System ImplementationGantt Chart0Going Live (Software Installation)Freight Shipping Company LimitedToday's Date:11/5/14Wednesday(vertical red line)Project Lead:[42]Start Date:9/1/14Monday[42]First Day of Week (Mon=2):29/1/149/2/149/3/149/4/149/5/149/6/149/7/149/8/149/9/149/10/149/11/149/12/149/13/149/14/149/15/149/16/149/17/149/18/149/19/149/20/149/21/149/22/149/23/149/24/149/25/149/26/149/27/149/28/149/29/149/30/1410/1/1410/2/1410/3/1410/4/1410/5/1410/6/1410/7/1410/8/1410/9/1410/10/1410/11/1410/12/1410/13/1410/14/1410/15/1410/16/1410/17/1410/18/1410/19/1410/20/1410/21/1410/22/1410/23/1410/24/1410/25/1410/26/1410/27/1410/28/1410/29/1410/30/1410/31/1411/1/1411/2/1411/3/1411/4/1411/5/1411/6/1411/7/1411/8/1411/9/1411/10/1411/11/1411/12/1411/13/1411/14/1411/15/1411/16/1411/17/1411/18/1411/19/1411/20/1411/21/1411/22/1411/23/1411/24/1411/25/1411/26/1411/27/1411/28/1411/29/1411/30/1412/1/1412/2/1412/3/1412/4/1412/5/1412/6/1412/7/1412/8/1412/9/1412/10/1412/11/1412/12/1412/13/1412/14/1412/15/1412/16/1412/17/1412/18/1412/19/1412/20/1412/21/1412/22/1412/23/1412/24/1412/25/1412/26/1412/27/1412/28/1412/29/1412/30/1412/31/141/1/151/2/151/3/151/4/151/5/151/6/151/7/151/8/151/9/151/10/151/11/151/12/151/13/151/14/151/15/151/16/151/17/151/18/151/19/151/20/151/21/151/22/151/23/151/24/151/25/151/26/151/27/151/28/151/29/151/30/151/31/152/1/152/2/152/3/152/4/152/5/152/6/152/7/152/8/152/9/152/10/152/11/152/12/152/13/152/14/152/15/152/16/152/17/152/18/152/19/152/20/152/21/152/22/152/23/152/24/152/25/152/26/152/27/152/28/153/1/153/2/153/3/153/4/153/5/153/6/153/7/153/8/153/9/153/10/153/11/153/12/153/13/153/14/153/15/153/16/153/17/153/18/153/19/153/20/153/21/153/22/153/23/153/24/153/25/153/26/153/27/153/28/153/29/153/30/153/31/154/1/154/2/154/3/154/4/154/5/154/6/154/7/154/8/154/9/154/10/154/11/154/12/154/13/154/14/154/15/154/16/154/17/154/18/154/19/154/20/154/21/154/22/154/23/154/24/154/25/154/26/15WBS
Jon: Work Breakdown Structure
Level 1: 1, 2, 3, ...
Level 2: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, ...
Level 3: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, …
The WBS is automatically entered, but the formulas are different for different levels.TasksSoftware SelectionStart
Jon: Start Date
Enter the starting date for this task. To associate the start date with the end of another task, enter a formula in the start date that refers to the end date of that task.End
Jon: End Date
The ending date is calculated by adding the Duration (calendar days) to the Start date minus 1 day, because the task duration is from the beginning of the Start day to the end of the End day.
Duration (Days)
Jon: Duration (Calendar Days)
Enter the number of calendar days for the given task. Refer to the Working Days column or use a calendar to determine the corresponding working days. The duration is from the beginning of the Start date to the ending of the End Date.
When the duration is calculated, it is calculated as End Date minus the Start Date plus 1 day, so that a task starting and ending on the same day has a duration of 1 day.% Comple ...
Sheet1[Project Name]0Gantt ChartSecurity Network UpgradeTeam BToday's Date:9/5/16Monday(vertical red line)
Jon: Work Breakdown Structure
Level 1: 1, 2, 3, ...
Level 2: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, ...
Level 3: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, …
The WBS is automatically entered, but the formulas are different for different levels.Project Lead:Team B
Jon: Duration (Calendar Days)
Enter the number of calendar days for the given task. Refer to the Working Days column or use a calendar to determine the corresponding working days. The duration is from the beginning of the Start date to the ending of the End Date.
When the duration is calculated, it is calculated as End Date minus the Start Date plus 1 day, so that a task starting and ending on the same day has a duration of 1 day.
Jon: Percent Complete
Update the status of this task by entering the percent complete (between 0% and 100%).
Jon: Working Days
Counts the number of working days using the NETWORKDAYS() formula, which excludes weekends. When planning work based upon the number of working days, adjust the Duration until the desired # of working days is reached.
Jon: Calendar Days Complete
This column is calculated by multiplying the Duration by the %Complete and rounding down to the nearest integer.
Jon: Calendar Days Remaining
This column is calculated by subtracting the Days Complete from the Duration.Start Date:9/5/16Monday[42]First Day of Week (Mon=2):212/29/1412/30/1412/31/141/1/151/2/151/3/151/4/151/5/151/6/151/7/151/8/151/9/151/10/151/11/151/12/151/13/151/14/151/15/151/16/151/17/151/18/151/19/151/20/151/21/151/22/151/23/151/24/151/25/151/26/151/27/151/28/151/29/151/30/151/31/152/1/152/2/152/3/152/4/152/5/152/6/152/7/152/8/152/9/152/10/152/11/152/12/152/13/152/14/152/15/152/16/152/17/152/18/152/19/152/20/152/21/152/22/152/23/152/24/152/25/152/26/152/27/152/28/153/1/153/2/153/3/153/4/153/5/153/6/153/7/153/8/153/9/153/10/153/11/153/12/153/13/153/14/153/15/153/16/153/17/153/18/153/19/153/20/153/21/153/22/153/23/153/24/153/25/153/26/153/27/153/28/153/29/153/30/153/31/154/1/154/2/154/3/154/4/154/5/154/6/154/7/154/8/154/9/154/10/154/11/154/12/154/13/154/14/154/15/154/16/154/17/154/18/154/19/154/20/154/21/154/22/154/23/154/24/154/25/154/26/154/27/154/28/154/29/154/30/155/1/155/2/155/3/155/4/155/5/155/6/155/7/155/8/155/9/155/10/155/11/155/12/155/13/155/14/155/15/155/16/155/17/155/18/155/19/155/20/155/21/155/22/155/23/155/24/155/25/155/26/155/27/155/28/155/29/155/30/155/31/156/1/156/2/156/3/156/4/156/5/156/6/156/7/156/8/156/9/156/10/156/11/156/12/156/13/156/14/156/15/156/16/156/17/156/18/156/19/156/20/156/21/156/22/156/23/156/24/156/25/156/26/156/27/156/28/156/29/156/30/157/1/157/2/157/3/157/4/157/5/157/6/157/7/157/8/157/9/157/10/157/11/157/12/157/13/157/14/157/15/157/16/157/17/157/18/157/19/157/20/157/21/157/22/157/23/157/24/157/25/157/26/157/27/157/28/157/29/157/30/157/31/158/1/158/2/158/3/158/4/158/5/158/6/158/7/158/8/158/9/158/10/158/11/158/12/158/13/158/14/158/15/158/16/158/17/158/18/158/19/158/20/158/21/15.
DescriptionThe Aires Corporation is highly desirous of implementi.docxcarolinef5
Description
The Aires Corporation is highly desirous of implementing a new time tracking system to help automate their project control system, accounting and account receivables. The time tracking system is designed to allow employees and subcontractors to charge hours against project control accounts and to help prevent mischarging. The system is called Chronos and it is written in a modern database management system, which is the preferred database platform by Aires. The project is to integrate the time card system to project management, accounting and accounts receivable/payables. The Director of Information Technology (IT) has assigned an integration project to you as project manager; in addition, the director assigned a senior systems engineer to be the project's technical lead.
The Software Engineer has a team of five (5) developers that will work on the project; the Director has asked for a project management plan to be briefed to the IT senior leadership team, which is in a few days. Your mission is to construct a Microsoft Project proposal to help prepare for the briefing. You are also to construct a quick Total Project Cost (TPC) cross reference work sheet to verify the accuracy of the MS Project effort.
Organizing
As project manager, you meet with your development team and determine that the interface will be composed of input screens, interface processes, and verification reports for the integration of the time tracking system to the other legacy financial systems. The Developers have indicated that they would like to receive training on the Chronos system to help them with the database structures to facilitate the integration. The training would have to occur before any other activity could evolve. The team is highly adept to the other systems being used and the integration risk is mainly centered on Chronos Time Tracking system since it is new to the organization. The team has decided that the plan should be oriented on Design, Programming, Quality Assurance, Rework, Documentation, User Training, and Production. Lastly, the team recommended support from the Chronos vendor to address technical questions they might have during development of the interface. As project manager, you note that there are special stakeholders and decide to involve support from Finance and Project Management to address process and procedure questions that might arise during the design, development and testing of the interface. The outcome of the planning meeting with the entire project team is represented in the list under scope and schedule.
Scope and Schedule
The following preliminary WBS was developed as a result of your meeting:
WBS Description Scope Units Duration Relationships
1. Chronos Interface 1 Interface Summary
1.1. Design 1 Spec Summary
1.1.1. Screens 5 Screens 8 1.1.1->1.1.3
1.1.2. Interfaces 3 Process Algorithms 10 1.1.2->1.1.3
1.1.3. Reports 6 Reports 5 1.1.3->1.1.4, 1.1.3->1.1.7
1.1.4. Eng.
DescriptionThe Aires Corporation is highly desirous of implementi.docxdonaldp2
Description
The Aires Corporation is highly desirous of implementing a new time tracking system to help automate their project control system, accounting and account receivables. The time tracking system is designed to allow employees and subcontractors to charge hours against project control accounts and to help prevent mischarging. The system is called Chronos and it is written in a modern database management system, which is the preferred database platform by Aires. The project is to integrate the time card system to project management, accounting and accounts receivable/payables. The Director of Information Technology (IT) has assigned an integration project to you as project manager; in addition, the director assigned a senior systems engineer to be the project's technical lead.
The Software Engineer has a team of five (5) developers that will work on the project; the Director has asked for a project management plan to be briefed to the IT senior leadership team, which is in a few days. Your mission is to construct a Microsoft Project proposal to help prepare for the briefing. You are also to construct a quick Total Project Cost (TPC) cross reference work sheet to verify the accuracy of the MS Project effort.
Organizing
As project manager, you meet with your development team and determine that the interface will be composed of input screens, interface processes, and verification reports for the integration of the time tracking system to the other legacy financial systems. The Developers have indicated that they would like to receive training on the Chronos system to help them with the database structures to facilitate the integration. The training would have to occur before any other activity could evolve. The team is highly adept to the other systems being used and the integration risk is mainly centered on Chronos Time Tracking system since it is new to the organization. The team has decided that the plan should be oriented on Design, Programming, Quality Assurance, Rework, Documentation, User Training, and Production. Lastly, the team recommended support from the Chronos vendor to address technical questions they might have during development of the interface. As project manager, you note that there are special stakeholders and decide to involve support from Finance and Project Management to address process and procedure questions that might arise during the design, development and testing of the interface. The outcome of the planning meeting with the entire project team is represented in the list under scope and schedule.
Scope and Schedule
The following preliminary WBS was developed as a result of your meeting:
WBS Description Scope Units Duration Relationships
1. Chronos Interface 1 Interface Summary
1.1. Design 1 Spec Summary
1.1.1. Screens 5 Screens 8 1.1.1->1.1.3
1.1.2. Interfaces 3 Process Algorithms 10 1.1.2->1.1.3
1.1.3. Reports 6 Reports 5 1.1.3->1.1.4, 1.1.3->1.1.7
1.1.4. Eng.
Automatically draws roads between selected
points.
Merge Shapes: Merges two or more selected shapes into
a single shape.
Split Shape: Splits a selected shape into two separate
shapes at the selected point.
Delete Shape: Deletes the selected shape from the Road
Network.
Road networks can be drawn using the above tools and
then assign the segment codes to each road segment.
Haulage Road Networks
Once the road network is drawn, you need to assign the segment codes to each road segment.
This is done by selecting the road segment and assigning the segment code from the drop down.
The segment codes are defined in the initial setup.
You can also modify the
This webinar presentation discusses gaining control over the application release process. Currently, release information is scattered across many systems, resulting in unpredictable releases prone to errors. The presentation recommends using XL Release software to plan, track, and execute standardized release plans. Key benefits include making releases more predictable by reducing manual work, errors, and downtime through increased collaboration and automation across teams. Automating tasks through a centralized system provides visibility and oversight to proactively manage dependencies and resources.
The document proposes a task management module with the following key elements:
1) It describes the user security structure with administrator, super users, and normal users and how users can be grouped.
2) It outlines the basic case/task workflow where the administrator creates cases that HODs assign to staff for processing through various stages.
3) It provides an overview of the main components of the module including services, stages, timelines, and reporting capabilities.
Sheet1[Project Name]0Gantt ChartSecurity Network UpgradeTeam BToday's Date:9/5/16Monday(vertical red line)
Jon: Work Breakdown Structure
Level 1: 1, 2, 3, ...
Level 2: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, ...
Level 3: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, …
The WBS is automatically entered, but the formulas are different for different levels.Project Lead:Team B
Jon: Duration (Calendar Days)
Enter the number of calendar days for the given task. Refer to the Working Days column or use a calendar to determine the corresponding working days. The duration is from the beginning of the Start date to the ending of the End Date.
When the duration is calculated, it is calculated as End Date minus the Start Date plus 1 day, so that a task starting and ending on the same day has a duration of 1 day.
Jon: Percent Complete
Update the status of this task by entering the percent complete (between 0% and 100%).
Jon: Working Days
Counts the number of working days using the NETWORKDAYS() formula, which excludes weekends. When planning work based upon the number of working days, adjust the Duration until the desired # of working days is reached.
Jon: Calendar Days Complete
This column is calculated by multiplying the Duration by the %Complete and rounding down to the nearest integer.
