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    institutions (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004). According to these authors, rates of incarceration have steadily increased at an average rate of 3.4% per year since 1995, requiring most federal and state institutions to operate at or above capacity. The overage has placed increased pressure on prison officials to efficiently classify newly incarcerated offenders. (Caperton, Edens, & Johnson, 2004). Balancing efficiency, accuracy, and cost, inmate classification procedures influence most aspects of an individual’s

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    One of the alternatives that may help reduce some of the costs are E-Books. E-Books, though originally proposed in the 1930 's, have been around since 1971 when Project Gutenberg was launched and in their modern form since the late 90 's. E-Books became a viable alternative to print books in 2007 with the launch of the Kindle (Bartram). Lower cost, portable, and easily searched, E-Books can replace traditional print texts on devices from the student 's laptop all the way over to the phone that

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    An employer who issues electronic devices such as a cellular phone or computer has the right to search the records and transcripts of the text messages as well as the information and emails stored on the computer at any time. When it comes to employer issued cellular phones and computers, “an employee does not have an expectation of privacy on their company-issued” devices (Wang, 2013). A common occurrence is that prior to starting a job where the employee is working with or are issued electronic

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    system is composed of a number of interrelated parts that each of which performs as a function and contributes to the overall stability of society. First, drugs are functional as society as a whole because disease and viruses can result from the overage of drugs. Drug addiction affects society as a whole because it’s one of the fastest ways to spread an HIV virus through sharing needles and other drug paraphernalia. The usage of drugs can lead to bad decisions like participating in sexual activity

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    from the earlier year and still weren’t able to make the playoffs.With a scoring average of 30.1 points per game, he turned into the youngest NBA scoring champion and was chosen to his first All-NBA team. Still ending the year strong with a point overage of 28 points per game, winning his third consecutive scoring title. According to the article by John Rhode on newsOK.com, On February 19 of the lockout-shortened 2011–12 season, Durant recorded his first career 50 point game, scoring 51 points against

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    Edward Vernon Rickenbacker was a WWI captain and hero. He was born on October 8, 1890 in Columbus, Ohio. He was the son of Swiss immigrants and had seven siblings. He smoked when he was five and was the leader of a mischievous group of kids called “ The Horsehead Gang”. At age 8 he took the gang down a slide in a steel cart into a deep gravel pit the cart flipped over and his leg got cut straight to the bone. He later quit school at age 12 when his father died in a construction accident. After his

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    Introduction The PM has the responsibility to the customer and the company to ensure deliverables are met with the highest standard. The work performed by Curley and Moe, although falls within the acceptable building standards, does not meet the expectation of the company in terms of quality. The Elite Team offers a higher quality finished product and can meet the deliverables within the specified timeframe. From a financial perspective, the team opted to change subcontractors based on Curley and

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    the steps outlined in the companies established process, it should greatly reduce their risk. The company would also need to have a legitimate business reason to conduct a layoff such as a decline in sales, decline in foot traffic or to reduce an overage in payroll by reducing the number of employees. Things in the background that should be in their plan could be items such as, having human resources check employment contracts for those being considered for the lay off. Does the company need to deal

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    Conclusions (absent here) 1 Sub-Total = 21 multiply Sub-Total x 2= 42 Report: N/A N/A Introduction 2 Data and Calculations 8 Less Points-Missing Data N/A N/A Unknown Identity 10 Data Analysis / Conclusions 5 TOTAL 67 minus any page overage 0 minus for late reports 0 minus for TA points 0 FINAL TOTAL POINTS 67 INTRODUCTION In this experiment, the technique of thin layer chromatography is used to identify the identity of unknown. To aid in seeing the spots from the thin

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    takes longer than the Betadine, thus explaining the result because of the ability of Betadine to kill more bacteria in a less amount of time. Group 4’s was similar to all the other group except for rubbing alcohol,which was 28.5 compared to the class overage of 20.6. The group that had the closest result was Group 5, who got 27.0 mm. For rubbing alcohol, the zone of inhibition was an ellipse, so the group decided to take the average of the longest and shorted diameters; therefore, two possible sources

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