...Monitor Study Summary Issue All users have been provided with one 19” extended width monitor. The system provides the ability to view multiple documents at once (side by side) for comparison purposes, however this feature is not used very often because the screen size limits the display to only small fonts, the entire document is not visible all at once, and the dual display is too complicated to set-up. Additionally, the quality of the scan in many cases is not as clear as an original typed document (such as this document), requiring the font to be displayed larger than normal size in order for it to be legible. Tasks performed by our users require them to be constantly comparing documents. In order to compare documents, users usually switch back and forth between screens or print the documents. Our system does not provide the ability to simultaneously view a document while creating new forms, so users are required to switch back and forth. Currently, the our users are required to access several systems to obtain all of the necessary information, resulting in having several systems open simultaneously. Goal of Study The goal of the monitor study was to determine if an increase in the amount of screen surface would provide significant benefits such as improved efficiency, reduced print volume, increased accuracy, and reduced physical stress. If the increased screen space provided significant benefit, then the second goal of the study was to determine the best set-up...
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...Begin Solution Dual Monitors Setup: 1. On the desktop of your laptop and not your remote computer. 2. Right click the desktop and navigate to screen resolution. 3. Under multiple displays ensure that extend desktop is selected and click apply. 4. Both monitors should now be on but the screen orientation may be off. 5. When looking at your monitors from left to right take notice of the numbers that flash on the screen when clicking the Identify button on the top right of the screen. 6. For example if you press the Identify button and on the left screen is a 2 and the right monitor is a 1 make sure the monitors in the program look the same. If they are not drag the monitor that is wrong on the other side of the monitor. 7. Click on the left monitor after making the last change and select the option make this my main display. 8. Once everything looks right please click the OK button at the bottom of the screen. 9. If you move your mouse from left screen to right screen the mouse should move to either side with ease. Configuring Remote Desktop with Dual Monitors: 1. Open remote desktop on the laptop and not your PC at work. 2. On the bottom left of the remote desktop connection screen click on Show Options. 3. Click on the Display tab on top of the window. 4. Make sure the option Use all my monitors for the remote session is checked. 5. Above that option is a slider ranging from...
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...MEMORANDUM Date To: Monitor Company Directors From: Consultant Subject: Coordination of diversity efforts at Monitor Company BACKGROUND Recently you informed me that Monitor Company does not have a single vision for diversity and you have asked if this would be either damaging or helpful in the firm’s task of increasing diversity efforts. A few incidents or events triggered Monitor to begin thinking about diversity and inclusion programs. Currently there are three separate initiatives: the Advisor Network, Harassment Training and a series of seminars for women, and the Diversity Network. The purpose of the Advisors Network is to provide an outlet and resource for employees who need advice on issues such as succeeding at Monitor as either a woman, a person of color, or a GLBT employee. That initiative was created after the “Definition of Purpose” exercise done in 1993 surfaced issues related to the homogenous culture of the firm. Sexual Harassment and Sensitivity Training was deemed necessary after a 1991 director’s meeting. In that meeting, CFO David Kaplan stressed the need for “professional courtesy” training, and then the two female directors, Liz Martineau and Caroline Firstbrook disclosed that they had experienced “gender-related insensitivity”. Another thought of Martineau and Firstbrook was that female consultants were in need of role models to help guide them through the barriers of being a female in the consulting industry, which led to a seminar in 1994 geared...
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...AIPE ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET Please ensure this form is fully completed (including signature) prior to submitting. This page should be on the front of your assignment and needs to be easily accessible. Student ID Number: | 15015810/14000793 | Class Batch: | B07 | Student Name: | Tiansun Li/Alejandro Herrera | Unit code & Title | BSBADM504B Olan or review administrative systems | Course: | BSB50207 Diploma of Business | Due Date: | 27/22/2015 | Module: | BS07 Business Administration Systems | Trainer’s name: | Abdullah | Assessment Task Title: | Role-play | Assessment Part No: | Assessment part 2 | PLAGIARISM Plagiarism is the act of representing as one’s own original work the creative works of another, without appropriate acknowledgement of the author or source. COLLUSION Collusion is the presentation by a student of an assignment as his or her own which is in fact the result in whole or in part of unauthorised collaboration with another person or persons. Collusion involves the cooperation of two or more students in plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct and as such both parties are subject to disciplinary action. Plagiarism and collusion constitute cheating. Disciplinary action will be taken against students who engage in plagiarism and collusion as outlined in the school’s policies. See ‘Student Discipline/Misconduct Policy’ and ‘Assessment Policy' Assignments must be typed using document software such as MS Word; no handwritten...
