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    of the emergency could have benefited from exercise and preparedness programs. All things considered, since there was neither record nor indication that training exercises, specific to railway accidents, had been planned or conducted prior to the derailment incident in February 2015. The incident itself thus became the exercise, yet prior to an incident it is integral to ensure that a plan or procedure has been developed and tested. In the city of Oxnard the emergency management duties fall under

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    Canadian National Railway system (CN), which tests its equipment on a regular basis use a decision support system. Railroad deterioration is a problem faced by many railroad organizations. Worn out and defective rails can result in hundreds of derailments per

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    The Follower is a key component of the leadership balance, playing a key role in the leadership process (Baker 2007). The leadership process is affected by the expectations, capabilities, maturity, enthusiasm and personality traits of followers. Followers can be grouped into two groups, active followers who are independent, critical thinkers and passive followers who are dependant and un-critical thinkers (Kelley 1992). Mr. S has a combination of followers, ranging from highly active followers to

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    interpersonal survey of how many conversations we have with family, friends, and others that the content of the dialog without fail is threaded with questions about the business your associated with and the direction it is going. When reading about derailment in "The Leadership

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    approach and ideology we must define and further investigate these enlightened writers. One must indicate clearly the specific points where writers turn from a philosophical / scientific orientation to an ideological one, and understand how these derailments into ideological dogmatism may distort the given writer’s view of reality. The philosophy of science is a section of philosophy that rationalizes with the basic foundations, mechanisms, and implications of science. The central questions of

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    Gerry Spartar Leadership

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    with the new inclusion of non-whites in the football team because he was evidently committing inadequate actions that according to research by the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) there are five specific flaws that commonly lead to leadership derailment (Zhang, Leslie, Hannum, 2013, p. 97). For instance, when Gerry introduced himself to newly hired

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    As many as half a million Central American immigrants illegally travel to the United States each year. The data base, Issues and Controversies about the American immigration policy, states “the appeal that the United States holds for many immigrants, combined with its restrictive immigration policy, has led millions of people to enter the country illegally” (Immigration Policy). Most of these people are women in addition to children. Seventy five percent of child immigrants are searching for their

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    In order to minimize the number of subway accidents, motor vehicle collisions and airplane accidents, state and federal agencies regulate the transportation industry. If a subway accident occurs, safety boards, inspectors and investigators are called upon to investigate the incident. At some point, light rail, subway and commuter rail have all been investigated. Although the injuries sustained during a subway accident are usually much less extensive than those seen in automobile accidents, more

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    In this scenario, this customer has invested in Hadoop, in-database, and in-memory technologies to modernized their its architecture for the 21st twenty-first century. 1. The data has two paths. Depending on the type, the data can go into the enterprise data warehouse if it is structured data. If it is semi-structured data such as detectors and sensors, they go into Hadoop that acts as a data lake to collect a sample of the following sources of data:  Wayside detectors. : These sensors identify

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    Phoenix Railroad City

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    the metro area, passing Buckeye, at about 1:30 in the morning, when the passengers were suddenly awoken by the derailment of the train. Emergency services from the city of Buckeye raced to the wreck. As emergency crews arrived they found nearly a hundred people injured and one dead. Spotted along the tracks were several notes, signed by a group called the “Sons of Gestapo”. The derailment was sabotage. The FBI was called to the scene. Investigators had found several ties were pulled up and that the

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