...SURE III Survey ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Please select the funding source for your research: If you have more than one source of funding or the source was not listed, please enter the source of funding below: | Demographics Gender: Male | Female | Prefer not to answer | Ethnicity Alaskan Native American Indian Asian American Black or African American Filipino Foreign National Hawaiian Hispanic/Latino Pacific Islander White Two or more races Other Prefer not to answer What is your current status? I am a high school student. I am a first-year college undergraduate. I am a second-year college undergraduate. I am a third-year college undergraduate. I am a fourth-year college undergraduate. I am a graduate or medical student. Other Not applicable / Prefer not to answer What is your academic major (best fit): What is your field of research (best fit)? Have you participated in research prior to your most recent research experience? No, I have not had a prior research experience. Yes, during one academic semester (typically ~10 hr/wk). Yes, during multiple academic semesters (typically ~10 hr/wk). Yes, during a summer research program (typically full-time for at least 5 weeks). Yes, during a prior academic semester (or semesters) and a summer. Yes, during prior years and/or several summers. Not applicable / Prefer to not answer Do you have goals/plans to continue your education beyond...
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...pharynx, where it is swallowed. The bolus moves from the pharynx to the esophagus, which moves the food to the stomach (University of Phoenix and Axia College, n.d.). The stomach is an organ in the digestive tract that mixes food and secretes gastric juices. Once the bolus reaches the stomach, it mixes with the acid secretions to transform into chime, a semi liquid food mass. Food is partially digested in the stomach, and chime empties from the stomach in two to six hours, depending on the size and type of meal ingested (University of Phoenix and Axia College, n.d.). After chime leaves the stomach it enters into the small intestine, which is divided into three parts known as the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum. Here the majority of digestion and absorption of nutrients from food takes place. Once food is in the small intestine, bile from the liver and gallbladder help with the digestion and absorption of fat, while enzymes and bicarbonate from the pancreas aid in the digestive process (University of Phoenix and Axia College, n.d.). Materials not absorbed in the small intestine enter the large intestine through the sphincter. The sphincter keeps material from the large intestine from re-entering the small intestine. The large intestine includes the colon and the rectum. The colon is where the absorption of water and some vitamins occurs (University of Phoenix and Axia College, n.d.). Materials not absorbed in the colon are excreted from the body as waste in the feces...
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...Experiences of ISO 9000 with small firms in building services M.A. Atherton and P. Austin The authors M.A. Atherton is based at the School of Engineering Systems and Design, South Bank University, London, UK. P. Austin is with Austin Hall Management Consultants Ltd, Woking, UK. Introduction Small firms In the context of quality systems a small firm has been defined[1] as one run by a single manager who is the owner, or in close touch with the owner, and who knows the proce- dures which everyone in the firm should be following. Recognizing that definitions vary, more than 85 per cent of UK firms are classi- fied by Manchester Business School[2] as small. There is usually little formal manage- ment structure in a small firm, the manager effectively acts as a quality manager by fre- quently checking all the firm’s activities and so assurance of quality depends more on staff competence than documentation. Small firms often feel that they provide a better quality service than many larger firms which have the standard; thus if the client insists on the stan- dard they risk losing a good service. However, small firms often do not fully appreciate that as they grow these hands-on management Abstract Describes an approach for overcoming some of the barriers to achieving ISO 9000 faced by small firms in the building services sector. Draws on the experiences of several firms to illustrate the importance of partnerships in overcoming some...
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...Nobody State University Tuition Universities must constantly weigh tuition pricing in relation to the cost of providing quality educational services. Determining where to set tuition pricing is an increasingly critical decision which administrators and university presidents must analyze when considering the university’s goals. Not only does the cost of tuition play a factor in student enrollment, it also provides a major revenue source to an institution. The question which universities must answer is, “What effect will raising or lowering the university’s tuition have on the total earned revenue? This paper investigates this question and reviews under what conditions a change in tuition prices will cause the revenue to rise, fall, or remain constant. Finally, applying a hypothetical tuition elasticity coefficient of demand for education value of -1.2, provides a tuition increase recommendation to the Nobody State University’s president and administration board based upon the university’s potential revenue impact. Historically, the demand for a university or college education has not reduced as prices have risen. In fact, even though prices have gone up, the number of college applicants has continued to rise. Meagan Pant writes in her article in the Tribune Business New, “The majority of Americans think college is too expensive for most people to afford -- although the widely held opinion has not hindered skyrocketing enrollment or stopped virtually all parents from expecting...
