...background/context: the need to be met, problem to be solved, benefits to be gained. Problem Statement or Needs Analysis A problem statement or needs analysis tells: • What the problem is / What is needed • When and where the problem takes place / When and where it is needed • Why the problem happens / Why it is needed • Who is affected by the problem / Who needs it • Why the problem is significant—for example, the short-term and long-term costs or ramifications of not solving it or the benefits of pursuing a solution. Solution or Recommendation • List criteria a solution. What should a solution accomplish? • Compare and contrast alternative solutions (if appropriate). • Promote the best solution—your essential proposal—by stressing how it best meets the needs or solves the problem. Refer to the solution criteria and explicit benefits. • Prove the solution’s practical workability by highlighting the following: o Outcomes of the solution, plan, or project o Requirements (what is needed to implement your proposal) o Schedules (if applicable) o Budget or cost breakdowns (if applicable) o Methods of monitoring costs and quality (if applicable). Conclusion • Summarize the problem...
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... Inexpensive short life 28. Replacement of a mechanical system 29. Use pneumatic or hydraulic systems 30. Flexible film or thin membranes 31. Use of porous materials 32. Changing the colour 33. Homogeneity 34. Rejecting and regenerating parts 35. Transforming physical or chemical states 36. Phase transition 37. Thermal expansion 38. Use strong oxidisers 39. Inert environment 40. Composite materials THE 40 PRINCIPLES The 40 Principles are solution triggers, very general ideas of how to solve a contradiction. They are the easiest TRIZ tool to use, and the one most likely to give us good solutions fairly easily and quickly. They are the total number of ways (40) the world has found to solve contradictions. Today in the West most engineers are taken aback to find there are only 40 simple, and easy to learn, rules for solving engineering problems with conflicts. Yes these 40 Inventive Principles may be used to help solve both technical and non-technical problems quickly and simply. They show us how and where others have successfully eliminated contradictions and take us to the proven, powerful recorded solutions contained...
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...Writing in Mathematics 40. What does it mean if two quantities vary directly? What it means is that when two variables are related in this kind of way the ratio of their values always remain the same which the two variables are said to be in direct variation. 41. In your own words, explain how to solve a variation problem. When attempting to solve the best way to go about it would be to follow the 4 step process. The first step would be to write down the selected equation. All direct variation problems are solved by using the equation y=kx. The second step would be to use the information given in the problem to find the value of K which is called the constant of variation or the constant of proportionality. The next step in this process would be to rewrite the equation from step one substituting in the value of k found in step two. The final step would be to make use of the equation found in step three and the remaining information given in the problem to answer the question asked also when solving word problems it helps to include units in your final answer as well. 42. What does it mean if two quantities vary inversely? With two quantities with inverse variation as one quantity increases the other quantity decreases. 43. Explain what is meant by combined variation. Give an example with your explanation. Combined variation involves a combination of direct or joint variation and indirect variation. For example if y varies directly with x and inversely with z...
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...Man, throughout his existence, is almost always confronted with different kinds of problems. What to do with these problems and how to solve them are questions which often placed him in a dilemma. Sometime he may be able to find solutions to these problems or he may not. Some solutions may be simple or may be complicated. But what is certain is that there is always a solution to every problem that man is besieging with. This solution may be outright or may go through different Mathematics process. Mathematics plays a vital role in our life to brighten up our humanly uncertainties and complexities. Mathematics is exquisitely designed to answer some of our questions, as Pythagoras said; “The world is a harmony of numbers.” Mathematics, through sometimes puzzling and complicated, is enjoyable. It is full of excitement when strong determination and constant interest is properly established and upgraded. Students feel jubilant and rewarded when correct solution is achieved. “The harder the struggle, the sweeter the victory is a common expression. This study was brought about when Mathematics, especially problem solving processes, Mathematics interest and Mathematics aptitude. Problem solving, which the National Council for Teacher in Mathematics (NCTM) 1980’s widely heralded statement in its agenda for action and problem solving has been the theme of the council. Knowledge and skills of Mathematics problem solving is believed to help school goers solve problems in their day...
