...INTRODUCTION Adaptive optics is a new technology which is being used now a days in ground based telescopes to remove atmospheric tremor and thus provide a clearer and brighter view of stars seen through ground based telescopes. Without using this system, the images obtained through telescopes on earth are seen to be blurred, which is caused by the turbulent mixing of air at different temperatures. Adaptive optics in effect removes this atmospheric tremor. It brings together the latest in computers, material science, electronic detectors, and digital control in a system that warps and bends a mirror in a telescope to counteract, in real time the atmospheric distortion. The advance promises to let ground based telescopes reach their fundamental limits of resolution and sensitivity, out performing space based telescopes and ushering in a new era in optical astronomy. Finally, with this technology, it will be possible to see gas-giant type planets in nearby solar systems in our Milky Way galaxy. Although about 100 such planets have been discovered in recent years, all were detected through indirect means, such as the gravitational effects on their parent stars, and none has actually been detected directly. WHAT IS ADAPTIVE OPTICS ? Adaptive optics refers to optical systems which adapt to compensate for optical effects introduced by the medium between the object and its image. In theory a telescope’s resolving power is directly...
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...of National Identity has faced the same challenges. With the emergence of commercial buildings and growth of population in the City, the maintenance and conservation of Heritage is more likely needed. Altering existing buildings for a new function is not a new phenomenon. Working with the existing buildings, repairing and restoring them for continued use has become a creative and fascinating challenge within the architectural descipline. The process of wholeheartedly altering a building is often called “ Adaptive Re-use”. It is known that adaptive re-use helps extend the life of Historical buildings and prevents them from becoming foresaken and derilict. The Gotiaoco building which is situated at the M.C Briones Ave. Behind Cebu City hall is one of the significant architectural building that is currently proprosed to be reuse as a Chinese Heritage Museum under the supervision of Sugbu Chinese Heritage Museum Inc.. In contemporary conservation theory and practice, adaptive re-use is considered to be an important strategy towards conservation of cultural heritage. It preserves buildings by changing outdated functions into new uses to meet contemporary demand. However, it is known that the affected community is one of the external factors that affects the sucessful planning and decision making on the implementation of Heritage preservation program. Hence, a study is conducted by the researchers in order to evaluate the implications of adaptively re-using the Gotiaoco buillding...
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...I would recommend Adaptive project management methodology. The two aspects that make this method appropriate for the potential clients are; “Iterative decision-making or making choices based on learning from the outcomes of decisions previously taken and strategic flexibility or avoidance of irreversible decisions” (Virine, 2008). Adaptive PM will enable the organization to follow a structured PM system but will also provide the ability to change according to the organizations strategic plans and ongoing decision-making process. The organization is withholding the nature of the project; this would guide the project management to a structure that will be supportive the strategic impact, ability to refine the project based on needs, and lessons learned, and flexibility required for this project and the organization. Project management uses different methods to structure the project plan. Project management methodology allow the project manager and the organization to understand and see the project roadmap, milestones, timeline, risks, and manage desired outcome. Some of the methodologies utilized in project management are adaptive, Crystal Methods, Waterfall, and lean. As an example, the Waterfall method would not fit the potential client as its model does not allow change; it is fixed to methods, timelines and specified tasks (Tutorials Point). When analyzing which method is appropriate for the project, the desired outcome and strategic objects need to be clearly identified...
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...Impacting Learning Through Adaptive Leadership Siemens Corporation is a multinational electronics and industrial engineering firm that focuses in the areas of industry, energy, and healthcare. Our company provides data storage for Siemens and I went to undergrad with one of its employees, Sasha Patel. In this paper, two employees of the Siemens IT department were interviewed to evaluate their perception of Siemens’s loyalty to its values in both communication and practice. As the interview responses indicate, while Siemens holds a strong commitment to leading in innovation, it must continually upgrade its communications approach to spread its vision and mission to all employees of the organization. In order to determine whether Siemens communicates its mission and values effectively through all levels of the organization, both a leader and subordinate were interviewed. The first interviewee of the Siemens Healthcare IT division was George Stephen, an IT manager who has worked for Siemens Corporation for three years. The first series of interview questions considered how the mission and vision statements of the organization were communicated within the organization. As Stephen noted, “all employees are provided with an overview of the company history and values during their orientation. Management is considered to set its goals by considering how those goals are aligned with company values. When a team of consultants is dispatched to meet with representatives from...
