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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...
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...
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...
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Energy management and planning in smart cities
A smart city is a sustainable and efficient urban centre that provides a high quality of life to its inhabitants through optimal management of its resources. Energy management is one of the most demanding issues within such urban centres owing to the complexity of the energy systems and their vital role. Therefore, significant attention and effort need to be dedicated to this problem. Modelling and simulation are the major tools commonly used to assess the technological and policy impacts of smart...
Interpersonal Skills at Work
In this age of e-business, many of us over-rely on electronic communication and pay insufficient attention to the management of face-to-face relation-ships. John Hayes addresses this issue by examining the nature interpersonal skills – the goal-directed behaviors that we use in face-to-face interactions in order to achieve desired outcomes. He argues that inter-personal competence is a key factor that distinguishes between successful and unsuccessful managers.Interpersonal...
Handbook of Medicinal Herbs Second Edition
By the time this second edition is published, the first edition of the Handbook of Medicinal Herbs will have been out more than 15 years. The second edition is designed to present most of the old information plus new information on the more important of those original 365 herbs. I submitted the first edition under the original unpublished title, Herbs of Dubious Salubrity. I intentionally left out many of the completely safe culinary herbs, spices, and food plants that are clearly medicinal. I also...
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...
Friday, August 26, 2022
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...
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...
TABE (Test of Adult Basic Education) Level A Verbal Workbook
The TABE (Tests of Adult Basic Education) 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
did not know about.
Learning how to succeed in test-taking situations makes good career
sense. You will be expected to take tests throughout your adult life, both on
and off the job. Standardized tests are everywhere you look: drivers’ licenses,
technical certification, educational...
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....
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...
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Introduction to Criminal Justice Sixteenth Edition
Since 2000, the rate of drug overdoses in America has
increased 137 percent. Deaths from opioids (including heroin and pain relievers like hydrocodone) have
increased over 200 percent. 1 In several states, more people
now die each year from opioid overdoses than from liver disease, suicide, or even car accidents. 2
Drug overdoses are now
the leading cause of injury deaths in the United States.Much of the trend is being driven by heroin, a highly
addictive, illegal drug that, like opium and morphine,...
Advanced Construction Technology 4th Edition
Advanced Construction Technology is a development of the relatively elementary
construction detailed in the associated volume, Construction Technology. This
volume augments the associated volume with further topics relating to domestic
buildings and lightweight-framed structures, in addition to concentrating primarily
on complex and specialized forms of construction.
It is designed to supplement a student’s lecture notes, projects and research
assignments as well as to provide a valuable professional...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
Human Dimension of Globalization - The Relationship Between Globalization, Economic Growth and Income Inequality
This study investigates the relationship between globalization and income inequality by developing a new globalization index based on economic growth. In addition two other indices of globalization, non-parametric Kearney and parametric principal component analysis are used as benchmarks to compare the results. The proposed new index is decomposed into four sub-components. The index is also estimated in several forms separated by different economic growth variables and in decomposed or composite...
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,...
Climate change and global warming
Climate change and its directly significant effect, i.e., global warming, have recently become more and more remarkable global problems. Global atmospheric concentrations of CO2, CH4 and N2O have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750, thus the Earth’s climate must change somehow to restore the balance between incoming and outgoing radiation. Under the effect of global warming, sea level will rise, which will cause potential impacts on human life. People must find new styles...
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,...
Monday, August 22, 2022
Solve each equationNumber 1 has been completed for you1. 2(g + 4) = 10 + g2g + 8 = 10 + g2g + 8 - 8 = 10 - 8 + g2g = 2 + g2g - g = 2 + g - g1g = 2g = 22. 15 − 9p + 12 = 2 − 8p3. 39 = 2c − 3(4c − 3)4. –5r + 30 − 3r = 9 − r5. 5(4 − 3j) = –5j − 506. –36 = 4(2a − 5) − 6a7. 3(3d − 2) = 4d − 30 + d8. 24 − 3f − 5 = –2(5f + 8)9. 8 + 3(2x + 5) = 4x − 1310. 7( y + 8) − 4y = 9y − 411. 8m − 4 = –3(6 − 3m) + 1612. 2 − 15h = –5h + 3(8 − ...
Pre-Algebra Equation
Complete the following algebra equationsRemember: 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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