Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Monday, August 29, 2022
TABE Test of Adult Basic Education The First Step to Lifelong Success
Welcome to TABE, Test of Adult Basic Education: The First Step to Lifelong Success. TABE is an academic test that measures a person’s ability and skill in mathematics, reading, and language. This book has been designed to help you succeed on the TABE, but as the title suggests, the authors want you to acquire even more than test-taking skills. When you finish the book, you will have identified some of your goals. You will also know more about your learning preferences and the strategies that make learning and test taking easier for you. In other words, the book will help you succeed in the challenges of work and study that follow.
The TABE tests cover basic skills that you use in your everyday life. You may be surprised to find that you know more than you think you do. You may also be surprised to discover skill gaps you do not know about.
This book is all about helping you target and master the skills you need to succeed
- On the TABE
- In future situations as a lifelong learner
Before You Begin
Before you begin to use this book, take some time to explore it.
The book offers much more than question and answer material. Read the Table of Contents. As you browse through the book, notice the following: - Skills Assessments beginning each section
- Scenarios recalling students the authors have known
- Skill building in every subject
- Word study
- Study Tips and Test Tips and FYI’s
All of these elements give you a process, or way of learning. In fact, because
each section builds skills, you should read and do all the exercises in order.
What if you think you have great strength in one of the subjects? Take
the Skills Assessment for that subject anyway. If your results are 90 to 95
percent correct, you probably don’t have to study that section. However, be
sure to take all the posttests when you have finished all the sections.
One section, “Spelling,” needs a special comment. You should not study
this section straight through from first page to last. Correct spelling is best
learned slowly and through repetition. Take the pretest. If you find that
spelling is not your strong subject, start the section. No matter what else you
are working on, study a small part of the spelling section at the same time. If
you use the tips provided and study consistently, you can improve your
spelling.
Control Engineering - Industrialize Wireless Communications
GARTNER ESTIMATES that by 2023, 75% of organizations will restructure risk and security governance to address converged information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT) and physical security needs – an increase from fewer than 15% in 2021. This dramatic acceleration demonstrates the growing understanding OT plays a critical role in organizational cybersecurity. The stats also show, however, that for a majority of companies, this is a significant shift. What does it take to get from point A to point B?
The growing importance of ICS/OT security It's important to address why are executives, Boards, and teams on the ground suddenly concerned with the convergence of IT and OT? There are five key factors:
1. Increased workforce. Compared to even five years ago, we now have a growing base of skilled ICS security practitioners who are highlighting the risks and importance of OT security.
2. Greater governance. Executives and Boards are more engaged and increasingly highlight industrial cyber risk as a top concern. “Cybersecurity” no longer applies just to IT, and governance is adjusting accordingly.
3. More projects. As technology changes and connectivity evolves, organizations must balance the security risks of new projects designed to drive cost savings and efficiencies.
4. OT vs. IT. Cybersecurity continues to grow in criticality and complexity. IT and OT must understand the specific impacts to security controls, incident response, and risk evaluation within OT environments.
5. Company culture. Ever heard the phrase “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”? It doesn’t matter how well-planned your roadmap is, you need a culture of safety and reliability to execute it effectively
Control Engineering Enclosures & Cut-to-Length Wire
Installing computer systems can be an arduous process for new and existing manufacturing plants; basic best practices for enclosures can help companies avoid costly pitfalls and long-term challenges. See five tips for using computers on the plant floor.
For manufacturing plants, the challenges for installing computer systems can range from the number of systems needed on site and coming in on budget to complying with health and safety laws concerning computer systems used on the manufacturing floor and how to bring an installation project together practically. For existing manufacturing sites, the challenges may look different. One common problem, however, is knowing how to make use of current computer equipment being used on the manufacturing floor. Managers also should take preventive measures to help ensure the equipment works properly and can withstand harsh conditions. Following a guide of simple do’s and don’ts for computer integration highlights successful best practices as well as some potential pitfalls to avoid.
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Energy management and planning in smart cities
Interpersonal Skills at Work
Interpersonal Skills At Work provides a clearly structured and comprehensive overview of the interpersonal skills that are essential for effective functioning at work. It presents a micro-skills approach to skill development that can be used to improve interpersonal competence, as well as explaining through the use of illustrations and practical examples how to read the actual or potential behavior of others around us. This knowledge can then be used to guide the way in which we relate to others as we learn to manage our relationships more effectively.
This book will be ideal for practicing managers and students of business and management studies and psychology. The skills it promotes ensure that it will also be of great value to a wide range of people including teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers and police officers in their everyday working environment.
