...and labour. There are also other aspects of the impact of software innovation, like eco-systems, community building and standardisation. However these are not the focus of this year’s update. Disclaimer The trends and predictions presented in this document are based on publicly available sources. We rely on these sources, without independent verification of the information presented. The nature of this document is for a large part rather a compilation of existing material, than a reinvention of insights. The statements made by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants are based on assumptions held to be accurate on the basis of the information available. However, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants assume no liability for the correctness of the assumptions made herein. 1 Compared to the ITEA-ARTEMIS high-level vision 2030, version 2012 7 Contents Executive summary Chapter 1 - Seven areas of major change Chapter 2 - The need for research and innovation in Digital Technology Chapter 3 - Economic dimension of Digital Technology Chapter 4 - One...
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...USED ENGINE OIL AS SIGN PEN INK COMPONENT 1 Potential of Used Engine Oil as an Additive Component for Sign Pen Ink An Investigatory Project Presented to the Faculty of Science and English Area In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Science and Technology 10 and English 10 Benitez, Danielle C. Cartagena, Roland L. Florentino, Mikhael C. Medina, Alexandra Marie P. Peñaflorida, Andrea Raecristine F. G10 – Our Lady of the Assumption December 10, 2014 USED ENGINE OIL AS SIGN PEN INK COMPONENT 2 Abstract This research’s sole purpose is to find an ideal alternative for sign pen ink. Specifically, it aimed to experiment upon the concept of whether or not used engine oil (UEO) can be used as a suitable component for sign pen ink. In doing so, the researchers have conducted a test that makes use of varying amounts of two main ingredients, namely,UEO and pounded charcoal. Throughout the course of the experiment, three types of ink were produced with the compositions of: 70% UEO and 30% powdered charcoal (Ink A), 80% UEO and 20% powdered charcoal (Ink B), and lastly 100% UEO and no charcoal (Ink C). Ink A was recorded to have the highest tone quality and highest viscosity, which was proven through the chromatography test. Ink B was found to be second highest in terms of both tone quality and viscosity, while Ink C exhibited the lowest tone quality and lowest viscosity level. Tone quality was recorded by testing the pens for writing, and viscosity level...
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...10.1504/IJTEL.2012.051817 CITATIONS READS 7 995 3 AUTHORS: Birgit Schmitz Roland Klemke Deutsche Telekom Stiftung, Bonn Open Universiteit Nederland 23 PUBLICATIONS 41 CITATIONS 62 PUBLICATIONS 362 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Marcus Specht Open Universiteit Nederland 306 PUBLICATIONS 2,579 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately. Available from: Birgit Schmitz Retrieved on: 15 February 2016 Int. J. Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. X, No. Y, XXXX Effects of mobile gaming patterns on learning outcomes: a literature review Birgit Schmitz*, Roland Klemke and Marcus Specht Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open University of The Netherlands, P.O. Box 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, Valkenburgerweg 177, Heerlen, The Netherlands Email: birgit.schmitz@ou.nl Email: roland.klemke@ou.nl Email: marcus.specht@ou.nl *Corresponding author Abstract: Within the past decade, a growing number of educational scientists have started to recognise the multifaceted potential that mobile learning games have as a tool for learning and teaching. This paper presents a review of current research on the topic to better understand game mechanisms with regard to learning outcomes. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we introduce a framework of analysis which is based on previous work on game...
