...graduate overflowing with energy and comforting smiles. Brent explains to Elizabeth that since he is graduating in December and plans to begin work in January, he wants to leave all of November and December open for interviews. Such a plan means that by October 31 he has to have all his preliminary materials, such as cover letters and résumés, submitted to the companies where he wants to work. Elizabeth recognizes that Brent has to follow a very tight schedule, if he wants to meet his goal within the next 60 days. She suggests that the two of them sit down together and decide the major milestones that need to be completed in the job search process. Elizabeth and Brent list the 19 major milestones. For each of the 19 milestones, they identify the other milestones that must be accomplished directly before Brent can begin this next milestone. They also estimate the time needed to complete each milestone. The list is shown below. In the evening after his meeting with Elizabeth, Brent meets with his buddies at the college coffee house to chat about...
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...Worksheet Section 1: Introduction to the Phoenix Career Guidance System & Understanding the Career Milestones After reading each milestone description, complete the following table, by writing a 100-150 word statement about which two milestones seem the most interesting or useful to you based on your current career situation and why. |Milestone |Response | |1. #5 - Networking |Finding a mentor because having someone who has already completed| | |the course im taking, it would be exciting to converse with | | |someone who has interest in the same thing as me. Having a mentor| | |would really meana lot to me. | |2. #7 - Interviewing |I always get very nervous during interviews and I want to make a | | |positive impression. I will practice with these questions. | Section 2: Understanding your career dashboard After reviewing the descriptions of each milestone click on home button to go back to your career dashboard to explore this page further and complete the table...
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...MILESTONES OF DEVELOPMENT | INFANCY & TODDLERHOOD | AGE | PHYSICAL | COGNITIVE | LANGUAGE | EMOTIONAL/ SOCIAL | Birth -6 Months | Rapid height & weight gain. | Engages in immediate imitation and deferred imitation of adults facial expressions. | Engages in cooing and babbling. | Shows signs of almost all basic emotions (happiness, interest, surprise, fear, anger, sadness, disgust). | | Reflexes decline. | Repeats chance behaviors leading to pleasurable and interesting results. | Establishes joint attention with caregiver, who labels objects and events. | Social smile and laughter emerge. | | Sleep organized into a day-night schedule. | Aware of object permanence and other object properties in habituation-dishabituation tasks. | | Matches adults emotional expressions during face-to-face interaction. | | Holds head up, rolls over, and reaches for object. | Attention becomes more efficient. | | Emotional expressions become better organized and clearly tied to social events. | | Can be classically and operantly conditioned. | Recognition memory for people, places, and objects improves. | | I-self emerges. | | Habituates to unchanging stimuli; dishabituates to novel stimuli. | Forms perceptual categories based on objects and similar features. | | | | Hearing well developed; by the end of this period, displays greater sensitivity to speech sounds of own language. | | | | | Depth and pattern perception emerge and improve...
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...Milestone 3: Freedom Travel Company DeVry University The solution recommended to Freedom Travel is a powerful web based cloud management system that would assist in managing financial loans and agent quotes that would give the company the tools needed for regular business practices. For example, this tool would help with quoting, account status and back-office functions that integrate with Freedom Travel’s existing agency management system. In implementing this new technology, additional business practices would include the delivery of real time status and payment updates as soon as they are applied to Freedom Travel’s account. Also their online subscription would be more cost effective than buying and maintaining the software. As mentioned before, the pay for the service by the month based on the number of loans you have would help with cash flow. Freedom Travel would have the option to seamlessly integrate with the cloud services management systems which would make it easy for them to work with their finance company. This comprehensive software package is designed to help Freedom Travel sell and retain commercial accounts by streamlining processes from lead development to sales to customer support. It would be flexible and easy to use and will deliver the advanced tools Freedom Travel needs to capitalize on opportunities, increase efficiency, speed up response times, and ensure customer satisfaction. Easily integrated application will deliver industry profiles,...
