...Note: Please look through resources very carefully. This is a controversial issue so some sources may have bias. Check carefully for the expertise or background of the writer or contributor. To LINK to any article, click on the titles in BLUE Websites 1. Adolescent Suicide in the School Setting [ ] - How school staff and students can detect and intervene to prevent suicide. 2. Focus Adolescent Services [ ] - Resources and information on teen suicide, depression, personality disorders and other issues affecting teens and their families. 3. I'll Stand by You [ ] - This is a site for teens and young adults who are suffering from depression, suicidal thoughts and self injury. Get advice or come support others. 4. Kids in Trouble Help Page [ ] - Helping kids and teens that are being abused, or runaways, or those thinking about running away or suicide. Includes emergency phone numbers, and helpful links. 5. Kids in Trouble Help Page The Kids in Trouble Help Page has helped many teens by being a user friendly place where kids and teens can find the help they need in all kinds of situations including suicide, child abuse, depression and runaways. Site includes links to all kinds of helpful info, and stories of other kids who have dealt with similar issues. 6. Let's Talk Facts About Teen Suicide [ ] - Information from the American Psychiatric Association explains signs and symptoms of teenage depression. Includes suicide risks, statistics, and what can be done....
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...Tutors Name: Fung Loretta Module Code: D507 Student Number:T2260640 | April 2 2012 | Task Title: Discuss how global companies design their websites for different countries. Make reference to the images of the Bombardier website attached to this outline. | Word Count: 841 | Discuss how global companies design their websites for different countries. Make reference to the images of the Bombardier website attached to this outline”. Introduction Globalization, with improved knowledge and application of technology has given birth to all other mediums to enhance communication and information to people and interested consumers/customers in the case of Global companies. It has been agreed by great intellectuals that it is a very rich medium to fulfil all objectives mentioned earlier. The original interior motive for designing a website was for the purpose of learning, but now serves as a pivotal for many business inclined professionals through the platform of E-commerce (Bauknecht, 2000). In addition there is not a doubt that global companies strive to reach the top by avoiding all forms of limitations...
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...Trevor Lomba 2/17/2016 Professor Graham CVA2032 Classical Music Education in Non-Mainstream Environments The work of activists and organizations in low income communities often revolves offering opportunities for local youth to participate in activities, be parts of groups, and receive mentorship from individuals that their economic or geographic status wouldn’t normally allow them access to. Whether it’s a boys and girls club that gives kids a safe haven from the potentially negative influences of their surroundings, a big brother / big sister program that provides positive role models, or sports and education programs that encourage youth to develop their talents and invest in themselves, part of the goal seems to always be to give individuals tools to transcend their circumstances and contribute to mainstream society. Given the evidence presented in the chapter El Sistema L.A. from Mina Yang’s Planet Beethoven text, it is possible to assert that music education and youth performance programs have great potential to provide such tools. Additionally, as the face and representation of classical music matures in the 21st century, the art form may have a profound influence on demographics that it previously had not related to. Many young people growing up in underserved communities – particularly boys of color – grow up with the belief that they have no place in mainstream society. Hence, they choose to pursue opportunities in their local communities that often...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE INFORMATION AGE IN WHICH YOU LIVE: CHANGING THE FACE OF BUSINESS JUMP TO THE SUPPORT YOU WANT • Lecture Outline • Modules, Projects, and Data Files • Slide Reviews • Closing Cases • Short-Answer Questions • Assignments and Exercises • Discussion Questions • Industry & Global Perspectives • Additional Assignments and Exercises CONTACT INFORMATION: Stephen Haag (shaag@du.edu) STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES 1. Define management information systems (MIS) and describe the three important organizational resources within it – people, information, and information technology. 2. Describe how to use break-even analysis to assess the financial impact of information technology. 3. Describe how to use Porter’s Five Forces Model to evaluate the relative attractiveness of and competitive pressures in an industry. 4. Compare and contrast Porter’s three generic strategies and the run-grow-transform framework as approaches to the development of business strategy. CHAPTER SUMMARY This chapter serves two primary purposes. First the chapter introduces your students to the broad notion of management information systems within an organization and the three key resources on which MIS focuses – people, information, and information technology. Second, the chapter jumps right into the process of appropriately selecting which technologies to use based on the industry in which your organization operates, the identified...
