...In recent years, there has been an extraordinary rise in digital communication, especially through mobile phones and social media; reading the newspaper has become reading a blog, watching the television has become watching YouTube videos. Younger generations have been pretty much born in a world that resolves around sharing and reading content on the web. Digital communication considerably influences the way we speak. But is this good or bad? Multi-modal language is simply any type of commination that isn’t in person, face-to-face. One of the most common forms of multi modal is through social media. Because of it’s popularity, social media is clearly having an impact on language, however there are advantages and disadvantages to the way they influence it. Advantages include that it is usually free, you are able to keep in contact with distant family and friends and make potential friends who have common interests as you. Disadvantages however are that there is legal and ethical issues such as cyberbullying and fraud, people may become addicted and distract themselves from reality and that people rely on social media and lose real life social skills. Majority of the people that use social media are teenagers. There are plenty different language features used in digital communication. They each have different purposes and effects. Emoji’s/Emoticons -- Emoji’s are used to show the overall emotion of the message. Through texting you are not able to see a person’s facial expression...
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...A ABA: abscisic acid AIDS: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome AM: annealing mix ampr: ampicillin-resistance gene amu: atomic mass unit AP: alkaline phosphatase ARS: Agricultural Research Service ATP: adenosine 5’-triphosphate au: absorbance units B BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, a computer program that allows researchers to compare biological sequences bp: base pair BS: Bachelor of Science Bt: Bacillus thuringiensis (B. thuringiensis) C CaCl2: calcium chloride cDNA: copy DNA CD4 cells: referring to human white blood cells, which contain the cell surface recognition protein CD4 cm: centimeter CF: cystic fibrosis CD: compact disc CDC: Center for Disease Control and Prevention cGMPs: good manufacturing practices CHO: Chinese hamster ovary cm: centimeter CPDP: Comprehensive Product Development Plan CO2: carbon dioxide COOH: carboxyl [group] CT [scan]: computed tomography CuSO4: cupric sulfate (anhydrous) D dATP: deoxyadenosine triphosphate, the cell’s source of cytosine (C) for DNA molecules D: diopter DEAE: diethylaminoethyl DNA: deoxyribonucleic acid dH20: distilled water ddNTP: dideoxynucleotide dNTP: deoxynucleotide triphosphates (the dATP, dCTP, dGTP, and dTTPs) DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles DPA: diphenylamine [solution] DTT: dithiothreitol DVM: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine E EDTA: ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay EPA: Environmental Protection Agency EtBr: ethidium bromide EtOH: ethanol ...
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...Manual Critique Steve Nunez Eng/221 August 16, 2011 Robert Hodges Manual Critique The Canon iR1210 is an All-in-One office printer designed to make an office more productive. It also has with it a six-page owners manual designed to inform the owner of many features of this printer and how it can make a person’s work around the office more productive by having this printer. This paper will provide critiques of the owner’s manual for the iR1210. The criteria for this critique will be in the following areas, Audience Recognition, Introduction, Glossary, Technical Description, and Graphics. The link to find the manual is by going to www.safemanuals.com and clicking on the Canon iR1210 link and that will enable anyone to download the manual. In writing a manual the goal is to offer customer support. Audience Recognition is a way to decide what to say and how to say. The writer needs to recognize who the readers are and give them what they want. The iR1210 manual does do very good job information in very simple terms what the iR1210 is capable of doing for the reader. The writing is very clear and to the point and avoids using any jargon that the reader may understand. The one downside for the audience recognition it does not have any instruction on how to use the product. It only really gives the readers highlights of the product so it does lack a bit of thoroughness. An Introduction to a manual is a way to promote good customer-company relationships...
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...Srs-Online Course Registration System Table of Contents 2. Introduction 1 2.1 Purpose 1 2.2 Scope 1 2.3 Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations 1 2.4 References 1 2.5 Overview 1 3. General Description 2 3.1 Product Perspective 2 3.2 Product Functions 2 3.3 User Characteristics 3 3.4 General Constraints 4 3.5 Assumptions and Dependencies 4 4. Specific Requirements 4 4.1 External Interface Requirements 4 4.1.1 User Interfaces 4 4.1.2 Hardware Interfaces 4 4.1.3 Software Interfaces 4 4.1.4 Communications Interfaces 4 4.2 Functional Requirements 4 4.3 Use Cases 7 4.4 Classes 8 4.5 Non-Functional Requirements 9 4.5.1 Performance 9 4.5.2 Reliability 9 4.5.3 Scalability 9 4.5.4 Security 9 5. Analysis Models 9 5.1 Sequence Diagrams 9 5.2 Collaboration Diagrams (STD) 10 5.2 State-Transition Diagrams (STD) 11 5.4 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM……………………………………………………………………………………….15 5.5 DEPLOYMENT DIAGRAM…………………………………………………………………………………15 2. Introduction The Online Student Course registration system is automated system where the user can register the student for various courses. This is proposed for automating the student’s course registration. While the student joins any educational institution his admission is made on the basis of his previous records. The students who wish to the institution must be given with the available course details. The student is allotted with a seat in the institution based on the marks that he scored in the institution he studied...
