...In spite of the work and legislation behind the Pay Equity and Equal Pay for Equal Work commission, a gender wage gap persists (Canadian Women, 2017:1-4). According to Statistics Canada, the main causes of gender wage disparity since 2010 (Statistics Canada, 2017: 16) include the differences in hours actually worked (as 75% of those that work part-time are women), women’s greater responsibility for caregiving, women’s educational and career choices as a result of socialization, and discrimination, stereotypes and societal norms probably account for remaining and persistent 7% (Bredtmann & Otten, 2014: 303-304). This demonstrates the relevance of occupational segregation, as men are more likely than women to major in business or in STEM fields...
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...PG 13 Purpose According to the Business dictionary, technology is the purposeful application of information in the design, production, and utilisation of goods and services and in the organization of human activities. In today’s world computers have become an essential part of our life and it is our best companion. Computer technology is important in education since most of what we do and learn involves the use of a computer. It is also essential in the economy and the field of business. Computers allow tasks to be done more speedily and accurately in the business world. Computers enable humans to be much more productive and more efficient in their daily tasks. Computers have allowed individuals to communicate much easier, however there are many downsides to the increased use of technology (Explaining Computers). The use of computers is accompanied with many environmental and health consequences. Although doing things electronically uses fewer trees there are many chemicals involved in the production and discarding of computers. These chemicals are not only dangerous to the humans using them but also have a huge impact on the environment. In a world where science and technical considerations play a major role in terms of economics and society, the understanding and appropriation of...
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...Literature Review From the earlier description we know the main and other specific objectives of the study. Fulfill the objectives means to have found out Social Networking & Its Impact on Education System in Contemporary Era. Kombo and Tromp (2006) define background of the study as a position or setting of the study. It explains briefly over view of the problem of the researcher aspires or want to tackle. Labaree (2013) says that background of the study means identification and description of the history and well def and nature of a well-defined research problem with reference to the existing literature. He added that background information in your introduction should indicate the root of the problem being studied, its scope and the extent to which previous studies have successfullyinvestigated the problem, where the gaps exist that your study attempts to address. Introductory background information differs from a literature review because it places the research problem in proper context rather than thoroughly examining pertinent literature. In recent years, the use of social networking sites has grown tremendously especially among the teens and high school students. However, very little is known about the scale of use, the purpose, how students use these sites and, more specifically, whether these sites help or harm their academic progress, (Miah, Omar and Golding, 2012) Kumar (2005) asserts that research objectives refer to what researcher studies for. The research...
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...underlying the instructional programme. Introduction Science education has always been a part of the Ghanaian (and Sub-Saharan) culture. Modern education in Ghana came with the advent of European missionary and mercantile enterprises, and has largely become the vehicle for social upward mobility. Education in general, and science education, for that matter, is serious issues for all Ghanaians. Curriculum orientations are beliefs about what a school curriculum should achieve and how teaching, learning and assessment should occur (Eisner, 1970). The most fundamental concern of schooling is curriculum (Ornstein, 1982). These prepositions have led me to have an in depth study by evaluating the Ghanaian Basic School Science Curriculum from both the primary to the Junior High School levels trying to find out the various and dominant curriculum orientation(s) underlying the teaching and learning process of Integrated Science in schools. The Ghanaian Basic School Science Curriculum and Delivery The Ghanaian integrated science curriculum follows the “spiral approach,” treating the same themes at different times and in greater depths within each educational level. The curriculum is the modern replacement of what used to be called “nature study.” This is a generalist, survey course, which exposes the child to the universe. At this level, the students would get the basic exposure to scientific ideas, and learn about the history of science. They also learn the basic scientific vocabulary...
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...Standards form the fundamental building blocks for product development by establishing consistent protocols that can be universally understood and adopted. Standards also make it easier to understand and compare competing products. As standards are globally adopted and applied in many markets, they also fuel international trade. (IEEE, 2013). Working Groups develop and write standards per PAR approval. They strive for broad representation of all interested parties and encourage global participation. (IEEE, 2013). IEEE 1703-2012 is the standard for LAN/WAN node communication protocol to complement the utility industry end device data tables. This standard was developed and formed with ANSI (published as ANSI C12.22) and Measurement Canada (published as MC12.22) to improve the cost efficiency and flexibility of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployments. According to Yu (2012), it is being developed to define uniform, managed, adaptive and secure network data and message delivery for plug-and-play, multi-source utility meters, home appliances, communication technology and other ancillary devices. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics...
