...(Thanks to the ReBoot Wiki for the thumbnail image.) Introduction: What is a Number System? You probably already know what a number system is - ever hear of binary numbers or hexadecimal numbers? Simply put, a number system is a way to represent numbers. We are used to using the base-10 number system, which is also called decimal. Other common number systems include base-16 (hexadecimal), base-8 (octal), and base-2 (binary). In this article, I'll explain what these different systems are, how to work with them, and why knowing about them will help you. Activity Before we get started, let's try a little activity for fun. There are many different ways to represent a color, but one of the most common is the RGB color model. Using this model, every color is made up of a combination of different amounts of red, green, and blue. You may be wondering how colors relate to number systems. In short, on a computer, any color is stored as a large number: a combination of red, green, and blue. (We'll go into more detail on this later.) Because it's just a number, it can be represented in multiple ways using different number systems. Your job is to guess how much red, green, and blue is in the background color of the activity below. The values for red, green, and blue can range from 0 to 255. Feel free to use the various hints provided to help you out. If you don't understand the numerical hints yet, no problem! You can see what your guess looks like using the View Guess button. Right...
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...balls and three yellow balls. Two balls are drawn from the urn at random, without replacement. (a) In this scenario, what is the experiment? What is the sample space? (b) What is the probability that the first ball drawn is red? (c) What is the probability that at least one of the two balls drawn is red? (d) What is the (conditional) probability that the second ball drawn is red, given that the first ball drawn is red? Solution. (a) The experiment is the drawing of two balls from the urn without replacement. The sample space is the set of possible outcomes, of which there are four: drawing two red balls; drawing two yellow balls; drawing a red ball first, and then a yellow ball; and drawing a yellow ball first, and then a red ball. One way to denote the sample space is in set notation, abbreviating the colors red and yellow: sample space = {RR, YY, RY, YR}. Note that these four outcomes are not equally likely. We can also represent the experiment and the possible outcomes in a probability tree diagram, as shown below. Note in particular the probabilities given for the second ball. For example, if the first ball is red, then four out of the remaining seven balls are red, so the probability that the second ball is red is 4/7 (and the probability that it is yellow is 3/7). On the other hand, if the first ball is yellow, then five out of the remaining seven balls are red, so the probability that the second ball is red is 5/7 (and the probability that it is yellow is 2/7)....
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...[Story] EVERYTHING IS GREEN By David Foster Walku:e. From Girl With Curious Hair, a collection of his stories published by Norton. She says I do not care if you believe me or not, it is the truth, go on and believe what you want to. So it is for sure that she is lying, when it is the truth she will go crazy trying to get you to believe her. So I feel like I know. She lights up and looks off away from me, looking sly with her cigarette in light through a wet window, and I can not feel what to say. I say Mayfly I can not feel what to do or say or believe you any more. But there is things I know. I know I am older and you are not. And I give to you all I got to give you, with my hands and my heart both. Every thing that isinside me I have gave you. I have been keeping it together and working steady every day. I have made you the reason I got for what I always do. I have tried to make a home to give to you, for you to be in, and for it to be nice. I light up myself then I throw the match in the sink with other matches and dishes and a sponge and such things. I say Mayfly my heart has been down the road and back for you but I am forty eight years old. It is time I have got to not let things just carry me by any more. I got to use some time that is still mine to try to make every thing feel right. I got to try to feel how I need to. In me there is needs which you can not even see any more, because there is too many needs in you in the way. She does not say...
