...fluency. Fluency (also called volubility and loquaciousness) is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise. Reading fluency is the ability to read text accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression. 2. What is note- taking? Note-taking is the practice of recording information captured from another source. By taking notes, the writer records the essence of the information, freeing their mind from having to recall everything.[1] Notes are commonly drawn from a transient source, such as an oral discussion at a meeting, or a lecture (notes of a meeting are usually called minutes), in which case the notes may be the only record of the event. Note taking is a form of self-discipline. 3. What are the appropriate expressions for asking clarification? When you fail to understand what has been said to you you can use these expressions: * I beg your pardon? * I beg your pardon, but I don't quite understand. * I'm not quite sure I know what you mean. * I'm not quite sure I follow you. * I don't quite see what you mean. * I'm not sure I got your point. * Sorry, I didn't quite hear what you said. * Sorry, I didn't get your point. * I don't quite see what you're getting at. When you don't understand what someone has said, you can ask for clarification using the following expressions: * What do you mean by...? * Do you mean...? * Could you say that again, please? ...
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...typed, using 10 or 12 point font. Include your name, name of partners, date, class and section. Laboratory reports are done individually; data is shared amongst groups, not interpretations. Correct grammar and spelling are expected. All writing is done using the passive voice and the past tense. Title • Reflect on the factual content of the paper. • Use fewer than 10 words. • Describe your specific investigation. o For instance “The Effect of Road Salt on Lentil Seed Germination and Growth” rather than “Seed Experiment” Abstract Provide a brief overview of the report in your own words The abstract should contain 5 parts (as outlined in abstract rubric) o Purpose, Hypothesis, Procedure, Results, Conclusion Be specific about results - do not use phrases like "it worked". Be very careful NOT to copy text from the lab handout. The abstract should be one paragraph and contain scientific terminology Problem • State the problem specifically in question form. o For instance, “What is the effect of road salt on the germination and growth of lentil seeds?” Hypothesis State the hypothesis using the "If, then. because" format. • Predict the results based on the problem stated. • Gather preliminary research and information before writing...
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...difficult to find). Of course, it must be a topic in Economics, either micro (study of one or several firms in an industry in (set of) countries, for example) or macro (the Economic development of a market, of an industry, or an economic area). Some social phenomenons can be analyzed from an economic point of view (life styles and consumption; demography and labor market; for examples). Your subject can be linked with your dissertation topic (or, at today, the domain you consider you could cover in your dissertation), but of course it’s not an obligation. I remind you that you must submit me your topic for my agreement. Indicative length: It’s not easy to give a precise indication, as it depends of the subject. Some subjects need more long descriptions, and some other ones, more synthetic and/or more theoretical, require less length. As an indication, I can say that under 10 pages (around 3500 words) it’s impossible to make a good essay. More than 25 pages (9000 words) would certainly be too long for the quantity of work you should spend on it. But it also depends The possible annexes (special documents, like reproduction of large figures or pages of information which would be too long in the text) are not included in this length. Bibliographical references: First: don’t forget that the research of good sources is a long work. Plan the research in your time table! Look for many references, read the...
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...Field Tech Notifications Review ISSUE: At the present time technicians in the field receive a wide range of notification formats from the SMC. For the SMC to continue to improve and grow as a professional organization, consistent high quality information must be provided in every notification. The goal is to provide field technicians with as much useful information as possible in a single consistently formatted text message. The only difference a field technician should notice when receiving a notification from the SMC should be the sender. At the present time this is not the case, examples are presented below. TEXT MESSAGE RESTRICTIONS: Text message restrictions vary depending on service provider, service plan, phone and several other variables. The majority of our users have Verizon phones and service and tests indicate that a single message can contain between 150 and 160 characters – this total includes Subject and Body text and distinguishes between Subject and Body putting the Subject text in parentheses. All additional information is deleted and no additional messages are transmitted. REMINDER: SMCP-004 and several emails from Rick instruct that NO SIGNATURE is to be applied to field tech notifications. FORMAT: This is the format for notifications to field technicians. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Subject Format – [SITE] [TURBINE] ------------------------------------------------- ...
