...In 1894, Lowell Observatory was founded by the astronomer Percival Lowell. The Lowell Observatory is located on top of one of the mountains in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. It is one of the firstborn observatories in the United States, and it is one of the largest observatories in the world. It is very hard to start an observatory in the nineteenth century because of four main things. First, in the nineteenth century, there was a lack of technology, and the experts in technology had the minimum equipment to help in the field. Furthermore, there was a lack of experience, and there were not many experts in the field. In addition, there was a lack of funding, and it was hard to open an observatory on personal fund. Moreover, finding the perfect...
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...Derrick L. Jackson Cultural Diversity in Criminal Justice CRJS410 - 1304A - 01 Professor: Samantha Carlo Unit 1 Individual Project 1 July 25, 2013 Abstract Within this paper a report is written for the California Chief Attorney in efforts to support a presentation to the County Commission. Key components of victimology, history of victimology, theories, and differences between criminology and victimology are discussed. The flagstaff of safe houses for abused women and children, along with our nation’s first rape crises center are highlighted. The contribution from our history’s civil rights movement and how it has played a part in the U.S. laws are explained, along with children’s rights groups and the problems child victims face in the criminal justice system. In the conclusion of this paper, readers will be given a path to take in regards to advocacy groups for victims. Before we begin to understand the concept of victimology I feel it is important to first understand the definition of a victim, and the history in which victimology stems from. To be a victim means that you are a person who individually or collectively, has suffered harm, including physical or mental injury, emotional suffering, economic loss or substantial impairment of your fundamental rights, through acts or omissions that are in violation of criminal laws operative within member state, including those laws proscribing criminal abuse of power (UN Declaration 1985 on Basic Principles of Justice for Victims...
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...Sci Eng Ethics (2011) 17:597–605 DOI 10.1007/s11948-010-9213-7 Teaching Ethics to Engineers: Ethical Decision Making Parallels the Engineering Design Process Bridget Bero • Alana Kuhlman Received: 14 January 2010 / Accepted: 18 May 2010 / Published online: 4 June 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Abstract In order to fulfill ABET requirements, Northern Arizona University’s Civil and Environmental engineering programs incorporate professional ethics in several of its engineering courses. This paper discusses an ethics module in a 3rd year engineering design course that focuses on the design process and technical writing. Engineering students early in their student careers generally possess good black/white critical thinking skills on technical issues. Engineering design is the first time students are exposed to ‘‘grey’’ or multiple possible solution technical problems. To identify and solve these problems, the engineering design process is used. Ethical problems are also ‘‘grey’’ problems and present similar challenges to students. Students need a practical tool for solving these ethical problems. The stepwise engineering design process was used as a model to demonstrate a similar process for ethical situations. The ethical decision making process of Martin and Schinzinger was adapted for parallelism to the design process and presented to students as a step-wise technique for identification of the pertinent ethical issues, relevant moral theories, possible...
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...Classic Case 6 W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. Frank Shipper Salisbury State University Charles C. Manz Arizona State University To make money and have fun. W. L. Gore On July 26, 1976, Jack Dougherty, a newly minted MBA from the College of William and Mary, dressed in a dark blue suit and bursting with resolve, reported for his first day at W. L. Gore & Associates. He presented himself to Bill Gore, shook hands firmly, looked him in the eye, and said he was ready for anything. What happened next was one thing for which Jack was not ready. Gore replied, “That’s fine, Jack, fine. Why don’t you look around and find something you’d like to do.” Three frustrating weeks later he found that something, dressed in jeans, loading fabric into the mouth of a machine that laminated the company’s patented Gore-Tex membrane to fabric. By 1982, Jack had become responsible for all advertising and marketing in the fabrics group. This story was part of the folklore that was heard over and over about W. L. Gore. By 1991, the process was slightly more structured. New associates took a journey through the business before settling into their own positions, regardless of the position for which they were hired. A new sales associate in the Fabric Division might spend six weeks rotating through different areas before concentrating on sales and marketing. Among other things, he or she might learn how Gore-Tex fabric was made, what it could and could not do, how...