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...Liem and his family are like so many other colonist. They are on the ship heading to North America to have a better life than the one that they had in their home country. Liem and the family are packed into a corner of the hot and musty ship. The ships has at least 200 other people including the crew and they are all packed into the ship like a can of sardines. The voyage to their new home would take them about two and a half months to arrive. During this voyage the Thomas family would see women dying during child birth, young children dying of different childhood diseases and they would be a witness to all of the deceased being cast overboard during this voyage. Liem thought that it was unsanitary to go months without being cleaned. He was also puzzled that there was no privacy on the ship, but there was nothing that could be done. They were on their way to a greater life and there was no turning around. During the trip to America, Liem met another young man who was the same age as he was, the young man told Liem that his name was Peter. Over the next month Liem and Peter became the best of friends. Their families also became close, because they were all sitting in the same area of the ship. During the 2nd month of the trip, Peter’s father became very ill and eventually he passed away from the illness. This was Liem’s first time ever experiencing death of anyone that he knew. After witnessing what happened to Peter’s father, it made Liem’s father more cautious and he made sure...
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...Cloud Computing Due to the relative infancy of cloud computing and lack of knowledge the IT infrastructure has, I have decided to provide some information about the platform. Cloud computing can be looked upon as a “virtual server”( http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud-computing-really-means- 031). Lets break it down for a better understanding. I am going to define cloud by breaking it Down in seven sections. Saas Saas is a type of cloud computing. This device would allows an organization to reach many of its customers with a single application.(http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/what-cloud- computing-really-means-031). Here are a list of advantages. • Responsibility is on the vendor • Cost effectiveness • Total cost of ownership is low • Accessibility • Maintenance upkeep Utility Computing By definition utility computing is when services are provided to a customer on demand. In other words they are charged for a specific usage rather then a flat rate. Some of the concerns of management can be resolved in the utilization of this form of cloud computing. Here is a list of advantages obtained through implementation. • IT usage can be driven measured up or down • Are department has growing computer needs so this would serve beneficial • Reduction of cost and maximizing assets • Projects are a staple in our office division, therefore this utilization would again prove beneficial (http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx...
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...time. This definition has three crucial elements: science, people, and change” (2012). The science in development is known as multidisciplinary; which means from scientists from many academic disciplines biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics all contribute to our understanding of human development (Berger, 2012). Children have a set of universal developmental milestones that they will all reach upon a certain time. When children are meeting their developmental milestones there are factors that can come into play that can cause the milestones to vary such as cultural, biological, and environmental. Different cultures have different expectations for their children that can affect their developmental milestones. A milestone that is expected from a specific culture is known as cultural milestone. For instance the Chinese culture used to bind young girls feet, which would hinder their bone development and could also affect the way that they walked (Karasik, Adolph, Tamis-LeMonda, Bornstein, 2010). Cultural milestones can affect the child from reaching or progressing a universal milestone. Another way that development can vary is due to biology or the genetics that are passed down. The interaction of genes from the mother and genes from the father affects the embryo’s growth in many ways (Berger, 2012). Genetics can vary many different developmental stages starting with the embryo. One instance of this is the deciding factor of gender for the baby depends on...
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...As a nurse who has always taken care of adult patients and has not yet experienced mother-hood, appropriately assessing and treating pediatric patients has become very challenging for me. I have lived with my 3-year-old nephew for a little over a year now and I am gaining first- hand insight on the developmental milestones he has reached specifically by age. One key point Duderstadt (2014, p.24) mentions that I believe all healthcare providers should remember while assessing pediatric patients is that “each child achieves developmental milestones at his or her own pace, although the sequence of developmental milestones is generally incremental and stepwise in all children.” There is no doubt that I will face a parent that is concerned their...
