...People say that talking on a cell phone while driving can be dangerous. Research appears to agree with this. However, to ensure that the research is accurate, the experimental design to test the hypothesis must be set up in a way that eliminates other factors that may be influencing driving, leaving talking on the cell phone the sole culprit of impaired driving. To do this, first we must add in a control condition, in order to have something to compare the drivers talking on the phone to, then we must assign our subjects in a random assortment to be sure all outside biases and factors are eliminated. Finally, we would need to design our experiment on a set obstacle course to ensure the only difference between both conditions is the use of a cell phone....
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...GUIDANCE FOR ENGINEERING CONSULTANCY FIRMS INTEGRATED CONTRACTS PREFACE Our industry is facing new integrated business models with increasing frequency. The processes driving these models are very different from the traditional model. An integrated project process implies high demands on teamwork and a focus on results. Such an integrated approach is also reshaping relationships among contractors, engineering consultants and clients. Moreover, it has an impact on the way they work together, and the liabilities and risks they assume. This guide is intended as a quick reference for engineering consultancy firms, working outside the traditional design-bid-build approach and contracting relationships. It is in their interest to understand the various roles they can play in the „new‟ delivery methods throughout all phases of project development as well as the risks and benefits such integrated project delivery methods entail. We would like to thank all members of the Internal Market Committee as well as everyone involved in the preparation of this guide for their useful contribution. Jan Bosschem EFCA President November 2011 2 CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Introduction: an increasing diversity of forms of contracts in construction projects in Europe .................................................................................................................... 4 Forms of Contract .....................................................................
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...strategies I use to teach the students to tie their shoes. Observational Procedures: The form of data collection I will use is direct observational recording in which I will observe and quantify the skill. I will count the number of steps the student is able to complete, and keep data on the type of prompt required to complete the task of tying their shoes. Research Design: The research design will be a multiple baseline design across subjects. I will implement the intervention with the first subject and wait until the data shows the intervention is working before implementing the intervention with the second and third subjects. Subjects: The subjects are three students with autism at Seat Pleasant Elementary School in Seat Pleasant, Maryland. All of these students are in an inclusion classroom of 14 students. Ten students in the classroom have IEPs and have either autism or developmental delays. The remaining students are general education students performing below grade level. I am the teacher of this class with the assistance of two paraprofessionals and a dedicated assistant. The first student is a third grade student with autism, who has delays in the areas of reading, math, and expressive and receptive language skills. The dedicated assistant is assigned to this student. The second student is a first grade student with autism, who has delays in the areas of reading, math, and speech...
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...CE 315 – CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL FORM WORK Interim Report by Group No 33 AUTHORED BY Abdul Basit Shaikh (CE-091) Shujaw Muhammad (CE-077) Irsa Komal (CE-104) Ali Hassan Hussaini (CE-093) Table of Contents INTROUCTION ......................................................................................................................2-4 INDUSTIAL FORMWORK ................................................................................. 2 STUDY SCOPE & OBJECTIVES ........................................................................... 4 METHODOLOGY OF STUDY............................................................................... 4 STUDY DESIGN ................................................................................................................ 5-6 RESEARCH DESIGN .................................................................................................... 5 METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION ......................................................... 5 DATA SOURCES ............................................................................................................. 6 SUMMARY........................................................................................................................................ 7 WORK DONE TO DATE ...................................................................................... 7 REMAINING WORK .................................................................................................. 7 ...
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...Understanding the Research Process PSY/300 Understanding the Research Process 1. What hypothesis did Medvec & Colleagues set out to test in their first study of the “near miss” phenomenon? Describe the theory associated with this hypothesis. • In the summer of 1992, Medvec &Colleagues set out to test satisfaction after the Olympics competition. Based on “if only thinking”, they wanted to know if the person who won third place would be less upset than the person who won the second place. The Olympic competition was recorded, giving the opportunity to watch on slow motion. With the slow motion strategy, they were able to observe facial reaction of the gold, silver and bronze medalists. • The Phenomenon “near miss” or theory that Medvec and Colleagues were associated, tested how a person could react, or feel after a situation is altered or any other situation occurs. 2. Identify the variables in the study and describe how they were measured. How did the researchers operationalize affective response upon winning a bronze or silver medal? • The measure used on this study was recorded on a tape from the moment the participants were on the stand to receive the mdeal. It seems there were two kind of settings, such as unplanned emotions and counterfactual thinking. Measuring the two variables provided an insight on how the competitors felt and reacted. How different the silver medalist felt and reacted from the bronze competitor...
