...Modern GPUs use most of their transistors to do calculations related to 3D computer graphics. They were initially used to accelerate the memory-intensive work of texture mapping and rendering polygons, later adding units to accelerate geometric calculations such as the rotation and translation of vertices into different coordinate systems. Recent developments in GPUs include support for programmable shaders which can manipulate vertices and textures with many of the same operations supported by CPUs, oversampling and interpolation techniques to reduce aliasing, and very high-precision color spaces. Because most of these computations involve matrix and vector operations, engineers and scientists have increasingly studied the use of GPUs for non-graphical calculations. An example of GPUs being used non-graphically is the generation of Bitcoins, where the graphical processing unit is used to solve puzzles. In addition to the 3D hardware, today's GPUs include basic 2D acceleration and framebuffer capabilities (usually with a VGA compatibility mode). Newer cards like AMD/ATI HD5000-HD7000 even lack 2D acceleration, it has to be emulated by 3D hardware. [edit]GPU accelerated video decoding The ATI HD5470 GPU (above) features UVD 2.1 which enables it to decode AVC and VC-1 video formats- GPU from Vaio E series laptop Most GPUs made since 1995 support the YUV color space and hardware overlays, important for digital video playback, and many GPUs made since 2000 also support MPEG...
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...ASSESSMENT OF THE USE OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) IN THE NIGERIAN AEC INDUSTRY. A case study of selected firms. BY GYET, DAVID U11AT1038 PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (BSc.) DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE AUGUST 2015 DECLARATION I hereby declare that the work in this project titled “ASSESSMENT OF THE USE OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) IN THE NIGERIAN AEC INDUSTRY. A case study of selected firms.” has been performed by me in the department of Architecture, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria under the supervision of Arc A.S Salisu. The information derived from the literature has been duly acknowledged in the text and a list of references provided. No part of this project report was previously presented for another degree or diploma at this or any other institution. ____________________________ _______________________ Gyet David Date (U11AT1038) . CERTIFICATION This project report entitled “ASSESSMENT OF THE USE OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) IN THE NIGERIAN AEC INDUSTRY. A case study of selected firms.” By GYET DAVID (U11AT1038) meets the regulations governing the award of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BSc. Architecture) of Ahmadu Bello University, and is approved for...
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...Data Collection: Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. QNT/351 Data Collection: Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. Overview Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. (BIMS) is a company that provides housekeeping and foodservices to large corporations and businesses. BIMS employs a total of 452 employees, including full-time and part-time workers as well as upper management employees. The average turnover rate for BIMS is typically 55 to 60%. During the past four months the turnover rate has increased to over 64%. Despite the efforts to get to the root of the issue causing the high turnover rate, management at BIMS has been unsuccessful. The morale is low at BIMS, and there has been an increase in the use of sick leave. The performance of workers has become inadequate, which has caused a number of complaints from clients. Data Collection Instrument A survey instrument was created in an attempt to allow the workers to express their views about their individual experiences at BIMS. The survey begins by asking questions about the employee’s feelings toward his or her position and the relationship he or she has with his or her boss. The survey also includes demographic questions that identifies the division they are assigned to and how long they have been employed. As the consulting group one can expect to find that the increase in turnover to be directly...
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... QNT/351 May 22, 2010 The assignment evaluates data presented by Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. (BIMS) to examine the reasons for increase of turnover at the Douglas Medical Center (DMC), and to offer suggestions for workplace improvement to the General Manager of BIMS, Barbara Tucker. The report was prepared by Team A professionals, and consists of interpretation of the raw data, data charts to demonstrate response patterns, and suggestions to further appreciate and reduce the causes of turnover of BIMS employees. The unprecedented high turnover rate at the Douglas Medical Center is in accordance with industry standards of 57% to 62%; surprisingly it has climbed over 73% during the past four months. BIMS must control the high turnover rate if it wants to maintain adequate levels of efficiency, service, and success. The data collected from the surveys administered to the three divisions run by BIMS was evaluated collectively, for each department individually. The Human resources department for BIMS was responsible for preparing, and developing the survey tool used to gather the data, BIMS staff was responsible for completing the data entry. Douglas Medical Center Current Situation Barbara Tucker is BIMS General manager at the Douglas Medical Center and supervises the three division managers for the Food Service, Housekeeping, and Physical Plant/Maintenance. Flora Torres supervises the...
