...What is the main advantage of the layered approach to system design? What are the disadvantages of using the layered approach? Answer: As in all cases of modular design, designing an operating system in a modular way has several advantages. The system is easier to debug and modify because changes affect only limited sections of the system rather than touching all sections of the operating system. Information is kept only where it is needed and is accessible only within a defined and restricted area, so any bugs affecting that data must be limited to a specific module or layer. 2.9 List five services provided by an operating system. Explain how each...
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...Diversity is more than just a tick-box exercise. Discuss how people resourcing can facilitate and promote the development of positive diversity values in organisations. Diversity - recognising it, managing it and understanding it, is a relatively new concept within the realm of HR and People Resourcing. Owing to demographic shifts and the composition of the international workforce, the need for its positive promotion within the workplace is now seen to be imperative. More commonly, the implementation of diversity initiatives are ultimately becoming the sole responsibility for HR and typically involve employee recruitment and promotion strategies targeting underrepresented groups and tools to both use the hidden perspectives within organisations and, ultimately, bring them to bear on organisational policy decisions and be reflected in positive diversity values. This essay will continually discuss the concept, background and management of diversity in a business context, the business case for diversity – that being the ‘need’ and its impact on People Resourcing. With the advent of diversity featuring more in business and legislative literature, it will question if organisations are merely responding in being reactive because they have to or being proactive because they want to? Studies by the CIPD and Social Scientists alike conclude that diversity and its implementation within companies and organisations should be more than just another tick in the box exercise, yet recognise that...
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...colors, but also how they were displayed throughout the aisle. Just like my visit to Meijer, this paper will not only look at the surface of the cereal aisle and my box of cereal, but also delve into the meaning behind their fronts and how the box I chose is marketed. The box I chose, “Kellogg’s Avengers: Age of Ultron Sweetened Cereal with Marshmallows”, is marketed at Meijer to children through character appeal, which displays ethos as its strongest rhetorical appeal. Throughout this paper I will show you how I came to this conclusion. The cereal aisle in Meijer is located in the middle of the center section of the store with the oatmeal, granola bars, fruit snacks, and candy across from the cereal. The cereal was set up so that you have the bags of the off-brand cereal in a section, then...
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...Medisoft Manual – easy step by step guide With this manual, I will show you how to use Medisoft with basic simple step by step instructions. You will feel comfortable using this program and have confidence in knowing you are entering the information correctly. I will first give you an introduction to Medisoft. Medisoft is a practice management program that uses information about patients, providers, insurance carriers, procedures, and diagnoses to bill insurance carriers and patients for healthcare services. Medisoft also contains a built in scheduling application called Office Hours, which allows you to schedule appointments or change appointments with ease. With Medisoft you can do the following tasks commonly used in a medical office: Enter information on new patients and change information on established patients as needed. Enter transactions, such as charges, to patients’ accounts. Submit insurance claims to payers. Record payments and adjustments from patients and insurance companies. Print walkout statements and remainder statements for patients. Monitor collections activities. Print standard reports or create custom reports. Schedule appointments. How to change the program date 1. Click Set Program Date on the File menu or click the date displayed in the lower right corner of the Medisoft window. 2. To change the month, click the word displayed for the current month, and the abbreviations for the months appear in the calendar window...
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...LIBRARY/APA ASSIGNMENT The purpose of the first part of this assignment is to learn how to use the library and internet to find scholarly research. Print this questionnaire and bring to class and the library on the assigned days. Portions of this will be discussed/ completed in class. All parts must be typed. This assignment is to allow you to learn how to do research on the web and on the library website when searching for articles. Many of you will use these tools for research papers. You will follow the directions listed and fill in the blanks. This is due 4/11. Go to www.google.com to answer the questions below. Type dhmo into the search box. How many results were found? Go to www.dhmo.org and what is the Title of the page? What is this website about? Read the page and evaluate the page using the 6 criteria discussed in class. For each area, explain how the page filled that criteria, or how it didn’t fill that criteria. Authority: Objectivity: Accuracy: Currency: Content/Relevancy: Aesthetics: What is dihydrogen monoxide? Go to scholar.google.com Type “sports injuries” in the search box. How many results were found? Click on the second article. Is the article scholarly or popular? Click the back arrow at the top and look at the 2nd article information. At the end of the 2nd article information, how many articles is the article “Cited by”? Library Search Go to the library website and use the database...
