Technical Writer Essays (Examples)

Functional and Technical Document

File Name:

equirements Document.docx

Original Document Created

Original Document Created

Original Document Created

Document eviewers/Approvers

Position

eviewer

eviewer and Approver

Sign-off Date

Smith Joe

Department Dean

Smith Joe

Underhill James

Underhill James

Jane Mary

Accounting Officer

Jane Mary

Assumptions, estrictions & Limitations

Data Flow

Customer Workflows

As-Is Diagram and Actors

To-Be Diagram and Actors

Business and Functional equirements

Business/functional requirements

Non-functional requirements

Quality of Service equirements

eliability

System Availability

Interfaces

User Interfaces

Software Interfaces

Data Migration Interfaces

Purchased Components

Licensing equirements

Legal, Copyright and Other Notices

Documentation equirements

User Acceptance Test Strategy

Use Cases

Use Case

Use Case

Metrics

Security 17

20 eports 17

20.1 General 17

20.2 Supplies eport 17

20.3 Supplies Budget equest eport 18

21 Appendices 20

21.1 Appendix A: ACI Matrix 20

21.2 Appendix B: Problem Statement 21

21.3 Appendix C: Context Diagram 22

21.4 Appendix D: Stakeholder Profile 23

Table of…

Reference

Indiana Government (2013).Screening Technical Design Document Version 2.0. Indiana Screening and Referral Tool.

Appendices

"Appendix A: RACI Matrix"

RACI matrix

Markel's "Toward a Sense Ethics Technical Communication" McBride's "An Ethical Imperative

There has been significant research into the notion of ethics in technical communication. A vast majority of that research points towards a deontological approach as serving this profession best. Due to the nature of their occupation, however, technical communicators are severely limited in the amount of ethical behavior they can manifest.

The three articles reviewed in this document are Alicia McBride's "Towards a Sense of Ethics for Technical Communication," Gary Stout and Earl Weiss's "Ethics, gen Y style," and Mike Markel's "An Ethical Imperative for Technical Communications." The primary motif that ties all three of these articles together is the fact that they all address various issues of ethical thought and behaviors within the work environment. Weiss and Stout's article reinforces the need for ethical standards within the corporate world of accounting. This article details five theories of ethical…

Message "Writer's Choice"

Dear Sir or Madam,

According to the latest report from Gartner, data-driven processes have advanced 80% in the last five years. The publishing magnate also predicts this trend to continue into 2015. Is your organization prepared to handle all of the influx of data that can influence real-time decision making and bring actionable insight from information?

If you're like 60% of today's organizations throughout a variety of industries including financial, healthcare, media, and others, the answer is no. However, it is not too late to rectify this fact and take advantage of the myriad technological applications that are influencing both business and operations processes for today's organizations. For a limited time, we at DATAVERSITY are allowing half off subscription rates to our proprietorial data management education newsletter.

Perhaps you are not familiar with just what exactly the ramifications of this announcement entail. DATAVERSITY is extending its industry…

IBM oken Ring. he writer explores the history of the token ring, its functions and its future. he writer also discusses some of the trouble shooting methods that are used to correct any problems.

OKEN RING SYSEM BY IBM

International Business Machines (IBM) has been on the leading edge of technology since the explosi0on began. he technological explosion that has occurred in the last four decades has taken mankind to heights it never knew was possible. IBM has been a leader in the industry since the industry was born. IBM began its journey into success in the early 1900's and has been re-inventing the wheel since then. One of the most advanced inventions in IBM's history was the invention of the token ring. he token ring created a level in the world of technology that has served as a building block for many other technological advances.

Before one can fully…

The technological explosion of the late 1900's has moved the world into realms that were previously unheard of. One of the front-runners of the explosion has always been IBM (International Business Machines). In the early 70's the company invented something called a token ring that allows a network to gather and send information around a frame.

There are many things that can go wrong in a passing system that IBM has developed its token ring system to be able to stop some possible problems before they have even begun. Because of the self-monitoring ability of the token ring many experts in the field consider system the system extremely reliable. If something goes wrong within the token ring passing system the possibilities are narrowed by virtue of its self-monitoring abilities.

The token rings have many advantages including the inability to collide, and the ability to self-monitor. Another advantage is the layering of information that it gathers and the way that information can be utilized. There are few disadvantages with the token ring system other than its dependence on the system for success. The token ring system allows the user to send information quickly to stations until all the information is gathered and used. It is one of the most important advents of the computer world and it is still used today by many companies including its inventor, IBM.

cudenver.edu/stc-link/aswan1/).In some cases it has happened that the entire reservoir becomes filled with silt and the investment in the dam is lost (the Aswan Dams (http://carbon.cudenver.edu/stc-link/aswan1/)."

Special Edition

World news from the Washington Post's Foreign Service.

Full section

The Aswan High Dam, completed in 1970.

Alexandra Garcia - washingtonpost.com

Conclusion

The Aswan High Dam is one of the largest dams in the world and it provides a multitude of benefits to those who live in the surrounding area.

The electricity it generates is clean, and does not contribute to air or environment pollution. It maintains the river to control flooding which allows the environment to grow and prosper without fear of destruction.

The problems it created while being constructed included the destruction of artifacts that were thousands of years old. In addition it flooded a nation and the entire population had to be moved with their lifestyles and history destroyed.…

References

The Aswan Dams (Accessed 5-1-07)

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/stc-link/aswan1/

The Aswan High Dam (Accessed 5-1-07)

http://www.proutworld.org/features/nile.htm

CONTACT ME BEFOE ASSIGNING TO ANOTHE WITE. The ole Federal Agencies Fighting Digital Crime in United States, a number law enforcement agencies, including Secret Service, FBI, Department Homeland Security,, roles fight computer crimes terrorism.

Law enforcement can be understood as a thorough process in which the police act step-by-step and enforce the law in order to ensure justice and the decrease of crime. Precise and adequate investigation is what marks one of the most important responsibilities and duties in this respect. This is because the outcome of the investigation decides not merely upon the well being of victims but indeed secures that the system is just in applying the law. Certain procedures need to be followed accordingly in order to facilitate problem solving and careful attention is required when collecting forensic evidence. These are but a few of the requirements that are proficiently mandatory in assessing and fighting crime. However,…

Reference List

Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment (1985). Federal Government Information Technology: Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (OTA -- CIT -- 293 Report No. 85 -- 600609). Retrieved from http://www.justice.gov/jmd/ls/legislative_histories/pl99-508/fgit-1985.pdf

National Institute of Justice (2008). Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A guide for first responders (second ed.) (No. NCJ 219941). Retrieved from  https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/219941.pdf 

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (2012). Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (ACLU EC -- 105). Retrieved from  https://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/email-content-foia/FBI%20docs/June%202012%20FBI%20DIOG.pdf

leadership and management. The writer defines the terms as well as discusses the three most important issues in leadership today. There were seven sources used to complete this paper.

Worldwide globalization has brought many positive things to the business world including better trade abilities, more communication devices, and additional consumers. The globalization of the business world has blended cultural and tradition beliefs with technological advances to produce a new world of business to be enjoyed and shared. This new way of doing business has brought about many changes at all levels. One of the most important levels of change is happening at the top of the chain, among leaders and managers. As the world continues to globalize and technology keeps opening new possibilities it will become more important for leaders to keep pace with the process.

DEFINING LEADESHIP

One of the most important things to do if one wants to…

References

Laver, Ross, Building a better boss: studies show that the personality of a chief executive can have a major impact on profits and productivity.(Column). Vol. 109, Maclean's, 09-30-1996, pp 41(1).

