1. What is PUE, and why is it an important place to start when considering how to reduce data center power consumption? What value of PUE should data center managers strive for? PUE stands for Power Usage Effectiveness. It is the ratio of total facility energy to IT equipment energy. This measurement is important because it displays how effectively the company delivers power to the IT equipment. If the company is not delivering its energy effectively, they could incur a great deal of additional
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Deep Economic Moat A company that has a deep economic moat is Google Inc. According to comScore Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, Google blew away its U.S. competition with 67.3% of searches conducted in August 2014. Google’s closest U.S. competitors are Microsoft with only 19.4% of the market share followed by Yahoo with 10%. Google has a staggering three times higher market share than Microsoft. According to comScore in December 2012, Google had 114.7 billion searches and its closest
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Elton Mayo invented Human Relations Movement to boost workers' motivation, thus maximising their productivities. Hollway (1991) mentioned that Mayo undertake his experiments in Hawthorne Electric Plant in the USA, and so, it's also called Hawthorne Effect. Similarities between Scientific Management and Human Relations approach are obvious, that are to maximise a factory/ firm's productivity. Taylor focused on maximum prosperity, which means that not only to maximising the productivity, but employers
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How the Angle of a Solar Cell effects the Voltage Produced Introduction: In this experiment, I will be experimenting the effect of adjusting the angle of a solar cell relative to the direction of light and the voltage produced based on the angle change. Factors: Some of the possible factors that could affect my experiment are * ------------------------------------------------- The angle of the solar cell. * ------------------------------------------------- The distance of the solar
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Case Incident: The Flynn Effect 1. Do you believe people are really getting smarter? In my opinion, I believe people are getting smarter because of the intellectual ability. The Flynneffect is the name given to a substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scoresmeasured in many parts of the world. It is not easy to answer this question without having a deepknowledge about it. In my opinion, people are really getting smarter as compare to their relationsor intellectual ability.
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The results of the modified stroop task support that an interference effect conflicts with perceptual processes. Other studies have examined the contributions to which stroop can conflict with visual processes. Object perception is an important element to visual processes such as the way we recognize an object. A Stroop-like paradigm, “A Familiar-Size Stroop Effect: Real-World Size Is an Automatic Property of Object Representation” (Konkle & Olivia, 2012) was designed
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The Mean Cinderella Cassandra Once upon a time there was a sweet lady who married a fine man. They both had children to marriages before, the sweet lady had two children, Manny and Mary. They were both very well polite, and he had a short, sassy and, hateful daughter. Her name was Cinderella. Cinderella was very mean and lazy so she made her father, stepmother, and step sisters do all the housework, but they didn’t complain because they were all very scared of her. One day, the king’s son invited
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Effect of Stroop Test trial types (congruous, incongruous, control, semantic) on reaction times within a university population Li-Ann Smal 13320884 Lab Group 1 Word count: 1936 Abstract The Stroop effect was investigated in a sample of psychology students from Trinity College, Dublin. 39 females and 15 males participated in a Stroop task comprising of four trial types: congruous, incongruous, control and semantic. Their reaction time to each of these trials was measured. The findings suggested
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obviously related to a behavior we perform automatically. The Stroop Effect is one of those phenomenons that challenge our automatic ability. Previous research indicates that objects and colors took longer to name aloud than reading aloud corresponding words (MacLeod, 1935). The stroop effect was tested in college students, in an Experimental Psychology class. Eighteen participants were asked to take a brief test on the stroop effect, presenting the participants with a congruent and incongruent word
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Collaborative Communication: Integrating SBAR to Improve Quality/Patient Safety Outcomes Cynthia D. Beckett, Gayle Kipnis Purpose/Evidence-Based Practice Question Collaborative communication and teamwork are essential elements for quality care and patient safety. Adverse patient occurrences are an extremely common outcome of communication failures (Leonard, Graham, & Bonacum, 2004). In 2004, the Joint Commission (formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)
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