COMPUTER CONCEPTS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND NEW DELHI Computer Concepts Hardware & software concepts explained for persons with low or no vision for the students of Intel Technology Training Lab at National Association for the Blind‚ New Delhi Produced and Published by National Association for the Blind Sector-5‚ R.K Puram‚ New Delhi E-mail: nab@vsnl.com First Edition October 2001 Reprint: February 2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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QRB Concepts – Plotting Bivariate data Concept: Construct histograms and bivariate plots using Excel. Reading Reference: Topic 2 of Sevilla & Somers and Ch. 4 of Lind‚ Marchal‚ & Wathen Example of Application Bivariate Plots: Economics: We often need to plot a demand curve to illustrate levels of quantity demanded based on the price of a product. Bivariate plots can be used to project future sales based on pricing or to determine if a price is too high or low. People typically buy more
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Concept of Motivation Institution Name Date Concept of motivation Motivation is defined as an amalgamation of forces that instigate‚ direct and maintain a certain type of behavior that aims towards achieving a specified goal (Hong-chee‚ 1968). From this definition it is evident that motivation is a group of certain forces working together to achieve a particular objective. Therefore‚ motivation is regarded as a vector quantity possessing both direction and magnitude. Motivational direction
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law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. Crimes violate the law and order of a society and it negatively affects the social structure and the society’s fundamental values‚ morale and belief system. The concept of Crime can vary from society to Society The crimes are events and actions that are proscribed by the criminal law of a particular country (Wilkins 1968) In general‚ the society and its existing laws define crime. Sometimes crime in one society
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An Observation of Borderline Personality Disorder Observation The first time I heard the phrase “mommy dearest” was when I was in Junior high school. My classmates were joking around about how their mother’s yelled and lecture them and telling stories. Jokingly‚ one of my classmates suddenly yelled out “mommy dearest” and they started to laugh. I vividly remember thinking at that time‚ what’s mommy dearest? And what does that mean‚ am I missing out on something that everyone already knew
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Essay 1 Lumley and Armstrong discuss how the origins of sustainability concepts where theorized prior to and during the 19th century‚ and that the idea evolved through a combination of factors linked together (politics‚ economics‚ environmental and social policy). Thus making the concepts of sustainability not a ‘new beginning’ in human thought. Over the time of history human thought has changed depending on the environmental influences we as a species have had to encounter causing the changes
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What is Management? Management is a worldwide phenomenon and is therefore a popular and widely applied term. Management involves all kinds of organizations‚ whether they are political‚ business‚ social or cultural because it aids and provides directions for reaching a specific goal through the efforts of the people working in an organization. Management is an activity with a definite purpose or aim. It is an activity which gives direction to the people’s endeavors for accomplishing specific set
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“Honey‚ does this dress make me look fat?” “Ew‚ yes honey. It looks like you got a bit too much junk in the trunk for it to fit right.” “Did you have to be so mean about?” “Well‚ you asked me a ques-” “I asked you as my husband to give me an honest answer‚ not be a jerk!” “But that’s what I was do-” “Forget it‚ we’re not going out tonight. I’m not in a good mood anymore...” Harsh‚ is it not? One simple answer to a question can cause a mountain of problems unforeseen. And yet‚ in this case
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Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center in Stillman Week Four Progressives‚ Politics and Pragmatism— Lecture: Progressivism and Pragmatism‚ Two Philosophies that Shape American Public Administration Readings Article on Pragmatism by Patricia Shields (handout) One pager on pragmatism by Lisa Zanetti (handout) Case - Who Brought Bernadine Healy Down? in Stillman Week Five Policy Development and the Continuing Policy Cycle – Incrementalism and Implementation Reading
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Cost Concepts for Managerial Decision Making Prepared for instructional use in Economics For Managers ECG 507 College of Management North Carolina State Universiy © Stephen E. Margolis 2000 Soon we will be using the concepts of cost that are presented in Landsburg’s chapters five and six to analyze market behavior of firms. With a bit of interpretation‚ however‚ these concepts have immediate application to ordinary decisions that
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