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...Abraham/2003 HOLIDAYS CELEBRATIONS AROUND THE WORLD Curriculum Goal – Children will explore different ways in which people celebrate holidays, and foster respect for other cultures and traditions. Vocabulary: - Chanukah - Kwanzaa - Dreidel - Christmas - Ramadan Letter of the Week: C Colors of the Week: Red and Green Concepts: - Families celebrate holidays in different ways – and that’s okay - People celebrate holidays based on what they believe and where they are from - Customs and traditions are things that families do every year - People eat different kinds of food when they celebrate - A family tradition is a way of celebrating Sensory Table Ideas: Curling ribbon and blunt, round-end scissors. Teach children how to curl ribbon. Art Activities: - Children cut out a pine tree (Christmas Tree) pattern. Decorate. - Make a collage from old Christmas cards, wrapping paper scraps, etc - Christmas/holiday cookie cutter prints - Make Holiday gift wrapping paper (sponge painting, etc.) - Passover candle menorah (made out of handprint) - Kwanzaa placemat (weave even-sized red and green strips of paper) - Snoglobe (babyfood jar, silver glitter, small winter or holiday theme décor minature figure glued to the bottom. Add water. Glue babyfood jar shut) - Star of David Ornament (Children make 2 triangles out of 6 craft sticks. Glue. Place one triangle over the other at an angle, going the other way) - Pipecleaner candycanes (Twist a red and a white pipecleaner together. Bend the top down into a...
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...Ruth Esther Watson Corfield nee Schilling, just reached a remarkable milestone. On October 15th she turned a 100 years old. She was born in Porter Township in 1915, and has lived in Butler County her whole life. She was one of eight children, seven sisters and one brother. She is first generation American as her parents were German. Two of her cousins were also raised with her and her siblings. Corfield was born in a time where all the children worked on the farm to keep it going. The farm kept her family going through the great depression. “The rationing of food in the great depression and the wars did not affect us, because we were raised with do with what you have,” Corfield said, “and families also helped each other out. She walked five miles home every day, even in grade school. The dead of winter didn’t stop her and her siblings going out in the snow. She remembers how her father used to tie newspapers around her legs, because the snow was so high and only ankle boots were available. She had one teacher at Mordechai John one room school. The teacher had to teach eight grades at a time, and be the nurse as well as the teacher. She graduated in Evans City in 1933....
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...Eco marketing: What price green consumerism? By Jon Entine on Sep 1, 2011 Plenty of shoppers say they consider environmental impact, but in reality price rules supreme, says Jon Entine How much do we want green carrots? Remember the innocent days of the 1980s ethical consumer movement? New Age entrepreneurs rode the green wave into the hearts and malls of the world. The promise? Buying pricey ice-cream or hair rinse made with Brazil nuts (or the stocks of the companies that made those products) would make the world a better place. That myth crashed. Consumers, it turned out, were not willing to buy idealism in a bottle if it came at a premium. Two decades later, green marketing remains with us, more intense than ever. Is green yet more than a fad? The Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability annual survey estimates that 13-19% of American adults are dedicated green buyers – a $290bn market. The US-based Cone Communications estimates that 70% of American consumers consider the environmental impact of their purchasing. The UK and Europe show similar numbers. According to marketing experts, however, these figures are wildly overstated, reflecting attitudes, not buying patterns. “Buying green products presents people with a social dilemma: they have to be willing to pay premium prices – not for their own direct benefit, but for the greater good,” says professor Shruti Gupta of Penn State University, a world expert in ethical behaviour. “While people love to voice their idealism...
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...theory that the investigators came up with was that the deeper and more elobrative encoding leads to better memory. ( Encoding refers to the process of forming a memory code, putting information into memory.) the theory suggest the more elaborative the encoding the better the memory. Examples listed: if given a list of words to memorize, one way to try to encode would be structural ie (the font , phonemic characteristics, how the sound) The meaning of the words (semantic encoding) and self-referent encoding (which researchers have found to be the best) Objectives: One main objective of the experimenter was to see or determine what areas of the brain were activated when the processing task involved the self According to reading the left prefrontal cortex is the area associated with process of meaning. Right brain might be the area in the brain where the self is represented. Method of research: laboratory : pet scan Correlation: experimental: more elaborative encoding causes better memory, Method: Paricipants were eight-right handed participants( 4 males and 4 females) Procedure: research participants were presented with eight lists of personality traits that they were asked to encode using four encoding tasks( two lists for each tak) Self-task- judged how well the word described them, other task; how well it described a famous Canadian general task:...