Klarsch, Bob, She's #1: Encouraging the Leader in Your Daughter., Contemporary Women's Issues Database, 01-01-1997, pp 4-5.

Isaac, Robert G; Zerbe, Wilfred J; Pitt, Douglas C, Leadership and motivation: The effective application of expectancy theory., Journal of Managerial Issues, 07-01-2001, pp 212.

Allred, Brent B.; Snow, Charles C.; Miles, Raymond E., Characteristics of managerial careers in the 21st century.(Special Issue: Careers in the 21st Century). Vol. 10, the Academy of Management Executive, 11-01-1996, pp 17(11).

Globalization and Management

All people are global citizens now. But what does this mean? What is this process of globalization that has quite literally swept over our globe? And what will be the effects of globalization during our lifetime on the ways in which business will be done and especially in how information will be managed? Not only does each person have to consider the implications of such questions on an individual bases (as workers, and consumers as well as citizens) but each business must determine for itself how best to incorporate itself into this global environment while considering the needs and potential of its own company as well as the values that it wishes to project. This dissertation examines some of the current and potential future effects of globalizations, exploring in particular the ways in which businesses are now more integrated with each other than before as they take…

References

Baron, R. (1989). Personality and organizational conflict: effects of the Type A behavior pattern and self-monitoring. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 44, 281-296.

Beckmann, G. (1998, June 8). You Can Lead a Team to a Goal, but You Can't Make It Succeed: Work groups have become a vital tool in maintaining corporate agility. But without communication, they can end up being just talk. The Los Angeles Times, p. D2,20.

Caudron, S. (1994). "Skills that Managers of Creatives Must Have." Personnel Journal, 73(12), 104-113).

Caudron, S. (1995). "HR Checklist: Do You Have an Empowered Environment?" Personnel Journal, 74(9), 28-36.

Logistics Report Template to Alberta Government on Test Oil Rig Deployment-Team Employment Environmental Issues

The Alberta government is currently under severe pressure to manage the environmental impact of the drilling for oil in environmentally sensitive sites. For this reason, this report will have much the same format as environmental compliance report that will be issued later. This will include the consideration of issues such as waste management, land use, and air and water pollution resulting from the extraction/processing of oil. Additionally, combustion and thermal processing produce waste material. These must be disposed of. Harmful atmospheric emissions (CO2) will also be captured, stored and recycled or disposed of in order to qualify for Canadian and Alberta carbon credits which may financially offset waste disposal/recycling costs. On site experimental conversion processes and carbon capture/storage technologies may reduce some of these costs in the future (more carbon credits), but may raise others, such…

Works Cited

Government of Alberta. Alberta Environment Department. Assessing Drilling Waste Disposal Areas:

Compliance Options for Reclamation Certification. Edmonton: Alberta Governmental.

"Turning the Corner: Canada's Offset System for Greenhouse Gases."

Environment Canada. Ec.gc.ca, 07 March 2008. Web. 15 Nov 2011.

Secured real time protocol (STP) is also being identified to enhance the security parameter of WAN and LAN network elements. "STP provides protection with encryption keys for wired and wireless networks including bandwidth limited channels." (Guillen and Chacon 2009 P. 690). There is also a growing use of IP secure to protect organization from the interception of data over the LAN and WAN environment.

To enhance network security, Chen, Horng, & Yang (2008) postulate the use of public key cryptography. While there is a growing use of public key cryptography, there is still a shortcoming identified with the use of public key cryptography in the LAN and WAN environment. Since the public key is being kept in a public file, it is possible for an active intruder to forge the contents of the public key and use it to get access onto the data kept within the network system. To…

References

Chen, T. Horng, G. & Yang, C. (2008).Public Key Authentication Schemes for Local Area. Informaticia.19 (1):3-16.

Fetterolf, P.C. & Anandalinga, G. (1992). Optimal design of LAN-WAN internetworks:

an approach using simulated annealing. Annals of Operations Research. 36: 275-298.

Guillen, P.E. & Chacon, D. A (2009). VoIP Networks Performance Analysis with Encryption Systems. World Academy of Science, Engineering & Technology. 58: 688-695.

Writers, especially those who specialize in non-fiction, must also remember to organize their thoughts and stop assuming that their readers are on the same page as they are.

When I write I first outline what I will say, either in my head or on paper. Once I start I don't look back or linger too long on any one word or phrase or else I will get stuck. I don't believe in writer's block, I only believe in working hard to overcome self-censorship and worry. I don't like revision work, and rewriting is my greatest weakness. I don't yet know whether or not I am a good writer because not enough people have read what I wrote or offered feedback. This class, I hope, will help me hone my talents. I need more frequent and more honest feedback so that whatever I write will become as good as it can…

payment additional page, find needing make minor SLP1 I've attached. Please read assignment starting ensure left .

NATURE OF THE usiness

The service that I propose for the market is to offer documentation materials and other auxiliary instruments for software products. The idea is quite simple: a software product cannot be sold by itself, it needs additional instruments that can help the consumer in implementing and using the product. One of the essential tools is a manual for the software, a document that has the necessary instructions and explanations for the different functions of the application.

At the same time, every other instrument that the software application comes with will provide added value to the product. Selling a video presentation of that product, along with a couple of short training videos will increase the value that the software application has, allowing the software development company to sell a bundled package…

Bibliography

1. Christ, Paul (2011). Principles of Marketing. On the Internet at http://www.knowthis.com/principles-of-marketing-tutorials / last retrieved on July 27, 2011

2. Thackston, K. (2005) They're Searching So Why Aren't They Buying? On the Internet at  http://www.a1articles.com/article_750_3.html  Last retrieved on July 27, 2011

3. Tanner J. And Raymond MA, (2010) Principles of Marketing On the Internet at http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/586#sec-subject-510. Last retrieved on July 27, 2011

4. 2010, Business Unit Planning: The Product / Market Matrix, Market Value Solutions, On the Internet at  http://www.marketvaluesolutions.com/business-unit-planning.htm  last retrieved on July 28, 2011

The Herzberg two-plane model that includes an upper plane of "motivator" factors, which are those factors that lead to high job satisfaction are compared to the "hygiene" factors that are enablers of stability in any work environment. Motivator factors include achievement, recognition; work itself, responsibility, advancement, and growth, while hygiene factors include company policies, relationships with supervisors, work conditions, salary, relationship with peers, personal life, and relationships with subordinates, status, and security. These factors overall are critical for the development of a motivated and stable workforce. The implications of these factors on the job satisfaction and attitudes of telecommuters form the research foundation of this paper and also look to provide an indication of how teleworkers keep their work/life balance in equilibrium.

Method

The main objectives of this study are:

To provide further understanding of why workers choose to telecommute in the context of their work/life balance objectives.

To define…

References

Apgar, M., (1999). The alternative workplace: changing where and how people work. Harvard Business Review, 76, 3, 121-139.

Bailyn, L. (2004). Times in careers, careers in time. Human Relations, 57, 12, 1507-1521.

Brief, a.P. & Weiss, H.M. (2002). Organizational behavior: affect in the workplace. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 279-307.

Crandall, W. & Gao, L. (2005). An update on telecommuting: review and prospects for emerging issues. Society of Advanced Management Journal.

ersons in this occupation are required to perform the following activities: obtain information, interact with computers, document information, communicate with a variety of professionals, evaluate information, think creatively, establish and maintain interpersonal relationships, and prioritize work. The work context involves telephone conversations, electronic mail, face-to-face discussion, a high amount of sitting time, freedom to make decisions and therefore the importance of being accurate, an indoors environment where the work can become repetitive.