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...Case studies can be used in any academic discipline. The purpose of a case study is to provide a more thorough analysis of a situation or "case" which might reveal interesting information about that classification of things. For the business student, a case study could be done on a particular company; for the political science student a case study might concern a particular country or government/administration. Case studies could be written about individuals, such as how kids learn to read, for example, about organizations and their management practices, or the results of applying a computer science program or process to a problem. You might be trying to figure out how to solve the problem of illiteracy or environmental degradation. The sky is the limit. The key is to take your large problem and bring it down to the level of the individual or single unit. A case study is an analytical piece. It involves heavy research and application of theories, concepts, and knowledge commonly discussed in the field of study. It highlights common problems in the field and will illuminate those problems through the in-depth study of its application to one individual, one company, one government, or one of whatever you are studying. Most case studies are an attempt to solve one of these problems that are known in the field. Steps to Writing the Case Study 1) Determine what your case study will be about. Think about the problems you have discussed in class or you have come across in...
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...The nature of educational research is analogous with the nature of research itself, which is systematic, reliable and valid to find the “truth”, investigates knowledge, and solves problems (William Wiersma, 1991). Moreover, educational research process involves steps to collect the information in order to investigate problems and knowledge. However, the educational research is more complex because it can use various approaches and strategies to solve problems in educational setting. It also can involve many disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, behaviour, and history. In addition, educational research is important because of contributing knowledge development, practical improvement, and policy information (John W.Creswell, 2005). Therefore, educators can use those research findings to improve their competences and teaching and learning process. Furthermore, the characteristics of educational research are a part of its nature. According to Gary Anderson (1998), there are ten characteristics of educational research. I tried to classify those into three categories, which are the purpose of research, the procedures of research, and the role of researcher. The purposes of research are to solve the problems, investigate knowledge, and establish the principles in educational phenomena. In short, it focuses on solving the problems and developing knowledge. Furthermore, procedure is an important characteristic of educational research, which involves colleting data with accurate...
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...military retirement. Being in the service for all of these years will place a small amount of fear regarding entering the civilian workforce because of the leadership style you are taught in the military. However, with the tools I have gained from this class; I feel that my transition from military life to the civilian sector will be easier than I thought. We as military personnel have learned how to wear a uniform properly and how to greet personnel with respect but we have not been taught how to properly prepare for retirement. When asked to write a resume in this course, I felt this assignment would be a challenge because the first thing I thought about was “the future”. Asking myself what exactly does my own future have in store for me and how do I prepare. Immediately, I took this assignment serious; gathering my thoughts to put into my resume because what if there was no tomorrow for me in the U.S. Navy; what if I had to get out today “what would I do”. I really enjoyed this assignment along with the cover letter because it challenged me to “think, what if” and “how do I prepare”, so this really hit home for me. “The Tips for Writing Resumes” was a great source to refer to for this assignment. Various tips were presented with great detail. The instructor’s comments were helpful when moving on to each assignment because it demonstrated the student was on the right path. The Information Interview was out of my comfort zone in a sense; even though I talk to...
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...Logic Application Project Written By: Mrs. Tangela Wright Professor: Ms. Terry Clark Course Title: Algebra With Applications Date: March 2, 2012 The question that has been asked to be solved during this logic application project is as follows: “ What Cards do I hold.” In completing the answer to this question one must remember the following “ An Experiment is an observation on any physical occurrence. The sample space of an experiment is the set of all it’s possible outcomes.” I must say that since I am not a person that enjoys playing card cards. I would have to look at this information the same way that I would look at and have taught my daughter (9) to play Domino’s. In solving this problem one most look at all the information that has been provide and be sure to write this information on paper so that you will be able to look at the complete picture and us the variables that have been provided in order to solve the problem. One can say that the strategy to solving this problem could be one of two methods. You could use “Process of Elimination” or Probabilities of Unions and Intersection new information has been reveled about the cards that the other players have. You would need to keep that information in mind and use it to solve the situation to uncover that cards that you may be hold just like in the 1st example. My conclusion as to what cards, I have in this game of chance are the following 5, 9 and 4. I am able to get to this...