Handbook of Medicinal Herbs Second Edition
Now I think I have the most important herbs well covered here. In edition two, which I will refer to frequently as my Herbal Desk Reference (HDR), I have tried to concisely corral the data on some 1000 herbs in as little space as possible, striving to make a reliable, referenced resource to parallel the PDR for Herbal Medicines. I use the three-letter abbreviation, HDR, to indicate the second edition of my Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, because I compare and contrast it to other important sources, which are also represented by three-letter abbreviations. (See the reference abbreviation appendix.)
With this edition, I have tried to cover most of the widely mentioned medicinal plants, whether they are extremely salubrious or extremely toxic. Without counting them, I estimate we include more than 1000 of the most important herbs, including the more important herbs from the young Native American and the European traditions (including most of those approved by Commission E (KOM), and almost all of those included in the PDR for Herbal Medicine (PHR for the first edition, and PH2 for the second edition). Unlike Commission E and the Herbal PDR, which seem to stress European and American traditions, I include proportionately more herbs from the older African, Ayurvedic, and Chinese traditions as well, not wanting to slight any major medicinal plant from any major tradition.
Fundamentals of Insurance
Human beings are considered the most intelligent creatures, on this earth. The thinking power available to human beings is enormous and this has led human beings to define their style of living and distinguish between good and bad situations. The criteria for deciding whether the situation is good or bad depend upon individual's perception. However, one thing is sure-that human beings always prefer and strive for happy situations and wants to avoid the adverse ones. Actually, the zeal to be happy always has given birth to the jargon risk!
1.1 The Concept of Risk· People express risk in different ways. To some, it is the chance or possibility of loss, to others, 'its may be uncertain situations or deviations or what statisticians call dispersions from the expectations. Different authors on the subject have defined risk differently. However, in most of the terminology the term risk includes exposure to adverse situations. The indeterminateness of outcome is one of the basic criteria to define a risk situation. Also, when the outcome is indeterminate, there is a possibility that some of them may be adverse and therefore need special emphasis. Let us have a look at the popular definitions of risk. According to the Dictionary, risk refers to the possibility that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen. I "Risk is a condition in which there is a possibility of an adverse deviation from a desired outcome that is expected or hoped for. "2 "At its most general level, risk is used to describe any situation where there is uncertainty about what outcome will occur. Life is obviously risky. "3 The degree of risk refers to the likelihood of occurrence of an event. It is a measure of accuracy with which the outcome of a chance event can be predicted. In most of the risky situations, two elements are commonly found·:
1. The outcome is uncertain i.e. there is a possibility that one or other(s) may occur. Therefore, logically, there are at least two possible outcomes for a given situation.
2. Out of the possible outcomes, one is unfavorable or not liked by that; individual or the analyst.
1.2 Risk vs. Uncertainty Uncertainty is often confused with the risk. Uncertainty refers to a situation where the outcome is not certain or unknown. Uncertainty refers to a state of mind characterized by doubt, based on the lack of knowledge about what will or what will not happen in the future.
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The Math Book -
The history of mathematics reaches back to prehistory, when early humans found ways to count and quantify things. In doing so, they began to identify certain patterns and rules in the concepts of numbers, sizes, and shapes. They discovered the basic principles of addition and subtraction—for example, that two things (whether pebbles, berries, or mammoths) when added to another two invariably resulted in four things. While such ideas may seem obvious to us today, they were profound insights for their time. They also demonstrate that the history of mathematics is above all a story of discovery rather than invention. Although it was human curiosity and intuition that recognized the underlying principles of mathematics, and human ingenuity that later provided various means of recording and notating them, those principles themselves are not a human invention. The fact that 2 + 2 = 4 is true, independent of human existence; the rules of mathematics, like the laws of physics, are universal, eternal, and unchanging. When mathematicians first showed that the angles of any triangle in a flat plane when added together come to 180°, a straight line, this was not their invention: they had simply discovered a fact that had always been (and will always be) true.
TABE (Tests of Adult Basic Education) Level A Math Workbook
The purpose of this workbook is to assist you in preparing for the mathematics portions of the TABE Level A Test. The book seeks to help you
• Identify gaps in your skills and your understanding of mathematics concepts.
• Fill those gaps with explanations, examples, and practice problems. There are two math parts of the TABE Level A:
• The Math Computation section assesses your math skills without the use of a calculator.
• The Applied Math section assesses your ability to apply math concepts by solving a variety of real-world problems with the use of a calculator.
Each of these parts comes in a Survey (short) form and a Complete Battery (long) form. Both the Pretest and the Posttest in this book are Complete Battery forms. The Math Computation section consists of 40 problems to be completed in 24 minutes. The Applied Math section consists of 50 problems to be completed in 50 minutes.
