...Definitions are commonly used in technical documents to help audience members who are unfamiliar with the terminology in a technical field. In this conference, we look at definitions in terms of their audience. 1. Select a term commonly used in your major or field of study/work. For example, if you are a computer science major or work in information technology, you might select the term "kernel" related to an operating system. 2. Find a definition of the term on a credible website and post the definition or a link to the definition in your response. 3. Evaluate the definition in terms of its effectiveness for the audience. Give us your reasons for why the definition is effectiveness or not. This term is introduced to accounting students on their first introduction to accounting classes and it is also mentioned on the major headline news such as the Enron and WorldCom financial fraud cases. This term, although its main audience is people in the accounting field, has become very effective due to the major financial fraud cases such as Enron, WorldCom, Bernard Madoff and others. The main audience for this term are individuals who are related to the accounting field. Learning that an organization has been cooking the books instantly portrays that a financial fraud has occurred. Also, this term has become a part of the English language due to the major financial fraud cases such as Enron, WorldCom, and Bernard Madoff. This term is effective in its way that it portrays...
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...Furthermore we watched the DVD and it shown example of bad communication and how it can be so devastating and affect the patients negatively if they don't get the enough information about their illness and treatment. The Nurses and Midwifery Council (2008) recommend is very essential that the nurses are able to give patients, information, advice and a guideline about what is going on. Furthermore if patients are given enough information it will empower them as it reduces their concerns about the illness. We also discussed in small groups the definition of stereotype, prejudice discrimination and how they are connection between these words. Moreover in the group discussion we discussed how can easy lead to other, for instance, is very easy to certain group to be stereotype which can results poor care to their patients which leads be prejudice and then into discrimination. Therefore The Equality Act (2010) is law to protect people and is against the law to discriminate. http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/equalities/equality-act-publications/equality-act-guidance/individual-rights1?view=Binary access date on 5/2/13 I found watching the DVD beneficial as well touching. I felt that my self-awareness and communication skills already improved. It clearly highlights what patients really feel and want from the nurses. For example I have learnt that effective communication skills such as active listening, the right facial expressions and explaining what is going on will make...
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...constructing your own website and discuss what you have enjoyed or disliked most about the process of creating the website thus far. c. Reflecting on what your finished website will look like, describe your vision for the website’s design and content and how you can potentially use this as a personal resource or in your current or anticipated professional practice. Guided Response: Respond to a minimum of two peers. Make an effort to respond to two peers that you didn’t engage with in the previous discussions. In responses, provide feedback to your peers about their website’s design and their working definition of at-risk. Additionally, provide constructive recommendations for how your peers can enhance their websites and definitions to meet the expectations for the final submission in Week Six. Though two replies is the basic expectation, for deeper engagement and learning you are encouraged to provide responses to any comments or questions others have given to you. For...
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...Factors Affecting the Study Habits of Criminology Students of Basc Teaching Grammar What is grammar? ’An abstract system of rules whereby a person’s mastery of their native language can be explained’ (dictionary definition) Different dictionaries define ’grammar’ in different ways, but they all effectively talk about the ’rules of the language’. Grammar does not equal only ’tenses’ or verb forms. Grammar is language and how we use it. What is more important than a definition of the word ’grammar’ is knowing what students need to know when they are learning grammar. And we also need to know different ways to teach grammar. There are many different methods to teach grammar, but the three that might be the most effective in retaining student interest are the following: 1. Situational Presentations 2. Text and Recordings 3. Test Teach Test 1. Teaching grammar via Situational Presentation I. What do students need to know? When presenting new language, the teacher must show following things very clearly: MPF: There are several aspects of a new item: that you need to know and learners need to learn. 1. What it means. They need to understand meaning within the given context. 2. What it sounds like. They need to know the natural pronunciation and spelling of the language. 3. What it looks like. They need to know how to form the language (how it is constructed). 4. How and when it is used. They need to know the function of the language...
