Essays Tagged: "redundancy"

A Brief History of Databases, describes some old database systems

its own data files. The problems thus associated with this type of file processing was uncontrolled redundancy, inconsistent data, inflexibility, poor enforcement of standards, and low programmer main ... ses were stored in customer information files, accounts receivable records, and so on. This created redundancy and inefficiency. Updating files, like storing files, was also a problem. When a customer ...

(7 pages) 436 0 5.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Database Normalization

ganization. The best way to keep things streamlined is to reduce complexity and minimize errors and redundancy associated with the increasing size of the database. To reduce the amount of redundant da ... f duplicate data stored in a database, this helps to keep the database streamlined and helps reduce redundancy.*Organizing the data such that, when you modify it, you make the change in only one place ...

(4 pages) 368 0 3.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Entropic and telomere shortening theories of aging.

nism, one such breakdown causes death. However, more complex organisms such as humans have in built redundancy systems to insure that such deaths do not occur. However, the various shocks suffered by ... shell, aging really is. Eventually, an event occurs that causes enough damage to cripple one of the redundancy systems critically enough that the organism cannot recover, and death occurs.There are se ...

(5 pages) 96 0 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Various Levels and Types of RAID.

ID is to combine multiple small, inexpensive disk drives into an array to accomplish performance or redundancy goals not attainable with one large and expensive drive. The underlying concept of RAID i ... -0 is the fastest and most efficient array type but offers no fault-tolerance.RAID Level 1 provides redundancy by writing all data to two or more drives. RAID-1 tends to perform faster on reads and sl ...

(4 pages) 89 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Identified are a set of companies in a particular industry, in this case Airbus, Boeing and Embraer.

n tasks have been distributed among the partners in such a way as to avoid duplication of tasks and redundancy. Aerospatiale is responsible for developing and manufacturing the aircraft flight decks a ...

(5 pages) 311 0 3.5 Jul/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Comparison of the synoptic gospels in "plucking heads of grain in the sabb.ath"

ospels, and still differences can be readily noted on style and structure.In most of Mark's gospel, redundancy and some syntax awkwardness can be found. For example, the author writes in his story abo ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

According to William James's Pragmatism what do the truth and justification of a belief consist?

five main "theories of truth": the correspondence theory, the coherence theory, and the pragmatic, redundancy and semantic theories. They all deal with truth and falsity as properties of what people ...

(9 pages) 258 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (more commonly known as a RAIN array)

ID is to combine multiple small, inexpensive disk drives into an array to accomplish performance or redundancy goals not attainable with one large and expensive drive. The underlying concept of RAID i ... AID 1: Shadowing/Mirroring/DuplexingRAID 1 is the first defined level that allows a measure of data redundancy. Data written to one disk drive is simultaneously written to another disk drive. If one d ...

(11 pages) 76 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Temination in the workplace

cur in a number of ways. i.e. giving proper notice of resignation, dismissal or retrenchment due to redundancy, summarily for employee misconduct.(CCH Macquarie Dictionary of Business, 1993)Causes of ... conduct.(CCH Macquarie Dictionary of Business, 1993)Causes of termination in the workplaceMisconductRedundancyDismissalPoor work performanceIntoxicationIncompetenceEngaging in illegal activitiesTypes ...

(1 pages) 62 0 5.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

Bla Bla

ntly because the hotel, which employed them, closed due to lack of business. The workers were given redundancy pay because they had worked for the hotel for more than two years. Did the hotel have the ... han two years. Did the hotel have the right to make them redundant and were the workers entitled to redundancy pay? Explain your answers.A: Yes the company did have the right to make t ...

(2 pages) 979 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Australian Workplace Political Changes - The Industrial Relations Act in 2006

n now be eliminated from workplace agreements. These include guaranteed penalty rates, overtime and redundancy pay. Due to this, employers are more likely to shift workers from awards onto workplace a ... s and employees takes place, the employer can potentially remove provisions such as entitlements of redundancy pay, penalty rates and overtime conditions effectively making the employee in a worse fin ...

(12 pages) 123 0 3.4 Jul/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies

Fault Tolerance and Power System

igurations fault-tolerant power systems have many of the same shared traits such as (O'Boyle, 2005):Redundancy -- Adequate ability to maintain power bus function in case any single-point power system ... ent while not disturbing the power bus.Power supply designers have given much attention recently to redundancy concerns. Straightforward execution of redundancy would be to run numerous power converte ...

(3 pages) 84 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Management of Change: Term Paper

eve that culturally they had become both complacent and paternalistic, and an implicit policy of no redundancy had become established in the minds of employees. However, by the late 1980s Hewlett Pack ...

(17 pages) 108 0 4.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Analysis of a quote from Shelley's A Defense of Poetry using Wimsatt and Beardley's article "The Intentional Fallacy".

en in response to Thomas Love Peacock'sessay Four Ages of Poetry, in which Peacock writes about the redundancy of poetry.What prompted Shelley's discourse? It could well have been this inflammatory li ...

(11 pages) 31 0 4.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Project and Procurement Management Relationship

nd is often developed by each company to meet its needs. Due to lack of standardization, errors and redundancy are common. Teachey provides the example of classifying a simple light bulb. The followin ... ill validate new product data entered into the system. By implementing these steps, errors, such as redundancy, can be identified and rectifiedThe second phase, data improvement, provides a method to ...

(4 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

Outplacement As A Technique Using To Decrease Negative Effects Of Downsizing

from professional consultants designed to help people who have to leave a company, whether through redundancy or severance, move to the next stage in their careers. A consultancy firm usually provide ... just under 200 redundancies.The task:Manage the communication process relating to the site closure, redundancy and outplacement processesDevelop and implement the redundancy programme on a 3 month lea ...

(7 pages) 10 0 0.0 Nov/2011

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics