THE EVOLUTION OF A COPY PROGRAM BY PANKAJ KAMTHAN 1. INTRODUCTION This document tells a ‘story’ of the evolution of a program caused by the unforeseen changes in the requirements [Martin‚ 2002; Martin‚ Martin‚ 2006]. Let I be the set of input devices‚ O be the set of output devices‚ and let P be the program. Then the story is about the impact on the design of P due to variations in | I | and | O |‚ where | · | denotes the cardinality. The moral of the story is that‚ unless there is adequate
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The Needle Exchange Program The needle exchange program is very vital‚ and throughout this paper I will discuss the pros and cons about the program and I will discuss the reasons surrounding why the program was started. AIDS has been a growing epidemic through the 1990’s and it was estimated by the World Health Organization that the number of people infected with HIV or AIDS would reach thirty to forty million individuals by the year 2000 if nothing was done (Health and Disease). In Africa and
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frequently‚ people begin to have different perspectives on them. In her article “Trading Liberty for Illusions”‚ published in Free Inquiry‚ Wendy Kaminer discusses to the American citizens how their privacy and freedom has been invaded through the use of surveillance systems. In contrast‚ the article “If Looks Could Kill”‚ written by The Economist group asserts that monitoring actions can be a difficult and tedious work as a human‚ but at the same time advanced surveillance cameras have not been accurate
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Random-Walk Term Weighting for Improved Text Classification Samer Hassan and Rada Mihalcea and Carmen Banea Department of Computer Science University of North Texas samer@unt.edu‚ rada@cs.unt.edu‚ carmenb@unt.edu Abstract This paper describes a new approach for estimating term weights in a document‚ and shows how the new weighting scheme can be used to improve the accuracy of a text classifier. The method uses term co-occurrence as a measure of dependency between word features. A random-walk model
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whom they interact. High school students may think they have plenty of time to decide on their career paths and acquire the skills they will need to market themselves successfully. They may also believe that completing a college or job training program will guarantee them a job. This is not true in every situation. Students with disabilities face unique challenges as they transition to employment. Like other students‚ they need to find a way to meet the specific qualifications of a desired job
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Human Resource Management Total Compensation Program Total compensation program is the package awarded during the initial recruiting process or to employees annually. Total compensation includes‚ rewards such pay increases‚ benefits‚ and employees recognition. The components of a total compensation program consist of pay and benefits. A total compensation program is used for attracting and retaining employees‚ implementing the business strategy‚ and improving productivity. With attracting and
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A Critique of the DARE Program The DARE drug prevention program takes ranked officers into schools and has sessions with the kids or teens about drug prevention . DARE has been around since 1983 and started in Los Angeles (Lohman‚ 2010‚ par. 2). This program was designed at first to help students be aware of illegal drugs and to resist peer pressure. Now‚ DARE has expanded to not only its original purpose‚ but also to help awareness about abuse‚ online safety‚ and gangs (par. 2). DARE has since
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sexual abuse‚ and mental abuse are far too common in our world. Luckily there are programs designed to not only help the recovery for victims of these circumstances‚ but there are wonderful programs to attempt to prevent the actions from happening to begin with. La Frontera Arizona is an organization that has three smaller programs named Healthy Families‚ Pasos Adelantes‚ and Family Passages. The Healthy Families Program works with families who are at risk for child abuse and neglect‚ those suffering
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Michailidis Vasilis WP1111 Synthesis Final Instructor: Dr Kamatsos Efrosini Word Count: 1500 Date of Submission: 08/12/14 Energy Transition Could Be Faster (Renewable Forms of Energy are a Viable Solution for the Earth’s Energy Needs) World carbon emissions (CO2) have reached the safety limits that scientists have set. Science claims that by the end of the century the long term impacts in the surface of earth will have inevitable irreversible consequences (Hansen‚ 13). The most discussed
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A leisure education program will best suit the group goals and reinforce the AA 12 step program this mental health facility incorporates into their philosophy. The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 12 Step program “is concerned solely with the personal recovery and continued sobriety of individual alcoholics who turn to the Fellowship for help” (What is AA‚ 2016). From this philosophy‚ leisure education sessions with a CTRS will play a very important role in personal recovery and sobriety. “Recreational
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