...Management problems: It was apparent that there was no support from the functional and senior management on this project. There was also a lack of support by the project office and the line managers. The line managers finally realized that they had a role in the project several months after the project started. This caused a significant delay in the project and they were unable to make up any time that had already been lost. The functional manager never supported Reichart, the project manager, throughout the project. Even after corporate staff stepped in and made some dramatic changes to the project, the functional manager still did not provide adequate staff for recovery. It was apparent that there was a lack of communication amongst...Management problems: It was apparent that there was no support from the functional and senior management on this project. There was also a lack of support by the project office and the line managers. The line managers finally realized that they had a role in the project several months after the project started. This caused a significant delay in the project and they were unable to make up any time that had already been lost. The functional manager never supported Reichart, the project manager, throughout the project. Even after corporate staff stepped in and made some dramatic changes to the project, the functional manager still did not provide adequate staff for recovery. It was apparent that there was a lack of communication...
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...Best Buy - The Importance of Organizational Culture and Change Organizational cultures that can be a liability to an organization include those that create barriers to change, create barriers to diversity or barriers to mergers and acquisitions. (Robbins, S. P. 2011) Organizational cultures are also good for change and revitalization of a company. This paper will provide background information on Best Buy and the ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment) Program. This paper will describe the culture of Best Buy. This paper will also discuss the approach to organizational change that the ROWE program illustrates. This case has sources of stress and this paper will discuss the sources that are apparent in the case. Changes have occurred and this paper will discuss whether the organizational culture has helped with the change. Describe the culture of Best Buy Best Buy’s culture has changed. The old culture embraced long hours. Managers rewarded those employees who were first in the building and the last to leave the building with tokens of appreciation. One employee earned a bonus and a vacation when he stayed up three days in a row to complete a report that was suddenly due. Yet, he was hospitalized due to the stress. The new culture revitalized Best Buy and changed how most employees view work. Employees thanked the organizers for allowing them to have a better home-work life balance. One employee was considering resigning after the birth of her child, but with the new...
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...excluding periodic or episodic changes, periods of marked variability, or baseline segments that differ by more than 25 beats per minute. * In any given 10-minute window, the minimum baseline duration must be at least 2 minutes, or else the baseline is considered indeterminate. In cases where the baseline is indeterminate, the previous 10-minute window should be reviewed and utilized in order to determine the baseline. * A normal FHR baseline rate ranges from 110 to 160 beats per minute. If the baseline FHR is less than 110 beats per minute, it is termed bradycardia. If the baseline FHR is more than 160 beats per minute, it is termed tachycardia. * Baseline FHR variability is based on visual assessment and excludes sinusoidal patterns. Variability is defined as fluctuations in the FHR baseline of 2 cycles per minute or greater, with irregular amplitude and inconstant frequency. These fluctuations are visually quantitated as the amplitude of the peak to trough in beats per minute Baseline Fetal Heart Rate Variability Fluctuation Classification Undetectable Absent Undetectable to ≤ 5 beats/min Minimal 6 to 25 beats/min Moderate > 25 beats/min Marked Baseline Fetal Heart Rate Variability Fluctuation Classification Sinusoidal pattern differs from variability in that it demonstrates a smooth, sine wave-like pattern of regular frequency and amplitude and is incompatible with the definition of variability. Acceleration is defined as an apparent abrupt increase in FHR...
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...Applying Ethical Frameworks in Practice | |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 | | |Unsatisfactory |Less Than |Satisfactory |Good |Excellent | | |71.00% |Satisfactory |79.00% |89.00% |100.00% | | | |75.00% | | | | |80.0 %Content | | |20.0 % Identifies |Does not identify an |Identifies an ethical|There is limited |Relevant context and |Analysis of issue is | | |Ethical Dilemma |ethical dilemma; or |dilemma. But the |discussion of |thorough discussion of|comprehensive. | | | |identifies an ethical |description of the |relevant context |issue are provided. |Explores issue with | | | |dilemma but provides |ethical dilemma is |and exploration of |Identifies |broad perspective, | | | |no analysis of the |very vague; or the |implications. |implications and |identifying underlying| | | |ethical implications. |analysis of the |Identifies...
