...Sczence and Technolog9 Unzverszty of Tokyo (Received November 11, 1994; Final August 25, 1995) A circular connected-(r>s)-out-of-(m,n):Flattice system has m n compoaen%s is consisted of n and and m circles. The system fails if and only if a connected (r,s)-matrix of components fail. Fixskly, this paper proposes a recursive algorithm for the reliability of $he system>which requires O(rnn2sm) computing time. In the statisticaIly independent identically distributed case7the c o m p u t i ~ ~ g is able to be reduced. time Secondly, the upper a ~ lower bounds for the system reliability are obtained for the circular connectedd (r,s)-out-of-(m,n):l? lattice system. FinalIy, it is proved that the reliability of the large system tmds to where p 1A and 7 are exp[-pArs] as n = , m Q - I 2 n -+ m if every component has failure probability ~ n - ' / / ~ , constant, ,LA, A > Ol 7 > r , ri rays Abstract I . INTRODUCTION The linear (circular) consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system has n llnewly (circularly) ordered components. Each compnent either functkms or fails. The systems fail if and only if k consecutive compnents fail (see Figure 1.1). Defining the rmdom variable Zi by if component i functions zi = if component i Fdils, for i = 1 2 , .*, n, the reliability of the linear consect~tive-k-out-of-n:F system can be expressed as PI-{ n{zi= 0, a s i s a + k - 1)') and the circular consecutive-k-out-of-n:F system as a=l n-k+l pro{^^ =Q a s i sa+k-I)'), a=l n whereZi z Z i...
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...University Generate a list of narrative essay components “The four components of essays are Expository essay, Descriptive essays, Narrative essays, and Argumentative essays.” (ack Baker Allen Brize) The expository essay is a essay” that requires the student to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner. This can be accomplished through comparison and contrast, definition,” (ack Baker Allen Brize) The descriptive essay is a essay” that asks the student to describe something object, person, place, experience, emotion, situation. This encourages the student’s ability to create a written account of a particular experience.” (ack Baker Allen Brize) A narrative essay,” These essays are often anecdotal, experiential, and personal allowing students to express themselves in a creative and, quite often, moving ways.” (ack Baker Allen Brize) Explain what strategies you will use to select a topic for an essay The strategies I would use to select a topic for my essay is I would” first call or write someone from my past an ask them questions that would help me learn more about my past history”, (Composition of everyday life, 2012) I would then “visit my old school or even look for old photos” (Composition of everyday life, 2012) .Lastly I would try to think of things that happen to me on my own that would make a great topic for an essay. The argumentative essay is a essay that requires “the student to investigate...
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...Component B : Individual essay TGI Friday's is an American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining. The company is a unit of the Sentinel Capital Partners and TriArtisan Capital Partners, who purchased the company from Carlson Companies in May 2014. The name is asserted to stand for "Thank god it’s Friday", although as of 2010 some television commercials for the chain have also made use of the alternative phrase, "Thank God it’s Friday's."[3] The chain is known for its appearance, with red-striped canopies, brass railings, Tiffany lamps, and frequent use of antiques as decor. One critical success factor for Fridays is to increase its market share in order to achieve more customers and keep up with competitors. Another critical success factor is for employees to have positive and friendly attitudes in order to provide guest satisfaction. Another critical factor to Friday’s success is the consistent decor music and lighting across their restaurants in order to provide a lively environment that keeps an engaging atmosphere for customers to feel welcomed and have a good time. TGI Friday's target market is the middle and upper middle class people from urban areas between the ages 22 to 55. This is due to the fact that despite being perceived as good value for money, Friday’s menu is still costly. TGI Friday’s business strategy is to spend 3% of revenue for advertising and promotion. Spreading the name in the market to improve its awareness is one of the company’s main focuses...
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...to write four essays that have stressed the course competencies of subject matter knowledge, writing process knowledge, rhetorical knowledge, genre knowledge, discourse community knowledge, and meta-cognition. Through the process of drafting, editing, and revising three out of the four papers, I think I have been effectively able to absorb three of those course competencies; subject matter knowledge, rhetorical knowledge, and writing process knowledge. The first paper I was assigned to write for Writing 102 was a literacy narrative. For this paper, I was told to write about a past experience that helped influence my current writing and reading qualities. The core competencies that were involved in this essay were writing process knowledge and subject matter knowledge. I used writing process knowledge when I was told to generate ideas for my essay. I began by thinking of five possible ideas and from there I created a brainstorming web out of the two topics I thought would be the most interesting. Shortly after starting, I realized I could only build an effective brainstorming web from one idea. I decided to use the first time I forgot my lines in a play as my main idea for the essay. After I completed the brainstorming web and finished taking notes on what I remembered from the incident I started to follow the writing process that consisted of prewriting, drafting, and revising. Subject matter knowledge, which was the other core competency, was used in this essay when I began the...