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...S c h o o l of Ac c ount a nc y Faculty of Business Writing F O R A C C O U N TA N T S Edited by Di Lewis i This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. © School of Accountancy, QUT 2003 Produced by QUT Publications 232975 8437 ISBN: 1 74107 014 7 ii Contents Preface Accountancy writing and preparation of documents Writing and accountants Determining the Purpose (aim) Investigating Planning the document Writing the document Revising the document Style of professional documents Good and poor writing Audience Tone Language Overwriting (padding) Overgeneralisation Spelling, punctuation and grammar Abbreviations Expressing numbers Paragraphing Headings and sub-headings Quantitative information Recommendations Letter writing for accountants Claim letter Letter of advice Letter of engagement Letter of enquiry Letter of refusal Management letter Memos E-mails Research Essays, Reports and Resumés Research essays Reports Resumés References and Bibliographies iii v 1 1 2 2 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 10 11 11 11 12 12 12 12 12 13 14 16 17 19 21 22 23 24 26 27 27 31 40 41 iv Preface Writing for Accountants is a brief guide to the types of writing that accountancy students and practising accountants are most often called on to do. It is not intended as a definitive text, but rather...
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...SPINE Volume 25, Number 22, pp 2940 –2953 ©2000, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. The Oswestry Disability Index Jeremy C. T. Fairbank, MD, FRCS,* and Paul B. Pynsent, PhD† tried. The questionnaire had been published in 198038 and widely disseminated from the 1981 meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS) in Paris. The objects of this article are: To present the various versions of the ODI instrument for comparison ● To review the various efforts that have been made to validate this questionnaire ● To compare the scores obtained in studies of different patient population both before and after treatment ● To review the methodology of outcome measurement ● To consider what is actually measured by this and similar instruments ● Study Design. The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) has become one of the principal condition-specific outcome measures used in the management of spinal disorders. This review is based on publications using the ODI identified from the authors’ personal databases, the Science Citation Index, and hand searches of Spine and current textbooks of spinal disorders. Objectives. To review the versions of this instrument, document methods by which it has been validated, collate data from scores found in normal and back pain populations, provide curves for power calculations in studies using the ODI, and maintain the ODI as a gold standard outcome measure. Summary of Background Data. It has now been 20 years since its original...
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...ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This research paper would not have been possible without the guidance and the help of several individuals who in one way or another contributed and extended their valuable assistance in the preparation and completion of this study. First and foremost, my utmost gratitude to Dr. Nilo L. Rosas, President of the Philippine Normal University whose sincerity and encouragement I will never forget. Dr. Rosas has been my inspiration as I hurdle all the obstacles in the completion this research work. Dr. Norma J. Manaloto, former Head of the Department of Educational Management, Measurement and Evaluation, who until her day of retirement had kind concern and consideration regarding my academic requirements. Dr. Alice D. Dioquino, for her unselfish and unfailing support as my dissertation adviser; Engr. Alex A. Santos, co-adviser to Dr. Dioquino, for his patience and steadfast encouragement to complete this study; Dr. Danilo K. Villena, Head of the Department of Education Management and Measurement, for the moral support despite his just being newly appointed; Dr. Angelita D. Romero, Dean of the College of Education, for the insights she has shared; Dr. Florentina L. Gorospe, Dr. Jose Rizal Sanchez and Dr. Rebecca C. Nueva-Espa?a for their inputs especially in the curriculum part of this study. They have shared valuable insights in the relevance of the study to basic education not just in the technology sector. The staff of the PNU President’s Office especially...
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...Defeating the Demons Inside: A Study on Individuals Who Have Survived the Long-Term Effects of Bullying A Research Proposal Presented to Dr. Nymia P. Simbulan Department of Behavioral Sciences College of Arts and Sciences University of the Philippines Manila In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course BS 199.1 (Qualitative Methods in Behavioral Research) Christiani Lumayag Matugas 2011-31444 April 1, 2013 I. Introduction Statement of the Problem and Review of Related Literature The school is a battle field and each child is a lone soldier trying to make his/her way through. Each child will have to defeat a series of exams, scary teachers, lab experiments, physical education classes, crushes, mortal enemies and the like. Most of the time, children will learn from these experiences and mature with the lessons that each of these experiences have taught them. However, there are certain battles that wound all too deeply and do not seem to end. These battles are the battles of bullying. What is Bullying? Bullying is a social and interpersonal problem that involves the repeated, intentional use of aggression against a less powerful other (Whitney & Smith, 1993). Bullying can take different forms, be it direct (e.g., physical aggression), indirect (e.g., exclusion, spreading rumors), or verbal (e.g., name-calling). (Hunter, Mora-Merchan and Ortega, 2004) Children who are victims of bullying are more likely than non-victims...
