听力原文:Mother Teresa is to be made a saint now that Pope Francis has approved her second miracle, involving the healing of a Brazilian man’s brain infection 11 years after her death. The celebrated missionary, who died in 1997, is expected to be canonized in September....
Excise taxes come in two main forms: a fixed amount per unit, such as the 18.4¢ federal tax on a gallon of gas, and ad valorem taxes, which are a percentage of the value—for example, 10% of the cost of a pack of cigarettes. Collecting ad valorem taxes (ad valorem is Latin ...
Online auctions are rapidly becoming one of the significant forms of electronic commerce for buying and selling goods and services. A good understanding of the workload of auction sites should provide insights about their activities and help in improving the quality of the service provided to their...
Two urban areas are considered to have high number of inhabitants: San Juanito has 10,535 inhabitants, of which 152 are speakers of indigenous languages and Creel has 5,026 inhabitants with 350 Raramuris (the rest considered mestizos). The main activities of the inhabitants are local commerce,...
The most foundational publications on general forms of distributed consensus are by Lamport et al. (1982), who also coined the term “Byzantine agreement,” and Fischer et al. (1985). The first work that explicitly addressed distributed commit for transaction trees was by Mohan and Lindsay (...
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the Middle East. We believe the opportunity in the region – unlike many other parts of the world – is quite broad. Building on what we have done in the last five years, we can expand into new verticals and new forms of transport and other forms of e-commerce, beyond ju...
The mutual toe-treading that ensues takes several forms. First, the companies are increasingly selling the same products or services. Second, they are providing similar products and services on the back of different business models, for example giving away things that a rival charges for (or vi...
he considers as malingerersand thieves. Andreas is at this stage the complete negation of the rebel. He just wishes to improve his life a bit and to have a wife and family. A good fate – so it seems to Andreas – sends him a widow whose plump forms attract him and soon he moves ...
While the frequency pulling itself is odd-symmetric around the atomic center frequency, the difference in the two frequency pulling effects forms a parabolic curve of even symmetry centered on the atomic frequency. Suitable laser systems to exploit this effect may therefore be a two-mode laser ...