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...and not everyone nickname is related to them. Nicknames are also good to use because people do not know your real name and you can get away with things. Abbreviations are a short form of a words or phrases used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form of words. For example, Massachusetts abbreviation is Mass. or United States Marines Corps is USMC. I always abbreviate long word and long names. There are many words that I abbreviate. Memphis Tennessee is the state and city where I live and its abbreviation is Memphis, TN. I always use Memphis, TN on my mail. The word abbreviation itself can be abbreviated as abbr, abbrev. Acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging. Acronyms are used in everyday writing and spaeaking. My name is Tenisha Boyd and some people call me TB. TB is my initial letters of my first and last...
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...concern emanates from the parents facing new dilemmas: should they give their child a mobile phone? At what age? What effects could this have on their development, academic or otherwise? When texting became available to the masses there were bound to be those who had their doubts, and there still are. John Sutherland of University College London described emerging ‘text-speak’ in a 2002 paper as ‘bleak, bald, sad shorthand’ and accused it of ‘[masking] dyslexia, poor spelling and mental laziness.’ He deduced that ‘texting is penmanship for the illiterate’, however a multitude of surveys and numerous years of research show that texting can be harnessed to advance the literary proficiency of children. In order to abbreviate, use acronyms, elision and initialisms, children need a solid grammatical foundation on which to build upon. They must have the ability to differentiate the necessary sounds in a word in order to discontinue use of the unimportant or substitute them for another sound. A commonly used abbreviation is ‘cos’ in the place of ‘because’ as when spoken aloud, ‘-os’ sounds identical to ‘-ause’ The curbing of words in this manner isn’t a modern invention. Evidence has been discovered of Anglo-Saxon scribes abbreviating in this way when limited...
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...HR and Business Acronyms AA 1.) Affirmative Action 2.) Adverse Action AACU American Association of Colleges and Universities AAO Affirmative Action Office AAP Affirmative Action Plan AAR Average Annual Return AARP American Association of Retired Persons ABF Asset Based Financing ABM Activity Based Management ABMS Activities Based Management System ABS Asset Backed Security ACH Automated Clearing House AD & D Accidental Death and Dismemberment ADA Americans with Disabilities Act ADEA Age Discrimination and Employment Act ADL Activities of Daily Living ADP Automatic Data Processing ADR Alternative Dispute Resolution AE Account Executive AED United Arab Emirates AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations AFSCME American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employers AJB Americas Job Bank ALC Alien Labor Certification ALEX Automated Labor Exchange ALJ Administrative Law Judge ALM Asset Liability Management AM Asset Management AMA 1.) American Management Association 2.) American Medical Association AMPS Auction Market Preferred Stock ANSI American National Standards Institute AP Accounts Payable AR Accounts Receivable APB Accounting Principles Board APR Annual Percentage Rate APV Adjusted Present Value APY Annual Percentage Yield ASAE American Society of Association Executives ASB Accounting Standards Board ASHHRA American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration ...
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...character message on the social network Twitter. Social media’s been responsible for a lot of new words, for example tweeps, twitterverse and retweet. The word “friend” has become a verb, as in “she friended me on Facebook”. The term “check-in” no longer applies just to hotels and airports; these days it’s just as commonly used when someone reports where they are via a social network. Technology has also changed the way we write. Mobile phones have been responsible for a lot of the change, as users have moved towards texting as an everyday form of communication. For a start, WRITING IN UPPER CASE MEANS YOU’RE SHOUTING, while lower case writing is now the accepted form. Meanwhile, text language is full of abbreviations, missing vowels and acronyms. For example, the abbreviations LOL, OMG and gr8 are all widely used today but hadn’t been invented a few years ago. One of the drivers in this is that screen sizes and character limits are low, meaning that users need to abbreviate to fit their messages in. My Knowledge: ‘Emojis’ which are small digital images and ‘emoticons’ which are representation of a facial expression such as a smile or frown, formed by various combinations of keyboard characters are also now used because of technology. Their main purpose is to show how someone is feeling and their emotions rather than a person typing out how they are actually feeling. Technology has also enabled new words to be created such as ‘selfie’ ‘twerk’ ect. Without technology, there would...
