movie ever produced at Germany’s UFA‚ Fritz Lang’s gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features‚ more than half the studio’s entire annual production budget. And if it didn’t make a profit at the time -- indeed‚ it nearly bankrupted the studio -- the film added an indelible array of images and ideas to cinema‚ and has endured across the many decades since its release. Metropolis had many sources of inspiration‚ including a novel by the director’s
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2 INTELLIGENT AGENTS In which we discuss what an intelligent agent does‚ how it is related to its environment‚ how it is evaluated‚ and how we might go about building one. 2.1 INTRODUCTION An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through effectors. A human agent has eyes‚ ears‚ and other organs for sensors‚ and hands‚ legs‚ mouth‚ and other body parts for effectors. A robotic agent substitutes cameras and infrared
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Information Systems Proposal Rock Shop Record Store Table of Contents Situation Proposed information systems •Functional area information system •Transaction processing system •Expert system •Supply chain management system •Executive dashboard Potential Obstacles Conclusion References Situation The business partner of Rock Shop Record store does not have background knowledge of information systems and very minimal experience with technology. Information systems are necessary
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New System Proposal Renee Barry IT205 June 13‚ 2014 Chin-Hun Yi New System Proposal Business requirements are the key of what drives the project. According to Stroud (2010)‚ “Business requirements are the critical activities of an enterprise that must be performed to meet the organizational objective(s) while remaining solution independent.” The requirements will provide a foundation that will align all parties to make note of what is allowed and what is not allowed. The requirements become
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Hospital Glove Supply Chain Proposal Sal Cusumano‚ Health Care Operations Management OPS/HC 571 January 17‚ 2011 Professor Jeff Wells Abstract Team A Hospital has been a successful hospital in San Francisco‚ California for a number of years. The hospital has often been at the cutting edge of exciting and new technology but as with many other organizations the downturn in the economy has affected the hospital’s bottom line. The CEO of Team A Hospital is looking for any way possible
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Sculpting the Pharmacy Leaders of Tomorrow Introduction Leadership has so much influence in our lives because so often it determines whether we enjoy a particular activity. Life is short – so why participate in an activity if we don’t enjoy it‚ and if we do participate‚ why not do so with all of our energy? Therefore‚ having an understanding of leadership and acknowledging its significance is vital within our day-to-day lives. Leadership can be described by many‚ “as the process
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Information System Proposal Table of Contents Title Page 1 Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 Table of Information Systems 3 Types of Systems 4 * Functional Area * Transaction Processing System * Office Automation Systems * Executive Dashboard When it comes to starting a business using the right information systems available can be a great deal of help and cause less of a headache. Before choosing a information system each one should be reviewed and taken into
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technology. They can manage easily and manipulate their business without monitoring their sales per hour sales to compute the expected target income. With this‚ the researcher saw the opportunity to improve their business skills by creating an inventory system that will enhance their knowledge in manipulating and managing reloading business. Background of the study In a prepaid mobile phone‚ topping-up or reloading is needed to further enjoy the service offered by the proprietorship. There are a lot
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Dystopian texts portray worlds in which oppressive societal control and the illusion of utopia is maintained through propaganda and indoctrination at the expense of altruistic human values. Fritz Lang’s expressionist‚ science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) and George Orwell’s dystopic novel 1984 (1949) both critique the imposition of conformity and excessive control in society‚ as well as caution against misguided scientific hubris‚ whilst highlighting the significance of the individual. Through
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Med Health Care and Philos (2011) 14:187–194 DOI 10.1007/s11019-010-9281-0 SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION Professional values in community and public health pharmacy David Badcott Published online: 29 August 2010 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Abstract General practice (community) pharmacy as a healthcare profession is largely devoted to therapeutic treatment of individual patients whether in dispensing medically authorised prescriptions or by providing members of the public with
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