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... Due to the introduction of the Big Box Format, many small business owners have been forced to close their doors, consequently leaving them in limbo with regards to how they are supposed to support their families. The Big Box Format of conducting business has stiffened competition in business as a whole. These Big Box Organizations have the ability to use their vast amount of resources to exploit market opportunities and neutralize threats, as well as take advantage of the economies of scale and scope. Subsequently, this report touches upon the large scope effects of the Big Box Format; as well as addresses certain strategies that small businesses could apply and if they are realistic. Big Box Firms are organizations that undermine local business as well as entrepreneurialism and innovation. They are composed of Firms that occupy a minimum of 50,000 square feet of land containing a wide variety products available for sale (Investopedia, 2013), therefore many consumers consider Big Box Firms as one stop shop. Subsequently, the Big Box Firms apply predatory marketing strategies, in which they highlight their ability to offer cost savings as well as convenience. FINDINGS Modern Concept, Classic View Although the Big Box format of conducting business can be considered somewhat of a modern business concept, the Big Box format contains certain elements that relate back to classic business theories. The way that these Big Box firms conduct business, contain certain...
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...Data in SPSS.……………………………………………………………. 7 Tutorial 1: Creating a New Data Set.……………………………………………………………... 7 Tutorial 2: Creating a New Data Set From Other File Formats.……………………………….10 Tutorial 3: Opening an Existing SPSS Data Set.………………………………………………. 16 Tutorial 4: Printing a Data Set.…………………………………………………………………… 16 Generating Descriptive Statistics in SPSS…………………………………………………………...17 Tutorial 1: Mean, Sum, Standard Deviation, Variance, Minimum Value, Maximum Value, and Range.……………………………………………………….. 17 Tutorial 2: Correlation.…………………………………………………………………………….. 18 Generating Graphical Statistics in SPSS……………………………………………………………..20 Tutorial 1: How to Generate Scatter Plots.………………………………………………………20 Tutorial 2: How to Generate A Histogram.………………….…………………………………... 22 Tutorial 3: How to Generate A Stem and Leaf Plot……………………………………………..23 Tutorial 4: How to Generate A Box Plot………………………………………………………….26 Statistical Models in SPSS……………………………………………………………………………..28 Tutorial 1: Linear Regression.……………………………………………………………………. 28 Tutorial 2: Analysis of Variance………………………………………………………………….. 31 Appendix A: Data Files………………………………………………………………………………… 34 2 Before Using This Manual The following manual explains various statistical methods using tutorials. Each tutorial begins with a problem that is based on a set of data. A solution...
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...Leadership and Self-deception Getting Out of The Box Leadership and self-deception is a book written by the Arbinger Institute that explains to us how we as people can get stuck in a place or problem known as being “Inside the Box”. We can be stuck “Inside the Box” whether it is in our personal lives toward family members and friends or whether it is at work toward our Boss and other co-workers. Through a cleverly concocted story the author explains how we are either “Inside the Box” or “Outside the Box” and how to stay out of the box once we enter it. The story starts out telling us of a man named Ted who is impressed with a company called Zagrum and he would love to work for them and after multiple interviews and weeks of waiting he finally hears back and finds out that he gets the job. One of Teds first major meetings is with his soon to be boss Bud who asks him to meet him for a meeting that is seemingly so secret that nobody talks to him about it or gives any hints to what it is even about. Everyone seems to know what is going on except Ted. With much anticipation and waiting Ted is led to Buds office and waits nervously for his arrival. When Bud finally gets there he then informs Ted that “He has a problem” and while Ted wonders what that is Bud will soon enthusiastically explain the meaning of his problem and go into more specifics and detail that I’m sure Ted would care for or even expect. As Bud and Ted talk Bud is asking all sorts of seemingly strange and at times...
