...Hardware and software COMPUTERS 1 Computers ENIAC – 1950 2 What is a computer? A data processing device designed to: } input … } data (e.g. mp3 3ile) } software (e.g., iTunes) } process data by applying software } output results } store data / program / results between uses Apple II – 1977 3 Computer hardware Storage Nonvolatile Non-portable (hard disk) Portable (e.g. CD) Battery Wall plug RAM (Random Access Memory) Volatile Power Source Mouse Keyboard Tablet Input Microphone Devices Webcam Accelerometer Central Central Processing Processing Units Units (cores) (cores) Monitor Printer Output Plotter Devices Projector Input Processing Output 4 Components of a computer } Hardware } CPU (Central Processor Unit): } I/O devices (Input / Output) } Storage } Power source } Software } Operating System } Applications Is it a computer? Universal computation } A processor with the right software can emulate any other data processing device } E.g., a smartphone can be a music player, translator, calculator, GPS navigator,...
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...How to Find Specific Journal Articles: (by Mark James) This is a step-by-step guide to finding specific research articles that you have been given the complete reference for (e.g. for seminar readings listed on Moodle, or for articles cited in lectures). To find articles when you do not have a full reference for (e.g. when you’re looking for research on a topic/theory/model generally) please refer to the slide “Finding Sources” of the Study Skills slides provided on Moodle. All seminar readings are available to download via the University of Kent library website using the following steps. Example - how to find: Poropat, A.E. (2009). A meta-analytic analysis of the five-factor model of personality and academic performance. Psychological Bulletin, 135 (2), 322-38. Step 1: Go to http://www.kent.ac.uk/library/ - click ‘Search for journals” and enter title of the journal (e.g. Psychological Bulletin) here: Step 2: Click on one of the search results: Some journals are accessible through multiple providers (e.g. PsycARTICLES, Academic Search Complete, Wiley-Blackwell Full Collection), with varying levels of access. Check the date of the article you’re searching for was published and select a provider which holds the journal published that year. Step 3: A new window will pop up, and you will be asked to input your Kent username and password. Once provided you will be taken to the journal providers website. Select the year the reading was published (e.g. 2009)...
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...The Indian Rupee Crisis Economics Essay-1 In this paper we are going to examine the cause and the impact of rupee depreciation on the Indian economy. Since last few months Indian rupee came under great stress as overseas investors are paring their exposure to Asia’s third-largest economy amid international uncertainty and mounting worries over the domestic economy. In 2009 – 2010 the exchange rate was hovering around the 43 – 45 rupees per US Dollar level. And now it is around 55 – 56 levels, the main reasons to examine are increase in import bill, higher inflation, fiscal mismanagement and all resulting in higher cost of borrowing. The rupee has lost more than 15% of its value this year, making it one of the worst performing currencies in Asia. This paper reviews the probable reasons for this depreciation of the rupee and the outlook for the same. It also reflects on the policy options to help prevent the depreciation of the Rupee. This paper will firstly discuss about the economy of currency to give an overview of the problem and the factors related to it. Afterwards it will be examining the causes of the Indian rupee depreciation with respect to the Indian economy and the global economy. And after that it will analyse the impact of the same on trade and business. Finally, recommending the policy actions in response of the falling currency. II. LITERATURE REVIEW: These papers include the work which have been used as a basis or reference for formulating the policies regarding...
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...request, I attended a seminar about the use of PowerPoint in business presentations. You suggested that there might be tips that I would learn that we could share with other staff members, many of whom make presentations that almost always include PowerPoint. The speaker, Gary Dixon, made some very good points on the subject of PowerPoint. There were several points of an important nature that are useful in avoiding what he called a “PowerPoint slumber party.” Our staff members should give consideration to the following: Create first the message, not the slide. Only after preparing the entire script should you think about how to make an illustration of it. You should prepare slides with short lines. Your slides should have only four to six words per line. Short lines act as an encouragement to people to listen to you and not read the slide. Don't put each and every thing on the slide. If you put too much on the slide, your audience will be reading Item C while you are still talking about Item A. As a last and final point, she suggested that presenters think in terms of headlines. What is the main point? What does it mean to the audience? Please let me know whether you want me to elaborate and expand on these presentation techniques subsequent to the next staff meeting. Your Name [Your contact information] * I would change that phrase to as you requested * I would take that phrase out; it’s a redundant phrase....