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...The nature of educational research is analogous with the nature of research itself, which is systematic, reliable and valid to find the “truth”, investigates knowledge, and solves problems (William Wiersma, 1991). Moreover, educational research process involves steps to collect the information in order to investigate problems and knowledge. However, the educational research is more complex because it can use various approaches and strategies to solve problems in educational setting. It also can involve many disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, behaviour, and history. In addition, educational research is important because of contributing knowledge development, practical improvement, and policy information (John W.Creswell, 2005). Therefore, educators can use those research findings to improve their competences and teaching and learning process. Furthermore, the characteristics of educational research are a part of its nature. According to Gary Anderson (1998), there are ten characteristics of educational research. I tried to classify those into three categories, which are the purpose of research, the procedures of research, and the role of researcher. The purposes of research are to solve the problems, investigate knowledge, and establish the principles in educational phenomena. In short, it focuses on solving the problems and developing knowledge. Furthermore, procedure is an important characteristic of educational research, which involves colleting data with accurate...
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...Executive Summary To: The top management Subject: Holtel Florenica Date: February 14,2013 Central/Primary Problem: The manager and the employee at Hotel Floreica are having poorly of the organizational barriers that are affecting their communication. Alternatives: 1. Status Quo 2. Listening skills 3. Sending skills Facts Considered: ➢ Hole Florenica is a five-start hotel located on the most popular strip in South Beach Miami. ➢ Hotel Florenica adopted an “100% Customer Satisfaction!” policy to guide tis staff. ➢ Non-managerial employees follow very strict rules and procedures when dealing with customers. ➢ Top management noticed that they were all complaints relating customer service. ➢ Julia, a receptionist had received a complaint from a customer but she cannot connect to the top management immediately. ➢ The customer wants to discount for long time it took to fix the leak. ➢ Julia was not conceded with dissatisfied customer. Recommendation: The recommended solution that we strong to recommend to combination of alternative two; improve listening skills and sending skills. Because these alternatives of the top management will be able solve the primary problem “The manager and the employee at Hotel Floreica are having poorly of the organizational barriers that are affecting their communication.” The communication skill will help the employee and the management delivers the information and makes the decision faster. The combination of these two alternatives...
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...century has exponentially grown and in turn has influenced daily American live. Today, everyone is exposed to this new rap culture that is developing everywhere. Rap culture started in about the 1970’s in New York City (Sullivan). In those days rap was about everyday life and race but has greatly change since then. Rap songs these days are all about sex, money, drugs, women, cars, and practically any material thing. Many songs talk about how rich the rappers are and the extravagant ways they live. Most songs in rap culture have poor grammar and language. These songs are crude and talk about women only as sex. The view points of modern day rappers are extremely clouded because of what they talk about and how they live. The tone of the Hughes and Brooks poems help to show the tone and expression of modern day rap culture. “Red Silk Stockings” by Langston Hughes is a poem that reveals a man talking to a black woman about her legs and how good she looks. The tone is condescending and seems to downgrade the woman in this poem. This shows a tone about how women were looked upon in the 1920’s and even up to now. This woman, in “Red Silk Stockings,” seems to show off her looks because she knows she is attractive...
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...Real World Radical Formulas Virginia Gates MAT 222 Intermediate Algebra Instructor: Chander Sekar April 20, 2014 Real World Radical Formulas We are asked to discussion radical expressions and how why can be used to solve more complex equations when some of the exponents are known. We can manipulate the formula and by doing that we can solve those radicals and show how each equation is solved just by following the rules. With this we must remember our problems and variables may change but the rules don’t. So now we are going to see what we can do with the problem below: Sailboat stability. To be considered safe for ocean sailing, the capsize screening value C should be less than 2 (www.sailing.com). For a boat with a beam (or width) b in feet and displacement d in pounds, C is determined by the function a) | Find the capsize screening value for the Tartan 4100, which has a displacement of 23,245 pounds and a beam of 13.5 feet. | b) | Solve this formula for d.c) The accompanying graph shows C in terms of d for the Tartan 4100 (b = 13.5). For what displacement is the Tartan 4100 safe for ocean sailing? | Now are going to look the problem 103 page 605 in our text material. It states for a sailboat to be considered safe for ocean sailing, the capsize screening valve of C should be less than 2. Also it is stated the boat with the beam which is width and our variable b in feet and displacement d in pounds. So we are going to solve for C, d in the formula and that...