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...core competence of the project-based organization (called in this document the project-oriented organization, POO), this competence has to be explicitly developed by the organization. Source: People in Project Management Copyright: Roland Gareis and Martina Huemann Copyright statement This white paper is a chapter taken from a Gower book and provided free of charge to visitors to the website of the National Centre for Project Management. You may download it freely from the website www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/ncpm/about.html. You may also share it with colleagues, either in printed or electronic form (via e-mail), as long as you include this copyright page, each time you do so. Please respect the copyright of the author and do not publish the material in any form (printed or electronic) or circulate the material to any e-mail network. For permission to include this document in a website, intranet or extranet, please visit the Gower website (www.gowerpub.com) and contact our e-marketing manager, Elaine Hill, through the website. Gower Publishing, Gower House, Croft Road, Aldershot, Hants, GU11 3HR, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1252 331551 e-mail: sales@gowerpublishing.com web: www.gowerpub.com 3 Project management competences in the projectoriented organization Roland Gareis and Martina Huemann In the project-based organization, project management (pm) competences are not only required by individuals, but also by project teams and by organizations. These competences have to correlate. The pm...
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...in terms of genre, narration, resolution, aim and in terms of giving agency and power to the reader/ author. The novella can be seen as a parody, a suspense thriller and a detective novel of journalistic trend. The death is the central event but there’s no mystery regarding it rather completely different questions are raised. The aim of this paper is to show that the narrator is distinct from the author but sometimes they intersect. Thus Ronald Barthes statement that the author is dead is not completely true. The authors’ present but it’s not an omnipotent presence, controlling the universal subject (the reader). But this does make the reader all powerful. Barthes implies in his essay Death of the Author. The reader follows the patterns presented by the author but the final impression, overall opinion of the text and the reader’s reaction are not prefigured or controlled by the author. Thus the author and the reader together form the overall value of the text. Raymond Williams explains the formation of the category of Literature, its ever expanding and changing parameters\paradigms are explained in his essay Marxism and Literature. This paper will show the growing value of Latin American Literature, becoming a part of the literary canon, valued as a skillful piece of art. This novella is one of the hallmarks of the Latin American Literature, yet not falling into any one particular generic category, fulfilling all generic expectations simultaneously breaking\contradicting its rules...
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...To what extent is security a necessary precondition for development? Introduction It is put forward that security is not necessarily a precondition for development, but rather, both concepts of security and development are inextricably linked. With neither one being predominant over the other; rather the influence of both oscillate, dependent upon the individual circumstances within the State or region. In essence, what this answer will aim to illustrate, is the extent of this link, the theories which explain it, and whether or not security underpins development. Before we begin however, it would be prudent to first, define the concepts of ‘security’ and ‘development’. From the obvious, national security dimension, to the more human-centred, holistic definitions, finding a simple definition for the concept of security is a complex task, due to the variety of ways in which it can be defined. For the purposes of this essay however, the definition provided by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as security being “the prevention of any threat to individual or national security irrespective of that threat being political or economic in its nature, as such threats would threaten the process of development”[1] would be an appropriate fit, as it incorporates both the traditional State-centric element, and also the more holistic, human security definition.. Traditionally, the definition of development has been one that has been predicated upon a mainly economic...