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...Chapter 15—Marketing Performance Measurement MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The balanced scorecard measures the performance of a business unit from: |a. |a customer perspective. | |b. |a financial perspective. | |c. |a learning and growth perspective. | |d. |all of the above. | |e. |(a) and (b) only. | ANS: D PTS: 1 NAT: AACSB Reflective Thinking | CB&E Model Strategy | R&D Managing strategy & innovation 2. The level of marketing control that examines whether the strategy is being implemented as planned and whether it produces the intended results is termed: |a. |strategic control. | |b. |annual plan control. | |c. |strategic component control. | |d. |profitability control. ...
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...SUPPLIER DATABASE REGISTRATION NAME OF SERVICE PROVIDER: _________________________________ (To be completed by supplier) FOR OFFICIAL PURPOSES Verified By: Verified by: ________________ Signature: ________________ Persal No: ______________ Date: ______________ Captured By: Captured by: ________________ Signature: ________________ Persal No: ______________ Date: ______________ Entity Maintenance No: Captured by: ________________ Signature: ________________ Persal No: ______________ Date: ______________ APPLICATION ACCEPTED APPLICATION REJECTED DoJ & CD Supplier Number SUPPLIER DATABASE REGISTRATION The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) is an outwardly focused, customer-centred government department mandated to uphold and protect the Constitution and Rule of Law in the interest of a safer and more secure South Africa. DoJ & CD, pursuant to the provisions of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), Act 1 of 1999) read with DoJ&CD Supply Chain Management Policy invites service providers to register on DoJ&CD’s database of suppliers/services as official vendors and suppliers for the 2012 to 2013 Financial Year. Suppliers and service providers currently registered as vendors on the DoJ&CD database should also re-apply for considerations to be re-registered on the DoJ&CD vendor/supplier database. A list of commodities requirements are enlisted in the supplier database application form. Prospective suppliers/service providers may apply...
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...Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction The modern world in which we live is often termed a “knowledge society”, education and information have become factors of production that is considered potentially more valuable than labor and capital. In a global setting, investment in human capital has become a need for an international competitiveness. The role of science in our society is one of the central features of our present civilization; it is the age of technological and scientific revolution. Science and Technology is the most dynamic cultural force in the world. Science develops a scientifically literate society and makes an individual more responsive to the needs of the society and to the national development goals. Science and Technology must develop to the individual as stated and mandated in the Constitution for his development and to the nation as a whole. Scientific discoveries and inventions led into the development, progress and industrialization of the nation. Science plays a fundamental role in the life of an individual. It prepares the person in this changing world by equipping him the knowledge, intellectual and scientific skills and attitudes. It helps an individual to explore and explain truths producing useful models of reality of this physical world. It can also provide answers to many of our questions about thing in the environment and the observable phenomena. Science is a very practical subject that students must have to enjoy with...
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...to pre-dam conditions. Novel communities such as return current channel marshes have developed in the canyon due to the lack of scour in backwater habitats. Overall, there has been a significant increase in the areal extent of riparian vegetation along this section of the Colorado River. The 1996 test flood was expected to scour existing riparian and marsh vegetation. Monitoring conducted after the flood revealed that vegetation was buried rather than scoured, and was able to recover to pre-flood levels within six months. Flows the size of the test flood, 45,000 cfs (1,274 m3/s), are inadequate to achieve current vegetation management goals, and will thus need to be modified if vegetation management goals are to be met. INTRODUCTION This paper will discuss the characteristics that make riparian zones in general extremely important ecosystems, and more specifically the riparian areas along the Colorado River from Glen Canyon Dam to Lake Mead. I will describe the processes that affect the structure and function of riparian areas, as well as the effects riparian vegetation has on other biotic and abiotic components of the system. I will also describe the historical composition of native riparian vegetation...