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...Caltex / 2014 Annual REPORT Corporate Governance Statement The Board is committed to conducting the business and operations of Caltex Australia Limited and its group companies (Caltex) in accordance with high standards of corporate governance, and in the best interests of our shareholders. The Corporate Governance Statement provides information about the Caltex Group’s corporate governance practices for 2014, including compliance with the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations for the year ended 31 December 2014 and as at the date of this Annual Report. A graphical representation of Caltex’s Corporate Governance Framework (CG Framework) is set out below. Delegation MD & CEO Board Independent Advice • Independent legal or other professional advice Audit Committee • Audit Committee Charter OHS & Environmental Risk Committee • OHS & Environmental Risk Charter Oversight through reporting • External auditors External Auditor Policy • Internal Audit • Board Charter • Board Tenure Policy • Board Composition, Appointment, Induction & Election • Charter of Director Independence • Delegation of Authority • Performance Evaluation Process • Policy for Transactions with Chevron • Risk Management Summary • Continuous Disclosure Policy • Securities Trading Policy • Shareholder Communications Policy • Code of Conduct • Diversity and Inclusion Policy Human Resources Committee • Human Resources...
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...USA Armor School Research Library TDCD Fort Knox KY Bibliography March 2006 Lean Six Sigma Lean: Identifying 'waste' or ‘non-value-added activities’ from the customer perspective and then determining how to eliminate it the 'right' way. [Lean Six Sigma Institute] Lean Six Sigma: A business improvement methodology that maximizes shareholder value by achieving the fastest rate of improvement in customer satisfaction, cost, quality, process speed, and invested capital. [Lean Six Sigma Institute] http://www.army.mil/aeioo/rc/terms.htm Army rallies troops behind Lean Six Sigma program (Author: RP news wires – February 11, 2006) The Army’s growing Lean Six Sigma program has its roots in a corporate method of eliminating wasted time, money and material. Lean Six Sigma integrates two independently developed improvement tools: Lean and Six Sigma. Lean is an outgrowth of the Toyota production system, and focuses on increasing efficiency and reducing cycle time by the elimination of waste. Six Sigma was developed by Motorola beginning in the 1970s as an approach to improving quality and effectiveness through statistical control. Its roots go back more than 150 years to a Prussian mathematician who introduced the concept of the normal curve. Together, Lean and Six Sigma are powerful tools in transforming organizations, Army Materiel Command officials said. They said Lean Six Sigma enables a culture of innovation that continuously listens to customers, questions...
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...Smartphones and Social Networking David B. Henson ISSC340 Professor Jeffrey Miller American Military University July 2014 The technologies used in making today’s Smartphones and the way they communicate play a crucial role in changing the way we as humans interact with each other. Just a few decades ago there were no smartphones. People interacted with one another via face-to-face conversations. There were no apps to check in to someplace, to text someone, or a way to update your status on your favorite social networking site. People got together in groups and had verbal face-to-face conversations, interaction, hugging, handshaking, smiles, frowns and many more reactions to one another. Today, people have those same reactions but, with digital friends they may have never met. You may hear people say they have a few hundred Facebook friends, Twitter followers, or Youtube views of videos they put online. Is interacting with digital friends online considered human interaction? Where does this interaction take place? When you sit behind a computer screen, a tablet, or your Smartphone and update your status or read someone’s updates is it considered human interaction? This author thinks it is not. SMARTPHONE AND NETWORK TECHNOLOGY The first mobile phone call was made in 1973. Martin Cooper, a Motorola engineer called his competitor at AT&T. Although, it took some time after that first mobile call; almost every person has a Smartphone today. Martin Coopers dream has...
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...South Africa: Stuck in the Middle? | 2014 | 1. Why is South Africa stuck in the middle? 2. Please find at least three problems to answer the first question. 3. Give your opinion for solving each of the problems mentioned in second answer. | | Contents Africa is experiencing extraordinary growth 2 Challenges 2 Challenge #1 Education 2 Challenge #2 Unemployment 3 Challenge #3 South Africa's growth path is highly resource intensive and hence unsustainable 4 Solutions 4 Solution # 1 - Improve education form the bottom up 4 Solution # 2 – Address unemployment from a new angle and become More attractive to Global business and entrepreneurship 6 Solution # 3 - Reduce the need for commodities and Invest in technology and entrepreneurship 8 Conclusion 8 Africa is experiencing extraordinary growth, In fact this decade has seen more growth for Africa than any other time in history making it six in the world’s 10 rising economy’s. Life expectancy is improving and HIV rates are down almost 30%. Malaria is also down and despite SA having the highest concentration of HIV in the world, African children born today are increasing their life expectancy one year for every three years over the last a decade. Education rates are increasing 25%, and more young educated man are entering the South African workforce. Yet despite these growth factors South Africa, and the continent of Africa as a whole...
