Tips for a Good Conference Talk Jennifer Widom‚ May 2005 Here’s some advice I sent to the SIGMOD ’05 conference speakers (I was PC Chair). Some of the points were inspired by a SIGMOD 1995 note-to-speakers from that year’s PC Chair Mike Carey‚ who in turn attributes Marianne Winslett and Catriel Beeri. Plan very carefully what you can cover in the allotted time. You have 25 minutes‚ and a conscientious session chair will ruthlessly cut you off if you attempt to exceed that limit. Design your
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This past Fall semester was very challenging but‚ in a way‚ fun too. It began with being accepted to present at the FiO/LS:OSA conference in Rochester‚ NY. But this meant that I needed to be very concentrated. I was juggling classes and midterms as well as everything necessary for the conference. I was reading more to understand more about the topic I was researching‚ so I would be prepared for questions‚ but also to have a better idea as what was I really investigating. I struggled at first because
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and there was a world full of cruelty and violence. The civil war was a devastating time during the mid 1800’s. Things such as slavery‚ racism‚ and segregation took over. People had sacrificed their lives to give freedom to our country. People had a change in ideas about freedom because of Abraham Lincoln’s speech‚ and the conflict about women’s and African American rights. During the time of the civil war Abraham Lincoln‚ our sixteenth president‚ gave his speech‚ Gettysburg Address. “Now we are engaged
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Case report: BEIJING EAPS CONSULTING INC. Q1. What is the organizational structure of Beijing EAPS Consulting (BEC) before 2006? And‚ what are the advantages and the disadvantages regarding this structure? Before 2006‚ Beijing EAPS Consulting Company’s structure was established by organic and informal structure. Organic structure is a network and emphasis horizontal specialization‚ extensive use of personal coordination‚ and wide communication among members with loose rules‚ policies‚ and procedures
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The Gettysburg Address In the beginning of The Gettysburg Address‚ Abraham Lincoln stated that this nation is founded on the principle that all men are created equal. His speech revolves around the idea that we should not consecrate this battlefield but make certain that the great loss of lives is made worthwhile by creating massive reforms in the government so it fights for the wellbeing of all people. The Gettysburg Address is similar to Letter from Birmingham Jail in that both of them are
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Ninth AIMS International Conference on Management January 1-4‚ 2012 Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in India by way of Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions Bhagwan Jagwani bhagwan.jagwani@ghsimr.org Dr. Gaur Hari Singhania Institute of Management & Research‚ Kanpur Over the last two decades‚ the share of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CB M&As) in the global FDI inflows has been over 50%. The Indian Corporate sector too experienced a boom in this form of FDI. The increasing flows
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Madison Temme 2/7/14 AP Lang. Period 4 Kennedy’s Inaugural Address John Fitzgerald Kennedy won the U.S. 1960 election by one of the smallest margins in history. With a win by only a tenth of a percent almost half the country felt that Kennedy should not be president. The new president was left to convince that half that his win is one of the best things that could have ever happened. In his inaugural address he states not only what he was going to do in his time as president but bring
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my investigation‚ I chose‚ women during and after World War One‚ as my area of focus‚ specifically their economic‚ social and political status. I asked myself why this area interested me and realized that I was also interested in how this affected future wars and/or life today. Through further initial research‚ I became interested in the way that women’s roles in society changed during and after World War One. The specific change that I chose to focus on was how women had to take on the men’s jobs
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Gettysburg Address In Abraham Lincoln’s speech entitled “The Gettysburg Address” there are a lot of different modes of persuasions going on. After reading it a few times I came to the conclusion that Lincoln did not just address this letter to the present‚ he addressed it to the future also. Even in between the time the letter was addressed to this very day the letter still holds an important message in American history and literature. Even though the “The Gettysburg Address” has brought
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President John F. Kennedy did what no other president had done and challenged the citizens to question if they are doing anything to change the world together. Kennedy made this challenge as his closing statement in his 1960 Inaugural Address. He made sure to make people ask themselves what they have been doing for this country to actually change it and to see if they could work in unity as a whole country. It has been about 58 years since Kennedy gave that speech and i believe that we have somewhat
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