Jon: Calendar Days Remaining
This column is calculated by subtracting the Days Complete from the Duration.Start Date:9/5/16Monday[42]First Day of Week (Mon=2):212/29/1412/30/1412/31/141/1/151/2/151/3/151/4/151/5/151/6/151/7/151/8/151/9/151/10/151/11/151/12/151/13/151/14/151/15/151/16/151/17/151/18/151/19/151/20/151/21/151/22/151/23/151/24/151/25/151/26/151/27/151/28/151/29/151/30/151/31/152/1/152/2/152/3/152/4/152/5/152/6/152/7/152/8/152/9/152/10/152/11/152/12/152/13/152/14/152/15/152/16/152/17/152/18/152/19/152/20/152/21/152/22/152/23/152/24/152/25/152/26/152/27/152/28/153/1/153/2/153/3/153/4/153/5/153/6/153/7/153/8/153/9/153/10/153/11/153/12/153/13/153/14/153/15/153/16/153/17/153/18/153/19/153/20/153/21/153/22/153/23/153/24/153/25/153/26/153/27/153/28/153/29/153/30/153/31/154/1/154/2/154/3/154/4/154/5/154/6/154/7/154/8/154/9/154/10/154/11/154/12/154/13/154/14/154/15/154/16/154/17/154/18/154/19/154/20/154/21/154/22/154/23/154/24/154/25/154/26/154/27/154/28/154/29/154/30/155/1/155/2/155/3/155/4/155/5/155/6/155/7/155/8/155/9/155/10/155/11/155/12/155/13/155/14/155/15/155/16/155/17/155/18/155/19/155/20/155/21/155/22/155/23/155/24/155/25/155/26/155/27/155/28/155/29/155/30/155/31/156/1/156/2/156/3/156/4/156/5/156/6/156/7/156/8/156/9/156/10/156/11/156/12/156/13/156/14/156/15/156/16/156/17/156/18/156/19/156/20/156/21/156/22/156/23/156/24/156/25/156/26/156/27/156/28/156/29/156/30/157/1/157/2/157/3/157/4/157/5/157/6/157/7/157/8/157/9/157/10/157/11/157/12/157/13/157/14/157/15/157/16/157/17/157/18/157/19/157/20/157/21/157/22/157/23/157/24/157/25/157/26/157/27/157/28/157/29/157/30/157/31/158/1/158/2/158/3/158/4/158/5/158/6/158/7/158/8/158/9/158/10/158/11/158/12/158/13/158/14/158/15/158/16/158/17/158/18/158/19/158/20/158/21/15.
DescriptionThe Aires Corporation is highly desirous of implementi.docxcarolinef5
Description
The Aires Corporation is highly desirous of implementing a new time tracking system to help automate their project control system, accounting and account receivables. The time tracking system is designed to allow employees and subcontractors to charge hours against project control accounts and to help prevent mischarging. The system is called Chronos and it is written in a modern database management system, which is the preferred database platform by Aires. The project is to integrate the time card system to project management, accounting and accounts receivable/payables. The Director of Information Technology (IT) has assigned an integration project to you as project manager; in addition, the director assigned a senior systems engineer to be the project's technical lead.
The Software Engineer has a team of five (5) developers that will work on the project; the Director has asked for a project management plan to be briefed to the IT senior leadership team, which is in a few days. Your mission is to construct a Microsoft Project proposal to help prepare for the briefing. You are also to construct a quick Total Project Cost (TPC) cross reference work sheet to verify the accuracy of the MS Project effort.
Organizing
As project manager, you meet with your development team and determine that the interface will be composed of input screens, interface processes, and verification reports for the integration of the time tracking system to the other legacy financial systems. The Developers have indicated that they would like to receive training on the Chronos system to help them with the database structures to facilitate the integration. The training would have to occur before any other activity could evolve. The team is highly adept to the other systems being used and the integration risk is mainly centered on Chronos Time Tracking system since it is new to the organization. The team has decided that the plan should be oriented on Design, Programming, Quality Assurance, Rework, Documentation, User Training, and Production. Lastly, the team recommended support from the Chronos vendor to address technical questions they might have during development of the interface. As project manager, you note that there are special stakeholders and decide to involve support from Finance and Project Management to address process and procedure questions that might arise during the design, development and testing of the interface. The outcome of the planning meeting with the entire project team is represented in the list under scope and schedule.
Scope and Schedule
The following preliminary WBS was developed as a result of your meeting:
WBS Description Scope Units Duration Relationships
1. Chronos Interface 1 Interface Summary
1.1. Design 1 Spec Summary
1.1.1. Screens 5 Screens 8 1.1.1->1.1.3
1.1.2. Interfaces 3 Process Algorithms 10 1.1.2->1.1.3
1.1.3. Reports 6 Reports 5 1.1.3->1.1.4, 1.1.3->1.1.7
1.1.4. Eng.
DescriptionThe Aires Corporation is highly desirous of implementi.docxdonaldp2
Description
The Aires Corporation is highly desirous of implementing a new time tracking system to help automate their project control system, accounting and account receivables. The time tracking system is designed to allow employees and subcontractors to charge hours against project control accounts and to help prevent mischarging. The system is called Chronos and it is written in a modern database management system, which is the preferred database platform by Aires. The project is to integrate the time card system to project management, accounting and accounts receivable/payables. The Director of Information Technology (IT) has assigned an integration project to you as project manager; in addition, the director assigned a senior systems engineer to be the project's technical lead.
The Software Engineer has a team of five (5) developers that will work on the project; the Director has asked for a project management plan to be briefed to the IT senior leadership team, which is in a few days. Your mission is to construct a Microsoft Project proposal to help prepare for the briefing. You are also to construct a quick Total Project Cost (TPC) cross reference work sheet to verify the accuracy of the MS Project effort.
Organizing
As project manager, you meet with your development team and determine that the interface will be composed of input screens, interface processes, and verification reports for the integration of the time tracking system to the other legacy financial systems. The Developers have indicated that they would like to receive training on the Chronos system to help them with the database structures to facilitate the integration. The training would have to occur before any other activity could evolve. The team is highly adept to the other systems being used and the integration risk is mainly centered on Chronos Time Tracking system since it is new to the organization. The team has decided that the plan should be oriented on Design, Programming, Quality Assurance, Rework, Documentation, User Training, and Production. Lastly, the team recommended support from the Chronos vendor to address technical questions they might have during development of the interface. As project manager, you note that there are special stakeholders and decide to involve support from Finance and Project Management to address process and procedure questions that might arise during the design, development and testing of the interface. The outcome of the planning meeting with the entire project team is represented in the list under scope and schedule.
Scope and Schedule
The following preliminary WBS was developed as a result of your meeting:
WBS Description Scope Units Duration Relationships
1. Chronos Interface 1 Interface Summary
1.1. Design 1 Spec Summary
1.1.1. Screens 5 Screens 8 1.1.1->1.1.3
1.1.2. Interfaces 3 Process Algorithms 10 1.1.2->1.1.3
1.1.3. Reports 6 Reports 5 1.1.3->1.1.4, 1.1.3->1.1.7
1.1.4. Eng.
Automatically draws roads between selected
points.
Merge Shapes: Merges two or more selected shapes into
a single shape.
Split Shape: Splits a selected shape into two separate
shapes at the selected point.
Delete Shape: Deletes the selected shape from the Road
Network.
Road networks can be drawn using the above tools and
then assign the segment codes to each road segment.
Haulage Road Networks
Once the road network is drawn, you need to assign the segment codes to each road segment.
This is done by selecting the road segment and assigning the segment code from the drop down.
The segment codes are defined in the initial setup.
You can also modify the
This webinar presentation discusses gaining control over the application release process. Currently, release information is scattered across many systems, resulting in unpredictable releases prone to errors. The presentation recommends using XL Release software to plan, track, and execute standardized release plans. Key benefits include making releases more predictable by reducing manual work, errors, and downtime through increased collaboration and automation across teams. Automating tasks through a centralized system provides visibility and oversight to proactively manage dependencies and resources.
The document proposes a task management module with the following key elements:
1) It describes the user security structure with administrator, super users, and normal users and how users can be grouped.
2) It outlines the basic case/task workflow where the administrator creates cases that HODs assign to staff for processing through various stages.
3) It provides an overview of the main components of the module including services, stages, timelines, and reporting capabilities.
Program 2 requires students to write a program that counts the size of Program 1 in lines of code (LOC) or an alternative measure. The summary must provide:
1) A single count for the entire program size of Program 1.
2) Size and item counts for each part (e.g. class, function) of Program 1 along with the part name.
3) Test the counting program by using it to count Programs 1 and 2.
The document provides instructions, templates, and evaluation criteria for students to plan, develop, test, and review their Program 2 counting application according to the Personal Software Process.
1
CMIS 102 Hands-On Lab
Week 8
Overview
This hands-on lab allows you to follow and experiment with the critical steps of developing a program
including the program description, analysis, test plan, and implementation with C code. The example
provided uses sequential, repetition, selection statements, functions, strings and arrays.
Program Description
This program will input and store meteorological data into an array. The program will prompt the user to
enter the average monthly rainfall for a specific region and then use a loop to cycle through the array
and print out each value. The program should store up 5 years of meteorological data. Data is collected
once per month. The program should provide the option to the user of not entering any data.
Analysis
I will use sequential, selection, and repetition programming statements and an array to store data.
I will define a 2-D array of Float number: Raindata[][] to store the Float values input by the user. To store
up to 5 years of monthly data, the array size should be at least 5*12 = 60 elements. In a 2D array this will
be RainData[5][12]. We can use #defines to set the number of years and months to eliminate hard-
coding values.
A float number (rain) will also be needed to input the individual rain data.
A nested for loop can be used to iterate through the array to enter Raindata. A nested for loop can also
be used to print the data in the array.
A array of strings can be used to store year and month names. This will allow a tabular display with
labels for the printout.
Functions will be used to separate functionality into smaller work units. Functions for displaying the data
and inputting the data will be used.
A selection statement will be used to determine if data should be entered.
Test Plan
To verify this program is working properly the input values could be used for testing:
Test Case Input Expected Output
1 Enter data? = y
1.2
2.2
3.3
2.2
10.2
12.2
2.3
0.4
0.2
1.1
2.1
year month rain
2011 Jan 1.20
2011 Feb 2.20
2011 Mar 3.30
2011 Apr 2.20
2011 May 10.20
2011 Jun 12.20
2011 Jul 2.30
2011 Aug 0.40
2011 Sep 0.20
2011 Oct 1.10
2011 Nov 2.10
2011 Dec 0.40
2
0.4
1.1
2.2
3.3
2.2
10.2
12.2
2.3
0.4
0.2
1.1
2.1
0.4
1.1
2.2
3.3
2.2
10.2
12.2
2.3
0.4
0.2
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Risk Factor
(and Reason for
Significance)
Metrics
(and How Collected)
Risk Reduction/
Prevention Plan
Contingency
Plan
Entrance
Criteria
1. Requirements
stability.
(More people and
organizations (e.g.,
Navy, NATO) involved
means more time, more
requirements, and
requirements. instability
which leads to
cost/schedule slippage)
Track number of
requirements: original,
new, changed, deleted
(Count new, changed, and
deleted requirements every
month vs. previous month
by automated tool which
reads requirements
database)
Report requirements
stability with
written estimated
impact assessment
to all parties every
month and baseline
(freeze)
requirements at
planned time in
schedule
Reduce
functionality to
meet cost and
schedule or
increase funds and
schedule to
include
new/changed
requirements
If number of
changed req.
and number of
new
requirements
per month
exceeds 4
2: New Technology
(Learning curves for
OOD design techniques
and Ada language by the
development team will
take time; compiler
maturity for target
hardware (PCs) is low)
Count staff members
qualified in each discipline
(When staff member gets
minimum score on
OOD/Ada test or meets
other objective criteria)
1) Provide technical
training in OOD and
Ada;
2) Use and enforce
design and coding
standards
Employ OOD/Ada
expert
consultant(s) to
assist development
If the design or
coding
milestones fall
behind
schedule by
more than
15%
3: Reliability of
support organizations.
(Non-delivery of
required hardware and/or
materials will directly
impact on our ability to
deliver the complete system)
Production, installation,
and test milestones of each
required outside element
(Milestone progress
reports from all critical
suppliers and vendors)
Provide a bonus
structure to each
vendor and supplier
that is delivering a
required item for
delivering on time
Identify alternative
vendors and
suppliers and
purchase spares as
backup
Delta time
threshold over
2 weeks past
scheduled
delivery date
4: Overall system
testability.
(No test facility exists
that matches the real
system from beginning
to end as it exists in the
field.)
Percentage of Interfaces
tested and verified as
correct (Overall system
interface requirements
tracked through bi-weekly
status reports until
complete)
Develop a simulator
and test environment
that replicates as
nearly as possible
the whole system,
especially the
interfaces
Move testing to
field sites
If any required
interfaces
cannot be
tested in a
simulator
environment
by their
milestone due date
Risk Factor
(and Reason for
Significance)
Metrics
(and How Collected)
Risk Reduction/
Prevention Plan
Contingency
Plan
Entrance
Criteria
1. Requirements
stability.
(More people and
organizations (e.g.,
Navy, NATO) involved
means more time, more
requirements, and
requirements. instability
which leads to
cos.
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ERP is an effectively coordinated information technology system that would ensure the company’s performance is enhanced. To understand how the implementation of a coordinated IT system offers a competitive advantage of a firm, it is essential to acknowledge three core reasons for the failure of information technology related projects as commonly cited by IT managers. In this case, IT managers cite the three reasons as; poor planning or management, change in business objectives and goals during the implementation process of a project, and lack of proper management support completion (Houston, 2011). Also, in the majority of completed projects, technology is usually deployed in a vacuum; hence users resist it. The implementation of coordinated information technology systems, such as ERP would provide an ultimate solution to the three reasons for failure, and thus would give Telecomms Ltd a competitive advantage in the already competitive market. Since the implementation of systems like ERP directly provides solution to common problems that act as drawbacks regarding the competitiveness of firm, it is, therefore, evident that its use place Telecomms Ltd above its rival companies in the market share (Wallace & Kremzar, 2001).
The use ERP, which is a reliable coordinated IT system entails three distinctive implementation strategies that a firm can choose depending on its specific needs. The changes in the projects would be as follows: The three implementation strategies are independently capable of providing a relatively competitive advantage for many companies. These strategies are: big bang, phased rollout, and parallel adoption. In the big bang implementation strategy, happens in a single instance, whereby all the users are moved to a new system on a designated (Wallace & Kremzar, 2001). The phased rollout implementation on the other hand usually involves a changeover in several phases, and it is executed in an extended period. In this case, the users move onto the new system in a series of steps (Houston, 2011). Lastly, the parallel adoption implementation strategy allows both legacy and the new ERP system to run at the same time. It is also essential to note that users in this strategy get to learn the new system while still working on the old system (Wallace & Kremzar, 2001). The three strategies effectively change the information system of Telecomms Ltd tremendously such that it positiv ...