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...hours, Dr. Richard Bowen of Colorado State University explains. Digestion begins in the mouth, where your teeth break up large food particles and enzymes in saliva start to break it down. In the stomach, food mixes with strong acidic gastric juices and enzymes that break down protein. This reduces food to chyme, a porridge-like mass of partially digested food. Food does not necessarily exit the stomach in the same order that it arrived, since different nutrients take varying times to exit. Carbohydrates leave the stomach the quickest, followed by protein and fats. The stomach absorbs only a few nutrients; alcohol is one. Most digestion takes place in the small intestine. It takes up to three hours for 50 percent of your food to traverse the small intestine, according to Bowen. Bile helps break down fat in the small intestine. Two types of movement aid in transit through the small intestine: segmentation contractions, which mix the chyme to break it down, and peristalsis, which moves the chyme through the small intestine. The chyme touches the sides of the intestine, where absorption occurs. Carbohydrates absorb the quickest, with simple sugars leaving the small intestine first; complex carbohydrates must be broken down into simple sugars and take longer. Fiber, a component of plants, is not absorbed at all and enters the large intestine undigested. Undigested waste products travel most slowly through the large intestine; the trip can take between 30 and...
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...DeVry University SCI228 Health, Wellness, and Nutrition Professor Rayford March 10, 2013 PART 1 PART 2 Parotid salivary gland: found near your tongue and jaws. Pharynx: on the right side of the body under the Parotid salivary gland. Esophagus: located between the throat and stomach. Liver: located on the right side of the body near your ribcage above your stomach. Stomach: found on the left side of the body below the liver. Gallbladder: sits underneath the liver. Pancreas: positioned behind the stomach. Transverse colon: situated across the small intestine. Descending colon: part of the large intestine, can be found on the right side of the body. Small intestine: located under the stomach. Ascending colon: located alongside of the small intestine. Appendix: located between the small and large intestine on the right side of the body. Rectum: sits near the end of the large intestine and above the anal canal and anus. Anal canal: located at the end of the large intestine. PART 3 PART 4 Propulsion Absorption is a term used to describe how nutrients are taken into the body and how food that isn’t digested passes through the body. The process of absorption often takes place in our small intestine. Chemical digestion the process of breaking down the food we eat is either chemical or mechanical digestion. Chemical digestion starts in the mouth and is how the food we eat is broken down by with the acids and enzymes...
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...going through some relatively rough patches in the late 1990s. Growth was steady and profits strong. Yet, Pensions and Investments ranked DFA a mere 96th in size among investment companies (see Exhibit 1). While DFA had never viewed maximizing assets under management as a goal, the ranking did suggest that it might be possible for DFA to achieve more as a firm than it currently was. Should Booth and DFA continue on the path that had brought them this far? Or was this the time for a major initiative that could catapult DFA to a status among the largest firms in the business? The Company and its Clients DFA was an investment firm based in Santa Monica, California. Founded in 1981 by Booth and Rex Sinquefield, two former students at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, DFA was dedicated to the principle that the stock market was “efficient”—that is, while over any given period some investors by luck would outperform the market and others would underperform, no one had the ability to consistently pick stocks that would beat the market. Such beliefs were associated with proponents of index funds, and, indeed, Sinquefield had run one of the very first S&P 500 index funds while at another firm. But DFA was not simply an index fund manager. In addition to efficient markets, DFA’s founders believed passionately in two other principles: the value of sound academic research, and the ability of skilled traders to contribute to a fund’s profits even when the investment was...