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...Analyzing and Interpreting Data – BIMS, Inc. Team C: Samantha Huguenin, Keith Salter, Jeremiah Logan 11/20/14 QNT 351 Dr. Jaejoo Lim Analyzing and Interpreting Data – BIMS, Inc. Consulting Group – Team C has performed a lot of analysis on to help top management of Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc (BIMS). These tasks were the result of a high amount of turnover trend of attrition and employees being unhappy within this particular company. The initial action taken involved data collection that were presented and passed out to employees in the form of an internal employee survey. The data collection analysis revealed our hypothesis and we set out to prove that the increase in employee turnover was due to low employee morale and poor employee performance not being happy with their role and the environment being a part of this company. The initial survey leads us to understand we have to get a stronger response rate than just 17.3%—to help achieve the goal of obtaining the feedback of the vast majority of BIMS employees. By proceeding with our initial findings we analyzed, displayed, and interpreted, the outcome shows that BIMS was experiencing high turnover due to low pay and lack of communication within the organization. This information provided to be promising from the perspective that we were narrowing down to the core issues within BIMS; it just was not relevant enough for management to determine an effective course of action or forecasting and making the...
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...BIMS Research Study Overview QNT/351 August 21, 2014, RANDALL ELKINS August 21, 2014. BIMS Research Study Overview (Part 1) Headquartered in New York City, The Ballard Integrated Managed Services (BIMS) is a support service company that specializes in providing housekeeping and food services to many corporations and institutions to include 22 Fortune-100 businesses. The focus of the research is the BIMS site at Douglas Medical Center (BIMS-DMC). The problem BIMS is facing is to determine the cause for the decrease in worker productivity and morale, which resulted in an increase in complaints from the hospital staff and administration. The purpose of the survey is for BIMS-DMC employees to express their view about their job and to compute descriptive and frequency techniques and further study data for possible correlations. The research questions ask if respondents enjoy working for BIMS, how many times they have called in sick, if they are well trained, if their pay is fair, and if they like their supervisor. Our assumption is that at 17% participation, this survey will not have enough participants to get enough data to determine the problems in BIMS-DMC; a larger sampling or new sampling method may need to apply. The instrument used in collecting the data was from a sample survey. In some sample surveys, a couple of included questions, could stem from demographics and age brackets. Also, some of other areas of consideration includes a rating scale...
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...Week 3 Team A BIMS Summarizing and Presenting Data QNT/351 Quantitative Analysis for Business June 2, 2014 Summarizing and Presenting Data In both employee surveys, BIMS used all three levels of measurement to analyze the data collected. In reviewing the findings from the employee survey, the ultimate goal was to get the overall census of the employees on the survey questions. These survey questions were engineered to evaluate the satisfaction level of the employees at BIMS and to reveal the underlying issues and continuous concerns that were causing the high turnover and low morale at BIMS. The interval level of measurement was used to display the employee’s length of employment and a numeric code was used to describe the nominal, ordinal and interval data. Descriptive statistics was used to show the mean, median, mode and central tendency of the data. An analysis of each survey question was broken down, and the interpretation displayed on tables, charts and graphs. These graphs give an overall visual description of the answers to each question. After all the data had been analyzed, displayed, and interpreted, the outcome shows that BIMS was experiencing high turnover due to low pay and lack of communication within the organization. Descriptive Analysis The intention of descriptive analysis is to provide a clear understanding through the use of graphical and numerical visual of the patterns and unique trends in the data set of interest...
