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In its 2007 International Good Practice Guidance, "Defining and Developing an Effective Code of Conduct for Organizations", provided the following working definition: "Principles, values, standards, or rules of behaviour that guide the decisions, procedures, and systems of an organization in a way that (a) contributes to the welfare of its key stakeholders, and (b) respects the rights of all ...
The point with the greatest y-coordinate is called the point of maximum return, as it represents the amount of behavior the group likes the best. [45] While c in Figure 1 is labeling the return curve in general, the highlighted point just above it at X=6, represents the point of maximum return. Extending our above example, the point of maximum ...
The Eight-point Regulation from the Central (Chinese: 中央八项规定) is a set of regulations stipulated by the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2012 aimed at instilling more discipline among party members and making the party "closer to the masses". [1]
Codd's twelve rules [1] are a set of thirteen rules (numbered zero to twelve) proposed by Edgar F. Codd, a pioneer of the relational model for databases, designed to define what is required from a database management system in order for it to be considered relational, i.e., a relational database management system (RDBMS).
The social norms approach, or social norms marketing, [1] is an environmental strategy gaining ground in health campaigns. [2] While conducting research in the mid-1980s, two researchers, H.W. Perkins and A.D. Berkowitz, [3] reported that students at a small U.S. college held exaggerated beliefs about the normal frequency and consumption habits of other students with regard to alcohol.
[12] The movie kindled an intense social debate and even the Ministry of Education eventually promoted its discussion in the schools. In several interviews, Daranas stated: "The educational system is just a pretext [in the film] to talk about issues which are inherent to most official institutions and not just in Cuba.
A million service units (MSU) is a measurement of the amount of processing work a computer can perform in one hour. The term is most commonly associated with IBM mainframes . It reflects how IBM rates the machine in terms of charging capacity.
In developed countries, the number of centenarians is increasing at approximately 5.5% per year, which means doubling the centenarian population every 13 years, pushing it from some 455,000 in 2009 to 4.1 million in 2050. [104] Japan is the country with the highest ratio of centenarians (347 for every 1 million inhabitants in September 2010).