Considerable preparation is needed for entry into this occupation, with a minimum of two to four years of experience recommended, on the basis of a four-year bachelor's degree. Technical writing is both an artistic and investigative occupation, in which the work styles are both adaptable and flexible, but also with a high level of need for attention to detail. Initiative is also needed, and high level of tolerance for stress situations. The occupation growth is higher than average,…

Persons in this occupation are required to perform the following activities: obtain information, interact with computers, document information, communicate with a variety of professionals, evaluate information, think creatively, establish and maintain interpersonal relationships, and prioritize work. The work context involves telephone conversations, electronic mail, face-to-face discussion, a high amount of sitting time, freedom to make decisions and therefore the importance of being accurate, an indoors environment where the work can become repetitive.

Considerable preparation is needed for entry into this occupation, with a minimum of two to four years of experience recommended, on the basis of a four-year bachelor's degree. Technical writing is both an artistic and investigative occupation, in which the work styles are both adaptable and flexible, but also with a high level of need for attention to detail. Initiative is also needed, and high level of tolerance for stress situations. The occupation growth is higher than average, at 21-35%, with a projected need of 26,000 additional employees (2004-2014).

The skill categories listed include basic skills, complex problem solving skills, resource management skills, social skills, systems skills, and technical skills. The technical writer needs a high level of basic, complex problem solving, social, systems and technical skills in performing the job requirements of the occupation. Basic skills are acquired during college or university study, whereas skill sets such as complex problem solving, social, systems and technical skills are accumulated during work experience and on-the-job training. When performed well, the job entails a high level of satisfaction and achievement.

Managing People. Module 5 Managing developing teams Module 6 Managing Performance. Develop a -page scenario a work team familiar. Describe work team organisational context operates. Include appendix.

Managing and developing teams and managing for performance when creating a new corporate software training manual

Team scenario

The Bruce Tuckman model of team development

Managing people:

Managing and developing teams and managing for performance when creating a new corporate software training manual

In my past place of employment (which will be known as company X), the members of the IT staff and members of other departments were forced to collaborate on a joint effort to create a corporate manual to explain the company's new computer operating system to all employees. Proper safety Internet 'hygiene;' dealing with the operating system on a daily basis, and orienting workers to the various new applications were all to be described. In other words, effective communication was…

References

Bacal, R (1999). Performance management. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Chapman, A. (2013). Bruce Tuckman. Business Balls. Retrieved:

 http://www.businessballs.com/tuckmanformingstormingnormingperforming.htm 

Cleland, D.I. (1996). Strategic management of teams. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Chapter 3 stresses the importance both fundamentally and ethically of representing information truthfully and honestly through visual and experiential means that are meaningful to the learner and respect the fact that the individual mind is rather limited and therefore needs human centered externals to help it learn and retain information. Chapter 4 stresses the importance of individuality in the development of technologies that teach and interact with people. The overall work is important as it stresses the fact that technologies, as a creation of man must be developed and manipulated to reflect the humanity of their purpose. The fallibility of the mind is stressed as is its limitations and the possibility of the development of greater tools to impart knowledge is the most important factor in the development of learning tools.

Norman, D. (1988). The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Doubleday/Currency. [chapters 1, 2, 3, 4]

In this work…

Wittrock, M.C. (1992). Generative learning processes of the brain. Educational Psychologist, 27(4), 531-541.

Wittrock present a functional model of learning that pays close attention to four processes of learning; attention, motivation, knowledge or preconceptions and generation. The author's point-of-view is clearly one of biological i.e. neurological brain function and develops a schema in which knowledge or learning takes place, as interactive and fluid in the mind. Understanding each of these four aspects can give the educational developer an idea of the need to bring learners all the way in to a learning environment through attention, motivation and base knowledge to elicit generative principles of cognition, i.e. The assimilation of novel material, that will add to their base knowledge of understanding. Wittrock's model in fact stresses that in creation of interactive or even static instruction if one key aspect is lacking, the whole of the system is resistant to learning. This is important in that it makes clear that development of technologies that instruct must produce attention and elicit motivation as well as build from some existing knowledge base to be effective for any user to generate a set of new knowledge. Even the most simple instructions often build on a set of base knowledge, that is frequently taken for granted and many instructional environments lack the sort of stimulation that garners attention and motivates the learner.

Total 17 papers including 3 books. I'll send you the articles in PDF files except three books Saffer, D. (2007). Designing for Interaction. Berkeley: New Riders. Norman, D. (1988). The Design of Everyday Things. New York: Doubleday/Currency. Norman, D. (1993). Things that make us smart. New York: Doubleday/Currency. I think you can find these easiliy in libraries.

client should be comfortable with his or her treatment, the counseling process and what to expect during the process. A counselor should understand the client's needs and immediate situation. In order for a counselor to get the necessary information that will provide guidance for counselor and client an initial intake or assessment will gather all the essential personal information needed such as race, age, sex, marital status, and situation/problems. Through an initial assessment a counselor has to be able to understand the client's background and use that information to guide a client down the right career path. The client interview will focus on obtaining information about Alaina's work history, career aspirations, work role, medical history, education and family history, problems in living, behaviors, and faulty cognitions which lead to employment difficulties. In addition, the counselor will consider Alaina's overall appearance, behavior, and mood at the time of the interview. The…

Graduate Program

Personal Circumstances Related to My Financial Need for a Scholarship

My name is Alfred Bill and I am 25 years of age. I have just completed my first-degree major in English Literature. My plan is to pursue my master degree in the same course. However, my personal financial circumstances are hindering me in achieving my academic goal. My father is a small scale farmer while my mother helps him in his farming work. My parents have 7 children and I am the fourth child among our children. The goal of my parents is to educate all their children assisting them completing the graduate programs, however, based on the little incomes my father realize from his farming profession, he is unable sponsoring his children beyond the undergraduate level. While I have already completed my fist degree, however, I am unable to pursue my master degree because of my present…

Peter Eckersley, a senior technical staff of the EEF says, "What you don't want the world to know about, don't put it on Facebook. Facebook's security engineering is improving, but it's still not good enough that we'd ever advise people to put private, sensitive information there," [Juan Carloz]

As mentioned above, Facebook continuously changes its privacy policies which makes it all the more difficult for members to understand. The recent changes to privacy settings, which the company introduced, involved access to name, photos and friends list of members to third party Websites. This implementation of this new policy has led to the compromise of user privacy as witnessed in the recent episode where user email addresses which are supposed to be confidential was available to all members on the facebook website. For a short period of time everyone's email was put on public information, which is in clear violation of…

Bibliography

1) Facebook, 'Statistics', (2010), accessed 5th May 2010, available at,  http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics 

2) Helen Carter, 'Facebook killer Sentenced to life for Teenagers Murder', Accessed May 6th 2010, available at,  http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/08/peter-chapman-facebook-killer 

3) Harvey Jones & Jose Hiram Soltren, 'Facebook: Threats to privacy', (Dec 2005, Accessed May 5th 2010, available at,  http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/student-papers/fall05-papers/facebook.pdf 

4) BBC, 'Payout for False Facebook Profile', Jul 2008, Accessed May 6th 2010, available online at,  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7523128.stm

Moreover, recent legislation such as the Affordable Care Act is expected to create an even greater need for nurses who can take on more advanced responsibilities. As one nurse stated on National Public adio: "…with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which was passed in March, we're going to see 32 million new patients accessing the health care delivery system which previously weren't accessing this system. And currently, we don't have the capacity to provide high-quality, patient-centered care for this new expanded population" (NP, 2010)

Careers in nursing have become vast and varied, particularly for the highly educated, and pay for many of these careers is above $60,000 annually. While a nurse with a BSN who becomes an N can still advance in her career, enter management, or become a nursing professor, an MSN is necessary for nurses to enter one of the more prestigious and specialized subfields (Sacks,…

References

AACN. (2010, 10). The Impact of Education on Nursing Practice. Retrieved 02-14, 2011, from AACN:  http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media/factsheets/impactednp.htm 

Allen, J. (1988). Health Care Workers and the Risk of HIV Transmission. The Hastings Center Report, 18 (2), 2+.

