...Scaling Study Developing and conducting a survey is a very technical process. Any researcher that takes on a process like this must be careful to develop proper and appropriate questions for the survey to collect the most valid and reliable data. Conducting and presenting the survey is just as crucial as the creation of the questions. If either of these areas is neglected or not handled appropriately the entire research process is wasted. The purpose this paper is to critique a survey I created and issued to 10 random individuals. Included in the critique of this survey is a discussion of the reliability and validity of the survey and the results collected. Survey and Content The survey under review is a short eight questions developed to understand general health of individuals through diet and exercise. The survey was completed using two forms of questions. The first type question falls under the definition of a rating scale. “Rating scale is used when participants score an object or indicant without making a direct comparison to another object or attitude” (Cooper, Schindler, 2011, Ch. 12). Under these guidelines individuals were asked to answer questions pertaining to how often they exercise, how often they eat each day, and how often they eat fast food. These questions are created so there can be no comparisons made, but rather a numerical value selection. The second sets of questions are a version of ranking scale inquiries. “Ranking scales constrain...
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...Measurement Scales Selection of a Measurement Scale Depends on Research Objectives Response Types Data Properties Number of dimensions Balanced or unbalanced Forced or unforced choices Number of scale points Rater errors Research Objectives To measure characteristics of participants To use participants as judges Response Types Rating Scale- an object Ranking Scale – Comparing exterior look of two cars Categorization- respondents ethnic background Sorting- sorting cards regarding features of a car Data Properties Nominal- data without order, distance or unique origin Ordinal- indicate more than or less than, but no distance or unique origin indication Interval – have order and distance but unique origin Ratio – have all these properties Number of Dimensions Uni dimensional Multidimensional Balanced or Unbalanced Balanced Rating Scale- has an equal number of categories above and below the mid point Unbalanced Rating Scale- has an unequal number of favorable and unfavorable response choices Examples Very Good – Good – Average – Poor – Very Poor Poor- Fair – Good- Very Good – Excellent Forced or Unforced Forced Unforced Forced Choices No options like – No opinion, undecided, don’t know, uncertain, neutral etc. When many participants do not have opinion, this may results in forced-choice scale bias Number of Scale Points Different scales...
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...Scaling Study RES 320 April 14, 2014 Scaling Study Cell phone use has become more and more prevalent in the last 20 years anlong with the growing use of these devices, comes upgrades. What started off as a basic electronic brick whose sole function was sending and receiving calls has developed into aesthetically pleasing machines capable of, among other things, browsing the internet and taking pictures. The market for cell phones and especially smart phones is saturated with companies offering everything from better cameras to faster processing speeds. Competition between the different companies has become fierce with each offering different plans to try and attract as many customers as possible. The questionnaire will attempt to answer questions as why people have cell phones, what functions they like in their devices and whether cell phones become a problem in families and society. Cell Phone Questionnaire 1. Do you own a cell phone? Yes / No? Why or Why not? 2. If yes, is your cell phone a smart phone? Yes / No? Why or why not? 3. If yes, is your phone an IPhone or Android? Why did you pick that type of cell phone? 4. How satisfied are you with your phone? A. Very Satisfied B. Satisfied C. Indifferent D. Dissatisfied E. Very Dissatisfied 5. When your contract is up, do you plan on staying with the same phone? Yes / No? Why or why not? 6. Do you feel a cell phone has made your life easier? Yes /...
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...IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, VOL. 47, NO. 7, JULY 2012 1585 A 53-nW 9.1-ENOB 1-kS/s SAR ADC in 0.13- m CMOS for Medical Implant Devices Dai Zhang, Student Member, IEEE, Ameya Bhide, Student Member, IEEE, and Atila Alvandpour, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—This paper describes an ultra-low power SAR ADC for medical implant devices. To achieve the nano-watt range power consumption, an ultra-low power design strategy has been utilized, imposing maximum simplicity on the ADC architecture, low transistor count and matched capacitive DAC with a switching scheme which results in full-range sampling without switch bootstrapping and extra reset voltage. Furthermore, a dual-supply voltage scheme allows the SAR logic to operate at 0.4 V, reducing the overall power consumption of the ADC by 15% without any loss in performance. The ADC was fabricated in 0.13- m CMOS. In dual-supply mode (1.0 V for analog and 0.4 V for digital), the ADC consumes 53 nW at a sampling rate of 1 kS/s and achieves the ENOB of 9.1 bits. The leakage power constitutes 25% of the 53-nW total power. Index Terms—ADC, analog-to-digital conversion, leakage power consumption, low-power electronics, medical implant devices, successive approximation. I. INTRODUCTION EDICAL implant devices, such as pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators, target increasingly advanced signal acquisition and signal processing systems. Such devices, which are to be implanted in the human body, require extremely low...