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...Simon Gals English 51 April 28, 2008 Research Paper Grade Draft Fading of Black and White In the meadows high in the mountains of central China, various types of animals share the peaceful green jungles filled with endless trees, wild flowers, rivers, and rain fall. Among all the different species of animals that share the jungle, one in particular stands out: the giant panda. The pandas live a peaceful and harmless life high in the remote mountainous regions of central China. The bamboo forests grow high, and are cool and wet—just the way the pandas prefer them to be. Pandas will climb upwards to 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) to feed on the bamboo that grows in their habitat; during the summer seasons, they will venture even higher. Pandas mainly feed on bamboo, but will eat birds or rodents as well. It is in this peaceful bamboo jungle habitat that the giant panda gives birth to and nurtures its young. The Giant Panda is one of the rarest and most exotic animals this world has given birth to. Pandas are mammals; they’re omnivores. The average lifespan in the wild for a healthy Panda is twenty years. The sizes they grow to are four to five feet (one to one and a half meters) tall and weigh upwards to 300 pounds (136 kilograms). In the past few decades the Chinese Giant Pandas have been added to the endangered species list because of their decreasing numbers. The Pandas made the list due to false pregnancies, poachers, poor nurturing, and lack of bamboo growth...
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...Material Handling System | Sequencing/Scheduling System Jessica butts | casey raabe | christopher mcmullen | jake poirier | ------------------------------------------------- Hope Global Fall 2015 | Department of industrial & systems engineering Material Handling System | Sequencing/Scheduling System Jessica butts | casey raabe | christopher mcmullen | jake poirier | ------------------------------------------------- Hope Global Fall 2015 | Department of industrial & systems engineering Contents List of Figures……………………………………………………………………………………. 2 Company Background…………………………………………………………………………… 3 Project Plan ……………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Group Member Responsibilities……………………………………………………………..…. 20 List of Figures Figure 1 | Example of boxes used to collect braids in the warehouse………………………….... 6 Figure 2 | Photos of boxes used in the warehouse……………………………………………….. 7 Figure 3 | Photo of work orders used in the warehouse………………………………………….. 9 Figure 4 | Photo of the Excel file for sales last year……………………………………………. 13 Figure 5 | Photo of the key used in the Excel file for sales last year………………………….... 14 Figure 6 | Photo of the Excel file for calculations by item number………………………….…. 15 Figure 7 | Snapshot of the braiding machine assignments…………………………………...…. 18 Company Background Hope Global is a one hundred million dollar and rapidly growing worldwide company that manufactures products ranging from interior automotive parts to shoelaces...
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...students will have to have a positive attitude when it comes down to constructive criticism. For example (he or she is not pulling their weight in the group).Some people live up to what goals and expectations they set and others choose to go another path. However not everyone is perfect. The driver of this degree plan is me I am the person behind the wheel that is accountable for making mistakes. The first way to achieve my academic success is to maintain my attendance. Attendance is something that a student must take seriously to be academically successful. There are ways that as a student I can be successful in maintaining a good attendance. First step is to take the time out to review the schools attendance policies and guidelines; this can help remind me of my responsibility. According to Green’s article “Every teacher is looking for students who are serious about the subject at hand, who work hard in the classroom and who show progress and ability.” (Green, 2004) Another way is to set a schedule for attending classes and checking in for online classes. Also making arrangements by providing my instructor and team with my information in case of emergency, and possessing a backup plan for completing and making attendance in advance. Another way for achieving my academic success is to study. Creating good study habits is an...
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...October 2014 Definition Essay: Golf the Game Played Many Ways Golf, a game played on a large open-air course, in which a small hard ball is struck with a club into a series of small holes in the ground, the object being to use the fewest possible strokes to complete the course. A game very similar to golf was recorded to be played the first time on the 26th of February, 1297 by the Dutch. Using a leather ball and a stick the objective was to get the ball to a target many of yards away in the least amount of strokes. It is said that real golf was founded in Scotland in the 17th century where actual golf clubs were used and the players putted a ball into a hole. Golf was named by the Scottish spelled gowf in Scotland. The definition of the world gowf means stick, club, or bat. Like every sport, golf has rules and instructions. The earliest documented instructions can be found in the diary of Thomas Kincaid. In his diary entry on the 20th of January, 1687 he explains the golf stroke and the instructions behind being able to hit the ball successfully. The rules of golf were first put into writing in 1744 and can now be found in the National Library of Scotland. Golf made its way to our country in 1787 when the South Carolina Golf Club was established. Many sports have only one way to be played but golf can be played in many different forms which makes golf a sport played in many different ways. The two most common ways golf is played is match play and stroke play. Match play...
