...Is there a difference between training and learning? Two definitions - training and learning I define 'training': Training is the conscious and planned process of transferring knowledge, skills and attitudes to others. The concept of transfer here is critical, as is the element of planning. I define 'learning': Learning is the processing and assimilation of what we hear, see or experience that alters or improves our knowledge, skills and attitudes. The combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes is behaviour. If someone trains us, or we learn something new or different, it is our behaviour that is affected. If our behaviour is changed, we have learnt something. Training is active - it is conscious and planned - it does not just happen. What is the best way to learn? Should someone train us or should we go off and try to learn something new by ourselves? In recent years, self-directed learning has gained increased attention. Some people felt that it was better for some people to 'discover' something rather than be taught. I believe both learning and training are important. In this informal learning article*, I explained that about 70% of learning was informal. Informal learning is very helpful. I probably have a bias, but I believe organisations should have a planned approach to the development of their people. If training needs are identified, they should be addressed in a timely manner. A well planned training event can do this, particularly if the trainer can identify the...
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...Christian Liberty By Dr. Troy Matthews Defining Christian Liberty In the simplest of terms Christian Liberty refers to decisions and actions that we make where the Bible does not give us clear direction. Bob DeWaay defines it this way, “Christian Liberty is the freedom to make decisions about matters that are not revealed in Scriptures without fear of sinning against God” (2003, p. 1). In an article entitled “What is a Debatable disputable matter”, pastor and author Steve Cornell says, A debatable or disputable matter (Romans 14:1) is an area of behavior, doctrine or tradition on which Christians disagree because a specific biblical absolute does not regulate it. It is therefore a matter of personal preference not divine command. These matters belong to the category of Christian freedom or liberty (Cornell, 2011, p. 1). Introduction For several years I have had the privilege and responsibility of teaching college freshmen at Liberty University. Each semester I challenge my students (and myself) to meditate on Romans 12:1-2 and consider what their standard for “holiness” is. In other words, what is it in their life that defines what is holy and what is not? I then will pose several questions to reflect on. What does a living, holy, transformed life look and act like? How can I live in this world and yet avoid being conformed to its standards? I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto...
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...Elements of Religious Traditions REL/134 November 28, 2011 Page Brooks Elements of Religious Traditions Religion is an understanding that there is someone, or something greater than us guiding our lives, it is a belief that we have come from a divine being and that by following the laws of our religious belief that spiritual being will guide us and protect us in life. Religion is thought to serve as a meaning system for people, by which people interpret their experience and their existence Steger, M. F., Pickering, N. K., Adams, E., Burnett, J., Shin, J., Dik, B. J., & Stauner, N. (2010).Religious traditions are considered to provide us with a way to incorporate our experiences into a logical whole. Despite the differences in religious cultures and practices certain fundamentals in religion remain the same. How do religious traditions describe and encourage relationships with the divine, scared time, scared space, or the natural world and with each other? What are key critical issues in the study of religion? For many, the standpoint of our religion or personal faith will provide a starting point for thinking about these questions. Divinity or divine is the power, being, or realm understood by religious persons to be at the core of existence and to have a transformative effect on their lives and destinies (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008). Early man believed in divinity to help explain away natural...
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... Introduction Does moral leadership matter? In my opinion, yes it really does matter. Even if for high organization performance the leadership has to focus on high shareholder returns, but it should not solely focus on returns by compromising boundaries of morality. In this paper we will discuss whether moral leadership is crucial for an organization to be successful. First, we will define what moral leadership is and will discuss what are the standards of morality that needs to be maintained in a high performing organization. Then we will discuss whether the moral standards will be same for both personal and organization or they will be different. Then we will talk about the current state of knowledge of this topic and the implications and recommendations that we have found from our literature review. We will also evaluate our argument based on the Wheel of Critical Thinking and the Universal Intellectual Standards Evaluation. Finally, I will present a strategic plan to improve my moral leadership skills. Section 1: Basic concepts and analysis of Moral and Ethical Leadership According to our observation and analysis of literature review following can be inferred: • • •...
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...Chapter 4 Summary Genes are what makes up who we are as people; they define us. DNA consists of smaller pieces known as genes. Every living human has received genes from both their mother and father to make up their entire DNA. We also possess instructions for making up ourselves as an organism, known as genomes. But what about twins? When an egg splits into two that is what makes identical twins and two babies coming from different eggs creates fraternal twins. Identical twins share more similarities not only in their physical appearance but other ways as well. Adoption is another question many face. Studies have concluded that adoptees resemble more to their biological relatives instead of their adopted family. Genes leave many curious...