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...Power-Aware Linear Programming Based Scheduling For Heterogeneous Computer Clusters This paper presents power aware scheduling policy for Heterogeneous Clusters. In general, in performance optimization of computer clusters, energy consumption has been mostly neglected, which is an important factor. Reduction of energy consumption in computer cluster is a necessity because cooling equipment is not a good idea as electricity costs are growing at a faster rate. This policy provides significant energy savings. In this paper, it is also suggested that a power-aware policy for structured systems only requires knowledge of the ranking of machines with respect to their power efficiencies and structured systems are a special kind of heterogeneous systems that are common for cluster environments. II. WORKLOAD MODEL In this model a dedicated front end scheduler is used to assign incoming tasks to back end machine. If the number of machines be J and tasks are classified into i classes. Let α be the arrival matrix rate and the ith element of α isαi. Assuming tasks of class i reaches front end at αi. In this model, the expected task execution time is estimated by classifying the groups or classes with identical distribution. The policy considered here is an estimate on mean execution time rather than exact execution time. Let μi,jbe the execution rate for tasks of class i at machine j, hence 1/μi,jis the mean execution time for class i tasks at machine j. III. CURRENT POLICIES The...
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...MGMT301: Managing Across Cultures Subject Outline Subject Information Semester One, 2015 Offshore Campus (INTI International College Subang) Lecture Information: 3 hours lecture, 1 hour tutorial Pre-requisites: MGMT110 plus 12 cps from 200 or 300 level Faculty of Commerce subjects Co-requisites: Nil Teaching Staff Teaching Role | Lecturer | Name | Mr. Ronald Hor Yew Kheong | Telephone | 603-5623 2800 (UOW Program Office) | Email | ronald.hor@gmail.com | Room | UOW Program Office | Consultation Times | To be advised | Email Etiquette: Consultation with your subject coordinator and/or teachers via email Your teachers receive many emails each day. In order to enable them to respond to your emails appropriately and in a timely fashion, students are asked to observe basic requirements of professional communication: Consider what the communication is about * Is your question addressed elsewhere (e.g. in this subject outline or, where applicable, on the subject's eLearning site)? * Is it something that is better discussed in person or by telephone? This may be the case if your query requires a lengthy response or a dialogue in order to address. If so, see consultation times above and/or schedule an appointment. * Are you addressing your request to the most appropriate person? Specific email title/ header to enable easy identification of subject related/ student emails * Identify the subject code of the subject you are enquiring...
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...Book Review 1 – ‘Children’s Solution Work’ by Insoo Kim Berg & Therese Steiner I chose to do my first book review of the year on ‘Children’s solution work’, as I was intrigued as to how this modality can be applied to children. My practice to date involves only adults so I am very keen to adopt tools and tips to effectively talk to children in a therapeutic way. I was definitely not disappointed! This book clearly demonstrated how the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) model can be applied to the nonverbal, playful and creative habits of children. The books extensive use of examples and case studies in various contexts and situations was instrumental in demonstrating the creative techniques and strategies for working with children without relying exclusively on language. I will use this book review to discuss some of the ideas, techniques and cases that really stood out for me with the hope that I may one day incorporate them into my clinical work. “There is good harmony between SFBT and children because there are so many similarities between how children think and make sense of the world around them and the assumptions and procedures of SFBT.” One excellent example of this is the child’s relative indifference to the “cause” of a problem, over their need/desire to “fix” it. I encounter this on a daily basis with my own children. I often find myself inquiring about the cause of their problems, feeling that by doing so I will gain greater insight into their thoughts...
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...Nucleon Case Study The date is December 1990 and Nucleon, a biotech startup specializing in R&D, is having a difficult time deciding which route to take to get FDA approval for their product (CRP-1), while still creating the most value for their company and obtaining funding for future innovations. Nucleon is one of 200+ biotech companies in a relatively new field, racing to gain a proprietary position through R&D efforts, but lack the capital and manufacturing capabilities to bring their product through clinical trials and to the market. Thus several options are available for Phase I & 2 of clinical trials, as well as Phase III and can be seen in Figure 1 below. At first glance of the Nucleon decision tree (Figure 1), it would appear that based on the values under the net present value (NPV) column that option C would result in the most financial gain and future success. Option C would involve Nucleon passing Phase I & II of clinical trials through contract manufacturing methods and then by scaling up in Phase III to produce the amount of product needed to pass FDA requirements and meet market demand. However, choosing innovation strategies is based not only on quantitative results like that of the NPV, but also qualitative results in order to weigh factors that are not so easy to quantify. When quantitative and qualitative factors are then analyzed, one can see that option E is in fact the most beneficial to Nucleon’s success. Option E involves Nucleon licensing...