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...Lakisha Wilson OP-276 Chapter 1-PG.3 (English & Word Usage) 1. Dr. Cindy Boswick will be presenting the program on ethics at our April meeting of IAAP. Rule: Use standard abbreviations for titles immediately before proper names. Use periods in abbreviations before the name. 2. Rev. Jacob Mathias spoke at the evening service of Forest Hills Presbyterian Church. Rule: Use standard abbreviations for titles immediately before proper names.Use periods in abbreviations before the name. 3. The concert will be at 3 p.m. Rule: Use only one period when an abbreviation containing a period falls at the end of the sentence. 4. The company is located at West Apple Lane. Rule: Avoid abbreviating the following categories of words unless these words appear in tabulations or enumerations. Compass directions when they are part of an address. 5. The Hon. Eleanor Isenberg will speak at the commencement. Rule: Use standard abbreviations for titles immediately before proper names. Spell out titles such as Reverend and Honorable when preceded by the. 6. AT&T has expanded its operations. Rule: When an abbreviation includes an ampersand, generally, do not space before or after the ampersand. 7. We are scheduled to take an IQ test tomorrow. Rule: Use the article a before an abbreviation beginning with a consonant sound. Use the article an before an abbreviation beginning with a vowel sound. 8. The game is scheduled to take place March 15. ...
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...What is technology doing to and for us? Sitting on the playground with a tablet avoiding a couple kids; playing with jump ropes, draw with chalk on the ground, playing hop scotch, teeter totter and swinging on the monkey bars. A seven-year-old boy is playing basketball on the tablet and when asked by his friend to come play basketball on the court. He reply’s “I don’t wanna, I’m playing on my tablet.” In schools, students are learning skills that they will need to carry them through life and to find jobs. Schools use technology more and more everyday to teach kids and relate to them. Kids are allowed to bring their own devices to class such as tablets, Ipads, and Mini Laptops and use applications that the teacher may require them to. Clearly, technology is becoming increasingly essential to learning. Students with basic academic skills improve with the use of everyday technology. With the speed of technology solving problems is becoming achievable at a faster pace. A good example of that is finding out about schools closing during bad weather. You can have an email sent to you, or even a text message sent to your mobile device, letting know if you have class. Performing school tasks as in writing research papers, finding out your grades for the semester, and submitting work is so much easier. For example flipping through pages to find a word in the dictionary while looking over it once or twice became easier. Now, you can type it in online and in seconds...
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...Mai Lo PPA Summary The benefits using the abbreviations within a medical document is that Physicians spend a lot of their time with documentation. Abbreviations allow physicians to perform more work in less time. In other words, abbreviations will make your work flow a lot more efficient. However, the limitations outweigh the benefits. It can lead to confusion of what the writer is talking about or unsure of the abbreviation. The abbreviation could mean more than one thing and have to know what the abbreviation stands for. The medical abbreviation list constantly changes, so this adds to the poor communication in the medical field. Some of the abbreviations are permitted and some are not permitted, so you will need to know this information before using them. The abbreviations supports the diagnosis for Jane Dare’s encounter it is a very efficient way of maintaining a patient’s privacy. Everybody does not need to know a patient’s medical history or what is going on with a patient or resident and allows their privacy to be protected. Limitations of Medical Abbreviations. There are often more than one meaning for an abbreviation, which in turn can cause confusion if the person tending to the patient is unaware of their medical history. An example being the letters EP. This abbreviation could mean either an ectopic pregnancy or evoked potential. If the person reading the chart is not careful, a mistake could be made. If a doctor were to write and incorrect dosage, it could...
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...Accounting Acronyms Scavenger Hunt After completing this lab session you should be able to: 1. Understand the importance of each of the following organizations: FASB, IASB, and SEC 2. Be able to state the head of each of the organizations 3. Understand the importance of GAAP 4. Be familiar with the associated organization’s websites 1. Navigate to the SEC website – www.sec.gov 2. Answer the following questions a. Who is the Chairman of the SEC? The Chairman is Elisse B. Walter. b. What is the main purpose of the SEC? The mission of the SEC is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets and facilitate capital formation. c. When was the SEC created and why was it created? The SEC was created in 1934 to enforce the newly-passed securities laws, to promote stability in the markets and protect investors. d. What is an upcoming event scheduled by the SEC? An upcoming event that the SEC has scheduled is the Investors Advisory Committee on Friday, January 18, 2013 at 10:00am. 3. Navigate to the FASB website – www.fasb.org 4. Answer the following questions a. Who is the Chairman of FASB? The Chairman of the FASB is Leslie F. Seidman. b. What is the main purpose of FASB? The mission of the FASB is to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting that foster financial reporting by nongovernmental entities that provides decision useful information to investors and other users of financial...
