...What’s the Buzz on Smart Grids? The smart grid is a new infrastructure proposal to substitute the current outdated and inefficient electric infrastructure that supplies electricity to companies and consumers in the U.S. The new grid is expected to offer great advantages nationwide. The smart grid offers new ways to handle power by using alternative energy sources whish enable us to go green. Smart grid uses digital technology to deliver electricity saving energy, reducing cost, and increasing reliability and transparency. The new infrastructure allows information to flow back and forward from energy plants to consumer’s households and companies enabling them to make more rational decision of consumption and production. In addition this offer consumer the possibility to regulate their electronic appliances such as heating and air conditioner system for a responsible consumption while meeting the maximum need of usage lowering cost and pollution. All this advantages are not just advantages but also a clear difference that sets the economy to propel at lees in this single sector. Furthermore the smart grid is capable of detecting power outages more precisely and quickly at the individual household levels. Smart grids are expected to reduce the energy consumption from a 5 to 15 percent nationwide if implemented across the nation. Not only will this new infrastructure enable consumers to visualize through a home display devise the consumption and cost of the energy used to...
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...Chapter 8: Use What You’ve Learned 1. Have you seen the new Smart car? If you have, you are probably part of the buzz that has been heard recently about this new concept car that has made it to the streets. The car seats two, is available in three different models, and costs between about $12,500 and $17,000. The most significant fact about the Smart car is that it gets about forty-five miles per gallon. That fact alone has become central to Smart car’s initial introduction to the driving public. Has “small” finally become better than “large, extralarge, and supersize”? The manufacturer of the Smart car is betting on it. Investigate the Smart car. Once this is done, construct a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis for the Smart car. Evaluate the car’s likelihood of success. Strengths: The Smart car has many • Economically priced, beginning at just $12,500 • Small enough to park anywhere • Up to 45 mpg- good for the environment and your wallet • Customizable • 2. Is there a Chick-fil-A in your neighborhood? If there is, you’ve probably eaten at one of the fastest-growing food franchises in the southern United States (seehttp://www.chickfila.com). Chick-fil-A has a unique approach to running their business. Using the company’s Web site and search engines, your task is to investigate the Chick-fil-A organization in order to conduct a situation analysis. During your investigation be sure to comment on the perceived competitive situation...
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...Words Sitting alone on a West Midlands train, I buried my face in my hands wondering what on earth I should do. “I can’t do this,” I told myself. I’d just spent the day calling international schools in Europe trying to sell them an education package for a friend’s business. I think telesales is one of the most soul sucking activities in the entire business world! “I can’t make money for other people for the rest of my life,” I said. “I won’t.” It was the summer of 2005, and it was my seventh day back on British soil after serving an 18-month mission for the LDS church in the US. I graduated with a degree in international business management before my mission, but now the prospect of pushing paper for a career, like all the other business minions, was not appealing. Like the sunny countryside whizzing by, my own train of though was working its way through hills and valleys of possibility. By the time I stepped of that train in my hometown, I had decided to go back to school and leave the country. Speech-language pathology was my ticket out of town. Five months later I had a confirmation of my choice. Without ever asking for it, I received a brochure in the mail from a college in Boston about my chosen program. As I pored over the booklet, one sentence, one word reverberated from the page: “Emerson college desires compassionate students.” Compassion. One word, seven sounds, was reason enough for me to pack up my life, sell everything that didn’t fit in my black...