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...Currently Riordan Manufacturing has several different offices and each office is using a different type of system, but there is not a central system that monitors each of the satellite offices and their production. To assist Riordan become more efficient, they will need to implement a central system to monitor both individual and overlapping system usage. They should create a Data Center in the corporate office that monitors all of the current systems in place. This will allow Riordan Manufacturing to understand how their business is functioning and how application are used more often and which are not utilized enough, helping to determine if they should upgrade or discontinue the use of a system. Each department uses different applications; some of the applications interface with one another and other are stand alone. Riordan also currently has a lot of manual processes, for example how they submit daily inventory records. With the overall updates that our team has posed have more automation will assist Riordan to increase their production and accuracy. We can implement an application that can be used by all of the centers in order to maintain the inventory across the board so the managers are able to see what is in high demand in specific locations. Having an overall view of the inventory will be beneficial to the entire company. If the marketing department has he ability to see the inventory usage then they will know where they need to market certain products better. We...
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...regions • Mutual exclusion • The part of the program where the shared memory (or something else) is accessed is called a critical section • This is not enough (more rules): – Not two processes simultaneously in their critical regions – No assumptions may be made about speed and number of CPUs – No process running outside its critical region may block another process – No process should have to wait forever to enter its critical region OS 2007-08 6 OS 2007-08 5 1 Ideally A enters critical region A B blocked B enters critical region B attempts to enter critical region B leaves critical region A leaves critical region Many solutions… • Disabling interrupts • Locks • TSL instruction (hardware) • Semaphores • Mutexes • Monitors • Message passing •… 7 OS 2007-08 8 OS 2007-08 Disabling interrupts • Simplest solution • CPU switches from process to process only when an interrupt occurs (e.g. the clock interrupt) • This approach can be taken by the kernel • Should the OS trust the user in disabling/enabling interrupts? Too dangerous! OS 2007-08 9 Locks • A lock variable (alone it doesn’t work)...
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...Nicholas Richards 23/09/2015 Prin. of Man. Shark Tank paper BuggyBeds When viewing videos for this paper I saw some pretty great and just some not so great products. But one stood out to me from all the others. During the show for this product, two women presents the Sharks with a product called BuggyBeds. This product was presented as an early detector for bed bugs around the house. These monitors attract bed bugs to the trap and keep them trapped using a special formulated glue. As stated by both women pitching their product, the glue is not poisonous and is not harmful to people, which is a must if little kids are around. The monitors themselves are very small and easy to use. All one has to do is unpack the monitor and then place it around the area/furniture one thinks might contain bed bugs, preferable under the desired object. I found it interesting while watching this bit show when one of the women informed the Sharks that there really is not a lot of early detection systems for bed bugs. For them to produce a two-pack it just costs about ~ $1.60 – 1.75, and then they may market the product for about $6.99. I choose this product that will sell/win because of just how big a problem bed bugs are for a huge number of people and organizations. One fact stated by the women pitching this product is that a female bed bug can produce upwards to 500 more bed bugs. That is frightening, without anyway to deal with bed bugs they would just keep appearing. To me, I feel like...
