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    Error Detection and Correction Transmission of data through a noisy medium inevitably introduces errors through interference by changing one or more bits. There are two types of errors‚ in single bit errors‚ a 0 may be turned into a 1 or vice versa. In real world conditions‚ most interference introduce burst errors where two or more bits are switched from a 0 to a 1 and vice versa. Types of Errors 1. Single-Bit Error – a single bit is switched from a 0 to a 1 or a 1 to a 0 2. Burst Error

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    Critical appraisal guidelines: Quantitative study Medication errors has always been a major problem in healthcare. Drugs errors continue to claim many innocent lives. The purpose of the research was to identified the causes of medication errors during cardiopulmonary arrest. According by the article by Flannery & Parli (2016)‚ medication errors in the intensive care unit (ICU) range from 8.1 to 2344 per 1000 patient-days. Unfortunately‚ drug errors that occurred during Cardiac resuscitation are less identified

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    Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) (Jones and Harris study 1967) The Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) principle states that man tends to ignore outside pressure and factors when judging the behavior of others. This means that people believe that a certain action or behavior was a cause of an internal motive rather than some influence from external pressure. In simple words‚ the FAE describes the inability to step inside other people’s shoes. The name FAE was first coined by Ross in 1977

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    Reduce Medication Errors

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    Running head: Preventing Medication Errors Preventing Medication Errors: Safe Medication Use is Achievable and Affordable Chareese W. Brown DePaul University HTHC 523-201: Winter 2012 January 17‚ 2012 Almost everyone will take prescription and non-prescription medication. It is estimated that 82% of United States (U.S.) adults will use prescription medicines‚ over-the-counter remedies‚ and/or dietary/herbal supplements. Nearly one-third will use five or more different medications (citation)

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    Dangers Of Medication Errors

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    Program Proposal: A seminar and workshop entitled “The danger of Medication error due to understaffed nurses.” BACKGROUND OF THE PROBLEM The nursing profession has traditionally accepted responsibility to assure that safe and accessible health care is available to the public at all times‚ including times when nurses are in short supply. The profession continues to accept such responsibility and also recognizes the need to identify strategies to promote the availability

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    Walgreen's Billing Error

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    Forecasting Error Forecasting is a preparation tool that helps a company figure out what might happen in the future; and to do so‚ the company will primarily rely on data from both the past and present to figure out possible trends. Forecasts can be made in short term‚ medium term or long term. When it comes to forecasting it is important for a company to look at all possible factors including fluctuation of prices and the market‚ possible declines in the economy‚ technological errors and so much

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    weak U.S. economy. Economists predict and expect the economic growth in Panama to be around 4.5% in 2010 and 5.5% in 2011. Solid economic growth‚ enhanced tax collection‚ and spending restraint have helped improve the government’s fiscal position over the past few years. Fiscal improvements have helped reduce Panama’s public debt (domestic and external) from 70% of GDP in 2004 to an estimated 47% last year. In addition‚ good debt management has allowed the government to extend the average maturity

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    Simple Harmonic Motion

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    Simple Harmonic Motion Ethan Albers Case Western Reserve University‚ Department of Physics Cleveland‚ OH 44106 Abstract: In this lab‚ my partner and I observed oscillations that were translational and rotational. The two forms we studied must have a form of a restoring force that is proportional to the displacement of the object from its point of equilibrium. This produces the harmonic motion which this lab wants. At small and big amplitudes we measured/observed the translational oscillation

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    Error Analysis of english

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    English Error analysis Of two public and private universities students Topic Error analysis on written English of two public and two private universities students Abstract This study seeks to identify and analyze errors by means of error analysis procedures. The objective of this study was investigating the written English errors of University students in males and females universities in Dhaka. It was conducted on

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    Why Did Nokia Failed

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    2007‚ Nokia had a market share of 80% in the smartphone market‚ and the most important reason for losing ground during the digital age‚ actually smartphone age was due to the weak position of Nokia in the technological system or ecosystem. “Nokia failed in connection to people!!” One of the reasons for Nokia failure is on one side that Apple redefined smartphones with touch screen and Blackberry with email the other side‚ Android proved that software matters more than hardware. Nokia couldn’t success

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