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As I type these words there are only 20 days until October 1st, AKA, ICD-10 transition day. Most people in the healthcare industry are wondering what that day will be like. What will happen? What will they have to do? Our suggestion would be if you’re the praying kind – pray. If you have a lucky talisman, you may want to rub it or give it a shake that day. Will October 1st be a bit like Y2K? Remember how we were all essentially preparing for Armageddon and then nothing really happened, it was sort

politics, is a threshold that allows for women’s issues to influence legislative and public policy changes once passed (Beckwith, 2007). In critical mass theory, once a minority group (in this case women) reaches a given quantity of descriptive representation, qualitative change occurs – affecting norms, values and institutions. Kanter (1977) developed a four-category typology to assess group dynamics in organisational culture, which Dahlerup builds on: uniform, all one gender group; skewed, with an

Leyster and Daumier painted everyday life events, despite the different intentions. The time and styles of the artwork are not similar at all, other than the intention to capture everyday life events. Leyster 's Self-Portrait focused primarily on herself, how she viewed herself, and how she desired others to view her. This type of painting was extremely rare, if not unheard of during a time when female artists were seen as inferior. The Baroque style of painting exhibits bold colors and dramatic

This article provided insight on managing red tape from the point of view of a business founder. The author who founded the Virgin Group of companies describes red tape as a hinderance to startup companies, as if its intended purpose was to limit or prevent success. The author uses his experience with founding companies to elaborate on the cautionary measures a startup must take as it grows to prevent the hierarchy of bureaucracy from taking over. 　　The author illustrates his point by using the

Symbols: a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process. Throughout this story the use of symbols were greatly used as a representation of a civilization journey. The process was made up of 3 important symbols in the novel to which helped the boys find an escape from the island. The boys found an escape route even if the symbols were made as a negative impact on how they lived or as a positive impact. The novel, The Lord of the Flies, written by William

them falling over. He saw other children stack the boys in a neater way and managed to learn without and adult showing him.  4. Look for evidence of symbolic representation. Did the child use one object to represent another? (2 points) The child did not show, in his play, that some toys were symbols for other things. Symbolic representation is when an object that represents, stands for, or suggests an idea, belief, action, or material entity. An example would be a child using a banana as a

In today’s society, there is a growing amount of people whose data is being collected through different mediums within their everyday lives. This information is also known as big data; great amounts of data collected through various forms into large data systems. Ed Dumbill (2012) claims the input data is collected through systems such as “chatter from social networks, web server logs, traffic flow sensors, satellite imagery, broadcast audio streams, banking transactions, MP3s of rock music, the

voters from selecting such candidates. It is a system which generally makes it difficult for smaller parties to gain influence, and which rarely provides accurate representation to the voters. A winner-take-all system is, as the name suggests, one where the winner (the majority vote in this case) is the only one selected for representation. The margin of victory does not matter; a 45 percent majority is counted the same a 60

An Argument for Single Transferable Vote One of the main functions of elections is to ensure representation. Yet, it is arguable that most electoral systems do not return proportional results and therefore do not ensure proper representation. There are numerous electoral systems that are used all over the world and every country seems to have adopted a particular system that works well for them, but may not for others. For much of the BC Legislative Assembly’s history, the First Past the Post (FPTP)

Electoral Reform and What it Would Mean for Aboriginal Peoples Canadian politics still operate under the outdated First Past the Post electoral system. Many believe that it is time for Canada to change its electoral system to a Proportional Representation system. This would be especially beneficial for Aboriginal peoples, as they remain severely under-represented and discriminated by the First Past the Post system. This essay will argue that the current First Past the Post electoral system in Canada