...1. What is the theory of evolution? How is it a unifying theme in biology? The evolution theory explains the unity and diversity of life by explaining how random changes in genetic material and competition for scarce resources cause species to change gradually. 2. What is biogeography? How is it a unifying theme in ecology? The distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. 3. What is genetics? How is it a unifying theme in biology? Genetics is the scientific study of heredity. 4. What is plate tectonics? How is it a unifying theme in earth science? Plate tectonics is the theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle. 5. What is the Big Bang theory? How is it a unifying theme in astronomy? The theory that the universe originated 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small mass of matter at extremely high density and temperature 6. How are the following branches of science integrated, connected, and related? • Chemistry and biology- any living thing has a chemical makeup, so the study of any living thing involves studying its chemistry. • Physics and chemistry- one explains why an object has certain properties and the other explains how the objects move and use those properties. One is the world at a distance and the other is the world up close. You cannot have one without the other • Physics and astronomy- physics grew from the study of our...
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...Introduction to 1 Educational inequity is a pervasive problem. Just 16 percent of children who are eligible for free school meals in the U.K. attend university, in comparison to 96 percent of children educated in independent schools In Brazil, the poorest children have on average 7 fewer years of schooling than their wealthier counterparts In Peru, children in the poorest 20 percent of households receive 5 fewer years of education than children from the wealthiest Socioeconomic background predicts educational outcomes. In India, there is a 40 percent gap in secondary enrollment rates between children from the highest and lowest expenditure quintile groups In Ghana, children from the highest household wealth quintile have almost twice as many average years of schooling as those from the lowest, and even the highest quintile is four years less than the U.S. average In New Zealand, children from lowincome households are half as likely to achieve university entrance standard as those from high-income households 2 Transformational teachers show us we can solve it. Gaurav Singh, Teach For India Gaurav Singh left a successful career at Accenture to join Teach for India’s inaugural cohort of teaching fellows. Assigned to teach 50 second graders (ranging in age from 6-14,) all of whom were significantly behind grade level, Gaurav quickly decided that he needed a huge and visible goal for his class. He decided on “4” —students would grow to four times their current level in the...
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...Integrating Strategy and Human Resource Management Name Institution Affiliation Integrating Strategy and Human Resource Management Introduction The integration of the two aspects of human resources has enabled the organizations to address the issues that they face both internally as well as in their respective industries. Therefore, this is an indication that organizations ought to integrate human resource planning with human resource management so as to adjust in the ever-changing markets. “This makes the roles that human resources play within an organization to be very imperative, and which ought to be managed properly” (Davila & Marta, 2009). Integration Strategy The Human Resource Management plays a crucial role in all organizations (Davila & Marta, 2009). In the cases of People’s Bank, Maid Bess, as well as Ingersoll-Rand, there is a unifying theme in relation to the significance of the Human Resource Management in all these organizations. The unifying theme is that HRM integrates the process of human resource planning in all the aforementioned organizations with the strategic planning process, strategies that will help them in surviving in the ever-changing business world. For instance, in the case of People’s Bank, HR planning was integrated with s strategic planning process by means of synchronization of all its scanning process with that of the bank’s entire environmental scanning process. The strategic role of HRM that has been adopted by the U...
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...Michael Warne Revolutions Spring 14 French Revolution Factors The French Revolutions The French Revolution was a long, bloody ordeal faced by the French populace in the late 18th century. There were a number of factors which led to the outbreak of this particular conflict. The factors which led to this particular revolution were first pointed out by James Defronzo, in Revolutions and Revolutionary Movement. Defronzo writes how a few different factors typically lead to the outbreak of a revolution. These factors are; mass frustration, dissident elites, severe state crisis, international context and unifying motivation. I will address each one of these factors and clarify how they correlate to the French Revolution. It is imperative to understand what exactly leads to revolution, and how we can use what we already know to prevent violence and social strife in the future. First of all, France was plagued by mass frustration following hundreds of years of unjust monarchal rule. Mass frustration is when the majority of the populace is dissatisfied by the government. In the case of French citizens in the late 1700s, they understood how badly they were being treated by their own government. They also understood, however, that they deserved better. Due to the recent “Enlightenment Age,” an increasing number of people were becoming aware of their societal status. During the enlightenment period, people began to turn away from everything they thought they "understood"...
