existing business process re-engineering methodologies The development and implementation of a new methodology Maria Vakola and Yacine Rezgui University of Salford‚ Salford‚ UK Keywords BPR‚ Methodology‚ Organizational change Abstract Explores the need for a business process re-engineering methodology and presents a critique of the existing methodologies. The identified weaknesses served as a basis for the development of a new eight-stage BPR methodology which was implemented and evaluated within
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Women and substance abuse The Abuse of Alcohol Substance use disorders are complicated illnesses that present unique threats to women ’s health. Medical research is showing that women who abuse alcohol‚ tobacco and other drugs may develop addictions and substance-related health problems faster than men. Alcohol consumption is most common among women between the ages of 26 and 34 and women who are divorced or separated. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines a light drinker
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Jose Bravo Anthropology 310 11/04/2007 Analysis of Anthropology Methodologies Culture is an abstract term used by anthropologists to describe a people’s way of life. The book defines culture as "the sum total of the knowledge‚ ideas‚ behaviors‚ and material creations that are learned‚ shared‚ and transmitted primarily through the symbolic system of language" (Lenkeit 26). Culture is such an important topic that anthropologists have devoted a whole subfield to its study. This subfield‚ cultural
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Substance Abuse is the number one health problem in the United States according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Worley‚ Conners‚ Crone‚ Williams and Bokony‚ 105). Research from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health reports that 3% of pregnant women used illicit drugs and 3% reported binging on alcohol and after giving birth these numbers increased to 9% and 15% respectively (105). Substance Abuse has plagued human society from time in memorial. Humans have used intoxicants for reasons
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A Survey of Agile Development Methodologies Agile development methodologies are emerging in the software industry. In this chapter‚ we provide an introduction to agile development methodologies and an overview of four specific methodologies: • Extreme Programming • Crystal Methods • Scrum • Feature Driven Development Plan-driven methods work best when developers can determine the requirements in advance . . . and when the requirements remain relatively stable‚ with change rates on the order of one
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HMPYC80 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY TOPIC 1 STATISTICS Hypothesis testing Variables (Tut 104 p 165) Sampling Distribution of the mean GROUPS DESIGN T Test- difference between the means of 2 groups (BG p.147) Dependent and Independent samples (tc and td) One-way analysis of variance (The F test uses variance as an index for the difference between two or more means.) (BG p. 174) Factorial Analysis of Variance (BG p.180) TOPIC 2 CORRELATIONAL DESIGN Correlation coefficient (BG p. 208) Regression analysis
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Crysty Linkenhoker MS 561 - Film Theory January 23‚ 2008 Summary 1 A summary of Tania Modleski’s "A Master’s dollhouse: _Rear Window_" Hitchcock’s _Rear Window_ has been both hailed and criticized for its portrayal of the male/female social dynamic. Many critics have elaborated on the protagonist’s fixation on male sexual dominance and his voyeurism. Many see the film as simply a way for the male cinema spectator to join the simulated spectacle of the film as the protagonist views the many ongoing
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Information Systems Methodology Keywords Information Systems Methodology Critical Failure Factors (CFF) Rapid Application Development (RAD) Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Effective Project Management Top management commitment Information systems (IS) TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0 Introduction to Information System Methodology 2 1.1 Discussion 2 1.2 conclusion 2 2.0 Introduction to Critical Failure Factors (CFF) 2 2.1 Discussion 2 2.1
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There are many differences between an annotated bibliography and a literature review. An annotated bibliography is a compilation of citations‚ and this provides the reader the information needed to locate references. A literature review is based on a particular problem with some scientific knowledge and the current theoretical information. The annotated bibliography includes a description and explanation of the sources; a basic citation does not contain this (Carlson‚ 2003). Published studies
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definitions of Substance from both his ’Categories’ and ’Metaphysics‚ Book VIII’ To begin‚ a brief definition of both accounts should be described‚ but later‚ I will go over in greater specifics about his definition in ’Categories’ for a basic elucidation‚ providing examples throughout. Then‚ I will compare and contrast the two accounts. First‚ for Aristotle’s definitions of substance‚ there are two. One of the said definitions is written in ’Categories’. It states that a substance is neither
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