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...Ok. First, I just want to say that I think it is so cool that you guys have this awesome forum. I’ve never had a good reason to post in it before, but, well, I’m in Mr. McMurtry’s 10th grade honors English class (go me), and our half-year fiction project is due just before winter break, which is coming up. Ok. So, before you read this, you should know that I already asked Mr. McMurtry if I could write my fiction project in an experimental science fiction style and make lots of horrible, malicious, false, and hateful blood libels against the Mormons, and he asked what I had in mind, and I told him that I thought it could be cool to write a story that consisted entirely of a War between Mormons and Scientologists and Atheist Texan Cowboys in the Future, and he said that would be fine. I knew he’d let me do it, as his homosexuality is a well known fact to the student body, and therefore his concomitant openness to avant-guard art and literature and experimentation and stuff like that. Not like the other English teacher, Ms. Nichols, who is the sort of totally sexless spinster that makes her students write poems about Jesus, which I’m pretty sure is fucking illegal, although I’m sure nobody in this hick town cares. God and Football, all the way. Ok, so, then I didn’t do any work on it at all until last night. We had to do a one-page outline a few weeks ago, which is so stupid, so I did it on the bus and I have no idea what I wrote, so last night I just started over from scratch...
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...Dept. of Work & Organizational Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 10 January 2013 Available online 19 February 2013 Keywords: Adaptability Adaptive attitudes Adaptive behavior Change information Meaning-making Organisational change a b s t r a c t The purpose of this 3-wave study is to examine the micro process of how employees adapt to change over time. We combined Conservation of Resources theory with insights from the organizational change literature to study employees in a Dutch police district undergoing reorganization. A model was tested where employee adaptability, operationalized by the presence of resources, predicts individual adaptive attitudes as well as adaptive behavior over time. Change information was included as a contextual change resource and meaning-making as a personal change resource. The research design allowed for examining longitudinal relationships by capturing data (1) before (Time 1), (2) during (Time 2), and (3) after change implementation (Time 3). We expected adaptability before and during change implementation to predict adaptive attitudes and adaptive behavior...
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...inefficient output. By using Heuristic methods satisfactory results can be obtained. But using Heuristic technique the results are not always optimal and may have some limitations. To overcome all this we can use decomposition method which is very efficient for computation and results are nearly exact. Introduction- Routers are basically classified into two types- Oblivious and Adaptive. In oblivious routing the path is completely determined by the sources and destination. Whereas Deterministic routing is the same path is chosen between a source and destination. The nature of deterministic routing is distributed that is each node makes its routing decisions independent of others which make routing simple and fast and this is widely used in most of the networks. On the other hand in oblivious routing algorithms it is difficult because of certain traffic patterns that are many flows are routed through same link and generate heavy network congestion. In adaptive routing, given sources and destination address the path taken by a particular packet is dynamically adjusted depending on the network congestion. Adaptive routing uses dynamic load balancing...
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...www.hbr.org How the best Indian companies drive performance by investing in people. Leadership Lessons from India by Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra V. Singh, and Michael Useem Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary Idea in Brief—the core idea 2 Leadership Lessons from India Reprint R1003G Leadership Lessons from India Idea in Brief The leaders of India’s biggest and fastestgrowing companies take an internally focused, long-term view and put motivating and developing employees higher on the priority list than short-term shareholder interests. To engage employees, these leaders create a sense of social mission that is central to company culture, encourage openness by developing and personally modeling systems that provide transparency, empower employees by enabling communication and pushing decision making down through the ranks, and invest heavily in training. These individual practices aren’t new, but Indian leaders combine them in a coherent package and give them consistent emphasis. The authors advise that Western leaders adapt this managerial approach to their own circumstances, pursuing in particular two readily achievable goals: investing in training, and strengthening social mission. COPYRIGHT © 2010 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. page 1 How the best Indian companies drive performance by investing in people. Leadership Lessons from India by Peter Cappelli...
