...Is there a difference between training and learning? Two definitions - training and learning I define 'training': Training is the conscious and planned process of transferring knowledge, skills and attitudes to others. The concept of transfer here is critical, as is the element of planning. I define 'learning': Learning is the processing and assimilation of what we hear, see or experience that alters or improves our knowledge, skills and attitudes. The combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes is behaviour. If someone trains us, or we learn something new or different, it is our behaviour that is affected. If our behaviour is changed, we have learnt something. Training is active - it is conscious and planned - it does not just happen. What is the best way to learn? Should someone train us or should we go off and try to learn something new by ourselves? In recent years, self-directed learning has gained increased attention. Some people felt that it was better for some people to 'discover' something rather than be taught. I believe both learning and training are important. In this informal learning article*, I explained that about 70% of learning was informal. Informal learning is very helpful. I probably have a bias, but I believe organisations should have a planned approach to the development of their people. If training needs are identified, they should be addressed in a timely manner. A well planned training event can do this, particularly if the trainer can identify the...
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...Environ Sci Pollut Res DOI 10.1007/s11356-014-2974-9 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION SENSING, MONITORING, MODELING AND REMEDIATION Determination of lead(II) sorption capacity of hazelnut shell and activated carbon obtained from hazelnut shell activated with ZnCl2 Aziz Şencan & Mustafa Karaboyacı & Mehmet Kılıç Received: 26 November 2013 / Accepted: 23 April 2014 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract This study aimed to determine the Pb+2 adsorption capacities of hazelnut shell and activated carbon obtained from hazelnut shell. It also aimed to determine the effect of ZnCl2 in the activation process. The hazelnut was pyrolyzed at 250 and 700 °C. For determining the capture speed of the adsorbents, the pseudo-first- and second-order kinetic studies were performed. The Freundlich and Langmuir isotherm models were used to determine adsorption equilibrium. The surface characterization of hazelnut shell and activated carbon was determined by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis and FTIR spectrum. Pb+2 adsorption capacity of obtaining activated carbon was determined by ICP-OES analysis. The raw hazelnut shell’s BET surface area is 5.92 m2/g and the surface area of activated carbons which is pyrolyzed at 250 and 700 °C were determined (270.2 and 686.7 m2/g, respectively. The surface area of hazelnut shell, which pyrolyzed at 700 °C after being activated with ZnCl2, was determined to be 736.49 m2/g. Results show that physical adsorption...
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...What’s the Buzz on Smart Grids? CASE STUDY What’s the Buzz on Smart Grids? CASE STUDY T T he existing electricity infrastructure in the United States is outdated and inefficient. Energy companies provide power to consumers, but the grid provides no information about how the consumers are using that energy, making it difficult to develop more efficient approaches to distribution. Also, the current electric- ity grid offers few ways to handle power provided by alternative energy sources, which are critical compo- nents of most efforts to go “green.” Enter the smart grid. A smart grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using digital technology to save energy, reduce costs, and increase reliability and trans- parency. The smart grid enables information to flow back and forth between electric power providers and individual households to allow both consumers and energy companies to make more intelligent decisions regarding energy consumption and production. Information from smart grids would show utilities when to raise prices when demand is high and lower them when demand lessens. Smart grids would also help consumers program high-use electrical appliances like heating and air condition- ing systems to reduce consumption during times of peak usage. If implemented nationwide, proponents believe, smart grids would lead to a 5 to 15 percent decrease in energy consumption. Electricity grids are sized to meet the maximum electricity need, so a drop in peak demand...
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...Youtube as an alternative as they do not need to fork out any money to watch videos on Youtube. Not only Youtube, the television industry also faces problems from other video streaming websites whereby TV shows and movies can be watched without any charges by Internet users. In terms of customers forces, problem that has merged towards the television industry is that customers find it easier and more convenient for them to watch their favourite shows online. Rather than having to follow the television programme schedule, customers can easily watch any shows via the Internet at anytime they wish. Another problem would be the loss of revenue of the television industry as people might cut their TV cable and turn to watching online because it is indeed lower to them in the sense of money. Obviously, most people do not want to pay an extra sum of money for TV programmes that they can watch for free. 2. Describe the impact of disruptive technology on the companies discuss in this case. In the case study, the two companies that were affected by the advancement of technology is the music company and the cable company. The music company face declining number of CD sales since the introduction of the Internet. This is because a lot of music can be downloaded for free from the internet. Not only that, another problem faced by the music company is regarding the copyright issue. Most videos or music posted in the web page such as Youtube and Facebook are unauthorized clips, making it...