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...27th, 2014 Pete Dorsa Introduction and Problem Situation Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. (BIMS) provides food, hospitality, housekeeping and physical plant services for the staff and patients at the Douglas Medical Center. Barbara Tucker, the general manager for this site, has noticed that the morale of her employees has been declining for the past several months. The expected turnover rate is 55-60% annually in this industry. This rate has increased to 64% over the last four months (BIMS Part 1). The use of sick time has increased, overall performance is poor and complaints from the hospital staff are on the rise. Barbara and her management team have not been able to determine why morale is down. The exit interviews that are currently used are not pinpointing the reasons why employees are leaving. Conclusions The data used in the survey is beneficial to the research into why employment morale has decreased for the past several months. Therefore, a questionnaire was designed to examine dependent variable which, “is the key factor that you want to explain or predict and that is affected by some other factors …scholars have emphasized productivity, absenteeism, turnover, and job satisfaction” (Robbins & Judge p. 25). BIMS is experiencing problems with several dependant variables, the focus of this paper examines turnover, which is increasing for BIMS. Each question of the survey addresses issues that require involvement from management. Issues like whether...
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...Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. (BIMS) is a service company that provides various service products to their clients, mainly large businesses and corporations. BIMS services consists from janitorial cleaning to foodservice, and even physical plant maintenance. BIMS allows companies to outsource all of their non-business operations activities from one spot. This makes things very simple for BIMS clients and it also makes BIMS a very marketable company. Unfortunately, BIMS has been feeling the pressure of low employee morale and turnover numbers have been increasing. Our team will be looking at researching why this issue is happening to BIMS. We will try to un-code data collected from an employee survey to see if we can help BIMS find a solution to this problem that is slowly crippling them. One of BIMS largest contracts is with their client, The Douglas Medical Center (DMC). BIMS provides DMC with three major services housekeeping, food service, and physical plant management. BIMS would like to solve it’s high turnover issue so that they can guarantee the retention of the DMC contract. Here are some possible research questions: Why is employee morale dropping? Is there a direct correlation between low morale level and the increasing turnover rate? Can we control the turnover rate by attempting to improve employee morale? Human resources at BIMS deployed an employee survey to try to figure out the reason morale levels were low, this may help them pinpoint the underlying...
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...BIMS Research Study Overview QNT 351 January 17, 2012 Team, This is very well written and the research is one that can be effectively proven and lead to further analysis to improve employee/management relations. This is a very applicable business research problem. Watch out for grammatical errors and work on sentence structure. You might one to have additional references to strength you related literature. Overall, you did a nice job. 7.75/8.0 BIMS Research Study Overview Headquartered in New York City, The Ballard Integrated Managed Services (BIMS) is a support service company that specializes in providing housekeeping and food services to many corporations and institutions to include 22 Fortune-100 businesses. The focus of the research is the BIMS site at Douglas Medical Center (BIMS-DMC). The problem BIMS is facing is to determine the cause for the decrease in worker productivity and morale, which resulted in an increase in complaints from the hospital staff and administration. The purpose of the survey is for BIMS-DMC employees to express their view about their job and to compute descriptive and frequency techniques and further study data for possible correlations. The research questions ask if respondents enjoy working for BIMS, how many times they have called in sick, if they are well trained, if they are paid fairly, and if they like their supervisor. Our assumption is that at 17% participation, this survey will not have enough participants to get...
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...Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc., Part 1. Gill Johns QNT/351 Aug. 19, 2014 RANDALL ELKINS Schedule: Aug 08 - Sep 11, 2014 Use either the data one of your Learning Team members retained from RES/351 or the data from University of Phoenix Material: Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc., Part 1. Discuss with your team whether you have data from RES/351, and if your team would like to use one team member’s data for the Learning Team assignments in this course. If using data from RES/351: Resources: Data collected from RES/351 Prepare a 700- to 1,050-word written report along with a 5- to 7-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation for the senior management team or stakeholders of your RES/351 research project to present your findings. Address the following: • Present the chosen situation as an overview—problem, purpose, research questions, and hypotheses. • Describe the instrument used for data collection. • Identify types of data—quantitative, quantitative, or both—and how the data is collected. • Identify the level of measurement for each of the variables involved in the study. • Code the data if you have not done so. Describe how the data is coded and evaluate the procedure used. • Clean the data by eliminating the data input errors made. • Draw conclusions about appropriateness of the data to meet the purpose of the study. If you decide not to use your own data, you can use the Ballard Integrated...