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...The Effect of Learning Styles on Course Performance: A Quantile Regression Analysis Working Paper Series—08-02 | January 2008 Pin Ng, Ph.D. Associate Professor James Pinto, Ph.D. Professor Susan K. Williams, Ph.D. Associate Professor All professors at: Northern Arizona University The W. A. Franke College of Business PO Box 15066 Flagstaff, AZ 86011.5066 The Effect of Learning Styles on Course Performance: A Quantile Regression Analysis Introduction Students have different learning styles. “They preferentially focus on different types of information, tend to operate on perceived information in different ways, and achieve understanding at different rates” (Felder, 1993, p. 286). In this study, we investigated the relationship between student performance and learning styles for students enrolled in a basic business statistics course. This course was recently redesigned in order to facilitate learning for students of all learning styles. A learner-centered approach that incorporated multiple teaching styles such as student responsibility via mastery and co-operative learning that used teams in several course components was adopted. In addition, the focus of the redesigned course was on interpretation and implications of statistical results instead of the mechanics of computation (Lockwood, Ng, & Pinto, 2007). To assess our success in designing a course that facilitates learning for all learning styles, we evaluated the impact of students’ learning style...
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...requirements fro the degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology, this thesis entitled “The Adversity Quotient and Academic Performance among College Students at St. Joseph’s College, Quezon City” was prepared and submitted to the College of Arts and Science by Zhou, Huijuan. Approved by the committee on Oral Defense on March 8, 2009 with a grade of passed. Mrs. Nelia G. Prieto Chair, Liberal Arts Ms. Mildred Lazo Panel Member Mr. Francisco Lambojon Panel Member Accepted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of Sciences Major in Psychology. Sr. Josephini P. Ambatali, SFIC Dean Acknowledgement This work would not have been possible without the presence and contribution of many valued individuals. Through this limited paper, I wish to express my endless, sincerest and eternal gratitude to all of you. To God Almighty, who has been with me all my life, for without his revelation and guidance, I would not have had this chance to experience being a student in the foreign college for the past four years. However, because of His grace in my life, I am who I am today. Thank you for being with me always and loving me so! To Sr. Manlin, Chang...
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...the requirements fro the degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology, this thesis entitled “The Adversity Quotient and Academic Performance among College Students at St. Joseph’s College, Quezon City” was prepared and submitted to the College of Arts and Science by Zhou, Huijuan. Approved by the committee on Oral Defense on March 8, 2009 with a grade of passed. Mrs. Nelia G. Prieto Chair, Liberal Arts Ms. Mildred Lazo Panel Member Mr. Francisco Lambojon Panel Member Accepted in partial fulfillment of the degree of Bachelor of Sciences Major in Psychology. Sr. Josephini P. Ambatali, SFIC Dean Acknowledgement This work would not have been possible without the presence and contribution of many valued individuals. Through this limited paper, I wish to express my endless, sincerest and eternal gratitude to all of you. To God Almighty, who has been with me all my life, for without his revelation and guidance, I would not have had this chance to experience being a student in the foreign college for the past four years. However, because of His grace in my life, I am who I am today. Thank you for being with me always and loving me so! To Sr. Manlin, Chang RSCJ and the Sisters of the...
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...●TANGLEWOODCASEBOOKfor use withSTAFFING ORGANIZATIONS●●6th Ed.Kammeyer-Mueller | TANGLEWOOD CASEBOOK To accompany Staffing Organizations, sixth edition, 2009. Prepared by John Kammeyer-Mueller Warrington College of Business University of Florida Gainesville, Florida Telephone: 352-392-0108 E-mail: kammeyjd@ufl.edu Copyright ©2009 Mendota House, Inc. Herbert G. Heneman III President Telephone: 608-233-4417 E-mail: hheneman@bus.wisc.edu INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE CONCEPT | Rationale for the Tanglewood Case Many of the most important lessons in business education involve learning how to place academic concepts in a work setting. For applied topics, like staffing, learning how concepts are applied in the world of work also allow us see how the course is relevant to our own lives. The use of these cases will serve as a bridge between the major themes in the textbook Staffing Organizations and the problems faced by managers on a daily basis. The Tanglewood case is closely intertwined with textbook concepts. Most assignments in the case require reference to specific tables and examples in the book. After completing these cases, you will be much more able to understand and apply the material in the textbook. With this in mind, it should be noted that the cases are designed to correspond with the types of information found in work environments. This means that for many important decisions, the right answers will not always be easy to detect...