NPR. (2010). Talk of the Nation: Role of Nurses in Primary Care May Expand. Retrieved 02-14, 2011, from NPR:  http://www.npr.org/2010/11/16/131361359/role-of-nurses-in-primary-care-may-expand 

OSHA. (2011). Bloodborne Pathogens and Needlestick Prevention. Retrieved 02-14, 2011, from OSHA.gov:  http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/bloodbornepathogens/index.html

personality type can affect my effectiveness on the job, at least in certain situations. At the heart of this understanding is that each job has its own set of expectations, and there are certain traits that are strongly geared towards the achievement of those expectations. Some situations call for specific ways of thinking, and handling things, and no one manager is going to excel at all of them. Some people will have a high level of emotional competence -- they might fall into the feeling part of the Jungian typology -- and this works great when that skills is needed, but it isn't effective when clear, unemotional thinking is required.

With respect to career, the Jungian typologies make note that certain people are oriented towards certain careers, and there is strong inherent logic in that. For example, some jobs require a high level of interaction between people. Extroverts are going…

marketing strategy direct marketing pricing activities strategy/Project improved duration . Make grader identify sections revised, (e.g. Track Changes feature Word).

OVEALL COSTS

The creation and delivery of the organizational service is linked to a wide array of costs, all of which are incurred in the organizational processes and operations. The more pertinent of them include the following:

Costs with the commodities, including the usage of the personal laptop and other desktop features

Costs with the software applications required to complete the documentation projects

Costs with utilities, such as electricity, internet, telephone bills and so on Costs with marketing and the promotion of the writing services

Other costs, such as administrative, the traveling to the offices and other such expenditures.

PICE SETTING

The prices would be set with the use of two primary pricing strategies. On a first note, the penetration pricing strategy would be used and it would see that…

References:

Longenecker, J.G., Moore, C.W., Palich, L.E., Petty, J.W., 2005, Small business management: an entrepreneurial emphasis, 13th edition, Cengage Learning

McGrath, M.E., 2001, Product strategy for high technology companies: accelerating your business to web speed, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Professional

Parkin, M., Powell, M., Matthews, K., 2007, Economics, 7th edition, Pearson Education

Smith, T.J., 2011, Pricing strategy: setting price levels, managing price discounts and establishing price structures, Cengage Learning

Graphics will be used for site branding, product images, and product diagrams. Site branding will make use of the Jelly ean King Online Store company branding.

Static graphics will be in .jpg format. Flash images will be created in Adobe Flash format (.swf). oth formats are standard formats which should be viewable by almost all browsers and devices. However, in case a browser unable to view JPGs or Flash files loads the page, all images will include ALT tags which will describe the function of the image to the viewer.

randing will be placed prominently so that the viewer will become familiar with the Jelly ean King Online Store logo. Product images will be marketing material showing Jelly ean King products, packaging, or products being enjoyed by buyers.

ecause it is important to communicate to viewers that Jelly ean King products are tasty, gourmet treats, all people included in images…

Bibliography

Usability First. 2011. Principles of Accessible and Universal Design. Retrieved March 23, 2011 from:  http://www.usabilityfirst.com/about-usability/accessibility/principles-of-accessible-and-universal-design/ 

Zencoder. 2010. How many formats do I need for HTML5 video? [Web log message.] Retrieved March 23, 2011 from:  http://zencoder.com/encoder-blog/2010/10/06/how-many-formats-do-i-need-for-html5-video/

.....men and women behind everything from public infrastructure to consumer product design, engineers have a distinct ethical obligation to uphold standards of safety. However, there is more to engineering ethics than the assurance that safety standards are met or exceeded. Engineers also need to ascribe to a policy resonant with corporate social responsibility: working in accordance with global values like environmental conservation and sustainability. Another key component of engineering ethics is related to the globalized nature of the work that engineers do: engineers frequently find themselves working in countries and cultures that are different from their own. The occasional conflicts that arise between local and home values may present unique ethnical conundrums that engineers can overcome with critical thinking and cultural awareness.

Safety

Safety is the most apparent of all ethical obligations place upon engineers throughout their careers. The first provision of the American Society of Civil Engineers, as with…

Technical Description of Pilot G-

Technical Writing - Pen

Pilot G-2-0.7mm fine point pen

The Pilot G-2 is a retractable and refillable gel ink pen that features a 0.7 mm fine roller point. Designed for writing on paper, the pen is equipped with dynamic gel ink that is formulated for smooth, smear-proof writing. The pen has a soft, comfortable rubber grip.

In 2013, the Pilot G-2 pen was rated America's #1 selling gel pen by A.C. Nielsen.

The Pilot G-2 offers exceptional value as it holds the longest lasting ink of pens in its class, as rated by an independent IO testing of the average life of refills of branded gel pens tested. Data for the 2013 product testing is on file with the Pilot Corporation of America.

Refills are available for the pen in a variety of colors, including black, blue, red, orange, lime, green, hunter green, turquoise, navy,…

Sources:

 http://pilotpen.us/ 

 http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Retractable-Premium-Roller-Point/dp/B001GAOTSW#productDetails 

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Technical Writing

The passage from the FDIC is written in a formal style. In order to re-write this passage in an informal style, several changes need to be made. These include length of sentences, the use of false subjects, the use of nominalizations, the style of the list and the use of active and passive voice.

In formal writing, sentence lengths tend to be longer. This is in part due to certain structural elements, such as false subjects, but also simply because length implies seriousness. For example "The public relies on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to protect insured depositors, resolve banking problems quickly and help maintain public confidence in insured depository institutions. A more informal tone can be achieved by shortening the sentences, reducing stiffness. For example, that sentence can be written as two or three sentences. "The public relies on the FDIC for several functions. The FDIC…

Technical Memo -- Babcock & Wilcox

The Babcock & Wilcox Company

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Our sophisticated high-pressure injection system can prove challenging to our customers.

A number of our customers have reported problems when operating the high-pressure injection system. Their reports indicate that our customers may not have all the information that they need to safely use the systems. These situations suggest that our customers don't understand when or how they can safely shut down following an accident that requires the continuous operation of the high-pressure injection system.

To illustrate this problem, two examples of recent events at the Toledo site are provided below.

On September 24, 1977, after depressurizing due to a stuck open electromatic relief valve, high-pressure injection was automatically initiated.…

I am becoming comfortable with the process of organizing my thoughts into an outline, reworking that outline until it is complete and capable of supporting a coherent sequence of thoughts, and then building a rough draft from that outline, before finally adjusting the rough draft and developing a final draft from it. I have a tendency to write sentences that are too long and complex, but I am working on that as well.