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...DKKD Save Link Assignment Professional Development of Nursing Professionals View Rubric Due Date: Mar 23, 2014 23:59:59 Max Points: 200 Details: Review the IOM report: The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2010/The-Future-of-Nursing-Leading-Change-Advancing-Health.aspx, focusing on the following sections: Transforming Practice, Transforming Education, and Transforming Leadership. In order to access the report, locate “Get this Report” and click on “Read Report Online for Free”. When the report is downloaded, it will open up to page 1. Use the table of contents, located on the right, to navigate to the required sections. Create a paper (750-1,000 words) about the impact on nursing of the 2010 IOM report on the Future of Nursing. Include: 1.The impact of the IOM report on nursing education. 2.The impact of the IOM report on nursing practice, particularly in primary care, and how you would change your practice to meet the goals of the IOM report. 3.The impact of the IOM report on the nurse’s role as a leader. This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment. Please Note: Assignment will not be submitted to the faculty member until the "Submit"...
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...Through the novel Candide , one can analyze the tone of voice Voltaire is trying to express throughout his writing. It is apparent that he did not agree with many of the beliefs and situations Candide experienced. Through his writing, he expresses his beliefs in reason, progress, and his dislike of status quo. Throughout Candide, Voltaire mocks the belief in “natural” superiority by birth. The baron’s sister, for instance, has refused to marry Candide’s father because he only had seventy-one quartering in his coat of arms, while hers had less Voltaire uses this to make the nobility’s concern over others birth look absurd. Voltaire uses exaggeration of this sort throughout the novel to expose the irrationality of various beliefs. A major character throughout the book was Pangloss. Pangloss was a philosopher and was also Candide’s mentor. Pangloss believed the world is “the best of all possible worlds.” This assumption is one that Voltaire poked fun of throughout the novel. It is very apparent that Voltaire thought this was an outrages belief. This is apparent to the reader by the way Voltaire explained the journey Candid, the old women, and other characters faced during this time. Voltaire made you question how anyone could believe the world is “the best of all worlds” when things such as rape, torture, and destruction were conflicted upon these people. He expresses his belief of reason when the old lady says that she has considered suicide. With all that she went through the...
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...University, 1-1 Saiwai-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa 760-8521, Japan * b NTN Corporation, 1578 Higashi-Kaizuka, Iwata, Shizuoka 438-8510, Japan * c Tamagawa University, 6-1-1 Tamagawa Gakuen, Machida, Tokyo 194-8610, Japan * http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0043-1648(02)00077-7, How to Cite or Link Using DOI * Permissions & Reprints Abstract Researches on wear and fatigue in rolling contact from a tribological viewpoint are introduced. Transmission of traction and accompanying microslip in the contact region play critical roles in these phenomena. First, a quantitative analysis of wear in rolling contact with microslip is introduced, and it is shown that a simplified microslip theory can explain its behavior. Second, a marked change in contact fatigue life with traction is demonstrated, and a theory is introduced which relates the fatigue life with cumulative shear strain in the subsurface. Keywords * Contact fatigue; * Microslip; * Rolling contact; * Wear 1. Introduction Reduction of wear and prevention of contact fatigue are important objectives of railway technology and of tribology as well. However, these two engineering fields have been developing as different worlds, and researchers in the two fields seem to have been accustomed to different ways of thinking and different jargons. The present authors are tribologists (one of them is also a railway enthusiast!) and, in this paper, researches on wear and contact fatigue in rolling contact...