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...Journal of Knowledge Management Knowledge management in organizations: examining the interaction between technologies, techniques, and people Ganesh D. Bhatt Article information: To cite this document: Ganesh D. Bhatt, (2001),"Knowledge management in organizations: examining the interaction between technologies, techniques, and people", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 5 Iss 1 pp. 68 - 75 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13673270110384419 Downloaded on: 28 September 2014, At: 06:01 (PT) References: this document contains references to 20 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 11983 times since 2006* Downloaded by University of Bahrain At 06:01 28 September 2014 (PT) Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Karl M. Wiig, (1997),"Knowledge Management: An Introduction and Perspective", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 1 Iss 1 pp. 6-14 Rory L. Chase, (2007),"The expanding world of knowledge management", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 11 Iss 3 pp. Roelof P. uit Beijerse, (1999),"Questions in knowledge management: defining and conceptualising a phenomenon", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 3 Iss 2 pp. 94-110 Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by 382676 [] For Authors If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors...
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...Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Volume 21, Number 2 Spring 2008 WHAT CAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DO FOR LAW? Johnathan Jenkins∗ TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................589 II. INCENTIVES FOR BETTER INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LAW ............................................................591 III. THE CURRENT STATE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN LEGAL PRACTICE .......................................................................594 IV. THE DIRECTION OF LEGAL INFORMATICS: CURRENT RESEARCH .................................................................................597 A. Advances in Argumentation Models and Outcome Prediction ..............................................................................597 B. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery from Databases ..............................................................................600 C. Accessible, Structured Knowledge ...........................................602 V. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION: BARRIERS TO PROGRESS ......................................604 VI. CONCLUSION ..............................................................................607 I. INTRODUCTION MUCH CURRENT LEGAL WORK IS EMBARRASSINGLY, ABSURDLY, WASTEFUL. AI-RELATED TECHNOLOGY OFFERS GREAT PROMISE TO 1 IMPROVE THAT SITUATION. Many professionals now rely on information technology (“IT”) to simplify, automate, or better...
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...External auditors do not rely on internal auditors as much as they could – why? How could this reliance be improved? Presented By Mingdi Deng Shirene Horner Yueyang Shi Trevor Stewart Jingtao Wang CONTENTS PAGE ABSTRACT 3 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. REASONS 3 2.1 INTERNAL AUDITOR ROLES 3 2.2 THE REPORTING AND OBJECTIVITY RELATIONSHIP OF THE INTERNAL AUDITOR 4 3. COLLABORATION IN PRACTICE 5 3.1 COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION 5 3.2 PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS 5 3.3 RECORDING AND TESTING ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS 6 3.4 SUBSTANTIVE TESTS 6 4. CONSEQUENCES OF INFLUENCE 7 5. RELIANCE IMPROVEMENTS 8 5.1 ATTEMPTS FOR IMPROVEMENT 8 5.2 INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR INTERNAL AUDITORS AND EXTERNAL AUDITORS 8 5.3 FURTHER EDUCATION IS...
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...SEMESTER 2 2011 CPA 118 ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE CPA - ETHNIC SEMESTER 2 2011 MODULE 1 ACCOUNTING AND SOCIETY 1.05 1.05 Part A: Ineraction with society Depictions of A/cting Depiction Defeating depictions defeat Fig 1.1 new bean counter How to become professional? 3 aspects 1.06 Recruiting the best Beard(1994),Smith and Briggs(1999) and Simnik and Felton(2006) Friedman& Lyne(2001);Albrecht and Sack(2000);Coate et al.(2003) Jeacle: colourful accountant linked to corporate collapses 1.07 Moral agency Biddle(2006) Value creation - key to maintain high standards Moral agent - refer to individual making moral judgement for others Moral agent theory based on concept " act appropriotely and professionally" 1.08 Technical functions and social impact Understanding A/cting A/cting defination - Macquarie Dictionary - Technical practice - bookkeeping Not Prefect def - AAA(American A/cting Association) -communication skill… 1.09 Social impact of A/cting + impact - based on historic A/cting info professional capabilities - technical knowledge,soft skill & experience 1.10 Social impact example - A/cting and the GFC "mark-to market" Lonergan (2009) - if A/cting causative factor in GFC 2008/2009 1.11 Q 1.1 Logergan 'standard setters'slow reaction only cause GFC ? NO How wisdom come out? - experience /knowledge Distinguishing feature - building relevant wisdom over time Parker et al. (1989) - induce other behaviour Miller(1994) - intrinsically and inredeemable social impact IMPACT Macro level:...