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...Week 2 Discussion 2 Cowling's Rule is a formula designed for medicines and medical situations outside of the emergency medical setting; given the fact that completing a formula as such is timely and usually unnecessary. This formula converts an adult dose into a child’s dose using the child’s age. a = child’s age The formula is d = D(a + 1) D = adult dose 24 d = child’s dose Because my last name ends with an S, I'm first to solve for the proper child dosage for 500mg of amoxicillin being given to a 4 year old. d = D(a + 1) The Cowling’s Rule formula 24 d = 500(4 + 1) I substituted 500 for D and 6 for a. 24 d = 500(5) I added inside parentheses first. 24 d = 2500 Multiplication came next. 24 d = 104.1666667(continuous) Division is the final piece to solving for the child’s dose. The dosage of amoxicillin called for by this algorithm specific to a 4-year-old child is 104mg. Second portion of this equation is to solve the conditional equation for a child's age while still using the same formula. We'll be using different variables for the same literal equation. d = D(a + 1) The Cowling’s Rule formula 24 100mg = 500(a + 1) I substituted 500 for D and 100 for d. 24 100(24) = 500(a + 1)(24) Both sides are multiplied by 24 to eliminate denominator. 24 2400 = 500(a + 1) Multiplication on left side is carried out. 2400 = 500(a + 1) Divide...
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...NTUC Income has a decade-old business processes and IT practices. One of the problems was slow process in exchanging of information between departments. For an instance, NTUC Income packed original documents and sent to warehouses where ,over two to three days, a total of seven staff would log and store the documents. Whenever a document needed to be retrieved, it would take about two days to locate and ship it by courier. Refiling would again take about two days. So it took a lot of time, which would be used in more efficient way. Second problem is that old system used to break down frequently despite a few updates. Therefore , due to the breakdowns , work stopped and it would take a huge time(months) to reconciliate data and bring it up-to-date. Third problem is that here existed long-time consuming process, information was not available to agents and advisors in real-time, also staff didn’t know about who is real customer of their company or not, which led to the loss of opportunities for cross-product sales. Also Machine HP 3000 was not so good , because of poor connectivity to devices of employees , and various departments did not have up-to-date information and had to pass physical documents among each other. Through the new digital systems, these problems were solved. The paper-based insurance processes were replaced by a paperless platform. Under the new system, all documents are scanned and stored on new storage devices. The breakdowns were solved by the high-availability...
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...1. As Doug Friesen, what would you do to address the seat problem? Where would you focus your attention and solution efforts? The root cause needs to be determined. The quality team needs to work on this or form a committee. These people should be from both KFS and TMM. Once the causes are found they need to figure out how to solve these issues the most cost effective way. The main issues that need to be addressed are: missing/broken/wrong parts, wrinkles on seats, various issues with the bolster, and head rest functionality. Seat installations from both rear positions have more defects than that of the front seat installations. These issues could also be caused by the new team members that began working in April. The defects also need to be noticed earlier in the process and when it is found there should be fewer movements of the car and seat. 3. Where, if at all, does the current routine for handling defective seats deviate from the principles of the Toyota Production System? It deviates from TMM’s guided principles. With the high level of defects it does not follow the JIT production, which also goes against TPS’s principles. It also deviates from the jidoka principle that seeks to build quality control in the production process and averting problems when they are detected. Not only being extremely prone to shutdowns they didn’t have people that were capable of solving the problems promptly. The organization cultivated two strong attitudes: stick to the facts, and...
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