In my opinion, good writing starts out with having a thesis and building logical arguments and coherent points that support all the different elements of that thesis. Good writing must guide the reader from point to point in a logical and progressive manner that answers questions or addresses issues in the order that are likely to come up in the mind of the reader. Ideally, by the time a reader finishes a piece of good writing, he…

The most obvious of these limitations is the fact that not everyone learns in the same way. Many people are visual learners, where they need to see something being done before they understand it. Others feel like they have to read about something and study it that way. There are still other people who learn much better by listening, and they really do not retain everything that they need to know if they only read something or see someone else do it. The point, Sork says, is that every person learns in a different way and at a different speed. Classes cannot always accommodate everyone's individual learning style because they have to move along at a particular pace and be taught in a way that actually has some structure. Despite this, however, there are some changes that can be made and differences that can be addressed, and Sork suggests that…

Searching and Understanding a Case Study

Building Information Modeling (BIM) signifies the entire process of creation and usage of the computer produced design to imitate the planning, layout, building as well as functioning of the facility as displayed in Figure 1. The ensuing unit, a Building Information Model, is really a data-powered, object-oriented, smart as well as parametric electronic portrayal involving the premises, from where ideas and information suitable to numerous users' demands could be pulled and assessed to create info which can end up being utilized to make choices and also to enhance the entire process of presenting the center (AGC, 2005).

The main distinction between 2D CAD and BIM has been that the former explains a construction by separate 2D viewpoints like plans, portions as well as elevations. Modifying anyone of those views necessitates that all the other views should be examined and up-to-date, a mistake-prone procedure that…

References

Associated General Contractors of America. (2005). The Contractor's Guide to BIM, 1st ed. AGC Research Foundation, Las Vegas, NV.

Azhar, S., Hein, M. And Sketo, B. (2008). Building Information Modeling (BIM): Benefits, Risks and Challenges. Accessed from: http://ascpro.ascweb.org/chair/paper/CPGT182002008.pdf

Bernstein, P.G., and Pittman, J.H. (2005). "Barriers to the Adoption of Building Information Modeling in the Building Industry." Autodesk Building Solutions Whitepaper, Autodesk Inc., CA.

CIFE. (November 22, 2007). CIFE Technical Reports. Accessed from:  http://cife.stanford.edu/Publications/index.html

build effective technology support team. Address issues personalities affect relationships technical staff. Format paper APA standards.

Personnel technology

In a rapidly changing IT community, the role of the people is often overlooked. For instance, the society will often marvel at the result of a technical process, yet will overlook the human effort involved in the creation of the respective end products and/or service.

While this perception is understandable and, to some degree, acceptable among the general society, it is unacceptable among the business field. Here, the IT firms continually rely on their staffs to develop the technologies that set the course of the world.

"Humans often represent the most important component of the information system and are chronically responsible for either the failure or the robustness of the information system. Organizations frequently seek to evaluate, select and employ a variety of controls so as to maintain a secure Information System.…

References:

El-Harmel, M., 2009, Humans… the overlooked asset, SANS Institute,  http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/honors/humans-overlooked-asset_33257last  accessed on July 12, 2012

Maddux, R.B., Wingfield, B., 2003, Team building: an exercise in leadership, 4th edition, Cengage Learning

Twelve ways to build an effective team, Ceridan Corporation, http://people.rice.edu/uploadedFiles/People/TEAMS/Twelve%20Ways%20to%20Build%20an%20Effective%20Team.pdf last accessed on July 12, 2012

perfect candidate for a non-technical human resources position at Westinghouse. I will graduate from obert Morris University in May 2014 with a B.S.B.A in Human esources and Marketing. I have studied courses in recruiting, retention, training, compensation and benefits, as well as courses related to marketing. I intend to begin my career as a Human esources generalist.

I have previous experience with Westinghouse, having written my final project in Organizational Communications on the company. For that project, I interviewed Camille Kovach, the Vice President of Human esources, Operations and Global Training & Development. I went away from that experience very impressed with Westinghouse as a business, and as a place to work. This application is a direct result of having seen what Westinghouse is and wanting to be a part of that.

An active OTC cadet, I have a lot more to offer than just a degree. I have been…

References

BLS.gov. (2013). Personal financial advisors. Occupational Outlook Handbook. Retrieved December 12, 2013 from  http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Business-and-Financial/Personal-financial-advisors.htm

Alreck, P., & Settle, R. (2011). The survey research handbook (3rd ed.) New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

Alreck's book offers an effective method in research. The book is a very powerful way to acquire information focused directly and immediately on the decisions and problems of today and those of the future. In addition, the handbook provides the methods and guidelines for conducting practical, economical surveys from start to finish.

This resource is particularly valuable for its practicality. In this information age, data is an important asset for today's organizations. In many instances to better assess risk data is needed. Particularly for system institutions such as banks risk is often more important than financial, technical, or human resources. Survey research is a very powerful way to acquire information focused directly and immediately on the decisions and problems of today and those that might occur in the future.

Andrews, R.D. & alters,…

Wayne, A.J. (2012). An Empirical Study of Privacy Risk Assessment Methodologies in Cloud Computing Environments. Ann Arbor: ProQuest.

This literature includes a vast array of dissertations and theses published from graduate schools and universities from around the world. These studies manly relate to differing aspects of cloud computing. The text has a particular emphasis on privacy related issues that are prevalent throughout the world. The text also provides details on properly assessing the risks embedded within a cloud computing network.

The text is informative; however it does prove difficult to read without proper background knowledge. In addition, the text is grounded in theory with little real world application. Even with these shortcomings the book does provide interesting suggestions on how to properly access risk within an organization.

Others include delays in data accessibility, albeit shorter delays and the continued need for source data verification (Donovan, 2007).

Other obstacles have occurred in the developing of mobile healthcare applications. These have included mobile device limitations, wireless networking problems, infrastructure constraints, security concerns, and user distrust (Keng and Shen, 2006).

A third problem that has been encountered is that of a lack of education on not only the importance of the information technology but also training on how to use the specific pieces of equipment. The tools that are provided to people are only as good as the training that is provided on how to use them. The tools may be able to do wonderful things, but if those that are using them do not know how to get the best use out of them they will in the end be less efficient.

Medical Errors

According to an Institute of…

References

Al-Assaf, Al F., Bumpus, Lisa J., Carter, Dana, and Dixon, Stephen B. (2003). Preventing Errors

in Healthcare: A Call for Action. Hospital Topics. 81(3), 5-12.

Brommeyer, Mark. (2005). e-nursing and e-patients. Nursing Management -- UK. 11(9), 12-13.

Damberg, Cheryl L., Ridgely, M. Susan, Shaw, Rebecca, Meili, Robin C., Sorbero, Melony E.,

Studying a sample of 153 top commercial Web sites directed at children under 13, the CME found that COPPA has spurred changes in Web sites' data collection practices. Web sites had limited the amount and type of information (e.g., name, postal address, phone number, age) collected from children, and there was a three-fold increase in the posting of privacy policy information explaining sites' data collection practices. A few sites found innovative solutions (e.g., anonymous registration) that allowed children to interact with site content without revealing personal information. Overall, however, the Center found that many sites were not doing their best to comply with the provisions: Most (66%) did not place links to privacy policies in "clear and prominent" places, and only some sites (38%) obtained parental consent in accordance with key provisions. Further, researchers pointed out that in trying to discourage children under 13 from entering personal information, some sites…

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Beebe, T.J., Asche, S.E., Harrison, P.A., & Quinlan, K.B. (Aug., 2004). Heightened vulnerability and increased risk-taking among adolescent chat room users: Results from a statewide school survey. Journal of Adolescent Health, 35(2), 116-123.