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...previously posted on line. Description This upper-level survey course examines the art and architecture of ancient Rome from the traditional date of the city’s founding in 753 BCE to the year in 312 CE, when Constantine the Great captured the city, paving the way for the major cultural shifts of the fourth and fifth centuries. This specific section of AH290 focuses upon art and architecture as evidence for daily life in ancient Rome. Through the direct study of archeological sites, buildings, sculptures, paintings, ceramics, and other objects, accompanied by directed readings of ancient sources in translation, the course assists students in cultivating a vivid vision of ancient Rome and the lives of its inhabitants—their material surroundings, social organization, work lives, religious practices, and leisure activities. All class meetings, except for those for the midterm and final examinations and two in-class sessions (see spreadsheet), take place at archaeological sites and museums in or near Rome. Objectives In this course students will learn to: • Describe the major features of ancient Roman topography and the milestones of the city’s political and demographic development; • Accurately elaborate on how ancient Romans lived, citing specific, supporting examples from ancient Roman material and visual culture and from critical readings of primary sources in translation; • Apply the chief methods of art-historical analysis, with...
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...MKTG577 Case Study Guidelines Case studies are interdisciplinary in scope; they cross many disciplines within organizations and expose the "manager" to many varied situations of day-to-day activities. Cases studies are a picture-in-time, much like an accounting profit and loss report for a past business quarter. They are, after all, real life situations. Cases develop a manager’s analytical skills, because the results are quantitative and qualitative in nature and support their recommendations and decisions. They are also beneficial in helping the learning process of asking the right question(s). Case studies place you (the student) in hypothetical Consultant position, requiring you to weigh the facts and options to recommend those critical decisions. As the consultant, you are to remain objective and refrain from making subjective claims. Opinions should be supported using concepts and terms from your text. If you use outside research, be sure to cite your sources IN the body of the paper as well as listing the source as a reference at the end of the paper. A case study will have three common traits. They deal with real companies and situations, seldom have a solution, and contain loads of data. Your task as a consultant will be to review the respective data, locate the relevant information, arrange it in a practical and sequential order, and arrive at a solution or recommendation. You must remain objective throughout this process. Since this is a formal analysis, you are...
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...investment to return its original cost 3. (1). Using the assumptions stated below the payback of the Jiminy Nick wind turbine with a cost of about $3.3 million would return the investment in about four years time. 4. Net present value summarizes the initial cost of an investment, the estimated annual cash flows, and expected salvage value, taking into account the time value of money a. (1). A NPV calculation for the scenario SED is reviewing equals $7,697,286 minus the investment costs of $3,318,000 totaling $4,379,286. b. The capital budgeting analysis reflects the assumptions stated in the case scenario that the initial investment cost and installation of the wind turbine is $3,900,000 and there is a grant available from the Renewable Energy Trust Fund in the amount of $582,000. c. A bank loan of $3,300,000 at 7.3% will be obtained leaving an $18,000 difference. d. The turbine will follow MACRS double-declining balance depreciation schedule for a period of five years including half-year depreciation in the first and last recovery years. Jiminy Peak has an income tax rate of 40%. e. The company has sufficient taxable income to benefit from any deductions and credits available, and the after-tax weighted average cost of capital of 6%. f. The turbine’s useful life is 25 years with no terminal disposal value. g. There will be $100,000 net cash inflow from extended operations and it is referring to after-tax profit...
