Alex Beleny Professor Elnahal ENG 112 31 August 2014 Summary of “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life” In “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life‚” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains that happiness is not attained through leisure or relaxation‚ but through the fulfillment of flow. Flow is not exactly happiness‚ but a supreme feeling after accomplishing a demanding task. This feeling has been termed as being on top of one’s game‚ yet Csikszentmihalyi
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Identification of a company’s suitability for the adoption of cloud computing and modelling its corresponding Return on Investment Subhas Chandra Misra ∗ ‚ Arka Mondal 1 Department of Industrial and Management Engineering‚ Indian Institute of Technology‚ Kanpur‚ India article info abstract Internet has become pervasive in our daily life and cloud computing is the newest offering as service over the ubiquitous Web. Cloud computing has been considered as a much hyped phenomenon in the IT and business
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Question: Back in Boston‚ Steve has been busy creating and managing his new company‚ Teton Mountaineering (TM)‚ which is based out of a small town in Wyoming. In the process of doing so‚ TM has acquired various types of assets. Below is a list of assets acquired during 2010: Asset Cost Date Place in Service Office equipment $10‚000 02/03/2010 Machinery $560‚000 07/22/2010 Used delivery truck* $15‚000 08/17/2010 *Not considered a luxury automobile‚ thus not subject to the luxury automobile limitations
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portable devices useful at home‚ working‚ meetings or travelling. Can connect to network or sync to a host computer e.g microsoft activesync for windows mobile device. Personal digital assistant (PDA) – Calculation‚ clock‚ calendar‚ address book‚ internet‚ emails‚ photos video recording‚ word processing‚ bar codes‚ radio/music player‚ games‚ GPS‚ can be connected to wireless network via wireless network connection. Other devices can also be connected by USB. Wi-fi replaces wired lans‚ allows
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Johnny Cash came from humble beginnings and overcome personal destruction to become an influential and successful artist. Johnny Cash was born on February 26‚ 1932 in Kingsland‚ Arkansas; he was one of seven children born to Ray and Carrie Cash. His family moved to Dyess‚ Arkansas when he was three‚ so that his father could farm. They bought a five bedroom house and farmed twenty acres of cotton and other crops. The son of Southern Baptist sharecroppers‚ Cash began playing guitar and writing songs
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EXPERIMENT (4) FLOW MEASUREMENT By: Eng. Motasem M. Abushaban. Eng. Fedaa M. Fayyad. PURPOSE: To study some of the famous instruments used in flow measurements. The measurement of water flow rate is an important topic in the study of fluid dynamics. There are many instruments used in flow measurements such as : o Venturi o Orifice plate o Variable area meter DESCRIPTION OF APPARATUS Water Flow Measuring Apparatus is designed as a free-standing apparatus for use on the
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INTRODUCTION 1.1 Distributed System: Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal. A computer program that runs in a distributed system is called a distributed program‚ and distributed programming is the process of writing such programs. Distributed computing also refers to the use of distributed systems
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Overview of Autonomic Computing The concept of autonomic system is introduced in 2001by Dr. Paul Horn (Cybenko). This concept is a way to address the unsustainable growth in administration costs for model software‚ computing and networking system. There are some paradigm that this concept is introduces such as self-aware‚ self-repairing and self-optimizing application software‚ operating system and network infrastructure. Autonomic computing system has a sense of self-awareness which prevent IT
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Introduction – Information Technology Information Technology (IT) – mixture of computing and communications that characteristics our current technological environment. Business Organisations Systems and Systems Thinking A system is a collection of interrelated components that function together to achieve some predefined purposes or objectives. A typical system usually had nine characteristics‚ as follows: 1. Component – A part of a system commonly referred to as a subsystem 2
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Parallel Computing In India Introduction to Parallel Computing Traditionally‚ software has been written for serial computation: • To be run on a single computer having a single Central Processing Unit (CPU); • A problem is broken into a discrete series of instructions. • Instructions are executed one after another. • Only one instruction may execute at any moment in time. In the simplest sense‚ parallel computing is the simultaneous use of multiple compute resources to solve
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