...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...regardless if the genetically modified foods are the same as their original food. Mather supports her argument by using a variety of techniques, appealing to her audience through logical examples, emotions, establishing ethos, excellent choice of words. However, her argument could have been stronger if she addressed any opposing arguments. Throughout her article, Mather provides her readers many examples and cases to appeal to them logically. She estimated that 60 percent or more of processed foods available in the United States have been genetically modified because most processed foods contain corn or soy, which are targets of genetic engineering. She further states that these genetically modified foods are not labeled because “the biotech industry has convinced the Food and Drug Administration that genetically modified crops are not substantially different from conventional varieties.” Using such an example helps to boost her credibility because it helps her audience to believe her more since she used statistics to help support her argument. Another example of how Mather used logos to win her audience was when she gave a statistic that a genetically modified hormone that was thought to be safe was proved to be dangerous. She began by stating that recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, a genetically modified hormone that is injected into dairy cows to stimulate more milk production, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration because there as “no significant difference”...
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... Table of contents Introduction 03 Background 04 A fast growing economy An expanding pharmaceutical market Government-provided healthcare improving, but private healthcare dominates Domestic market overview 09 Background Consolidation underway, despite challenges Contract manufacturing Vaccines Over the counter market holds significant potential Reaching the untapped rural market Growing Research & Development 15 Overview Clinical trials Biotech and biosimilars on track for growth Other growth areas Bioinformatics 20 Stem cell research Medical devices Global Pharma’s evolving business models and options in India 23 Background Export-oriented business (Contract Research and Manufacturing Services) Licensing Franchising Joint ventures Wholly-owned subsidiaries Practical concerns 27 Infrastructure Tax environment Counterfeiting Intellectual property Conclusion 30 Related reading: Pharma 2020 31 References 32 Acronyms 38 Introduction The pharmaceutical industry’s main markets are under serious pressure. North America, Europe and Japan jointly account for 82% of audited and unaudited drug sales; total sales reached US$773 billion in 2008, according to IMS Health. Annual growth in the European Union (EU) has slowed to 5.8%, and sales are increasing at an even more sluggish rate in Japan (2.1%) and North America (1.4%).1 Impending policy changes, promoting the use of generics...
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...TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT A RESOURCE BOOK Edited by Adil Najam Mark Halle Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT A RESOURCE BOOK Edited by Adil Najam Mark Halle Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz Trade and Environment: A Resource Book © 2007 International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the Regional and International Networking Group (The Ring). Trade and Environment: A Resource Book Edited by Adil Najam, Mark Halle and Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz ISBN 978-1-895536-99-7 Published by International Institute for Sustainable Development, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, The Regional and International Networking Group This publication is available online at http://www.trade-environment.org http://www.iisd.org http://www.ictsd.org http://www.ring-alliance.org Cover photos from iStockphoto. Readers are encouraged to quote and reproduce this material for educational, not-for-profit purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. Printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper. Trade and Environment: A Resource Book The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD, http://www.iisd.org) contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change, measurement and assessment, and natural resources management. Through the Internet, we report on international negotiations and...
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...Confirming Pages bye80180_appB_539-654.qxd 11/19/09 9:17 AM Page 539 technology ventures - management dell’imprenditorialità e dell’innovazione Richard C. Dorf, Andrew J. Nelson, Roberto Vona Copyright © 2011 – The McGraw-Hill Companies srl A P P E N D I X B Cases 539 bye80180_appB_539-654.qxd 11/19/09 9:17 AM Page 540 Confirming Pages technology ventures - management dell’imprenditorialità e dell’innovazione Richard C. Dorf, Andrew J. Nelson, Roberto Vona Copyright © 2011 – The McGraw-Hill Companies srl 540 APPENDIX B Cases TREXEL We’ve never met a customer who wasn’t interested in our technology. —David Bernstein, CEO of Trexel David Bernstein hung up the phone with Alex d’Arbeloff, Trexel’s largest investor, and contemplated an upcoming Board of Directors meeting scheduled for June 25, 1998. The meeting was only 10 weeks away and Bernstein, Trexel’s president and chief executive officer, needed to present a coherent vision of the company’s new strategy. Bernstein believed that Trexel’s patented technology for manufacturing foamed plastics had the potential to revolutionize much of the worldwide plastics industry. His innovative process technology, known as MuCell, allowed the Woburn, Massachusetts company to produce foamed plastic utilizing 25% to 50% less material than traditional solid plastics without a significant decrease in the strength of the plastic. Bernstein believed the market for products produced via this...
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...TERTIARY EDUCATION COMMISSION Graduate Tracer Study 2011 A Preliminary Report February 2012 Table of Contents List of Tables ......................................................................................................................................... ii List of Figures........................................................................................................................................ ii List of Acronyms..................................................................................................................................iiii 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Preface…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….1 Background……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..1 Objectives of the Tracer Study.............................................................................................................. 2 Methodology......................................................................................................................................... 3 Population and Sample Design.............................................................................................................4 Survey Implementation.........................................................................................................................5 Coverage of this Preliminary Report.....................................................................................................5 Graduates' Characteristics......................
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...| 53 | EPC Industry in India: Issues and Challenges EPC Report 4 Cover pages.indd 53 2/20/2011 8:19:18 PM Contents Chemtech Foreword KPMG Foreword Executive Summary Acronyms Used Methodology Coverage and Scope Setting the Context Value Creation Strategies Key External Drivers and Issues Key Internal Issues End-Use Industry Views EPC Industry in India Action Agenda for Sustained Growth Acknowledgements About Chemtech About KPMG in India 48 51 52 52 2 3 4 4 8 8 10 17 22 29 33 |1 | EPC Industry in India: Issues and Challenges EPC Report New.indd 1 2/20/2011 8:13:28 PM CHEMTECH Foreword trong infrastructure and industry are critical for India as the country sees leapfrogging growth. As far as both these sectors are concerned, India is in a sweet spot, which has created multitude of opportunities in the fields of engineering, capital goods and construction. S Though, India has witnessed significant investments in both industrial and infrastructure space, the growth has remained restricted due to various weaknesses of the Indian EPC industry and difficulties for the foreign players to ply in the market. Jasu Shah Founder & Chairman, CHEMTECH Foundation At this juncture, it is an imperative to address the challenges, which restrict the growth of this sector in India and will continue to repress industrial development lest addressed. CHEMTECH has made an attempt to address the issues faced by the EPC industry through each edition of its international...
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