...largest technological and engineering advanced empire of its time. This was undeniably clear to its citizens when these advancements enhanced their overall health, safety, and living conditions. Those achievements not only allowed Rome to magnify its borders exponentially, but also allowed the empire to support a strong community and dominate the seas both through military prowess as well as through trade. Among plentiful of the Roman engineering and technological feats, the aqueducts of Rome and their innovative shipbuilding advanced their culture remarkably. One of the true testaments to Roman engineering is the Roman waterway system known as the aqueducts. The Roman aqueducts were a waterway system built to bring a constant flow of water into the empire in order to supply fountains, toilets, homes, etc. The aqueducts were built from a combination of stone, brick and the special volcanic cement, and stretched about 260 miles, 30 miles of which were visible arched structures (Heaton 2003). In order to maintain this massive water system, the Romans assigned a Curator Aquarum to oversee this project in which slaves, laborers, and legions all took part in building 11 separate aqueducts over a span of 500 years (Heaton 2003). The first aqueduct was called the Aqua Appia and it was built in conjunction with the great southern road named Via Appia in and another aqueduct called the Aqua Novus stretched the farthest from the city, reaching approximately 59 miles away (Heaton...
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...Based on the given documents the Roman Empire and Han dynasty showed their various opinions and attitudes to guards, technological uses, and government intervention in production of technology. All of the given documents were written by high class and/or government officials. However, we see views of technology that vary extensively. Some documents showed negative towards technology. Whereas other documents showed a positive attitude towards technology. Moreover other documents showed a positive attitude towards government involvement in technology. First, there were a lot of pros towards technology. For example in document one there was a positive government reaction to technological importance. Like how to organize water issues and to inform the people how to handle the importance of technology. In document four, the writer shows a positive attitude towards technology, and says that they benefit from technology through the...
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...Roman Technology and Engineering The Romans were good at building things. One thing that they were good at was building bridges. The very first bridges were made of wood and had arch like shapes to them. The later bridges were made of stone. These bridges were very sturdy and very strong. Some of the bridges that are built today are modeled from the early Roman bridges. The Romans are also known for building aqueducts. Some of the areas had a hard time getting water so they came up with this idea so the water can reach to those people. The Romans also figured out a way to get indoor plumbing. The Romans were very good at improving their design on aqueducts, dams, and bridges. They also used their technology to help them with things from water access, to construction, to mining. For mining the Romans would go from wooden hammers to iron pick axes to mine for iron and other materials. The Romans even used battering rams in their mines! Imagine running full force in to a rock wall back then. The battering ram was mainly used with just knocking down flint. To remove the left over rock and water, they carried the stuff away with wooden baskets and crates. The Pantheon was truly a great piece of work by the Romans. The Pantheon is not just a normal building. It was a great building which was used for worshiping the gods. It was built off of another temple. It was the biggest dome top of all time back then. It even had a circle at the top to let in light. It...
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...Timetable CURRICULUM VITAE Rationale The debate over "high-tech" or "high-touch" is largely a thing of the past in the hotel industry as emerging state of the art technologies drive unprecedented change in the way hotels operate and serve customers. It is clear that investments in technologies can generate greatly improved operating efficiencies, higher hotel revenues and enhanced guest services. The pace of change, however, has been so extreme as to leave many hotel organizations uncertain about what types of technology to adopt and the best ways to create a seamless integration of systems company-wide. In the current climate of reduced revenues and cutbacks in expenditures, introducing new products to the hospitality market is more difficult than ever. Companies in the hospitality industry around the world face a highly competitive environment in which differentiation and innovative customer experiences are key elements in improving revenue by building brand awareness and loyalty among customers. Customers today are more demanding than ever, and expect the best from leading hotel companies. Hotels are under such pressure to keep up with expectations of guests that they are implementing new technologies to regain their edge. Leading hospitality properties worldwide and even the small hotels are using technology products...
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...homeworkproviders.com/shop/hsa-520-week-3-assignment/ HSA 520 WEEK 3 ASSIGNMENT Assignment 1: Technology Assessment Due Week 3 and worth 240 points Using the Internet or Strayer University databases, research the regulatory requirements related to technology with the health care industry, and complete this assignment. Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you: Identify and analyze what you believe to be the most significant new technology requirements for the health care industry. Indicate how providers should approach the implementation of this new technology requirement that you have identified. Provide support for the response. Analyze the basic technology underlying health care information systems. Argue that the need for technological innovation and / or modification is most pressing. Support the argument with examples. Recommend an innovation / modification, and explain how the recommendation could improve the overall level of health care in your own community. Include specific example(s) using local hospitals or other health care providers to support the response. Suggest a key action that senior health care leadership could take in the community in which you live to push the boundaries of information technology management. Next, speculate on the effect to the community as a result of the improvement to the health care technology. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do...
