...Tiny Miracle Julia Toivonen once said, “Some days you just need to breathe, believe, trust and step back to witness the incredible strength of your tiny miracle….” The most common infant health issue in America is the birth of premature babies, which have many short term and long term effects on an infant and mother. Imagine awaiting one's little miracles, and having to experience the complications of a premature birth. A staggering 15 million babies are born premature each year around the world. Of that number, 1 million of those infants die due to complications. Premature birth is defined as “ a birth that takes place more than three weeks before the baby is due” (mayoclinicstaff). The normal gestational period for a full term pregnancy...
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...Tiny termites can create big problems for homeowners. These little pests burrow deep into wood or soil, building colonies and eventually destroying any structure they touch. The residential pest control professionals at Guarantee Pest Control, Inc, in Lexington, KY, have experienced firsthand the damage termites can leave behind. Now for the good news: much of that damage can be prevented, if caught early. Termites There are several warning signs that could indicate a termite infestation in your home. Termites are more visible as the bugs leave their nests in the spring and summer months. You may notice little piles of what appears to be sawdust but are actually termite droppings, discarded wings and mud tubes along the wall or on your foundation....
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...It is only human nature to strive to attain more material possessions. The Tiny House project invites individuals to stray from a lavish life to a more minimalistic life. These “tiny houses” are, essentially, houses stripped from expensive add-on features and left with bare essentials. The average American spends a third to a half of their income on housing. Over a 30 year period, the average American puts about one million dollars towards their housing. The Tiny House project is a positive departure away from expensive lifestyles many people may desire. There are many positives to living in a tiny house but, there are also negatives as well. Millions of Americans live a life of debt and uncertainty. The tiny house movement focuses on a lifestyle...
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...Develop policy Three policy option summaries: * Using resources wisely: * Econo-Environmental * Environmental Stewardship * Encouraging visitors to consider sustainability: Encouraging customers to make sustainable choices is the biggest environmental challenge. * Focusing on appropriate management principles: * Customer focus * Leadership * Involvement of people * Draft sustainability policy: Using resources wisely: * Econo-environmental: * Resource efficiency: Try to use resource efficiency, avoid to waste electric and water. * Sorting of recyclable paper from general rubbish * Environmental Stewardship * Clean air, water, and land * Lower pollution: Using low VOC paint when painting sets for performances to protect the health and safety of workers * Zero waste: Turn off the air-conditional at 4:45pm every day automatically Encouraging visitors to consider sustainability: * Recognises the concerns and goals of all tourism visitors are important for planning, decision-making and developing mutually beneficial strategies and actions. * Engages visitors based on their interest to ensure a comprehensive basis of knowledge for planning. Focusing on appropriate management principles: * Customer focus Organizations depend on their customers and therefore should understand current and future customer needs, should meet customer requirements and strive to exceed customer...
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...different? Hypothesis: I am trying to find out if the green color in skittles and m and m s are different or not. Introduction: Candy chromatography is how far a color travels .I’m going to make filter paper strips cut out rectangles make tiny pencil dots ,start removing the candies dyes drop 2 separate drops of water on a piece of foil. Materials * 2 green Skittles * 2 green M&M’s * Aluminum foil * Water * Dropper * Toothpicks * Pencil (not a pen!) * At least 2 coffee filters * Scissors * Metric ruler * Salt * 2 tall clear glasses or jars. * 2 mini binder clips (if you don’t have binder clips around, you can use tape) * 2 straws or skewers (or two more pencils if you are using tape) Procedure: 1. Make your filter paper strips from the filter paper. Measure two rectangles that are 6 cm by 8 cm. 2. Carefully cut out the rectangles. The edges should be as straight as possible. 3. Using the pencil, write M&M’s on one strip and Skittles on the other strip. 4. On the bottom side of strip, use a ruler to find the point 1 cm from the bottom of the paper. Make tiny pencil dots at 2 and 4 cm across....
