I. Item Description Many say that there cannot be life after death, but with the Bios Urn, ‘death’ is objectionable. The Bios Urn is a decomposable urn made from “coconut shell, compressed peat, and cellulose” which is used to encase the cremated remains of both humans and pets (Navarro). The dimensions of the Bios Urn measure at “16 x 16 x 33 cm”, have a capacity of five point eight pounds, and features a medium, which is utilized to grow trees and plants with the use of the cremated remains…
important trend which can have a large and negative affect on the lives of homeless and low-income populations is that of housing. The GTA saw a 16.1% increase in the price of houses from 2016 to 2017. A popular area in Toronto - Richmond Hill ended the 2016 year with a 30% increase in home values. In fact, the average selling price for all home types hit a record high in April 2017 with an increase of 24.5% to $920,792. The cost of condominiums rose 4.3% from April 2017 to May 2017 to an…
ensure uniform interview processes. Completed interviews were obtained from 90% of eligible patients (Evans et al, 1985). The responses to these interview questions was then compared to the existing indexes: the index of Physiological Effect, the Index of Overall Life Satisfaction, and the Index of Well Being (Evans et al, 1985). Within the Evans study observational study methods were used to extract medical…
walkability index (WI) to measure the characteristics of the physical environment that contribute to walkable neighbourhood design. Leslie et al. (2007) adapted the WI to Australia. WI for these studies contains four main data components. The first component is residential density which is the number of residential units per particular areal unit within a neighbourhood. A high residential density value shows that more people live in the area. The second data component of the walkability index is…
RETAIL MARKETING MIX The basic function of retail is to provide the right goods at right place to right consumers at right time. The marketing tools that a retail organisation uses to pursue its marketing objectives are termed as marketing mix. CHANNELS OF RETAIL MARKETING: 1. PRODUCT: One of the main elements of retail marketing mix is the products and services that store offers to the customer. The different products that the store offers are together termed as merchandise mix. Big…
convert this input into constraint input format, the index of each value must be known. Table 3.6 shows the index of each parameter value of pizza ordering system. Table 3.6 System index information System Configurations Pizza Options (parameters) Pizza Type (0) Index Toppings (1) Index Size (2) Index Vegetarian Cheese 0 Roasted Chicken 0 Large 0 Meat Lover 1 Ground Beef 1 Medium 1 Mushroom (Mu) 2 Small 2 Now, based on parameter value index, these constraints was input as {0:0:x,…
In all businesses and organisations, Databases are used to store all the core activities/information and often when there a major changes or restructure of the business the first process of many businesses is to change their databases to realign with their goal which makes them a valuable asset to any organisation. (Margulies, Pfleeger, Pfleeger 2015). Databases stores and maintain data at one central location so users can easily access it whenever needed. Through the use of Queries, databases…
Table 2 shows that increasing performance decreases the probability of turnover, which is consistent with theory and literature. Bigger companies tend to have a higher probability of turnover. Higher power distance index is correlated with lower probability of turnover, meaning CEO is more secure and is being challenged less. Long Term Orientation leads to a lower probability of turnover. Having a long term orientation decreases as it gives CEO more time to improve her performance and makes…
Blown to Bits Chapter 4 was all about the organization of bits, and how the internet is organized. After all, there is simply so much data on the internet, one must wonder exactly how search engines such as Google can pull up websites from this virtual sea of chaos. Well, at first, the internet was mainly a repository for information. Websites were browsed in a hierarchical order, with the websites of most precedence appearing before those with less prominence, which makes a lot of sense if you…
review of the literature concerning the Zero Price Effect Relationship between demand and price has been studied for years by many academics and can be explained by the law of demand. The law of demand states that all else being equal, as the price of a good rises, the quantity demanded falls (xxx). However, there is a special case when the price of a good is 0 as people do not simply subtract costs from benefits. This phenomenon is called the zero price effect which explains the case of people…