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...------------------------------------------------- Week Nine Making Connections * Communicate with people of different religions about their beliefs and practices. ------------------------------------------------- Course Assignments * 1. Final Project: World Religions Report * Resources: Appendices A, B, & F * Select a religion that is not your own and then visit a place of worship and interview a person of that faith. * Write a 2,000- to 2,500-word informative paper about the religion. * Compare your selected religion with at least one other religion you are familiar with through this class. * Include the following elements: * Introduction of the religion * Name, location and review of the site. * Interview summary * Comparing and contrasting with another religion * Conclusion * References * Format your paper according to APA standards. * Post your paper as an attachment. Assignment | Location | Due | Capstone CheckPoint | Assignment Tab | Day 4 (Thurday) | Final Project: World Religions Report | Assignment Tab | Day 7 (Sunday) | Hinduism Paper Hinduism Paper Ben Smith Axia College University of Phoenix The Hindu religion is not made up of one particular belief or thought process. The Hindu religion is built upon a set of beliefs and traditions that have evolved over a long period of time. According to Ygoy, 2005, “Hinduism...
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...Account for the resurgence of Muslim power between 1144 and 1187 The latter half of the 12th century can be distinctly marked and understood as the gradual and dynamic process of the unification of the Islamic Middle East. By 1187 this resurrection of Muslim authority was albeit confirmed, manifesting itself in its fundamental intent; the reclamation of the Holy City of Jerusalem. And yet while a Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem remained in the Levant till 1291 with the fall of Acre, it was crippled, never to reclaim its former holdings nor its dominion or aspirations in recreating a Christian Holy Land. As William of Tyre aptly noted of the situation in the 1180s “the strategic balance in the Near East had tilted decisively against the Franks“. Throughout the 12th century, this process of resurgence was the conjunction of several contributory factors throughout the period, both that of growing Muslim unity and strength, attached with underlying instabilities and structural ailments of the Crusader States. The impact and the role of the succession of the prodigious leadership, notably that of Zengi and his successors Nir Al-Din and Saladin, in facilitating the rise of Muslim ascendency in Syria and Palestine can be distinctly identified as a powerful driving force in this process. Ultimately therefore from 1144 to 1187 what this period highlights is the complex backdrop from which the narrative of Muslim resurgence is built upon. As noted, the succession of exceptional and charismatic...
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...The early Christian church played a significant role in unifying law making and legal procedures. Whilst society remained the same for a short time following the Roman withdrawal from Britain, a more fragmented picture began to develop. By around 425AD separate Christian kingdoms. This led to difficult challenges bringing the country together as a whole, however as written by Baker, J.H (2002) “the unifying force is not a common law but the general social and moral assumptions of the age”, at the time in question this was the common religion shared by the British kingdoms, Christianity. Within these kingdoms the kings and their bishops had a close relationship, both in matters of the earth as well as the spiritual. According to Loyn, H.R (1991) Bede wrote about how “the Kentish people enjoyed as a result of the conversion the writing down in their own native tongue of judicial decrees”. The various law codes that were written down, starting with those of King Ethelbert 1 of Kent around 600AD, allowed the sharing of customs and practices between the various kingdoms. In order to enable this to be done the church provided educated men – who could read and write to help write the laws. The influence that the church and Christian religion had on the writing of laws seemed to only deepen over time. It has been said that the laws of Withred (c. 700AD), came about as a result of a clerical assembly and in 880 A.D in the prologue to King Alfred’s laws, it was claimed that as well...
