...You don’t have to be tall and super thin. No matter what you look like: You too can become a Model! There are different types of models and you have to be realistic in your expectations! There are fashion models, teen models, plus size models, and commercial models. Whenever you look at any magazine, or newspaper ad that is not geared towards fashion you see commercial models. And commercial models look like normal everyday people. As a commercial model, you are not going to get rich. At least most people won’t. But it can be fun part-time work with benefits such as free clothes, great pictures, and usually local recognition. Last night, I participated in Aaron Marcus' Tele-seminar entitled "How to Get Acting and Modeling Jobs and Find Modeling Agencies". The seminar lasted about an hour. You could call in and watch it over the Internet. Aaron offers workshops that you can attend live, but of course he doesn’t come to Birmingham, AL Some of the things that Aaron covered in his seminar were: * How to be a model regardless to what you look like. * What it takes to be a working model. * What to focus on when starting out. You see commercial models in many types of ads. Everyday people are used all of the time posing as Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Athletes, etc. Figure out what look you fit and target your career at those types of roles. Once you figure out what type of model that you can be, practice, practice, practice. Gather pictures of looks...
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...The Transition from 2D Drafting to 3D Modeling Benchmark Report Improving Engineering Efficiency September 2006 — Underwritten, in Part, by — The Transition from 2D Drafting to 3D Modeling Benchmark Report Executive Summary D o more with less. The mandate hasn’t changed for manufacturers. They must develop more products with increasing complexity to address customer and competitive pressures. Yet, there’s no “give” in project timelines to adopt new technologies like 3D modeling to help them win. However, some manufacturers are not only adopting 3D modeling technology, but excelling at hitting their product development targets at the same time. How is it possible? Interestingly enough, it’s actually quite simple. Key Business Value Findings • Best in class manufacturers their hit revenue, cost, launch date, and quality targets for 84% or more of their products. • Best in class performers typically produce 1.4 fewer prototypes than average performers. • Best in class performers average 6.1 fewer change orders than laggard performers. • In total, best in class manufacturers of the most complex products get to market 99 days earlier with $50, 637 lower product development costs. Implications & Analysis How do they do it? • Best in class performers are 40% more likely to have engineers use CAD directly to ensure they stay close to the design. • Best in class performers are 24% more likely to take advantage of extended 3D modeling design capabilities. They are 55% more...
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...Database Modeling Tool INF322 Instructor June 27, 2011 Database Modeling Tool The company has grown exponentially over the past 6 months and needs to develop a new database to house its financial, inventory, and client data. It has been decided to build this new database in house rather than purchase a system from a third party vendor. As part of the development of this database it is in the company’s best interest to utilize a database modeling tool to help the design effort. Utilizing a database modeling tool will offer the following benefits: 1. Simple graphic representation of the data structure. 2. Visual work flow of how data will be entered, modified, and reported. 3. Bulk editor capabilities. 4. Database design generator. 5. Database reverse engineering. 6. Logical and physical data model reporting. The tool that looks to be the best fit for the company is CA Erwin Data Modeler r8. CA Erwin Data Modeler r8 was developed by Logic Works Inc. Logic Works Inc. has been in business as a database modeling solution since 1988 (Carreon, 1996) and continues to be one of the top data modeling providers. CA Erwin Data Modeler r8 is the most balanced data modeler tool when comparing functionality, simplicity, and cost when to its competitors. CA Erwin has very user friendly graphical representation of both the logical and physical data models. No other competing modeler has both of these capabilities within the same function. It has all of...
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...Chapter 1 Even 1. Define business profiles, processes, and modeling. a. Business profile is an overview of a company’s mission, functions, organization, products, services, customers, suppliers, competitors, constraints, and future direction. b. Business processes is a specific set of transactions, events, and results that can be described and documented. c. Modeling is a standard based language used by analysts. It includes various shapes and symbols to represent events, processes and workflows. 2. Explain the difference between vertical and horizontal systems packages. d. A horizontal system is a basic software package system that can be adapted to common business processes like inventory and payroll. e. A vertical system is customized to meet the unique needs of a particular business, industry, or organization 3. Describe five types of information systems, and give an example of each. f. Enterprise computing systems support company-wide data management. e.g. airline reservations systems g. Transaction processing systems process data generated by day-to-day business operations. e.g. customer billing systems h. Business support systems provide job-related information support to users at all levels of a company. e.g. inventory reordering systems i. Knowledge management systems simulate human reasoning by combining a knowledge base and inference rules that determine how the knowledge is applied. e.g. technical...