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...ball-point pen. You are advised to bring two pencils to avoid mending a pencil during the examination as you may lose time. Use ball-point pen for filling up the information only in boxes 1-10 on Side 1. Use HB pencil only, for filling up information in boxes 12-26 on side 1 of the answersheet and box 27 on side 2 of the answersheet. All the answers should also be marked by using HB pencil only. Handling answersheet : Please handle your answersheet carefully. Keep it dust free. If it is mutilated, torn, folded, wrinkled, rolled or dusty, it may not be evaluated. Special attention should be paid to the different objective type tests, since these are different from the usual school/college examinations. 4. 5. HOW TO SHOW YOUR ANSWERS : Each question is followed by answers which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Select the most appropriate answer. Then by using HB Pencil, blacken the oval bearing the correct answer against the serial number of the question. (Refer to side 2 of the Specimen Answersheet). Please note that the oval should be dark enough and should be filled in completely. For example, if the answer to Question Number 2 is answer number 5, it is shown as follows. Q.2. 1 2 3 4 HOW TO CHANGE YOUR ANSWER : If you wish to change your answer, ERASE COMPLETELY the already...
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...25th – March 2nd, 2013 VENUE: Teachers’ ICT Centre, FCE Okene TOPIC: How to prepare Power-point Presentations By Umoru Jacob O. Mastering PowerPoint 2007 Skills Through - Step-by-step PowerPoint 2007 Tutorials! Topics covered in this tutorial guide Getting Started • Starting to use PowerPoint 2007 • Knowing The PowerPoint 2007 Screen Elements... • New in PowerPoint 2007 - Ribbon • Saving a PowerPoint Presentation...and Backup copy! • How to Add a New Slide to Your Presentation? • How You Can Copy Slides from other Presentation Easily? Slide Layout and Themes • Using Different Slide's Layout in PowerPoint 2007 • Applying PowerPoint Theme to the Slide(s) • Changing the PowerPoint Color Themes Slide Masters, Header and Footer • What you Can do with PowerPoint 2007 Slide Masters? • Slide Master Background Objects - How to Insert or Hide it? • The Complete Guide on Using PowerPoint 2007 Header and Footer Wisely Formatting Text and Text Boxes • PowerPoint 2007 - Format Text as you Wish Easily! • What you Can do with PowerPoint Text Boxes? • Use PowerPoint Bullets to Enhance your Presentation! • Use the PowerPoint Numbering Feature Creating and Formatting Tables • Adding Table to the PowerPoint Slide • How to resize, add or delete rows or columns, merge and split the table cells in PowerPoint 2007? • Different...
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...use a series of events chain. To begin with this lesson, we would first read about the journey that Lewis and Clark took across the country. After reading is complete I would hand out sheets that had a series of events chain organizer already drawn on the paper. I would also have my own similar graphic organizer up on the board. I would then explain to my students how a series of events chain worked. I would explain how in the first box, the beginning of an event would be written down. To give them a clear understanding of this, I would talk about how a series of events chain would look based on their life so far. I would tell them in the first box, their birth date would be written down. I would also explain that other information could be used in that box as well, like where they were born or how much they weighed. I would then explain how the second box could contain the date that they first slept through the night. The third box could have the date of when they said their first word and what that word was. Then how they could write about their first steps in another box or when they started kindergarten in another box. I would explain to my students that a series of events chain is a simple graphic organizer depicting when events happened in the order that they happened. Once everyone had an understanding of what a series of events chain was, we would begin a discussion on when important events...