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...Will TV succumb to the Internet? Presentation: * original forms of televised entertainment: analog tv, cable, movietheaters, rentals, sateiliteTV *ppl seek convienence * Internet forces tv industry to transform: -the internet: iph/ipad,youtube,netflix,hulu,crackle Disruptive Technology- scared of losing customers to WWW -high prices subscriptions, free internet vids,highspeed increastes quality of streaming, unauth. distrib. of films/shows, control ovr when u watch tv,no commercials Cable tv RESPONSE to WWW using internet as a devlivery mode networks use huu for commercial advtsg needs to be addressed? lower cost of cable subscrip. more options (value pkgs) deals,(quality) marketing tech, more channels, great quality vids cable compete w/ www: use internet to benefit wider audience: reinvent diff. strategy.consider free subscrip,more visible socialnetworking,capitalize on quality of service willing to cancel cable tv subscrip to watch online -tv used for sports &vid.games VS. watching tv online ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q1 how does youtube control this outside of DRM? DRM- video ID fingerprinting DIGITAL RIGHTS MGMT- data & software issue intellectual property* 7+yrs of creator protect DRM >>youtube has a 10 min.limit- or will remove videos if intellectual property rights are being overrided. *Business Processes- legal processes^^^ ...
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...Case # 2 Will TV Succumb to The Internet Introduction: The case study of “Will TV Succumb to the Internet” explains how the Internet has transformed how viewers watch television programs and other videos. There are now several online outlets in which viewers can watch whatever TV show/movie they desire. YouTube was one of the first online outlets by allowing users to provide video clips, and even entire TV shows, for anybody to watch. However, this was considered copyright infringement, and a 2008 lawsuit made it much more difficult to put clips on YouTube without proper authorization. Web sites offering streaming video of TV shows have since revolutionized the way in which viewers watch TV shows and movies. High-powered companies such as Hulu and Netflix have caused a number of U.S. households to get rid of their cable, satellite, or high-speed television services altogether. The number of U.S. households to follow this trend is predicted to double in the upcoming years. However, these companies providing online video-streaming have experienced growing pains regarding revenue. They have had to charge users a higher fee for their services because the main source of revenue, advertising, is not generating enough money to satisfy all of the content suppliers. Regarding advertising, there have also been complaints about the number of ads shown while viewing online TV shows. This could cause these unhappy customers to rebel and go back to subscribing to their basic cable services...
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...2013 Will TV Succumb to the internet? Summary: Internet Provides have adopted a business model of expanding select programming services while remain competitive with an increasingly digitized world. The online TV technology has became a threat to the future mainstream TV and more household have cut the cord and terminated standard TV service in favor of Internet programming.High-speed internet connections, powerful computers, and portable software devices have become widespread in use and ease of access. It’s changed the way people obtain songs, videos, TV shows and books. File sharing and DVR service have increased the ease which TV shows and music can be uploaded to the internet and shared with others for free. YouTube, which was started in 2005, is the most popular video-sharing website in the world. Over 150,000, unauthorized video clips of copyrighted television programs appeared on YouTube.Hula.com, a website offering streaming video of television shows and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, Comedy Central and other networks. Hula.com is supported by advertising commercials, and much of its contents are free to viewers. 1. What competitive forces have challenged the television industry? What problems have these forces created? The movies and television shows would threaten the original television industries, such as Youtube, Hulu, because they are provided more than the original and can freely select a television.High-speed Internet access, powerful PCs with...