How This Book Is Organized A Pretest and its answer key follow this introductory chapter. The goal of the Pretest is to help you identify your weaknesses. Use the Pretest answer key to determine which problems you got wrong, and find the lessons where these problems are covered. The first six lessons after the Pretest cover topics in the Math Computation part of the test:
1. Decimals
2. Fractions
3. Integers
4. Percent
5. Operations
6. Algebra
Since you are preparing for the Level A test, it is assumed that you’ve mastered whole number arithmetic, and there are no lessons on these topics. ix Copyright © 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. Click here for terms of use. The second six lessons cover topics in the Applied Math section of the test:
7. Problem Solving
8. Applied Algebra
9. Geometry
10. Measurement
11. Coordinate Geometry
12. Data Analysis
8. Applied Algebra
9. Geometry
10. Measurement
11. Coordinate Geometry
12. Data Analysis
These 12 lessons include examples and practice problems for every type of problem described in the book. A Posttest and its answer key follow the 12 lessons. The book ends with an appendix that provides answer explanations to all Pretest and Posttest questions and to all practice problems in the lessons.
TABE (Test of Adult Basic Education) Level A Verbal Workbook
Teaching School Mathematics: Pre-Algebra
This volume and its companion volume—Teaching School Mathematics: Algebra ([Wu-Alg])—address the mathematics that is generally taught in grades 5–9. They are not student texts, however, because they have been written expressly for teachers, especially middle school teachers. These two volumes are designed not to show you how mathematics is really just common sense and lots of fun, but to help you teach the mathematics of middle school in a way that meets the minimal standards of human communication. In other words, problems are solved without recourse to tricks or any ad hoc sleight-of-hand, every step is explained logically using only concepts and skills already developed, and every concept is clearly defined so that no clever guessing is needed for its understanding. There may be an added bonus in that the mathematical development of these volumes parallels that of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics ([CC- SSM]) for middle school. These volumes differ from the usual presentations found in standard school textbooks (and professional development materials as well) in substantial ways. First and foremost, the presentations in the standard text- books, be they traditional or reform, are riddled with mathematical errors, thanks to Textbook School Mathematics (TSM).1 While the Table of Contents bears a superficial resemblance to what you normally find in school text- books and other professional development materials, there are major differences in terms of precision, sequencing, and reasoning. It is hoped that these volumes will lead you to rethink some of this material even if you believe you already know it very well.
Climate Intervention Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth
CLIMATE INTERVENTION IS NO SUBSTITUTE for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and adaptation efforts aimed at reducing the negative consequences of climate change. However, as our planet enters a period of changing climate never before experienced in recorded human history, interest is growing in the potential for deliberate intervention in the climate system to counter climate change. This study assesses the potential impacts, benefits, and costs of two different proposed classes of climate intervention: (1) carbon dioxide removal and (2) albedo modification (reflecting sunlight). Carbon dioxide removal strategies address a key driver of climate change, but research is needed to fully assess if any of these technologies could be appropriate for large-scale deployment. Albedo modification strategies could rapidly cool the planet’s surface but pose environmental and other risks that are not well understood and therefore should not be deployed at climate-altering scales; more research is needed to determine if albedo modification approaches could be viable in the future.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Introduction to Criminal Justice Sixteenth Edition
Much of the trend is being driven by heroin, a highly addictive, illegal drug that, like opium and morphine, is derived from the seed pod of certain poppy plants. Once the go-to drug for seedy inner-city junkies, heroin continues to reach an ever-wider audience. It is more popular among wealthy people and women than it was in the past. Numerous celebrities, recently Philip Seymour Hoffman, have died with the drug in their systems. Most users today live outside urban centers. 3 They are increasingly young and white. The problem is so widespread that in his State of the Union address President Obama called on Congress to address the heroin scourge.
Why has the heroin problem become so serious? Experts attribute it to the law of unintended consequences. In the 1980s, doctors began to prescribe opioids with wild abandon. By 2004, a total of 2.4 million people were using prescription painkillers. Law enforcement, policymakers, and even the drug companies began to take note. Purdue Pharma, OxyContin’s manufacturer, reconfigured its drug so it could not be snorted. In 2014, Vicodin and other hydrocodone-based drugs joined the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) list of Schedule II drugs, prompting tighter regulations. Drug cartels saw this as an opportunity and starting moving huge volumes of heroin into the United States. Heroin seizures at the Mexican border have increased more than fivefold in recent years.
4 Heroin is also exceptionally cheap. Legally purchased opiate pain medications cost on the order of $1 per milligram for the uninsured; one pill costs about $60. By contrast, a single dose of heroin can cost between $5 and $10, less than a pack of cigarettes or a 6-pack of beer. Prices do vary by region, but they remain quite low across the board. The law of supply and demand explains the affordable pricing; the market is awash with cheap heroin from Mexico. And with marijuana decriminalization catching on in the United States, opium poppies are becoming more profitable to grow than cannabis. 5 This combined with the price and relative difficulty of securing prescription pills further fuels America’s heroin addiction.
