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Description of the School District The Marion County School District is the analyzed unit. It is located in Marion County, a part of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. It is a comparatively big area that consists of four school districts (these are Marion One, Two, Three, and Four); however, in 2001 districts Four and Three merged and formed District Seven (“About our district,” n.d.). The central purpose of the given district is to encourage students and inspire them to be citizens that contribute to the development of the society and its improvement (“About our district,” n.d.). The school district utilizes traditional bureaucratic patterns that are considered outdated today because of the shift of priorities towards the creation of a learning organization promoting academic achievement and guaranteeing better results. New Model For this reason, a new model that will replace the outdated one is suggested. The selected policy is focused on the reconsideration of the approach to leadership and cooperation between all stakeholders. It cultivates the collaborative and supportive atmosphere to align trustful and beneficial relations between staff members and students (Daniels & Tenkasi, 2017). The use of specific modes of leadership is one of the central aspects of the suggested policy as it contributes to the enhanced interaction between all participants of the teaching process and helps to achieve better results by reconsidering outdated patterns. In such a way, the selected policy contains two central steps which are the use of a collaborative approach instead of the bureaucratic one and utilization of efficient leadership strategies. Historical Perspective Traditionally, school reform policies have faced numerous barriers arising from the complexity of the sphere and multiple approaches used to evaluate the efficiency of particular methods and results they guarantee to educators. Public education has always remained a central task of the states and school districts responsible for the utilization of diverse approaches and their implementation (Klinge, 2015). For this reason, the majority of school reforms had been adopted across the state to improve the quality of education. The suggested policy can be considered regarding the historical discourse as it is one of the attempts to replace outdated methods and introduce new ones that meet the existing requirements and will help students to achieve success. Effective Leadership Strategies Concerning the central aspects of the policy, leadership should be given significant attention. Researchers determine it as a central component of a learning organization, which means that the choice of appropriate practices is critical (Klinge, 2015). The first effective approach is to challenge the existing process by asking educators to do everything in unusual ways (Klinge, 2015). It will help to eliminate outdated practices and attain better results. Another strategy is the cultivation of the shared vision of positive future changes that can be driven by working within the learning organization and utilizing new,
Overview In this era where there is a lot of information to be handled at ago and actually with little available time, it is necessarily useful and wise to analyze data from different viewpoints and summarize it in such a way that it will take less time to interpret by the final user of that particular information. This, in effect, reduces costs associated with processing data and information for the purpose intended and at the same time increasing the revenue base for the business through internal saving tactics. Data mining is the process by which data from different perspectives is analyzed and summarized into useful information. This task ensures that data achieve relevance in performing the intended duty. Data mining is also referred to as knowledge discovery. During this period of high operation capacity of businesses, the role played by data mining cannot be assumed. Using statistical and mathematical techniques to dig through data warehouses helps in the recognition of significant facts, relationships, trend patterns, exceptions, and anomalies that might not be noticed by the concerned in the business environment. With this kind of approach, predicting customers’ behavior becomes very easy. Areas of application for this software are also not few. First of all, it aids in market segmentation and direct marketing where the businessman knows the best way to get the highest response rate from the clients. This can be done by establishing the customer preferences. Data mining can also help a business entity to establish the level of customer runaways, that is, the number of potential customers who run away and join the competitor. Fraud detection is made easy by this software, in addition to the fact that it creates room for interactive marketing. It is very easier to know the products common y purchased together by carrying out a market basket analysis. This will help the business in developing the products that can be purchased together and therefore gain from complementary effects of each other. Using the same software, trend analysis can be carried out, which will help in knowing the customer preferences and, therefore, the best service provision style best suited for the particular customers in question. Discussion Data mining is not just a hanging phenomenon, but it is part of the many series of analytical techniques, and it involves extracting, transforming, and loading transaction data into the depot data system. Secondly, there is storing and managing the data in a database system, after which provision is made for the data to be made available to analysts and technology experts. These experts analyze the data using application software to make sure that the data presented performs its intended duty satisfactorily. Lastly, the data is availed in a useful design such as a graph (viewbi: group). This advancement has led to the rise of new developments like internet sales, web marketing, among other several recent developments like web seminars and web advertising. These developments have really led to more work being handled by a parti