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...By guest author Vineet Nayar [Vineet Nayar, vice chairman and CEO of India-based HCL Technologies (HCLT), had no illusions about the fact that by the spring of 2005, the company was slipping: "HCLT was like [a] childhood friend who suddenly looked old. Once one of India’s corporate stars, HCLT was growing more slowly than the market leader in its industry [...] and slower than its immediate rivals, losing market share and falling behind in mindshare, too.” One day, says Nayar, HCLT decided to change. He discusses how the company went about its transformation in his book, Employees First, Customers Second, which was published in 2010 by Harvard Business Press and available from the press; on Amazon, Powell’s Books, and Flipkart; and in bookstores. On this Employees First, Customers Second approach, Nayar writes, “The conventional wisdom, of course, says that companies must always put the customer first. In any services business, however, the true value is created in the interface between the employee and the customer. So, by putting employees first, you can bring about fundamental change in the way a company creates and delivers unique value for its customers and differentiates itself from its competitors.” The EFCS approach has four parts: * Mirror Mirror: Creating the Need for Change * Trust Through Transparency: Creating a Culture of Change * Inverting the Organizational Pyramid: Building a Structure for Change * Recasting the Role of the CEO: Transferring...
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...THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Adjustable Subband Allocation Algorithm for Critically Sampled Subband Adaptive Filters by Adam Shabti Charles A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering May 6, 2009 Advisor Dr. Fred L. Fontaine THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART ALBERT NERKEN SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING This thesis was prepared under the direction of the Candidate’s Thesis Advisor and has received approval. It was submitted to the Dean of the School of Engineering and the full Faculty, and was approved as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering. Dr. Eleanor Baum Dean, School of Engineering Dr. Fred L. Fontaine Candidate’s Thesis Advisor Acknowledgments I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Fred Fontaine, for his guidance and patience throughout this process. Without his teachings I would not be where I am today. I would also like to thank the rest of the faculty, as well as my friends and peers at The Cooper Union Albert Nerken School of Engineering. A special thanks is due to David Nummey, Deian Stefan, Ashwin Kirpalani, Stefan M¨nzel and Matthew Epstein, all u of whom gave their time to listen patiently to my ideas and help me improve this thesis into what it is today. I would also like to thank Dr. Jack Lowenthal for keeping me motivated with his interest...
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...Axia College Material Appendix D Psychotherapy Matrix Directions: Review Module 36 of Psychology and Your Life. Select three approaches to summarize. Include examples of the types of psychological disorders appropriate for each therapy. |{Insert type of therapy approach} |{Insert type of therapy approach} |{Insert type of therapy approach} | |Summary of |aversive conditioning, a form of therapy |Behavioral treatment approaches it builds on the earning |systematic desensitization, | |Approach |that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by |behavioral treatment approaches make this fundamental |gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus is | | |pairing an aversive, |assumption helps cope with there learning skilss and how |paired with relaxation to | | |unpleasant stimulus with undesired behavior. |to deal with problems |extinguish the response of anxiety | | |Although aversion therapy works reasonably well in | | | | |inhibiting substanceabuse | ...