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The Catholic University of America
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
Course Syllabus
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
MBU 514 and MBU 315 Leadership Foundations
Fall 2015
Credits: 3
Classroom: Online
Dates: August 31, 2015 to December 14, 2015
Instructor:
Dr. Jacquie Hamp
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @drjacquie
Telephone: 202 215 8117 cell
Office Hours: By Appointment
Dr. Jacquie Hamp is an educator, coach and consultant with particular expertise in leadership development, organizational development and human resources development strategy. From 2006 to 2015 she held the position as the Senior Director of Leadership Development for Goodwill Industries International in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Hamp was responsible for the design and execution of leadership development programs and activities for all levels of the 4 billion dollar social enterprise network of Goodwill Industries across 165 independent local agencies. Jacquie is also a part time Associate Professor at George Washington University teaching at the graduate level and she is an adjunct professor at Catholic University of America, teaching leadership theory in the Masters Program.
Jacquie has a Master of Science degree in Human Resources Development Administration from Barry University. She holds a Doctor of Education degree in Human and Organizational Learning from the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. Jacquie has received a certificate in Executive Coaching from Georgetown University, a certificate in the Practice of Teaching Leadership from Harvard University and holds the national certification of Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).
Jacquie has been invited to speak at conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom on the topic of how women learn through transformative experiences and techniques for effective leadership development in the social enterprise sector. She is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the International Leadership Association (ILA). In 2011 Dr. Hamp was awarded the Strategic Alignment Award by the Human Resources Leadership Association of Washington DC for her work in the redesign of the Goodwill Industries International leadership programs in order to meet the strategic goals of the organization.
Course Description: Surveys, compares, and contrasts contemporary theories of leadership, providing students the opportunity to assess their own leadership competencies and how they fit in with models of leadership. Students also discuss current literature, media coverage, and case studies on leadership issues.
Instructional Methods This course is based on the following adult learning concepts:
1. Learning is done by the learners, who are encouraged to achieve the overall course objectives through individual learning styles that meet their personal learning needs. ...
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The changes required in the IT project plan for Telecomm Ltd would entail specific variation in the platforms used in the initial implementation plan. Initially, the three projects that were planned for implementation included; the installation of business intelligence platform, the implementation of Statistical Analysis System software technology, and the creation of an effectively network infrastructure. In this case, the changes would include an addition of an ERP software to ensure the performance of the workforce within the Telecomms Ltd employees.
ERP is an effectively coordinated information technology system that would ensure the company’s performance is enhanced. To understand how the implementation of a coordinated IT system offers a competitive advantage of a firm, it is essential to acknowledge three core reasons for the failure of information technology related projects as commonly cited by IT managers. In this case, IT managers cite the three reasons as; poor planning or management, change in business objectives and goals during the implementation process of a project, and lack of proper management support completion (Houston, 2011). Also, in the majority of completed projects, technology is usually deployed in a vacuum; hence users resist it. The implementation of coordinated information technology systems, such as ERP would provide an ultimate solution to the three reasons for failure, and thus would give Telecomms Ltd a competitive advantage in the already competitive market. Since the implementation of systems like ERP directly provides solution to common problems that act as drawbacks regarding the competitiveness of firm, it is, therefore, evident that its use place Telecomms Ltd above its rival companies in the market share (Wallace & Kremzar, 2001).
The use ERP, which is a reliable coordinated IT system entails three distinctive implementation strategies that a firm can choose depending on its specific needs. The changes in the projects would be as follows: The three implementation strategies are independently capable of providing a relatively competitive advantage for many companies. These strategies are: big bang, phased rollout, and parallel adoption. In the big bang implementation strategy, happens in a single instance, whereby all the users are moved to a new system on a designated (Wallace & Kremzar, 2001). The phased rollout implementation on the other hand usually involves a changeover in several phases, and it is executed in an extended period. In this case, the users move onto the new system in a series of steps (Houston, 2011). Lastly, the parallel adoption implementation strategy allows both legacy and the new ERP system to run at the same time. It is also essential to note that users in this strategy get to learn the new system while still working on the old system (Wallace & Kremzar, 2001). The three strategies effectively change the information system of Telecomms Ltd tremendously such that it positiv ...
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The Catholic University of America
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
Course Syllabus
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
MBU 514 and MBU 315 Leadership Foundations
Fall 2015
Credits: 3
Classroom: Online
Dates: August 31, 2015 to December 14, 2015
Instructor:
Dr. Jacquie Hamp
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @drjacquie
Telephone: 202 215 8117 cell
Office Hours: By Appointment
Dr. Jacquie Hamp is an educator, coach and consultant with particular expertise in leadership development, organizational development and human resources development strategy. From 2006 to 2015 she held the position as the Senior Director of Leadership Development for Goodwill Industries International in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Hamp was responsible for the design and execution of leadership development programs and activities for all levels of the 4 billion dollar social enterprise network of Goodwill Industries across 165 independent local agencies. Jacquie is also a part time Associate Professor at George Washington University teaching at the graduate level and she is an adjunct professor at Catholic University of America, teaching leadership theory in the Masters Program.
Jacquie has a Master of Science degree in Human Resources Development Administration from Barry University. She holds a Doctor of Education degree in Human and Organizational Learning from the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. Jacquie has received a certificate in Executive Coaching from Georgetown University, a certificate in the Practice of Teaching Leadership from Harvard University and holds the national certification of Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).
Jacquie has been invited to speak at conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom on the topic of how women learn through transformative experiences and techniques for effective leadership development in the social enterprise sector. She is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the International Leadership Association (ILA). In 2011 Dr. Hamp was awarded the Strategic Alignment Award by the Human Resources Leadership Association of Washington DC for her work in the redesign of the Goodwill Industries International leadership programs in order to meet the strategic goals of the organization.
Course Description: Surveys, compares, and contrasts contemporary theories of leadership, providing students the opportunity to assess their own leadership competencies and how they fit in with models of leadership. Students also discuss current literature, media coverage, and case studies on leadership issues.
Instructional Methods This course is based on the following adult learning concepts:
1. Learning is done by the learners, who are encouraged to achieve the overall course objectives through individual learning styles that meet their personal learning needs. ...
The Case of Frank and Judy. During the past few years Frank an.docxmattinsonjanel
The Case of Frank and Judy.
During the past few years Frank and Judy have experienced many conflicts in their marriage. Although they have made attempts to resolve their problems by themselves, they have finally decided to seek the help of a professional marriage counselor. Even though they have been thinking about divorce with increasing frequency, they still have some hope that they can achieve a satisfactory marriage.
Three couples counselors, each holding a different set of values pertaining to marriage and the family, describe their approach to working with Frank and Judy. As you read these responses, think about the degree to which each represents what you might say and do if you were counseling this couple.
· Counselor A. This counselor believes it is not her place to bring her values pertaining to the family into the sessions. She is fully aware of her biases regarding marriage and divorce, but she does not impose them or expose them in all cases. Her primary interest is to help Frank and Judy discover what is best for them as individuals 459460and as a couple. She sees it as unethical to push her clients toward a definite course of action, and she lets them know that her job is to help them be honest with themselves.
·
· What are your reactions to this counselor's approach?
· ▪ What values of yours could interfere with your work with Frank and Judy?
Counselor B. This counselor has been married three times herself. Although she believes in marriage, she is quick to maintain that far too many couples stay in their marriages and suffer unnecessarily. She explores with Judy and Frank the conflicts that they bring to the sessions. The counselor's interventions are leading them in the direction of divorce as the desired course of action, especially after they express this as an option. She suggests a trial separation and states her willingness to counsel them individually, with some joint sessions. When Frank brings up his guilt and reluctance to divorce because of the welfare of the children, the counselor confronts him with the harm that is being done to them by a destructive marriage. She tells him that it is too much of a burden to put on the children to keep the family together.
· ▪ What, if any, ethical issues do you see in this case? Is this counselor exposing or imposing her values?
· ▪ Do you think this person should be a marriage counselor, given her bias?
· ▪ What interventions made by the counselor do you agree with? What are your areas of disagreement?
Counselor C. At the first session this counselor states his belief in the preservation of marriage and the family. He believes that many couples give up too soon in the face of difficulty. He says that most couples have unrealistically high expectations of what constitutes a “happy marriage.” The counselor lets it be known that his experience continues to teach him that divorce rarely solves any problems but instead creates new problems that are often worse. The counsel ...
The Case of MikeChapter 5 • Common Theoretical Counseling Perspe.docxmattinsonjanel
The Case of Mike
Chapter 5 • Common Theoretical Counseling Perspectives 135
Mike is a 20-year-old male who has just recently been released from jail. Mike is technically on probation for car theft, though he has been involved in crime to a much greater extent. Mike has been identified as a cocaine user and has been suspected, though not convicted, for dealing cocaine. Mike has been tested for drugs by his probation department and was found positive for cocaine. The county has mandated that Mike receive drug counseling but the drug counselor has referred Mike to your office because the drug counselor suspects that Mike has issues beyond simple drug addiction. In fact, the drug counselor’s notes suggest that Mike has Narcissistic personality disorder. Mike seems to have little regard for the feelings of others. Coupled with this is his complete sensitivity to the comments of others. In fact, his prior fiancé has broken off her relationship with him due to what she calls his “constant need for admiration and attention. He is completely self-centered.” After talking with Mike, you quickly find that he has no close friends. As he talks about people who have been close to him, he discounts them for one imperfection or another. These imperfections are all considered severe enough to warrant dismissing the person entirely. Mike makes a point of noting how many have betrayed their loyalty to him or have otherwise failed to give him the credit that he deserves. When asked about getting caught in the auto theft, he remarks that “well my dumb partner got me out of a hot situation by driving me out in a stolen get-a-way car.” (Word on the street has it that Mike was involved in a sour drug deal and was unlikely to have made it out alive if not for his partner.) Mike adds, “you know, I plan everything out perfectly, but you just cannot rely on anybody . . . if you want it done right, do it yourself.” Mike recently has been involved with another woman (unknown to his prior fiancé) who has become pregnant. When she told Mike he said “tough, you can go get an abortionor something, it isn’t like we were in love or something.” Then he laughed at her and toldher to go find some other guy who would shack up with her. Incidentally, Mike is a very attractive man and he likes to point that out on occasion. “Yeah, I was going to be a male model in L. A.,but my agent did not know what he was doing . . . could never get things settled out right . . . so I had to fire him.” Mike is very popular with women and has had a constant string of failed relationships due to what he calls “their inability to keep things exciting.” As Mike puts it “hey, I am too smart for this stuff. These people around me, they don’t deserve the good dummies. But me, well I know how to run things and get over on people. And I am not about to let these dummies get in my way. I got it all figured out . . . see?”
Effective Small Business Management: An Entrepreneurial Approach 9th Edition, 2009 IS ...
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATIONNovember 8, 2002 -- vol. 49, .docxmattinsonjanel
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
November 8, 2002 -- vol. 49, no. 11, p. B7
The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation
By Alfie Kohn
Grade inflation got started ... in the late '60s and early '70s.... The grades that faculty members now give ... deserve to be a scandal.
--Professor Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University, 2001
Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily -- Grade A for work of no very high merit, and Grade B for work not far above mediocrity. ... One of the chief obstacles to raising the standards of the degree is the readiness with which insincere students gain passable grades by sham work.
--Report of the Committee on Raising the Standard, Harvard University, 1894
Complaints about grade inflation have been around for a very long time. Every so often a fresh flurry of publicity pushes the issue to the foreground again, the latest example being a series of articles in The Boston Globe last year that disclosed -- in a tone normally reserved for the discovery of entrenched corruption in state government -- that a lot of students at Harvard were receiving A's and being graduated with honors.
The fact that people were offering the same complaints more than a century ago puts the latest bout of harrumphing in perspective, not unlike those quotations about the disgraceful values of the younger generation that turn out to be hundreds of years old. The long history of indignation also pretty well derails any attempts to place the blame for higher grades on a residue of bleeding-heart liberal professors hired in the '60s. (Unless, of course, there was a similar countercultural phenomenon in the 1860s.)
Yet on campuses across America today, academe's usual requirements for supporting data and reasoned analysis have been suspended for some reason where this issue is concerned. It is largely accepted on faith that grade inflation -- an upward shift in students' grade-point averages without a similar rise in achievement -- exists, and that it is a bad thing. Meanwhile, the truly substantive issues surrounding grades and motivation have been obscured or ignored.
The fact is that it is hard to substantiate even the simple claim that grades have been rising. Depending on the time period we're talking about, that claim may well be false. In their book When Hope and Fear Collide (Jossey-Bass, 1998), Arthur Levine and Jeanette Cureton tell us that more undergraduates in 1993 reported receiving A's (and fewer reported receiving grades of C or below) compared with their counterparts in 1969 and 1976 surveys. Unfortunately, self-reports are notoriously unreliable, and the numbers become even more dubious when only a self-selected, and possibly unrepresentative, segment bothers to return the questionnaires. (One out of three failed to do so in 1993; no information is offered about the return rates in the earlier surveys.)
To get a more accurate picture of whether grades have changed over the years, one needs to look at official student tran ...
The chart is a guide rather than an absolute – feel free to modify.docxmattinsonjanel
The chart is a guide rather than an absolute – feel free to modify or adjust it as need to fit the specific ideas that you are developing.
Area: SALES
Specific Change Plans for Functional Areas
Capability Being Addressed
This can be pulled from the strategic proposal recommended in Part 2B
How do the recommended changes (details provided below) help improve the capability?
This is a logic "double check". Be sure you can show how the changes recommended below improve the capability and help address the product and market focus and add to accomplishment of the value proposition
Details of Specific Changes:
Proposed Changes in Resources
Proposed Changes to Management
Preferences
Proposed Changes to Organizational
Processes
Detailed Change Plans
(Lay out here the specifics of all recommended changes for this area. Modify the layout as necessary to account for the changes being recommended)
Proposed Change
Timing
Costs
On going impact on budget
On going impact on revenue
Wiki
Template
Part-‐2:
Gaps,
Issues
and
New
Strategy
BUSI
4940
–
Business
Policy
1
THE ENVIRONMENT/INDUSTRY
1. Drivers of change
Key drivers of change begin with the availability of substitute products. Many
other
companies can easily provide a substitute and the firm will have to find a way to
stand
out among them. Next would be the ability to differentiate yourself among other
firms
that pose a threat in the industry. Last, the political sector. The the federal, state,
and local governments could all shape the way healthcare is everywhere.
2. Key survival factors
Key survival factors would include making the firm stand out above the rest in the
industry and creating a name for itself. Second would be making sure there is a
broad
network of providers available for the customers. Giving the customer options
will
make the customer happy. Providing excellent customer service is key to any
firm in
the industry.
3. Product/Market and Value Proposition possibilities
Maintaining the use of heavy discounts will keep Careington in the competitive
market. They also concentrate on constantly innovating technology to make
sure that
they have the latest devices to offer their customers. To have high value proposition, Careington
will need to show their costumers that they can believe in them and trust them to
do the right thing. Showing the customers that they can always be on top of the
latest
technology and new age products will help build trust with the customers.