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...| Saving Face | By: Francine D. Kemp | | sjcruz | 9/19/2010 | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Within the last nine years, more than 310,000,000 people migrated daily to new points on the globe. (Kemp 2009) Why are so many people migrating? In a world where culture understanding may become more important than actual communication, “Saving Face” by Francine Kemp tries to help us understand conflict in multicultural organizations. To obtain a better understanding of what Kemp means by “saving face” we need to move forward and understand what is happening in the world around us. Author Francine Kemp’s professional interests are in leadership development. Kemps main research lies in the field of women and diverse groups with the focus being cross cultural communication between cultures, genders and social groups. Her education and background are also impressive. Dr. Kemp possesses a Doctorate of Management in Organizational Leadership through the University of Phoenix, a Masters in Education from the Trenton State College now Renamed the College of New Jersey earned in Tel Aviv, Israel, and a double Bachelors in Education from Wright State University, Dayton, Oh. http://www.apu.apus.edu/community/faculty/bio/779/francine-d-kemp “Saving Face” has a broad...
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...here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] The ancient Greeks and Romans seemed to have a very different outlook on love then we do in modern western civilization, specifically their views about who can be in love, or what is considered expectable behavior in popular culture. When looking for what it means to love in ancient Greece it is hard to find any information that does not have their beliefs on homosexuality. I’m not sure what love has to do with being heterosexual or homosexual, but I will try to explain love in ancient Greece despite this setback. Love is generally defined as devotion or great caring for an individual or a specific task or object. It can be have so many different meanings it is very difficult to narrow it down to one singular meaning. Love meens so many different things to so many different people. How do you avoid confusing it with infatuation or lust? Philosophers and psychologists both have attempted to define love, per least its difference from infatuation and lust. If you are looking to find love, the following observations may be helpful. Love is much more than a risk, but is a risk that one can take and grasp and fall into a dark abyss or dig oneself a hole and only crawl back when you overcome your emotions ( Krystal, C, 2010). How can one truly define what love is? Not even an experienced...
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...Business Ethics Across Cultures Article Review | XMGT/ 216 | | | | RENEE | 9/4/2011 | | What business ethics are in today’s world? What ethical issues within today’s business environment affect our community and organizations? These topics will be addressed in the following paragraphs. Before one can begin to address ethical business issues that affect our community and organizations, one must first define what business ethics are. Business ethics is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and business organizations as a whole. Applied ethics is a field of ethics that deals with ethical questions in many fields such as medical, technical, legal and business ethics. Business ethics can be both a normative and a descriptive discipline. As a corporate practice and a career specialization, the field is primarily normative. In academia descriptive approaches are also taken. The range and quantity of business ethical issues reflects the degree to which business is perceived to be at odds with non-economic social values. Historically, interest in business ethics accelerated dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s, both within major corporations and within academia. For example, today most major corporate websites lay emphasis on commitment to promoting non-economic...
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...zhl10154@gmail.com University advisor(s): Conny Johansson (Head of Department, Department of Systems and Software Engineering) School of Engineering Blekinge Institute of Technology Box 520 SE – 372 25 Ronneby Sweden Internet Phone Fax : www.bth.se/tek : +46 457 38 50 00 : + 46 457 271 25 ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all we thank our supervisor, Conny Johansson, for continuously providing the support, encouragement and motivation during the thesis. His advices, suggestions and feedbacks were really helpful and made this effort an enjoyable one. We are thankful to our faculty reviewer Dr. Robert Feldt. His feedbacks and comments were very useful to design this thesis. We would like to thanks Mr. Kai Xiao, a student at BTH, for introducing us to Miss. Cong Lou for help in this thesis. We are very much thankful to Miss. Cong Lou, a Green Belt in Six Sigma and working in China. She was very cooperative during the interview and case study and provided us related material on the right time. We are thankful to Mr. Jö rgen Christmansson for his help in our thesis. He was very cooperative during the interview. He provided us all the...
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...word like success. The author defines the difference between the two as, “success is getting what you want and finding happiness on a superficial level. Success is achieving goals-without having much purpose behind those goals. Success is crating the life you want-but leaving no legacy and making no difference in the grand scheme of things. Significance is a higher state of happiness and fulfillment beyond the merely successful. Attaining significance means becoming aware of your purpose and working hard to bring that out in the world.” (Clark, p.4, 2013) When we think of the difference between the two, and we want to use real life examples to bring this to life, the author explains this in real world terms that we can understand. When using a doctor as an example, “significance is the difference between your average physician who has succeeded academically and graduated from a recognized medical school, and that rare doctor who travels to a developing country, and performs cleft lip/cleft palate surgery on children, seeking no money, recognition or glory.” (Clark, p.5, 2013) But, realistically we can infer that significance is much more than about the present. Instead, significance is about what legacy we choose to leave on this earth. Regardless of whom we choose to leave a significant and lasting impression upon, and despite the fact that significance is non-discriminatory in its recipients, it is important to note that “what we do for others and the world remains...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix F Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |White privilege |White privilege is a set of advantages and/or immunities that white people benefit from on a daily | | |basis beyond those common to all others. White privilege can exist without white people's conscious | | |knowledge of its presence and it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy in this country. | | | | |Racial profiling |Racial profiling is the use of race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin by law enforcement | | |agents as a factor in deciding who to investigate, arrest, or detain, except where these | | |characteristics are part of a specific suspect description. It is a degrading practice and continues | | |largely unchecked, violating the human and civil rights of those targeted | |Racism |Racism is usually defined as views, practices and actions reflecting the belief that humanity is | | |divided into distinct biological groups called races...