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...| Psycho-Social-Spiritual Assessment | NURS320 – Holistic Nursing | 2/26/2013 | Psycho-Social-Spiritual Assessment Psychosocial development occurs throughout one’s lifetime and may change if there are certain factors such as stress, trauma, illness, or drastic life changes. Being able to recognize maladaptive and adaptive behaviors in someone, especially a client or patient, is important when I am the one responsible for the care they will receive. Educating myself on the different topics and questions that will be used during the interview portion of assessing a patient are critical for the nursing profession. The client, SR, maintains a busy schedule daily, and reflects on traumatic past events which are affecting her wellness and state of mind. SR has had complaints of severe headaches and moderate chest pains several times a week. SR stated during the interview that she does not like to take over the counter medications for pain relief, but rather tries to sleep to relieve the pain she feels. She has previously taken herbal stress supplements to relieve chest pain. SR noted many other symptoms contributing to her state of being: fatigue, difficulty sleeping, dizziness, shortness of breath, frequent urination, abnormal menstruation, and concentration problems. Looking deeper into her family history, there are no reports of neither of her parents or any of her grandparents being treated for severe headaches or migraines, but her one sibling made reports. There...
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...Each and every individual on the planet has their own objectives and dreams. Youthful or old, male or female, dark or white, rich or poor, all have the same drive and craving to live in the most ideal way they see conceivable. Attempting to succeed is an indispensable human conduct that pays no regard to shallow and enthusiastic variables. We are constructed to need something more, to enhance ourselves, and to be a superior individual than who we were yesterday. How does one succeed in life? This is a typical inquiry that one asks endless times. The answer relies on upon how you see yourself. You know yourself more than any other individual. This implies you can have the most exact answer from inside of you; and nobody else can come as near the right reply than you can. On the other hand, there is continually something you can do to guarantee that you do discover the answer. States of mind can be compared to a basic motor that can either back you off, or offer you move some assistance with forwarding. As basic as it may be, it is the main beyond any doubt strategy you have for being effective in life and at last, everything boils down to how well you oversee it. Continuously remember that in the way to achievement, your disposition figures out what and the amount you can do. It is the one in charge of directing your aptitudes, however when contaminated by pride; it can get to be as futile as a relinquished auto left to rust and waste through time. Whether you make it or...
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...Organizational Plans Brien Thigpen XMGT/230 June 15, 2015 Nicole Dinan Organizational Plans Bateman, T.S. & Snell, S.A. (2011) states that the different types of plans that organizations can use are: Situational Analysis, studies past events, examines current conditions, and attempts to forecast future trends. It focuses on the internal forces at work in the organization or work unit and, consistent with the open-systems approach. The Alternative Goals and Plans, based on the situational analysis, the planning process should generate alternative goals that may be pursued in the future and the alternative plans that may be used to achieve those goals. Goal and Plan Evaluation, managers will evaluate the advantages, disadvantages, and potential effects of each alternative goal and plan. They must prioritize those goals and even eliminate some of them. Goal and Plan Selection, once managers have assessed the various goals and plans, they will select the one that is most appropriate and feasible. The evaluation process will identify the priorities and trade-offs among the goals and plans. Implementation, successful implementation requires a plan to be linked to other systems in the organization, particularly the budget and reward systems. If the manager does not have a budget with financial resources to execute the plan, the plan is probably doomed. Similarly, goal achievement must be linked to the organization’s reward system. Monitor and Control, without it, you...
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...According to Campus Creche, they have five individual centers for different aged children. They have basic vision/plan that they use in common but also each center has an individual style and age appropriated programs and curriculums. They seem to understand that each stage of child’s development, there are things that are important to learn and develop. For example, children aged from 3 to 18 months need to build trust so it is important to help babies to feel settled and happy in a safe and secure environment. They also do not have exactly same routines. They seem to be very flexible and try to follow individual child’s rhythms, which I believe is ideal way to respect and encourage children to be independent. Lastly, Campus Creche has an assessment process that caters for each child, which helps them plan and enhance child’s learning. There will be observing and planning based on each child so I believe they will gather more information based on individual child, which will be beneficial for both the child and teachers. According to Katz, Dispositions are frequent and voluntary habits of thinking and doing. These habits of mind are not to be confused with mindless habits, such as stopping at a red light (Katz 1993). Also children are environmentally sensitive which means they are acquired, supported, or weakened by interactive experiences in an environment with significant adults and peers. For example, if the teacher has developed value play disposition, she would provide...
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