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...9 July 2010 1 LET 1 Table of Contents Unit 1 - Citizenship in Action Chapter 1: Foundations of Army JROTC and Getting Involved U1-C1-L1 Army JROTC - The Making of a Better Citizen U1-C1-L2 The Past and Purpose of Army JROTC U1-C1-L3 Moving Up in Army JROTC - Rank and Structure U1-C1-L4 The Signs of Success U1-C1-L5 Your Personal Appearance and Uniform U1-C1-L6 The Stars and Stripes U1-C1-L7 Proudly We Sing - The National Anthem U1-C1-L8 American Military Traditions, Customs, and Courtesies 3 9 13 21 25 37 45 51 Unit 2 - Leadership Theory and Application Chapter 1: Being a Leader U2-C1-L1 Leadership Defined U2-C1-L2 Leadership Reshuffled U2-C1-L3 Leadership from the Inside Out U2-C1-L4 Principles and Leadership U2-C1-L5 Sexual Harassment/Assault Chapter 2: Leadership Skills U2-C2-L1 Steps from the Past U2-C2-L2 Roles of Leaders and Followers in Drill U2-C2-L3 Using Your Leadership Skills/Taking Charge 57 61 67 73 77 81 85 89 Unit 3 - Foundations for Success Chapter 1: Know Yourself – Socrates U3-C1-L1 Self Awareness U3-C1-L2 Appreciating Diversity through Winning Colors U3-C1-L3 Personal Growth Plan U3-C1-L4 Becoming an Active Learner U3-C1-L5 Pathways To Success (QBOL) Chapter 2: Learning to Learn U3-C2-L1 Brain Structure and Function U3-C2-L2 Left and Right Brain Functions U3-C2-L3 Learning Style and Processing Preferences U3-C2-L4 Multiple Intelligences Chapter 3: Study Skills U3-C3-L1 ...
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...SEMESTER 2 2011 CPA 118 ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE MODULE 1 ACCOUNTING AND SOCIETY 1.05 1.05 Part A: Ineraction with society Depictions of A/cting Depiction=描述 Defeating depictions defeat =挫败 Fig 1.1 new bean counter How to become professional? 3 aspects 1.06 Recruiting the best Beard(1994),Smith and Briggs(1999) and Simnik and Felton(2006) Friedman& Lyne(2001);Albrecht and Sack(2000);Coate et al.(2003) Jeacle: colourful accountant linked to corporate collapses 1.07 Moral agency Biddle(2006) Value creation - key to maintain high standards Moral agent - refer to individual making moral judgement for others Moral agent theory based on concept " act appropriotely and professionally" 1.08 Technical functions and social impact Understanding A/cting A/cting defination - Macquarie Dictionary - Technical practice - bookkeeping Not Prefect def - AAA(American A/cting Association) -communication skill… 1.09 Social impact of A/cting + impact - based on historic A/cting info professional capabilities - technical knowledge,soft skill & experience 1.10 Social impact example - A/cting and the GFC "mark-to market" Lonergan (2009) - if A/cting causative factor in GFC 2008/2009 1.11 Q 1.1 Logergan 'standard setters'slow reaction only cause GFC ? NO How wisdom come out? - experience /knowledge Distinguishing feature - building relevant wisdom over time Parker et al. (1989) - induce other behaviour Miller(1994) - intrinsically and inredeemable social impact IMPACT Macro level: all types of business...
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...2014 ANNUAL REport Focused Performance Financial Calendar Contents Year ended 31 December 2014 1 With you all the way 2 Report from the Chairman and the Managing Director & CEO 07 MAY 2015 Annual General Meeting 4 Year ending 31 December 2015* 24 AUGUST 2015 Half year results and interim dividend announcement 08 SEPTEMBER 2015 Record date for interim dividend entitlement 30 SEPTEMBER 2015 Interim dividend payable if declared 22 FEBRUARY 2016 Full year results and final dividend announcement 08 MARCH 2016 Record date for final dividend entitlement 31 MARCH 2016 Final dividend payable if declared * These dates are subject to change. Corporate Governance Statement 16 2014 Financial Report for Caltex Australia Limited 17 Directors’ Report 62 Consolidated income statement 63 Consolidated statement of comprehensive income 64 Consolidated balance sheet 65 Consolidated statement of changes in equity 66 Consolidated cash flow statement 67 Notes to the financial statements 67 1. Significant accounting policies 76 2. Revenue and other income 76 3. Costs and expenses 77 4. Income tax expense 79 5. Dividends 79 Basic and diluted earnings per share 6. 80 7. Receivables 81 8. Inventories 81 9. Other assets 81 10. Other investments 82 11. Intangibles 83 12. Property, plant and equipment 85 13. Payables 85 14. Interest bearing liabilities 86 15. Provisions 86 16. Issued...
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