Umair Zia Houghton English June 30th‚ 2013 Book Smart vs. Street Smart In the article‚ “Hidden Intellectualism‚” Gerald Graff discusses the topic of book smart versus street smart. Being street smart means having interest in other activities more than in school work‚ while being book smart is the complete opposite of that. Graff believes that having the personality of a street smart person can benefit society if one knows how to channel their potential correctly. He persuades his views
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semi-structured interviews were conducted with 26 staff working on five multidisciplinary teams in the same long-term care facility in Metropolitan Toronto. Staff in different structural locations have differing meanings of work and teamwork. Direct caregiving nursing staff have simple role-sets‚ minimal involvement in team decision-making and ritualistic orientations towards their work and teamwork. Multidisciplinary professionals have complex role-sets‚ greater involvement in team decision-making and organic
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care to four patients. Additionally‚ the purpose of this paper is to explain and provide examples of how our patient care included the concepts of Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) competencies‚ delegation‚ hand off reporting‚ and a reflection of our clinical experience. Quality and Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) Competencies To provide patient centered care‚ I had to educate the patient when administering medications about why the patient was taking the medication and side effects
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Critical Reflection of the Brands HP and Glassons Brand consumption plays a big part in everyday lives. We all think consciously about the products we buy such as food‚ clothing and electronics and the certain brands they come in. The purpose of this reflection is to demonstrate how brands affect individual and communities’ perception when buying products and how the brands HP and Glassons play an important part of my life and how they reflect me. Brand community culture play very important roles
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SMART MATERIALS 1. Introduction The primary characteristic of a ‘‘smart material’’ is that it has the ability to respond to external stimuli in a technically useful and technically controlled way. The words ‘‘technically useful’’ and ‘‘technically controlled’’ are emphasized since all materials respond to external stimuli of some sort or other (as a simple example‚ all materials respond to temperature by changing their volume)‚ however‚ to be considered a ‘‘smart material’’ the response must
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Smart homes A Smart Home is one that provides its home owners comfort‚ security‚ energy efficiency (low operating costs) and convenience at all times‚ regardless of whether anyone is home. Smart Home" is the term commonly used to define a residence that has appliances‚ lighting‚ heating‚ air conditioning‚ TVs‚ computers‚ entertainment audio & video systems‚ security‚ and camera systems that are capable of communicating with one another and can be controlled remotely by a time schedule‚ from any
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Running head: HIRING FOR SMARTS Hiring For Smarts By Justin Menkes Harvard Business Review Justin Menkes (2005) wrote a thought provoking article in the Harvard Business Review exploring how an I.Q. test can predict the "Star" employees within a company. In the November 2005 article‚ Menkes (2005) further investigate how charisma‚ compassion‚ and social awareness can take an employee only so far. The ability to intellectually think a problem through and reach not only the conclusion‚ but
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”Studying smart” is the phrase often used by students‚ parents and teachers to mean “studying in an intelligent and effective way”. Not all methods of studying are intelligent or effective .For example‚ a person who does not pay attention in class or who does not do his homework on time is certainly not intelligent. He will not learn effective and his grade will suffer. The result of this is that he will not be able to keep up with his peers. Even if he goes for private tuition he will be always
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Tech.Elctronics & Instrumentation ) N.E.C‚Nellore ABSTRACT : Smart sensors represent the next evolutionary tools for studying the environment..The smart environment relies first and foremost on sensory data from the real world. Sensory data comes from smart sensors of different modalities in distributed locations. Smart sensor systems are capable of prediction‚ interpretation‚communication and intelligent interaction with the environment
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Street Smarts over Book Smarts Gerald Graff is a Professor of English and Education in the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Graff’s essay‚ “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ Graff compares street smarts to book smarts. Graff debates the common belief that having book smarts gives one an intellectual advantage over other forms of intellectualism. Gerald Graff supports this belief by telling a personal story‚ explaining where the education systems fails‚ and stating that people stereotype intellect with
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