ADO.NET Entity Framework: Raising the Level of Abstraction in Data Programming Pablo Castro Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond‚ WA‚ 98052‚ USA pablo.castro@microsoft.com Sergey Melnik Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond‚ WA‚ 98052‚ USA sergey.melnik@microsoft.com Atul Adya Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond‚ WA‚ 98052‚ USA adya@microsoft.com ABSTRACT The ADO.NET Entity Framework provides a persistence layer for .NET applications that allows developers
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CHAPTER ONE 1.0 THE INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDY 1.1 Background Customers are the purpose of what marketers do and rather than them depending on marketers‚ we very much depend on them. That is the main reason why organizations today are focusing on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Satisfaction is an overall customer attitude towards a service provider‚ or an emotional reaction to the difference between what customers anticipate and what they receive‚ regarding the fulfilment of some need‚ goal
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Chapter 2 Conceptual Frameworks for Supply Chain Management No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. Isaac Newton 2.1 Agile‚ Flexible and Responsive Supply Chains To ensure long-term competitiveness and survival‚ companies implement new strategies‚ based on collaboration with business partners and an advanced utilization of IT and Web services (Geunes et al. 2002). Various competitive strategies of agile‚ responsive and flexible SCs have been developed over the last decade
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Nursing Knowledge Model A. Data‚ information‚ Knowledge‚ Wisdom (DIKW) Framework The Data‚ Information‚ Knowledge‚ Wisdom (DIKW) framework is one of the core conceptual frameworks for the practice of nursing informatics. However‚ in order for the framework to be effective‚ nurses must define knowledge‚ within electronic health records‚ to accurately capture the context of nursing practice. o Nursing overview of the DIKW framework can be found in: American Nurses Association. (2008). Nursing informatics:
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REGIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE - WALL DEVELOPMENT OF A GEOSPATIAL FRAMEWORK TO IMPLEMENT A REGIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE (RSDI) IN CARICOM (Ninth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas‚ United Nations‚ New York‚ August‚ 2009). August‚ 2009 Harold Wall IDB/UNFPA Project Coordinator Regional Statistics CARICOM Secretariat 1 REGIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE - WALL Abstract Almost all human activities take place on land. In fact‚ human
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Using Figueroa’s framework as a guide‚ evaluate and predict current and future participation levels for Beach Volleyball for Maryborough in the next 10-15 years. Evaluate what role the various personal‚ sociocultural and motivational factors have on your personal participation in Beach Volleyball. Make recommendations as to how the participation levels could increase by addressing issues of Access and Equity as well as the globalisation and commodification‚ media influence and marketing of beach
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The McWhirter framework for intervention and prevention for children and adolescents at-risk has three definite continuums. The first one in the McWhirter framework is the at-risk continuum. The at-risk continuum reflects the degree ranging from minimal risk to imminent risk which children are at jeopardy for serious behaviors (Vernon‚ 2009‚ p. 340). These serious behaviors can include “substance abuse‚ risky sexual behaviors‚ depression‚ violence‚ gang involvement‚ and conduct disorders (Vernon
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1Barney and Hesterly (2006)‚ describe the VRIO framework as a good tool to examine the internal environment of a firm. They state that VRIO “stands for four questions one must ask about a resource or capability to determine its competitive potential: 1. The Question of Value: Does a resource enable a firm to exploit an environmental opportunity‚ and/or neutralize an environmental threat? 2. The Question of Rarity: Is a resource currently controlled by only a small number of competing firms
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Restorative Practice Framework “Restorative Practices are a framework for building community and for responding to challenging behavior through authentic dialogue‚ coming to understanding‚ and making things right” (Clifford‚ n.d.). The fundamental hypothesis of restorative practices is that “Human beings are happiest‚ healthiest‚ and most likely to make positive changes in their behavior when those in authority do things with them rather than to them or for them” (Wachtel‚ 2013‚ p. 3 & 6). This
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A Framework for Auditor Independence The ISB lays a foundation for future guidance. By Susan McGrath‚ Arthur Siegel‚ Thomas W. Dunfee‚ Alan S. Glazer and Henry R. Jaenicke January 2001 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THE INDEPENDENCE STANDARDS BOARD issued an exposure draft for a conceptual framework for auditor independence containing the concepts and basic principles that will guide the board in its future standard setting. THE NEED FOR A FRAMEWORK AROSE FROM the jumble of confusing independence rules
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