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...Journal of Information Technology Education Volume 2, 2003 An Overview of Current Research on Automated Essay Grading Salvatore Valenti, Francesca Neri and Alessandro Cucchiarelli DIIGA - Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy valenti@inform.unian.it neri@inform.unian.it alex@inform.unian.it Executive Summary Essays are considered by many researchers as the most useful tool to assess learning outcomes, implying the ability to recall, organize and integrate ideas, the ability to express oneself in writing and the ability to supply merely than identify interpretation and application of data. It is in the measurement of such outcomes, corresponding to the evaluation and synthesis levels of the Bloom’s (1956) taxonomy that the essay questions serve their most useful purpose. One of the difficulties of grading essays is represented by the perceived subjectivity of the grading process. Many researchers claim that the subjective nature of essay assessment leads to variation in grades awarded by different human assessors, which is perceived by students as a great source of unfairness. This issue may be faced through the adoption of automated assessment tools for essays. A system for automated assessment would at least be consistent in the way it scores essays, and enormous cost and time savings could be achieved if the system can be shown to grade essays within the range of those awarded by human assessors. This paper presents an overview of current approaches to...
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...Throughout my life, writing was always a challenging subject to me. Although I may not be able to write as well as others, I have enhanced my writing skills. As I was assigned to write a great amount of essays in this English course, I realized that my writing has improved immensely. This course has taught me how to write various types of essays, for example, rhetorical analysis, review, report, and reader responses. Every essay has different requirements and different components to include. By using these skills to compose an essay, I am capable of improving my writing and noticing my strengths and weaknesses. Every year, my writing skills improve little by little due to the amount of practice from writing essays. In every essay, there was...
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...7 Simple Steps for the M7 Assignment The Worldview Essay Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to develop and complete the assignment from Module 1. You will be writing again about your personal worldview. Now that you are a worldview expert, this should be a piece of cake, especially if you follow the directions below. Step #1 – Read, Read, Read! a) Read the Module 7 lecture (CLASSROOM>>CANYON CONNECT>>Module 7 Readings) b) Read chapters 12, 13 and 15 from the textbook c) Read the following Bible passages: Matthew 5:43-47, Luke 6:31. Step#2 – Review: Open the Essay Template that you did for your Module 1 assignment. You will be using the information on this template to help you write your worldview essay. a) Review your thesis statement. Do you still agree that the three components you selected are keys to your worldview? If yes, continue to use these three. If no, then you may need to complete the worldview puzzle again to select different components. (Suggestion: If possible, it is better to use the three components you have already chosen because then you do not need to change your template.) b) Review your topic sentences for each component. Are they specific clear? Do they reflect your thesis statement? c) Review your supporting points. Do they fit your topic sentence? Are they personal? Do you have at least 3-4 quality sentences for each supporting point? d) Review your conclusion. Does it summarize your thesis statement...
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... It consists of various steps; prewriting, drafting, rewriting, proofreading and publishing. . All of these components are extremely important, and necessary, and will need to be follow to improve student’s writing. I feel my writing has improved due to the help of the writing process and all the writing assignments I experienced. I was able utilized each of these components this semester. I wrote various journals and two essays, which were very challenging to me. The first essay I was asked to write, was a Narrative essay about an experience in which later I questioned my actions. At first, I was very nervous due to I have never written an essay before. I did not even know where to begin. I struggled during the whole process of writing the essay. My biggest problem of all was putting my thoughts in order so I could make sense of what I wanted to say. I brainstorm for days trying to figure out a topic. With the help of the eLearning text information on module 2, how to choose a topic and develop a working thesis I was able to come up with a topic. I finally came up with, Moving away from Friends and Family. Thanks to Module 3, Introduction to Narrative Essay, and the examples that were provided, I was able to start developing my essay. This essay meant a lot to me due to this was a hard decision that I have been living with for a very long time. This essay was about the time I was rushed to make a decision to move from New Jersey to Key West, where I did not know anyone...
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...Report Format 1. Components of a report The components of a report normally conform to a standard document, which must be easily consulted for specific information. The standard pattern of presentation of a report aids the report reader in the same way that the layout of a recipe book helps someone who is cooking. This inevitably leads to repetition, but this is desirable (unlike in a novel). For example a conclusion is justified in the main text of the report and then given again in the Conclusions section. 1.1 Title page This should be on a separate sheet. The title should help people who have to identify and retrieve the report, for example for filing, and should not resemble the title of another report. With the title should be the name of the author and the date of completion. The appearance should be neat, uncluttered and businesslike. 1.2 Summary/abstract This should be written separately from the report. It gives a brief and factual survey of what is contained in the report itself with the material summarised in the same order. It should give readers enough information to assess the importance of the material and its relevance to them. 1.3 Table of contents This should be on a separate sheet of paper listing the contents chronologically by page number. The titles of each section should make it informative. 1.4 Introduction This is to let the reader know what the writer is driving at and what the line of argument is. The necessary background...