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...(online analytical processing) is computer processing that enables a Big data analytics Data modeling Ad hoc analysis user to easily and selectively extract and view data from different points of view. For example, a user can request that data be analyzed to display a spreadsheet showing all of a company's beach ball products sold in Florida in the month of July, compare revenue figures with those for the same products in September, and then see a comparison of other product sales in Data visualization Extract, transform, load (ETL) Florida in the same time period. To facilitate this kind of analysis, OLAP data is stored in a multidimensional database. Whereas a relational database can be thought of as two-dimensional, a multidimensional database considers each data attribute (such as product, geographic sales region, and time Association rules (in data mining) Relational database period) as a separate "dimension." OLAP software can locate the intersection of dimensions (all products sold in the Eastern region above a certain price during a certain time period) and display them. Attributes such as time periods can be broken down into subattributes. Denormalization OLAP can be used for data mining or the discovery of previously Master data management (MDM) undiscerned relationships between data items. An OLAP database does not Predictive modeling needed for trend...
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...Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2010, Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation Version: (A) 2010-09-10 On March 17, 2010, Anita Norris, owner of Anita Norris Model Management (ANMM) of London, Ontario was contemplating the future of her business. In the two years since Norris started ANMM, the business had grown quickly through her efforts to pursue any revenue stream that presented itself. Although Norris welcomed ANMM’s success, she believed that continuing to operate in this manner would stretch her business model too thinly. ANMM’s current revenues came from four sources: modeling workshops, signing and booking models, model development, and speaking fees. Norris now wanted to develop a strategy that would focus her business and allow her to spend most of her time...
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...and perfection. Another social force for clients is they face uncertainty of changing consumer desires as they are highlighting the importance of healthy lifestyles and body types. Demographics For fashion models age is a very strong factor in the selection process. Models are usually discovered between the ages of 12 to 20 by agents or scouts. High fashion modeling agencies often demand height and body shape requirements and have strong preferences for standards. With cultural diversification of the Western world, ethnic diversity is becoming an important factor for all people in the modeling industry. Moreover, various races and backgrounds are becoming progressively noticeable. Anita Norris needs to be aware of the changing demographic trends in the modeling industry Technological Factors With the internet and digital technology, global networks of scouts and agencies have unlimited access to clients and models around the world. Agents are able to snap pictures and videos on digital cameras, and they can email these as virtual casting packages to clients anywhere around the globe. The modeling industry has benefited considerably from the start of the internet. Many of...
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...COMPARING PERCEPTIONS OF THE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN COURSE BRANDI N. GUIDRY University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504 DAVID P. STEVENS University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504 ABSTRACT Information Systems (IS) practitioners and educators have equal interest in the content of the Systems Analysis and Design Course (“SAD”). Previous research has examined instructors’ perceptions regarding the skills and topics that are most important in the teaching of the SAD course and the class time devoted to each. A similar assessment evaluated SAD course content from a practitioner perspective. Both studies used entropy calculations. A comparison of these studies is presented in this paper. For traditional topics, the group (either faculty or practitioner) with greater agreement believes the topic to be deserving of less class time. For structured and object-oriented topics, the group with the greater agreement also believes the topic to be of greater importance. This analysis demonstrates that practitioners and academics agree on approximately 40% of the SAD skills and knowledge areas. Keywords: Systems analysis and design, Structured analysis, Object-oriented analysis, Management Information Systems curricula, Entropy INTRODUCTION It is important that an education in Management Information Systems (MIS) is reflective of practices and techniques that are currently used in industry. Given the pace of technological innovation, there are ever-changing...
