placed in a cube and allowed to dry forming the concrete testing cube. Each of the four blocks containing different compositions of each material were then placed in a compressive testing machine and when each cube yielded‚ results were taken. Effect of water content on workability of fresh concrete: As more water was added to the dry mixture‚ it became easier to work with but we had to be careful not to add to much water or this would weaken the concrete and possible ruin the mixture. If you wanted
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Operational Management Chapter 1: Strategy and competitiveness OM (Operational Management) is use to create customer value through effective processes in both product and service-based organization. Core competence A bundle of skills that enable a firm to provide the greatest level of value to its customers in a way that is difficult for competitors to match and that provides for future growth. Core competences are embodied in the skills of the workers and in the organisation. They are developed
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has delayed physical development as their bodies are smaller and often not as developed as a full term baby. Due to having to stay in special care baby units their emotional development can be affected as they can’t build bonds with parents and family members that healthy babies make due to staying in incubators and not being able to be cuddled or fed normally. A disabled child (depending on disability) has their physical development affected by being in a wheelchair‚ being unable to walk properly
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The on-line feature will allow a convenient shopping experience for customers to purchase all of the products on-line. In addition‚ Program 1 will differentiate their products and services by having a variety of all genres of music from the 60’s through current day selections. Finally‚ Program 1 will provide a niche unlike its competitors by serving communities on a global frontier which will be an effective method for accomplishing their mission. Program1 will deal honestly‚ fairly
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Cognitive – Development Theory Sarah Self Pikes Peak Community College Psychology 235 June 23‚ 2013 Instructor Routh Cognitive – Development Theory Childhood is an interesting time in a child’s life. It is a time for children to grow‚ learn‚ and mature so they are set up for success in adulthood. A child’s brain develops through multiple aspects in their lives such as the television‚ picture books‚ and games. Television is a way for children to develop in their age range‚ because
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Study Operational Definitions The following chapter is excerpted from Designing HIV/AIDS Intervention Studies: An Operations Research Handbook‚ Andrew Fisher and James Foreit‚ 2002‚ Washington‚ DC: Population Council. (More on OR Handbook) CHAPTER 6 OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS A fter formulating the study objectives and hypotheses and describing fully the study intervention‚ the next step in the research process is to define operationally the key variables and terms of the study. Operational definitions
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a lot of concrete and descriptive language in his work. Langston Hughes’s essay “Salvation” uses detailed descriptions to impact the reader. Description is “a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species” (“description”). Authors use concrete language to influence readers. Concrete language is “based off the five senses which are hearing taste‚ sight‚ touch‚ and smell” (“Concrete”). Hughes
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During this assignment I am going to explain how genetic‚ biological‚ environmental‚ socio-economic‚ and lifestyle factors can influence an individual’s development. Life factors can have a huge impact on an individual’s development. This links in with the nature- nurture debate. The genetic and biological influences that I will discuss link to the nature side of the debate‚ whilst the socio-economic and environmental influences link to the nurture side of the debate. All the factors within the
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Assesment activity Manage operational plan Assignment Introduction My name is Joan Simon‚ I am 26 years old and I am an employee of the company called Bigsport.com which is an on-line store specialised in selling football clothes and equipment. I have just been promoted to the position of sales manager and now I have 13 people to look after (eight sales representatives‚ two key account managers and three merchandisers). Planning and monitoring system First of all I will have to meet my team
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Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man: The Concrete Mixer Imperialism Ray Bradbury’s “The Concrete Mixer‚” tells the story of a Martian named Ettil‚ who refuses to invade Earth on the theory that the people of Earth have greater morale than the people of Mars. Ettil had feared that his people were doomed to the same fate as the people in his books: whom at the end of every story were conquered by Earth. When the Martians’ arrive to Earth nothing is as any of them thought it would be. They had been
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