a more spiritual manner. They take their role as a calling to help tho...

Nottinghamshire Police Force and Accountability

the 1990s in a general sense, but critics say that there is a weakening in respect to community relations (Downing, Stepney & Jor...

Natural Law and How It Developed

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

Socrates, Human Nature, the 'Good Life,' and Plato's Gorgias

interlocutor" which is consistent with the importance he places on self-knowledge as a way to attain good and happiness. Callicles...

Operations Management and IT, TQM, and JIT Effects

* Manufacturing flexibility is essential (Green and Inman, 2000). * Customers define quality (Green and Inman, 2000). * Team effor...

Taiwan and the Potential of Asset Backed Securities

studying the models and then comparing the way that Taiwan is developing should then give two valuable results. Firstly an indicat...