The perception of beauty by society has been changing in the course of history. Thus, it was treated as a virtue by ancient Greeks, considered unnecessary in the context of Christianity due to focus on moral values, and finally became a power in the contemporary world. Nevertheless, Susan Sontag argues that beauty became a trap for women who are ready to sacrifice much to achieve excellence as they see it. Present-day women long for perfection. They are eagerly looking for flaws in their appearance and are ready to work on correcting them in every possible way. In fact, many women lose their identities in the chase for perfect looks. Probably, it is a hazardous impact of society, which shifts values and inner beauty does not mean much compared to a “cover” that is expected to be as perfect as possible. In that way, the concept of beauty became associated only with outward appearance. One of the problems related to this treatment of beauty is that women do not percept themselves as a whole but tend to evaluate every fragment of their bodies looking for perfection. Evidently, they find something that can be considered a defect like big ears or curved nose or fat hips. Nevertheless, contemporary women are lucky to have cosmetic surgery at their service. A certified doctor will provide consultation, and a perfectly shaped smiling nurse will bring a portfolio with magic transformations from beasts to beauties. Certainly, the availability of cosmetic surgery makes many women want to change even despite the high cost of such procedures. On the one hand, a desire to be beautiful can be understood. On the other hand, self-perfection becomes a major activity for some, and other interests lose their priority. Women are trapped by a desire to meet some invented demands on their bodies, faces, and hair. There is a question if anything can be done to defend women and to secure their right to get out of the trap of beauty, thus refusing to do cosmetic surgery. It is a controversial issue due to the following reasons. Evidently, every person has a right to live and do everything with the body or face. Still, mass hysteria about perfection among women becomes dangerous because they become focused on or even obsessed with the idea of improving their appearance until they are satisfied with the image in the mirror. The actions that can prevent women from doing cosmetic surgery and release them from the trap of beauty should be complex. First of all, the idea of the diversity of beauty should be taught from early childhood. It is necessary to explain that there can be a beautiful face, a beautiful soul, or a beautiful flower. Secondly, it should be explained that not everything that is beautiful is good as well as not everything that seems ugly is bad.
At the moment, I know that cholera is an aggressive disease with high spreading ability and lethality. Its spreading ability has both some inexplicable oddities and several traceable patterns. Shared living space is a contributing factor; however, the degree of cleanness of the place significantly affects the infectivity of cholera. Observations also show that person-to-person contact does not always get a person infected with cholera. I also know that the number of sick and dead people of the working class is larger than that of the wealthier social classes. London in the 19th century was the center of the industrial development of humankind, which negatively affected the urban environment and the city’s ecology. Therefore, it can be concluded that sanitary conditions and personal hygiene are the main factors preventing and spreading cholera. Working-class people present in dirty environments for long periods, interact frequently, live in poor conditions, and are less educated about personal hygiene. That is why the prevalence of cholera in them is higher. Physicians did not contract cholera since they worked in a clean setting; sanitary measures were sufficiently developed in the 19th century to prevent medical workers from becoming infected in peacetime. Knowing that cholera must be swallowed to begin to affect the human body and the environment must be dirty for the infection to survive, one can assume that human excreta is how the disease spreads. Victorian London was a place where people threw their feces into water sources and sometimes directly defecated into city rivers. Victorian Londoners took their water from fountains, pipes, and water pumps, such as Broad Street one, whose source was the city’s rivers full of human excretions (Savage, 2019). The conclusion is that cholera infection spreads through various human excreta contained in urban water sources and unsanitary places. People drink untreated water or eat food that the sick individual has come into contact with and become infected. Detailed personal experiences of patients and their surroundings are needed to assess the validity of the hypothesis.