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...Timeline Purpose: To provide a more comprehensive synopsis of the origins of psychology, the early history of psychology as a discipline, and the major themes in twentieth century psychology. Summary: This activity will take you on a tour through the history of psychology. You will learn how psychology grew out of philosophy and medical physiology, and will become acquainted with some of the pioneers of psychology as a scientific discipline. Descriptive Statistics Purpose: To describe the common measures of central tendency and variability and demonstrate their use in summarizing a data set. Summary: This activity introduces you to the basic statistics that researchers use to summarize their sets of data. You will learn how to produce a distribution of scores and how to graph the distribution. After descriptions of the measures of central tendency (mode, median, and mean) and variability (range and standard deviation), you will be able to manipulate the scores in a distribution to see how each score affects the descriptive statistics for that distribution. Hemispheric Specialization Purpose: To explain how research on split-brain patients has helped us understand the special abilities of the two halves of the brain. Summary: This activity describes what researchers have learned about the special abilities of the left and right sides of the brain. After a brief review of the way that information is carried from the main sensory...
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...Ena Ladi3, Ellen Robey3, Sally Temple4, and Badrinath Roysam1 1 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA, 2 Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L606, Portland, OR 97239, USA 3 University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 4 Center for Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208, USA ABSTRACT An algorithmic information theoretic method is presented for object-level summarization of meaningful changes in image sequences. Object extraction and tracking data are represented as an attributed tracking graph (ATG), whose connected subgraphs are compared using an adaptive information distance measure, aided by a closed-form multi-dimensional quantization. The summary is the clustering result and feature subset that maximize the gap statistic. The notion of meaningful summarization is captured by using the gap statistic to estimate the randomness deficiency from algorithmic statistics. When applied to movies of cultured neural progenitor cells, it correctly distinguished neurons from progenitors without requiring the use of a fixative stain. When analyzing intra-cellular molecular transport in cultured neurons undergoing axon specification, it automatically confirmed the role of kinesins in axon specification. Finally, it was able to differentiate wild type from genetically modified thymocyte cells. Index Terms: Algorithmic information theory, Algorithmic statistics, Information distance, Gap statistic...
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...steady-state model, because there is no clear event that could indicate the end of model run and actually we are interested in the long run behavior of the system represented by the given model. Before we start to do the main parts of the assignment, that is design of experiments and optimization, we conduct some preliminary experiments to check if the model could be modified in order to get better results. First we set the number of replications to 30 and we choose the length of each replication be 730 days (two years), which we think should be enough to reach the steady-state. When we run the model with these settings, we get that the mean of the main response variable - average cost - is 568.4 and the half width is equal to 2.37. Although the confidence interval is not extremely wide taking into account the relatively high value of mean, we still perform a check whether it is possible to get more precise results by using common random numbers. To figure out if the model would benefit from the use of CRN we perform a pilot study. In this study we need to have two different scenarios and then we can decide whether it is useful to use CRN by checking the following inequality: { } { } { } and if this inequality holds, then it is worth using CRN in the model. In our case the scenarios differ in three variables: review period , the lead time and . For the first scenario we use the values of the base case, that is and . For the second scenario we change these values to and . We select...
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...Essay Question #3: Describe the teachings of Hebrew wisdom on diligence and laziness. How does this correspond with the contrast between wisdom and folly? Include Scripture references and quotations as appropriate. I. A Summary of what Hebrew Wisdom Teaches about Diligence and Laziness. The dictionary defines diligence as “careful and persistent work or effort” and laziness as “the quality of being unwilling to work or use energy”. By these definitions we can see that diligence and laziness are the exact opposite of each other. “The eagerly sought after trait of diligence is often addressed within the book of Proverbs. Laziness – diligence’s lethargic antonym – is likewise frequently mentioned due to the severity of its consequences. Solomon illustrated both diligence and laziness in a unique way that emphasized key concepts such as personal discipline, integrity, and wisdom.” (Heart of the Wolph, 2014) Throughout all the proverbs we learn that lazy behavior results in poverty, while diligence results in wealth(Hindson, Yates 2012). In other words, diligence is rewarded, laziness is punished. We get this idea reiterated over and over again throughout the Bible. In Proverbs 21:5 “The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage, But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty”. And again in Proverbs 10:4 “Poor is he who works with a negligent hand, But the hand of the diligent makes rich.” I could go on, but I think we get the idea. When...
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