...Midterm 1 Notes * Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Evolution * What is Anthropology? * the study of culture * the study of humans * the study of humans and human behavior * the study of culture among different people and places * the study of global cultures and the comparisons between the various differences * It incorporate culture, including language, social practice, religion, etc. * the study of culture…it can be scientific, humanistic and based on observation * the study of humans in all parts of the world…it combines several fields into a holistic view * the study of humankind in all time and places * Anthropology is: 1. A Social Science * Academic discipline concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society, which often reply primarily on empirical approaches 2. Studies Culture * Culture is composed of ideas, values and perceptions * Culture is not instinctual, it must be learned and shared * Culture only exists within a society or group of people * Culture is a human adaptation to their environment 3. Holistic * The various parts of human culture and biology must be viewed in the broadest possible context in order to understand their interconnections and interdependence * Cultural Anthropology * The study of patterns of human behavior, thought and emotions, focusing on humans as culture-producing and culture-reproducing creatures ...
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...Ch11: Leaders are necessary for effective team work. They need to be there to shape goals, coordinate effort, and motivate members. Carver should be a better leader. Effects to change the leader may often result in negative supervisor reactions, including resistance to change, role conflict, unwillingness to relinquish power, fear of appearing incompetent and fear of job termination. These responses may cause the leaders to engage in actions that thwart, rather than facilitate team effectiveness. Carver is an autocratic leader, since he is an appointed leader. HE should go for coaching; coaching is about building team work, not about doing the team’s work. Leadership is not the same as management, people want to be led. Leadership is the ability to influence people to achieve the goals of a team. Transformational leadership and Transactional leadership depend on the leader’s power to reinforce subordinate for their successful completion of the task. POWER is the capacity to influence people. Using power feels good, people are attracted to power, people who have power often have egocentrically biased view of themselves, believing themselves to be more fair, generous and trustworthy. Not every decision requires the input of their entire team. It is simply not practical to consult the team on every organizational issue, but where to draw the line is unclear. Legitimate power (based on person’s holding of a formal position, other person complies because of belief in legitimacy of...
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...ADMS 3660 MIDTERM NOTES Chapter 1 and Parable of the Sandhu Case * Watched video on Disney and how they treat employees, work is a performance etc. * Ethics is the study of morality * Morality refers to the standards that an individual or group has about what is right/wrong, good/evil. * Business Ethics concentrates on moral standards as they apply to business policies, institutions, and behaviour * Corporate Social Responsibility refers specifically to a description and moral evaluation of the impact than an organization has on society * Ethics can be a business constraint “ethics costs” but also an advantage “ethics pays” 1970 – 1985: Rise of business ethics (academia) 1985 – 1995: Ethics into firms 1995 – 2000: Internationalization 2000 – 2012: Corporate Scandals and government regulation * Ethics Scandal Costs: Fines, lawsuits, prison, investor losses, bankruptcies, unemployment, and increased regulation * Market Morality: Will everyone invest their money as agreed or will greed effect them? * Parable of the Sandhu Ethics vs. the law Unclear over moral responsibility Easier to say what is morally right than to do it * Employees value health and safety ethics Consumers value product safety Shareholders want return on investment Need to look at environment * Macroenvironment: social, economic, political, technological factors * Our society is pluralistic in nature * Pluralism: there is diffusion of...
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...CTCS 466 LECTURE NOTES 1/17: John Dies At the End * CTCS 466 * Former Professors * Arthur Knight * Charles Chaplin * Former Students * Ron Howard * Robert Zemeckis * 16 mm/35 mm * Brotherly Love (Popeye), Max Fleischer * Original song * Made for adults as well as children * Take place in cities * As opposed to the barnyard settings of early Disney * Classic cartoon * Postmodern cartoon (The Simpsons) * Digital Cinema Print (DCP) * Ted Mundor, Landmark Theatres * Career * Monsters Magazine Film Fan Monthly (13 y.o.) * Movies on TV & TV Movies (17 y.o.) * American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) * Gene Shalp, The Today Show * Bruce Cook, Entertainment Tonight * Theme: Great Moments from Movie Musicals * “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, The Wizard of Oz * Only a few cuts * Simplicity requires confidence * Contrast with the circus of Les Miserables * Remains in character without melodrama * Impression that she actually is singing * She is very much still Dorothy Gale, not Judy Garland * John Dies At the End * Phantasm * Bubba Hotep * Horror + Fantasy + Comedy * Based on novel of the same name * Don Coscarelli (Director/Producer) * Loved...