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...Lesson 3: An introduction to data modeling 3.1 Introduction: The importance of conceptual models same: understand the problem before you start constructing a solution. There are two important things to keep in mind when learning about and doing data modeling: 1. Data modeling is first and foremost a tool for communication.Their is no single “right” model. Instead, a valuable model highlights tricky issues, allows users, designers, and implementors to discuss the issues using the same vocabulary, and leads to better design decisions. 2. The modeling process is inherently iterative: you create a model, check its assumptions with users, make the necessary changes, and repeat the cycle until you are sure you understand the critical issues. In this background lesson, you are going to use a data modeling technique—specifically, EntityRelationship Diagrams (ERDs)—to model the business scenario from Lesson 2. The data model you create in this lesson will form the foundation of the database that you use throughout the remaining lessons. Before you sit down in front of the keyboard and start creating a database application, it is critical that you take a step back and consider your business problem—in this case, the kitchen supply scenario presented in Lesson 2— from a conceptual point of view. To facilitate this process, a number of conceptual modeling techniques have been developed by computer scientists, psychologists, and consultants. ? For our purposes, we can think of a...
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...Database Modeling and Design: Logical Design 4th Edition Toby Teorey, Sam Lightstone, Tom Nadeau Lecture Notes Contents I. Introduction ................................................................………...……2 Relational database life cycle 3 Characteristics of a good database design process 6 II. The Entity-Relationship (ER) Model …………...……………….7 Basic ER concepts 7 Ternary relationships 11 III. The Unified Modeling Language (UML)………...…………….13 Class diagrams 13 Activity diagrams 19 Rules of thumb for UML 21 IV. Requirements Analysis and Conceptual Data Modeling….…..22 Requirements analysis 22 Conceptual data modeling 24 View integration methods 25 Entity Clustering 30 V. Transforming the Conceptual Model to SQL…………...………32 VI. Normalization and normal forms ………………………………38 First normal form to third normal form (3NF) and BCNF 38 3NF synthesis algorithm (Bernstein) 43 VII. An Example of Logical Database Design………………………48 VIII. Business Intelligence………………………………..……….....52 Data warehousing 52 On-line analytical processing (OLAP) 58 IX. CASE Tools for Logical Database Design……………………….60 I. Introduction Introductory Concepts data—a fact, something upon which an inference is based (information or knowledge has value, data has cost) data item—smallest named unit of data that has meaning in the real world (examples: last name, address, ssn, political...
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...DATABASE MODELING AND DESIGN The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems (Selected Titles) Joe Celko’s Data, Measurements and Standards in SQL Joe Celko Information Modeling and Relational Databases, 2nd Edition Terry Halpin, Tony Morgan Joe Celko’s Thinking in Sets Joe Celko Business Metadata Bill Inmon, Bonnie O’Neil, Lowell Fryman Unleashing Web 2.0 Gottfried Vossen, Stephan Hagemann Enterprise Knowledge Management David Loshin Business Process Change, 2nd Edition Paul Harmon IT Manager’s Handbook, 2nd Edition Bill Holtsnider & Brian Jaffe Joe Celko’s Puzzles and Answers, 2 Joe Celko nd Location-Based Services ` Jochen Schiller and Agnes Voisard Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data Tom Johnston and Randall Weis Database Modeling with MicrosoftW Visio for Enterprise Architects Terry Halpin, Ken Evans, Patrick Hallock, Bill Maclean Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications Stephano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Aldo Bongio, Marco Brambilla, Sara Comai, Maristella Matera Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data Soumen Chakrabarti Advanced SQL: 1999—Understanding Object-Relational and Other Advanced Features Jim Melton Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques Dennis Shasha, Philippe Bonnet SQL: 1999—Understanding Relational Language Components Jim Melton, Alan R. Simon Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Edited by Usama Fayyad, Georges G. Grinstein...