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It is attractive for organizations in Australia to assume that the workforce communities normally reflect multicultural Australia. IBM's policy dates back to the year 1953 by the then CEO Thomas J. Watson Junior, who stated that regarding the policy of IBM to engage people who have the talent, personality and background needed to fill a particular job irrespective of race, color or creed. The decision to develop a strategy for cultural awareness and acceptance within IBM Australia was driven by corporate values and legal necessaries. IBM's thinking regarding cultural diversity never developed in isolation. It constitutes a long held view that through valuation of diversity, IBM unfolds new point-of-view, exploits various knowledge and experience and produces new ideas, suggestions and methodologies. (Cultural Diversity, IBM style)

The service delivery discipline aims what service the business needs of the providers so as to provide proper support to the business users. The genre…

References

Cultural Diversity, IBM style. Retrieved at http://www.humanresourcesmagazine.com.au/articles/74/0C021774.asp?Type=60&Category=903Accessed 11 November, 2005

Infrastructure Technology Infrastructure Library. Retrieved at  http://www.answers.com/topic/information-technology-infrastructure-library . Accessed 12 November, 2005

Multilingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities. A report

Commissioned by the U.S. National Science Foundation and also delivered to the European Commission's Language Engineering Office and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. April 1999. Retrieved at  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/mlim/ . Accessed 12 November, 2005

Corporate Mergers and the Public Good

The United States of America, during the last years of the Nineteenth Century, witnessed a rash of corporate mergers. The Industrial Revolution had taken firm hold, and the nation was changing rapidly. Millions of Americans who had once been independent farmers or tradesmen now found themselves in the position of what some termed "wage slaves." At the mercy of their corporate employers, they worked long hours at low pay, and often under appalling conditions. The reasons for the merger mania of this period are many and complex, as are its effects upon the population as a whole. In breaking down the traditional vocational environment, the gigantic new conglomerates also transformed the entire social landscape. ork was no longer a family business shared by all generations. Communities no longer clung together for mutual protection and aid. Suddenly, the citizen of this new world was out…

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Aronowitz, Stanley. False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.

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Functions That udgeting Accounts for Is the Planning Function

We will be arguing for the importance of the planning function in the overall budgeting activity and will be arguing for the many ways the budgeting planning function is coordinating with the company's strategic planning.

First of all, the planning function in terms of budgeting refers to the planning activities that the company, starting with the financial department, needs to (1) determine what the company's long-term strategy is, (2) determine what projects bring most added value to the company and (3) determine what priority these projects should have.

Let's refer to each of these steps in part and determine how they impact the budgeting strategy of a company. The long-term strategy for a company is essential in determining the overall objective of a company. For the long run, this may be increasing the volume of sales or increasing the market share…

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These are contained in the Enterprise Operations Center framework. The center has reach to the group of specialized telecommunication commercial and federally concentrated focused professionals within the CSC. These groups of individuals have thousands of certifications for operating Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Nortel, Ayaya and many other types of equipment that assists any networking or telecommunication requirements of clients who are working with the Center. (Enterprise Network Managed Services Center of Excellence)

In order to entail the network-wide maintenance at the fingertips, Aglient's Network Troubleshooting Center -- NTC indicates a great leap ahead in the management of enterprise-wide networks. NCT includes a centralized view of network health achieved from various sources, including MON and SNMP and from the same console, centralized expert troubleshooting of remote problems applying distributed network analysis tools. The primary advantages are increasingly lesser respond and fix times and greatly lessened operational costs from both declined engineer travel…

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Enterprise Network Managed Services Center of Excellence" Retrieved at  http://www.csc.com/aboutus/lef/mds68_off/enterprisenetwork.shtml . Accessed 28 August, 2005

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Crossair Flight 3597 -- Aircraft Crash Survival Analysis

Crossair Flight

The paper focuses on the Air crash of the Crossair Flight 3597 on 24th November 2001 and various ways and actions that could have led the plane to survive the air crash. This Aircraft Crash Survival Analysis will not only be highlighting the strategies that could have helped many people survive the air crash but also provides a detailed account of the crash, the reasons the crash took place and the contribution of human error in the crash.

On the 24th of November 2001, Crossair airline's flight CX3597, aircraft AVO 146 J 100 registered as HB-IXM, left the Berlin-Tegel airport from runway 26-L at 8 p.m. UTC for Zurich. The flight was scheduled to land at the Zurich runway 14 using the ILS (Instrument Landing System) approach. This approach provides the pilots directions for landing through the radio signals from…

References

Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau & Swiss Confederation, SKYbrary Bookshelf. (2004). Final Report No. 1793 by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau concerning the accident to the aircraft AVRO 146-RJ100, HB-IXM, operated by Crossair under flight number CRX 3597, on 24 November 2001 near Bassersdorf/ZH. Retrieved 22nd August, 2012 from  http://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/989.pdf 

Aviation Safety Network, Flight Safety Foundation. (2004). Accident Description. Retrieved 22nd August, 2012 from  http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20011124-0 

Simula, Inc. (1989, December). Aircraft Crash Survival Design Guide-Volume 1: Design Criteria and Checklists. Arizona, Pheonix: U.S. Department of Commerce-National Technical Information Service.

SyedN07. (2011, April 22). Brand NEW! 2011 - Air Crash Investigations - Cockpit Failure - Crossair LX Flight 3597 [Video File]. Retrieved 21st August, 2012 from  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYDXQ-fCSyU .

ritish Airways Flight 9

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers report entitled "Volcanic Ash: To Fly or Not to Fly? reports that the prediction of "ash movement and dispersal has become more sophisticated over the years. In the UK, the Met Office uses Numerical Atmospheric-dispersion Modeling Environment (NAME), computer model, developed after the Chernobyl accident in 1986." (2010, p.3) This model is reported to have tracked various atmospheric dispersion events and to have as its purpose the prediction of "how far and how concentrated, emitted particles will be dispersed, using a number of factors, such as wind, rainfall and particle size…" (Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2010, p.3) On June 24, 1982 ritish Airways 747-200, Flight 9 near Jakarta Indonesia ran into trouble when the crew accidentally flew into a volcanic ash cloud from Mount Galunggung in west Java, Indonesia. The ash caused severe damage to all four engines and the aircraft…

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Marks, Paul (2010) Engine Stripdowns Establish Safe Volcanic Ash Levels. 10 Apr 2010. Retrieved from: www.newscientist.com/article/dn18802-enginestripdowns-establish-safe-volcanic-ash-levels.html

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The partnership strategy will bring capital investment to the island in the form of clinics while at the same time creating jobs for graduates. The same model needs to be applied to the banking industry as well. Creating an alliance strategy that will attract banking partners to Kava to create micro-lending programs and open branches will in turn create jobs for the Kava Educational Network. It will also serve as a source of funding to pay for vocational school tuitions as well. Throughout the strategic planning process, the potential to both enrich the island from a socio-economic basis through CS programs (Estes, 2008) while also building out key industries to ensure their profitable growth (ehme, 2007) is key. The strategic plan will need to balance the defining of the educational business as the foundation and the definition of healthcare and banking as the immediate industries of interest.

Evaluating the Ethical…

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Gunther Rehme (2007). Education, Economic Growth and Measured Income Inequality. Economica, 74(295), 493.

The KPIs shown in Table 1 illustrate this fact.