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...Ch12. 1. Technical feasibility of completing the intangible asset 2. The entity’s intention to complete it for use or sale 3. The entity’s ability to use or sell it 4. Availability of technical, financial, and other resources needed to complete it, and to use or sell it 5. The way in which the future economic benefits will be generated; including the existence of a market for the asset if it will be sold, or its usefulness to the entity if it will be used internally 6. The ability to reliably measure the costs associated with and attributed to the intangible asset during its development Ch13. Understanding Non-Financial and Current Liabilities Liability: an obligation that arises from past transactions or events, which may result in a transfer of assets or provision of services. Embody a duty or responsibility Entity has little or no discretion to avoid the duty The transaction that obliges the entity has occurred Measurement and recognition: financial liabilities are typ `ically recognized initially at their FV. After acquisition, most financial liabilities that are discussed in this chapter are accounted for at their amortized cost. Consistent with the cost based method: Transaction costs that are a direct result of the issue of the liability are debited (deducted from) its original FV. A company can reclassify a short term obligation if it intends to refinance the obligation on a long term basis and demonstrates an ability to consummate the refinancing...
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...Chapter 1 The Globalization of Starbucks -company focused on selling a “thirdplace” experience, rather than just coffee -first target outside US was Japan and the company established a joint venture with a local retailer -Starbucks format was then licensed to the venture which then took over responsibility for growing the Starbucks presence in Japan -Starbucks transferred employees to the Japanese operation -all employees went to training classes -stores had to adhere to design parameters established in US -took its success here and went to other foreign markets -purchases mainly Fair Trade Certified coffee to promote environmental responsibility -Starbucks has shown that glo Globalization (shift towards a more integrated and interdependent world economy): +: Expand revenue by selling around the world and reduce costs by producing in nations where lower input costs -: increases competition and drives price down Globalization of markets refers to the merging of historically distinct and separate national markets into one huge global marketplace Most global markets are markets for industrial goods and materials that serve a universal need the world over such as market for commodities (aluminum, oil, and wheat), industrial products (commercial jet aircraft), computer software, and financial asses Firms follow eachother around the world so greater uniformity replaces diversity Globalization of production: sourcing of goods and services from locations around...
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...MICROSOFT MIDTERM REVIEW 1. What tool do you use for scripting in windows 7? 2. In the virtual machine, they believe that they have one of these? Know what is contained in a virtual machine. 3. Know the versions of windows 7. What is available for home, what is available for volumes ,ect.? 4. What is the thing in the OS that interprets and carries out commands? 5. What should you do if you want to upgrade from windows xp to windows 7? 6. What is the AIK? 7. What do libraries do in windows 7? 8. How do you migrate all of your user settings from one windows 7 machine to another windows 7 machine? What type of migration is this? Hint: a migration is not a program. 9. What is the program that allows you to move user profile data? 10. What are the different versions of windows 7? 11. Answer: virtual machine 12. Know the executable files: ping, tracer, ect. 13. Windows 7 has multiple search utilities, what are the different names for the different methods of searching in windows 7. 14. If your disk starts to run low on storage space, how do you fix it? 15. What allows you to move an entire virtual machine from on machine to another? 16. Know the difference between FAT, FAT32, XFAT, AND NTFS. 17. What is the CMD line utility to manage a disk? 18. What is the quickest way to access the disk management console? 19. What does GUI stand for? What does it do? 20. Whats...