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...Effort and Duration, Activity Schedule, Activity Risks, and Activity Budget. Work Packages are assigned a Work Authorization or Control Account.[1] Estimates of work packages are used in Earned Value Management to calculate the Planned Value. Progress made in the work package is used to calculate the Earned Value. Actual costs charged to the work package are used in variance analysis. What are the Main Differences Between Milestones and Tasks? In many project tools, the differences between milestones and tasks would appear only their duration (milestone has zero length). However they are two completely different things. A task is a defined unit of work with start and finish date and resource and can be measured as 0%-100% complete. A milestone defines a specific status – it cannot be 50%, it is either open or closed (100%). The difference can also be reflected in the semantics, of how the tasks and milestones are expressed. It is good idea to name tasks (activities) in the present tense, for example “Produce draft document” or “Deliver training”. Milestones are listed in the past tense, for example “Software tested. Portfolio project management provides an overview of all the projects that an organization is undertaking or is considering. It prioritizes the allocation of resources to projects and decides which new projects should be accepted and which existing ones should be dropped. The concerns of project portfolio management include: * Identifying which project proposals...
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...MILESTONE 6 – PROCESS MODELING Activity 1 – Context Diagram T his diagram is one possible solution based on the meeting transcript in Exhibit 2.1 of Milestone 2 plus the use-case (event/response) matrix in Exhibit 6.1. Note that this solution includes flows from all major events from the use-case (event/response) matrix other than pure maintenance events. Ensure that the students label the data flows and entities correctly. Also remember that data flows are not allowed between entities. [pic] Activity 2 – Event Decomposition Diagram O ften the subsystem division is somewhat arbitrary. For CTTS the division is fairly obvious since part of the system will be Internet-accessible and part will not. Students, however, may come up with and be able to justify different divisions. The Enter New Client event could be placed in either subsystem; presumably the two subsystems will share data so that a client entered in one will be available in the other. For purposes of class discussion, you may want to compare this to the Use Case Diagram created in Milestone 3. [pic] Activity 3 – Event Diagrams T hese diagrams represent one possible implementation of the ten events in the Event-Response List (Exhibit 6.2). [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] Activity 4 – System Diagram (Service...
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...WEEK | SCOPE | 2 | Project Part 1: Briefing on project. * Identifying organisation * Project milestone * Output | 4 | Project Part 2: Selecting organisation * Choose one organization that you may familiar with its’ operation. It can be manufacturing, services of business organization. If not, establish a business. Familiarize the organization by searching and describing the * information such as: * Mission, vision and objectives * Organization structure * Types of product/services * Market * Business strategic plan * Other information relevant to explain the organization. | 7 | Project Part 3: * Understanding the issues and challenges facing the organization using either SWOT, Porter Five Forces Model or other tools. * Capture the existing IS such as the types of IS as CRM, SCM or Enterprise systems * Or from the types of information systems categories such as TPS, MIS, KWS, DSS, EIS. * Review it’s existing IS plan if any. | 9 | Project Part 4: * Identify and suggest a competitive direction that firm should adopt in order to achieve its mission, vision and business objectives ( according to its business strategic direction) | 11 | Project Part 5: * Recommend new ISIT strategic plan that considers items in week 9 and uses various IS that fit firm’s business plan or direction based on six reasons why organization invests on IS/IT * Plan may include some of the systems from functional perspective...
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...Milestone One A-CAT Corp: Forecasting Kirsten Langdon I. Scenario Organization and History- A-CAT has been in operation since 1986 and is one of the leading producers of electrical appliances in India. The company offers nearly 100 different models of various electrical appliances for household use and competes in a medium scale industry, distributing their products to a rural population of India.(Sharma, 2013) The “primary flagship product” of A-CAT are the voltage regulators. Voltage regulators have a variety of purposes but are most commonly used as protective devices for refrigerators and television sets, protecting them from load fluctuations and/or power failures. (Sharma, 2013) Aside from being a producer, A-Cat is also committed to the pursuit of a quality control program to monitor the quality of its transformers. Introduction to the Problem- A large number of products manufactured and sold by A-CAT, such as the voltage regulator, require a transformer as one of their principal and primary components; and another large percentage of products such as TVs, refrigerators, washing machines and other white goods use voltage regulators as a guard against potential voltage fluctuations. (Sharma, 2013) Due to the large amount of products that use transformers as a vital part of functioning, the store managers always tried to keep a good quantity of spare transformers as a buffer. Unfortunately, during the past few months, the sales of the voltage regulator...