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...4 5 6 7 8 You will need no other materials. 9 Time allowed 1 hour 30 minutes 10 Instructions Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. Answer all questions. You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. TOTAL Information The marks for questions are shown in brackets. The maximum mark for this paper is 72. Question 8 should be answered in continuous prose. You may use the space provided to plan your answer. In Question 8, you will be assessed on your ability to: – use good English – organise information clearly – use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. (JUn13psyA101) G/T90614 6/6/6/6/ PSYA1 2 Do not write outside the box Section A Cognitive Psychology and Research Methods Answer all questions in the spaces provided. Total for this question: 4 marks 1 According to the multi-store model of memory, there are several ways in which short-term memory and long-term memory differ. Explain how the findings of one or more studies demonstrate that short-term memory and long-term memory are different. ...............................................................................................................................................
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...How a Magician saws a woman in half Everyone has seen it, whether it was on T.V. or on stage, a magician introduces a beautiful assistant and then proceeds to shove her into a box, pull out a saw, and cut her in half in front of the entire audience. Some people call it magic, I will tell you the secret behind this mystifying stunt. The first thing the magician does is introduce the set, there is a large box sitting on a platform and his assistant. The magician opens the box, his assistant climbs in and all that is showing is her head, her feet and maybe even her legs. The magician then continues to close the box and turn to the audience. Now what you don’t know is that in the platform under the box there is another assistant that the audience doesn't know about. So when the magician turns to the audience he will then preform some mumbo jumbo magic stuff like saying some words or waving a wand. Then he will casually block the first assistants feet from view by either blocking it with another miscellaneous prop for a moment or by rotating the box, this gives his first assistant enough time to pull her feet in and the second assistant to poke her feet out, wearing the same shoes of course, the magician then grabs the saw blade and makes a cutting motion through a pre cut line in the box. Then the magician will split the box in half revealing the middle and amazing the audience even more. Then he closes the box does whatever he does to cover the legs and then opens up the box...
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...The protection plan that I would create for the Box turtle would be an awareness plan to make sure that the inhabitants of the area were the box turtles live are aware of how box turtles live and also know how they can do their part. The awareness plan will educate people that “Box turtles rarely bite, but be gentle with them and avoid touching their head” (biodavidson, 2014). Usually when people are made aware of a problem and are provided a solution they usually comply, especially when they value something. The box turtle; in a lot of areas is taken in by families as a pet. Most people probably think that when they take them as pets they are doing them a favor but when they take them out of their habitat they are actually stressing them out to the point were they cannot reproduce most of the time. The action plan would be to educate everyone, the young preschoolers, elementary, middle school and high school students to be well aware of what type of habitat that the box turtles should live in as well as what type of care box turtles need. The action plan education plan would explain the importance of not taking box turtles as pets, never to release box turtles back into the wild unless the person knows exactly were in the wild the box turtle came from, explain the importance of letting the box turtle cross the road or helping the turtle cross, by picking it up and helping it cross to the other side. Explain that if a box turtle nests in a persons yard, the people should...
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...observe the needs of other and let them pass without acting on them. This self-deception breed ill feelings toward the other person in order to justify our own actions. This area of self-deception is what the author refers to as “the box”. The book is an easy read because the author or authors use a story-telling approach to the topic of self-deception. Instead of saying we deceive ourselves, the authors used clear examples to illustrate their meanings. I found this to be appealing because the topic of their book is a bit vague when only hearing the main points of self-deception. By providing a story and stories with in the story, the authors clearly convey their point which makes understanding it much easier. The authors believe that productivity in an organizational and interpersonal relationship setting can be directly impeded by our unwillingness to view other people as people. The author points out that when we begin to view co-workers, spouses, family members and people in general as objects, their feelings and needs take a back seat to our own. This point is illustrated quite well in the book by the specific examples Tom, Bud, Kate and Lou give when speaking about their own experiences of being in and out of the box. One example of how clearly this is explained is the story...
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