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...The Grassroots Battle: Wal-Mart Supercenter Rosemead Stephen J.J. McGuire, Christine Chueh, Tia Mao & Isela Mercado California State University, Los Angeles September 11, 2008 Wal-Mart, founded in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas, was the largest retail chain in the world. Its growth was derived from a wide range of competitive advantages, such as Wal-Mart’s sophisticated use of information technology to keep track of and reorder items, the use of “Just-in-Time” shipments of merchandise from distribution centers that eliminated the need for costly in-store inventory storage2, and the sheer economies of scale it achieved compared to its rivals. Wal-Mart also exploited “economies of density” to make the most of its centralized distribution hubs.3 These advantages, combined with its “Every Day Low Price” strategy, enabled Wal-Mart to serve its target market, of which the residents of Rosemead, California were typical. In 2003, Wal-Mart’s attempt to establish a Supercenter 12 miles from downtown Los Angeles in the city of Inglewood, California was stopped by a community grassroots effort to keep the retailer out. Wal-Mart then diverted its expansion plan to the nearby city of Rosemead, where a new Supercenter would benefit from two Wal-Mart distribution centers within a cluster of ten neighboring Wal-Mart stores. In September 2004, the Rosemead City Council voted in favor of Wal-Mart’s plans to open its first Supercenter in Los Angeles country, alienating many residents who felt their...
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...ADRA AC&H AC&H H&S ADRA HA HA H&S OI REC NAT NAT OI VOC VOC SGO&H REC SGO&H pathfinder honor book 2014 revision general conference youth ministries department -1- ADRA AC&H H&S NAT HA OI SGO&H REC VOC pathfinder honor book 2014 revision general conference youth ministries department -3- General Conference Youth Ministries Department Director: Gilbert Cangy General Conference Associate Youth Director/Pathfinder World Director: Jonatan Tejel General Conference Honors Committee: Jonatan Tejel, Chairman Vanessa Correa, Secretary Gennady Kasap: ESD Youth Director Busi Khumalo: SID Youth Director Mark O’Ffill: NAD representative John Sommerfeld: SPD representative Paul Tompkins: TED Youth Director Jobbie Yabut: SSD Youth Director Udolcy Zukowski: SAD Pathfinder Director Copyright © 2014 by the Youth Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist® Church All rights reserved. Published 2014 First edition published 1998. Second edition 2011. Third edition 2014 Rights for publishing this book outside the U.S.A. or in non-English languages are administered by the Youth Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist® Church. For additional information, please visit our website, www.gcyouthministries. org, email youthinfo@gc.adventist.org, or write to Youth Ministries Department, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists® Church, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904, U.S.A. Cover and inside design by Jonatan Tejel Printed in the United...
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...Health Net Access Member Handbook A helpful guide to getting services (Combined Evidence of Coverage and Disclosure Form) Benefit Year 2014 1 HELP IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE AND FOR THE DISABLED: HOW CAN I GET HELP? As a member of Health Net, you have access to a service that offers interpretive services in over 150 different languages. If you need this handbook or other health information in another language or in an alternative format such as large font, audio or accessible pdf, please contact Member Services at [1-888-788-4408 TTY/TDD: 1-888- 788-4872]. Also, if you need interpretive services, please call Member Services at least five (5) days before your medical appointment to arrange language interpretive services in time for your appointments. There is no cost for language interpretation services. You are not required to use family or friends to interpret for you. Como afiliado a Health Net, usted tiene acceso a servicios de interpretación en más de 150 idiomas. Si necesita este manual u otro tipo de información sobre salud traducido a otro idioma o en un formato diferente (como letra grande, audio o PDF accesible), comuníquese con el Departamento de Servicios al Afiliado al 1-888-788-4408 o a la línea TDD/TTY 1-888-7884872. Además, si necesita servicios de interpretación, comuníquese con el Departamento de Servicios al Afiliado al menos cinco (5) días antes de su cita médica para coordinar los servicios de interpretación de idiomas; así podrá disponer de ellos en sus citas...
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