Illegal drug abuse is but one of the many difficult problems our justice system confronts on a daily basis. Unfortunately, crime in America is a constantly moving target, not unlike a game of whack-a-mole. One problem rears its head, is beat down to some extent, then another pops up somewhere else at a later time. First it was cocaine in the 1980s, followed promptly by the crack epidemic, then methamphetamine at the turn of the century. Now it’s heroin. What does the future hold?
Advanced Construction Technology 4th Edition
MA Notes - Medical Assistant's Pocket Guide 3rd Edition
As new scientific information becomes available through basic and clinical research, recommended treatments and drug therapies undergo changes. The author(s) and publisher have done everything possible to make this book accurate, up to date, and in accord with accepted standards at the time of publication. The author(s), editors, and publisher are not responsible for errors or omissions or for consequences from application of the book, and make no warranty, expressed or implied, in regard to the contents of the book. Any practice described in this book should be applied by the reader in accordance with professional standards of care used in regard to the unique circumstances that may apply in each situation. The reader is advised always to check product information (package inserts) for changes and new information regarding dose and contraindications before administering any drug. Caution is especially urged when using new or infrequently ordered drugs.
Are REITs real estate Evidence from international sector level data
The aim of this study is to examine whether securitized real estate returns reflect direct real estate returns or general stock market returns using international data for the U.S., U.K., and Australia. In contrast to previous research, which has generally relied on overall real estate market indices and neglected the potential long-term dynamics, our econometric evaluation is based on sector level data and caters for both the short-term and long-term dynamics of the assets as well as for the lack of leverage in the direct real estate indices. In addition to the real estate and stock market indices, the analysis includes a number of fundamental variables that are expected to influence real estate and stock returns significantly. We estimate vector error-correction models and investigate the fore- cast error variance decompositions and impulse responses of the assets. Both the variance decompositions and impulse responses suggest that the long-run REIT market performance is much more closely related to the direct real estate market than to the general stock market. Consequently, REITs and direct real estate should be relatively good substitutes in a long-horizon investment portfolio. The results are of relevance regarding the relationship between public and private markets in general, as the ‘duality’ of the real estate markets offers an opportunity to test whether and how closely securitized asset returns reflect the performance of underlying private assets. The study also includes implications concerning the recent financial crisis.
Construction Technology an illustrated introduction
One of the many reasons for writing this book was the need to introduce students to a level of detail which they would gain only with practical experience on site or in workshops. The accusation that the text includes too much ‘trade’ material could be levelled, but bearing in mind that many of the students who might use this text will be potential builders, quantity surveyors and building surveyors, then the inclusion of the trade material is very necessary. One of the primary functions of certainly the builders and quantity surveyors is the need to be able to assess the cost of any building operation. Unless they understand the processes to be gone through it is impossible for these professionals to give an accurate cost. They don’t have to be able to physically do the work but they must know exactly what is involved. So this text is for the ‘early learner’ who has no background in the construction industry. It is not intended to be an all embracing text; the physical size of the book could not allow that. So the author has been quite selective in what has been included, the reasoning behind the selection being the need to introduce the early learner to sufficient information to allow a general appreciation of the more common techniques used in domestic construction today. Emphasis has been given to technical terms and terminology by having them printed in bold on at least the first occasion they are used. Where these terms are generally confined to one part of the UK, some alternative forms are given as well. References to Building Regulations should be understood to mean all the Regulations which are used in England, Wales and Scotland at the time of writing. References to particular Regulations will have the suffixes (England and Wales) or (Scotland) appended. Where the reference is to earlier editions of any particular Regulations, the date will be given, e.g. (1981). A word about the drawings scattered through the text. None is to scale although, in the majority of instances, all component parts and components shown in any one drawing are in the correct proportion, with the exception of thin layers or membranes such as damp proof courses, felts, etc. which are exaggerated in thickness, following the convention in architectural drawing practice. Appendix J shows some of the conventional symbols used. The reader should get to know these; they are common currency when drawn information has to be read. For the student who has recently left school there may be confusion, for the teaching of the use of centimeters in schools does not match up with the agreement by the construction industry to use only SI (Systeme International) units where only the millimeter, meter and kilometer are used to measure length. On architectural drawings dimensions are given only in millimeters and levels in meters to two places of decimals. Students will be expected to produce drawings in this manner during their courses. Following the convention on drawings etc., no mention of the unit of measurement will be made in the text when these are in millimeters. Any dimension given simply as a number must be assumed to be in millimeters. Any other measurements will have the unit of measurement following the number, e.g. 14.30 m meaning meters; 10 600 kN meaning kilonewtons and so on. There are already hundreds of books on building construction or on just one aspect of it, be it a trade, material or technique(s). There must be many more technical papers and leaflets and books produced by various organizations with an interest in the industry.