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...1. The lids of the tumblers I used before cannot perfectly fit the cup. Thus, water can be leaked little by little when I put the tumblers in my handbag. The things in my handbag even get wet. 2. The metal fixtures in some binders are not quite smooth and do not function well. The metal can scratch my fingers and nails when I insert or take out paper from binders. 3. The pigment of highlighters cannot become dry quickly on my textbook paper. My hands and sleeve cuff will be colored then. 4. When I call customer service for my bank account and phone bill, I cannot reach the operator or customer representatives directly. I have to go through several steps to finally reach the operator choice. Sometimes, the instruction of the automated voice is unclear. It is not unusual for me to wrongly go back to the initial menu and to restart different options to reach the customer representatives. 5. In many restaurants, tables are assigned with specific waiters and waitresses. I had the experiences that my friends and I kept looking around to look for my waiters to get ordered, to get silver, or to pay bill, which can seriously affect my mood to enjoy food. 6. The Siri function of iPhone somewhat bothers me. When I move my backpack or lean on it, other things in my backpack can push the home button and activate Siri. Then, the Siri voice function said that “what can I help you?” when I was in class. This also happened to other students as well, which was embarrassing...
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...INDEX Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Performance & Potential 5 Understanding TMS Grid 9 TMS & Appraisal Rating 11 Special Cases 14 The TMS Process 15 Use of TMS Rating 19 Advantages of the System 19 Gaps in the System 19 Abstract This project us gave the opportunity to analyze and explore performance management system at Bajaj Allianz. We have explored the performance appraisal part of the same namely understanding the Talent Management System (TMS) and its use in Bajaj Allianz. How they differentiate between potential and performance and how they rate a team Member on Performance and Potential to finally arrive at the overall TMS rating. Introduction Performance management is the process of creating a work environment or setting in which people are enabled to perform to the best of their abilities. Performance management is a whole work system that begins when a job is defined as needed. It ends when an employee leaves your organization. The soul of PMS is of course the appraisal part. Performance appraisal can be viewed as the process of assessing and recording staff performance for the purpose of making judgments about staff that lead to decisions. Performance appraisal should also be viewed as a system of highly interactive processes which involve personnel at all levels in differing degrees in determining job expectations, writing job descriptions, selecting relevant appraisal criteria, developing assessment...
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...Female Wrestling of Second life……the sexy, the tough, and the brave! I have been a fan of wrestling in Rl since the days of the late great dusty Rhodes, Rick Flare and the Four Horseman, and the late great Rowdy Roddy Piper. I can remember being especially intrigued with the females of wrestling. I enjoyed The Fabulous Moolah dominate prominent reign of the women championship in what is now known as The WWE for 30 years as well as the evolution of the female present in wrestling from Miss Elizabeth to the Bella twins. Once I found out there was a group of ladies in SL that brought the strength of wrestling to the grid, I was eager to dive off the top rope right into their world and find out as much information as I could. My journey begins...
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...Unit 3 – Individual Project American InterContinental University ACCT310 – Managerial Accounting Abstract This paper will provide explanation of contribution margins, a determination of an annual break-even point, and operating income of Andre’s Hair Styling with calculations supporting answers. All calculations of business are based on each barber being paid $9.90 per hour working 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. Rent and other expenses equal $1,750.00 per month. Expenses include forty cents per client for shampoo, while services include haircuts priced at twelve dollars each. A revised or new contribution method, where barbers will receive wages of $4.00 per hour plus $6.00 per haircut. Contribution margin is revenue minus variable expenses. Meaning how much a company’s revenue will contribute to fixed expenses and net income. The contribution margin is also useful in determining a company’s break-even point (AccountingCoach.com, n.d.). At Andre’s Hair Styling haircuts are $12.00 with a shampoo expense of $ .40, while barber compensation is a fixed cost. Contribution margin per head Hair cut price – Shampoo expense $12 - $.40 = $ 11.60 per head When planning a company’s future, management must plan to predict the volume of activity, the cost incurred sales to be made, and profits to be received. An important tool to accomplish this is cost-volume-profit...