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...affecting our own lives, and we are morally obligated to help people who are less fortunate than us if we can do so without giving up anything of comparable importance to the aid that we are giving. Main point: We should help people that are starving in other countries. Supporting points: We have plenty of things that we can share without adversely affecting our own lives, and we are morally obligated to help people who are less fortunate than us if we can do so without giving up anything of comparable importance to the aid that we are giving. Identify the premises and conclusion in the following arguments: 1. Since large corporations make more money than small businesses, we should tax them at a higher rate than we tax small businesses. This is because everyone should contribute to society according to his ability. Premises: Since large corporations make more money...
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...DD101 TMA 02 Big supermarkets and the power they wield in the modern world is of interest to social scientist as a means of understanding consumer society. The market power and buying power of the four major supermarkets, and their expansion has brought claims and counter claims from pro and anti supermarket factions. This essay describes supermarket power, and using social science concepts, claims and evidence explains both pro and anti supermarket viewpoints. Consumerism is a way of life in Britain today, and the way people shop has changed, with shopping malls and the big supermarkets taking a large percentage of the profit once enjoyed by local smaller shops. (Kevin Hetherington, 2009, pg.20). For those with more disposable income the brand of trainers they wear, the food they eat, the cars they drive may become a status symbol. Warren Susman believes people buy goods to express their personality, which gives them a sense of self esteem or status, a desired lifestyle to aim for. (Susman 2003,pg.280cited in J Allen 2009). Whilst other sections of society with less disposable income may find themselves excluded. Although of course people do still shop for essentials, shopping has become much more of a leisure pursuit, or pastime, whole television channels are dedicated to shopping, and the after Christmas sales often make the headlines and the national news. Social scientist Zygmunt Bauman describes modern society as the seduced and the repressed. Bauman uses these...
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...J0hn smith University of Phoenix Human Digestion Summary Sc1241 Describe digestion in the mouth Digestion of food in the mouth start the process from the time the food touches your lips down to your stomach. When you have food in your plate and ready to eat, first thing that happens you see the food, then you can smell the food depend of what kind of food it is. Then you put the food in your mouth your saliva glands begin the digestive process as it moistened by saliva, the tongue helps mixed the food with saliva and ids in chewing by moving the food between teeth and masticated by the teeth, then the food transform into a bolus which is a mass of food that has been chewed at the point of swallowing. Once the bolus leaves your mouth, the food moves into the pharynx so it could be swallowed, then the bolus moves into the esophagus, which connects to the stomach. Describe digestion in the stomach Digestion in the stomach start after the bolus passes the esophagus and reaches the stomach where the bolus mixed with acid secretions that transform the bolus into a semiliquid food mass that is call chime. Depend on the size of the food you ate or the kind of food you ate your stomach digest the chime in two to six hours. Describe digestion in the small intestine In the small intestine is where the majority of digestion and absorption of nutrients from food happens and it is divided in three parts, known as the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum. Secretion...
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...Welcome to OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Operations Management is important, exciting, challenging, and everywhere your look! Important, because it’s concerned with creating all of the products and services upon which we depend. Exciting, because it’s at the centre of so many of the changes affecting the world of business. Challenging, because the solutions that we find need to work globally and responsibly within society and the environment. And everywhere, because every service and product that you use – the cereal you eat at breakfast, the chair you sit on, and the radio station you listen to while you eat – is the result of an operation or process. Our aim in writing Operations Management is to give you a comprehensive understanding of the issues and techniques of operations management, and to help you get a great final result in your course. Here’s how you might make the most of the text: ● Get ahead with the latest developments – from the up-to-the-minute Operations in practice features in every chapter to the focus on corporate social responsibility in the final chapter – these put you at the cutting edge. ● Use the Worked examples and Problems and applications to improve your use of key quantitative and qualitative techniques, and work your way to better grades in your assignments and exams. ● Follow up on the recommended readings at the end of each chapter. They’re specially selected to enhance your learning and give you an edge in your course...