The geometry of carpentry and joinery
In this paper, we propose to model a simplified wood shop. Following the work of Demaine et al. (Comput. Geom.: Theory Appl. 20 (1–2) (2002) 69) we limit the cutting tools of our carpenter to a circular saw. We extend that previous work to include a model of basic rules of carpentry and joinery. This model is then applied to the problem of building a polygon P by joining together strips of wood and cutting them with a circular saw. We describe a linear time algorithm to decide if a blueprint can be constructed in such a workshop.
The Importance of Noncognitive Skills: Lessons from the GED Testing Program
It is common knowledge outside of academic
journals that motivation, tenacity, trustworthiness, and perseverance are important traits for
success in life. Thomas Edison wrote that “genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent
perspiration.” Most parents read the Aesop fable of the “Tortoise and The Hare” to their
young children at about the same time they read
them the story of “The Little Train That Could.”
Numerous instances can be cited of high-IQ
people who failed to achieve success in life
because they lacked self discipline and low-IQ
people who succeeded by virtue of persistence,
reliability, and self-discipline. The value of
trustworthiness has recently been demonstrated
when market systems were extended to Eastern
European societies with traditions of corruption
and deceit.
It is thus surprising that academic discussions
of skill and skill formation almost exclusively
focus on measures of cognitive ability and ignore noncognitive skills. The early literature on
human capital (e.g. Gary Becker, 1964) contrasted cognitive-ability models of earnings
with human capital models, ignoring noncognitive traits entirely. The signaling literature (e.g.,
Michael Spence, 1974), emphasized that education was a signal of a one-dimensional ability,
usually interpreted as a cognitive skill. Most
discussions of ability bias in the estimated re-
turn to education treat omitted ability as cognitive ability and attempt to proxy the missing
ability by cognitive tests. Most assessments of
school reforms stress the gain from reforms as
measured by the ability of students to perform
on a standardized achievement test. Widespread
use of standardized achievement and ability
tests for admissions and educational evaluation
are premised on the belief that the skills that can
be tested are essential for success in schooling,
a central premise of the educational-testing
movement since its inception.
Much of the neglect of noncognitive skills in
analyses of earnings, schooling, and other lifetime outcomes is due to the lack of any reliable
measure of them. Many different personality
and motivational traits are lumped into the category of noncognitive skills. Psychologists have
developed batteries of tests to measure noncognitive skills (e.g., Robert Sternberg, 1985).
These tests are used by companies to screen
workers but are not yet used to ascertain college
readiness or to evaluate the effectiveness of
schools or reforms of schools. The literature on
cognitive tests ascertains that one dominant factor (“g”) summarizes cognitive tests and their
effects on outcomes. No single factor has yet
emerged to date in the literature on noncognitive skills, and it is unlikely that one will ever be
found, given the diversity of traits subsumed
under the category of noncognitive skills.
The influence of social media interactions on consumer-brand relationships: A three-country study of brand perceptions and marketing behaviors
Companies are increasingly allocating more of their marketing spending to social media
programs. Yet there is little research about how social media use is associated with
consumer-brand relationships. We conducted three studies to explore how individual and
national differences influence the relationship between social media use and customer
brand relationships. The first study surveyed customers in France, the U.K. and U.S. and
compared those who engage with their favorite brands via social media with those who do
not. The findings indicated that social media use was positively related with brand
relationship quality and the effect was more pronounced with high anthropomorphism
perceptions (the extent to which consumers‟ associate human characteristics with brands).
Two subsequent experiments further validated these findings and confirmed that cultural
differences, specifically uncertainty avoidance, moderated these results. We obtained
robust and convergent results from survey and experimental data using both student and
adult consumer samples and testing across three product categories (athletic shoes,
notebook computers, and automobiles). The results offer cross-national support for the
proposition that engaging customers via social media is associated with higher consumer-brand relationships and word of mouth communications when consumers
anthropomorphize the brand and they avoid uncertainty.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
What is Sustainable Development?