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...Software Requirements Specification for Prepared by [author] [name of your organization] Guidance: Blue text like this is guidance. Delete it and insert text describing your project, in ordinary font. SRS on the Web or Wiki: If you SRS is on the web, in a Wiki, in Trac, or Redmine, then you can divide this template into several pages or documents. Each section or subsection of this template can be a hyperlink to another page containing that part. In Trac and Redmine, your wiki can contain links to documents in SVN. If you are using Word format for a document, putting it in SVN makes sense. SRS in Redmine: Create a "Requirements" category in Redmine (in the Documents tab) and put the SRS there. Each section of this template can be a hyperlink to a separate document or wiki page. Or, if you need a single SRS (maybe your instructor wants it printed), you can link to a single document that follows this template. Note that you can create links to documents in SVN. Table of Contents This table of contents is auto-generated by MS Word using paragraph styles Heading1 - Heading4 and TOCEntry. Don't edit this TOC manually. Table of Contents ii Revision History ii 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Purpose 1 1.2 Document Conventions 1 1.3 Project Scope 1 1.4 References 1 2. Overall Description 1 2.1 Product Perspective 1 2.2 Product Features 2 2.3 User Classes and Characteristics 2 2.4 Operating Environment...
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...actually has something valuable to say. 1) So they’re alike and they’re different. So what? A good paper will not simply offer a summary of themes, characters, or plot. Your job is to think about how these comparisons and contrasts create meaningful connections to a larger issue. 2) Create an effective thesis statement. Again, you need to say why the comparison and contrast is worthy of note. Let’s say you want to compare and contrast the heroines of Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. Your thesis might be this: “Although Elizabeth Bennet and Jane Eyre are very different on the outside, their shared internal values connects them in literary history and in the fight for women’s rights.” Now you have a reason for your efforts and a compelling case for your audience’s attention. 3) Select a pattern. There are two ways you can write a compare-and-contrast paper. You can present your arguments in a "tandem" pattern or an "alternating" pattern. Tandem. Separate your pros and cons into two camps. For example, if you are comparing Jane Austen’s Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice to the heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, you would list all the ways in which the protagonists are similar and different. A rough list might look something like this: Elizabeth Jane Upper class Dirt poor, orphan Beautiful Plain Outspoken Outspoken Resists marriage Resists marriage...
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...Guidelines for business plan presentation 1. The moderator would call the name of the team to take part in presentation. There will be a sitting arrangement for each group waiting for presentation. Team has absolute right to select the member who is going to start and then come in next during the presentation session. You aren’t getting any warm-up session before the final presentation. 2. Each team will have 17 minutes for oral presentation and 3 minutes for question-answering session with the audiences. After 12 minutes, there will be a warning bell and after 5 minutes, there will be an ending bell. Observe time limit strictly. Presentation will be stopped abruptly if time limit is exceeded and will be evaluated based only on what has been presented. 3. At the end of group presentation team leader with all his members will stand in front of the audiences to take part in question-answering session. Show your utmost respect to the audiences during question-answering session. Don’t pass any aggressive answer/comments towards the questioner. The moderator would ring the bell at end of this answering session. Then the team leader on the behalf of the group would deliver a short speech giving thanks to all for their great patience. During the speech (team leader) team members will be stand beside the team leader. 4. The presentation is recommended to be 15-20 slides in a PowerPoint format 5. Team has been formed with 5/6 members and there is...
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...A. “The Case for diversity in the health care workforce” 1. How directly is the text reviewed in the reading related to the earlier writing? In the primary partially of the reading, the text assessment was not as intimately connected to the preceding writing studied. The initial part of the document was utilized to set the background stricture of the learning and to clarify the essential epidemiology and basis for the reading. The following element of the document was more directly associated with preceding writings assessment. The information covenant unswervingly with the explore matter and the behind writing and referenced commentary dealt entirely with the matter at tender. 2. Is the evaluation current? Are there any exceptional position you identify about that exist absent out? I would think this appraise to be rather current. The facts limited in this explore document and the connected situation commentary date back to 2002 and the editorial was available in 2003. Characteristically published investigate scheme that are 7-10 years old, are careful to be pertinent investigate substance. Found upon the obtainable investigate at the occasion this editorial was available, I have approach to the end that no exceptional mention were absent out. This lesson started in 2001 and was finished and available in 2003. The writer of this document used in order that was obtainable to them as current as 2003. 3. Can you recognize the declaration of the trouble? The declaration...