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...my plain white t-shirt and white nike shorts. I put my chacos on and started brushing my thin, brown hair into a high side ponytail with a white, monogrammed bow as big as my head. This sounds like a typical morning, but it was the introduction to a day that would change my life forever. We closed the door and got in the car for the half an hour to the almost non-existent town of Hunt, Texas. I was nervous, and I noticed lots of SUVs with colorful monogrammed camp trunks showing through the back windows. They were all traveling like a caravan on their way to the inviting green gates of Camp Mystic. The outside of camp was camouflaged with tall Texas trees. It looked like a forest from the outside, but when you crossed the green gates, the camp was a valley with bright green grass, rolling hills, and the opaque water of the Guadalupe River, beckoning you for a swim. It smelled like fresh grass, pine trees, and peaches. My eight year old eyes were filled with awe. When my parents bid adieu, I walked over to the gargantuan stage where I was about to draw either a blue or red piece of paper...
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...place seven years ago. My parents gave me enough money to lees out a place of my own, as a sort of graduation present. The first night I slept in my new apartment, on my new mattress, the only thing I could think about was how this was a stepping stone for the start of my legacy. My eyes closed, I think about those times and feel my face cracking into a grin, the naivety of youth coupled with dreams of stars and fluff. I recall setting my sights lower and lower as time went by, to where I am at now- your average pencil pusher from nine to five. I open my eyes and look at my bedside clock, eight-thirty it tells me. I go wash up a bit and decide on eating out today. I like walking outside, watching other people going about their trivial activities, some even considering it to be important. I eat at a local Chinese restaurant, a place where I’ve grown partial to the food. After eating I go on a walk. I do that from time to time, walking aimlessly. It’s really mostly to escape the loneliness of the apartment for a while. Sometimes I even...
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...Editor’s note: More and more, organizations around the globe recognize their responsibility to protect and sustain the environment. This article describes the benefits of and first steps toward a green computing strategy. Read “HP and the Environment” to learn what HP is doing to reduce its environmental footprint. Faced with the stark realities of global warming and rising energy costs, government agencies and private firms worldwide are examining ways to protect the environment. To address what is increasingly being perceived as a crisis, there is a growing global movement to implement more environmentally friendly computing “Green computing” is the name attached to this movement, which represents an environmentally responsible way to reduce power and environmental waste. Toward this goal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program has developed compliance requirements for computer equipment. The U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 5646, passed in July 2006, calls for the EPA’s Energy Star program to research: •The amount of power consumed by corporate and federal data centers •Industry measures to develop energy-efficient servers •Possible incentives to convince businesses to use energy-saving technologies In Europe, government agencies have set up a number of environmental regulations addressing waste management, recycling, disposal of certain types of waste, industrial emissions and pollution control. The European Union is also setting up a system...
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...LEARNING OUTCOMES 5.1 Discuss what it means to be socially responsible and what factors influence that decision. 5.2 Explain green management and how organizations can go green. 5.3 Discuss the factors that lead to ethical and unethical behavior. 5.4 Describe management’s role in encouraging ethical behavior. 5.5 Discuss current social responsibility and ethics issues. SPOTLIGHT: Manager at Work Chapter 5 presents contemporary concepts of managerial ethics and social responsibility to help your students explore and appreciate the critical role of these issues in today’s complex business environment. In the opening case, “A Manager at Work,” we see firsthand the complications that arise when companies are caught in the middle of unethical and illegal allegations. The case revolves around allegations of attempted bribery by three Renault executives. After an investigation, all three of the employees were dismissed, but the story doesn’t end there as the Paris prosecutor in charge of the case later dismissed the charges for lack of evidence. Renault would eventually backtrack on the firing of the executives, rehiring all three, compensating them for the trouble caused to their careers. The COO of Renault and a number of employees responsible for the investigation would eventually lose their jobs. Students are asked if there was a better way to handle this situation. Could Renault have done a better job of maintaining their ethical and legal responsibilities to their...
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