STRATEGY OF THE FIRM
1. Goals
Striving to promote the health and well being of their clients by continuing to
provide
low cost health care solutions. A lot of this concentration is on clients that cannot
afford health care very easily or that a ...
The Challenge of Choosing FoodFor this forum, please read http.docxmattinsonjanel
The Challenge of Choosing Food:
For this forum, please read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale/2016/01/15/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html?postshare=3401453180639248&tid=ss_fb-bottom
The article is from the Washington Post, January 17, 2016, by Michael Ruhlmanentitled: "No Food is Healthy, Not even Kale."
Based on your reading in the textbook share the following information with your classmates:
(1) To what degree to you agree with article, "No Food is Healthy, Not even Kale." Do semantics count? Should we focus on foods that are described as nourishing (nutrient-dense) instead of foods described as healthy because the word "healthy" is a "bankrupt" word? Explain and refer to information from the article.
(2) Based on the article and the textbook reading (review pages 9-30), how challenging is it for you to choose nutritious foods that promote health? What factors drive your food choices? Explain to your classmates.
(3) What do you think is the biggest concern we face health-wise in the US today?
(4) What are some obstacles as to why we may not be eating as well as we would like to?
Please complete all questions, if you have any question let me knowv
Test file, (Do not modify it)
// $> javac -cp .:junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests.java #compile
// $> java -cp .:junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests #run tests
//
// On windows replace : with ; (colon with semicolon)
// $> javac -cp .;junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests.java #compile
// $> java -cp .;junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests #run tests
import org.junit.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import java.util.*;
public class ProperQueueTests {
public static void main(String args[]){
org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.main("ProperQueueTests");
}
/*
building queues:
- build small empty queue. (2)
- build larger empty queue. (11)
- build length-zero queue. (0)
*/
@Test(timeout=1000) public void ProperQueue_makeQueue_1(){
String expected = "";
ProperQueue q = new ProperQueue(2);
String actual = q.toString();
assertEquals(2, q.getCapacity());
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
@Test(timeout=1000) public void ProperQueue_makeQueue_2(){
String expected = "";
ProperQueue q = new ProperQueue(11);
String actual = q.toString();
assertEquals(11, q.getCapacity());
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
@Test(timeout=1000) public void Queue_makeQueue_3(){
String expected = "";
ProperQueue q = new ProperQueue(0);
String actual = q.toString();
assertEquals(0, q.getCapacity());
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
/*
add/offer tests.
- add a single value to a short queue.
- fill up a small queue.
- over-add to a queue and witness it struggle.
- add many but don't finish filling a queue.
- make size-zero queue, adds fail, check it's still empty.
*/
@Test(timeout=1000) public void ProperQueue_add_1(){
String expecte ...
The Civil Rights Movement
Dr. James Patterson
Black Civil Rights Movement
Basic denial of civil rights (review)
Segregation in society
Inferior schools
Job discrimination
Political disenfranchisement
Over ½ lived below poverty level
Unemployment double national ave.
Ghettoes: gangs, drugs, substandard housing, crime
Early Victories
WWII egalitarianism and backlash against German racism
Jackie Robinson integrated professional baseball—1947
Desegregation of the armed forces ordered by president Truman—1948
Marian Anderson performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera House—1955
Increased interest in civil rights a result of Cold War propaganda
Brown v. Board of Education
1954 – Topeka, Kansas
Linda Brown: filed suit to attend a neighborhood school
“Separate educational institutions are inherently unequal.”
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Court says: integrate "with all deliberate speed.”
What did this mean?
Linda Brown and Family
Circumvention of Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
White supremacist parents feared racial mixing and attempted to block black enrollment.
Ignored the integration issue
Token integration
Segregation through standardized placement tests
Segregation through private schools
Stalling through legal action
By 1964, 10 years after the Brown case, only 1% of black children attended truly integrated schools.
Little Rock High School
1957 courts order integration in Little Rock
9 black students enrolled.
Governor called out militia to block it.
Mobs replaced militia after recall.
Eisenhower ordered federal troops to protect the students.
Daily harassment
Courageous black students persevered.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955--Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up seat to white man
Boycott of bus system led by Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Walking, church busses, car pools, bicycles
Bus lines caught in the middle
Rosa Parks being Booked
Supreme Court ruled bus companies must integrate.
Inspired other protests:
Sit-ins, wade-ins, kneel-ins
Woolworth’s lunch counter
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-Violent
Influenced by Ghandi
“The blood may flow, but it must be our blood, not that of the white man.”
“Lord, we ain’t what we oughta be. We ain’t what we wanna be. We ain’t what we gonna be. But thank God, we ain’t what we was.”
Freedom Riders
Activists traveled from city to city to ignite the protest.
Bull Conner:
in Montgomery
Dogs
Whips
Water hoses
Cattle prods
Television
Public backlash
Civil Rights March (AL. 1965)
1963 - Washington, D.C. "I have a Dream“—200,000 Attended
Civil Rights Legislation
1964 - Civil Rights Act
1964 - 24th Amendment
Abolished Poll Tax
1965 Voting Rights Act
Affirmative action
Int ...
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Their Finest Hour
Sir Winston Churchill > Speeches & Quotations > Speeches
June 18, 1940
House of Commons
I spoke the other day of the colossal military disaster which occurred when the French High Command
failed to withdraw the northern Armies from Belgium at the moment when they knew that the French front
was decisively broken at Sedan and on the Meuse. This delay entailed the loss of fifteen or sixteen French
divisions and threw out of action for the critical period the whole of the British Expeditionary Force. Our
Army and 120,000 French troops were indeed rescued by the British Navy from Dunkirk but only with the
loss of their cannon, vehicles and modern equipment. This loss inevitably took some weeks to repair, and in
the first two of those weeks the battle in France has been lost. When we consider the heroic resistance
made by the French Army against heavy odds in this battle, the enormous losses inflicted upon the enemy
and the evident exhaustion of the enemy, it may well be the thought that these 25 divisions of the
best-trained and best-equipped troops might have turned the scale. However, General Weygand had to fight
without them. Only three British divisions or their equivalent were able to stand in the line with their French
comrades. They have suffered severely, but they have fought well. We sent every man we could to France
as fast as we could re-equip and transport their formations.
I am not reciting these facts for the purpose of recrimination. That I judge to be utterly futile and even
harmful. We cannot afford it. I recite them in order to explain why it was we did not have, as we could have
had, between twelve and fourteen British divisions fighting in the line in this great battle instead of only
three. Now I put all this aside. I put it on the shelf, from which the historians, when they have time, will
select their documents to tell their stories. We have to think of the future and not of the past. This also
applies in a small way to our own affairs at home. There are many who would hold an inquest in the House
of Commons on the conduct of the Governments-and of Parliaments, for they are in it, too-during the years
which led up to this catastrophe. They seek to indict those who were responsible for the guidance of our
affairs. This also would be a foolish and pernicious process. There are too many in it. Let each man search
his conscience and search his speeches. I frequently search mine.
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we
have lost the future. Therefore, I cannot accept the drawing of any distinctions between Members of the
present Government. It was formed at a moment of crisis in order to unite a ...
The Categorical Imperative (selections taken from The Foundati.docxmattinsonjanel
The Categorical Imperative (selections taken from The Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals)
Preface
As my concern here is with moral philosophy, I limit the question suggested to this:
Whether it is not of the utmost necessity to construct a pure thing which is only empirical and
which belongs to anthropology? for that such a philosophy must be possible is evident from the
common idea of duty and of the moral laws. Everyone must admit that if a law is to have moral
force, i.e., to be the basis of an obligation, it must carry with it absolute necessity; that, for
example, the precept, "Thou shalt not lie," is not valid for men alone, as if other rational beings
had no need to observe it; and so with all the other moral laws properly so called; that, therefore,
the basis of obligation must not be sought in the nature of man, or in the circumstances in the
world in which he is placed, but a priori simply in the conception of pure reason; and although
any other precept which is founded on principles of mere experience may be in certain respects
universal, yet in as far as it rests even in the least degree on an empirical basis, perhaps only as to
a motive, such a precept, while it may be a practical rule, can never be called a moral law…
What is the “Good Will?”
NOTHING can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called
good, without qualification, except a good will. Intelligence, wit, judgement, and the other
talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as
qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of
nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them,
and which, therefore, constitutes what is called character, is not good. It is the same with the
gifts of fortune. Power, riches, honour, even health, and the general well-being and contentment
with one's condition which is called happiness, inspire pride, and often presumption, if there is
not a good will to correct the influence of these on the mind, and with this also to rectify the
whole principle of acting and adapt it to its end. The sight of a being who is not adorned with a
single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to
an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition
even of being worthy of happiness.
There are even some qualities which are of service to this good will itself and may
facilitate its action, yet which have no intrinsic unconditional value, but always presuppose a
good will, and this qualifies the esteem that we justly have for them and does not permit us to
regard them as absolutely good. Moderation in the affections and passions, self-control, and calm
deliberation are not only good in many respects, but even seem to constitute part of th ...
The cave represents how we are trained to think, fell or act accor.docxmattinsonjanel
The cave represents how we are trained to think, fell or act according to society, following our own way and not the way intended for us. The shadows are merely a reflection of what they perceived to be reality instead of an illusion. The prisoners are trapped in society, each one of us who choose to stay trapped in our own way. The man that escapes is the person who no longer is a slave to society and can see the difference between reality and illusion. The day light can be compared to God’s will. When you don’t follow the plan that has been laid out for you by God, than you are trapped and you will only see illusions or reflections of reality. Escaping and choosing to go into “the light,” or following the will of God, only then can you be set free from your prison.
When looking at a piece of art, a painting, for example, at first glance the painting can appear to be something other what it is intended to be (reality). This reminds me of those pictures that everyone sees on social media, the picture that has circles all over it. When you look at the picture it appears that the circles are moving, but in reality the circles do not move at all. So art can more or less be perceived as more of an illusion.
An example of the picture can be seen here http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/movie_circles_illusion.jpg
Accepting illusion as reality happens a lot more times than we probably think. Anything that we see on T.V., Social Media, internet, or even dating, can all be perceived as an illusion at some point. Take dating for example; how a person acts on a date is most likely not how they would act to someone they have known for a while (illusion). Not all people pretend to be something different but in many cases they do. Recognizing what you failed to see after the initial first date and thereafter is how you would know what you first seen was just simply an illusion and therefore not reality, unless of course in reality they are simply a fake person I suppose. Following this pattern makes you realize most people do not appear to be who they are. A good “first impression” doesn’t necessarily mean much when thinking about illusions vs reality, because that’s all the “first impression” is in fact more or less an illusion.
People live in shadows because they fail to recognize reality and choose to continue to believe in illusions. With the growth of Social media, more and more people are falling victim to what things appear to be and will stay in the dark (cave). We as a society are imprisoned by what we see and read through news channels and social media. We will believe anything that comes across CNN or any news station (not fox news though) and let them make up our mind for us. People comment on any shooting victims and assume the cop was in the wrong and is racist, in reality that is not always the case.
It’s interesting to think in terms of appearance vs reality when viewing not only art, but the world. Not taking things for what they appear to ...
The Case Superior Foods Corporation Faces a ChallengeOn his way.docxmattinsonjanel
The Case: Superior Foods Corporation Faces a Challenge
On his way to the plant office, Jason Starnes passed by the production line where hundreds of gloved, uniformed workers were packing sausages and processed meats for shipment to grocery stores around the world.
Jason's company, Superior Foods Corporation, based in Wichita, Kansas, employed 30,000 people in eight countries and had beef and pork processing plants in Arkansas, California, Milwaukee, and Nebraska City. Since a landmark United States–Japan trade agreement signed in 1988, markets had opened up for major exports of American beef, now representing 10 percent of U.S. production. Products called “variety meats”—including intestines, hearts, brains, and tongues—were very much in demand for export to international markets.
Jason was in Nebraska City to talk with the plant manager, Ben Schroeder, about the U.S. outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and its impact on the plant. On December 23, 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had announced that bovine spongiform encephalopathy had been discovered in a Holstein cow in Washington State. The global reaction was swift: Seven countries imposed either total or partial bans on the importation of U.S. beef, and thousands of people were chatting about it on blogs and social networking sites. Superior had moved quickly to intercept a container load of frozen Asian-bound beef from its shipping port in Los Angeles, and all other shipments were on hold.
After walking into Ben's office, Jason sat down across from him and said, “Ben, your plant has been a top producer of variety meats for Superior, and we have appreciated all your hard work out here. Unfortunately, it looks like we need to limit production for a while—at least three months, or until the bans get relaxed. I know Senator Nelson is working hard to get the bans lifted. In the meantime, we need to shut down production and lay off about 25 percent of your workers. I know it is going to be difficult, and I'm hoping we can work out a way to communicate this to your employees.”
...
The Case You can choose to discuss relativism in view of one .docxmattinsonjanel
The Case:
You can choose to discuss relativism in view of one of the following two cases:
The Case:
· Start by giving a brief explanation of relativism (200 words).
· what is the difference between ethical & cultural relativism. Then discuss, in view of relativism, how we can reconcile the apparent conflict between the need for enforcement of human rights standards with the need for protection of cultural diversity. (400 words).
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The Case Study of Jim, Week Six The body or text (i.e., not rest.docxmattinsonjanel
The Case Study of Jim, Week Six
The body or text (i.e., not restating the question in your answer, not including your references or your signature) of your initial response should be at least 300 words of text to be considered substantive. You will see a red U for initial responses that are not at least 300 words. Note: your initial response to this required discussion will not count toward participation
The Case Study of Jim, Week 6
Title of Activity: In class discussion of the case study of Jim, Week Six
Objective: Review the concepts of the case study in Ch.13 of Personality and then relate Jim’s case to the theorists discussed during the week. In addition, summarize the entire case study.
1. Read “The Case of Jim” in Ch. 13 of Personality.
2. Discuss the case. This week, discussion should focus on social-cognitive theory.
3. Provide a summary of the entire case.
THE CASE OF JIM Twenty years ago Jim was assessed from various theoretical points of view: psychoanalytic, phenomenological, personal construct, and trait.
At the time, social-cognitive theory was just beginning to evolve, and thus he was not considered from this standpoint. Later, however, it was possible to gather at least some data from this theoretical standpoint as well. Although comparisons with earlier data may be problematic because of the time lapse, we can gain at least some insight into Jim’s personality from this theoretical point of view. We do so by considering
Jim’s goals, reinforcers he experiences, and his self-efficacy beliefs.
Jim was asked about his goals for the immediate future and for the long-range future. He felt that his immediate and long-term goals were pretty much the same: (1) getting to know his son and being a good parent, (2) becoming more accepting and less critical of his wife and others, and (3) feeling good about his professional work as a consultant.