Introduction This is historical research that will expound on the history of underwater welding. The research goes in-depth to analyze the various examples of underwater welding, the defects associated with underwater welding, and the possible remedies. The study also outlines the milestones in the advancements in underwater welding. The factors which facilitated the invention and the improvements are looked at in detail. Welding involves joining two or more metals together under the application of heat. The metals are joined in the molten state or by application of a melted intermediate (Kaushish J.P., 2010). The required temperature is often provided either with electrodes or hot gasses. Underwater welding, therefore, is the joining of metals under the water or in an environment surrounded by water (Welding Institute, Great Britain. Dept. of Energy, Society for Underwater Technology, 2009). Underwater welding comes around with a number of difficulties just like welding in space and high radiation areas. Therefore, specialized equipment and techniques must be applied to carry out the welding tasks. A number of difficulties are associated with underwater welding especially with wet shielded metal arc welding (Messler, 2013). However, underwater welds exhibit a higher hardness than open-air welds due to the rapid quenching caused by the surrounding water. The underwater welds are also characterized by increased porosity and other associated defects and increased vulnerability to hydrogen-induced cracking (Nixon, 2000). Underwater welds exhibit inferior mechanical properties of ductility compared to welds made in the air. The advancement of underwater welding was necessitated by the oil and petroleum industry. Erection of offshore oil rigs provided a challenge to the welders, a factor that required research on the same (Kathleen, 2010). During World War 1, bare wire electrodes coated with waterproofing varnish were used. The harsh underwater environment of extremely low temperature and relatively high pressures and high risks of electricity leakage were some of the challenges which facilitated the research advancements (Nixon, 2000). In 1960’s, Taylor diving invented the underwater welding and submersible pipe alignment rig. The invention promoted hyperbaric welding. Hyperbaric welding involves welding in a dry atmosphere under pressure. The invention of the hyperbaric welding process facilitated the innovation in pipelining success in the North Sea (Zhou, 2013). Before the invention of underwater welding, the underwater repairs had been mechanical. The divers used hydraulic tools to bolt the flanges together. However, the welded joints proved stronger than the mechanical joints, a condition that led to the massive research in the field (Kathleen, 2010). After the Taylor diving’s invention, engineers designed the gas system to provide an environment consisting of nitrogen around the weld. In
Introduction The Internet use has undergone a lot of revolution from the use of the Internet for acquiring information only up to recently where it is almost part and parcel of most people’s lives. The Internet use of the Internet has been redefined to include nearly all aspects of life. You will attend online classes, then meet your friends in the evening on Facebook and Twitter, and then go to the online shop to buy some food for dinner, after this, you wish some people goodnight from your cell phone and get prepared to attend a teleconference meeting tomorrow at eight in the morning, the list could go on and on. All these revolve around websites. The design of any website, therefore, is very important in achieving and attracting the kind of audience needed to use it (Schuman, & Thorson, Pg 409). The blending of the graphics, animations and text in the right proportions will determine the duration that a user will spend on any website. There are websites that will need more graphics and animations than text while there are others that will need more text and informational content than graphics; for example, legal firms’ websites. All these are to be considered when designing any website. Most of the users of the Internet do not read the contents of the websites exhaustively. Most users skim through the sites looking for specific information from them. The designers are therefore required to design their websites with the use of strategic words. There should be the correct use of words to attract visitors on their first landing page. The designers should know what their users are looking for. The users are driven by their own goals and not our own. The homepage as a selling tag The most important to be considered in designing any website is the homepage. The homepage is the very first page loaded when a visitor keys in the site’s URL on the address bar. This page is the selling point of the company. It will either hold the customer for some extra minutes or close the window almost immediately. The first sites had lots of graphics and it was hard for the viewers to get the message. It took time to load because the graphics were heavy for the browser to download. Homepage content is very important to the users. It should be carefully chosen because this will determine the traffic of the website. My first websites were loaded with graphics on the home page thus taking time to load. Though they were good in the visual appeal, they caused more harm than good to the website in the long run. Website viewers need a few seconds to evaluate the quality of a website. One more thing that should be considered is the primary goal of websites, as they are designed to establish a connection between regular visitors, customers, and common readers. Thus,