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...Microsoft Internet Explorer and HTML Standards (Objective: illustrate the importance of standards) In early 1996, when we were developing our Web-groupware software (now a commercial product called Consensus @nyWARE (www.softbicycle.com)) we discovered that Microsoft’s IE would not work with our software. IE did not support the full HTML 3.0 standard in forms processing. All the form information was returned in reverse order from the standard. Since IE was a marginal product at the time and since our project was a research project, we decided not to bother rewriting our software to support IE. I received an email message from an IE user mentioning that they had discovered that IE would not work with our software and asking if we knew why. I didn’t really read the note very carefully. I explained the problem and told them they should use...
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...majority of Canadians participate in formal and informal learning every week (NALL, 1997; WALL, 2004). Workers have a number of incentives for participating in training, including employment and job security as well as job improvements (e.g., promotion, better pay, and better working conditions). Personal satisfaction remains an important incentive for informal learning as well (Bloom & Lafleur, 1999). Some workers are expected to finance their own workplace training. Historically, many workers have completed specific, self-funded training courses prior to their hire. More recently, some employees have been expected to fund firm-specific training by foregoing pay during their “training” period. There appears to be a “union effect” in the provision and support for training, as set out in the following reading. Workers Education & Training In what ways is training contested terrain? This refers to the issues and debates related to “why” training in Canada and its structure within the idea that training could be contested terrain. As general discussion of productivity and Human Resources followed by a review of skills-related issues such as: science changes, the knowledge, the economy, skill developments, and the relationship of immigration/emigration to skills shortages and surpluses. These issues are examined from the perspectives and value systems introduced. We could conclude on the notion that training as ultimate answer to the challenges presented in the labor market...
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...Companies are increasingly utilizing online recruiting in an effort to reduce costs, stay competitive, and reach their target market. “E-recruiting and fairness: the applicant’s point of view” (Thielsch, Traumer & Pytlik, 2012) examines how applicants perceive the procedural fairness of e-recruiting processes. This study has critical human resource implications because fairness perceptions of potential applicants can influence an applicant’s evaluation of the organization and their motivation to apply. This research endeavored to answer three questions and confirm one hypothesis; Q1) What are the general experiences and expectations of applicants with respect to e-recruiting? Q2) How does an applicant’s perceived importance of procedural fairness in e-recruiting compare to their expectations? (researchers hypothesized (H1) that perceived importance would be higher than expectations) and Q3) How do applicants react when different experimental information is given in a fictitious online recruiting situation? The methodology incorporated an online survey involving 1,373 participants. The survey was divided into three parts. Part one gathered demographic information. Part two addressed research question #1 and required participants to answer four questions. Part three was divided into two specific sections. The first section addressed research question #2 and hypothesis #1, and required participants to answer a questionnaire specifically adapted to analyze online recruitment...
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...SERVICE INDUSTRY IMPACT ON NATIONAL ECONOMIES Student’s Name Course code + name Professor’s name University City, State Date Introduction Service industry is a business category that involves the provision of services to other businesses or to final customers. Service industry has improved in the recent decades forming the backbone of several nations’ economies. The common service industries include tourism, computer services, entrepreneurship and accounting among many others. The growth of the service industry has been reflected in several economic platforms. For instance, the current list of Fortune 500 companies has more service companies on it compared to manufacturing companies (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2015). In addition, the old product oriented business tradition has been replaced by a service-product continuum. This business revolution is happening in both the developed and developing countries as a result of a high price elasticity of demand of services. This means that services have dominated the economies of these countries leading to an overall global economic change. Background of the Service Industry The service industry has been in the economy for a long period of time. In Africa, during the ages of barter trade, services still existed but they were not valued as they were termed as ‘free services’. For instance, during the barter trade age, there existed medicine people, traditional educators among other service providers (Gancarczyk, 2014). These people...
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...This paper will look at the problem and some possible solutions in terms of using renewable energy sources to sustain residential high-rises. Methods including Geothermal energy to heat and cool the building, Green-roofs that can be used to grow plants/food and can gather rain water, Cistern tank to catch all the rainwater that can then be used to wash clothes and flush toilets and possibly also for irrigation purposes if need be, Wind energy to provide electricity, as well as Solar energy to provide electricity can all be used to minimize a building’s ecological footprint. Geothermal energy is literally the heat from the earth, energy obtained from the hot areas under the earth’s surface. Geothermal energy is becoming very popular in Canada, taking the natural energy from the earth to heat and...
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...of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Engineering (SE) have developed separately without much exchange of research results. In AI we researched techniques for the computations that made it possible to perceive, reason, and act. Research in SE was concerned with supporting human beings to develop better software faster. Today, several research directions of both disciplines come closer together and are beginning to build new research areas. Software Agents play an important role as research objects in Distributed AI (DAI) as well as in agentoriented software engineering (AOSE). Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS) are being investigated for learning software organizations (LSO) as well as knowledge engineering. Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new research area for distributed, non-intrusive, and intelligent software systems both from the direction of how to build these systems as well as how to design the collaboration between ambient systems. Last but not least, Computational Intelligence (CI) plays an important role in research about software analysis or project management as well as knowledge discovery in databases or machine learning. Furthermore, in the last five to ten years several books, journals, and conferences have focused on the intersection between AI and SE. The international conference and associated journal Automated...