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...[pic] GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS® Practice General Test #1 Section 3: Quantitative Reasoning Section 4: Quantitative Reasoning Copyright © 2010 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. ETS, the E T S logo, GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS, and GRE are registered trademarks of Educational Testing Service (E T S) in the United States and other countries. Revised Graduate Record Examinations® General Test Practice Test Number 1 Instructions for the Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning Sections Information for screen reader users: This document has been created to be accessible to individuals who use screen readers. You may wish to consult the manual or help system for your screen reader to learn how best to take advantage of the features implemented in this document. Please consult the separate document, GRE Screen Reader Instructions.doc, for important details. This practice test includes content that some users may wish to skip. For example, some questions require you to complete sentences or longer texts from among several choices. For those questions where it might be helpful to hear the available choices in context, text of the choices in context is included. However, some users may wish to skip this material. Similarly, some questions include detailed figure descriptions that some users may wish to skip because they can get the required information from the accompanying tactile or large print figures...
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...Q1. What is resource based view of a firm? Ans. The resource-based view (RBV) is a way of viewing the firm and in turn of approaching strategy. Fundamentally, this theory formulates the firm to be a bundle of resources. It is these resources and the way that they are combined, which make firms different from one another. It is considered as taking an inside-out approach while analyzing the firm. This means that the starting point of the analysis is the internal environment of the organization. Resources of the firm can include all assets, capabilities, organizational processes, firm attributes, information and knowledge. In short resources can be considered as inputs that facilitate the organization to perform its activities. An organization’s resource should have four attributes to provide the potential for competitive advantage. These form the VRIN characteristics. Valuable - When resources are able to bring value to the firm they can be a source of competitive advantage. Rare - Resources have to deliver a unique strategy to provide a competitive advantage to the firm as compared to the competing firms. Consider the case where a resource is valuable but it exists in the competitor firms as well. Such a resource is not rare to provide competitive advantage Inimitable - Resources can be sources of sustained competitive advantage if competing firms cannot obtain them. Consider the case where a resource is valuable and rare but the competing organizations can copy them easily...
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...Menu Home Cases Profile Contract Payment Information Update Coverage Minority Diversity Reporting Help Logout Case Number Address Assigned Date New In Process Complete Find Case Number = Find Clear Search Completed Cases Inspection Due Date Schedule Fee Status Menu Snapshot Print Field Notes 02/06/2012 $10.00 COMPLETED(02/07/2012) Print Invite Send Email Case Talk Services Requested AVM Value Focus Photo of house # (located on house, curb, mailbox etc) to verify correct property Photo of the road in front of the property Photo of the subject from the front Instructions The subject address was updated to standard format. Here is the client's provided subject address: 820 BRUNELLOS AVE LAS VEGAS, NV 89123 PLEASE RUSH THIS ORDER • REMINDER: • Client is ordering this inspection to verify the condition of the property. • The clarity of the pictures that you provide will be critical. • The client would like to know about deferred maintenance and damaged areas if any. New client. • Please rush. No invoice is necessary. Payment will be sent to the addressee for fee(s) indicated. Payment reference # 3074371 If data is not available, provide approximations for age, square feet, number of rooms, etc. (indicate when estimated). Reviewers will not approve reports with missing data. Provide comments explaining differences of comps & listings versus subject, if applicable. If you are currently listing this property, have listed it in the past or are in the listing office, you cannot do...
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...less than one second. When there are multiple solutions, the execution time for the obtaining the first solution varies with the number of possible solutions. These results show that the execution time of the program is primarily affected by the amount of possible results. While larger grid dimensions do increase the execution time, the increase is linear if the number of possible solutions is maintained. On the other hand, increasing the number of possible solutions will lead to an exponential growth in execution time. 1 Introduction The goal of this project is to use constraint logic programming in Prolog to develop a logic program capable of solving a decision problem in the form of the 2D puzzle, Hanjie. This puzzle consists of a rectangular grid with ’clues’ on top of every column and to the left of every row that indicate the number and length of gray blocks in that column/row. To achieve this goal, first had to be chosen the data structures that would be used to represent the problem. It was decided to use lists of lists, containing the clues for each column/row in every sublist, and a similar structure for the puzzle grid where every sublist is a row of the grid. Every square of the grid can be either a 0 or a 1 where a 0 represents a blank square and 1 represents a gray square. Our...
