...Five Making Six Stages of Slumbering Activities in Your Brain By: Bill Pak Section: #1762 (I was allowed permission by you to turn in this term paper due to some personal issues with the original term topic) Ever wondered what in blue blazes your brain is doing when you sleep? Well so far, all the research and experiments that have been made to understand and answer this question have resulted with the so called six stages of sleep. The six stages of sleep starts from Stage 0 to Stage 5. Stage 0 is not really considered a stage since it involves the person of interest being awake. Sequentially, Stage 1 is considered to be the beginning of being asleep. Following Stage 1 is Stage 2 which is well known for its sleep spindles and K-complexes (L & F 8). Afterwards, Stage 3 is considered to be a transition phase towards Stage 4 and both stages are collectively often titled as deep sleep (McPhee 20). Lastly, but not the least, Stage 5 is identified as dream sleep and with REM (McPhee). Each stage is not just discerned by its major aspects, but by the activity in the brain in each stage. Although sleep can be described through the various behavioral changes, the different activities in the brain allow the discerning of each stage during sleep. Each stage is distinguished by various electrical activities and patterns across the brain (L & F 7). These electrical activities and patterns consistently change between each stage (McPhee 17). Obviously, each stage has its own unique...
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...Introduction Planning and implementing change is neither a fast nor easy process. It involves much planning and hard work in order to see the plan succeed. Due to the level of competition between organizations today, change is important to allow companies to not only survive, but stay competitive in their markets. Major corporations have failed due to the inability to recognize and respond to the need for change. With the amount of competition in each and every market out there, every company has to take advantage of every possible advantage they can get. Change, if recognized early enough, can not only keep a company competitive but can also give companies an advantage by seeing a possible opportunity that has not been seen by other companies in the same market. Company Overview The company that will be discussed in this paper is Storer Equipment Company Inc. The vision of Storer Equipment is, “We aspire to be the preferred partner pioneering innovative, sustainable solutions that provide energy efficient comfort, cost control and convenience” (Who We Are, 2012). Storer’s mission statement is, “As a trusted partner in our communities we strive to be industry leaders - professionals delivering sustainable, comprehensive, innovative and personalized solutions through teamwork, education and training” (Who We Are. 2012). At Storer Equipment, we are a commercial / industrial hvac company who prides ourselves in our abilities to effectively and efficiently take care of our customer’s...
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...[pic] BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary/Diploma in HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE UNIT 4 DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE LIFE STAGES Name : …………………….. Target Grade ………………. Current Grade ……………… January – April 2014 |Pass |Merit |Distinction |Attempted |Complete | |P1 – Produce a series of posters that|M1 : Write a report that discusses |D1 : As a conclusion to your report, |P1 | | |describe physical, intellectual, |the nature – nurture debate in |evaluate how nature and nurture may | | | |emotional and social development for |relation to the development of the |affect the physical, intellectual, |M1 | | |each of the life stages of an |individual |emotional and social development of 2| | | |individual | |stages of the development on an |D1 | | | | |individual | | | |P2 – Using examples from someone’s | | |P2 | | |life, explain the potential...
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...cash flow. The major reasons for these challenges are increasing operational costs, reduced print subscriptions, reducing advertising revenue, rapidly changing technologies, changing consumer behaviours, lack of revenue from digital platforms, and poor online financial strategy etc. In order to address these challenges, it is recommended for the organization to follow two business strategies. They are Business Process Reengineering Strategy and Monetizing Digital Platforms. By implementing these strategies, New York Times can see improvement in speed of service provision, operational cost, quality of service and productivity. The paper also suggested a couple of change management models that help New York Times to successfully manage the change. These strategies include Lewin’s 3- Stage Model and Kotler’s 8-Stage Model. Finally, the paper analysed the financial data and concluded that New York Times is performing very poor in terms of revenue generation, cost of sales, return on investment capital etc. when compared to the industry giants such as Gannett Co Inc. Problems Faced by New York Times Plummeting...
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...the hypotheses that social interaction is related to cognitive change, that children progress through developmental stages in an understanding of science. Two children were used for the investigation a boy aged eleven and a girl aged six. The data was collated from video-recorded tasks. The participant’s predictions and explanations were coded. Findings revealed that when the children experienced cognitive conflict or were challenged by the researcher this could cause conceptual change, leading to a developmental progression in the children’s scientific thinking. INTRODUCTION Considerable research exists on the mathematic and scientific thinking of children. Selly, N (1993) proposed a developmental progression of children’s scientific understanding, relating to floating and sinking. Selly argues that young children have a very practical view of buoyancy. As children realise that their explanations are insufficient, they progress through a series of what Selley termed Hypotheses from 1, 1A,2,3,and 4. Cognitive changes in the development of mathematical and scientific concepts are Piaget’s discovery learning, this occurs when children are lone learners working mostly on their own. To get children to progress with their thinking Paiget and his colleagues would challenge pupils and their thinking creating conflict and producing disequilibrium that would initiate the equilibrium processes, producing cognitive change. This links to Selley’s (1993) H 4 (Hypothesis) referred to as...