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...Résumé Guidelines WHY IS YOUR RÉSUMÉ IMPORTANT? Your résumé is the collective yet specific reflection of your skills and experiences. It can illustrate your initiative and ability to communicate effectively. It’s a marketing tool to persuade an employer to offer you an interview. WRITING TIPS These guidelines are provided to assist you in putting together a coherent and impressive document. Make sure to individualize your résumé with a style and layout that you like and that’s a positive reflection of you. Formatting • • Use a 10 or 12 point font for the body of your document so it’s easier to read. Create visual appeal by using a minimal amount of font variations (such as font type and case, bold, italics, and underlining). Avoid a cluttered and crowded look by using single-spaced lines, sufficient margins, and space between sections. Print on one side. The maximum length of a résumé is two pages. Include your name and the page number in the header or footer on the second page. • • • • Avoid résumé template such as those provided in MSWord. Use good quality résumé paper that’s conservative in colour. Staple the two pages of your résumé together; do not use a folder or report cover. Use MSWord, RTF, or TXT formats when sending your résumé electronically (via email or an on-line form) because it’s important to both preserve your layout and ensure that the text can be read if your résumé is scanned for key words. • • • Résumé Language • • • • The average résumé...
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...Executive Summary As a maker of the revolutionary wearable technology, Thalmic Labs wishes to change the way humans interact with computers through the innovative product, the Myo armband. A key problem is that there are too many uses for the Myo, and not a clear link for how gesture control technology can solve major problems for consumers. Users acknowledge that the product has potential, but feel that it is still underdeveloped and indicate that it does not always work. The recommendation is to specialize in the B2B market, so that research and development can be directed to changing the product to solve actual problems for businesses. Stakeholders to keep in mind are Thalmic employees, investors, retailers, third-party developers and partner organizations. Thalmic operates in a high uncertainty environment, due to the unstable nature of the tech industry, high turnover rates, and a demanding market sector. Thalmic has a collaborative organizational culture, demonstrated through its open concept office. Thalmic has integrated the horizontal coordination model successfully, but there lacks an apparent need for Myo which has a huge impact on sustaining growth. To implement the recommendation, Thalmic will be switching to a focused differentiation strategy. Thalmic must communicate that B2C sales will continue to exist, in order to satisfy retailers and third-party developers. The company must focus on attracting a new salesforce and better engineering talent so that the R&D...
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...The 11th International Scientific Conference eLearning and software for Education Bucharest, April 23-24, 2015 10.12753/2066-026X-15-081 HEALTH-RELATED IMPACT, ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ICT USE IN EDUCATION, COMPARED TO THEIR ABSENCE IN THE PAST Paruyr HARUTYUNYAN, Alin MOLDOVEANU, Florica MOLDOVEANU Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, sector 6, Bucharest, Romania par0308@gmail.com, alin.moldoveanu@cs.pub.ro, florica.moldoveanu@cs.pub.ro: Victor ASAVEI Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, sector 6, Bucharest, Romania victor.asavei@cs.pub.ro Abstract: Society has been very quick to adopt and master computer, as well as latest mobile technologies as an integral part of its everyday life. Innovative technologies have penetrated into nearly every aspect of human life and are now so much involved and embedded in social life that most people do not even realize that these technologies are relatively new inventions. Furthermore, nowadays people do not imagine their daily life without technology. In fact, information technologies create great comforts for humans in their everyday life. Despite that, one cannot say for sure that technology has only positive impact on physical, mental or psychological state of humans. Now we are living in the era of digital technologies, where scientists put forward...
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...Privacy and the impact of the internet Assignment #4 June 20, 2014 June 20, 2014 Privacy Rights Federally and provincially there are laws set out to protect our rights as individuals. Privacy is a right not a privilege. Privacy and Governments in Canada The 1983 federal Privacy Act puts limits and obligations on over 150 federal government departments and agencies on the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. It also gives Canadians the right to find out what personal information the federal government has about them by making a formal request under the Privacy Act. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has the authority to investigate complaints. The governments of all provinces and territories in Canada also have privacy offices and laws governing the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. The legislation varies from province to province, but the general right to access and correct personal information exists in all, and each has a commissioner or ombudsman who is authorized to handle complaints. In Ontario we have the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) Governed and enforces by the Information and Privacy Commissioner Ontario, Canada. The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA) protect the privacy of individuals with respect to their personal information held by provincial and local government...
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