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...development of 3-dimensional campus directory for the college of nursing EUNICE IVY S. MOJICA JEFFERSON R. TANAEL An undergraduate thesis outline submitted to the faculty of the Department of Information Technology, College of Engineering and Information Technology, Cavite State University, Indang, Cavite in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. Contribution No.________. Prepared under the supervision of Mr. Mark Cañete. Introduction Three dimensional technologies is the latest innovation when it comes in directory system. With 3D software, you can rotate your models so you can get a look at any side you want. Bachelor of Science in Nursing program in Cavite State University is first offered at the College of Arts and Sciences in SY 2002-2003. In October 8, 2005, a separate College of Nursing with a full time faculty members/clinical instructor headed by its first designated dean, Prof. Lenila A. de Vera, RN, MPH and Prof. Nenita B. Panaligan, Rn as CIinical Coordinator to effectively manage and accommodate the College of Nursing. With the initial enrollees of 240 students, the BSN population increased to 764 in SY 2004-2005, because of increasing demand for nursing and health care-related jobs abroad (http://www.cvsu.edu.ph). Orientation is the way of the University in introducing College’s and Department’s mission and vision, facilities, rooms and offices to the...
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...gratitude to Professor.Rajni Palikhey who helped and supported us right throughout the semester. This paper would not have been possible without her cooperation and technical assistance. We would also thank our Institution and our faculty members without whom this project would have been a distant reality. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to our family and well wishers. I would like to take this occasion to specially thank University of Northern Virginia to provide us with excellent faculty and also in supporting us getting quality education remotely. Contents SL No Title Page no 1 Abstract 5 2 Introduction to Databases 6 3 OLTP and OLAP Systems 7 4 Difference between OLTP and OLAP 9 5 Data Modeling 13 6 Workflows in Enterprise level Data warehousing 18 7 Business Intelligence tools used in Data flow and Data Warehousing 21 8 Analysis in Data warehousing 24 9 Conclusion 28 10 Foot Note 30 11 References 31 ABSTRACT These days majority of the applications, may it be web applications or windows applications or mobile applications, are completely database dependent. Most of the application developments are becoming database driven environments, hence rendering databases as one of the most key elements in a software environment. This dependency on databases can attributed to the increasing number of data requirements from the...
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...1 Introduction to Databases LESSON 1 Database Learning Objectives: On completion of Lesson 1, you should have been able to: 1. Describe the role of a database system 2. Briefly describe the evolution of database systems and the limitations of conventional file processing systems 3. Describe the three schema architecture for database and explain the difference between conceptual , external and physical schemas 4. Define the functions of a database administrator Keywords and Phrases LEARNER Database Database System Entities Conceptual Model Logical Model Physical Model Constraints Metadata Database Management System File System Indexing Introduction This module introduces the reader to the different concepts of databases. It also tackles a brief history how automated databases came into existence. A number of advantages is discussed why the evolution of database management system is very much appreciated by system developers nowadays. 2 What is a Database ? Let us try to get the answers from the different Database Management System book authors. Answer from Pratt/Adamski: o A Database (DB) is structure that can store information about: 1. multiple types of entities, 2. the attributes that describe those entities; and 3. the relationships among the entities Answer from Elmasri/Navathe: o A Database (DB) is collection of related data - with the following properties: 1. A DB is logically coherent and has some relevant meaning 2. A DB is designed, built...
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...MGMT 340 ALL QUIZZES WEEK 1 TO 7 To purchase this visit following link: http://www.activitymode.com/product/mgmt-340-all-quizzes-week-1-to-7/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM MGMT 340 ALL QUIZZES WEEK 1 TO 7 MGMT 340 All Quizzes Week 1 To 7 MGMT 340 Week 1 : The Systems Development Environment – Quiz 1. Question : (TCO 1) The information system includes all of the following EXCEPT 2. Question : (TCO 1) The process of breaking the description of a system down into its smaller components best defines 3. Question : (TCO 1) The extent to which a system or subsystem performs a single function defines 4. Question : (TCO 1) A centralized database that contains all diagrams, forms and report definitions, data structure, data definitions, process flows and logic, and definitions of other organizational and system components best describes 5. Question : (TCO 3) In which SDLC phase will the analyst study the organization’s current procedures and the information systems used to perform tasks? 6. Question : (TCO 3) Priorities for systems and projects are deliverables for the 7. Question : (TCO 3) A systems development methodology created to radically decrease the time needed to design and implement information systems best describes 8. Question : (TCO 3) The practice of turning over responsibility of some or all of an organization’s information systems applications and operations to an outside firm is referred to as 9. Question : (TCO 3) An organization should acquire...
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