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...Managing Projects Table of Contents Task 1 3 1.1. Network diagram 3 1.2. Total float 3 1.3. Critical path. 4 1.4 Timetable 4 1.5. Adjusted timetable 5 1.6. Limitations of the network diagrams 6 i. Time 6 ii. Costs 6 iii. Ambiguity 7 iv. Complexity 7 v. Reliability 7 vi. External factors 7 Task 2 7 2.0. Executive summary 7 2.1. Introduction 8 2.1.1. Project management 8 2.1.2. The roles and the scope of the project manager in a company 9 2.2. Project management techniques 10 2.3. Methodology 10 2.4. Project development stages and process 11 Initiation stage 12 Planning and designing stage 13 Execution of the project 13 Monitoring and controlling stage 14 Closing stage 14 2.5. Risks and control problems 14 2.6. Recommendations 16 2.7. Conclusion 16 Reference lists 18 Task 1 1. Network diagram [pic] 2. From the below snapshot derived from a programming software, the total float days is equal to 76 days [pic] 3. From the below diagram, the critical path is determined by the longest duration between the tasks that the project may take to complete. The red arrows denote the path. This time does not include the floats between the tasks but instead the period between the parallel tasks (Nigel 1995). [pic] 4. |ID |Task Name |Duration (Days) |Start ...
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...STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT If your child develop well, the learning potential is increased; and the chances of failure in school are less. Development is a gradual process- or building up of permanent age related changes in a person. In these essay, I will describe and discuss stages of development from birth to 8 years of age. Next, I will discuss why stages of development is important to a child. Lastly, I will briefly summarize this essay; indicating whether stages o f development is healthy or not healthy in an early childhood development. From the time of birth to 8 of age: your little ones moves through a steady progression of developing, thinking skills and learning emotional regulation as well as social growth. Children and adult pass a number of different stages during their lifetime. These stages happen around certain ages. Sometimes researches refer to the stages as time of life. Here are some stages usually referred to in early childhood development. Prenatal Stage is from conception to birth Infancy is from birth to the time of walking-around about 12 to 18months. Toddler hood from 18 months to 3 years. Preschool Stage from 3years to 6 years and; Early School from 6 years to 8 years Each stage has important changes that happen in that stage. Here are some examples; Prenatal Stages body grows quickly from time of conception or pregnancy and organs are and begin to work. The health and well being of the mother is very important. Infancy babies...
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...scholars focus on the impact of product life cycle on strategic orientation. The attempt in this paper is to show that not only does the PLC orient strategy of an enterprise faster and straight forward than any other factors, but it also takes all other factors into account. The main question is “how product life cycle affects the strategic orientation of a enterprise”. This study began by defining strategic orientation, product life cycle, and their analysis. The study is focused on how the product life cycle has been influenced by innovation capabilities and how it sequentially affects strategic orientation. Every enterprise has different types of innovation capabilities at every stage of product life cycle, and reacts to the competition and environmental changes differently. Also, each stage of product life cycle, affects the enterprise’s innovation capabilities differently. On...
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...| How and why change models can facilitate change within organizations | | | | XXXXXX – 11XXXXXXX – Word Count: 1375HR388 - Human Resource Management & Organizational Change 21/1/15 | | How and why change models can facilitate change within organizations | | | | XXXXXX – 11XXXXXXX – Word Count: 1375HR388 - Human Resource Management & Organizational Change 21/1/15 | Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. Change models & their effectiveness to Human Resource Management and Organisational Change 3 2.1. Stage 1: Unfreeze 4 2.2. Stage 2: Transition 6 2.3. Stage 3: Refreeze 7 3. Conclusion & Recommendation 7 4. References 8 1. Introduction To begin with an in depth explanation and definition of organisational change, it a process that has been developed over the years in terms of discovering the best techniques to implement at different stages of a company’s life; an important issue that every firm must constantly adopt in order to maintain competitiveness and efficiency. As a result of the ongoing external changes in its environment, whether at the strategic or operational level, companies must act accordingly in response to changes in taste, a crisis or whether the change was triggered by a leader within the organisation with motives to improve efficiency (Moran and Brightman, 2001: 111; Burnes, 2004; Hayes 2014). Change models are used as a means of making the necessary changes to an organisation’s development as effective...