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...This workbook is a companion to the video training available at http://ncu.attackyourday.net. You will need at least 30 minutes a day for 5 consecutive days to complete this workbook. The entire workbook, including viewing the video, will take you approximately 10 hours to complete, so plan accordingly. You will upload this entire workbook for your Mentor. Your content grade will be based on evidence that you completed the training; there are no right or wrong answers. BYWATERSEE8001-2 [pic] Before you get started, please answer these questions. Be honest with yourself. 1. Have you completed a formal time management training course in the past? Yes No If yes, what program? 2. Do you have a plan for scheduling the 10-15 hours per week you will need to engage in learning activities? Yes No Maybe 3. On a scale from 1-7, how effective do you think you are at managing your time, with 1 being not at all effective, 3 somewhat effective, and 7 completely effective? Select the choice that is closest to where you are now. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Not at all-------------------------------------Somewhat------------------------------------Completely 4. Thinking about the last 30 days, how frequently have you experienced anxiety or stress due to not having enough time to get everything done? 1-never 2-occasionally ...
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...SECURITY AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Security Comm. Networks (2011) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/sec.299 SPECIAL ISSUE PAPER Attack Countermeasure Trees (ACT): towards unifying the constructs of attack and defense trees Arpan Roy* , Dong Seong Kim and Kishor S. Trivedi Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, U.S.A. ABSTRACT Attack tree (AT) is one of the widely used non-state-space models for security analysis. The basic formalism of AT does not take into account defense mechanisms. Defense trees (DTs) have been developed to investigate the effect of defense mechanisms using measures such as attack cost, security investment cost, return on attack (ROA), and return on investment (ROI). DT, however, places defense mechanisms only at the leaf nodes and the corresponding ROI/ROA analysis does not incorporate the probabilities of attack. In attack response tree (ART), attack and response are both captured but ART suffers from the problem of state-space explosion, since solution of ART is obtained by means of a state-space model. In this paper, we present a novel attack tree paradigm called attack countermeasure tree (ACT) which avoids the generation and solution of a state-space model and takes into account attacks as well as countermeasures (in the form of detection and mitigation events). In ACT, detection and mitigation are allowed not just at the leaf node but also...
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...world leader by pursuing a corporate strategy that emphasized diversifying into high tech products and services and doing so on a global basis. With a corporate strategy like that, human resource management plays a big role at Siemens. Sophisticated engineering and services require more focus on employee selection, training, and compensation than in the average firm, and globalisation requires delivering these services globally. Siemens sums up the basic themes of its HR strategy in several points. These include: 1. A living company is a learning company. The high tech nature of Siemens's business means that employees must be able to learn on a continuing basis. Siemens uses its system of combined classroom and hands on apprenticeship training around the world to help facilitate this. It also offers employees extensive continuing education and management development. 2. Global teamwork is the key to developing and using all the potential of the firm's human resources. Because it is so important from employees throughout Siemens to fee! free to work together and interact, employee's have to understand the whole process, not just bits and pieces. To support this, Siemens provides extensive training and development. It also ensures that all employees feel they are part of a strong unifying corporate identity. For example, HR uses cross border, cross cultural experiences as prerequisites for career advances. A climate of mutual respect is the basis of all relationships -...
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...There are many different software solutions for businesses to use to help their companies run. Three parts of a business that use software are accounting, human resources, and management. Each one of these departments has multiple software solutions. In this paper I will give a brief overview of a software solution for each of these three departments. A software solution for accounting would be NetSuite. This software allows a company to see their outstanding invoices and bills in real-time. NetSuite has a budgeting feature that allows the company to see the upcoming years projected objectives. It also allows the company to generate up to the moment reports so you can evaluate the companies spending. NetSuite allows for different types of currency to help the company exchange money. It also has the ability to connect to multiple bank accounts and pay bills for the company with online bill pay. A software solution for human resources would be Lawson. Lawson gives the company the ability to track their employees. It keeps up with what days each employee works and for how many hours the employees worked during that day. Lawson allows both the company and the employees to view the system. Lawson keeps up with sick time and vacations time that an employee accumulates and uses. It also allows both the company and employee to see benefits that the company gives each employee. The company can have an online pay check system instead of having to send out a paper version of the employees...