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...The Rupee shortage has emerged as a major issue due to the recent increase in demand for Indian Rupees to meet transactions related to trade in goods, services and capital and financial transactions. This is not surprising since Bhutan imports most of what it consumes from India, including construction workers. There is also a huge outflow of Rupees annually on education, health, pilgrimage and other travel related expenses as well as remittances out of the country. To meet the increasing demand for Rupee, the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) had to resort to purchase of Rupee through the sale of 200 million US dollars from international reserves in December 2011 and as the INR became acute again, by July 2012 Bhutan’s borrowing stood at INR 11.6 which includes INR3.6M from State Bank of India, INR 6M from Government of India and 2M from Druk Punjab Bank. The present Rupee shortage in the country can be attributed to two main factors (i) rise in aggregate demand; and (ii) limited supply. The increase in aggregate demand has led to surge (increase) in imports as the domestic production capacity is unable to support the demand. On the supply front, the earnings from electricity exports to India remain Bhutan’s single largest export item, followed by exports of processed minerals like ferrosilicon, calcium carbide, cement, etc. Demand factors Major imports Major imports include fuel, vehicles, heavy earthmoving equipment, industrial raw materials, food items and other...
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...and focuses on academic achievement. As needed, review the Hunt Institute video below (click this link to view the video transcript), which covers the history and development of the CCSS. For this discussion, you will adopt the role of a school leader and create a digital presentation using the software of your choice (e.g., PowerPoint, Present.me, YouTube, Prezi, Jing, SlideRocket, or another program). Your audience for this presentation can be either a school board or a stakeholder directly in the school setting, such as teachers, other staff, or students. If you use software other than PowerPoint, submit notes for each slide as part of your post. If you use PowerPoint, be sure to include notes for each talking point on slides in the notes section for each slide. The presentation needs to be six to eight slides, excluding the title and references slides, and cite at least one scholarly source in addition to the required resources for this week. Ensure that your presentation: • Explains the purpose of CCSS. • Explains how the CCSS are used within a school for teaching and learning. • Justifies why...
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...can take to stabilize the situation. Most importantly we will see if global economic uncertainty rides over all the other domestic factors to determine strength of a currency especially in developing economies. Why don’t we need a depreciating INR? The persistent decline in rupee is a cause of concern. Depreciation leads to imports becoming costlier which is a worry for India as it meets most of its oil demand via imports. Apart from oil, prices of other imported commodities like metals, gold etc will also rise pushing overall inflation higher. Even if prices of global oil and commodities decline, the Indian consumers might not benefit as depreciation will negate the impact. The depreciating rupee will add further pressure on the overall domestic inflation and since India is structurally an import intensive country, as reflected in the high and persistent current account deficits month after month, the domestic costs will rise on account of rupee depreciation. Exchange rate risk also drives away foreign investors which in turn depreciates the local currency. Indian Rupee is currently caught in this vicious cycle; it will have to find a stable level to regain investors’ confidence. The depreciating rupee has serious effects on the external debt figures of the nation. The total external debt has increased by Rs. 2186.8 billion to Rs 16384.9 billion by the end of November 2011. Factors that pushed INR into the well Continued Global uncertainty: Owing to uncertainty prevailing...