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...NU300: Unit 3: Assignment Leadership Inventory Directions In the table below complete the two areas: 1. In the “Definition” column you will define each of the five Leadership Characteristics (in your own words). Support your definitions with examples from your life. 2. In the “Analysis” column you will analyze if each of the five Leadership Characteristics a. are appropriate; b. should be removed from the list; c. or, new characteristics added to reflect a more accurate illustration of professional nursing leadership skills necessary to provide safe, effective nursing care in today’s healthcare environment. Please provide examples or rationales to support your analysis. NAME: COURSE-SECTION: DATE: Leadership Characteristics | Definition (in your own words) | Analysis | Empowerment | Empowerment is helping to enable and motivate others by allowing them to have some autonomy and responsibility over their choices. | Empowerment is an appropriate leadership characteristic for nurses. Being a nurse has several different roles and obligations. As a nurse, you work to empower your patients and help them to make the best choices for their particular situation and you also work to empower your fellow nurses and co-workers. By providing information and resources, you help others to feel part of the group and improve outcomes. Empowerment can also help others to feel as though they...
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...having gone through change after change depending on the era, user and situation as well as many other factors. Based off these various reasons, the word dope has taken on many different meanings over the years ranging from gravy, to stupid, to drugs, and the most recent definition being cool or awesome. As the time period shapes the word and redefines it, users should strive to use the most recent definition to prevent miscommunication. In this specific case, Dope should be redefined as a word to be used synonymously with awesome or cool to describe something as being really neat or impressive. Dope originally held the meaning in 1807 of describing a gravy or other viscous liquid coming from the Dutch word doopen, meaning “to dip.” The first ever official recording of the word in any form of dictionary or written ledger however was not until 1851 and carried a whole new meaning. At this time it was utilized as a form of American slang describing a silly or stupid person according to the Oxford English Dictionary A classic example of this usage occurs in the famous Disney movie Snow White in 1937 where one of the seven dwarves had the name Dopey remarking on his slow foolishness. During the time this definition was becoming less used, dope took on a completely new meaning. People began describing the act of doing drugs as doping. Since drugs seem to make individuals’’ foolish and silly...
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...is a hero? What is a hero? By definition a hero is “a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities" (Hero). We could even look as far back as the Greeks, with their gods and demigods, humans born with super natural powers that could take out an entire city with a flick of their wrist, because of their powers they were called heroes. These gods were feared and worshiped, religions were started because of their tales and accomplishments. Despite all these powers and abilities, one thing is not mentioned, core values. I feel a hero is a combination of values, because bravery without courage, integrity, humility and honor can mean all the difference between being a hero and being lucky. To me a hero is someone who puts all others in front of himself, who puts personal gain and ambitions on the back burner for the betterment of others or the greater good. Others define heroes as someone who signed their name on the dotted line to serve this country, or a person who gives blood in the Publix parking lot, we all have different views and opinions on what a hero is, but I think we can all agree, a hero puts others' lives before their own. What we should all understand, is that all of us have the potential to be a hero, the right person in the right place at the right time, can make all the difference in the world. After reading the other assigned stories I am drawn towards Bodega Dreams, the only character that could fit the definition of a hero is Mr. Tapia. He took...
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...Responsibility is the opportunity or ability to act independently and make decisions without authorization. In learning to be more responsible it is important that we know our limitations. It does not matter how smart we are, there is only so much responsibility that a person can handle. It is also important to remember that we are not responsible for things that are out of our control. Sharing responsibility for both success and failure can lead to increased responsibility to oneself and others. I think of responsibility as seizing what's in front of you, exerting choice, and taking control. The real meaning of responsibility is the ability to respond. It's going out and creating what you want through personal choices. The responsibility that each of us has is that we are completely, 100% responsible for how our lives turn out. If you think that being responsible at all times is too As people grow older their roles and responsibilities grow also. Where leaving the adolescent years behind embarks a person on a journey of self-discovery and independence. The teenage years are a time for learning and recognizing their responsibilities so they can grow into a successful adult. The word responsibility is used in many different ways. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of responsibility or Responsible: (1): liable to be called to account as the primary cause, motive, or agent (2): being the cause or explanation c: liable to legal review or in case of fault to penalties,...