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...Abstract The quest for an answer to what determines human behavior has been going on for many years now, is it nature or nurture? The broad scope of human behavior has compelled researchers across various fields to systematically analyze what compels individuals to act the way they do. Is human behavior encoded in genetics or does it evolve by way of individual experience and environment. Through the review of recent empirical data across these various fields it is clear that both nature and nurture plan an important role in the development of human behavior. Subsequently multidirectional models have emerged with a mounting emphasis on how nature and nurture act independently in addition to collectively each forever shaping the other. Together Nature and Nurture Shape Human Behavior. The discussion concerning the appropriate significance of genetics and environment in human behavior has been around for quite a long while. This topic has generated massive attention, throughout the years, gaining numerous supporters on both sides of the debate. This attention essentially, has lead to some of the most remarkable psychological discoveries in recent years. The terms nature and nurture can be traced back to13th century France, expressed by Francis Galton in 1874 (Nature versus nurture, 2011). The term nurture in refers to the manner in which behavior is shaped by culture and environment. It builds its foundation on John B. Watson's theory of behaviorism...
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...withholding effort, stealing, taking long breaks, working slowly, harassing other employees and hiding needed resources. This paper investigates the nature of deviant workplace behaviors and its impact on organizations. The purpose is to broaden the research in organizational studies by focusing not only on deviant behaviors that are negative, but on those that are positive as well. Furthermore, this article examines different types of both positive and negative deviant workplace behaviors, along with some of the reasons why managers/employees engage in such behaviors. Also, some of the reasons why organizations allow negative deviant behaviors to thrive, while discouraging positive deviant behaviors are investigated. Lastly, possible solutions to overcome problems arising from negative deviance in the workplace will be examined, along with how organizations can encourage positive deviant behaviors. ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR Organizational Behavior (OB) a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness. Organizational behavior is the study and...
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...Cameron.ffirs 10/11/05 1:46 PM Page iii Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture Based on the Competing Values Framework REVISED EDITION The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series Cameron.ffirs 10/11/05 1:46 PM Page i Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture Cameron.ffirs 10/11/05 1:46 PM Page ii Kim S. Cameron Robert E. Quinn Cameron.ffirs 10/11/05 1:46 PM Page iii Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture Based on the Competing Values Framework REVISED EDITION The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series Cameron.ffirs 10/11/05 1:46 PM Page iv Copyright © 2006 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint 989 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-1741 www.josseybass.com No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600, or on the Web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department...
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...Spring 2010 School of Engineering Maintenance impact on Production Profitability - A Case Study Växjö, 2010 Thesis no:TEK 028/2010 Obamwonyi Martyn Enofe Gregory Aimienrovbiye Department of Terotechnology (Total Quality Maintenance) Linnaeus University School of Engineering Department of Terotechnology (Total Quality Maintenance) 4SE31E Degree Project Master Thesis Författare/ Authors Obamwonyi Martyn Enofe Gregory Aimienrovbiye Linnaeus University Institutionen / Institution School of Engineering Department of Terotechnology (Systemekonomi) Dokumenttyp/Type of document Examensarbete (Degree Project) Handledare/Tutors Matias Taye Examinator/ Examiner Basim Al-Najjar Title och undertitel/ Title and subtitle Maintenance impact on Production Profitability - A Case Study Sammanfattning/Abstract Maintenance has had a tremendous impact on company’s proficiency to optimize its production system in order to meet its long term objectives. Generally, a production system in which maintenance is not given attention may easily lead to the system producing defective product as a result of machine defect. The purpose of this thesis is to utilized tools and methods to analyze the impact of maintenance implementation in a production system. The analytical Hierarchy process was utilized to filter the defining factors and sub-factors considered to be related to the life length and performance of production equipment in the research which was carried out at SCA...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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...Control Systems in the Hospitality Industry 2011-06-01 BUSP02: Master Thesis in Accounting and Management Control Richard G. Sicari and Fredrik J. Söderlund Per-Magnus Andersson Hospitality Industry, Management Control Systems, Performance Measurement, Contingency Approach, Multiple Case Study The purpose of the thesis is to describe and analyze the use of management control systems in the hospitality industry. Purpose: Methodology: The study is mainly a descriptive, multiple case study based on deductive reasoning. However, explanatory elements occur. The nature of the study is to a large extent qualitative and is primarily based on interviews and analysis of current management control tools. The analytical strategy includes pattern matching, explanation building and cross-case synthesis. Theoretical Perspectives: The main text editions included are Anthony and Govindarajan (2003 & 2007), Lindvall (2001), Merchant and Van der Stede (2007) and Samuelsson (2004). Furthermore, the use of management control systems in the hospitality industry is examined using literature such as Harris (1995), as well as other articles. Empirical Foundation: There are four units of analysis included in this study: (1) BrewPub København; (2) Färs & Frosta Sparbank Arena; (3) Kulturmejeriet and; (4) Scandic Hotels. This organization is divided into three subunits; Scandic Kramer, Scandic Malmö City and Scandic Star Lund. Each organization is described in terms of background, situational factors, strategy...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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