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...Everybody needs a hobby to participate in!! An enjoyable, educational activity that I participate in is the United States First Tech Challenge Robotics. Robotics is a program that teaches kids, grades seven through nine, the basics of engineering, robotic design, programming, public relations, and many, many more! It will literately stick like superglue to every participants brain. I have had people often stereotype robotics to be fighting, lasers, etc., but there is truly more than just walking, talking, and basically anything a human can and cannot do. It is the exact same with clouds; people think clouds taste like cotton candy, but are yet to figure out that they are conspicuously wrong. First of all, robotics I a very interesting thing to learn and talk about. It is so interesting, in fact, that my school, Ridgeview Highschool, has a class based on robots. The class is titled, Technological Introduction to Robotic Design. Thats quite a hefty name! Second of all, while being a participant of a robotics team here at my school, I am often finding myself excused from school for trips to go to a competition,...
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...still remain above the 40 pound threshold. Historically, they have operated with a single production shift, but have recently added a second shift to meet their growing demand. Management is interested in a full analysis of their process to ensure that the control limits and capabilities are within reason, and to ensure that the addition of a second shift isn’t causing issues to their process. To accomplish this, a data set was constructed. Ten bags were tested every hour during each of the two separate eight hour shifts. This continued for five days to give us 800 observations, 400 from each shift. The samples provided were analyzed for management using statistical process control methods, control charts for attributes, and capability analysis. This included X & R control charts, P-charts, C-charts, and capability analysis. The interesting finding was that all the control charts displayed variations and fill levels completely within the limits. Also, defective bags, defined as those filled to less than 40 pounds, occurred within acceptable limits. Despite all this, the capability analysis with our chosen bounds of 40 pounds to 42 pounds failed to meet the 3σ threshold. Upon this determination, we returned to re-analyze our findings, much of which is discussed in the following pages. One item of particular note was the R chart for the second shift. This shift showed a steady rise in variability throughout each day, capping just below the control threshold. While this...
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...[pic] ACME Global Transportation Company Corporate Training Department Instructional Design Plan: Introduction to Internet Explorer Instructional Designer: James Smith Scenario The accounting division of ACME Global Transportation has recently implemented an Intranet that is to be used by the supervisory staff to access the new web based version of the corporate Human Resource Management System (HRMS). The new system is being phased in over a 90-day period. The supervisors are tasked with entering on-line, on a weekly basis, the regular and over-time hours worked by their staff. They are also supposed to print out a report of the hours that they have entered, and submit this to the manager of the department in which they work. They also have the option of sending the report to the manager via e-mail. The HRMS system is accessed via the corporate standard browser, Internet Explorer (IE). Thirty days into the implementation of the new HRMS package, the payroll manager has complained to the I/T director that the hours worked by staff are not being accurately captured. The department managers have also complained that they are not getting their payroll reports on a timely basis from their supervisors. A meeting was held to discuss the problems with the new version of the HRMS system. In attendance was the I/T team responsible for the HRMS project as well as the department managers...
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...who are entering school whom may be labelled as English language learners. The test will assist instructors with programmatic placement determinations such as identification and placement of ELLs. These assessments are called W-APT which stands for WIDA-ACCESS Placement Test. It is considered to be English language proficiency “screener” test. The tests are written from the WIDA’s five English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards: Social and Instructional Language, Language and Language Arts, Language of Mathematics, Language of Science, and Language of Social Studies. The test approaches the four communication domains of listening, talking, speaking, and writing. The Kindergarten W-APT is given to student in the second semester pre-K, Kindergarten, and first term 1st graders. Also, the paper will discuss the alternative assessment formats and importance of each one. There are many immigrants that are living in the United States. Over the past 30 years, the population of immigrants have increased more than 14 million. English language learners are reported to be revealed as a new population. ELLs are considered to be a difficult unit of scholars with distinct talents, learning requirements, personal history, speeches, and objective. These ELL students arise from environments where no English is articulated whereas several of the students arise from environments where only English is articulated. Some ELL student’s may be...
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...While in the earlier parts on the novel, Royal is described as an enigmatic, mastermind figure, in the second section we learn he is as much prisoner to the building as everyone else. Early on, the information about Royal we are privy to is limited. Everyone in the building knows who he is, but nobody really knows what to think of him. Wilder notably observes, “There’s something about him I haven’t put my finger on. Perhaps even a sense of guilt – he hangs up there as if he’s waiting to be found out.” (25) And even Laing who plays squash with him weekly “hardly [knows] the man” (24). There is something ominous in his description – there is a sense that he is a mastermind sitting atop the high-rise watching everything unfold all according...