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...Study: Will TV Succumb to the Internet? Akankah TV mengalah ke Internet? Internet telah mengubah musik industri. Penjualan CD di toko musik retail terus menurun sedangkan penjualan lagu yang diunduh melalui internet untuk iPod dan pemutar musik portabel lainnya meroket tinggi. Selain itu, industri musik masih bersaing dengan jutaan orang secara ilegal mengunduh lagu gratis. Akankah industri televisi mengalami nasib yang serupa? Internet sebagai media komunikasi Internet sebagai media komunikasi, merupakan fungsi internet yang paling banyak digunakan dimana setiap pengguna internet dapat berkomunikasi dengan pengguna lainnya di seluruh dunia. Kemudahan memperoleh informasi yang ada di internet dapat membuat orang-orang tahu apa saja yang terjadi. Biasanya kita harus duduk di depan televisi untuk menonton pemrograman. Namun waktu telah berubah, dan kita memiliki beberapa pilihan untuk menonton televisi, diantaranya televisi kabel dan televisi streaming. TV online atau TV internet Pada dasarnya TV online ini adalah dimana semua acara TV dapat Anda lihat secara online dengan menggunakan jaringan internet. Dengan demikian maka Anda tidak membutuhkan perangkat listrik ataupun pesawat televisi biasa untuk dapat menonton tayangan pada tv online. Untuk dapat menyaksikan TV Online yang dibutuhkan adalah PC ataupun laptop. Penggunaannya: televisi online akan mudah diakses dengan koneksi Internet yang berkecepatan tinggi. Semakin besar kecepatan koneksi Internet, maka kualitas...
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...Standards Organizations June 15, 2015 James Mullen University of Phoenix Joseph Kaluzny NTC/409 Imagine if you will the amount of data that flows through our communication lines at any given time, you will still be counting long after my lifespan and beyond, there’s that much data. What we witness as everyday patrons who succumb to the thresholds in data communication restrictions if it were to run without direction, then all of our communication would experience extreme latency during transfer. Because of this constant object standing in the way of smooth data transfers, Standards were put in place to monitor and maintain the process. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers or IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers or IEEE, was officially formed in January 1963 from two individual companies the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), and American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE). Together they would design what we have come to know today as our internet. The IEEE main function and purpose is to instill a scientific and educational means to advance theory and practices of Electronics, Computer engineering, Electrical, and Communications in their own respective fields. IEEE plays a very big part, much like a conductor for an orchestra, IEEE is the “conductor” and the instruments are the organizations that work under IEEE in organizing our data. International Telecommunication Union (ITU) A well-known Standards Organization...
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...DCS5138 Management Information Systems CASE STUDY 1 Flexible Scheduling Good or Bad for Employees? With nearly 1.4 million workers domestically, Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the United States, Wal-Mart is also the nation’s number one retailer in terms of sales, registering nearly $379 billion in sales revenue for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2008. Wal-Mart achieved its lofty status through a combination of low prices and low operational costs, enabled by superb continuous inventory replenishment system. Now Wal-Mart is trying to lower costs further by changing its methods for scheduling the work shifts of its employees. In early 2007, Wal-Mart revealed that is was adopting a computerized scheduling system, a move that has been roundly criticized by workers’ rights advocates for the impact it may have on employees’ lives. Traditionally, scheduling employee shifts at big box stores such as Wal-Mart was the domain of store managers who arranged schedules manually. They based their decisions in part on current store promotions as well as on weekly sales data from the previous year. Typically, the process required a full day of effort for a store manager. Multiply that labor intensity by the number of stores in a chain and you have an expensive task with results that are marginally beneficial to the company. By using a computerized scheduling system, such as the system from Kronos that Wal-Mart adopted, a retail...
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...marketplace what it cannot make itself are referred to as: A) switching costs. B) transaction costs. C) procurement. D) agency costs. 3) The secondary activities of a firm include A) inbound logistics, technology, outbound logistics, sales and marketing, and service. B) inbound logistics, organization infrastructure, outbound logistics, technology, and procurement. C) organization infrastructure, human resources, sales and marketing, and technology. D) organization infrastructure, human resources, technology, and procurement. 4) A firm can exercise greater control over its suppliers by having A) more suppliers. B) fewer suppliers. C) global suppliers. D) local suppliers. 5) To what competitive force did the printed encyclopedia industry succumb? A) positioning and rivalry among competitors B) low cost of entry C) substitute products or services D) customer's bargaining power 6) How does the technical view of organizations fall short of understanding the full impacts of information systems in a firm? A) It sees information systems as a way to rearrange the inputs and outputs of the organization. B) It sees capital and labor as primary production factors. C) It sees the inputs and outputs, labor and capital, as being infinitely malleable. D) It sees the organization as a social structure similar to a machine. 7) The most successful solutions or methods for achieving a business objective are called A) value activities. B) best processes. C) core competencies. D) best practices. 8)...