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...CASE STUDY – Organizational Behavior, Week 2 NO RESPONSE FROM MONITOR TWENTY-THREE* Robert D. Joyce, Innovative Management Loudspeaker: IGNITION MINUS 45 MINUTES. Paul Keller tripped the sequence switches at control monitor 23 in accordance with the countdown instruction book just to his left. All hydraulic systems were functioning normally in the second stage of the spacecraft booster at checkpoint 1 minus 45. Keller automatically snapped his master control switch to GREEN and knew that his electronic impulse along with hundreds of others from similar consoles within the Cape Kennedy complex signaled continuation of the countdown. Free momentarily from data input, Keller leaned back in his chair, stretched his arms above his head, and then rubbed the back of his neck. The monitor lights on console 23 glowed routinely. It used to be an incredible challenge, fantastically interesting work at the very fringe of man’s knowledge about himself and his universe. Keller recalled his first day in Brevard County, Florida, with his wife and young daughter. How happy they were that day. Here was the future, the good life . . . forever. And Keller was going to be part of the fantastic, utopian future. Loudspeaker: IGNITION MINUS 35 MINUTES. Keller panicked! His mind had wandered momentarily, and he lost his place in the countdown instructions. Seconds later he found the correct place and tripped the proper sequence of switches for checkpoint 1 minus 35. No problem....
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...Since this project’s major deliverables are composed by terminal building, run way and airplane parking zone. Therefore, project quality monitor and control system will create great affect on the project success. “Monitor and control is the process of comparing actual performance against plan to identify deviation, evaluate possible alternative course of action and take appropriate corrective action.” (larson and gray 2011) BaiYun international airport quality monitor and control system was form by following two major sections: The first section is the “three layers” and “five levels” quality monitoring system. Three layers: the first layer is the supervision layer of quality monitor and control office by engineering headquarters permanently for the supervision and management of the quality of entire project process. The second layer is the control layer of the implementation of monitor and control of the process of project quality entity formation through engineering, mechanical, and electrical department, and supervision units. The third level is the implementation layer, units that related to the quality of the project such as, survey, design, construction, and other units need to implement self-examination on the quality of their respective products. The three layers are responsible for their own duties and cooperate with each other to ensure that the quality of the project. Five levels quality monitoring system: the first level is the monitoring and confirmation of the...
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...------------------------------------------------- Mouse (computing) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A computer mouse with the most common standard features: two buttons and a scroll wheel, which can also act as a third button. A mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons. The mouse sometimes features other elements, such as "wheels", which allow the user to perform various system-dependent operations, or extra buttons or features that can add more control or dimensional input. The mouse's motion typically translates into the motion of a pointer on a display, which allows for fine control of a graphical user interface. ------------------------------------------------- Naming The earliest known publication of the term mouse as a pointing device is in Bill English's 1965 publication "Computer-Aided Display Control".[1] The online Oxford Dictionaries entry for mouse states the plural for the small rodent is mice, while the plural for the small computer connected device is either mice or mouses. However, in the usage section of the entry it states that the more common plural is mice, and that the first recorded use of the term in the plural is mice as well (though it cites a 1984 use of mice when there were actually several earlier ones).[2] The term mice was seen in print in "The Computer as a...
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...BRIEF CASES HARVARD 'BUSINESS PUBLISHING 4440 APRIL 2 7 , 2 0 1 2 DOROTHY LEONARD SUNRU YONG Bella Healthcare India Joseph Cherian, country director of Bella Healthcare in India, wondered whether his team was ready for Project TKO. He listened intently as Jeremy Manning, his director of research and development, described the pros and cons of the project, a proposal to develop a new portable electrocardiograph machine (EKG) specifically for the Indian market. Cherian believed the time was right to tackle the tough, but fast-growing Indian market. The key question was whether Bella India's local R&D team, under Manning's direction, was ready to lead the product development: My goal has always been to develop products that serve emerging markets and make healthcare more accessible. I think medical device companies are learning that this can be done most effectively by those who know these markets best. We should develop our affordable EKG in India, for India. Bella India has proven itself in manufacturing and costengineering; this is the next logical step. The endeavor was not without risk. The costly failure of Project Baton, a global product development effort, was fresh on everyone's mind. Failure with Project TKO would not only hurt Bella Healthcare's overall profitability, it would undermine Cherian's case that the India operation was ready for more challenging product development undertakings. £ | ^E o^| f§§ l^ff 21 ® ggo >^ 8 | j> | ^ji f£ | %^ E 111 I- |...