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...Structuring Corporate Financial Policy: Diagnosis of Problems and Evaluation of Strategies This note is talking about finding a way to think about corporate financial policies. They depend in the first place on creativity and careful judgment. There are three good elements to achieve this goal and they are mentioned in the paper, they are: description, diagnosis and prescription. The first element is to define the financial policies of an organization. The second element is to design or create a good financial structure, after that to develop the suggested actual financial designs and structures to choose the best among them and look for opportunities to improve it. The last element is the impact of what is taken as a decision in the first and the second phases or elements. According to the phase one and talk in more details, the first task for advisers in the financial field is to understand the current situation of an organization to be able to observe all the tasks and activities and be able to look for solutions. Therefore, the policy of corporate financial is a set of constitutions that are preferred and suggested in order to be able to guide the capital looking for a raise in this task. Policies should change also and adapt according to the changing environment surrounding the organization or firm following these policies. The elements of financial policy are: the mix of classes of capital, maturity structure of the capital of the organization and the basis of the firm's...
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...presented for argument are the Cosmological Argument, the Teleological Argument, and the Anthropological Argument. In this paper, I will examine the cases and explain the benefits each gives towards the belief of a Supreme Being. The first case presented was the Cosmological Argument. It is explained that the Cosmological Argument addresses the fact that the Universe is here and therefore must be explained. In the book, Dr. Thompson explains that the Universe is a contingent entity, one that is dependent upon something outside of itself to explain its existence. For scientists, and atheists alike, there is the belief of cause and effect, or rather the Law of Casualty. This law states that every material effect must have an adequate antecedent cause. For scientists, and philosophers alike, this is the foundation of their core beliefs. There can be no effects without an adequate cause, this is simply unknown. Therefore a cause cannot follow an effect, or an effect precedes its cause. Since therefore for whatever effects we observe, we must postulate an adequate antecedent cause, we must answer what actually caused the universe? There are three possible answers, first, the Universe is eternal, always has and always will exist, second, the Universe is not eternal, and...
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...hand a theist could point out that if we cannot prove God does exist, we are entitled to believe he does not. There is no way we can prove the existence of God, but there are few arguments that give reasons why we should believe in God, but unfortunately they all have objections to them. Two arguments trying to prove the existence of god, and are not completely successful, are the teleological arguments, the cosmological arguments, and Pascal’s wager. The teleological argument argues that there is an order in the universe, but order cannot exist without design for which this means that there must be a designer, God (Engel). According to Philosopher Paley he believes that just like a watch needs a watchmaker to build it, then everything else needs a designer. For example the eye cannot be put together by human engineering, which gives proof that there must be a Divine Designer responsible for all of the design we observe in nature. __________________________________________________________ WE WRITE YOUR RESEARCH PAPERS ON GOD TOPICS! __________________________________________________________ Often the Teleological Argument is formulated as an induction: 1. In all things we...
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...N atural Designs manufactures a variety of bird feeders, garden accessories, and other items intended to help people get in touch with and observe nature. Founded in 1995 by Jim McMaster in LaGrange, Illinois, the company started when he was working as a fourth-grade teacher. Presentations to students on birds and wildlife had a way of capturing their enthusiasm; thus, McMaster started offering presentations to other schools in the greater Chicago area. Within a few years, McMaster was so busy doing presentations at various schools, as well as running nature camps from his home, that he quit his full-time job as an elementary school teacher to form Natural Designs. At first, Natural Designs was mostly Jim and his wife giving presentations and running camps, but gradually the company expanded to sell some of the bird feeders and other nature devices featured in his class talks. Today, the company has sales of $2 million per year, most of which comes from physical products sold to outdoor, nature, and bird stores such as Wild Birds Unlimited. In the first few years of operation, Jim McMaster and his wife, Sheila, produced bird feeders and other products in their garage. In 1997, however, the operation became too large for their garage, so they rented a 4,000-square-foot facility for production and distribution purposes. They also hired two employees to manage these two functions so that the McMasters could continue giving school talks...
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...The complexity design argument given by William Paley reasons that the existence of God is evident in the complexity of the natural world. He argues that random events cannot account for the development of life and the systems that comprise our world. Observation of the natural world indicates purposeful design not random events. Purposeful design requires the existence of God. He argues this through the use of analogies and sensibilities; through the comparison of man’s inventions to the functions and purposes of life. The clock makers’ analogy is one such argument. The clockmakers analogy imagines that you are taking a walk through the woods. You stumble upon a clock. Immediately you wonder, “where did this clock come from?” You might consider that it naturally grew there just as the nearby trees and plants did; but more likely you would assume that someone had left it. Because of its form and function, you would reason that the...
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