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...Lecture 1 -‐ Arithmetic Average 1. Ignores compounding; 2. Does not represent an equivalent, single quarterly rate for the year; 3. Is the best forecast of performance for the next quarter without information beyond the historical sample. -‐ Geometric Average 1. Also called a time-‐weighted average return-‐ignoring the quarter-‐to-‐quarter variation in funds under management; 2. Mutual funds are required to publish this as a measure of past performance. -‐ Dollar-‐weight Return 1. Similar to a capital budget problem 2. Accounting for varying amounts of capital under management form quarter to quarter 3. Less than time-‐weighted return of 7.19% -‐ Risk free assets: an asset with a certain rate of return (often taken to be short term T-‐bills) -‐ Scenario analysis: l Determine a set of relevant scenarios and associated investment outcomes and assigns probability to each l l -‐ Compute mean return and variance However, ...
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...Chapter 1 Introduction to Strategy * Strategy: Theory of how to gain competitive advantages. (How competition is going to evolve, and how that evolution can be exploited for competitive advantage.) Based on knowledge of the marketplace and based on the firm’s capabilities and resources. a) Being different from your rivals b) Creating value while containing costs c) Deciding what to do and what NOT to do d) Combining activities to land in a unique market position e) Making long-term commitments that may not be easily reversible f) A constant decision-making process * Theories answer, “If we do X, then we will get Y.” * Strategy management process: a sequential set of analyses and choices that can increase the likelihood that a firm will choose a good strategy. * Why do we exist? (MissionObjectives) Can we compete? (External/ Internal Analysis) How do we succeed? (Strategic ChoiceStrategy Implementation)Competitive Advantage Success = Sustained Competitive Advantage * Strategy and the Strategic Management Process * Mission: long-term purpose, define both what a firm aspires to be in the long run and what it wants to avoid in the meantime. * Mission Statements: written down form; strategic decisions fail when mission statement is not followed * Key question to address: What is our business? What is our reason for being? Whom do we want to serve? * Is it good? An excellent mission statement...
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...Class 1 4% | Most buildings/other structures, electrical wiring, plumbing, heating, AC (after 1987). Separate class for rental buildings>$50k | Class 1-MB 10% | New manufacturing buildings (MB) used at least 90% for manufacturing and processing purposes (acquired on or after Mar 19, 2007). NOTE Class 1 has ½ year rule!!! | 1-NRB | New non-residential buildings (NRB) (on/after Mar 19, 2007) 6% | 8 20% | Misc. tangible capital property. Furniture, fixtures, outdoor advertising signs, equipment (photocopiers, fridge, telephone, tools costing $500+, not included in another class) | 10 | Automotive equip. Cars, van, truck, tractor, wagon, trailer 30% | 10.1 30% | Passenger vehicle with cost in excess of prescribed limit ($30k if acquired after 2000). Separate class. Deemed cost 30k, add HST | 12 100% | Tools, instruments, kitchen utensils < $500. Linen, uniforms, dies, moulds, rental video cassettes, computer software. | 13 | Leasehold interest | 14 | Patent, franchise, concession, licence for limited period.no prorate | 17 8% | Roads, parking lots, sidewalks, airplane runways, storage areas, similar surface construction | 29 50%Or 30 | Machinery and equipment used in manufacturing or processing (acquired after Mar 18, 2007 and before 2016). CCA is 50%, straight-line basis, half-year rule applies. After 2016: class 43, with 30% declining balance rate | 43 30% | Manufacturing and processing machinery and equipment acquired after 2016 | 44 25% | Patents...
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...1. Define the production process (called Operations Assessment in Stage 2 of Stagegate model for product design) Determine how completed the input materials should be. These are make-or-buy decisions. Set production process objectives: − Capacity (or production speed), flexibility − Type of process (job shop, batch, assembly, continuous) − Cost (fixed, variable), process quality capability − Technology/extent of automation, production start date Determine the nature of process in general. 2. Production process development (in Stage 3 of Stage-gate model) 2.1 Conceptualize the design This answers the question: How do you get from inputs (materials) to output? That is, what is the sequence of major operations (activities) needed? * Develop a few alternative process concepts (sketches). Two approaches can be used: − Incremental: do one step at a time from start to end. − Hierarchical (top down): break the whole job into two operations, then divide each into sub-operations, etc., until the desired level of detail is reached. * Usually a process flow diagram is used to show the operations and the movement of materials through the operations. * Evaluate each alternative process concept. 2.2 Make an embodiment of the design * Choose one process concept and complete the design. * Build a prototype process (can use computer modelling) and test it. − Determine the resources (machines, equipment, and labour) needed, in general. − Estimate the costs...