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...Introduction Tiny Opera Company operates in a rural NSW town. Colleen Starr started the company after moving to the small town from Sydney in the late 1970s. Colleen wanted to bring the wonder and entertainment of theatre-based performances to rural NSW. Her vision was to create a regional theatre that emulated the Sydney Opera House; making theatre both accessible and valued in her town and the surrounding community. Stella’s idea and passion was shared by a wealthy landowner in the area who donated $2.3 million to support the purchase of a venue and the ongoing operation of the theatre. $1.3 million of this was invested in a trust which has been added to over the years that Tiny Opera Company has generated a profit. Colleen Starr bought an old town hall that had been built in the early 1900s. The hall is listed on the State Heritage Register in NSW. Basic interior renovations were carried out to the stage, three dressing rooms, kitchen, break room, meeting room, food counter and ticketing booth including: ● painting internal walls ● installing wall-mounted radiators throughout the theatres, dressing rooms and break room ● installing a dishwasher and oven in the kitchen ● installing a wood heater in the meeting room. Tiny Opera Company has staged regular performances in the theatre from the 1970s onwards. Ten years ago, the Tiny Opera Company built a small office building to serve the growing number full time staff. Develop Policy Three policy option summaries Tiny Opera...
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...A revolutionary combination of ink and paper. Ms Priyanka Ingale & Ms Aanchal Agrawal ABSTRACT This paper surveys a system that allows tiny, electrically-charged microcapsules to render text and images on a page. To put it literally it’s a display designed to mimic appearance of regular ink on paper. Conventional flat panel displays use a backlight to illuminate its pixels, while electronic paper reflects light like ordinary paper and is capable of holding text and images indefinitely without drawing electricity or using processor power. It can display different colors when exposed to electric field. It is made through a two step process that involves creating two-toned charged particles, the resulting nanoparticle shells are suspended in a solvent encapsulated in a transparent polymeric shell, when required the ink can be applied to a surface. It is lightweight, durable and highly flexible compared to other displays. Electronic paper combines the advantageous viewing characteristics of conventional paper with the ability to electronically manipulate the information displayed on paper. INDEX TERMS: 1. Historical background. 2. Construction. 2.1 Manufacturing Polymer ink. 2.2 Thin film electrode. 3. Advantages. 4. Disadvantages. 5. Application areas. 6. Conclusion. 7. References. 1. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The prototype of e-ink was developed in the late 1970s, at Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA. It used millions of tiny magnets that had oppositely colored sides...
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...Write that Journal Article (in seven days) Dr Inger Mewburn Director of Research Training Australian National University This slide deck is released under a Creative Commons license Are you a plotter or a pantser? Plotters like to plan and then write line by perfect line. They take a long time, but don’t have to do a lot of editing later. Pantsers like to just jump in, with minimal preparation. They make a mess and then clean it up. The cleaning up can take a long time. Ideally you can switch between these modes. ‘... file cabinets are full of unborn articles. I know many researchers who have a shameful backlog of data; some have unpublished data from the 80’ s that they “hope to publish someday”. Sure they will.’ Silva, 2007. Warning: Don’t try to do this from a cold start... Writing a journal article is like cooking a stew. You need ingredients. If you have to keep running to the shops it will slow you down. Check whether you have some or all of the following in your academic cupboard: ● ● ● Data, Ideas and/or artifacts Knowledge of at least some relevant literature Results, analyses and or theorisations Day Zero: What sort of academic are you? Academia used to be mostly about speaking Image of an early viva from William Clark “academic charisma and the origins of the research university. Now we know each other through writing “Text work is identity work” Kamler and Thomson, 2006 Where you publish matters because...