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...Introduction (5 marks) Enzymes are globular shaped proteins that are found throughout the body, with their main function being to act as biological catalysts. An enzyme can act to speed up or regulate the rate of the reaction, in order to maintain an efficient rate of biological reactions. Enzymes, whilst having an important role in the reaction of many chemicals within the body, are not consumed in the reaction, and so are able to catalyze many reactions in their life cycle. Enzymes are able to reduce the activation energy of the reaction; the energy required to break bonds between the reactants, and form new bonds in the products, which allows more product to be formed. (Marieb and Hoehn, 2010, pp.51-53). Enzyme activity is affected by changes in the pH of their solution. For each individual enzyme, there is a corresponding pH at which, that particular enzyme’s activity will be at it’s maximum. This is known as the optimum pH. If the pH of the solution is getting closer to it’s optimum pH for that particular enzyme, then the activity of the enzyme, and therefore it’s rate of reaction, will increase. At extremes of pH (either extremely acidic or basic) enzymes tend to become denatured; a state in which they lose all of their biological activity. (Worthington Biochemical Corporation, 2011). Temperature has the ability to increase the reaction rate of chemical reactions, by increasing the kinetic energy of the molecules themselves. By increasing the kinetic energy of the...
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...Rain Man Essay Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests in delays of "social interaction, language as used in social communication, or symbolic or imaginative play," with "onset prior to age 3 years," according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Some of the symptoms of Autism include: Lack of awareness of feelings of others and the expression of emotions, such as pleasure (laughing) or distress (crying), for reasons not apparent to others; Poor use of body language and nonverbal communication, such as eye contact, facial expressions, and gestures; Insisting on following routines and sameness, resisting change; Ritualistic or compulsive behaviors; Narrow, restricted interests (dates/calendars, numbers, weather, movie credits); Throwing tantrums and having no apparent fear of dangerous situations. In the movie Rain Man aka Raymond uses many rituals and routines to make himself feel safe. He memorized the times of all the TV shows that he watches on a daily basis and when Raymond was unable to watch those TV shows he freaked out so badly that Charlie felt the need to go up to a strangers house and ask if his brother could watch TV. Every morning Charlie demanded that he have pancakes with the syrup on the table before they arrive. When Raymond was feeling uncomfortable he began repeating something he heard on the radio called “Who’s On Bat”, he also demanded that his bed be by the window and that he have underwear from...
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...Ethnography Scoring Guide – Also use this to guide the development of your pieces Interviews: 3 Generations You will be assessed on the thoroughness of the interviews you conduct with your family members (or historical research if you cannot contact all members of your family). Full marks will be earned if the interview questions or interview summary covers most aspects of questions provided and the responses recorded have enough depth to provide sufficient data for the other parts of the assignment. • Presentation is formatted according to instructions ▪ Indication whether responses are: __verbatim ___ summaries of conversations ___provided by a parent • Q & A are listed by universal aspects of culture (i.e. categories) • Nearly all questions were asked/ responses are provided for all questions • Responses provide sufficient data for the other parts of the ethnography • A rich narrative is provided within the answers; thoughtfulness is clearly exhibited • Personal Interview/ Parent Interview/ Grandparent Interview Completed |Rating |Exceeds Standards |Meets Standards |Approaches |Insufficient Evidence; D or | | |A+, A |A-, B+, B |B-, C+, C, C- |below | |Content |1. Asked and answered |1. Asked and...
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... I. Potential causes of conflict- a. Objective interference: Objective Interference is caused by one persons goal overlapping another person's goals. b. Competition for scarce resource: Causes conflict by not having enough required resources for everyone. c. Personality differences: Personality differences are how different people think and act on a daily basis. d. Difference in perception sets: Causes conflict based on how you see different situations. e. Change: Going from something you know, understand, and are comfortable with to something you have none of these feelings for. f. Failure to communicate: The inability to communicate important information from one person to another. II. Conflict becomes apparent- When conflict becomes apparent companies need to take steps to resolve the issues. III. Interpersonal Conflict Management- a. Overpower other party: Overpowering the other party in a conflict to prove you clearly won. b. Using outside force: Having a person of authority from outside the conflict step in to resolve the issues. c. Planning a delay: Making parties in a conflict take a break to try to calm down the conflict. d. Ignoring the conflict: Caused when people of authority pretend nothing is happening. ...