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...Monitor administration system Performance objective You will demonstrate skills and knowledge required to monitor an administration system. Assessment description In this assessment task you will monitor the implementation or operation of an administration system, modify the system as required, communicate modifications, and monitor and address training needs for the system. You will prepare a project report outlining issues and solutions, including required modification and training activities. You may choose to use the same administrative system you implemented in Assessment Task 1, or a new administrative system agreed with your assessor. Procedure 1. Following on from Assessment Task 1, or using a new real or simulated business environment agreed with your assessor, monitor a new or revised administration system for usage, security and output. Develop system performance criteria or use already established criteria to monitor performance for a specific period against: ○ usage guidelines, such as safe and secure procedures for usage, that can be used as a standard for determining whether users are correctly using the system ○ security guidelines; for example, guidelines or rules for use of passwords or confidentiality agreements ○ KPIs, performance metrics and targets for performance of the system; for example, cost and budget variation, number of reports, number of users, or number of errors. ...
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...(SIDS), also called crib or cot death, is defined as the sudden death of an infant younger than one year of age. The similar diseases of SIDS are the suspension of external diseases of Apnea. It is virtually impossible to prevent the death of an infant related to SIDS. No test or combination of symptoms can accurately predict whether a child might succumb to SIDS. However, there are several strategies that can effectively reduce the risk of SIDS. One of the methods being used is by using apnea monitor. Apnea is the most common form of different types of sleep-related breathing disorders. It is characterized by repetitive cessations of respiratory flow during sleep, which occurs due to a collapse of the upper respiratory airway. The purpose of this research is to study how the apnea monitor works. INTRODUCTION Apnea monitors is a device that detect the cessation of breathing (apnea) in infants and adults who are at risk of respiratory failure. Apnea monitor use the application of magnetic flux to detect if the patient are still breathing or not. This device is used to prevent SIDS and apnea. SIDS is the sudden and unexplained death of an infant who is younger than 1 year old. Apneas are defined as pauses in breathing of more than 10 seconds while asleep. These occur at regular intervals throughout the night. The subject is rarely aware of their difficulty breathing even upon awakening, and the condition may go undetected for years until noticed...
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...Security Monitoring Security Monitoring Hector Landeros University of Phoenix Security Monitoring In today’s business environment an organization may consist of various applications all in which require a certain level of risk assessment and security measures must be taken. Applications being used within the organization must be reviewed to determine security risks that application might have and how to protect the company from those vulnerabilities. Another factor that must be considered is a risk may vary between internal and external applications. There are many activities which can be incorporated into an organizations security plan which will help minimize possibility of a security breach. Policies Security monitoring is a method typically used to test or confirm security practices being used are effective. Most of the time monitoring of activities such as the review of user account logs, application logs, data backup and recovery logs or in many applications being used automated intrusion detection system logs. When using security monitoring one is trying to ensure that information security controls are in place are effective and not being bypassed at any point. One of the benefits of security monitoring is the early identification of wrongdoing or security vulnerability. Rudolfsky (1983-2010), “It will be difficult for a company to achieve information security objectives without security event...
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...Module 10 - Monitor & Control The Situation Additional Information Needed Potential Response What will it take to get back on schedule – Mitigate - Use schedule compression additional money, time, manpower? technicques. Potential Opportunities Chance to update and improve original plans with current information. If it is not possible to get back on schedule, what are the new milestone completion dates? Mitigate - Consider how resources are Review original plans and make being used and re-allocate them to areas adjustments to future efforts - document falling behind and need help to lessons learned. alleviate/shorten the delay. Mitigate - Perform tasks in parallel when possible and make sure critical resources are available to meet the schedule adjustment. Based on the impact of the delay, determine the optimal time to get back on schedule – i.e. if we are already behind schedule, it may not be prudent to spend too much money if the project can finish a bit behind schedule. What part of the original plan failed to result in the delay? Behind schedule Measure the impact of delay – on project Transfer - Deploy additional resources to timeline, customer, and other key get back on schedule. Weigh any stakeholders. additional costs associated with crashing against project constraints. Who is the owner of this risk? Which areas resulted in the over-budget? Mitigate - Review and re-allocate the Review original plans and make Why and how did it happen? budget to minimize...
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