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...Name: Christopher Buxton Course Title: Diploma of Management Unit Code: Develop Workplace Policy and Procedures for Sustainability Unit Code: BSBSU501A Assessment1. 1. Review the case study information provided and determine all legislative and regulatory documents that describe compliance requirements for this company. After reading the case study for the Tiny Opera Company I have determined through my own research that the following legislative and regulatory requirements will need to be adhered to so that they are compliant. To start off the Tiny Opera Company will need to have their own Code of Conduct available to all employees and anyone attending the venue. This code of conduct will outline through Key principles what the company’s expected behaviours are and how everyone should conduct themselves while employed at the venue in all areas of employment. Having a code of conduct in place will make sure that everyone who is attending the venue whether employed or as a patron/customer conducts themselves in a way that shows respect for each other in a positive manner. Tiny Opera Company will need to also have Safe Work Procedures in place and will need to meet the obligations of the Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 and the NSW Work Health and Safety Act 2011, this so that it has steps in place to prevent accidents & injuries when employees are undertaking tasks so that potential hazards can be eliminated and/ or controlled at the venue to protect everyone...
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...2011 A SWOTT analysis a tool used to measure the Tiny-Tots Daycare Center’s strengths, weakness, opportunities, threats and trends. By doing a SWOTT analysis the daycare can become a better and more efficient center. Strengths for a daycare center is a positive quality, they can be the training of the staff, financial stability, and a modern facility. Weaknesses are aspects that need to be improved like low cliental, untrained staff, and out dated equipment or facility. Opportunities are things that help the make a future for the center like growth in the number of children attending or more grant money. Threats can lead in the drop of business or loss of efficiency, these threats could come from the loss of employment within the community and parents may not be able to afford daycare (Cooper). For the Tiny-Tots Daycare Center to conduct a SWOTT analysis, the company will need to answer some questions about their strengths; what advantages do they have, what are their resources, what do they do better than their competitors. Once they have company views their strengths, they will need to see both the external and internal viewpoints, and then make sure they evaluate the customer’s views, as well as the competitor’s views. Once this is done they then need to view their weaknesses, and ask questions like what can be done to improve and avoid these weaknesses. After the strength and weaknesses are reviewed, then Tiny-Tots will need to look at their opportunities and threats...
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...Newspaper readership is the people who read or are thought to read a particular newspaper. Decline in newspaper circulation and readership does not mean newspaper readership is aging. In fact, declining newspaper circulation and readership is happening at the same time with aging newspaper readership. Looking at the macro vision of aging newspaper readership, general social factors suggest that aging population and new way of newspaper reading by young people (i.e. reading online newspaper articles, reading free newspapers). In micro term, cohort effect, new reading style of non print news articles and cost of newspaper are three of the reasons why newspaper readership is aging. Aging of newspaper readership has impacts on societies and which aging readership has relationship to voter participation. Long-term Cohort effect and newspaper readership Cohort define people according to their birth of year (i.e. 1980-1989, 1990–1999). Cohorts are affected by age and the period of time that the groups grow. These make different cohorts have their only characteristics, and this is called as cohort effects. Cohort effect is further declining and aging newspaper readership. According to the characteristics of young cohorts, their readership level is lower than other older cohort groups.[8] Newspaper market does not target only the older cohort, young cohorts are also the targeted consumers of newspapers.[8] Comparing older cohorts to the younger, the way how the young cohort groups...
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...was roughly equal to that of the average velocity equation). Also, as long as the magnet did not reach a high velocity when it is released, air did not have effect on the acceleration of the object; therefore, the accepted value for "g" was 980.3 cm/s^2. The spark was set to 1/60 sec , and the plummet was dropped along a strip of the wax paper. After the plummet reached the bottom, the paper was removed from the apparatus. As the sparks jumped from the hot wire through the plummet to new base, tiny holes were made in the paper. Measuring the distance between these holes and using the time it took for the plummet to reach the base if the apparatus found the average velocity. By using this following equation: ------------ . .The average velocity was calculated at each mark point in its motion In the lab, my partner and I had different tasks to do; he hang the plummet from the electromagnet at the top of the device. After that , we both activated the spark timer then I released the plummet from the electromagnet. This caused the spark to jump from the wire through the plummet to base. This resulted in displaying tiny holes in the wax paper . After removing the tape from with the holes, we laid the tape on the table and started to measure the distance between every two holes. However, we left about five centimeters from the top. Finally, we calculated the instantaneous velocity . PIC conclusion At the end of the lab, we could achieve an approximate value of the...