Sustainable development is considering that the concept of sustainable development is now enshrined on the masthead of Environment magazine, featured on 8,720,000 Web pages, and enmeshed in the aspirations of countless programs, places, and institutions, it should be easy to complete the sentence. But the most widely accepted definition is creatively ambiguous: "Humanity has the ability to make development sustainable-to ensure that it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
This malleability allows programs of environment or development; places from local to global; and institutions of government, civil society. business. and industry to each project their interests, hopes, and aspirations onto the banner of sustainable development. A brief history of the concept, along with the interpretive differences and the common ground in definitions, goals, indicators, values, and practice follows. Taken together, these help explain what is meant by sustainable development.
The Influence of Leadership Styles and Motivation of Employees Job Satisfaction
The purpose of this research is to know and test whether there is influence of the style of leadership to the job satisfaction of employees, whether there is influence the motivation of the employees job satisfaction and whether there is influence of the style of leadership and motivation of the job satisfaction of employees at PT. Garuda Milky Artha Surabaya.
This type of research used in this research is descriptive. This research uses random sampling for the sampling, and questionnaire used to retrieve the data from this study. Data analysis techniques of this study is to test the validity, reliability test, normality test, regression deviation, analysis of data using linear regression, and test hypotheses.
The results of this research are variable and variable leadership motivation apparently is affecting employee job satisfaction.
In a business organization, human resources plays a very important in achieving success and goals. In this condition the leader holds a strategic position, Effendi (2002, p. 28) states “Leadership Style is the way a leader carry out its activities in an effort to guide, guiding, directing and controlling the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of someone or some people to achieve certain goals”. A leader in a company is a person who has advantages and skills where he was a commander, a guide, pointing, and guidance, so that they can influence others to jointly perform any particular activity in order to achieve a goal, and the most important factor in determining the success or failure of an organization. The researchers always give a definition of leadership in accordance with their own perspectives and aspects of the most interesting phenomena for himself (Yuki, 1989) after a comprehensive literature review of how leadership, (Stogdill, 1974) concluded that most of The definition of leadership is the personal opinion of someone trying for defines the concept. As a result, the leadership in
definition within the limits of personal characteristics, individual behavior, interpersonal influences, situational factors, and the combination of all of them (Steers, Porter, & Brigly, 1996). Either explicitly or implicitly, most researchers assumed leadership that leadership is a critical determinant of the effectiveness of the organization (Yuki, 1989). Although until now not been able to arrive at a grand theory about leadership, but there has been a continuous progress in developing a better understanding of the characteristics of personal, individual behavior, interpersonal influences, situational factors, and the combination of all of them in the leadership (Yuki, 1989). The success of a leader in providing motivation to the staff. is one of the causes of the reasons for someone to convey the idea that can affect human behavior. Motivation is giving impetus to create excitement in one‟s work, so they want to work together, to work effectively, and integrated with all the resources and efforts to achieve its objectives. Malayu S.P. Hasibuan (2001, p. 10) states that “motivation can encourage and energize activities that lead to the attainment of the needs, give satisfaction or reducing rewards”. The application of leadership styles and the motivation to influence his subordinates, especially with respect to job satisfaction. Job satisfaction would be associated with the Association of employees in the organization. Job satisfaction is a feeling happy or not happy that relative, which is different from the behavior of desire and objective thinking. According to the Mangkunegara (2001, p. 117) “job satisfaction is a feeling of supporting or not supporting employees who relate to his work as well as to condition himself”. Employee satisfaction and retention have always been important issues for physicians. After all, high levels of
absenteeism and staff turnover can affect your bottom line, as temps, recruitment and retraining take their toll. But few practices (in fact, few organizations) have made job satisfaction a top priority, perhaps because they have failed to understand the significant opportunity that lies in front of them. Satisfied employees tend to be more productive, creative and committed to their employers, and recent studies have shown a direct correlation between staff satisfaction and patient satisfaction. Family physicians who can create work environments that attract, motivate and retain hard-working individuals will be better positioned to succeed in a competitive health care environment that demands quality and cost-efficiency. What's more, physicians may even discover that by creating a positive workplace for their employees, they've increased their own job satisfaction as well.