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...The broadcasting of educational TV programs for example, enables educational messages to reach a wider audience effectively. Dr. Mary Ann Smialek suggests that an effective learning method for children is through visual stimulation.(ref 26) Astro Tutor TV and Nickelodeon are some examples of educational television channels broadcasting educational television programs in Malaysia, providing illustrations to aid learning in children up to the age of 17. These channels are able to benefit the general public due to the availability of the channels to all Astro subscribers at home for free and are available in government schools that have signed up for “Kampus Astro” decoders. These channels constantly broadcast episodes of subject based revision repetitively and have effectively assisted most students enrolled in the public schooling system in their revision before sitting for the public examinations. This not only makes revision more interesting for the child, it also allows the parent to play a more active role in supporting their children to achieve academic success. In short, educational TV programs broadcasted by the media can be beneficial to child development as it provides a more interesting non-formal setting to...
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...Show her it is a man’s world Kathy Hernandez ENGL-112-61251 March 19, 2013 Professor: Julie Pal Show her it is a man’s world Show her it is a man's world makes sexism against women of the 1960's. This tie ad creates so much controversy because of the way that this ad was advertised. This ad is important in my opinion because it shows the evolution of women rights. Throughout those years women did not have any right and they were humiliated by men and were only allowed to be at home, to take care of the children, house and husband when he came from work. I am making this analysis to show how this ad uses logos, pathos and ethos to persuade people to buy the product. This ad use Pathos which involves using emotion to influence someone else. Emotional scenes and images are used to grab the men’s attention and often make them feel powerful and strong. This is demonstrated by how the man is sitting in bed, with a straight and firm posture, head held high, arms behind his head, well dressed with the “Van Heusen” tie and with a pleasant look on his face. The emotions that this ad conveys to man is to feel that they are above women and that by using the tie women will keep looking at them like all mighty kings. The woman is kneeling beside the bed, handing him a tray containing his breakfast in bed and she looks up to him with admiration treating him like a king in his castle. All of this just makes the target buyer (men) see that with this tie they will have women on...
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...“the need of various groups to see others as active participants in criminal cultures, as different” (2006, p. 840) in addition to the “highly skewed presentation of crime stories [by the media] on select forms of violent crime and crime victims” (p. 840). News is intended to inform the public of events that affect citizens or are of human interest by providing facts. Before the technological era, news came in the print medium of newspapers, which was the only instrument for communities to communicate generally. Now there are mass instruments in use that include radio, television, magazines, internet, digital media, outdoor media, recordings and reproductions, cinema, cellular phones, video games, broadcasts, etc. Crime in the news can be perceived as an ornate due to the manner in which the many stories are presented as if to blur the line between providing information versus a Realty-TV form of entertainment. This report is analyzes two crime stories that focus on different crimes, the articles purpose, the portrayal of the criminal justice system, the authors reactions, and theoretical explanations of behavioral causation. Purpose. There are two crime news articles in review, the first story reports criminal “charges of possession with intent to distribute heroin, and distribution of heroin resulting in death” (Parker, 2016, p. 1). In the second story, the criminal “had pleaded guilty to two felony counts of criminal mischief for attempting with a college roommate to break...
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...anybody with a gadget as small as a mobile smartphone with the capability of going online, the access to social media cannot as easily be prevented as one would think. With all of us being the human beings we are, influence is a weakness we all have come to share. We are constantly on search of something exciting and new that would grant us the rank of being “socially accepted” and in this case the solution we are looking for would be social media. For example; a 12 year old school girl who is surrounded by friends that are highly active on Facebook would use Facebook as a means to fit herself in with the crowd and make herself feel more socially accepted by her peers. What makes matters worse is that social media has not only allowed us to succumb to it and use it, but it also triggers a certain addiction to the user which leaves them constantly coming back for more. In a survey done by Anxiety UK, it was shown that 55% of them felt uncomfortable or worried when they were unable to log onto their social media accounts.These are just some of the examples of how social media has reached to epidemic proportions. Negative effects of Social media Our emotions are co-related to our thoughts. What we think can directly influence how we feel. Social media has a negative impact that can cause people to suffer fromdisturbedemotions such as anxiety and depression. In the same Anxiety UK survey, it showed that 53% of the participants felt they had drastic changes in behaviour from using social...
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