Table 1: SOA Framework esults by Area of KPI Measurement

Areas of Measurement

Baseline: What to Measure

SOA Performance Evidence

Company-specific

Project costs and expenses

Use as a baseline for defining OI

Number of orders per year

Determine configuration's impact on inventory turns

Current inventory and costs

Inventory turn savings

Customer Data

Lifetime cost per customer; avg. deal size by customer

Sales

Order cycle time

Order cycle times reduction of 65% or more recorded with mftrs contacted

Cost of Sales

Days Sales Outstanding reduction from 60 to 29 days on average

Cross-sell and up-sell revenue

Increase of 33% on aggregate

Average sales price per order

Increase from 9% to 26%

Quoting and Ordering

Average costs to complete an order

95% reduction in cost per order

Special Pricing equests

Over 100% OI on automating Special Pricing equests

Bad or incomplete orders

Incomplete…

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Alonso, Kuno, Casati, and Machiraju, 2004, Web Services: Concepts, Architectures and Applications. Springer-Verlag Publishing. 1 January 2004. London. ISBN 3540440089

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Departmental Improvement and Leadership Styles

The procurement or purchasing department is one of the most critical departments in the retail store that I have just joined. It is entrusted with procurement of items that are to be sold in turn as well as purchasing the other items that are needed for the daily running of the chain store.

However, there are a few incidences that have been noted in the chain store that are tainting the image of the procurement. The problems have to do with the employee participation as much as the technical aspect of procurement. This paper is focused on identifying the various problems or hitches that are experienced in the retail store, the sources and the possible remedies to them and of greater interest is the employee association and coordination in order to help solve the problems.

The shortcomings of the procurement department

One of the problems…

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for Organizational Success. Retrieved April 10, 2011 from http://www.ccl.org/leadership/pdf/research/LeadershipStrategy.pdf

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from  http://www.legacee.com/Info/Leadership/LeadershipStyles.html

Further, it can also be noted that initially, I took coaching to be a critical undertaking in the development of skills as well as talents of leaders and executives. This is a view which has also been reinforced by my recent readings of the relevant texts. Just like I believed in the past, executive/organizational coaching enables executives to respond to various pressures in addition to meeting a wide range of organizational goals in an increasingly dynamic working environment. Hence in a way, one of the main purposes of coaching remains the development of skills and other competencies. This is a view I held in the past and which has further been enhanced or reinforced today.

However, it is important to note that I had a somewhat limited view of the purpose of an executive/organizational coach in so far as nurturing skills and talents of leaders is concerned. In this case,…

References

Flaherty, J. (2010). Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, 3rd Edition. Burlington: Routledge

Goldsmith, M. & Lyons, L. (2006). Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches, 2nd Edition. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons.

Hudson, F.M. (1999). The Handbook of Coaching: A Comprehensive Resource Guide for Managers, Executives, Consultants, and Human Resource Professionals. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

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Industrial Revolution one sees an increase in immigration to the United States. These pull factors can also account for why one sees a trend in migration west within the United States during this time. Technology made it possible for people to travel further and faster because of not only canals and trains but also improved technologies applied to horse drawn wagons and carriages. It seems that as Americans living on the east coast, already established in their jobs started moving west to take advantage of new work made available by displacement of Native Americans and free land; more Europeans came to eastern American cities. Once these immigrants became established they followed the pattern out west.

There is no conclusive data to determine if labor played a role in pulling emigrants out of Europe. Still this pull factor remains essential to America's development as a nation. From an economic standpoint, one…

ACLU v Reno:

A definitive victory for free speech

The First Amendment in the United States of America's Constitution is perhaps the hallmark of what current President ush refers to continually as our "freedom." It represents the fundamental difference between America and so many other countries that do not offer their citizens rights to freedom of speech, religion and the press.

Specifically, the First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression without government interference. See U.S. Const. amend. I. Within that, the concept of freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the implied rights of association and belief. The Supreme Court and the lower courts interpret the extent of the protection afforded to these rights. The Supreme Court has interpreted the First Amendment…

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Legal Information Institute, 2005

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Channel Management B2B Marketing

The report analyzes the case studies of Lotus Development Corporation, Aqualisa Quartz Shower and Atlantic Computer. The report defines the problem statements and identifies the alternatives in the case, and the report provides recommendations to assist the companies to make effective decisions. The Lotus was facing challenges whether to discontinue with its distributor and dealers and use its saleforce to deal directly with its corporate users. The report recommends that the Director of Sales Operations should continue using its distributor and dealers; however, the company should use its saleforce to deal directly with corporate users demanding for direct services.

However, the report recommends that the Harry awlinson (HBS) should use 2 or 3 minutes TV ads to demonstrate the innovation leap of Aqualisa Quartz Shower. The promotion strategy will assist the company to enjoy the sales advantages from the Aqualisa Quartz Shower. In the third case,…

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Harvard Business School (1994).Lotus Development Corporation Channel Choice: Direct vs. Distribution. Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston.

Moon, Y. (2006). Aqualisa Quartz: Simply a Better Shower. Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston.

Sharadwaj, N. Gordon, J.B. (2007). Atlantic Computer: A Bundle of Pricing Option. Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston.

Gaming, particularly as a form of entertainment has evolved throughout time. Over the past centuries gaming has taken many shapes and forms. Usually, the more popular games of the past required strategy and opponent anticipation. As society now moves towards the information age, many games have migrated to a digital format. The migration of gaming from physical games to that of a digital format is not without its strengths and weaknesses. As will be discussed in detail throughout the document, digital gaming offers much strength in relation to its physical counterpart. For one, digital gaming is faster, more convenient, and offers seamless access. However, in some instances it can be impersonal particularly over long distances. Physical gaming, is more personal, teaches proper sportsmanship, and develops closer relationship. Depending on the individual's desired outcome, particular gaming formats offering varying benefits to the consumer. Monopoly in both its physical and digital form…

References:

1) Lieu, Tina (August 1997). "Where have all the PC games gone?" Computing Japan.

2) John Wills (1 October 2002). "Digital Dinosaurs and Artificial Life: Exploring the Culture of Nature in Computer and Video Games." Cultural Values (Journal for Cultural Research) (Routledge) 6 (4): 395 -- 417

3) Williams, J.P., & Smith, J.H., eds. (2007). The players' realm: studies on the culture of video games and gaming. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 978-0-7864-2832-8

Within these findings are many insights and differences in opinion as to the benefits and caveats of XBL adoption. In the a case of HMC, privacy issues are a key factor in the reason for their partial adoption of XBL, rather than the full adoption undertaken by CH. The interviewees were from varied backgrounds and included three from HMC and four from CH. They included persons from many different facets of the project. They included interviews from accountancy, the Manager of Online Services, a Technical Architect, and a Process Advisor. These interviewees represent technical personnel who are directly involved in the project implementation. The list of interviewees also included senior management, including the Head of Development, Senior Project Manager, and Business Systems Analyst.

The interviewees represent diversity in opinions among those in various phases of the project. They represent numerous disciplines that are involved as well. Each professional was concerned…

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This is significant because it shows how some critics of contrarian investing will often point to the various instances of speculation and assume that it is contrarian investing. In some cases the psychology of consumers can become so extreme, that the definition of what is speculative expands greatly. As a result, using contrarian investing in conjunction with other indicators / tools can help prudent investors and traders, be able to identify when the market condition are becoming more extreme.

Contrarian Indicators and Tools

When using the different contrarian indicators / tools in conjunction with one another, you can begin to see how this strategy can be used, to effectively determine if the market conditions are overbought or oversold. There are number of different tools that can be utilized to indentify major changes that are occurring in the trend of a stock or the market averages. These would include: headlines…

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Business Plan for Freelancer Website

Business Plan for Freelance Website

Freelancer website is a platform where freelance writers, researchers, designers, and other freelancers meet the clients and complete their projects against pre-decided compensation. The business plan constitutes an analysis of the business operations, business environment, financial appraisal, and marketing strategies of a company. The business plan presented in this paper discusses all these elements in the light of research papers, books, and internet sources related to the freelance writing and services industry.