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...the early 2005’s. Until early 2005, the industry had collected so much data through its e-commerce sites that organizations now wanted to analyze historical data, establish consumer trends and leverage that data to make strategic business decisions, thus introducing “Business Intelligence” to the world. With the industry moving at such a high pace, there was indeed a huge demand for large but low cost workforces with IT knowhow that could translate standard / custom requirements into software solutions / products. By now, we can understand that IT programmers are the factors of production of this industry. (Hereafter, the words IT Programmer/software developer might be used interchangeably). The revenue model of the industry was different from others in the fact that maximum revenue was generated from junior software developers and as people moved into higher managerial roles the revenue generation in terms of self-billing kept decreasing to 0 at senior manager level and higher. The Indian IT industry is a perfect example of an industry where salaries vary by leaps and bounds. On one hand we have large corporations which can hire talent on an industrial scale but pay meagerly (Monopsony) while there are few firms that lookout for very niche skills and pay exorbitant salaries to its people. There is yet...
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...Sclerotia allow the organism to survive adverse (winter) conditions. The disease cycle starts when the leaf canopy covers the row spaces and when the soil surface is cool but moist enough for the sclerotia to germinate (photo 4). Soil conditions of near field water holding capacity for ten to fourteen days and temperatures between 59-65 degrees F favor sclerotia germination. Upon germination, small mushroom-like bodies called apothecia appear on the soil surface. Spores are produced by the apothecia and infect wilted flowers or other dead plant tissue, later spreading to living plant tissue. Infection kills some plants and severely reduces the yield of plants with pod infections (photos 5, 6). High humidity and plant canopy temperatures between 68 and 76 degrees F favor the spread of this disease. Crop rotation helps prevent build up of inoculum. A rotation of three to four years between susceptible crops is necessary to accomplish this. Sunflower, potato, canola, mustard, and soybeans should not be grown in close rotation with edible beans because they are susceptible. Small grains and corn are recommended in a rotation with edible beans because they are not susceptible. The use of bean varieties with an upright growth habit in wide rows and the use of recommended fertility and seedling rates will alleviate the disease pressure. Careful irrigation management is also important because disease development is worse when there is excess moisture in the plant canopy. Infection...
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...TEACHING THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS IN WISCONSIN: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXTS INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW Vinay Dharwadker Kerala and India are woven into the fabric of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. The novel assumes that its reader is familiar with many basic facts about these two places, especially their history and geography, society and culture, economy and politics. Roy grew up in Kerala, where her mother’s family had a home in the village of Aymanam, located on the outskirts of the town of Kottayam, on the other side of the River Minachil. Most of the action of The God of Small Things takes place in a village called “Ayemenem,” set near a river called “Meenachal.” Roy’s fictionalized village and river strongly resemble the real-life Aymanam and Minachil, and her narrative contains numerous references to the actual landscape of south-central Kerala, its people and their common customs, their music and dance, their religions and social organization, and their economic and political activities. The narrative also mixes its fictional elements with factual elements on a larger scale. Some of the novel’s “imaginary” episodes occur in the real town of Kottayam (about 2 miles from Ayemenem/ Aymanam, across the river) and in the historic port-city of Cochin (now Kochi, about 50 miles away to the northwest). The novel’s political discussion frequently blends fictional characters and organizations with real politicians and political parties: Comrade Pillai, for example, is an...
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...a population that do not work for consumers causing problems in the context of economic, environmental, health, and societal influences (University of Vermont Continuing Education 2012). It can be identified as a wicked problem in that almost one billion people are hungry due to the broken food system although there is enough food produced and that eighty percent of the hungry people are even people engaged in food production such as farmers and fishermen (Tim Norton 2012). This contradictory phenomenon points out that the distribution of food is not working well and presents that broken food system is a wicked problem. The second point is related to disposal of food warning against human beings' lack of respect for nature. Although the broken food system is resulted from many different reasons, the basic reason is in human's anti-environmental activities such as overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, industrial farming to make bio-fuels which results a large amount of CO2 and causes rapid climate change. According to Rittel who defined the concept of 'wicked problem' in 1973, wicked problems are ambiguous, complex, and subjective and they don't follow traditional method to approach solution as tame problems do (Tom Ritchey 2011). More specifically, wicked problems have various possible approaches rather one right answer (University of Technology Sydney 2012). Broken food system has these features of wicked problems. To analyze characteristics of wicked problems with...
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