The American Economic Review - The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and The Theory of Investment
What is the "cost of capital" to a firm in a world in which funds are used to acquire assets whose yields are uncertain; and in which capital can be obtained by many different media, ranging from pure debt instruments, representing money-fixed claims, to pure equity issues, giving holders only the right to a pro-rata share in the uncertain venture? This question has vexed at least three classes of economists: (1) the corporation finance specialist concerned with the techniques of financing firms so as to ensure their survival and growth; (2) the managerial economist concerned with capital budgeting; and (3) the economic theorist concerned with explaining investment behavior at both the micro and macro levels. 'In much of his formal analysis, the economic theorist at least has tended to side-step the essence of this cost-of-capital problem by proceeding as though physical assets-like bonds-could be regarded as yielding known, sure streams. Given this assumption, the theorist has concluded that the cost of capital to the owners of a firm is simply the rate of interest on bonds; and has derived the familiar proposition that the firm, acting rationally, will tend to push investment to the point where the marginal yield on physical assets is equal to the market rate of interest.2 This proposition can be shown to follow from either of two criteria of rational decision-making which are equivalent under certainty, namely (1) the maximization of profits and (2) the maximization of market value. According to the first criterion, a physical asset is worth acquiring if it will increase the net profit of the owners of the firm. But net profit will increase only if the expected rate of return, or yield, of the asset exceeds the rate of interest. According to the second criterion, an asset is worth acquiring if it increases the value of the owners' equity, i.e., if it adds more to the market value of the firm than the costs of acquisition. But what the asset adds is given by capitalizing the stream it generates at the market rate of interest, and this capitalized value will exceed its cost if and only if the yield of the asset exceeds the rate of interest. Note that, under either formulation, the cost of capital is equal to the rate of interest on bonds, regardless of whether the funds are acquired through debt instruments or through new issues of common stock. Indeed, in a world of sure returns, the distinction between debt and equity funds reduces largely to one of terminology.
On the Method of Theoretical Physics
If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, ~ 5'K I would give you the following piece of advice: Don't listen to his words, examine his achievements. For to the discoverer in that field, the constructions of his imagination appear so necessary and so natural that he is apt to treat them not as the creations of his thoughts but as given realities. This statement may seem to be designed to drive my audience away without more ado. For you will say to yourselves, 'The lecturer is himself a constructive physicist; on his own showing therefore he should leave the consideration of the structure of theoretical science to the epistemologist'. So far as I personally am concerned, I can defend myself against an objection of this sort by assuring you that it was no suggestion of mine but the generous invitation of others which has placed me on this dais, which commemorates a man who spent his life in striving for the unification of knowledge. But even apart from that, I have this justification for my pains, that it may possibly interest you to know how a man thinks about his science after having devoted so much time and energy to the clarification and reform of its principles.
Mathematics in the Physical Sciences
In 1910 the mathematician Oswald Veblen and the physicist James Jeans were discussing the reform of the mathematical curriculum at Princeton University. "We may as well cut out group theory," said Jeans. "That is a subject which will never be of any use in physics." It is not recorded whether Veblen disputed Jeans's point, or whether he argued for the retention of group theory on purely mathematical grounds. All we know is that group theory continued to be taught. And Veblen's disregard for Jeans's advice turned out to be of some importance to the history of science at Princeton. By an irony of fate group theory later grew into one of the central themes of physics, and it now dominates the thinking of all of us who are struggling to understand the fundamental particles of nature. It also happened by chance that Hermann Weyl and Eugene P. Wigner, who pioneered the group-theoretical point of view in physics from the 1920's to the present, were both Princeton professors. This little story has several morals. The first moral is that scientists ought not to make off-the-cuff pronouncements concerning matters outside their special field of competence. Jeans provides us with a clear lesson on the evil effects of the habit of pontification. Starting from this unfortunate beginning with Veblen, he later went from bad to worse, becoming a successful popular writer and radio broadcaster, accepting a knighthood and ruining his professional reputation with suave and shallow speculations on religion and philosophy. le ought not, however, to look so complacently on the decline and fall of Jeans. There, but for the grace of God, go we. After all, Jeans in 1910 was a respected physicist (although Princeton, aping the English custom in titles by Freeman J. Dyson as in pseudo-Gothic architecture, called him professor of applied mathematics). He was neither more incompetent nor more ignorant than most of his colleagues. Very few men at that time had the slightest inkling of the fruitfulness that would result from the marriage of physics and group theory. So the second and more serious moral of our story is that the future of science is unpredictable. The place of mathematics in the physical sciences is not something that can be defined once and for all. The interrelations of mathematics with science are as rich and various as the texture of science itself.
Data security and privacy information challenges in cloud computing
Cloud computing is becoming the hotspot in the area of information technology. However, when examining its convenience and strong ability in data processing, we also find that great challenges appear in terms of data security and privacy information protection. In this paper, firstly, the current security and privacy information challenges have been surveyed. Second, the current security measures are summarized as well.