Generally he feels that there is a good chance of achieving these goals but is guarded in that estimate, with some uncertainty about just how much he will be able to “get out of myself” and thereby be more able to give to his wife and child.
Jim also was asked about positive and aversive reinforcers, things that were important to him that he found rewarding or unpleasant.
Concerning positive reinforcers, Jim reported that money was “a biggie.”
In addition he emphasized time with loved ones, the glamour of going to an opening night, and generally going to the theater or movies.
He had a difficult time thinking of aversive reinforcers. He described writing as a struggle and then noted, “I’m having trouble with this.”
Jim also discussed another social-cognitive variable: his competencies or skills (both intellectual and social). He reported that he considered himself to be very bright and functioning at a very high intellectual level. He felt that he writes well from the standpoint of a clear, organized presentation, but he had not written anything that is innovative or creative. Ji ...
The Case of Missing Boots Made in ItalyYou can lead a shipper to.docxmattinsonjanel
The Case of Missing Boots Made in Italy
You can lead a shipper to the water, but if the horse does not want to drink…
Vocabulary:
Shipper: In commercial trade, the person who gives goods to a shipping company to be transported to a foreign destination; in export transactions, it is usually the exporter. Do not confuse the shipper with the shipping company or carrier.
Consignee: The person who is ultimately receiving the goods, generally the buyer or importer. Sometimes these people will designate a “notify party” to be notified when the goods arrive in the port of entry, so that customs clearance can be arranged and the goods picked up for further domestic transport.
Carrier: A company that transports goods (sometimes referred to as a “shipping company” or a “freight company”).
Forwarder (or “freight forwarder”): A forwarder is like a travel agent for cargo – forwarders organize the transport of your goods from departure to destination, and charge a fee for their services. There are many different kinds of forwarders. There are firms that act as both forwarders and carriers. Sometimes forwarders will have relationships with a whole string of carriers and other forwarders, so that the shipper only deals with the forwarder but in the end the goods are actually carrier by a series of independent transport companies.
NVOCC: Non-vessel operating common carrier. A “common carrier” in the legal terminology refers to a carrier who has accepted the additional legal burdens imposed on a company that regularly carries goods for a fee (as opposed to someone with a truck who might agree to help you out just this once because you’re in trouble).
Container: Large standard-sized metal boxes for transporting merchandise; you see them on the back of trucks, or stacked up outside of ports like Lego toys, or on top of large ocean-going container ships. The capacity of container vessels is measured in TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units; containers generally measure 20 or 40 feet long; large vessels can now carry in excess of 4,000 TEU). There are different kinds of containers for different purposes. For example, refrigerated containers (for transporting meat or fruit, for example) are called “reefers,” so be careful where you use this term.
Consolidator: When large companies ship a lot of goods, they are usually able to fill entire containers. However, shippers who ship smaller amounts (like the shipper in the example below), often have their goods “stuffed” (the industry term) along with other goods into the same container; hence, they are “consolidated.” Some firms specialize in consolidating various shipments from different shippers, these are “consolidators.” A load which requires consolidation is a “LCL” or less-than-full-container load, as opposed to a “FCL” – full-container-load.
Marine Insurance: This is a common term for cargo insurance for international shipments, even in cases where much of the transport is NOT by sea; “marine insurance ...
The Cardiovascular SystemNSCI281 Version 51University of .docxmattinsonjanel
The Cardiovascular System
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The Cardiovascular System
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Animation: Pulmonary and Systemic Circulation
After viewing the animation, answer these questions:
1. Name the two divisions of the cardiovascular system.
2. What are the destinations of these two circuits?
3. In the systemic circulation, where does gas exchange occur?
4. In the pulmonary circulation, where does gas exchange occur?
5. Name the blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to the heart. How many are there? Where do they terminate?
Exercise 9.9: Imaging—Thorax
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In Review
1. What is the name for the fibrous sac that encloses the heart?
2. Name the lymphatic organ that is large in children but atrophies during adolescence.
3. Name the bilobed endocrine gland located lateral to the trachea and larynx.
4. How do large arteries supply blood to body structures?
5. Name the large vessel that conveys oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle of the heart.
6. Name the two branches of the blood vessel mentioned in question 5 that convey oxygen-poor blood to the lungs.
7. Name the blunt tip of the left ventricle.
8. What is the carotid sheath? What structures are found within it?
9. What is the serous pericardium?
10. Name the structure that ...
The Cardiovascular SystemNSCI281 Version 55University of .docxmattinsonjanel
The Cardiovascular System
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The Cardiovascular System
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Animation: Pulmonary and Systemic Circulation
After viewing the animation, answer these questions:
1. Name the two divisions of the cardiovascular system.
2. What are the destinations of these two circuits?
3. In the systemic circulation, where does gas exchange occur?
4. In the pulmonary circulation, where does gas exchange occur?
5. Name the blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to the heart. How many are there? Where do they terminate?
Exercise 9.9: Imaging—Thorax
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G. .
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In Review
1. What is the name for the fibrous sac that encloses the heart?
2. Name the lymphatic organ that is large in children but atrophies during adolescence.
3. Name the bilobed endocrine gland located lateral to the trachea and larynx.
4. How do large arteries supply blood to body structures?
5. Name the large vessel that conveys oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle of the heart.
6. Name the two branches of the blood vessel mentioned in question 5 that convey oxygen-poor blood to the lungs.
7. Name the blunt tip of the left ventricle.
8. What is the carotid sheath? What structures are found within it?
9. What is the serous pericardium?
10. Name the structure that ...
The British Airways Swipe Card Debacle case study;On Friday, Jul.docxmattinsonjanel
The British Airways Swipe Card Debacle case study;
On Friday, July 18, 2003, British Airways staff in Terminals 1 and 4 at London’s busy Heathrow Airport held a 24 hour wildcat strike. The strike was not officially sanctioned by the trade unions but was spontaneous action by over 250 check in staff who walked out at 4 pm. The wildcat strike occurred at the start of a peak holiday season weekend which led to chaotic scenes at Heathrow. Some 60 departure flights were grounded and over 10,000 passengers left stranded. The situation was heralded as the worst industrial situation BA had faced since 1997 when a strike was called by its cabin crew. BA response was to cancel its services from both terminals, apologize for the disruption and ask those who were due to fly not to go to the airport as they would be unable to service them. BA also set up a tent outside Heathrow to provide refreshments and police were called in to manage the crow. BA was criticized by many American visitors who were trying to fly back to the US for not providing them with sufficient information about what was going on. Staff returned to work on Saturday evening but the effects of the strike flowed on through the weekend. By Monday morning July 21, BA reported that Heathrow was still extremely busy. There is still a large backlog of more than 1000 passengers from services cancelled over the weekend. We are doing everything we can to get these passengers away in the next couple of days. As a result of the strike BA lost around 40 million and its reputation was severely dented. The strike also came at a time when BA was still recovering from other environmental jolts such as 9/11 the Iraqi war, SARS, and inroads on its markets from budget airlines. Afterwards BA revealed that it lost over 100,000 customers a result of the dispute.
BA staff were protesting the introduction of a system for electronic clocking in that would record when they started and finished work for the day. Staff were concerned that the system would enable managers to manipulate their working patterns and shift hours. The clocking in system was one small part of a broader restructuring program in BA, titled the Future Size and Shape recovery program. Over the previous two years this had led to approximately 13,000 or almost one in four jobs, being cut within the airline. As The Economist noted, the side effects of these cuts were emerging with delayed departures resulting from a shortage of ground staff at Gatwick and a high rate of sickness causing the airline to hire in aircraft and crew to fill gaps. Rising absenteeism is a sure sign of stress in an organization that is contracting. For BA management introduction of the swipe card system was a way of modernizing BA and improving the efficient use of staff and resources. As one BA official was quoted as saying We needed to simplify things and bring in the best system to manage people. For staff it was seen as a prelude to a radical shakeup in working ...
The Case Abstract Accuracy International (AI) is a s.docxmattinsonjanel
The Case
Abstract
Accuracy International (AI) is a specialist British firearms manufacturer based in Portsmouth,
Hampshire, England and best known for producing the Accuracy International Arctic Warfare
series of precision sniper rifles. The company was established in 1978 by British Olympic shooting
gold medallist Malcolm Cooper, MBE (1947–2001), Sarah Cooper, Martin Kay, and the designers
of the weapons, Dave Walls and Dave Craig. All were highly skilled international or national target
shooters. Accuracy International's high-accuracy sniper rifles are in use with many military units
and police departments around the world. Accuracy International went into liquidation in 2005, and
was bought by a British consortium including the original design team of Dave Walls and Dave
Craig.
Earlier this year, AI's computer network was hit by a data stealing malware which cost thousands of
pounds to recover from. Also last year there have been a couple of incidents of industrial
espionage, involving staff who were later sacked and prosecuted.
As part of an ongoing covert investigation, the head of Security at AI (DG) has hired you to
conduct a forensic investigation on an image of a USB device. The USB device, it is a non-
company issued device, allegedly belonging to an employee Christian Macleod, a consultant and
technical manager at AI for more than six years.
Case details
Christian’s manager, David Bolton, is the regional manager and head of R&D and has been
working at AI for the last three years. David initiated this fact finding covert investigation which is
conducted with the support of the head of Security at AI.
The USB device in question allegedly was removed from Christian's workstation at AI while he
was out of the office for lunch, the device was imaged and then it was plugged in back into
Christian's workstation. You have been provided with a copy of that image (the original copy is at
the moment secure in a secure locker at the security department).
You have been told by DG that Dave was alarmed by some of the work practices of Christian and
that prompted him to start this investigation by contacting the Head of Security at AI. According to
Dave, Christian would bring in devices such as his iPod and his iPhone and he would often plug
these into his workstation. There is no policy against personal music devices and there is no
BYOD policy but there is a strict policy against copying corporate data is any personal device. The
company's policy states that such data is not to be stored unencrypted, on unauthorised, non
company approved devices. According to DG, Dave has reasons to believe that an earlier malware
infection incident at AI had its origins in one of Christian's personal devices.
Supporting information
1. You need to be aware that Dave and Christian do not get along as they had a few verbal exchanges
in the last year. Christian has filled in a ...
Walmart Business+ and Spark Good for Nonprofits.pdfTechSoup
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You will hear from Liz Willett, the Head of Nonprofits, and hear about what Walmart is doing to help nonprofits, including Walmart Business and Spark Good. Walmart Business+ is a new offer for nonprofits that offers discounts and also streamlines nonprofits order and expense tracking, saving time and money.
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
How to Setup Warehouse & Location in Odoo 17 InventoryCeline George
In this slide, we'll explore how to set up warehouses and locations in Odoo 17 Inventory. This will help us manage our stock effectively, track inventory levels, and streamline warehouse operations.
This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
A wound is a break in the integrity of the skin or tissues, which may be associated with disruption of the structure and function.
Healing is the body’s response to injury in an attempt to restore normal structure and functions.
Healing can occur in two ways: Regeneration and Repair
There are 4 phases of wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. This document also describes the mechanism of wound healing. Factors that affect healing include infection, uncontrolled diabetes, poor nutrition, age, anemia, the presence of foreign bodies, etc.
Complications of wound healing like infection, hyperpigmentation of scar, contractures, and keloid formation.
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LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
core of India. Mirzapur, with its varied terrains and abundant biodiversity, offers an optimal
environment for investigating the changes in vegetation cover dynamics. Our study utilizes
advanced technologies such as GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Remote sensing to
analyze the transformations that have taken place over the course of a decade.
The complex relationship between human activities and the environment has been the focus
of extensive research and worry. As the global community grapples with swift urbanization,
population expansion, and economic progress, the effects on natural ecosystems are becoming
more evident. A crucial element of this impact is the alteration of vegetation cover, which plays a
significant role in maintaining the ecological equilibrium of our planet.Land serves as the foundation for all human activities and provides the necessary materials for
these activities. As the most crucial natural resource, its utilization by humans results in different
'Land uses,' which are determined by both human activities and the physical characteristics of the
land.
The utilization of land is impacted by human needs and environmental factors. In countries
like India, rapid population growth and the emphasis on extensive resource exploitation can lead
to significant land degradation, adversely affecting the region's land cover.
Therefore, human intervention has significantly influenced land use patterns over many
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7. and Fred Rist1
1
University of Münster, Germany
2
Christoph Dornier Clinic, Germany
3
Christoph Dornier Foundation, Germany
Background. Social phobics are at a higher risk of developing
alcohol problems.
The mechanism promoting this association is not clear.
According to Sayette (1993b),
alcohol attenuates anxiety responses by disrupting initial
appraisal of threatening
stimuli. We used the emotional Stroop test and an implicit
memory test to investigate
whether alcohol hinders appraisal of social threat words in
patients diagnosed with
social phobia.
Procedure. Thirty-two women with social phobia (DSM-IV) and
32 female controls
performed an emotional Stroop test either after drinking alcohol
resulting in a blood
alcohol levels (BAL) of 0.6‰ or after drinking a non-alcoholic
beverage. The emotional
Stroop test contained social anxiety-related and neutral stimuli.
Implicit memory for
the words presented was tested with a word-stem completion
test.
Results. Without alcohol, both controls and socially-phobic
8. participants took longer
to name the colour of socially-threatening stimuli than of
neutral stimuli. Alcohol
levelled response latencies to the two stimulus categories only
in controls. Socially-
phobic participants responded more slowly to social anxiety-
related stimuli than to
neutral stimuli, irrespective of their BAL. In contrast to
controls, social phobics showed
an implicit memory bias for social threat words. This bias was
attenuated by alcohol.
Discussion. Alcohol disrupts appraisal of social anxiety-related
stimuli in controls
but not in social phobics; in these it hinders the consolidation of
memory. This also
suggests that social phobics experience similar anxiety with and
without alcohol, but
remember this experienced anxiety less precisely. This effect
might act as a reinforcer
for the use of alcohol for the purpose of self-medication in
future situations.
Epidemiological studies show that socially anxious people are
at a higher risk of abusing
alcohol or developing alcohol dependence (Schneier, Martin,
Liebowitz, Gorman, & Fyer,
1989; Allan, 1995; Holle, Heimberg, Sweet, & Holt, 1995;
Himle & Hill, 1991;
* Correspondence should be addressed to Alexander L. Gerlach,
WWU Münster, Department of Clinical Psychology, Fliednerstr.
21, 48149 Münster, Germany (e-mail: [email protected]).
The
10. consumption werenot correlated in a
different sample of patients with social phobia (Cox, Swinson,
Direnfeld, & Bourdeau,
1994). Thus, different processes may be at work as different
intensities of social anxiety
lead to the overlap of social phobia, alcohol abuse and
dependence.