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...www.landfillgasindustries.com.au Presume that LGI Pty Ltd has commissioned you to conduct a preliminary investigation of the environmental factors and how they will impact the business’s operation in Australia. This investigative essay will then provide LGI Pty Ltd with further research options and investment strategies in the future, once it has been presented to the board for approval. Your task is to provide an overview of the external environmental (general and specific) factors affecting LGI’s performance. Your analysis should focus on and explain in depth the particular environmental factors you feel significantly impact LGI’s operation. Task notes 1. Carry out an environmental analysis to identify what opportunities and threats LGI faces. To help limit your analysis area, you can also choose to identify a specific location for the basis of your analysis e.g. a particular council in your state’s capital city. 2. Your analysis should be structured in the form of an essay and include: An introduction to LGI including the industry it operates in and what the business is aiming to achieve. An overview of the general and specific environmental framework, i.e. what the framework’s purpose is, what are its components, and which components are relevant in this particular case...
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...How to Write an Essay Plan 1. Before you can begin to select material for your essay, you need to make sure that you understand the exact requirements of the question. The following method of title analysis encourages you to break the question down into clearly identifiable elements so that you can accurately see what the question requires. 2. What is your answer to the essay question? 3. What main points will you discuss in order to support your argument? 4. In what order will you discuss your main points? 5. How long will you spend discussing each main point? 6. What information will each paragraph contain (i.e. what information will you use to discuss each of your main points)? 7. What references will you use to support your argument? Many students make the mistake of thinking that, having read around their subject, they can immediately start writing. Essays written in this way are sometimes poorly structured and poorly organised, resulting in lower marks. You will ultimately save time and effort, as well as maximise your chances of success, if you write a good essay plan. Planning takes place at a number of different levels which reflect the structures within an essay. Every essay has a macrostructure, that is, the overall organisation of the written material into major components. Essays also have a microstructure, that is, the way in which particular points are argued within sections, and the way in which one point should lead on to the next. Ideally, you...
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...college students. The course prepares students for the precise and formal requirements of academic writing they will encounter in English Composition I by introducing, strengthening, and reinforcing elements of composition ranging from grammar, mechanics, and punctuation to the complexities of clear and coherent sentence, paragraph, and essay construction. II. Objectives Upon completion of this course, students will be able to A. analyze and respond critically and logically to readings. B. correctly assimilate vocabulary into writing. C. originate and construct sentences of varying complexity. D. approach writing assignments according to a process of creating, drafting, revising, and editing. E. originate and construct clear, unified basic paragraphs and essays appropriate to assignment, audience, and purpose. F. develop paragraphs and essays using various types of organizational patterns such as narration, description, examples/ illustration. G. edit paragraphs and essays with reasonable mechanical correctness. III. Topics to be Covered A. The academic paragraph/ academic essay 1. The writing process 2. Basic paragraph/...
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...The Unathletic Department—Meghan A blue seventh place athletic ribbon hangs from my mantel. Every day, as I walk into my living room, the award mockingly congratulates me as I smile. Ironically, the blue seventh place ribbon resembles the first place ribbon in color; so, if I just cover up the tip of the seven, I may convince myself that I championed the fourth heat. But, I never dare to wipe away the memory of my seventh place swim; I need that daily reminder of my imperfection. I need that seventh place. Two years ago, I joined the no-cut swim team. That winter, my coach unexpectedly assigned me to swim the 500 freestyle. After stressing for hours about swimming 20 laps in a competition, I mounted the blocks, took my mark, and swam. Around lap 14, I looked around at the other lanes and did not see anyone. “I must be winning!” I thought to myself. However, as I finally completed my race and lifted my arms up in victory to the eager applause of the fans, I looked up at the score board. I had finished my race in last place. In fact, I left the pool two minutes after the second-to-last competitor, who now stood with her friends, wearing all her clothes. The blue for the first loser went to me. However, as I walked back to my team, carrying the seventh place blue, listening to the splash of the new event’s swimmers, I could not help but smile. I could smile because despite my loss, life continued; the next event began. I realized that I could accept this failure,...
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...required more components than the past papers I have wrote. The most challenging part of the transition from high school papers to college papers is the length of them. I was not used to writing 3-5 page papers and it was hard for me to do that to make that change. I think the most important thing I learned about myself this semester is that I am capable of writing at the college level. When I first started this course, I imagined myself receiving C’s or lower on my papers and how hard I was going to have to work to improve my essays, but after I got my first essay back I was shocked at the grade and I...
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...When I first began my intellectual journey here at Howard University I did not believe I was properly prepared for the level of rigor and extensive detail needed to excel in a secondary education English course. At the beginning of this course, I was nervous about my ability to present a strong persuasive argument in my writing because I knew persuasive arguments is not where my strength resided. In my English class last semester, I developed a better understanding of proper sentence structure and developing my ideas fully in my papers. Soon I came to realize this information was the mere surface of the necessary tools needed to complete a well structured essay. This course pushed me to dig deeper into the world of writing. Every writing law...
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