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...Milestone One: Rule-oriented Games (Physical Domain) Section A: Knowledge of the Developmental Milestones During middle childhood, children’s play undergoes several changes, the most obvious of which is children engage in games with rules. These rule-oriented games include informally organized games as well as formally organized sports, such as little league, club or intramural sports. The former category may be variants on popular sports games, well-known childhood games such as red rover, and invented games that children develop on their own. The principal commonality is that these games have a set of rules and often have multiple roles for players. While informal outdoor play allows children to develop rules and try out multiple scenarios, formal, organized sports allows children to learn rules, appreciate their personal skills, and develop their position on a team. Both types of rule-oriented games are important for developing social competencies and enhanced cognitive capabilities. This milestone develops as children begin to develop more improved motor coordination, a better capacity for information processing, and a heightened social maturity (Berk, 2007, p. 294). The physical skills at play in rule-oriented games include flexibility, balance, agility, and force, reflective of increased muscle strength. All four of these are basic motor capacities which become more refined with the gross motor development of middle childhood. Additionally, children’s enhanced capacity...
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...Milestone 1 Business Problem A graduating senior, fresh out of college looking to land a potentially successful job is not aware that employers are now not only looking at grades but also the type of person they are based on what they can find on the internet. Think about how you present yourself on all social media sites — including Facebook, especially when seeking a job. Be mindful about your wall postings and status updates: you wouldn't want a possible future employer to view inappropriate content or pictures on your wall. Company Background LinkedIn is a free business social networking site that allows users who register to create a professional profile visible to others. Through the site, individuals can then maintain a list of known business contacts, known as Connections. LinkedIn users can also invite anyone to join their list of connections. LinkedIn offers an effective way by which people can develop an extensive list of contacts, as your network consists of your own connections, your connections’ connections (2nd degree connections), as well as your 2nd degree’s connections (called your 3rd degree connections). From this network, individuals can learn of and search for jobs, business opportunities, and people. LinkedIn also serves as an effective medium by which both employers and job seekers can review listed professional information about one another. LinkedIn follows strict privacy guidelines wherein all connections made are mutually confirmed and individuals...
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...Milestone Three 1 Bel-Air Consulting, Recommended Improvement Areas - Milestone Three M. B. Abney, D. Gerdts, N. Tavarez, C. Hayden, K. Fernandez ECO-561 Economics G. Kropkowski University of Phoenix March 30, 2010 Milestone Three 2 Bel-Air Consulting, Recommended Improvement Areas - Milestone Three The economy in America continues its path of a slow recovery, yet changing ever so slightly. It really is nothing more than a question mark when referring to the prediction of where the economy is going in the future and economist continues to try to make that accurate prediction hoping for the best. Key areas within the economy to keep a watch out for are things such as the affects of foreign imports on produce in Kudler stores, and the expansion of Kudler stores in today’s economy. Kudler Fine Foods is aware of the dependence of produce across different parts of the world and understand there are certain factors they cannot control; one of them is the weather. Kudler has the reputation of having nothing but the best when it comes to top quality organic foods, and is cognizant of the importance weather plays in the availability and pricing of produce Kudler carries in all of its stores. A country that has the optimal weather conditions for growing a wide range of produce is Mexico. Mexico is one of Kudler’s largest imports of produce items supplying products such as avocados, onions, lemons and limes and sunflower seeds. Mexico also comes in the top five with providing...
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