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...Those notes can only be sequenced so many times before they are repeated by a new musician and called “original”. Intellectual property has been protected in the courts systems, but has favored personal interest over creativity and borrowing. In the case of Weber vs. Repp for example, Repp was claiming to be the owner of the copied Catholic folk music stolen to create music by Weber. With help from a lawyer, it is proven that Weber wrote a song previous to the music and songs by Repp. It was demonstrated that Weber wrote a song, Repp wrote another song sounding similar, and then Weber wrote the song in question. This showing that Weber borrowed from himself and Repp borrowed from him. The musical notes played in the same sequence were copied by both composers and therefore the courts dismissed the case, musical notes are not owned by any one composer. It does not matter what you copy but how much you choose to take. The idea behind Gladwell’s argument is that borrowing some to be creative is and needs to be acceptable in the eyes of “plagiarism...
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...to harmonize, considering it was our first year learning an instrument. There was no reading or writing when it came to playing the instruments, but with music, a story can be made. For example, half the class would play our recorders in sync with one another, and other students in the class would play percussion. With the rhythm of the music combined, the feel and sound of the music gives the audience a feel of a different environment, such as feeling as though you are taking a journey through an Indian village, or celebrating the first fourth of July in America. As I progressed through the year, music classes turned into singing as well. In order to know the words that we were singing, we had paperback music, which had music lines, notes, and words for us to...
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...through the paper. Halfway through the paper, I saw my friend John suspiciously looking at the class. My instincts told me that something was wrong. As a result, I began to keep an eye on John. Suddenly, I saw John taking notes out from his pencil case! My mouth hung wide open and I gasped in shock. How could John do that! I thought should I report him? The devil in my mind said that I should not care about this thing after all, he is still my best friend while the angel said that I should be honest and report him. After thinking for a while, I decided to report him. I raised my hand and told the teacher “ Mr Tan, John is cheating by using notes from his pencil case.” The teacher nodded his head and walked towards John’s table. Mr Tan said “John! Why are you cheating?” John shook his head to deny that he did not cheat. Mr Tan confiscated his pencil case and dumped the contents out. Out came pencils, erasers and pens. But there was no notes inside! John let out a smirk from his mouth. I was shocked! I thought that there was a note? Just when I thought all hope was lost, Mr Tan found another zip at the pencil case and he opened it. Suddenly, John’s smirk began to vanish. Waves of panic overwhelmed him. The hidden note was found there! Mr Tan looked at John sternly. He brought John to the principal’s office to explain what had happened. On the next day, the fiery-tempered Discipline Master caned John during assembly period. After this incident...
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...Programming Midterm Study Guide Programs that make a computer useful for everyday tasks are known as application software. System software – the programs that control and manage the basic operations of a computer. System software types: Operating system: most fundamental set of programs on a computer. Controls the internal operations of the computers hardware manage all of the devices connected to the computer, allows data to be saved to and retrieved from storage device, and allows other programs to run on the computer. Utility programs: performs a specialized task that enhances the computer’s operation or safeguard data. Examples are virus scanners, file compression programs, and data backup programs. Software Development tools: the programs that programmers use to create, modify, and tests software. Assemblers, compilers, and interpreters are examples. Interpreter is a program that both translates and executes the instructions in a high-level language program. The statements that a programmer writes in a high-level language are called source code or code. Syntax error is a mistake such as a misspelled key word, a missing punctuation character, or the incorrect use of an operator. NOTE: programs that are compiled generally execute faster than programs that are interpreted because a compiled program is already translated entirely to machine language when it is executed. A program that is interpreted must be translated at the time it is executed. Compiler...
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