The freelancer website primarily aims to serve the Middle East customers by taking the services of freelancers from the local and international regions. In the future, the company will expand its operations to the Global scale and target the customers from all over the world. In its initial phase of business operations, the freelancer website will have to design its marketing and promotional strategies which are just focused…

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Beesley, C. (2012, 07, 18). Starting a Freelance Business -- How to Take Care of Legal, Tax and Contractual Paperwork, U.S. Small Business Administration. Retrieved on February 16th, 2013, from

Belew, S., & Elad, J. (2009). Starting an online business all-in-one for dummies, (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Pub.

Task Management

Organizations hold conferences and we shall deal with an analysis of the tasks associated with the management of conferences. We may define conferences as 'An event used by any organization to meet and exchange views, convey a message, open a debate or give publicity to some area of opinion on a specific issue

Although not generally limited in time, conferences are usually of short duration with specific objectives.' (What is a Conference?) Certain things are made clear by this definition, and it clarifies that some factors are crucial for conferences. The first of them is that any conference has to be organized with specific aims. The second point springs from the first, and that is these objectives can be met only if people are brought together at one place. If these aims are not achieved, then it may be said that a conference is probably not the best…

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FP Section M. Compliance and Fulfillment Strategy

Section M. Of government requests for proposals (FPs), which contains the evaluation factors for the award of a contract, can be seen as one of the most important sections of the FP. Though specific criteria for the project are not generally listed in this section, it is here that potential contractors can learn what areas or aspects of the project are most important, and specifically whether cost/price is the most important factor in a contract decision, the least important factor, or similar in importance to other contractual factors (Osborne, 2002). The following pages identify how this section of an FP should be addressed, using a large and well-known government contractor (Lockheed Martin) and a typical FP.

Strategies for Meeting Specifications

The primary evaluative criteria listed in Section M. Of a recent FP for the KC-X, a new airline tanker plane to be designed…

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FA8625-10-R-6600. (2009). Section M. Accessed 17 March 2012.  https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=713bc6e87f1a76d2c2b20a4bee1e8a5&_cview=0 

Osborne, S. (2002). Winning Government Business. Vienna, VA: Management Concepts.

Some type Government involvement and regulation, Nguyen (2009) asserts, proves critical to helping ensure the private sector r thrives. Many of world's leading economies concur that Governments must be involved to best manage their country's economy.

Control, however, needs to extend beyond the control and regulation of the private sector per se. For the country's overall development, the better process includes the synergies of both private and public sectors being harnessed. The private sector, for example trials the government in wind power and solar power projects. Government authorities, albeit, cannot finance these efforts on their own. As the quote introducing the review of literature asserts, when the public and private sector partner, this proves to be the way forward.

The basic premise behind public-private partnerships is a division of resources and expertise. One sector alone might not be able to handle a particular project on its own, which calls for…

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Buxbaum, Jeffrey N., Ortiz, Iris N., National Research Council (U.S.), National Cooperative

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Summary

The Keller/PSI approach to academic and professional training has been documented to improve student performance as measured by course completion rates and subject matter retention among students. On the other hand, there are considerable practical and technical problems implementing the Keller/PSI approach within traditional educational institutions. Meanwhile, there is little if any empirical evidence suggesting precisely how the Keller/PSI model benefits learning outside of the focus on the reduced deadline orientation that is the hallmark of that teaching methodology.

Substantial evidence exists to suggest that the success of the Keller/PSI approach is actually attributable to other changes typically attributable to Keller/PSI, such as the broadening of the range of media of instruction, despite the fact that those changes are natural consequences of the Keller/PSI design rather than deliberately conceived components of the approach. The empirical evidence of the increased success of CAPSI programs further bolsters that argument.

A wealth…

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Abdulwahed, M. And Nagy, Z.K. "Applying Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle for Laboratory Education." Journal of Engineering Education. American Society for Engineering Education. 2009. Retrieved January 19, 2010 from HighBeam

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Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Impacts Business Today

The article discusses how emotional intelligence (EQ) impacts business today in light of its increased use in the modern business environment. The discussion begins with an evaluation of the concept of emotional intelligence and the reasons it was introduced by Daniel Goleman in 1998. This is followed by an evaluation of the difference between emotional intelligence and intelligence quotient and the use of the concept of emotional intelligence in business today. The last two sections examine the effect of the use of emotional intelligence on business today and the reason for the increased demand for employees with high emotional intelligence.

Companies once believed that hiring individuals with high Intelligence Quotients (IQs) was a reflection of a sound recruiting strategy until the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) emerged. Emotional Intelligence introduces a new way of looking at the root cause of the successes and failures…

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Chastukhina, N. (2002). On the Role of Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. Retrieved November 29, 2013, from  http://www.osra.org/2002/chastukhina.pdf 

Goleman, D. (2004, January). What Makes a Leader? Best of HBR 1998. Harvard Business

Review.

Maddocks, J. (2013, August 6). IQ vs. EQ in the Digital Age is Emotional Intelligence More

Confab, howeve, is an achitectue that is able to bypass these limitations and combine both appoaches. It is limited, though, and a tue pevasive envionment calls fo complex pefeences that can be easily manipulated by the end use.

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Moreover, all these approaches are not completely sufficient in meeting the challenges mentioned in section 3.2. For instance, PETs and privacy models do not explicitly contribute in a reduction of data collection, nor is that their intent or purpose. Although anonymous data collection is based on the assumption that if data is collected anonymously then it cannot be linked with any individual, and if data cannot be related to an individual then it poses no threats in terms of privacy. Thus, detailed privacy policies and safeguards for data are not seen as critical in this model. By collecting anonymous data, one may argue that a true minimum amount of personal data is being collected. However, ensuring complete anonymity remains both technically and practically difficult.

For example, mix zones and changing pseudonyms are used to maintain anonymity but it is also possible to break the anonymity and track a user in a mix zone. Pervasive computing, then, needs other, more robust means to minimize the amount of data collection. Moreover, there are usability and efficiency issues that arise with any of these approaches. Testing, for example, is typically done in a controlled environment under limited conditions. The effectiveness of many of these solutions, then, has not been adequately tested under typical, real-world, conditions. In a true pervasive computing environment, users will move extensively between different computing environments and will interact with various devices (e.g. starting from small portable hand held device to large wall sized displays), and applications. It is difficult to predict how privacy solutions will perform in a true user-environment under more typical conditions.

Thus, it will be necessary to find and incorporate a unique privacy model that accentuates both social and legal norms, while ensuring the technical ability to protect privacy.

Newman, a. 2008, Protectors of Privacy: Regulating Personal Data in the Global Economy, Cornell University Press.

However, if this translation can be done successfully, it can accomplish two major things: first, it will make the basic knowledge of electrical engineering available to a wider audience; and second, it will deepen the writers understanding of the information by forcing him or her to analyze it from a new perspective.

Personally, I remain somewhat wary of the prospect of entering the workforce with a strong background in engineering, but a fairly few experiences in writing the sort of material that my future job will almost inevitably require me to master. Like Salavatcioglu, suspect that I will be forced to learn the best methods and approaches to writing on the job, once I gain a higher level of understanding of how communication works and how information flows within the particular organization that I will find myself in. Currently, I feel fairly confident in two of my skills: essay writing,…