Where I’m Calling from by Raymond Carver. The story is done in first person‚ from a person’s point of view that is in a dry-out facility. I am not sure why‚ but when I first read the story‚ I was not certain where the story took place. I guess I didn’t catch “Drying out Facility” (Carver‚ 581)‚ or it didn’t occur to me what that meant. Eventually‚ I did catch on that they were in a hospital. A guy called “Tiny” was just about ready to go home from the dry-out facility when he had some kind of
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vibrating string. *Lute- Has a body and a neck *Zither- Only has a body Listening -Listen beyond the surface -What different sounds are there - How is it organized Music Stuff -Where is it from? -Genre -Composed or improvised -Metric or non metric -Instrumentation -Purpose? (worship‚ entertainment‚ life event) Music of Africa Call and Response - Single “voice: answered by others‚ back and forth. Interlocking Parts (linear) - Many parts designed to fit together and sound
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manufacturing development in Nigeria Local content requirements for paint manufacture Using license technology Capacity development in relation to market Multiplier effects of supporting manufacturing Part 2 – Selecting Nigerian content metrics for the paint industry What metrics to measure Nigerian content? • General • Specific to paint manufacture Conclusion Measuring local content in manufacturing: A case study of paint manufacture in Nigeria Overview of PCMN development 100% local manufacture 100%
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AU G U S T 2 013 b u s i n e s s t e c h n o l o g y p r a c t i c e Enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of application development Software has become critical for most large enterprises. They should adopt a reliable output metric that is integrated with the process for gathering application requirements. Michael Huskins‚ James Kaplan‚ and Krish Krishnakanthan Most large companies invest heavily in appli cation development‚ and they do so for a compelling reason: their
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The biggest and most obvious differences between the two countries is the language barrier‚ though it is possible to communicate in Spain‚ as 22% of the population speak English as well as Spanish. On the other hand‚ only 1.6% of the Canadian population speak Spanish. Spain is quite a bit more crowded then Canada‚ due to the fact that Spain’s population is larger than Canada by approximately 10 million‚ despite the fact that Spain is 9.5 million square kilometers smaller than Canada. That means
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website. * The different types of commonly used metrics to analyse the traffic and effective of a website and identifying what are the desired outcome (high/low) for the different metric. There are 8 different types of commonly used metrics to analyse the traffic and effectiveness of the website. It is important to identify the possible cause of the undesired outcome of each metrics to further improve each metric. For example‚ if the visits metric outcome is low‚ there is possibility that the website
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Practice clinic. Using a balance scorecard would be beneficial to the organization. The balance scorecard will focus on the performance metrics that impact the patient’s experience as well as monitor the effectiveness of the internal processes(Dugger‚ C.). The balanced scorecard is viewed by an organization from different perspectives that will help to develop metrics‚ collect data and analyze it. These perspectives are financial‚ patient/customer‚ organizational/learning and internal business. A
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• maintenance‚ identifies poor performers and gives them the tools to fix them KEY METRICS One of the keys to make a performance monitor works is to be able to quickly set up the system with metrics that are significant to the plant in question. There must be a template or cookie-cutter approach for setting up your system against a benchmark. Every assessment interval and metric are calculated‚ but not all metrics are important to every plant. Copyright 2003 by ISA-The Instrumentation‚ Systems
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networks by finding page rank‚ betweenness and closeness centrality‚ degree‚ etc through programming requires a lot of coding (time consuming) and graphical representation of such large datasets is a challenge. Generating network statistics and metrics and creating visualizations of network graphs is made easy by using the tool NodeXL provided by the Microsoft in the familiar network of Microsoft Excel as a small add-in. In this part of the project we found the node with the highest pagerank‚ form
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for social interaction and community news. Performance metrics These stores operate at a very small scale‚ not a lot of tools are used to measure their performance. Using some marketing metrics that measure their performance and financial aspects would be great. A performance metric is a measurable quantity that indicates some the performance in some terms. It is also called as performance index or even benchmarking. Performance metrics should be valuable and practical‚ be measurable‚ have a
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