From Data‚ Information and Knowledge to Wisdom The data-information-knowledge-wisdom (DIKW) continuum is a concept of the transformation of data into wisdom through cognitive processes. DIKW was initially used to illustrate principles of information management for the designing of information systems (Davenport & Pursak‚ 1989)(Saltworks‚ 2009). DIKW models utilized by nursing such as the model by Englebart & Nelson (2002)‚ incorporate principles of increasing complexity due to increasing
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------------------------------------------------- Case 2 - Glades County Sanitary District Glades County is a region on the Gulf Coast with a population of 600‚000. About 90 percent of the population is located in and near the city of Sitkus. The main attractions of the area are its clean‚ sandy beaches and nearby fishing. Resorts‚ restaurants‚ hotels‚ retailers‚ and the Sitkus/Glades County economy in general rely on these attractions for tourist dollars. In the last decade‚ Glades County has experienced a near doubling
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Mt Cook/Aoraki formation Vinoth Loganathan New Zealand is a country which ‘straddles’ between two tectonic plates; the indo-Australian and the Pacific. The location of the South Island is south of both Australia and South Africa; this is a major contributor to the geological process of weathering because it makes Mt. Cook subject to the westerly winds. MT Cook is situated in the Southern Alps between the two tectonic
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New Incoterms 2010 – a summary of the principal changes to Incoterms 2000 Introduction On 1 January 2011‚ the ICC’s Incoterms 2010 come into force. These are the eighth revision of the Incoterm Rules‚ with the last revision dating back to 2000. The new Rules have been revised to take into account developments in international trade over the past ten years as the volume and complexity of global sales has increased‚ to address security issues arising in recent times and to provide for the ongoing
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Phase I DB: Database V.S. Spreadsheets Fundamentals of Database Systems August 20‚ 2010 When dealing with large amounts of information that you will need to conduct business a spreadsheet may be an inferior choice. The choice of many users is to use spreadsheet applications when possible to store and house their data. This stems from the understanding of the systems. Most users understand the basic concepts behind spreadsheet applications and can manipulate their way through these systems
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Project (TKSHP) with an Installed Capacity of 990 kW utilizes flow from Tinekhu Khola which is located at Suri and Jhyaku VDC’s of Dolakha District‚ Janakpur zone in Eastern Development Region of Nepal. Tinekhu Khola Small Hydropower Project (The Project) is Run off River (RoR) type with its headworks located in Tinekhu River at some 3 km upstream from the confluence of Tamakoshi River and Tinekhu River. The distance to the intake site from Singati Bazaar is about 6 km north-east. The powerhouse is located
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SCHOOL EXCEL COURSE All Masters programs in the Lindner College of Business involve coursework that presumes facility with spreadsheets. In Statistics‚ Managerial Accounting‚ and Financial Tools‚ spreadsheets are indispensible tools. In a host of other classes they enable superior analysis‚ organization‚ communication‚ and planning as well. Therefore‚ before starting coursework in any Masters program‚ students must PASS the On-line Introduction to Spreadsheet Modeling Course available from Harvard
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DemographicSegmentation The word demographic can be related to the structure of populations or a particular sector of a population. Most of the marketers nowadays believed that the demographic segmentation bases are the most popular and practical segmentation bases. Kotler(1984‚ p. 255) states that “demographic variables are the most popular bases for distinguishing customer groups”‚ possibly because the ease with which this kind of data can be collected. Demographic segmentation divided the market
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Captain James Cook‚ FRS‚ RN (7 November 1728[NB 1] – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer‚ navigator‚ cartographer‚ and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean‚ during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands‚ and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy
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the population is very large‚ making a census or a complete enumeration of all the values in the population impractical or impossible. The sample represents a subset of manageable size. Samples are collected and statistics are calculated from the samples so that one can make inferences or extrapolations from the sample to the population. This process of collecting information from a sample is referred to as sampling. A complete sample is a set of objects from a parent population that includes ALL
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