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...This reflection is going to talk about the first experience of learning this course and working in a team. Actually, I miss the lecture so I have no findings in the lecture, but I got much information from the group meeting and i initially to understand this course use a problem-based teaching way to apply its learning approach. Therefore, the group studying and working is the necessary process to facilitate work done. Firstly, I’d like to thanks Raymond who has arranged first meeting for our group. So basically I felt the face to face meeting is much high communication channel than virtual communication like discussion board. Therefore, we are agreed a consensus which at least meet up once a week in order to gathering information and allocating individual task. The first week group meeting is basically based on information gathering, so I and every member did some initial researches for each question in order to get a concept idea. Then Idea and information presentation is become next step, this is good, because the information sharing and discussing always relates to different opinion between different peoples. I got much information I didn't know it before and other members mentioned during the meeting. The most impressive one is ‘What do we know? What do we need to know? How are we going to find out? And who is going to do it?’ The four simple sentences help me to find more critical thinking, so I put it in every question as benefit. Furthermore reflections is about...
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...link http://www.uoptutors.com/edu-644-new/edu-644-week-1-dq-1-what-it-means-to-be-at–risk-and-why-it-matters It is likely that you have at least heard the term at-risk used in a variety of contexts, but you may not know exactly what is meant by this commonly used term. When working in a community or educational environment, one must be aware of the scope of at-risk groups so as to implement or guide them toward appropriate and effective supports or services. In this discussion, you will analyze a variety of descriptions of at-risk groups and behaviors associated with them for the purpose of acquiring your own working definition. You will include this definition in your website that is created throughout the course and finalized during the Week Six Final Project and make adjustments to your working definition during Week Six when you reflect upon how your definition has expanded. Prepare for this discussion by reading the Week One Instructor Guidance and reviewing the following resources that provide descriptions of at-risk groups and the behaviors associated with them: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: At-Risk Individuals • A website defining at-risk individuals. U.S Department of Health & Human Services: Factors That Contribute to Child Abuse and Neglect • A website about child abuse and neglect. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry • An article describing violent behavior in children and adolescents. Teachnology • A website...
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...INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to examine the definition of big data. It also seeks to examine the components of a Unified Data Architecture and its ability to facilitate the analysis of big data. 2 WHAT IS BIG DATA Cuzzocrea, Song and Davis (2011) defined big data in part as being “enormous amounts of unstructured data produced by high-performance applications falling in a wide and heterogeneous family of application scenarios”. In recent years there has been an increasing interest and focus on big data. Many and varied definitions have been proposed but without a consensus on a single definition. The MIT Technology Review (2014), brought attention to the work of Ward and Barker (2014) which examined a number of definitions of big data that have attracted some general ICT industry support from leading ICT industry analysts and organisations such as Gartner, Oracle and Microsoft. In their work they proposed to provide a “concise definition of an otherwise ambiguous term”. The author having just attended a digital government conference with a large proportion of big data tagged presentations also noted that no single definition was offered. There was however a common content theme that supported the Ward and Barker definition of: “Big data is a term describing the storage and analysis of large and or complex data sets using a series of techniques including, but not limited to: NoSQL, MapReduce and machine learning.” 3 UNIFIED DATA ARCHITECTURE 3.1 WHAT IS THE...
