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    Research is different from other forms of persuasive writing in that it relies on facts that have been acknowledged by the individual’s peers as truths regardless of what they believe in. When writing a research paper, your peers must be able to understand your reasoning that can be supported by varied forms of data such as figures, tables, images, etc. Your success is dependent on allowing your peers to validate your reasoning, and you being able to evaluate your findings. A researcher’s ability

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    Classi cation with supervised learning  Information retrieval methods 1 Clone Detection When the software are created, many times the codes are simply copy-pasted, with small changes. This is called cloning. Investigating these copy-pasted sections of source codes is called Clone Detection. It was discovered that about 10-15% of the code in a software system was copy-pasted[1] For refac- toring, or at least noting. Clone detection techniques try to nd cloned codes. Techniques for detecting clones may

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    that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. Linux is developed and released under the GNU General Public License and its source code is freely available to everyone. There are now literally hundreds of companies and organizations and an equal number of individuals that have released their own versions of operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Apart from

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    Reflective Practice Reid (1994) Gibbs Reflective Cycle What happened? (description) What would you do if it happened again? (action plan) What were you thinking/feeling? (feeling) What alternatives did you have? (conclusion) How can you make sense of what happened? (analysis) What was good/bad about the experience? (evaluation) Reflectivity The circular process by which our thoughts affect our actions, which affect the situation we are dealing with and therefore after feedback through the reactions

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    particular area but also why it is happening (which will be discussed in greater detail on page 6 of this document). SOURCES OF SECONDARY DATA Official Statistics: Official statistics are statistics collected by governments and their various agencies, bureaus, and departments. These statistics can be useful to researchers because they are an easily obtainable and comprehensive source of information that usually covers long periods of time. However, because official statistics are often “characterized

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    Running Head: Human Resources Information System HRIS Implementation at Riordan Manufacturing HRIS Implementation at Riordan Manufacturing As a leader in the manufacture of plastic injection molding, Riordan Manufacturing (henceforth referred to as the company) corporate location is based in San Jose, CA. The company has made acquisitions in three other locations in the United States and one in The Peoples Republic of China. During the acquisition process the company did not plan for the

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    AHIMA and APPCA

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    AHIMA AND AAPC In this paper I’m going to talking about what AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) and APPC(American Academy of Professional Coders) code of ethics are and the relevance that these two have to the coding profession. Then I’m going to explain how AHIMA and APPC code of ethics are incorporated into the Medical Insurance Specialist (MIS) field, and why continuing your education is important in this field. Hopefully after reading this paper you will have learned

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    Kirk Samuda University of Phoenix BSA/375 Week (4) Mr. Jeffrey Mc Nickle Riordan Manufacturing must acknowledge that the initiation of any project can get a black eye because of implementation problems. As such, they should realize that the major overall problem with implementation is that complexities associated with it, usually occurs when the solution is deployed. Hence, many of the details of implementation must be planned ahead of time. The HR & IT departments cannot

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    Network engineers are usually the ones responsible for creating, maintaining, supporting, developing and publishing new communication networks for the company or organisation that they work for. The goal of these network engineers are to ensure the quality of network support or infrastructure so it allows for maximum performance, availability and satisfaction for their users. They can work internally within office walls as part of the company’s IT system or can work externally, as an transferred

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    3/13-3/19 As this week is spring break, I think it is a good time to transcribe one of my interviews. I transcribed my first 30 minute interview. To do this, I downloading a free trial of Nvivo. I transcribed the interview by slowing down the audio in Nvivo. I then typed the transcription. I had to replay the audio at least twice to get the correct transcription. After I transcribed the interview once, I went through a second time to ensure I transcribed correctly. It took approximately 1.5 hours

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