A number of models attempt to explain the connection between
anxiety or stress
and alcohol use. Conger (1956) suggested that alcohol reduces
tension (or anxiety) and
that people consume alcohol to this effect. In line with this
suggestion, social phobia
patients consume more alcohol in a socially stressful situation
(public speaking), and
they report more attenuation of anxiety by drinking alcohol than
controls, especially if
they expected that alcohol would have such an effect (Abrams,
Kushner, Medina, &
Voight, 2001; Abrams, Kushner, Medina, & Voight, 2002).
These findings support a self-
medication theory of alcohol abuse. In this model, alcohol
serves as a readily-available
means to cope with anxiety, inadvertently leading to abuse and
dependence. In contrast
11. to this model, however, direct anxiety-reducing effects of
alcohol in socially anxious
people have not been found consistently. For example, a direct
effect of alcohol on
anxiety was lacking when social phobics were to give a speech
under the influence of
alcohol (Himle et al., 1999; Naftolowitz, Vaughn, Ranc, &
Tancer, 1994).
The tension-reduction theory as stated by Conger (1956) has not
remained
undisputed. According to Sayette’s (1993b) appraisal-disruption
model, ‘SRD
[stress-response dampening] occurs to the degree that alcohol
acts pharmacologically
to interfere with a person’s appraisal of stressful information’
(p. 463). Sayette suggests
that alcohol has this effect because it reduces the propensity of
relevant stimuli to
activate stressor-associated memories. In the context of social
phobia, these
considerations imply that biased processing of social phobia-
related stimuli is reduced
after the consumption of alcohol, since phobia-related memories
are not activated.
However, Sayette also proposed that in case of stressors which
are most readily or
12. automatically apprised, alcohol is much less likely to hinder
appraisal. This proposition
is based on the conviction that highly automatic cognitive
processes cannot easily be
disrupted. Accordingly, alcohol may not affect processing of
threat-related stimuli in
clinically-phobic subjects. Whereas this notion seems
reasonable, it has not yet been
tested directly in an information-processing paradigm.
Alternatively, Josephs and Steele (1990) Steele and Josephs
(1988) suggested that
alcohol will narrow the attention of an individual to immediate
and salient cues,
hindering the processing of more remote or less salient cues
(alcohol myopia theory):
only if a cue is present that is more salient or more easily
processed than the anxiety-
related cues, will alcohol alleviate anxiety by hindering the
processing of the anxiety-
related cue.
The processing of social phobia-related stimuli can be assessed
by various procedures.
The paradigm that is probably most often used in social phobia
and anxiety disorders is
14. associated information previously
established in long-term memory’ ( p. 247). Thus, alcohol can
be expected to alter
performance in the emotional Stroop test.
The alcohol myopia theory states that alcohol influences
behaviour when
conflicting cues simultaneously influence behaviour ( Josephs &
Steele, 1990; Steele &
Josephs, 1988). Stroop interference is the result of a response
conflict (e.g. MacLeod,
1991). Thus, according to alcohol myopia theory, ingestion of
alcohol will increase the
emotional Stroop effect. Colour naming is the process that is
less automatic and less
salient compared with word reading. Since alcohol reduces
cognitive control, word
reading that interferes with colour naming should be processed
with priority and
consequently an increased interference should occur. Indeed,
Curtin and Fairchild
(2003) found an increase in error rate and a tendency for longer
reaction times after
ingestion of alcohol (0.08 per mille) in incongruent trials in the
colour word version of
15. the Stroop test.
Alcohol, in addition to potentially preventing appraisal of
information, also possesses
powerful amnesic effects (Weissenborn & Duka, 2000).
Generally, it is assumed that
alcohol impairs the encoding and storage of new information
(Sayette, 1993b).
However, with respect to acute alcohol effects on implicit
memory there is very little
and contradictory information. Hashtroudi et al. (1984) found
increased performance
on an implicit memory test after consumption of alcohol. Duka
et al. (2001) and Lister et
al. (1991) found that alcohol had a profound negative impact on
explicit memory but
left implicit memory intact.
During the emotional Stroop test, perceptual priming takes
place, resulting in
enhanced implicit memory for emotional stimuli of negative
valence ( Rajaram, Srinivas,
and Travers, 2001). Although information-processing models of
emotional disorders
suggest that anxious people (e.g. social phobics) have a memory
16. bias for threat-related
stimuli (e.g. Williams & Scott, 1988), empirical support for
such a memory bias is weak.
Specifically for social phobia, there is only limited evidence for
either an explicit or an
implicit memory bias for social threat stimuli (Coles &
Heimberg, 2002). Amir et al.
(2003) argued that methodological issues may have prevented
the detection of memory
biases for social threat material in social phobics in previous
studies. For example, Rapee
et al. (1994) failed to find an implicit memory bias for social
threat words in social
phobics. However, participants were tested not before 15–35
minutes after first
exposure to the stimulus material. In the Lundh and Öst study
(1997) that found an
implicit memory bias in non-generalized social phobics,
memory performance was
tested only 5 minutes after the first exposure. Graf and Mandler
(1984) argued
convincingly that the duration between acquisition and testing
is critical if implicit
memory is measured by word-stem completion. In two newer
18. has different effects on men and women (Eckardt et al., 1998),
only female participants
were tested. In a number of information-processing studies,
anxiety induction was
employed in order to activate social threat-relevant schemata. In
his 1993 paper, Sayette
argued that SRD is unlikely to occur when a stressor is
sufficiently threatening to
override appraisal deficits. Consequently, we decided not to use
an anxiety-inducing
procedure in order to test the appraisal disruption hypothesis
explicitly under
conditions of low threat. It is still likely that social phobics will
experience more
evaluation anxiety during the stress test than non-anxious
controls.
Method
Recruitment
Women who responded to newspaper advertisements seeking
women either with or
without fear of social situations and who successfully
completed a brief telephone
screening were invited to attend a diagnostic session for
approximately 2-hours.
This session included completion of several questionnaires and
19. the German Version of
the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (SCID; Wittchen). Interviews were conducted by
clinicians with several years
of experience in treating social phobia patients and who were
trained in using the SCID.
Control participants received 60 or 40 German marks (DM),
depending on whether they
received alcohol or not. Socially-phobic participants were
offered the choice of the same
amount of money or participation in a 6-hour workshop dealing
with social phobia.
Exclusion criteria for participation in the study were current or
past drug or alcohol
abuse or dependence, complete abstinence from alcohol, colour-
blindness, use of
psychoactive medication, liver damage, and current or past
psychotic episodes.
Participants
Forty-two socially phobic patients and 36 control participants
took part in the
experiment. Due to equipment failure (malfunction of the throat
microphone), data for
only 32 socially phobic and 32 control participants were
20. available. We did not control
the phase of the menstrual cycle of our participants at the time
of testing. Table 1 shows
significant differences in the expected direction of social
phobia-related measures.
These were the German versions of the Fear of negative
evaluation scale (Vormbrock &
Neuser, 1983), the Social phobia scale (Stangier, Heidenreich,
Berardi, Golbs, & Hoyer,
1999), the Social interaction and anxiety scale (Stangier et al.,
1999), Drinking due to
social anxiety scale (‘Trinken wegen sozialer Angst’,
Heidenreich, Wagner, & Stangier,
2003), and the Blushing propensity scale (Leary & Meadows,
1991), the Beck
Depression Inventory (Hautzinger, Bailer, Worall, & Keller,
1994), and an Alcohol
Expectancy Questionnaire (Demmel & Hagen, 2002a). On the
Alcohol Expectancy
Questionnaire socially-phobic participants reported that they
expected more tension-
reduction and regulation of negative mood and more enhanced
socio-emotional
functioning due to alcohol than the control group. Finally, all
participants filled out
22. two control groups differed on any of the baseline variables.
Thus, the randomization
procedure was successful in creating equivalent groups.
Procedure
Once randomized, all participants were asked to eat a ‘light
meal’, specified in a
hand-out, approximately 3.5 hours before the start of the
experiment. They were also
asked to refrain from drinking anything containing caffeine
(coffee, tea, soft drinks)
during the 4 hours prior to the experiment, and not to drink
alcohol for 24 hours prior
to the experiment.
All participants were informed whether they would receive
alcohol or not before
coming to the laboratory. No attempt was made to deceive
participants about the nature
Table 1. Comparison of the social phobic and healthy
participants
Social phobics (N ¼ 32) Normal controls (N ¼ 32)
Age 32.5 (1.6) a 31.0 (1.6) a
% Single 75.0 a 84.4.a
Education (% $ high school graduation) 78.1 a 87.5.a
% Smokers 59.4 a 35.5 b
23. Beginning of social drinking (age) 17.2 (1.3) a 17.0 (1.2) a
Alcohol consumption (grams) during the
past week
56.9 (35.9) a 49.0 (30.2) a
Comorbid diagnosis (%) 10 (31.2) 0 (0)
G-FNE 63.8 (1.5) a 28.3 (1.5) b
BPS 49.1 (2.0) a 29.4 (2.0).b
BDI 19.9 (1.1) a 2.5 (1.1) b
ASI 33.5 (1.4) a 11.7 (1.4) b
SPS 36.6 (2.3) a 3.3 (2.3) b
SIAS 39.9 (1.6) a 12.1 (1.6) b
TWSA 17.4 (2.4) a 4.0 (2.4) b
Parental alcohol problems (%) 18.7 a 12.5 a
AEQ_KO 12.6 (0.5) a 14.2 (0.5) b
AEQ_SP 12.7 (0.4) a 14.0 (0.4) b
Note. Values enclosed in parentheses represent standard errors
where not otherwise noted.
G-FNE ¼ German version of the fear of negative evaluation
scale; BPS ¼ Blushing propensity scale;
BDI ¼ Beck Depression Inventory; ASI ¼ Anxiety Sensitivity
Index; SPS ¼ Social phobia scale;
SIAS ¼ Social avoidance and distress scale; TWSA ¼
‘Fragebogen Trinken wegen sozialer Angst’
[Drinking due to social anxiety scale]; AEQ_KO ¼ Alcohol
Expectancy Questionnaire, subscale
‘tension-reduction and regulation of negative mood’; AEQ_SP
¼ Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire,
subscale ‘enhanced socio-emotional functioning’. Parental
alcohol problems were defined as a score
greater than 3 on the German version of the Short Michigan
Alcoholism Screening Test. Means for
specific questionnaires that do not share a common superscript
differ significantly in Mann–Whitney
25. When the participants receiving alcohol arrived on the test day,
a urine sample was
collected for pregnancy testing ( Hilary, Dolorgiet). None of the
participants tested
positive. Subsequently, their height and weight was measured.
Breath alcohol
concentrations were measured using a standard breathalyzer
with an accuracy of
^0.03 mg / L ( Dräger, Alkotester 7410). Test results for all
participants upon arrival
were 0.00‰. For participants receiving alcohol, the necessary
amount of alcohol based
on their weight and height was estimated following a version of
the Widmark formula
( Widmark, 1932), modified by Fisher et al. (1987), Kapur,
(1991) and Breslin et al.
(1997). We aimed for a blood alcohol concentration of 0.06%
based on findings that
people are able to perform the Stroop test without significant
performance deficits with
similar blood alcohol levels (BAL; Gustafson & Källmén,
1990a, 1990b).
The alcoholic beverage was one part vodka and two parts orange
juice, the non-
alcoholic beverage was juice only in comparable amounts.
26. Participants received their
respective beverages in three equal doses, each to be finished
within 5 minutes.
All participants were able to complete this procedure. No
participant reported nausea
or other feelings of being uncomfortable. At the end of the
experiment, participants
who had received alcohol either were given newspapers to read
until their BAL reached
less than 0.04‰ or they were fetched by their partners.
Presentation of the stimuli
ERTS software ( Beringer, 1994) was used to present the stimuli
and to measure
reaction times. Words were presented in a blocked format on a
computer screen: half
of the participants were first asked to name the colours of the
social phobia-related
words and then of the neutral words, whereas the other half of
the participants first
had to name the colours of the neutral words and then the
colours of the social
phobia-related words. Each word was presented individually.
Within blocks, word
order was randomized. Word presentation ended as soon as the
colour naming was
28. class were calculated after elimination of values above or below
two standard deviations
(Ratcliff, 1993). Although the Stroop test is emotionally
demanding, participants rarely
make errors in naming the word colour. To check the prevalence
of errors, 11 socially
phobic and 10 control participants (13 under the influence of
alcohol) were selected
randomly and their errors were counted using a videotape of the
Stroop session. Only 31
errors were made out of the total of 2,016 trials that we
checked. There was no
difference in the number of errors between social phobics and
controls (Mann–Whitney
U tests: social phobia-related words Z ¼ 20:49, p ¼ :62; neutral
words: Z ¼ 0, p ¼ 1:0)
or between participants in the alcoholic or non-alcoholic
beverage group
(Mann–Whitney U tests: social phobia-related words Z ¼ 20:07,
p ¼ :94; neutral
words: Z ¼ 1:01, p ¼ :20).
Implicit memory was assessed with a word-stem completion
test. Participants were
asked to complete 32 three-letter word stems to the first word
that came to their mind,
29. without a time restriction. Of these 32 word stems, 16 word
stems could only be
completed to previously-presented social phobia-related words
and 16 word stems
could only be completed to previously-presented neutral words.
With the exception of
one neutral word (‘dringend’, English: urgent) and one social
phobia-related word
(‘peinlich’, English: embarrassing), all word stems could be
completed to more frequent
words other than the primed words. This was ensured using the
Corpus Search,
Management, and Analysis System (COSMAS; Belica,
Herberger, & al-Wadi, 1992). For the
results presented here, only words that were identical to the
ones presented during the
Stroop test were counted. However, more liberal scoring
including words that shared
the same root as the words from the emotional Stroop test did
not affect the pattern of
findings. Participants could achieve a maximum implicit
memory score of 16 for anxiety-
related and 16 for neutral stimuli.
30. In addition, we also assessed explicit memory for the words
employed in the Stroop
task. While the instructions for the Stroop task make it unlikely
that the participants will
remember many words explicitly, assessing explicit recollection
of the words by free-
recall will allow for the control of effects of explicit
recollection on the implicit memory
test. Presentation of the implicit and the explicit memory test
was counterbalanced.
We also measured anxiety state using 10-centimetre visual
analogue scales.
Participants were asked to rate how anxious they felt ‘right
now’ at baseline and after
completing the emotional Stroop test.
Timeline
After arrival, all participants were weighed. Participants in the
alcohol condition were
also tested for pregnancy. Then everybody was seated in the
experimenter room and the
first breath alcohol measurement (BAC 1) was taken. Then
participants were asked to
drink their respective beverages within 15 minutes (three cups
presented at 0, 5, and 10
32. measures ANOVAs/MANOVAs
with group (social phobics and controls) and condition (alcohol
vs. orange juice) as
between-subjects factors and category (anxiety stimuli vs.
neutral stimuli) as the repeated
measurement factor. Planned comparisons were calculated
between social phobics and
controls. An alpha level of 0.05 was used for all statistical tests.
