Abstract: This paper covers trends in the data mining and data warehousing industry. It covers applications and new possibilities in the field along with risks involved, limitations, and possible questions surrounding ethical usage of information.
As computing power has increased over the past few decades, the industry has found many innovative solutions to previously impossible problems. The raw increase in computing power, and the ability to push numbers and move large amounts of data in reasonable amounts of time have enhanced the abilities and sizes of databases. Companies such as NCR, can now maintain databases of sizes greater than a terrabyte. (For which 1 Terrabyte = 1024 Gigabytes, 1 Gigabyte = 1024 Megabytes, 1 Megabyte = 1024 bytes. 1 Terrabyte is 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.) Of course size is irrelevant to database unless there is a fast mining time, or a quick response time to data queries to the database. Oracle, Informix, and NCR are some database mining companies that provide quick response to data queries on their databases and provide a new world of opportunities. Data mining today can allow for companies to create customer profiles, manipulate information easily, and provide knowledgeable access to the current state of a their company. However, a reality that many companies find out the hard way, is that data mining and data warehousing does not work for them. As with many new tools or technology, companies may jump on the bandwagon without contemplating its potential weaknesses. In order to remain competitive in today’s business world, companies should consider implementing data warehouses, but only with adequate research taking into account the benefits and weaknesses of such an initiative.
Data mining has created new ways of moving information around and has allowed for novel applications in using information. Any range of companies will accrue vast amounts of data and statistics during their normal operations. Data includes vital information such as sales, overhead, distribution, and chain locations, to information such as customer purchases, sales demographics, and rate of sales per store location. The sheer amount of information generated by even modestly small companies can be staggering. Prior to reliable data warehousing solutions, most of the information was discarded as there was no reasonable way to make use of the information. However, Han, Urban and Dasgupta point out that data mining can be used to find relationships in data that might seem unrelated.
In my organization, FMLA entitles an employee up to 12 weeks of leave without pay during any 12-month period. The employee must make a request for family and medical leave under FMLA in writing on an authorized form. The form certifies that the employee understands the reason for the leave. When there is a foreseeable need for unpaid family and medical leave, the employee must give a 30 calendar day notice of intent to take leave. Otherwise, the employee can provide such notice as is practicable. If the need is foreseeable and the employee fails to give 30 calendar days’ notice without a reasonable excuse for the delay of notification, the organization may delay the use of taking family and medical leave until at least 30 days after the date the employee provides...
The debate about space exploration has been raging on for decades, people on both sides of the issue vehemently arguing their point of view. However despite the possible risk space exploration has the potential to change humanity for the better, and doing so is well worth the risk. This essay will elaborate some of the plethora of ways that space exploration could benefit mankind.
To be eligible to file for an FMLA leave, the employee must have been employed for 12 months or have worked at least 1,250 hours for the employer. The employee is also eligible for health care coverage while taking FMLA leave. In addition, upon return, the employee is entitled to the same position or an equivalent position with equivalent pay, benefits and working conditions upon return. (DOL)
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As a country we need to start investing more money and research into space technology. Programs currently exist for this effort, but the potential for research and progress is limited by a lack of funding; compared to other government funded programs, aerospace funding is pitiful. Continued research in space technology is a necessary step in our growth and development not just as a country but also as entire human race. If we are to achieve this goal, it is necessary to increase funding for space research and technology and consider the possibility of colonizing outer space. If we limit our existence to the planet Earth, and continue to drain the resources on this planet, we will destroy the only home we have.
With its crippling debt and increasing rates of unemployment, America needs job opportunity. Commercialized space exploration companies will create countless jobs in maintenance, research, construction, and various other fields essential to space programs already. From working in the mission control centers that would be necessary to run the newly formed operations to creating shuttles and other spacecraft, jobs of great variety would become available. These new companies or new branches of pre-existing companies, with the future in mind, will open the door for eager-minded American citizens across the nation. Roles will be filled, and people will aid in bettering their nation’s future. Further developing mankind’s knowledge of the solar system and nearby galaxies should be the platfor...
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The article then goes into minor detail about how FMLA will be denied based on lack of advance notification, or uses fraudulent means to try and obtain a leave of absence. Next we see several examples for the purpose of the laws creation, and what type of situation that it was established for. In this case, the writer gives the details of a baby who needed constant care with oxygen and a heart monitor, and the mother was denied the leave of absence by her employer, someone who was fired because they had an ailing parent that needed their attention, and finally a woman who lost her job because she was absent due to her own chemotherapy treatments to cure her cancer. The article teeters back again to the side of dissent that there are those who believe that government should stay out of business practices. The article then veers back to the topic of FMLA abuse, and blames the employee and their healthcare providers for misinterpreting an
Shakespeare, William. "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?." 1894. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. By X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 6th ed. Boston: Longman, 2010. 501. Print. Compact Edition.
Over the years, many Americans have pointed out the successes of the act- such as the generally positive impact that the act has had on employee absenteeism, turnover, and morale, that tend to come about with little to no negative impact on the employers themselves. (WHD: Survey Factsheet). Yet, an alternative perspective of the FMLA views the act as unnecessary and believes that the FMLA is actually hindrance upon employers who should be able to set their own policies and agendas on the subject of employee leave. Lastly, some people even tend to argue that the FMLA fails to go far enough into protecting employee well-being. In recent years, an increasing number of Americans have called for a revision of our current FMLA, citing a desire to institute a more comprehensive leave act with expanded employer coverage, looser requirements for employee leave, and even the desire to institute a paid leave system, as opposed to this current unpaid leave system.
When considering this topic, one might ask themselves why explore space? We explore space to compare other planets with the earth and to study the sun, to explore the universe while finding if intelligent life exists, for satellites to improve communications, weather forecasting, navigation, resource monitoring, and “to create a focal point for a new intellectual renaissance” (Ruzic).
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Since the beginning of time, mankind has sought after learning about and exploring the universe. This yearning drove us to achieve such great things as the journey to the moon and the discovery of water on mars. Nowadays, several people argue as to whether or not space exploration is worth the effort. I believe that it is humanity’s instinctual nature to pursue a better understanding of ourselves, and our universe. Further understanding of our universe will lead to the discovery of new technologies and ways to secure humanity’s survivability. As such, this essay will argue that space exploration is a necessity to our kind and that NASA should be progressively more financed.
Since we first sent rockets into Earths orbit, we have been pushing the technological boundaries in order to reach new heights. Space exploration has caused advances in almost every field imaginable. We have seen new technology in the fields of telecommunications, innovative new light-weight materials, rockets and aircraft material. Space exploration by nature causes innovation because the need for “increased performance in space… usually means getting more out of less” (Crusan & Neumann, 2011). These size and weight constraints on materials and equipment have lead to the creation of devices that we use everyday like water filters, scratch resistant lenses, and memory foam. The newest advancement in NASA’s long list of innovations is the International Space station (ISS). The ISS a long-term micro-gravity research station that helps us get closer to eventually making a journey to other planets. NASA has been doing the impossible for 55 years and is now in the process of handing over the reigns to the private sector. Companies like Virgin Galactic and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) have taken over wh...
Most people think that the costly downside to funding space exploration is a reason to avoid spending money on sciences and instead spend it on problems here on earth, but such funding for space exploration actually promotes economical as well as scientific benefits. Space exploration is an important expenditure for the high cost because of the potential for numerous benefits such as the possibility to find useful resources to cultivate, space exploration and satellites produce many thousands of jobs in our economy, and it creates and discovers newer and better technologies through research and development.