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...Economics 1,( BUS 121) Graded project number (05047700) The economic development in India followed socialist -inspired policies for most of its independent history, including state-ownership of many sectors; India’s per capita income increased at only around 1% annualized rate in the three decades after its independence. Since the mid-1980s, India has slowly opened up its markets through economic liberalization after more fundamental reforms since 1991 and their renewal in the 2000s, India has progressed towards a free market economy In the late 2000s, India's growth reached 7.5%, which will double the average income in a decade. Analysts say that if India pushed more fundamental market reforms, it could sustain the rate and even reach the government's 2011 target of 10%.States have large responsibilities over their economies. The annualized 1999–2008 growth rate for Tamilnadu (9.9), Gujarat (9.6%), Haryana (9.1%), or Delhi (8.9%) were significantly higher than for Bihar (5.1%), Uttar Pradesh (4.4%), or Madhya Pradesh (6.5%). India is the tenth-largest economy in the world and the third largest by purchasing power parity adjusted exchange rates (PPP). On per capita basis, it ranks 140th in the world or 129th by PPP. The economic growth has been driven by the expansion of services that have been growing consistently faster than other sectors. It is argued that the pattern of Indian development has been a specific one and that the country may be able to skip the intermediate...
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...International Trade & Finance life and economy of india The flag of India has three equal horizontal bands of saffron, white, and green with a blue chakra centered in the white band. The orange in the flag represents courage and sacrifice. The white represents truth, purity, and peace. The green represents faith, fertility, and chivalry. The blue chakra emblem is the Ashoka Chakra which is the Wheel of the Law. India shares borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma), China, Nepal, and Pakistan. It also is bordered by the sea on the west, south, and east. India is currently home to about 1.13 billion people, representing a full 17% of the earth’s population. India, being a vast country does not fit into any one zone and occupies a large area of South Asia. It can be divided mainly into four climatic zones namely Alpine, Subtropical, Tropical, and Arid. Though divided into different climatic zones, India seems to be unified by primarily four seasons- winter, summer, advancing monsoon, and retreating monsoon. This cycle of seasons has been disturbed due to uncontrolled industrialization and other developmental activities resulting in drastic changes in climate. This has lead to climatic disasters such as drought, landslides, floods, and global warming. The unchecked cutting down of trees indirectly leads to landslide and drought. Annual floods have become part of life in many regions of India. The diverse climate...
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...ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY IN INDIA Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India A person resident outside India who is a citizen of India (NRI) can acquire by way of purchase, any immovable property in India other than agricultural land/plantation property/farm house. He can transfer any immovable property other than agricultural or plantation property or farm house to: a) A person resident outside India who is a citizen of India or b) A person of Indian origin resident outside India or c) A person resident in India. He may transfer agricultural land/ plantation property / farm house acquired by way of inheritance, only to Indian citizens permanently residing in India. Payment for acquisition of property can be made out of: i. Funds received in India through normal banking channels by way of inward remittance from any place of India or ii. Funds held in any non-resident account maintained in accordance with the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 and the regulations made by Reserve Bank Of India from time to time. Such payment can not be made either by traveller’s cheque or by foreign currency notes or by other mode than those specially mentioned above. A person resident outside India who is a person of Indian Origin (PIO) can acquire any immovable property in India other than agricultural land / farm house / plantation property:i. By way of purchase out of funds received by way of inward remittance ...
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...this issue would be to briefly read over with her the basic guidelines and instructions for creating a PowerPoint presentation, such as how to select a theme, insert data and pictures and anything else I feel she would need to know. I would try to avoid overloading her with anything I think she may not need to deal with at the time. If I have further trouble understanding any issues she has I would suggest that we try to start from the beginning and try to take her through the process step by step and from there figure out the best process for her to create this project. Once we figured out what she wants then I would go back to trying to take her through the basic process of creating a presentation, advising her how to create a slide, edit slides, and how to add in pictures and video’s as well as graphs for her statistics. If we had further issues with her understanding my instructions then I would recommend to the customer to review any online how-to steps for creating a presentation. There are many forms of help available for the customer to review and look at which is sometimes much easier than having someone tell you over the...