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...Choose a topic and write an essay of 3-4 pages: 1 Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” (US Gl. George S. Patton) 2 Management is working in the system; leadership is working on the system. 3 Managers gain authority by position, leaders gain it by influence and character. 4 Every manager should be a leader, while every leader must know management. 5 Leadership and management must go hand in hand. 6 People hate each other because they are afraid of each other; they are afraid of each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they don’t COMMUNICATE” (Martin Luther King) 7 What makes a leader? 8 There is an abundance of managers in the world but very few truly have the characteristics of a leader. 9The challenges we face today are not economic, environmental, social, or legal; they are challenges of character and leadership. 10 Management is nothing more than motivating other people. 11 Good managers increase productivity—great leaders, peak performance. 12 Inventories can be managed but people must be led. 13 Management is neither an art nor science. It is both, and the real trick is to determine the right mixture at the right time! 14. ’Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity!’ (General George S. Patton) 15. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick...
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...advancements in technology and technology has affected society and its surroundings in many different ways. Due to certain problems such as infertility lots of new reproductive technologies were introduced and these reproductive methods include the uses of technology in human reproduction. New Reproductive Technologies have been the subject of debate as they can be seen as both solutions for certain problems such as infertility but can also be seen as a threat to society because of the problems that arise such as the structure of parenthood or what effects might these new technologies have upon women's lives. There are alot of different types of new reproductive technologies such as: artificial insemination...
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...Quotes for Science and Technology: Credits: http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/scen103/quotes.html The Good? 1. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ARTHUR C. CLARKE, The Lost Worlds of 2001. (Dutton) 2. Men are only so good as their technical developments allows them to be. GEORGE ORWELL, Inside the Whale and Other Essays, "Charles Dickens," 1940. (Columbia) 3. However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. LEWIS MUMFORD, Technics and Civilization, 1934. (Columbia) 4. Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world. ISAAC ASIMOV, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988. (S&S) 5. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. RICHARD P. FEYNMAN, What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Dutton) Photo of Feynman lecturing, from PhotoNet, CalTech's archive. 6. There are, as we have seen, a number of different modes of technological innovation. Before the seventeenth century inventions (empirical or scientific) were diffused by imitation and adaption while improvement was established by the survival of the fittest. Now, technology has become a complex but consciously directed group of social activities involving a wide range of skills, exemplified by scientific research, managerial...
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...Discuss how far society should allow religion to control scientific and technological developments. The development of science and technology, comes hand in hand with the debate whether society should allow and use religion to control the research and development that is happening. Many see the involvement of religion in the development of science and technology as a positive thing, believing that it helps us to reach the most moral and safest outcome, however others would disagree with this and argue that allowing religion to control the development of both scientific and technology, will not allow people to think rationally and look at each situation independently and could lead to people making the wrong decision in life, but the right decision in the eyes of religion, which may not always be best. Those who would be in favour of society allowing religion to control scientific and technological developments, would argue that in history, religion has always had a great involvement in the development of science and technology and society used to turn to religion to help them make moral decisions. When considering embryo research, Doctor Jarmulowitz – 1999 said “it has always been accepted in British law that the earliest human embryo should be treated with respect and accorded a special status.” Although there is no law against embryonic research in the UK, each experimentation has to follow certain ethical guidelines, some say that this in a way is allowing religion to control...
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...Impact of technology on Canadian lives: the Economic and Social Perspectives Myles Anda July 26th, 2011 Challenge and Changes in Society Mr. Cicchetti In the words of one of the greatest scientist in the world, Albert Einstein, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our own humanity.” Human beings all around the world, specifically in Canada, have completely incorporated the monumental world of technology into their lives by using it on a daily bases to improve their quality of life in ways not even imaginable many years ago. In particular, the social climate of Canadian education has been greatly revolutionized by technological advances in the forms of computers and networking devices. In addition, technology has revamped Canada’s economy by creating profit for consumers due to high supply and demand offers from technological corporation’s creations and consumers spending all across the country. Technology has also greatly impacted the social communications and interactions people share with one another to new extremities, forever altering the world of communication as society once knew it. Computers and the Internet technology have revolutionized the field of education in Canada immensely. Advances in technology have striking effects in the way classes are instructed; for instance, the typical school classroom has became quite dynamic, where information is more accessible through more miscellaneous...
