1 INTRODUCTION 1 Goals The tutorial is intended to provide information on agents and agent technology to educate more of the software development and CHI community on the impact and nature of current Agent technology. By providing a reasonable backdrop for agents‚ this tutorial hopes to allow the student to pursue additional reading material with a more objective eye for that which is real and that which is hyperbole (hysteria?). 2 Objectives The tutorial student should leave with
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Good Housekeeping the “Second Shift” Abstract: Within the last half century‚ the number of women participating in the workforce has increased exponentially. Women are gaining more and more equality in the social‚ economic and political affairs‚ but gender inequity within the home regarding the division of household labor remains. Women are still primarily responsible for housework and childcare. Arlie Russell Hochschild’s concept of the “second shift” describes the situation of many women
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individual’s athletic career: sport agents. In order to understand what a sport agent is‚ we must first understand the concept of an agent. An agent is defined as “a person authorized by another to act for him‚ one entrusted with another’s business” (Staudohar‚ 2006); thus‚ a sport agent represents most individuals involved in the sport industry‚ including athletes in sports such as football‚ baseball‚ or figure skating‚ and also coaches and sport broadcasters. A sport agent has many responsibilities and
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organization are managed‚ facilitate and implement by change agents. There will be a discussion on why organizations enlist the help of change agents and the skills and competencies that they need to possess. There are various advantages and disadvantages for an organization in using internal and external change agents in the change processes. Lastly‚ few recommendations are people who bring or introduce planned change. The change agent can be manager or non-manager‚ employees of an organization or
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DELA CRUZ‚ CYNTHIA GRACE C. 2008-13749 FS 125 March 10‚ 2012 ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS 1. Introduction Food preservation has long been practiced since the olden times with processes such as heating ‚ drying‚ fermentation and refrigeration. In spite of this‚ physical methods are not enough to eliminate all microorganisms found in foods. Therefore‚ antimicrobial agents are needed to destroy these foodborne pathogens‚ so that the food will have a longer shelf-life. As technology progresses‚ improvements
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COFIELD’S CLEANING SERVICE SONJI MORTON COFIELD‚ PROPRIETOR September 30‚ 2011 COFIELD CLEANING SERVICE BUSINESS PLAN SUMMARY Cofield Cleaning Service is a start-up business that provides cleaning services for residential homes. Primary services include floor‚ window‚ and bathroom care. The business is seeking $5‚900 for equipment‚ supplies‚ and advertising. The name and address of the business is: Cofield’s Cleaning Service 600 Hunterdale Road Franklin‚ VA 23851 Phone: 757-304-9401
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End of lease cleaning is a big responsibility. Your bond may be stuck with the home owner or landlord till the time the landlord is satisfied with the cleaned and spic and span house‚ as you vacate it after the tenancy. If the house is too dirty at places with clumps of dirt and patches or stains etc‚ which the landlord realizes to be tough enough for normal cleaning‚ then the landlord may charge you for the cleaning expenses. Even your refundable security deposit may not be given back to you in
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Distributed Intelligent Agents Katia Sycara Keith Decker Anandeep Pannu Mike Williamson Dajun Zeng The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh‚ PA 15213‚ U.S.A. Voice: (412) 268-8825 Fax: (412) 268-5569 URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ softagents/ Abstract We are investigating techniques for developing distributed and adaptive collections of agents that coordinate to retrieve‚ lter and fuse information relevant to the user‚ task and situation‚ as well as anticipate
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Change Agent In today’s work force a manager must be able to foster the necessary changes impeding the future growth of the company. Having a spirit of servanthood can be beneficial for employees to witness because it can become contagious. A manager must take the lead with their vision‚ passion‚ and a positive attitude to engage employees with impeding changes. This paper will focus on how past actions developed my personal ‘Leadership Philosophy’ and how it relates to becoming a change agent
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How Agent Banking Changes the Economics of Small Accounts ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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