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...Plaza, flyers, trainers (for the Bruin plaza day), free snacks, apparel 1. App mock-up 2. Who are partners vs. customers (do we have both?) Updates to presentation: * More photos - high quality (get a shutterstock subscription?) * Facebook, linkedIn, googleplus accounts * Make numbers stand out * Get a logo * Beginning of presentation * Start with photo and no logo and begin to tell story * Then show a number slide that explains a problem that our market faces * Show SpotMe slide - the solution to the above problem and explain what it is * Add citations like 30001 * 1 what does the number 3000 mean, what is the source * put actual website source in appendix * Remove numbers about how much money was invested in health apps * Instead quantify the benefits of using an app like SpotMe i.e. the health benefits and compare that to how much it costs $5 * divvy up bullet points/numbers to different slides * currently there is too much text on the slides * MAKE THE BULLET POINTS MEAN SOMETHING → working out 200% more what does that mean * 53% not 52.8% * remove circle graph * who else is out there? how do we differentiate from them? * price of app $5 which is less than 1% of tuition paid and with this app you change your life * what are our customer acquisition costs? * add citations Good Things That We Have: * Great story/opening! Extras: *...
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...PLAY A ROLE (investors, etc.) - a speaker presents the group ( one speaker for the introduction and conclusion, one slide dispenser, and experts). - present the company: its activity, the domestic and international markets (diagrams, drawings, illustrations) NB: Slides must be with the logo, and number of the page, easy reading, few information. TRANSITION: Now, “WE ARE GOING” to speak about “KEY ISSUES”. (SPEAKER ALREADY STOOD UP) MOVEMENT, TRANSITION IN-BETWEEN EXPERTS : first speaker go to the right, second speaker arrives by the left (rotate in the direction of clockwise) 2- KEY ISSUES AND SUB ISSUES WITH LINK BETWEEN: TEAM EVALUATION : definition of key issues for sula vineyard case was too late, no subquestion, contextual information is confusion, illegible slide : A | NEW SPEAKER * Main question and sub issues (clear and catchy) ordered according to what is crucial : * STAKES AND FORESSEEN DIFFICULTIES * MAIN ISSUES AND SUB ISSUES : * ORDERED, * with PERSPECTIVE i.e. environnement, stakeholders, chronology. * With CONTEXT : landmarks, limits, incompatibilities, contradictions. * Revealing and showing LINKS BETWEEN THEM (causes and effects; consequences). TRANSITION : we are going to talk about the agenda. 3- PLAN ANNOUNCEMENT * Agenda with meaningful tittles (with speaker for each tittles) SLIDE TRANSITION 4- DIAGNOSIS/ ANALYSIS: TEAM EVALUATION Quantitative/quantitative, ability to generate ideas...
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...(ET) on Monday of Module/Week 1. Each slide must include a title and a slide transition. Add a slide number to each slide, and proofread your slides carefully for errors in spelling and grammar. Remember, overall appearance counts! Name the file Introduction StudentLastName StudentFirstName.pptx Slide 1 – Title slide. Include your name and a recent picture. Select a theme for your presentation. Slide 2 – Information about you. Include the following: * Where you live * A current phone number where you can be reached * Your major * Online or Resident student? Full or part time? * The type of work that you do * Add a shape, clip art, or picture to your slide Slide 3 – Your Family. Create a family tree using the SmartArt Hierarchy layout. Lay the diagram out in such a way that it makes sense for your family. You can show your family of origin or your spouse/children. Show as much or as little detail as is appropriate. Fill in the blocks with names. Add a shape, clip art, or picture to your slide. Slide 4 – Favorite Things. Create a table and display some of your things – hobbies, foods, vacation spots, etc. Add a shape, clip art, or picture to your slide. Slide 5 – Favorite Bible Verse. Choose one verse or short passage that has blessed you. List the reference in your slide and include a sentence or two explaining why you chose this verse. Add a shape, clip art, or picture to your slide. Slide 6 – Integrity. Look up three verses on integrity...
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