evolution is not occurring, simply because the system is in the critical state. This intermittent stage is dominated by the Red Queen Effect, where it takes all of the evolutionary capabilities of a species just to stay in the same place on a larger scale, since all other organisms are evolving as well. However, large evolutionary events, such as the Cambrian explosion or the Permian extinction are a direct result of the shifting critical state though huge avalanches in the self-organized…
Geologic time scales often last thousands of years, and it is easy to tell when they begin and end. The current geologic time scale has present day humans living in the Holocene period which began almost 12,000 years ago. Recent debate has begun, however, that proposes a new period. Since humans have had such a large effect on the Earth, especially in the last few hundred years, various scientists want to see this period of human effects as its own section on the geologic time scale. This…
industry by applying Poter’s five forces of competition framework, as well as Aldi’s business strategies comparing with Wal-Mart as an example for an industry competitor. The details of the discussion regarding ALDI: The Dark Horse Discounter business models and strategies as follow with the questions below. 1. What is your assessment of the competitive forces in the grocery retail industry? The assessment of the competitive forces using Porter’s five forces of competition framework that allow…
implementing the chassis and motor design my utilizing AutoCAD. Another important project I’ve worked on was a three-element Windkessel Model, used to represent a pulsatile flow in the arterial system of the heart through a MATLAB simulation: a healthy unobstructed model and one in which hypertension caused a defect in the parameters used in the mathematical model to simulate the portrayed effects on a vessel. As well as to demonstrate how a vasodilator aided in the altered parameters. I have…
University of Louisville (UofL) held a town hall meeting to announce plans to adopt a shared services model at the Health Services Campus (HSC) in order to improve business operations. Planned change is a focused, deliberate and joint effort to bring about improvements with the help of a change agent (Roussel, 2006). It is generally said that the implementation of an HR shared services model can “transform the role of HR by enabling the HR function to be more strategic at the corporate level…
Storage Systems for Big Data Internet age comes with the vast amount of data that requires efficient storage and processing capabilities. To alleviate this issue, we discuss data storage systems which are tailored to store and process big data effectively. While general-purpose RDBMSs are still viable option in handling and analyzing structural data, they suffer from a variety of problems including performance and scalability issues when it comes to big data. To increase the performance of DBMS…
54% of the attendees give an answer of green site, sports, cultural and social projects and 35 % of the people said infrastructure, car park and road projects needs to be prioritized. 7.3. Global Benchmarks There are also intermediary models created for government and local city projects in different countries. It seems that local projects got attention in northern Europe at most like Sweden and…
The earthquake struck at a shallow depth of 5kms and was measured at 6.1 on the Richter scale, this disaster affected the majority of the southern island and the base of the northern island of New Zealand, showing the dramatic proportion of the damage that occurred. The city of Christchurch however was the hardest hit and the surrounding area…
Introduction Humans have an enormous impact on our global environment. For centuries human activity has always been known to disturb the earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere. As we 've growth we made our footprint in our world environment. We alter more than 50% of the world land (Stromberg, 2013 ). One of the most arguable questions is when did human influence on the earth global environment began? There have been multiple studies suggesting different way discover this answer, but the most…
1.1 Introduction to Landslide A landslide is a geological phenomenon, which includes a wide range of ground movements, such as deep or shallow failure slopes and rock falls. See figure 1.1. 1.1.1 Factors influence Landslides Landslides occur when the stability of the slope turns from the stable state to unstable state. Most of the Landslides usually cause depend on two main factors: (i) Natural Factors and (ii) Anthropogenic Factors. (USSG, 2004) (i) Natural Factors (a) Geological…