Different from the conventional computing models, cloud computing (Iosup et al., 2011; Prasad and Rao, 2014; Li et al., 2015; Yuriyama and Kushida, 2011; Mori et al., 2012; Raekow et al., 2013; Yao et al., 2013; Ye and Khoussainov, 2013; Zhu et al., 2013; Ronald et al., 2013; Narayana et al., 2014; Kong et al., 2016; Baek et al., 2010) combines many new factors including distributed computing and virtualisation together to form a novel mechanism which can be manageable and dynamically extended. Cloud computing security concerns all the aspects of making cloud computing secure. Many of these aspects are not unique to the cloud setting: data is vulnerable to attack irrespective of where it is stored. Therefore, cloud computing security encompasses all the topics of computing security, including the design of security architectures. However, cloud computing also has several special characteristics (Ryan, 2013; Chen et al., 2010; Kumar, 2010; Christodorescu et al., 2009): a Essentially, the cloud can be viewed as a shared resource, so we cannot guarantee that other sharers are not dangerous. In other words, we cannot confirm the legitimacy of other resources. b Insecure APIs and protocols may get the authority to access the data on the cloud. c Once the security mechanism falls, the illegal cloud provider is able to modify or delete the data in the cloud. d It is fine for the data in the cloud to open, but the extent should be limited. In order to overcome the above potential drawbacks, references (Chang et al., 2016; Ali et al., 2015; Naser et al., 20015; Xiang et al., 2015; Oscar et al., 2015; Rasheed, 2014; Feng et al., 2011; Lin et al., 2013; Wlodarczyk et al., 2009; Ai and Mukaidono, 2011; Hsu et al., 2011; Kryvinska et al., 2010; Siemens IT Solutions and Services, 2011) have proposed several novel models or approaches. For example, virtual machines can be deployed in the cloud to separate the processes. As regard the data security, an alternative is to deploy practical and feasible backup mechanism. Of course, several models are constructed to detect the improper modifications. Based on the content mentioned above, this paper presents a summary of cloud computing and related security challenges, and potential approaches in the field are proposed. The organisation of this paper is as follows. Section 2 introduces the classic theory of cloud computing. Section 3 presents solutions or potential ideas on the current issues existing in the cloud computing. Finally, Section 4 concludes the paper.
Human Dimension of Globalization - The Relationship Between Globalization, Economic Growth and Income Inequality
The Astronomy Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained
Throughout history, the aim of astronomy has been to make sense of the universe. In the ancient world, astronomers puzzled over how and why the planets moved against the backdrop of the starry sky, the meaning of the mysterious apparition of comets, and the seeming remoteness of the sun and stars. Today, the emphasis has changed to new questions concerning how the universe began, what it is made of, and how it has changed. The way in which its constituents, such as galaxies, stars, and planets, fit into the larger picture and whether there is life beyond Earth are some of the questions humans still endeavor to answer. Understanding astronomy The baffling cosmic questions of the day have always inspired big ideas to answer them. They have stimulated curious and creative minds for millennia, resulting in pioneering advances in philosophy, mathematics, technology, and observation techniques. Just when one fresh breakthrough seems to explain gravitational waves, another discovery throws up a new conundrum. For all we have learned about the universe’s familiar constituents, as seen through telescopes and detectors of various kinds, one of our biggest discoveries is what we do not understand at all: more than 95 percent of the substance of the universe is in the form of “dark matter” and “dark energy.”
Climate change and global warming
The Science Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained
Science is an ongoing search for truth—a perpetual struggle to discover how the universe works that goes back to the earliest civilizations. Driven by human curiosity, it has relied on reasoning, observation, and experiment. The best known of the ancient Greek philosophers, Aristotle, wrote widely on scientific subjects and laid foundations for much of the work that has followed. He was a good observer of nature, but he relied entirely on thought and argument, and did no experiments. As a result, he got a number of things wrong. He asserted that big objects fall faster than little ones, for example, and that if one object had twice the weight of another, it would fall twice as fast. Although this is mistaken, no one doubted it until the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei disproved the idea in 1590. While it may seem obvious today that a good scientist must rely on empirical evidence, this was not always apparent.
Monday, August 22, 2022
Solve each equation
Number 1 has been completed for you
1. 2(g + 4) = 10 + g
2g + 8 = 10 + g
2g + 8 - 8 = 10 - 8 + g
2g = 2 + g
2g - g = 2 + g - g
1g = 2
g = 2
2. 15 − 9p + 12 = 2 − 8p
3. 39 = 2c − 3(4c − 3)
4. –5r + 30 − 3r = 9 − r
5. 5(4 − 3j) = –5j − 50
6. –36 = 4(2a − 5) − 6a
7. 3(3d − 2) = 4d − 30 + d
8. 24 − 3f − 5 = –2(5f + 8)
9. 8 + 3(2x + 5) = 4x − 13
10. 7( y + 8) − 4y = 9y − 4
11. 8m − 4 = –3(6 − 3m) + 16
12. 2 − 15h = –5h + 3(8 − 4h)
Pre-Algebra Equation
Complete the following algebra equations
Remember: what you do to one side of the equation, you have to do to the other side.
Start with box number 2. See example on how to solve the problem in the first box.
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