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...western countries is due largely to is technology. Technology can be anything. It is anything humans have made into something that is useful for them. Technology serves a purpose. People associate technological innovations with Western civilization (Headrick, 3). The West has new ideas that come from two things. One is that the west researches and experiments and the other is that the west is competitive (Headrick, 4). At one point in time, Spain, France, Britain, Germany, Russia, and the United States battled for dominance over Europe (Headrick, 4). Because of the competitive nature of Western society, it has been the reason for technological innovations and imperialism (Headrick, 5). Every country is competitive in trying to find new ideas to make advances for their country. The advances in technology have made it possible to offer the world’s consumers a variety of new goods and services (Scherer, vii)....
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...Philosophy and Design Pieter E. Vermaas • Peter Kroes Andrew Light • Steven A. Moore Philosophy and Design From Engineering to Architecture Pieter E. Vermaas Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands Andrew Light University of Washington Seattle USA Peter Kroes Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands Steven A. Moore University of Texas Austin USA ISBN 978-1-4020-6590-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6591-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937486 © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media B.V. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Contents List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore, and Pieter E. Vermaas Part I Engineering Design ix 1 Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...Technology in Western Civilizations Throughout history humans progress as a species, using their surroundings and resources to advance themselves. To progress they had to begin somewhere, and this is what the past humans did, which enabled them to progress into what we are currently. In the stone age humans discovered fire which while it seems common place today, was something unheard of during that day in age and changed many things, allowing them to cook food, make tools, and many other things. Once the Paleolithic era began things started to develop even more dramatically, mostly due to the fact that human populations started to also increase. This was due to the fact that humans of the time were better nourished, partly due to the new technologies that were created. Tools were also used to make paintings. An example of these paintings are the caves of lascaux which housed various paintings that were mostly animals. These showed the species of the animals that they hunted. Humans around this time were primarily hunter and gatherers, which brought their focus to food, and produced technologies that would make acquiring food to sustain them easier. After this time period, the next would bring along great progress for the human race. The Neolithic Revolution brought along the building of civilization, which ended the times of humans only roving around in groups. Agriculture was started during this period, which allowed the people of this time to make their own resources and...
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...Running Head: ORGANIZATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Organizational Technology Plan Overview Business today is faced with an array of workplace changes varying from downsizing to implementation of new equipment or methodologies. In the current recession Jake’s Plumbing has looked for ways to have a successful business, while still providing the customer excellent service. Jake’s Plumbing is an organization that can change and adapt to new technological advances that leads to the organization’s survival and success. This organization is going to adjust business practices and the organizational model to achieve long-term prosperity. Changes required to make Jake’s Plumbing superior to competitors may include hiring skilled workers, finding support with external and internal partners, and continuing to advance in the areas of technology, which helps them remain competitive. As this cycle of change continues and adjustments made to the organizational structure, Jake’s Plumbing will incorporate these changes into the organization so that their employees and customers benefit. Lane, (2008) stated “Organizations go through change all the time, some minor but very often major; sometimes in the name of economy and almost always in the interests of improvement – this can be in terms of service or returns (or, with any luck, both).” (Lane 2008, The Challenge of Supporting Staff, ¶2.) This organizational technology assignment will be to concentrate...
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...INNOVATION POLICY OF BRAZIL 1. Some Numbers: • Total area - 8.5 million km² • Population - 191 million • GDP (2010) - 3,7 US$ trillion • Investment in R&D - 1.25 % GDP in 2010 • Scientists and researchers - 231,000 in 2010 (headcount) • Scientific papers - 2.7 % of world scientific production • world's sixth largest by nominal GDP • eighth largest by purchasing power parity. • moderately free markets and an inward-oriented economy. • the largest in Latin American nations ere. • one of the fastest-growing major economies in the world with an average annual GDP growth rate of over 5 percent • together with Mexico, has been at the forefront of the Latin American multinationals phenomenon by which, thanks to superior technology and organization, local companies have successfully turned global. 2. Overview Brazil has many times in its history praised to be the land of the future. First, Brazil with population of 190 million, the past eight years “Bolsa Familia” social program have lifted over 40 million Brazilians out of poverty and into middle class. This creates interesting platform for creating context related innovations and scaling bottom-of-the-pyramid innovations (disruptive and reverse) globally. Second, Brazil was almost non-effected by financial crisis 2008, a signal for strong and stable macro-economic policies. This means that Brazil, first time in its history, is becoming an interesting country for long term investment and strategic cooperation...
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