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...SOURCE: http://health-benefits-of-fruit.blogspot.com/2014/10/amazing-benefits-of-muntingia-fruit-for.html ANTISEPTICS Decoction of leaves of cherry (cherry) has proved efficacy can kill microbes or as an antiseptic. Series leaf decoction is proven to kill bacteria as follows: C. Diptheriae, S. aureus, P. vulgaris, S. Epidemidis, and K. Rhizophil. Allegedly anti-bacterial activity of this series leaves caused by the presence of compounds such as tannins, flavonoids and saponins has. ANTI INFLAMMATION Decoction of leaves of cherry (cherry) also have properties to reduce inflammation (anti-inflammatory) and also reduce the heat. ANTI-TUMOR Leaf cherry (Cherry) is also reported to have anti-tumor effects, where the content of flavonoid compound that belongs to the leaf cherry (Cherry) was found to inhibit the growth of cancer cells in vitro / laboratory. ANTI uric acid (uric acid) In Indonesia, traditionally cherry fruit (cherry) has been used to treat gout by consuming cherry fruit sebayak 9 points 3 times a day. It is proven to reduce pain caused by the disease gout. SOURCE: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25068675 Muntingia calabura: a review of its traditional uses, chemical properties, and pharmacological observations. Mahmood ND1, Nasir NL, Rofiee MS, Tohid SF, Ching SM, Teh LK, Salleh MZ, Zakaria ZA. Author information: 1Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia , Selangor , Malaysia ...
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...Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper Reporting Practices and Ethics Paper The four elements of financial management are to plan, control, organize, and make decisions these are tools that are in practice in all industries of business. The elements are a key to the financial management these are the resources that will be effective in running an organization. There are financial and managerial accounting both purposes are intended to manage a organization these accounting principles are to address the organization needs, and report any transactions, and changes that will occur with in and out the institution. The major ways to prepare the financial statements, for precise accounting balance sheet are records that the organization owns, and it also informs what the company net worth. Every company needs a statement of revenue and expense in order to know the outflow and inflow of revenue, and the statement of fund balance and net worth are amounts in revenue that plays a major mechanism for any institution. Then there is the last element of financial statements of cash flow, this effect with the other three reports. With larger businesses, it can be inviting to abandon ethics just to make acceptable revenue. Furthermore, the smaller business specific individual is practically independent in his or her judgment making him or she does not have to answer to any staff base or a director. It is also remarkable to note that a smaller company CEO regularly has his or her choices...
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...After months of research and experiments, I have concluded my discovery of space worm touch receptors is definite. Regardless of the type, sensory receptors are influenced by physical actions and various stimulus. My research and experiments show that space worm touch receptors are no different. Stimulus is a change discernible by the body (Sherwood 2004) or in my case, a space worm. Certain receptors like touch receptors respond to stimulus weakly or strongly when involved with a different stimulus (Sherwood 2004). This perfectly related to my experiment because the space worm touch receptors respond differently to various stimulus. All of this discussion about stimulus to touch receptors would not happen without mechanoreceptors. Mechanoreceptors are heavily present in the touch receptor system and are influenced by physical actions like distortions, bending, and probing. Through various actions of stimulation, I was able to see what types of mechanoreceptors the space worm touch receptors contained. Rather than being located in a specialized location, the space worm touch receptors are located throughout the whole space worm. As a consequence, different areas of the spaces worm touch receptors reacted and traduced different electrical signals. This difference of electrical signals ultimately revealed the different mechanoreceptors present in the space worm touch receptors. After discovering space worm touch receptors, I will conduct a specific test to identify...
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