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...Summarizing and Presenting Data QNT/351 Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. Data Collection- Part One Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc., (BIMS) is an organization that provides food and accommodations for their employees, the patients at Douglas Medical Center, along with other large companies. A change in the company has been taking place and trending towards many employees leaving for other employment opportunities. The turnover rate for BIMS is normally in the range of 55 to 60%, however, for the past few months it has increased to 64%. What is causing the turnover rate to increase and the moral across the organization to decrease? If management puts an emphasis on the employees and their training, will the turnover rate improve? Overview Barbra has noticed several other behaviors lately which appear to be a symptom of a deeper problem, but has been unable to determine the root cause of a climbing turnover rate and the overall decline in morale. In effort to discover the cause within the organization, a survey was administered. Unfortunately, the survey did not provide the results or guidance for management to lead the team in a direction that would change the culture of the organization or the way the employees at BIMS feel about their experiences at BIMS. If management continues to look only at the symptoms of the problem, the root cause will continue to exist and deteriorate the culture further. Debbie Horner, the HR manager developed and administered...
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... Data Collection Present the BIMS situation as an overview—problem, purpose, research questions, and hypotheses. Problem: Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. (BIMS) has questions in the past months why the turnover over employment has increased drastically. Purpose: BIMS typically experience an annual turnover rate of 55 to 60%, this is common for the industry in general. However, the company’s’ turnover has increased in the past 4 months and it has climbed to over 64%. Managers and supervisors do not understand why the turnover rate has increased and to all management this remains a puzzle. (University of Phoenix, 2014). Research questions: BIMS Employee Survey Using the scale provided, record your answer by circling the number that is closest to your view where 5 is a very positive response and 1 is a very negative choice. Very Negative Very Positive 1. How well do you enjoy working for BIMS? 2. You enjoy your assigned shift. 3. Your request for your desired shift was fulfilled. 4. How many times have you called in sick in the last month? 5. You are well trained for your work. 6. You are paid fairly for the work you do. 7. Your supervisor treats you fairly. 8. Your supervisor’s boss treats your division fairly. 9. The company is good at communicating. 10. You do not fear that you will lose your job. A. In which division do you work? B. How long have you worked for BIMS? C. What is your gender? D...
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...Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent model-based process that provides insight to help you plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure. BIMs are files that can be exchanged or networked to support decision-making about a place. Businesses and Individuals use BIM software to construct and maintain physical infrastructures from water, wastewater, electricity, bridges, ports, apartment buildings, schools, warehouses and much more. The term “Building Information Model” was first documented in a paper written by Van Nederveen and Tolman (1992), from TU Delft in the Netherlands, although the concept of BIM has existed since the 1970s. The US National Information Model Standard Project Committee has the following definition for BIM: “Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. A BIM is a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life-cycle; defined as existing from earliest conception to demolition” Before BIM, traditional building designs were largely reliant upon two-dimensional drawing. BIM has facilitated this process augmenting the three primary spatial dimensions width, height, and depth. With BIM we now have time as a fourth dimension and cost as a fifth dimension. BIM design tools allow extraction of different views from a building model for drawing production and other uses. BIM facilitates the communication...
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...QNT 351 Jan 11th, 2014 Introduction and Problem Situation Ballard Integrated Managed Services, Inc. (BIMS) provides food, hospitality, housekeeping and physical plant services for the staff and patients at the Douglas Medical Center. Barbara Tucker, the general manager for this site, has noticed that the morale of her employees has been declining for the past several months. The expected turnover rate is 55-60% annually in this industry. This rate has increased to 64% over the last four months (BIMS Part 1). The use of sick time has increased, overall performance is poor and complaints from the hospital staff are on the rise. Barbara and her management team have not been able to determine why morale is down. The exit interviews that are currently used are not pinpointing the reasons why employees are leaving. Conclusions The data used in the survey is beneficial to the research into why employment morale has decreased for the past several months. Therefore, a questionnaire was designed to examine dependent variable which, “is the key factor that you want to explain or predict and that is affected by some other factors …scholars have emphasized productivity, absenteeism, turnover, and job satisfaction” (Robbins & Judge p. 25). BIMS is experiencing problems with several dependant variables, the focus of this paper examines turnover, which is increasing for BIMS. Each question of the survey addresses issues that require involvement from management. Issues like whether...
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