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Aqua America’s Software Methodology Justina Khuu The majority of Aqua America’s software is developed using the waterfall method, whether it is in-house or through contractors. Oftentimes there is a meeting set for requirements gathering between the developers and the managers or directors of the department that is to benefit from the software development, and then minimal contact between the two groups until the product is delivered. While this results in the least amount of upfront cost by…

Software Methodologies Agile Methodologies Agile Software Development (ASD) has in the recent years been an emerging development approach in the South African software development industry. The agile approach is continuously improving with time and companies are now identifying that, there are still difficulties in adopting the agile approach and how software is developed in an agile environment (Greer & Hamon 2011). Aleid (2015) explains agile as a set unconventional development methodologies,…

Wire Rope Wire Rope Definition and Types Wire rope is machine composed of individual wires that have been twisted to form strands and work together to achieve optimum results for the selected operation. Strands are then twisted, to form a wire rope. The parts of a wire rope illustrated in the figure below. The core is the foundation of the rope design. The main functionality of the core is to support the wire stands and maintain them in their position during the lifecycle of the product…

Gattaca, is it really down to a science? “Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be. - John Phillips” This relates to the society in the movie “Gattaca” due to the fact that the society is only for the “people” that are “valid” meaning that only people that have been genetically modified are accepted in the advanced work field of the future. Due to these facts that only “valid” people are accepted in the world,…

“Mental health is an integral part of health; indeed, there is no health without mental health” (World Health Organization, 2014). Furthermore, the World Health Organization website (WHO) defines mental health as: “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community” (World Health Organization, 2014). In the United States, the…

“A business model reflects management’s hypothesis about what customers want, how hey want it and what they will pay, and how an enterprise can organize to best meet customers needs, and get paid well for doing so.” Do you agree with this statement? Why? Be specific. Feel free to use examples. A business model defines how a business creates, delivers and captures economic, cultural, social or other forms of value. The business model provides information and direction on how the organization…

Kenneth Hartlaub 1. The Open Systems Interconnection Model (OSI) The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model contains seven helpful layers that perform specific services in accordance with their layer. It is a logical model of how network systems communicate to each other in a series of protocols. These layers include the Application layer, the Presentation layer, the Session layer, the Transport layer, the Network layer, the Data Link layer, and the Physical layer. The descriptions of each…

Hierarchal Database “In the network model, the data are represented by collections of records and relationships between data are represented by links. This structure holds for the hierarchical model as well. The only difference is that, in the hierarchical model, records are organized as collections of trees, rather than as arbitrary graphs.”(http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/db-book/db6/appendices-dir/e.pdf, 17-10-2014) This database model use rules as each child has one parent and each parent can…

The waterfall method of development is a sequential design model, used in software development processes. The process flow is downwards like a waterfall, through the phases of concept initiation, analysis, design, construction, testing, production/implementation and maintenance. The Waterfall model is typically associated with the development of software. It can however, apply to projects that do not have a technology/software component. Its origins stem from the hardware domains of…

Today’s society has placed plenty of stereotypes upon Asian Americans. Labeling them as the model minority, assuming that all Asian Americans are intelligent by nature, seems to be the most common (Szu 2003). These stereotypes have been negatively affecting the growing population of Asian Americans in the school systems, as they are leading to teacher bias. Bias in the classroom can cause teachers to view all their Asian American students as intelligent and assume they are receiving academic…