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...Integrating of Strategy and HumanResource Management The experiences of several organizations provide good examples of the integration of strategy and human resource management. One such example is provided by the experiences of People’s Bank, a financial services company headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Massive changes began to take place in the business environment of banking with deregulation and relaxation of ceilings on interest. Money markets began to drain off funds that ordinarily went into banks’ deposits, forcing them to rely on more expensive sources of funds. Further, the money center banks began to compete in the same middle markets as regional banks. People’s, which was a small regional bank, responded by changing its strategy from a product orientation to one directed toward markets. With a product orientation, products are developed and then markets are sought out in which to sell the product. Conversely, a market orientation involves an opposite approach in that market demands are determined and then products developed to serve the market. As a result of these changes, People’s transformed itself into a diversified financial services company with 139 branches and a fully integrated banking services and stock trading presence on the Internet Because of major changes in People’s strategy, there was recognition that new organizational structures would be needed to accommodate the changes. The organization was decentralized, hierarchical levels removed...
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...Effective strategies MGT312 Effective strategies Turning around a company that is facing bankruptcy isn't a small feat for any leader. It take a leader with a solid understanding of vision and culture to effectively reverse an organization that is in a death spiral. Alan Mulally has proven that he has the right ingredients as a leader and has proven it with his turnaround of Ford Motor Company during his tenure starting in 2006 and ending in 2014. Mr. Mulally was an accomplished leader that came to Ford in 2006 after completing a tour in Boeing as the Chief Executive Officer of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes("Allen Mulally", 2014). Setting the stage for success When Mr. Mulally came to Ford in 2006 the company was on hard times. Ford was reporting losses and was facing bankruptcy. Mr. Mulally quickly identified the main causes of Ford's hardship and devise a corporate strategy that address the four main issue he saw. Mr. Mulally identified that everyone from the leaders to the employees were not working together as one team. In addition Ford was not capitalizing on its intellectual property and deep automotive knowledge and skills. As if this was not enough to cause an organization to fail add to it the fact that Ford was building 97 different cars and trucks and was not turning a profit as a whole. Mr. Mulally developed a strategy that he dubbed One Ford which he used as a platform to ground his attacks on the issues that were plaguing the Ford company. Mulally’s...
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...strategy The polycentric approach: can minimize cultural myopia may be less expensive to implement than an ethnocentric policy There are two disadvantages to the polycentric approach: host country nationals have limited opportunities to gain experience outside their own country and thus cannot progress beyond senior positions in their own subsidiaries. a gap can form between host country managers and parent country managers 3. The geocentric staffing policy seeks the best people, regardless of nationality for key jobs This approach is consistent with building a strong unifying culture and informal management network It makes sense for firms pursuing either a global or transnational strategy Immigration policies of national governments may limit the ability of a firm to pursue this policy The geocentric approach: enables the firm to make the best use of its human resources builds a cadre of international executives who feel at home working in a number of different cultures can be limited by immigration laws is costly to...
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...King Zheng first Emperor of China is considered the most powerful and successful leader in his time. Zheng was a successful leader as he not only unified all 6 warring states but then further developed a lasting government and legal system, gained control over a powerful army, introduced a new coinage system, establishing social cohesion, developed a building program and a consistent system of transport which all contributed to his lasting legacy. King Zheng established a unified China with one ruler, the Emperor, regarded as the sole divine power. He accomplished this by using his army to overtake all the other six states he did this by taking over the neighbouring Han State, which already had a political organisation and combined their armies with his giving him enough power to conquer all other states. He then made himself the ‘sole divine leader.’ After he accomplished this he established a system of government among the seven states none of which had any more power than him. He was the sole leader of his and the other six states, which were ruled by six governors or ministers and under them were six lower leaders of their own individual sections. He established this and form of government to gain full control over all people of China. Each set family would spy on one another and report back to the Emperor, thus giving King Zheng control of all aspects of life. An example of this occurs in the movie/documentary ‘The first Emperor of China’ where a spy uncovers plans his...
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