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...'What are the four definitions of organization? An organization can be define by four main factors including: the group of people, persons, acting together in synergy for a common and specific purpose; the economic actors following economic goals and the economic impact on their environment; the accumulation of knowledge and learning of the different actors composing the organization; and the bundle of the different type of resources available for it. As a collection of people, stakeholders are the ones directly or indirectly connected to the organization. These actors have an interest in all its activities. The internal ones, directly involved in the organization (such as employees for example) are implicated in organizational politics and submitted to a hierarchy usually well define. As an economic actor, organization involve buyers and sellers of products or services. This concept induce the fact that the organization must be profitable and generate revenue producing what it sells, and so at an acceptable price and cost. To be able to do this, its different costs and efficiency must be well controlled to adapt, in its industry, to its market conditions. As an accumulation of knowledge and learnings, the organization is also define as a history of way of doing things, adapting its processes to ameliorate the work which have to be done, by putting in place some routines for example. And what enrich the organization is also all the tacit knowledge coming from the...
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...Information Literacy There are sources on the internet that contain various definitions about information literacy. According to Wikipedia, information literacy is defined as “the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand” (Wikipedia, 2014). There are many areas that relate to information literacy including literacy in the media, computer, critical thinking skills, and traditional literacy. In today’s modern world and age, information literacy is becoming an important set of skills required for someone to be able to identify information needed and having the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively utilize the needed information. Moreover, “information literacy has emerged as a distinct skill set and a necessary key to one’s social and economic well-being in an increasingly complex information society” (Wikipedia, 2014). There are sources such as the Big6 that have helped to standardize the process of information literacy. I came across a periodical database about Big6 by the Month, explaining helpful and effective procedures in refining information needed and identifying that information if it is relevant and credible. The Big6 is a form of literacy standard, divided into 6 information problem-solving steps. Those steps are Task Definition, Information Seeking Strategies, Location & Access, Use of Information, Synthesis, and Evaluation. It is...
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...Meaning of Right: Differentiating Right From Wrong [Author Name(s), First M. Last, Omit Titles and Degrees] [Institutional Affiliation(s)] What does "right" really mean? The word right is one associated with ambiguity in the way different persons define it, and is by not easy to tell apart the various meanings it is associated with in common parlance. Owing to the variety of these definitions, adherence to any one necessarily submerges us in ostensible paradoxes when we apply it in the context which insinuates one of the other definitions. This is as a result of precision of language; the paradoxes are however merely verbal, and give rise to verbal objections. (Brentano, 2009). Different persons will see the right thing from the perspectives of their current situation .the right thing can be defined by the past experiences of a situation .the outcome can be used to gauge whether the actual thing was right or wrong .however there are things that are outright right even without prior experience of the same situation but other situations bring out the relativity .a person will see something to be wrong if it directly affects his good life whereas they may see something as right if it does not affect him . A doctor who takes a hike in the woods would see tree logging as wrong whereas a carpenter who depends on timber from the woods would see it as right as it his source of livelihood.in a business situation the right thing should drive the business towards profitability as well...
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...Running head: Business Research Methods I Business Research Methods I Aaron L. Richards, Bill Houston, Christi Lawson, Jeff Smith QNT/TM561 – Research and Statistics for Process Control Dr. Joseph Hamel University of Phoenix June 13, 2011 Abstract Insert Abstract Text Here. Business Research Methods I Introduction Riordan Manufacturing is an industry leading plastic manufacture with facilities located in both North America and China. Riordan has struggled to meet their effectiveness standards for multiple categories and they are looking to implement one of three quality improvement methods to improve process efficiency. If Riordan is to maintain an industry leader, changes must occur in processes across the board in relation to accuracy, availability, quality, timeliness, and cost. However, the first effectiveness measure to be looked at should be the receiving of raw materials from suppliers since every other process thereafter deals with inventory. In addition, the formulation of a solution involves certain steps be taken. Firstly, a process-driven research question should be formulated defining the initial problem. Secondly, a methodology such as Six Sigma, ISO, or Baldridge must be chosen to improve the process. Thirdly, a research design should be created to define any and all variables involved in the solution, and fourthly a sample design should be identified for the collection of data. Process & Methodology In any process improvement...
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