Throughout the entire history of contemporary psychology, perception has not been given a fair definition. This has persisted until today. Throughout this period, it has always been assumed that the perceiver is a passive recording device. Moreover, the perceiver has an extremely complicated design. Such type of vitro psychology has been deficient for failing to ascertain the reality of daily life perception (Bruner & Postman, 1948: 205). Similarly, the contemporary nerve- muscle psychophysiology failed to clarify everyday behaviour. These aspects are extremely vital in the area. Furthermore, scholars such as Crozier, Hecht, Titchener, Wundt, Fechner, and Weber played a vital role in laying the foundation of perception. However, their work is only a beginning since a majority of the current scholars are expanding on it. This paper is a critical review of the article “value and need as organizing factors in perception”, which was written by Bruner, J and Goodman, C. in 1947. The article was published as the 42 nd volume of the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. The critical analysis is founded on pages 33–44. It is worth pointing out that what an individual sees (perception) is determined by several factors. These include the nervous system, stimulus, personal values, and needs. It is worth elaborating some of the technical terms used in the article. Equivocality refers to the ambiguity linked to stimulus. Behavioral determinants refer to spontaneous processing, which results from people’s preceding familiarities and the current state. On the other hand, the terms autochthonous determinants refer to automatic processing, which is similar in all human beings since their elementary brain design is the same. The article focuses on three hypotheses. First, objects that have a greater social value are thought to have advanced organization susceptibility. This is associated with behavioral determinants. In plain English, this implies that valued objects have more perception linked to them. Second, a person may have a superior need for objects that are valued socially. In such a case, there is a noticeable mark for behavioral elements’ manoeuvre. Plainly, this implies that children possessing higher needs perceive them as relatively bigger as opposed to children whose needs are less. This was assessed using an experimental group that was separated into two constituent groups. There was the deprived and prosperous group where each had ten children. The ten prosperous children came from Boston’s progressive school. Their parents were professional people and prosperous businessmen. On the other hand, the ten deprive
Introduction There are significant reforms within the health care sector. These reforms are notable globally. Several service delivery points, including hospitals continue to transform their systems. The fundamental aim of these strategies is to remain relevant and competitive within the entire industry. The six-sigma approach is a strategic management system that has been applied by most organizations (Pande, Neuman & Cavanagh, 2002). This paper analyses the concept of the six-sigma approach. It also highlights some of the issues management and operational issues observed within the Red Cross Hospital. Furthermore, there is a critical examination of the significance and value of the implantation of the six-sigma strategy in this hospital. Finally, it correlates the value to the likelihood of solution of management and operational challenges eminent within PPD the organization. Discussion of Six-Sigma There are various reasons why organizations tend to adopt transformative management approaches. Some of these reasons include increased competition and technological applications. Employees also associate with competitive organizations that focus on their general welfare. Observably, hiring and operational costs have escalated to significant levels due to these effects. The six-sigma focuses on quality improvement and effective service delivery (Stamatis, 2004). The six-sigma is a core tool in strategic management. It aims at quality improvement and focuses on leaner and sustainable projects. There are core divisions within this quality model. Each of these symbolizes different tenets applied in transformative processes. Some of the critical issues considered under this model include quality assurance, transparent systems and evidence- based management. However, there are other several concepts within the approach. Organizations have recognized the need to apply this system. The Red Cross Hospital is one of such organizations. Discussion of the Issues at Red Cross Hospital The Red Cross hospital majorly provided great focus to the concept of quality assurance for a long period. As a result, the organization could not realize the benefits associated with the six-sigma approach for project management. Evidently, the hospital encountered several challenges before implementing this concept through an external consultant (Jaap, Does & Bisgaard, 2012). However, it is important to note the capacity of the management to identify the crucial need of implementing the six-sigma system within its operations. There were different challenges. For instance, the project objectives never resonated appropriately with the overall strategic go