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...ORIGINAL RESEARCH FORECASTING SIGNIFICANT SOCIETAL EVENTS USING THE EMBERS STREAMING PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS SYSTEM Andy Doyle,1 Graham Katz,1 Kristen Summers,1 Chris Ackermann,1 Ilya Zavorin,1 Zunsik Lim,1 Sathappan Muthiah,2 Patrick Butler,2 Nathan Self,2 Liang Zhao,2 Chang-Tien Lu,2 Rupinder Paul Khandpur,2 Youssef Fayed,3 and Naren Ramakrishnan2 Abstract Developed under the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity Open Source Indicators program, Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS) is a large-scale big data analytics system for forecasting significant societal events, such as civil unrest events on the basis of continuous, automated analysis of large volumes of publicly available data. It has been operational since November 2012 and delivers approximately 50 predictions each day for countries of Latin America. EMBERS is built on a streaming, scalable, loosely coupled, shared-nothing architecture using ZeroMQ as its messaging backbone and JSON as its wire data format. It is deployed on Amazon Web Services using an entirely automated deployment process. We describe the architecture of the system, some of the design tradeoffs encountered during development, and specifics of the machine learning models underlying EMBERS. We also present a detailed prospective evaluation of EMBERS in forecasting significant societal events in the past 2 years. Introduction Anticipatory intelligence is considered to be one of the next frontiers...
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...Northeastern University D’Amore-McKim School of Business SCHM2301 Supply Chain and Operations Management Tuesdays & Fridays 119DG 1/8-4/16 Michael Power 214 Hayden Hall Phone: 617-373-3498 Email: m.power@neu.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:45am-1:15pm or by appointment Text: “Managing Operations Across the Supply Chain” 2nd Edition, by Swink, Melnyk, Cooper, Hartley, Publisher McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 13: 978-1-12-180339-8 All pertinent information can be found on BLACKBOARD. Course Description: The overarching course objective is to develop an in-depth understanding of integrative managerial issues and challenges related to developing and implementing a firm's Supply Chain and Operations Management Strategy. Attention is directed to the supply chain and operations mission confronted by varied types of business organizations. Supply Chain and Operations Management is positioned as a value-adding process that achieves time and place synchronization of demand stimulation and operations fulfillment. Emphasis will be placed on challenges related to providing logistical support for development of customer service standards, procurement, manufacturing, market-distribution and after-sales activities. The topics studied will span supply chain strategy, segmental positioning, service provider relationship development and maintenance, value-added services, forecasting and collaborative planning, order management, transportation, inventory...
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...Project Purpose This is a comprehensive project that you will work on throughout the course. You will work in groups to solve a problem using the theories, formulas, and concepts from this class. Course Objectives Execute problem-solving actions appropriate to completing a variety of case study assignments. Apply critical reading to identify the meaning of information in a problem statement. Apply analytical and logical thinking to extract facts from a problem description and determine how they relate to one another and to the problem(s) to be solved. Provide symbolic, verbal, and graphical interpretations of statements in a problem description. Apply analytical tools for evaluating the causes and potential implications of a problem. Generate potential solutions to a problem and determine the best course of action with regard to effectiveness, efficiency, and mitigation of risks. Design methodology for implementing problem solution(s). Develop tools for evaluating implementation of problem solution. Required Resources Textbook ITT Tech Virtual Library Project Logistics Select ONE of the following three projects: A, B, or C. You may work individually or in a group. Because of the workload, working in groups is recommended. Working as an individual on this project is discouraged. Project Deliverables Four written reports Final report Project presentation (Unit 10) Each written report must have the following items: APA formatting, double-spaced...
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...Laboratory Report Guidelines Ryerson University Department of Physics Writing a strong lab report is a skill that often takes significant practice. Strong reports are: • structured in a clear and organized fashion. • as concise as possible, and yet sufficiently detailed that it does not omit any of the information required to fully communicate your work and results. Ideally, a lab report leaves any reader confident in the validity of the results, and with enough information that they could repeat the experiment. The evaluation of your report will be based on your ability to understand the goal of the experiment, your understanding of the applicable physical principles, your ability to perform the experiment attentively, and your ability to clearly communicate its results in a logical and coherent fashion. Report contents: 1. Title Page 2. Objective...
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