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...National 2014 Constituency 1 Party Acronym First Name Last Name Sex Total Votes Recieved U.P.M Alfred Jones Male 1259 W.N.A Lyssa Mallington Female 989 PDR Bill Clinton Male 967 D.A.P Milla Debson Female 500 Sum 3715 Avg 928.75 Constituency 2 Party Acronym First Name Last Name Sex Total Votes Recieved D.A.P Xing Yao Lin Male 1146 U.P.M Arthur Kirkland Male 1728 W.N.A Mark Millington Male 1528 PDR Silla Bhagwan Female 1051 Sum 5453 Avg 1363.25 Constituency 3 Party Acronym First Name Last Name Sex Total Votes Recieved D.A.P Meg Profiety Female 1491 U.P.M Francis Bonnefoy Male 6500 W.N.A Safferr Mildred Male 2270 PDR Dilton Magredesh Male 1114 Sum 11375 Avg 2843.75 Constituency 4 Party Acronym First Name Last Name Sex Total Votes Recieved PDR Gill Bertram Male 1311 D.A.P Kiku Honda Male 1856 W.N.A Derek Malton Male 1191 U.P.M Sallma Milton Female 1141 Friday, August 29, 2014 Page 1 of 3 Sum 5499 Avg 1374.75 Constituency 5 Party Acronym First Name Last Name Sex Total Votes Recieved D.A.P Seneca Crane Male 1109 U.P.M Yao Wang Male 1623 W.N.A Ildred Snow Male 1044 PDR Menta Khan Male 1058 Sum 4834 Avg 1208.5 Constituency 6 Party Acronym First Name Last Name Sex Total Votes Recieved D.A.P Feliciano Vargas Male 1676 U.P.M Neymar Duke Male 1277 W.N.A Ronaldo Messi Male 1437 PDR Mel Gibson Male 450 Sum 4840 Avg 1210 Constituency 7 Party Acronym First Name Last Name Sex Total Votes Recieved ...
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... * HL7 * ICD-9 * UB-04 AMR There are a few meanings of the acronym AMR in healthcare like, American Medical Response, Active Metabolic Rate, Ambulatory Medical Record, just to name a few. The one that stands out the most from a personal view is American Medical Response. This service provides emergency response, and dispatch services, non-emergency transport services and air ambulance services. The most important aspect of this service is providing services to the medically ill, severely injured, persons that are immobile and need assistance with getting to the hospital to receive proper medical attention. Without this service, hundreds of people can be in danger of losing their lives or the lives of a loved one. CMR CMR is an acronym for Computerized Medical Records. Computerized Medical Records are the digital counterparts to patient medical records kept in paper files and folders in healthcare offices. For healthcare professionals, the benefit of using computerized medical records is helping to save time and money. This system prevents patients from waiting long unnecessary periods of time for a nurse to retrieve their records. An important aspect of a CMR provides a more secure location for storage of files which when physical, are only guarded with locks (Wisegeek.com, 2003-2015). CMS The acronym CMS also has various meanings in healthcare. The most popular meaning for this acronym is Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. Medicaid is a...
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...beginning of its usage and English in the modern day is astounding. It has come a very long way from how it used to be. This is due, in part, to the fact that English speakers are constantly adding new words and phrases. These days, it is common to see people texting on their phones and chatting on social media sites. To decrease the amount of characters they have to type, many use abbreviations or acronyms. Abbreviations and acronyms make it faster and easier to share information. They have become very prevalent in modern society. Acronyms like YOLO, which means “You Only Live Once”, have become so popular in writing that they have become commonly used while speaking. This form of speaking has become very popular among young people. In years to come, it would not be improbable if this acronym or acronyms like it became actual words. This would not be the first time an acronym has become a word though. The word laser was an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The word Snafu was originally a military acronym for Situation Normal, All F***ked Up. These acronyms and many more have made their way into dictionaries and common language so it is not a stretch to assume that newer ones like YOLO would later become words in their own right. Phrases are used every day as short hand for describing...
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