F-statistics are misleading
when the means are correlated with variances across cells of the
design (Winer, Brown, &
Michels, 1991). Therefore, for the comparison of self-report
measures of social phobics and
controls, Mann–Whitney U tests were employed.
Results
Blood alcohol concentration and anxiety state
Figure 1 shows that the social phobic and the control
participants who had received
alcohol reached comparable levels of BAL. There was no
difference in blood alcohol
concentration between the two groups (F ¼ 1:0, p ¼ :4).
Socially-phobic participants
reported significantly more anxiety than controls, Fð1; 60Þ ¼
17:64, p , :001
(social phobics with alcohol after Stroop test: M ¼ 2:5 (SE:
34. no alcohol), nor an
interaction effect of Group £ Time £ Condition, Fð1; 60Þ # 0:8.
Emotional Stroop test
The analysis of reaction times with group (social phobics vs.
controls) and condition
(alcohol vs. no alcohol) as a between-subjects factor and
category (anxiety stimuli vs.
neutral stimuli) as a within-subjects factor resulted in a
significant interaction
Group £ Condition £ Category, Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 4:02, p ¼ :049.
Also, a significant main
effect of category Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 8:57, p ¼ :005 was found, but no
main effect of group
or condition or any two-way interaction effects were (see Fig. 2
for an illustration
of the significant effects). The three-way interaction was due to
an interaction of
Condition £ Category in the control group, Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 4:92, p
¼ :030, but not in the
social phobia group Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 0:37, p ¼ :54). Accordingly,
differential effects of alcohol
on colour-naming latencies were confined to the control group
without alcohol. Controls
responded more slowly to anxiety stimuli than to neutral
stimuli, Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 5:08,
p ¼ :028, as did the social phobics. With alcohol, colour-
naming latencies to anxiety-
related words in controls were reduced to the level of colour-
35. naming latencies for neutral
words, Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 0:63, p ¼ :42. In contrast, the social phobia
patients took longer to
name the colour of the anxiety stimuli compared with neutral
stimuli, irrespective of the
beverage consumed, Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 8:89, p ¼ :004). Thus, social
phobics show an
attentional bias, but not more so than controls. Alcohol reduces
this bias in controls,
but not in patients.
An index for the observed interference effect was formed by
subtracting the colour-
naming latency for neutral words from the colour-naming
latency for anxiety-related
words. This index was significantly correlated (Spearman rank
correlation, p , :05)
with the SPS (r ¼ :26), the SIAS (r ¼ :27), and the TWSA (r ¼
:27). The correlation with
the German FNE was not significant (r ¼ :17). Neither during
baseline nor following the
Stroop test did interference correlate with anxiety state (r ¼
2:06 and r ¼ :01).
Finally, alcohol expectancy as measured with the AEQ-KO and
AEQ-SP was also not
Figure 2. Emotional Stroop interference depending on stimuli
and diagnostic group.
Effects of alcohol on processing social threat words 287
37. controls remembered three or more social threat words. Based
on these low rates no
statistical analyses were computed.
Implicit memory test
The ANOVA of the implicit memory scores with category
(anxiety stimuli vs. neutral
stimuli) as a within-subjects factor, group (social phobics vs.
controls) and condition
(alcohol vs. no alcohol) as between-subjects factors, resulted in
a significant effect
of category, Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 5:93, p , :05, and a trend for group,
Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 3:72, p ¼ :06,
which was moderated by a Group £ Category effect, Fð1; 60Þ ¼
5:43, p , :05. (see
Fig. 3 for an illustration of the significant effects). The
socially-phobic participants
remembered more socially negative words than neutral words,
Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 11:42,
p , :05. Furthermore, social phobics remembered more social
threat words than
controls, Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 7:01, p , :05. There were no differences
between social phobics
and control participants on implicit memory for neutral words,
Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 0:54, ns.
In addition, we found a tendency for an interaction of Group £
Condition £
Category, Fð1; 60Þ ¼ 3:04, p # :09. In order to evaluate the
tendency for a three-fold
interaction, we analyzed the Condition £ Category interaction in
39. Discussion
We used an emotional Stroop procedure with neutral and social
anxiety-related word
stimuli and an implicit memory test for these words to assess
the effect of alcohol on
cognitive processing in social phobics as compared with non-
anxious controls.
We hypothesized an information-processing bias in social
phobics, evident in longer
colour-naming latencies and a better implicit memory for social
threat words. Based on
functional analysis, considerations of the link between social
phobia and alcohol
consumption and on the core proposition of Sayette’s appraisal
disruption theory, we
further expected that alcohol would have a stronger effect on
social phobics in the sense
of reducing both the interference produced by anxiety stimuli
and their enhanced
memory effect. Alternative expectations were derived from the
alcohol myopia theory,
namely that alcohol should increase Stroop interference. In line
with these
considerations, social phobia patients did take longer to name
the colour of anxiety
40. words than of neutral words, and they remembered more anxiety
words than the
controls. But contrary to our expectation, alcohol attenuated the
effect of anxiety-
related word stimuli on colour-naming latencies only in non-
anxious controls, but not in
social phobics, and it did not affect memory performance.
Hence, we disconfirmed the
alcohol myopia theory and at least partially failed to confirm
the appraisal disruption
theory as applied to social phobia patients.
Anxiety stimuli provoked an interference effect in colour-
naming responses, in line
with the literature on emotional Stroop effects. But why did this
interference effect
occur in controls also, and why was the effect not greater in
social phobics than in
controls? Interference effects for social threat words in non-
anxious controls have been
repeatedly reported (Amir et al., 1996; Mattia et al., 1993).
Emotionally-salient words
generally cause more interference than neutral words (MacLeod,
1991), and it seems
reasonable to assume that social threat words also qualify as
emotionally-salient words
41. for non-anxious controls. Also, only the anxiety-related words
were semantically related,
whereas the neutral words were not. In a blocked presentation,
this could result in
increased interference (Waters, Sayette, & Wertz, 2003).
These considerations may explain the interference in controls in
general, but Mattia
et al. (1993), in contrast to our findings and the findings of
Amir et al. (1996), found that
the interference effect was nevertheless stronger in social
phobics than in controls.
We have no ready explanation for the lack of a similar group
difference in our colour-
naming latencies, but we will consider several possibilities
drawn from the literature on
emotional Stroop effects.
One possible explanation might be taken from Amir et al.
(2002), who suggested that
social phobics can inhibit emotional Stroop interference if they
have the opportunity to
strategically influence their reactions. When ‘opportunity’ was
operationalized as a low
or a high ratio of threat words, social phobics showed more
emotional interference with
43. interference will increase with increasing confrontation
(blocked format).
We should also consider the possibility that particular aspects
of our social anxiety
challenge condition might have hindered the expected group
difference to appear.
Performance anxiety may attenuate the emotional Stroop
interference in social phobics
(Amir et al., 1996) and our socially-phobic participants did
report more anxiety than
controls. But the levels of anxiety were generally low (3 on a
scale of 0–10). Also, level of
acute anxiety was not correlated with emotional Stroop
interference. Thus, emotional
override cannot explain the lack of a higher interference effect
in social phobics.
We found that alcohol did attenuate the emotional Stroop
interference in controls
but not in social phobics. According to the core assumption of
the appraisal disruption
theory, alcohol should constrain the spread of activation of
associated information and
thus attenuate the emotional Stroop interference produced by
presenting words related
44. to social anxiety. Sayette, Martin, Perrott, Wertz, and Hufford
(2001) have shown this
effect of alcohol in a non-anxious control group. Specifically,
they demonstrated that
alcohol, if ingested before conducting the emotional Stroop test,
reduces the
interference for social stress words. This finding has been
replicated in our study.
But why was this not true for social phobics as well, and what
does this imply for the
functional analysis of the relation between social phobia and a
tendency to alcohol
abuse and dependence?
It can be argued that the spread of social threat-related
activation is much better
organized in social phobics than in non-anxious controls.
Sayette (1993b) argued that
alcohol is less likely to hinder spread of activation if a stressor
is ‘relatively easy to
process’ or ‘sufficiently threatening to override appraisal
deficits’ (p. 469). It seems
conceivable that, for social phobia patients, not only indicators
of acute stressors, but
also social threat words, may either be easier to process or are
associated strongly
45. enough with impending danger so that alcohol may no longer
effectively reduce spread
of activation. However, in this context our second, exploratory
finding is of interest.
We found a significantly better implicit memory for social
threat words in social phobics
compared with controls. Furthermore, this memory bias was
reduced by alcohol in the
expected direction.
Generally, it is assumed that two different processes are
responsible for implicit
memory biases. For the word-stem completion task it is assumed
that more data-driven
(or perceptually driven) processes are responsible. In this study,
however, it is clear that
conceptually-driven processes must be involved in order to
produce a valence-
associated (or threat-associated) bias. Indeed, at least four prior
studies have
demonstrated that conceptual/associative processing on
perceptual implicit memory
tests can be independent of explicit memory processes (e.g.
Hirshman, Passannante, &
Arndt, 2001). Note that participants had almost no traces of
explicit memory for either
47. by a social phobic after
drinking alcohol may be experienced with similar anxiety with
and without alcohol, but
this anxiety is remembered less intensively, thus still
encouraging the use of alcohol as
self-medication in future situations. This may partly explain
why studies focusing on
direct effects of alcohol on anxiety in clinically socially
anxious people have repeatedly
failed to find significant anxiety-reducing effects of alcohol
(Abrams et al., 2001; Himle
et al., 1999; Naftolowitz et al., 1994).
It has been found that alcohol has a different effect on anxiety
in women compared
with men. Especially alcohol expectancy – the belief that one
has received alcohol and
that it will have specific effects – has been studied in this
respect. For example, de Boer
et al. (1993) showed that alcohol expectancy reduced social
anxiety in women but not
in men. However, paradoxical effects of alcohol expectancy
have been demonstrated in
women as well: for example, Abrams and Wilson (1979) found
that women were more
48. anxious during a social interaction test if they believed that they
had received alcohol.
Hence, findings regarding the effects of alcohol expectancy on
women are inconclusive
(Schippers, de Boer, van der Staak, & Cox, 1997). However, in
the only experimental
study testing the direct effects of alcohol on anxiety involving
socially-phobic
participants, alcohol expectancy reduced reported social anxiety
while giving a public
speech (Abrams et al., 2001). We did not directly test whether
the pharmacological
effects of alcohol were solely responsible for our findings or if
alcohol expectancy or
other psychological factors may have additionally led to the
reduction of the emotional
Stroop interference in controls. Our participants did know
whether they received
alcohol or orange juice. The socially-phobic women in our
sample reported that they
expected more tension-reduction and regulation of negative
mood and also more
enhanced socio-emotional functioning after drinking alcohol (as
measured with the
AEQ) than the control participants. Possibly this may have
modulated the effects of
49. alcohol in some way or another. We did not find any association
between our measure of
alcohol expectancy and Stroop interference. However, it may be
that alcohol
expectancies are a transient- or an affect-dependent form of
cognition and consequently
have to be measured in vivo rather than at baseline.
There are a number of other limitations of our study. Based on
ethical considerations
we recruited social drinkers without a history of abuse or
dependence. It is possible that
this may have led to recruitment of a group of participants who
are especially unlikely to
experience anxiety reduction by ingestion of alcohol. Also, we
have only indirect
information on the alcohol status of the relatives of our
participants. Paternal alcoholism
has been associated with an increased risk to develop alcohol
problems and is
also known to affect the propensity to use alcohol to dampen
stress responses
(Finn & Pihl, 1987). We cannot exclude the possibility that our
recruitment procedure
implicitly excluded a subgroup that could potentially react
51. of threatening information lessens such an effect of alcohol. In
addition, we found an
implicit memory bias for socially-threatening words in social
phobics as compared with
controls. This implicit memory bias was attenuated by alcohol.
The overlap of excessive
alcohol use and social phobia may not be the result of appraisal
disruption exclusively,
but also the result of a curtailed memory for the anxiety
experienced during social
situations.
Acknowledgements
Alexander L. Gerlach and Anke Schiller have equally
contributed to this study and are listed in
alphabetical order. We thank Ralf Demmel and Michael Sayette
for comments and
recommendations in the planning phase of this study. This
research was supported by the
Christoph Dornier Foundation and the Christoph Dornier Clinic.
Portions of this study were
presented at the XXXIII Annual Congress of the EABCT,
Prague, The Czech Republic, September
2003.
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Effect of moderate alcohol consumption on fetuin-A
levels in men and women: post-hoc analyses of three
open-label randomized crossover trials
Michel M Joosten1,2,3,*
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Ilse C Schrieks1,2
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Henk FJ Hendriks1
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1 TNO (a Dutch acronym for Netherlands Organisation of
Applied Scientific
Research), Zeist, the Netherlands
2 Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University,
Wageningen, the
Netherlands
3 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Groningen,
University Medical
Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
Abstract
Background
68. Fetuin-A, a liver-derived glycoprotein that impairs insulin-
signalling, has emerged as a
biomarker for diabetes risk. Although moderate alcohol
consumption has been inversely
associated with fetuin-A, data from clinical trials are lacking.
Thus, we evaluated whether
moderate alcohol consumption decreases circulating levels of
fetuin-A.
Methods
We analyzed data of three separate open-label, randomized,
crossover trials: 1) 36
postmenopausal women consuming 250 ml white wine (25 g
alcohol) or white grape juice
daily for 6 weeks, 2) 24 premenopausal women consuming 660
ml beer (26 g alcohol) or
alcohol-free beer daily for 3 weeks, and 3) 24 young men
consuming 100 ml vodka (30 g
alcohol) orange juice or only orange juice daily for 4 weeks.
After each treatment period
fasting blood samples were collected.
Results
Circulating fetuin-A concentrations decreased in men after
vodka consumption (Mean ±
SEM: 441 ± 11 to 426 ± 11 µg/ml, p = 0.02), but not in women
after wine (448 ± 17 to 437 ±
17 µg/ml, p = 0.16) or beer consumption (498 ± 15 to 492 ± 15
µg/ml, p = 0.48) compared to
levels after each corresponding alcohol-free treatment. Post-hoc
power analyses indicated
69. that the statistical power to detect a similar effect as observed
in men was 30% among the
postmenopausal women and 31% among the premenopausal
women.
Conclusions
In these randomized crossover trials, moderate alcohol
consumption decreased fetuin-A in
men but not in women. This sex-specific effect may be
explained by the relatively short
intervention periods or the low statistical power in the trials
among women.
Trials registration
ClinicalTrials.gov ID no’s: NCT00285909, NCT00524550,
NCT00918918.