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...Systems Analysis and Design Project Stage 3 New System Specifications And Prototype Based on Harvard Business School case 9-692-015 Manzana Insurance – Fruitvale Branch Presented to Professor Michael Palley Stevens Institute of Technology MGT 772 SB Analysis and Development of Information Systems By Team 3 TEAM 3 Systems Analysis and Design Project Stage 3 MGT 772SB Analysis and Development of Information Systems Professor Michael Palley Table of Contents SYSTEM OVERVIEW ...............................................................................................................................................4 DESCRIPTION .............................................................................................................................................................4 POLICY REQUEST TYPES ............................................................................................................................................4 BACKGROUND ...........................................................................................................................................................4 CURRENT ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS AND GOALS FOR THE NEW SYSTEM ............................................................4 FILE DESIGN..............................................................................................................................................................7 BACHMAN DIAGRAMS IN THIRD NORMAL FORM (3NF)...................
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...Change Model for the Short-Term Change In switching towards this transformational change and developing a website to sell the inventory of aquarium decorator items, the Sea Treasures need to create a complete transformation and this will start by taking up short-term change initiative. In order to bring this short-term change, Lewin’s Change Management Model would be appropriate to use. Lewin’s change management model was designed by Kurt Lewin and it provides certain safer zones by recognizing the three stages of transformation- Unfreeze, Transition and Refreeze. Sea Treasures are facing strong employee resistance and other obstacles in bringing the change. The Unfreeze stage helps in overcoming this resistance and in the initial period of...
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...Stages of sleep Until sleep was accidentally measured researchers had no idea that sleep had different stages, before all they could do was time how long people slept and record their movement to try to interpret whether they are dreaming, etc. There was very limited research in this area until it was discovered that using an electroencephalograph (EEG) which records the average electrical potentials of cells and fibers to record the rise and falls when cells fire in synchrony during sleep. This has shown that there are many different stages that occur during sleep. Loomis, Harvey and Hobart discovered in 1937 that when using EEG at the beginning and also throughout sleep showed clear stages in the change of electrical activity in the brain. This allowed sleep to be measured now as a perpetual process and also showed that sleep appears to be made-up of ‘a complex mosaic of stages or conditions’, (H.W.Agnew,Jr & Webb.B.W, 1973). Humans need approx. eight hours sleep a night, this is different to other animals, however it has been shown that non-human animals also go through similar stages of sleep. During humans’ eight hours of sleep brain activity and eye movement change can be split into different stages. These stages are compared to a state of relaxed wakefulness. Alpha waves are recorded at a frequency of 8 to 12 per second. Alpha waves are present when a human is in a state of relaxed wakefulness. This is known as stage 0, when the human is not quite asleep...
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...is sensitive to the business cycle. If it is sensitive, does it do better in a boom period or a recession? a. Automobiles- b. Pharmaceuticals c. Housing a) Automobiles (yes) are sensitive because it all depends on the type of product and the demand for it. There tend to be huge sales at the end of the year to attract business; for instance during a recession there is little to no demand for automobiles even with major discounts. b) Pharmaceuticals (no) are not sensitive because the demand and supply does not change it stays constant even through a recession and price changes. c) Housing (yes) the housing industry is very dependent on the economic conditions which makes it cyclical. During a recession home prices tend to drop and so does sales. CHAPTER 6 DISCUSSION QUESTION 2 List the five stages of the industry life cycle. How does the pattern of cash dividend payments change over the cycle? (A general statement is all that is required.) The five stages of...
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...Nutritional Needs for Adulthood Life Stage Student’s Name Institutional Affiliations Nutritional Needs for Adulthood Life Stage Dietary needs of a person change as he or she advances through the distinct life stages from childbirth to childhood, eventually to adulthood later in life. A healthy diet includes proteins, carbohydrates, fats, fiber, vitamins, water and minerals. Dietary needs always change in terms of energy value and nutritional content of foods required for a good health. A salient general principle is that more energy is significant and is required to support periods of growth and even to fuel the active lives. Eating well and being active is significant for everyone. This study shall focus on the dietary and meal plan for adulthood stage (Ebersole, 2008). During senior or elderly years from age fifty until the end of life, a collection of both physiological and emotional changes occur in this stage. Many adults both men and women face serious health challenges such as diabetes, cancer and heart diseases during this particular stage of life. Both men and women experience a lot of loss of strength and muscle mass (Larsen, 2011). Fat deposits accumulate in the abdominal area increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease and type two diabetes. The skin becomes thinner and in case of an injury it takes a longer period to heal. At around the age of seventy, men begin to experience bone loss since estrogen and testosterone levels begin to decline. Nervous system...
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