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This paper analyzes different aspects of installing a centralized computerized energy management system. The writer discusses that energy management systems (EMS) control energy-consuming equipment in order to make them operate more effectively and efficiently. The writer notes that the main function of an EMS is integrating the supervision, control and management of power production and distribution efforts.

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"What is a Centralized Computerized Energy Management System? Energy management systems (EMS) control energy-consuming equipment in order to make them operate more effectively and efficiently. (Energy Design Resources). The main purpose of an EMS, depending on its size, is to control all or some of the process that will generate, transmit, and distribute electric energy efficiently. Its main function is integrating the supervision, control and management of power networks."

Tags:energy, conservation, computers

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This paper discusses how computerized medical record-keeping facilitates improved access and transmission of medical information and has been argued as instrumental in ensuring that patients receive appropriate care in a timely manner. This paper then reviews the issues of confidentiality that have emerged from ethical concerns of misuse of patient information at the hands of insurance providers, health care associates, and even physicians themselves.

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"Confidentiality in Computerized Medical Records Description of Case Example Dudley (2004) indicated that confidentiality of patient records has been a contended issue in health care since the advent of transforming paper records into digital records. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was designed to alleviate these concerns and was enacted in April of 2003. However, critics and case research indicates that the HIPAA has not done enough in terms of promoting patient confidentiality and fails to protect the patient's medical information, even in areas of interest that are specifically covered by the legislation (Dudley, 2004). Revisions to HIPAA are to go into effect on March 16 of 2006, but it remains uncertain as to whether these revisions will satisfactory resolve the existing disparities in distribution of protected information. "

Tags:ethics, medicine, confidentiality

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This paper offers a final report on a plan to build a computerized system to operate a wastewater treatment plant to make the plant for efficient and to reduce costs to the city that operates it.

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This paper examines an emergency room situation in which a man is wheeled in but without the information needed to treat his condition in the best way possible. The paper reviews the Four Principle theory of Beauchamp and Childress and argues that while a more aggressive decision making approach which privileges the concept of beneficence over the other concepts presented by the authors may not be what they would endorse, it is an approach which will greatly improve the patient chances for recovery or even survival.

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The following paper examines the ethical issues facing the various actors in a situation wherein the emergency department is unable to secure the records for a patient in large part because the managed health care provider for the gentleman in question will not release computerized records except in instances where the primary care physician releases those records. In examining the aforementioned issue, the next several pages provide two alternative solutions to the present dilemma using the Beauchamp and Childress "four principle theory" of medical ethics. The paper then concludes by advancing a final solution which (again using the Beauchamp and Childress theoretical model) seems the most appropriate for the scenario confronting the parties in the above case."

Tags:beauchamp, childress, theory

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This proposal is for a new water treatment and collection facility to be built for the city of Plains, which is facing severe budgetary problems due to reduced revenues. The new project would utilize the state of art technology along with computer software to implement a cost effective facility with significant cost savings.

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The paper relates that modern passenger vehicles contain a wide array of computerized and electronic components and accessories, which either contribute to the functioning of the vehicles or provide optional information or add convenience for the drivers. Given this wide variety of technology possible and the limited space available, this paper focuses only on the most critical electronic computerized components of vehicles.

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"Modern passenger vehicles contain a wide array of computerized and electronic components and accessories, which either contribute to the functioning of the vehicles or provide optional information or add convenience for the drivers. Given this wide variety of technology possible and the limited space available, this paper will focus only on the most critical electronic computerized components of vehicles. According to our definition, this will include only those components contributing directly to the proper functioning of the automobile and will not include optional information-conveying components or accessories..."

Tags:computerization, automotive, technology

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This study analyzes results of the Virginia Standards of Learning tests. The author contrasts one group of high school students who used online computerized methods of testing versus the second group, who were tested with the traditional "paper-pencil" method. The author argues that computer-based testing is in its preliminary phases. This study, therefore, is intended to let scholars research the dependability of these tests. This research begins to fill this gap and offer future direction for additional research to be carried out.

Outline:
Abstract
Statement of Problem
Rationale of Study
Research Objectives
Literature Review
Hypothesis
Methodology
Participants
Measures
Procedure
Implications and Conclusion
References

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"The control of computers is the seeming dominant feature at the closing stages of the twentieth century. In the 1970s computers operated behind closed doors to tally books, record paychecks, organize weather newscasts, and perform whichever errands whose qualities frequently incorporated repellent recurring processes. The 1980s saw a transformation. Computers took a permanent position in the forefront of firms and businesses. Soon after, the computers replaced the human employees in the department of customer services. Personal computers with telecommunication were more common. Nowadays, the computers handle far more complicated procedures than what they did before. "Machine intelligence", "Inference engines", and "Expert Systems" are expressions that are gradually growing in trend. "

Tags:standardized, tests, mathematics, computer-based, learning, Virginia, Standards, of, Learning, tests

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In this article, the writer points out that many aspects of work in the service sector are becoming computerized. The writer discusses that this raises the question of whether this will result in skill increases and an associated decline in underemployment for young people, or whether it will have the opposite effect, in that less people will be required to fill service sector positions.

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"Does computerization of work in the service sector result in skill increases and underemployment decline for young people? Some experts think we are heading towards a near worker-less world. It will be argued that the growth of computerization and associated technologies will mean that the service sector will expand, and productivity will skyrocket. Therefore, computerization of work in the service sector will result in skill increases and underemployment ..."

Tags:youth, jobs, computerization

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In this article, the writer explores the effects of technological change and computerization upon the wage structure in Canada. The paper begins by noting how IT workers have seen their wages rise sharply compared to the wages of other Canadians. The paper also examines how computerization and technological advancement have made many jobs obsolete and the economic implications of technological change for blue-collar workers. Additionally, the paper contemplates the consequences of technological evolution and computerization for working-class men and a brief examination of what the benefits and disadvantages of the new wage structure are for Canada is presented.

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"The view of this writer is that technological change in Canada has deepened the cleavages between various groups and that the country is rushing towards a serious crisis if something cannot be done to better facilitate the entry of millions of Canadians into the twenty-first century economy. With that in mind, it is to a discussion of the relationship between technological change and the wage structure of the Dominion that this paper now turns."

Tags:technology, wages

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The paper offers a review and critique of a journal article describing a qualitative study of a computerized mental health assessment kiosk.

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"The research questions addressed by Leung et, al. were how do patients feel about using a computerized health assessment kiosk to perform mental health assessment and how effective are computerized health assessment kiosks in obtaining sensitive or confidential information and screening for mental health status. Key Points in the..."

Tags:qualitative research, journal article, computerized mental health assessment