Keywords
Alcohol consumption, Fetuin-A, Insulin sensitivity, Liver
enzymes, Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Introduction
Fetuin-A (α-Heremans-Schmid glycoprotein) is an abundant
hepatokine that impairs insulin
signalling by inhibiting tyrosine kinase activity [1,2]. Several
prospective studies have
reported positive associations between circulating fetuin-A and
type 2 diabetes risk and,
concomitantly, observed inverse relations between alcohol
consumption and fetuin-A [3-5].
More importantly, a recent case-control study suggested that
fetuin-A may partially explain
70. the reduced risk of type 2 diabetes [6] that has consistently been
observed with moderate
alcohol consumption [7-9]. However, the cross-sectional and
observational nature of these
alcohol-fetuin-A associations may raise concern about potential
confounding. Thus, to
comprehensively investigate the effect of moderate alcohol
consumption on fetuin-A levels,
we performed post-hoc analyses of three randomized crossover
interventions with different
alcohol-containing beverages in men and women.
Materials and methods
The rationale of the three trials was to study the effect of
moderate alcohol consumption on
markers of insulin sensitivity and/or inflammation. Each trial is
registered at
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00285909, NCT00524550, and
NCT00918918. Independent medical
ethics committees approved the research protocols The Medical
Ethics Committee of the
University Medical Centre Utrecht; Utrecht, the Netherlands
[NCT00285909] and METOPP;
Tilburg, the Netherlands [NCT00524550, and NCT00918918])
and all participants gave
written informed consent. Eligible subjects were apparently
healthy, were habitual alcohol
consumers, refrained from smoking, and had no family history
of alcoholism. The design of
each individual intervention has been described in more detail
elsewhere [10-12]. In short,
the three studies were open-label, randomized, crossover
intervention trials and were all
conducted at TNO (a Dutch acronym for Netherlands
Organisation of Applied Scientific
71. Research) in Zeist, the Netherlands. The trials consisted of 1)
36 postmenopausal women
consuming 250 ml white wine (25 g alcohol; Chardonnay; Jean
d’Alibert, Rieux, France) or
white grape juice (Albert Heijn, Zaandam, the Netherlands)
daily for 6 weeks between March
and June 2006, 2) 24 premenopausal women consuming 660 ml
beer (26 g alcohol) or
alcohol-free beer daily (both Amstel, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands) for 3 weeks between
August and November 2007, and 3) 24 young men consuming
100 ml vodka (30 g alcohol;
Smirnoff, Diageo, London, UK) and 200 ml orange juice
(Appelsientje, Riedel, Ede, The
Netherlands) or only orange juice daily for 4 weeks between
August and November 2009.
Postmenopausal women had an absence of menses for at least
two years. Premenopausal
women used phase I or II oral contraceptives. Allocation to
treatment order (alcohol-
containing vs. alcohol-free period) was randomized according to
age and body mass index
(BMI). After each treatment period, fasting blood samples were
obtained. Plasma samples
were stored at −80°C (beer and vodka trials) and serum samples
at −20°C (wine trial) until
analysis. Fetuin-A concentrations were determined by a
sandwich enzyme-linked
immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (R&D Systems, Minneapolis,
MN) with a mean intra-assay
coefficient of variation of 6.8%.
Data were analyzed using SAS statistical software (version 8.2;
72. SAS Institute, Cary, NC,
USA). Variables were compared between treatments with a
mixed analysis of variation
(ANOVA) model that included terms for treatment, period and
the interaction between period
and treatment (indicating possible carryover effects).
Correlation coefficients were computed
according to Spearman rank order to assess associations
between intervention-induced
changes in fetuin-A and other biochemical variables. Data are
presented as mean ± standard
error of the mean (SEM). All tests were two-sided. Statistical
significance was defined as p <
0.05.
Results
All subjects completed both arms of their intervention. No
notable adverse effects were
reported. Age and BMI were 56.5 ± 4.2 y and 25.4 ± 3.3 kg/m2
in postmenopausal women,
23.9 ± 4.3 y and 22.2 ± 1.6 kg/m2 in the premenopausal women,
and 25.5 ± 4.3 y and 22.2 ±
1.6 kg/m2 in the men, respectively. Indicators of compliance
were the increased high-density
lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol and adiponectin levels after each
of the three alcohol
consumption periods compared with after the alcohol-free
consumption periods (Table 1).
Table 1 Biochemical markers of 24 young men, 24
premenopausal women, and 36
postmenopausal women sampled after an overnight fast after 4,
3 and 6-week treatment
periods, respectively, of consuming alcohol-free or alcohol-
containing beverages
74. Free fatty acids (mmol/l) 0.42 ± 0.03 0.35 ± 0.03 0.07 0.34 ±
0.03 0.29 ± 0.03 0.26 0.43 ± 0.04 0.44 ± 0.04 0.67
Alanine aminotransferase (U/l) 15.2 ± 1.1 15.9 ± 1.1 0.49 10.8
± 1.8 10.0 ± 1.8 0.21 13.8 ± 2.5 17.4 ± 2.5 0.29
Alkaline phosphates (U/l) 65.1 ± 4.3 65.8 ± 4.3 0.70 56.9 ± 6.5
57.8 ± 6.5 0.68 72.7 ± 2.9 73.6 ± 2.9 0.73
Aspartate aminotransferase
(U/l)
21.0 ± 1.0 20.6 ± 1.0 0.62 17.8 ± 2.0 17.8 ± 2.0 0.95 20.9 ± 2.0
24.8 ± 2.0 0.13
γ-Glutamyltransferase (U/l) 19.8 ± 2.4 24.3 ± 2.4 0.003 16.5 ±
2.2 18.5 ± 2.2 0.01 18.4 ± 5.2 27.5 ± 5.2 0.21
Data are presented as means ± SEM. P values are obtained from
a mixed-model ANOVA. Abbreviations: HOMA-IR homeostasis
model
assessment of insulin resistance; HDL high-density lipoprotein;
LDL low-density lipoprotein.
No carry-over effects were found in fetuin-A, indicating that a
possible effect on fetuin-A
levels due to a treatment given in the first time period of the
crossover trial did not persist
into the second period and influence the effect of the second
treatment. Fetuin-A levels
decreased in men after vodka juice consumption (441 ± 11 to
426 ± 11 µg/ml, p = 0.02) but
not significantly in postmenopausal women after wine (448 ± 17
to 437 ± 17 µg/ml, p = 0.16)
or in premenopausal women after beer consumption (498 ± 15 to
492 ± 15 µg/ml, p = 0.48)
(Figure 1) as compared to levels after each corresponding
75. alcohol-free beverage
consumption.
Figure 1 Individual changes of circulating fetuin-A levels at the
end of the alcohol or
alcohol-free treatment periods after an overnight fast for three
open-label randomized
crossover trials.
No correlations were observed between alcohol-induced changes
in fetuin-A and
corresponding changes in the homeostasis model assessment of
insulin resistance (HOMA-
IR) (ρ = 0.01, p = 0.95; ρ = 0.25, p = 0.26; ρ = 0.20, p = 0.24)
or changes in adiponectin (ρ =
0.22, p = 0.31; ρ = 0.17, p = 0.44; ρ = 0.25, p = 0.15) among
young men, pre- or
postmenopausal women, respectively. Changes in HOMA-IR
and adiponectin were also not
correlated among men (ρ = 0.14, p = 0.51), premenopausal
women (ρ = 0.01, p = 0.96), or
postmenopausal women (ρ = 0.27, p = 0.11). Also, no consistent
correlations were observed
between alcohol-induced changes in fetuin-A and analogous
changes in fasting blood lipids
including HDL-cholesterol and free fatty acids (FFA), or liver
function parameters across the
three trials.
Conclusions
In post-hoc analyses of three separate open-label randomized
crossover intervention studies,
we found that moderate alcohol consumption reduced fetuin-A
levels in men but not in
women. This decrease was apparent after four weeks of
76. moderate vodka consumption. No
consistent correlations between intervention-induced changes in
fetuin-A and other
biochemical markers were observed across the three studies.
To our knowledge, these are the first intervention studies
investigating the effect of different
alcohol-containing beverages on circulating fetuin-A. The
lowered fetuin-A levels in men
after moderate alcohol consumption partially confirm cross-
sectional observations in several
epidemiological studies [3-6,13,14] and may provide some
physiological support for the
protective effect of moderate alcohol consumption on the risk of
developing type 2 diabetes
[6,8] besides adiponectin [15]. Furthermore, these findings
extend prior evidence of short-
term clinical trials that noted favourable changes in selected
biological markers associated
with diabetes and cardiovascular risk after moderate alcohol
consumption [16].
The underlying physiological explanation how alcohol
consumption may lower fetuin-A is
not clear. Also, the sex-specific alcohol-fetuin-A effect was
unexpected, particularly since all
women were either on oral contraceptives or postmenopausal,
which limits potential
influences of hormonal fluctuations or menstrual cycles. The
null finding in our trials among
pre- and postmenopausal women do not seem to correspond with
a previous observational
study among 1331 middle-aged and older US female nurses,
where moderate alcohol
consumption was inversely associated with plasma fetuin-A
even after adjustment for several
77. lifestyle variables, demographic information, and medical
history [6]. Perhaps this
discrepancy can be explained by the low statistical power in the
two trials among women.
Post-hoc power analyses indicated that the power to detect a
similar effect as observed in
men was only 30% among the postmenopausal women and 31%
among the premenopausal
women.
Circulating fetuin-A was strongly and negatively associated
with the insulin-sensitizing
adipokine adiponectin in humans [17] and treatment of human
adipocytes with fetuin-A
repressed ADIPOQ mRNA levels [17]. Furthermore, given the
prior associations between
fetuin-A and insulin resistance [18] and insulin sensitivity [19],
we hypothesized that
reductions in fetuin-A may play a role in the increased
adiponectin levels or improved insulin
sensitivity after alcohol consumption [10]. Therefore, we
analyzed correlations between
intervention-induced changes in fetuin-A and adiponectin levels
and other markers of insulin
sensitivity, such as HOMA-IR. We, however, did not find such
inverse correlations despite
the fact that moderate alcohol consumption increased both
ADIPOQ expression [10] and
corresponding circulating adiponectin levels [10-12], suggesting
that fetuin-A and
adiponectin levels may be independently affected by alcohol.
Also, it is important to note that
the HOMA-IR index is a weak estimate of insulin resistance,
78. particularly in a small study.
The absence of a correlation between alcohol-induced changes
in fetuin-A and HOMA-IR
may partially be explained by the relatively low FFA levels of
the studied participants. In a
study among 347 healthy subjects at increased risk of type 2
diabetes, fetuin-A was only
inversely associated with insulin sensitivity among individuals
with high FFA levels (~ >
0.65 mmol/l) [20].
Strengths of the study are the randomized crossover design
(considered the ‘gold standard’
for evidence-based research), the assessment of compliance
markers (i.e. HDL-cholesterol
and adiponectin) to the study treatments, the inclusion of both
sexes, and the broad range of
biochemical variables. Some limitations warrant consideration.
The trials consisted of
alcohol-administration periods of 3 to 6 weeks and were
performed among fairly insulin-
sensitive subjects. Maybe more profound effects on fetuin-A
levels would have been
observed if the interventions lasted longer and/or were executed
in subjects with glucose
levels in the (pre)diabetic range. For example, three months of
moderate alcohol consumption
decreased fasting glucose levels among subjects with impaired
glucose metabolism [21] and
fetuin-A levels were particularly associated with an increased
diabetes risk among subjects
with higher fasting glucose [3,5]. Regardless, the duration of
the present interventions were
long enough to detect alcohol-induced changes in other
biochemical markers such as
adiponectin and HDL-cholesterol. Also, the association between
79. moderate alcohol
consumption and lower risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus is not
limited to subjects with
impaired glucose metabolism but also exists for subjects already
at low risk for diabetes on
the basis of multiple combined low-risk lifestyle behaviours
[22]. Nevertheless, the subjects
studied were rather lean (mean BMI values 22-26), had no fatty
liver (low liver enzyme
levels) and were rather insulin sensitive (low HOMA-IR). Also,
all premenopausal women
used oestrogen-containing oral contraceptives, which may
explain their somewhat higher
fetuin-A levels given the positive associations between
oestrogen and fetuin-A [23,24]. Thus,
the data are not representative for a typical at-risk population
for metabolic diseases. Second,
the daily amounts of alcohol consumed by women (~25 g
alcohol) were higher than what is
considered ‘moderate’ according to most guidelines (i.e. max.
~15 g alcohol). However, the
nadir of the alcohol-diabetes association for women appeared to
be at 24 g of alcohol/day in a
meta-analysis of 20 prospective studies [8] while alcohol
consumption became harmful above
50 g/day (and above 60 g/day for men). Third, post-hoc power
analyses showed that there
was low statistical power in the two trials among women to
detect a similar effect as observed
in the trial among men. Fourth, although unlikely since vodka is
basically an ethanol-water
mixture, we cannot fully exclude a potential beverage-specific
effect. Finally, the alcohol-
80. induced reductions in fetuin-A were comparable to associations
reported in epidemiological
studies [3,5,6], but were relatively small as compared to
alcohol’s effect on HDL-cholesterol
and adiponectin. It is possible that the findings, including the
sex differences, were due to
chance.
In conclusion, the results of these three randomized clinical
trials with different alcohol-
containing beverages demonstrated that short-term moderate
alcohol consumption decreases
fetuin-A levels in men but not in women. Further research is
needed to determine whether
long-term moderate alcohol consumption decreases fetuin-A
levels. If so, these findings may
add to the current knowledge of possible metabolic benefits of
moderate alcohol
consumption.
Abbreviations
ANOVA: Analysis of variation; BMI: body mass index; ELISA:
enzyme-linked
immunosorbent assay; FFA: free fatty acids; HDL-cholesterol:
High-density lipoprotein-
cholesterol; HOMA-IR: homeostasis model assessment of
insulin resistance; SEM: standard
error of the mean
Competing interests
The authors have no potential conflicts relevant to this article.
Authors’ contributions
81. M.M.J. conceived the idea of the study, designed the study,
directed the study’s
implementation, conducted the statistical analyses, interpreted
the data, and wrote the
manuscript. I.C.S. assisted in the study’s implementation,
assisted in the interpretation of the
data, and critically edited the manuscript. H.F.J.H. designed the
study, directed the study’s
implementation, assisted in the interpretation of the data,
critically edited the manuscript, and
obtained funding. All authors read and approved the final
manuscript.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic
Affairs, Agriculture and
Innovation and by the Dutch Foundation for Alcohol Research
(SAR) representing Dutch
producers of and traders in beer, wine and spirits and by TNO.
Their joint aim is to
independently study the health effects of moderate alcohol
consumption.
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