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...Signs appear in everyday contemporary societies. Signs are saturated with a lot of meanings and they relate to any language and are there to make us understand things through relating words with concepts like the word ‘silence’ which is a sign of communication that is indicative of meaning and it is ideological, it is also power to talk. Sign theory is an eccentric war of communication. It focuses on the discourse analysis where it focuses on language, power and ideology. Intelligence services are a key component of every state and their mandate is to ensure the security of states and they make use of the sign theory to supply the policy makers with information or intelligence which is fundamental in the policy making process. Evaluation and analysis’ role is to cast information into its proper intelligence framework and in the process minimising being biased. If evaluation and analysis is quality the intelligence given to policy makers will help policy makers to come up with quality policies and if the evaluation and analysis is poor obviously the policy makers will come up with ineffective policies. There are repercussions if intelligence services fail to analyse. Sign theory help in deductive, inductive and abductive types of reasoning. In this discourse I will define the sign theory, evaluation, analysis, four tools of analysis and the implications of sign theory to evaluation and analysis as a process which is scientific, logical, methodological and verifiable. Theory is...
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...collected all the articles needed for the project from the AIS journals and we r reading and summarizing them and there is some of the summaries. Summary of the articles: 1. Examining the critical success factors of Mobile website adoption (Tao Zhou, 2010): Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the critical success factors of mobile website adoption. General view: The paper is talking about the information systems success theory proposes the system quality and information quality affect users usage and satisfaction with information systems, further determining organizational performance (D&M) service quality. The new model argues that system quality, information quality and service quality affect usage and user satisfaction, further affecting net benefits such as increased knowledge sharing and lower costs. Also the case is talking about the TAM and the trust concepts. So the system quality here reflects the stability, navigation and layout of mobile sites. Mobile service providers need to rely on a reliable and well designed interface to deliver ubiquitous information and services to users. The Hypothesis that the author has indicated in this research are: 1. H1: system quality, information quality and service quality significantly affect perceived ease of use. 2. H2: system quality, Information quality and Service quality significantly affect perceived usefulness. 3. H3: System quality, Information quality and Service quality significantly...
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...process-based framework should provide deeper insight into achieving success with CRM strategy and implementation. ver the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in customer relationship management (CRM) by both academics and executives. However, despite an increasing amount of published material, most of which is practitioner oriented, there remains a lack of agreement about what CRM is and how CRM strategy should be developed. The purpose of this article is to develop a process-oriented conceptual framework that positions CRM at a strategic level by identifying the key crossfunctional processes involved in the development of CRM strategy. More specifically, the aims of this article are cize the severe lack of CRM research that takes a broader, more strategic focus. The article does not explore people issues related to CRM implementation....
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...2012 Contents Table Introduction Background Information a. Background Information of Carrefour b. Background Information of Pão de Açúcar c. Background Information of Groupe Casino 1. Situation before the negotiation 2. The proposal 3. Groupe Casino position 4. End of Negotiation 5. Future for Carrefour and Pão de Açúcar 6. Final commentaries 7. References Carrefour and Pão de Açúcar merger Introduction This paper will describe the negotiation to merge Pão de Açúcar, the largest retailer in Brazil, and Carrefour, the second largest supermarket chain in the world. The initial plan was to create a Brazilian super retail chain with a global presence but due to several reasons the negotiation didn’t succeed. These reasons will be presented in the following chapters, along with an analysis comparing the theories learned in the Intercultural negotiation class. The methodology of this research was based in articles published by newspapers, containing both analysis of this case and interviews with the people involved. Background information BACKGROUND INFORMATION OF CARREFOUR Carrefour S.A. is a one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world – according to public information – it had more than 1395 hypermarkets at the end of 2009. Carrefour is also the second largest retail group in the world in terms of revenue, and the third largest in profit, only after Wal-Mart and...
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...process-based framework should provide deeper insight into achieving success with CRM strategy and implementation. ver the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in customer relationship management (CRM) by both academics and executives. However, despite an increasing amount of published material, most of which is practitioner oriented, there remains a lack of agreement about what CRM is and how CRM strategy should be developed. The purpose of this article is to develop a process-oriented conceptual framework that positions CRM at a strategic level by identifying the key crossfunctional processes involved in the development of CRM strategy. More specifically, the aims of this article are O cize the severe lack of CRM research that takes a broader, more strategic focus. The article does not explore people issues related to CRM implementation. Customer...
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