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...“The Tell-Tale Heart” is narrated by an unnamed individual about which little is revealed. The only fact that is known for certain is that the narrator lives with, and serves, an elderly man. At first he cannot speak to his motive for murder: “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire.” Grasping for a motive, he says, “I think it was his eye!” and then, as if to convince himself as much as the audience, he declares, “yes, it was this!” Searching for a reason for his actions, his uncertainty is apparent and he attempts to justify the brutal murder and dismemberment of the old man, for which there is no apparent logical explanation, by blaming the “Evil Eye.” The narrator spends a...
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...Malinao SPECIFIC GRAVITY AND ABSORPTION I. OBJECTIVE To determine the Apparent, Bulk (Dry), Bulk (SSD) specific gravity and the absorption in percentage of the coarse and fine aggregate sample II. PROCEDURE WITH PICTURES COARSE AGGREGATES 1. Approximately five kilograms of the coarse aggregate sample was taken by method of quartering. The 5 kg coarse aggregate sample was sieved by the 3/8” sieve and the materials passing through were discarded. (Figure 1) 2. The sample coarse aggregate was washed thoroughly with water to remove dust and other materials coating the individual aggregate and the sample was soaked under water for 24 hours. (Figure 2) 3. The soaked aggregates were removed and each aggregate was wiped to saturated surface dry (SSD) condition. (Figure 3) 4. The SSD weight in air (B) of aggregate to the nearest 0.1 gram was obtained. This was done quickly to prevent evaporation. 5. The weight of the wire mesh basket was determined. The coarse aggregate sample was placed in the wire mesh basket and its weight in water (C) was determined. The weight of the wire mesh basket in water was subtracted. (Figure 4) 6. The wet aggregate was placed inside the oven at a temperature not exceeding 110°C and the constant oven dry weight (A) was determined. (Figure 5) 7. From the data obtained, the specific gravity and absorption as defined below were solved: a) Apparent Specific Gravity = AA-C b) Bulk Specific Gravity (Dry) = AB-C c) Bulk...
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...many ways. These two stories use the same literary device strongly such as imagery. Imagery is a literary device in which the author uses words and phrases to paint a picture in the readers head throughout the story. These two short stories are written with very descriptive language to help paint a picture of the occurrences in the story and describe a scene. These two stories also contrast in many ways such as the way they use symbolism as well as the relationships between the characters in both stories. The two short stories compare in the use of the literary devices imagery and in the themes. The imagery used in “the Story of an Hour” is when the author is painting a picture of the main characters reaction to the news of her husband’s apparent death. When Mrs. Mallard learns of her husband’s death she is very upset, and locks herself in her room, and sits down in her chair starring out the window. The author uses descriptive language here such as “There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul,” (Kate Chopin Par 4) to paint a picture of how the character is acting. Using such detail helps the reader clearly understand and mentally visualize how the character is acting in this scene. This is a pure example of imagery and it continues on throughout the story. The author continues to use detail about what Mrs. Mallard is seeing outside of the window...
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...scientific notation is 7.297x10-3. The magnitude of a star, based on how bright it appears is its apparent magnitude. The difference of four magnitudes corresponds to a brightness change (factor) of 40 times. Star A has an apparent magnitude of 2.6, star B 3.2, star C 1.7, star D 2.6, and star E -1.7. Which star appears to be the brightest? Star E Star A has an apparent magnitude of -0.7, and star B has an apparent magnitude of 10.3. What is the magnitude difference between these stars? 11 What is the brightness factor between these stars A and B in Question 6? 2.5 x 104 The ancient Greek Hipparchus did NOT do this: Determine the size of the Earth. The first method of determining the distance to the stars involves trigonometric parallax. The Hipparcos satellite use the method in Question 9 to measure stellar distances out of 1000 pc. It is able to do so b/c it is in orbit above the atmosphere. There is a very simple relation between a star’s angle of parallax, π, and its distance, r, this relation is r=1/π. A star has a parallax of 0.302 (in proper units). The distance of this star is 50pc. How many light years are in a parsec? 326 The Magnitude of a star, based on how bright it appears at 10pc is the absolute magnitude. You start out 10pc from a star, and then move out to 50pc. The star’s brightness has decreased by a factor of 25. The star Kepler-186 has an apparent magnitude of 15 and an absolute magnitude of 9. What can you say about the distance to this star...
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