Case Analysis 2 - Research in Motion – RIM TM583 9/23/2012 1. What were some of the challenges that RIM faced to protect its intellectual property‚ and how did RIM handle those challenges? RIM is a Waterloo-based company founded in 1984 by two University of Waterloo engineering students‚ Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin. Through the development of integrated hardware‚ software and services that support multiple wireless network standards‚ RIM provides platforms and solutions
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Celestial Navigation is the art and science of finding your way by the sun‚ moon‚ stars‚ and planets‚ and‚ in one form or another‚ is one of the oldest practices in human history. Celestial navigation‚ also known as astronavigation‚ is a position fixing technique that has evolved over several thousand years to help sailors cross oceans without having to rely on estimated calculations‚ or dead reckoning‚ to know their position. Celestial navigation uses "sights‚" or angular measurements taken between
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Douglas Gaffin gave a talk over his current research in chemo-textural familiarity hypothesis for scorpion navigation. Because scorpions cannot maintain their body heat they stay in their burrows during the day and then come out at night. The main question of this talk was how do they find their burrows? They have sensory neurons such as medial and lateral eyes‚ but the most important one for this topic is their paired pectines. These pectines brush the ground as they walk detecting chemical and
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There are many different methods for air navigation. The system that a pilot uses for navigation depends on the type of flight that will occur‚ which navigation system is installed in the aircraft‚ and the navigation systems that are available in that certain area. The GPS (Global Positioning System) has become the most valuable method in the aviation industry because it is reliable‚ precise‚ and easy to use. GPS allows the pilot to pinpoint specific three or four-dimensional location data.
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Union/Bank: Personal Device Policy 1. Overview a. XYZ Credit Union/Bank allows employees to purchase and use their own smartphones‚ tablets‚ and laptops at work for their convenience. This privilege can be taken away at any time by XYZ Credit Union/Bank if employees do not follow the policies and procedures outlined below. b. This policy is intended to protect the security and integrity of XYZ Credit Union/Bank’s data and technology infrastructure. c. Employees wishing to use a device must obtain
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be followed by experienced navigators. The experienced navigators of many different cultures proved that celestial navigation was possible without the need for instrumentation or technology. The theory of celestial navigation shows us that with just a little bit of information anyone can find their unknown position from known positions in the sky. “The greatest advance in navigation came with the invention of the compass” (Tyson‚ 1996 - 2014). Latitude was easy to figure out by use of the compass
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TERRESTRIAL COASTAL NAVIGATION 1 “U.S. Chart No.1- Symbols‚ Abbreviations and Terms used on Paper and Electronic Navigational Charts” IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE COURSE REQUIREMENT PRESENTED TO THE BSMT DEPARTMENT PHILIPPINE MERCHANT MARINE SCHOOL SUBMITTED TO: 2/M JOSELITO C. AMBRAD‚ MAED SUBMITTED BY: MIDSHIPMAN ALFRED JASON P. BALDONADO N-J1A3 2 SEPTEMBER 2014 TERRESTRIAL COASTAL NAVIGATION 1 “U.S. Chart No.1- Symbols‚ Abbreviations and Terms
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Hyperbolic navigation Hyperbolic navigation refers to a class of radio navigation systems based on the difference in timing between the reception of two signals‚ without reference to a common clock. This timing reveals the difference in distance from the receiver to the two stations. Plotting all of the potential locations of the receiver for the measured delay produces a series of hyperbolic lines on a chart. Taking two such measurements and looking for the intersections of the hyperbolic lines
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Speaker’s notes Contours on the map are the brown lines drawn on a map connecting points of equal height above sea level. They are labelled with the height and with the topes of the figures uphill. A contour labelled 500 is 500m above sea level‚ and every place on that contour is precisely 500m above sea level. On a 1: 25‚ 000 map‚ they are usually 10m apart. If contours are very close together that means the hill is steep. However‚ is they are wide apart‚ it has a gentle gradient. When
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Pacific was explored by some great navigators who sailed from different parts of the world like Captain James Cook who used navigation tools like sextant and radars to navigate the Pacific. On the other hand‚ Polynesia was explored around 1000 years ago by navigators who used the waves‚ stars‚ and the flights of birds to set their voyage and travel through the Pacific Ocean. “In hand-built‚ double-hulled canoes sixty feet long‚ the ancestors of today ’s Polynesians sailed across a vast ocean area
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