World Health Assembly, the WHO outlined its Global Initiative for the Elimination of Avoidable Blindness, or VISION 2020 plan. The WHO urges national governments to: • Set up, not later than 2005, a national VISION 2020 plan, in partnership with the WHO and in collaboration with NGOs and the private sector. • Establish a national coordinating committee for VISION 2020 or a national blindness prevention committee, which may include consumer or patient groups, to develop
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that I already tore down all your sketches and photographs. They would have sufficed, they would have sufficed. But now I save my ‘sorry’s for the rainy days and shove them inside the freezer for preservation even though it’s perfectly clear they won’t survive the cold. It’s okay. I won’t, either. Your jacket remains hung inside my room and it still smells of second place. The moon turns crescent to mock me before disappearing without a curtsy — she’s done with her scene. The
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BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY VISION BASED TARGET TRACKING CONTROLLED SENTRY Capstone Project Fikret Taygun Duvan İSTANBUL, 2011 T.C. BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF MECATRONICS ENGINEERING VISION BASED TARGET TRACKING CONTROLLED SENTRY Capstone Project Fikret Taygun Duvan Advisor: Dr. Khalid Abidi İSTANBUL, 2010 T.C. BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF MECATRONICS ENGINEERING Name of the project: Vision Based Target Tracking
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an academic perspective, they are both very similar in definition, examples and objectives. Kotter explains that there are eight stages of successful large-scale change. He refers to these stages as the flow and consist of urgency, guiding team, visions, communication, empowerment, short term wins, don’t let up and make changes stick (Kotter, 2002 vi, vii). Prior to addressing and analyzing specific aspects of the stages of successful large scale change, we should first look at change.
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to create a clear vision and express it simply. This step will need to be acomplished by creating a vision that motivates people in the right direction. The vision needs to be easy to communicte and also inspire not only the people participating in the actual changes but also the stakeholders. Communicating the vision is our next step. This is where the team pulls together and communicates what needs to be done simply and honest. The fifth step is to empower others to act on the vision. HDMC
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What do we know about the physiology of colour vision? Which aspects of the colour vision can trichromacy explain and which is it unable to explain? Colour vision is the ability of an organism or machine to distinguish components of the environment based on the reflection, omission or transmission of wavelengths. A human's perception of colour is a subjective process whereby the brain responds to the stimuli that are produced when incoming light reacts with the several types of cone photoreceptors
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Get the Vision Right Pages 4, 5 What You’ll Learn In This Summary In the following pages, you will learn about: ✓ The Heart of Change: Why people succeed and why they fail at large scale-change and how you can use an eight-step path to success. ✓ The Need for Urgency: You will see why you must raise feelings of urgency so that people start telling each other “we must do something.” ✓ Building the Guiding Team That Gets the Vision Right: You need the right group of people with the right vision to start
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3SCO SUPPORTING CHANGE IN ORGANISATIONS Introduction to Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to over 22 million claimants and customers. DWP is currently going through its greatest period of transition on record as Universal Credit is rolled
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Dysfunctions of a Team) 3. Create a Vision a. Create a vision to help direct change effort b. Develop strategies for achieving that vision 4. Communicating the Vision a. Use every vehicle possible to communicate the new vision & strategies b. Teaching new behaviours by the example of the guiding coalition (team) 5. Empowering Others to Act on the Vision a. Get rid of obstacles to change b. Changing systems or structures that seriously undermine the vision c. Encourage risk taking and non-traditional
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The Wenatchee Valley, a place of mountains, apples, aired summers and mild winters. A place of opportunity for a 23 year old Noah Lynes. My Father came from California with only a backpack, a skateboard, and a tattoo machine. 1 year later I was born and he started taking tattooing seriously. By the time I was 4 my dad owned his own tattoo parlor, only about 800 square feet,but large enough for a start. By the time I was 6, dad accumulated enough money for us and the business to move. The shop was
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