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11economic development — Process whereby simple, low income national economies are transformed into modern industrial economies. Theories of economic development the evolution of poor countries dependent on agriculture or resource extraction into prosperous countries… …
12accounting — /euh kown ting/, n. 1. the theory and system of setting up, maintaining, and auditing the books of a firm; art of analyzing the financial position and operating results of a business house from a study of its sales, purchases, overhead, etc.… …
13Risk — takers redirects here. For the Canadian television program, see Risk Takers. For other uses, see Risk (disambiguation). Risk is the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable… …
14Wealth — For other uses, see Wealth (disambiguation). Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions. The word wealth is derived from the old English wela, which is from an Indo European word stem.[1] An individual, community,… …
15Salt Lake City, Utah — Infobox Settlement official name = City of Salt Lake City settlement type = City nickname = Crossroads of the West, Salt Lake, SLC imagesize = image caption = Downtown Salt Lake City in April 2008 image mapsize = 250px map caption = Location of… …
16Adapted process — In the study of stochastic processes, an adapted process (or non anticipating process) is one that cannot see into the future . An informal interpretation[1] is that X is adapted if and only if, for every realisation and every n, Xn is known at… …
17Itō diffusion — In mathematics mdash; specifically, in stochastic analysis mdash; an Itō diffusion is a solution to a specific type of stochastic differential equation. Itō diffusions are named after the Japanese mathematician Kiyoshi Itō.OverviewA (time… …
18Government contract — Contracting with the U.S. Government is based on many of the same principles as commercial contracting andcan be very profitable, but is sufficiently different from commercial contracting to require special care.Persons entering into commercial… …
19Government procurement in the United States — is based on many of the same principles as commercial contracting, but is subject to special laws and regulation as described below. Persons entering into commercial contracts are pretty much free to do anything that they can agree on. Each… …
20Pythagoreans and Eleatics — Edward Hussey PYTHAGORAS AND THE EARLY PYTHAGOREANS Pythagoras, a native of Samos, emigrated to southern Italy around 520, and seems to have established himself in the city of Croton. There he founded a society of people sharing his beliefs and… …