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...ESPN’s processing picture? ESPN customers use beside the pc also mobile platforms and soccernet.com and deportes.com to visit ESPN. So for all these platforms ESPN has to use the same personalization system. They want their personalized program to be used in all their systems and platforms. So because of the fact that they want their system to work on different devices and platforms they will have to adapt the system to the different platforms and use more data space to keep al the information accurate. 5. What are the key components in ESPN’s solution? Describe the function of each. ESPN makes use of a relational database that is called the personalization DB. This database consists of 2 specific components called the Grid and the Composer. The grid is using ABM WebSphere eXtreme Scale. It’s effectively and an in memory representation of everything in that personalization DB. The key to this is that it is extremely fast, we are talking about a sub millisecond response time. The next component is the...
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...Answer: Companies can use Second Life as a business tool foe online conferencing, online collaboration, knowledge management and prototyping. Also companies can test new products using Second Life’s 3-D rendering. 2) What kinds of businesses are most likely to benefit from a presence on Second Life? Why? Answer: Retail businesses that are already used to doing business online may find it easy to establish a viable presence on second life. This is because they are used to advertising and marketing to customers online and already have systems in for taking orders, accepting payments, and shipping products. 3) Considering what you have learned about Second Life, how could you, as an individual, create a modest start-up business on the Grid? What goods would you sell? Why would this be a good choice of product? What, in simple terms, would your business plan be? Why would it work? Answer: Considering what I have learned about Second Life, I, as an individual, will first start up my business by figuring what products are mostly used in Second Life. The product that will sell in Second life will be furniture. This will be a good choice because customers or people in second life will need furniture will need furniture for their new homes and offices. My business plan will be to invest in other products and services and wait till my investment grows before cashing out. 4) Visit eBay on the Web and see what Second Life items you can find listed for auction. How would you rate...
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...How dose JK.Rowling adapt her language to suite her audience? In this essay I will be exploring how JK.Rowling adapts her language to suite her audience in two interviews. In the 60 minutes interview JK.Rowling is more serious as her audience is adults, she is also very gloomy and reflective. Whereas in the blue peter interview she is more enthusiastic and lively in order to capture the attention of her audience who are children. Between these two interviews the style of her speech differs greatly. In the interview 60 minutes JK.Rowling starts the interview by saying “I have no nostalgia whatsoever for childhood”. She uses the word nostalgia followed with whatsoever to emphasise to the audience that she has no sentimental longing for the past. This is also an indication that JK.Rowling is not content with her childhood, hence the negativity. JK.Rowling also stammers, uses fillers and false starts, she does this because of the distress she is feeling in reminiscing her childhood. JK.Rowling also uses very few para-linguistic which makes her seem tense. To underline her discontentment in child hood JK.Rowling expresses the point that she would not go back if she was paid. JK.Rowling uses this phrase in a non-literal sense for a vivid effect of her disapproving childhood. JK.Rowling then reveals to the interviewer of how she was bullied as a child, which explains part of the reason why she had no nostalgia for childhood. The interviewer prompts JK.Rowling to reveal more by saying...
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...only source of communication with my family, my boys' teachers and co-workers/bosses. What worries me about our dependency on some technology, is if you had to go back to the day that certain technology did exist like GPS would you remember how to use a map? If you were at the library and the computer system there was down, would you remember how to use the card catalog? I'm sure there are some people who don't even know what a card catalog is. With all that being said I do not think I could live off the grid. Maybe for a week or two vacation. But not for any longer then that. Going off the grid would be good because it would force one to get back in touch with nature. It would give you time to clear your head and unwind. Getting back to the basics of life like years ago when life was simple. It definitely would take a little time to get used to. But would be a nice break. I do not feel that in my profession (human resources), I would be able to go off the grid. I use the telephone several times throughout the day and make multiple copies of...
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