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IBUS330 E-Portfolio

IBUS 330 is a three-credit, upper-division core course for the BSBA degree and a prerequisite for all advanced International Business courses. In addition to providing an introduction to the field it also includes a major emphasis on culture. As a part of a multi-year process of continual development and improvement, the current course redesign of the writing component specifically addresses a major problem and criticism of online courses; namely the lack of any significant writing component in the curriculum. The continual development of writing and several enhancements to address the other major problems/criticisms of online mega courses is addressed in this report.

Subjects:: Management and English language
Keywords:: Business education
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Six Sigma Belt Level Rankings - Lean Six Sigma Online Certification: Training at Purdue University

Get to know the six sigma belt level rankings so you can build skills that will help your company function more smoothly and advance your career.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Total quality management Organizational effectiveness Six sigma (Quality control stard)
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Major muscles of the upper limbs (affiliated readings)

It introduces the characteristics, locations and actions of major muscles of the upper limbs, particularly the Biceps brachii and the Deltoid.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Arm Human anatomy Muscles
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Organization of human body (affiliated readings)

A summary of a stroke patient case provided by the attending physician, which described the case situation during the hospital stay, including assessments and interventions, and follow-ups with various healthcare professionals for rehabilitation.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy
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Physician's Case Summary

A summary of a stroke patient case provided by the attending physician, which described the case situation during the hospital stay, including assessments and interventions, and follow-ups with various healthcare professionals for rehabilitation.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Cerebrovascular disease Cerebrovascular disease -- Rehabilitation
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Location of the heart (affiliated readings)

This session presents the position and orientation of the heart in the thorax.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Human physiology Human anatomy Heart -- Anatomy Heart
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Agile Software Development: It’s Implication for AI products and Developers

Software developments is advancing the technological world today. This changes have far more reaching implications in I.T industries such as Big data, Artificial intelligence and Agile Software development methodologies. Competition in the software development ecosystem has made developers to build software that are quick and reliable and often referred to as Agile development. Agile transformation is real and requires rethinking the business management, recruitment process and data strategy in a bid to stimulate disruptive solutions from within in-house development and deployment. AI product development would require rapid transformational changes within any organization. This can be accomplished by establishing specific operating models that permit development teams with the freedom of technology choice. This publication highlights some operating models that can be adopted to improve the success of AI products using Agile software development methodologies.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Agile software development
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Deep Learning in GeoSpatial Artificial Intelligence

Geospatial artificial intelligence sometimes referred to as geoAI is recently receiving so much attention. From large-scale projects to smaller projects. GeoAI can be referred to as using artificial intelligence with Geographical information system to analyse and produce solution-based predictions.

Subjects:: Computing and Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
Keywords:: Geospatial data Geographic information systems Artificial intelligence
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Replication Data for Chen, V.L., Delmas, M.A., Locke S., Singh, A. 2017. Information Strategies for Energy Conservation: A Field Experiment in India. Energy Economics

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled: “Information Strategies for Energy Conservation: A Field Experiment in India” (Victor L. Chen, Magali A. Delmas, Stephen L. Locke, Amarjeet Singh, 2017).The availability of high-resolution electricity data offers benefits to both utilities and consumers to understand the dynamics of energy consumption for example, between billing periods or times of peak demand. However, few public datasets with high-temporal resolution have been available to researchers on electricity use, especially at the appliance-level. In this article, we describe data collected in a residential field experiment for 19 apartments at an Indian faculty housing complex during the period from August 1, 2013 to May 12, 2014. The dataset includes detailed information about electricity consumption. It also includes information on apartment characteristics and hourly weather variation to enable further studies of energy performance. These data can be used by researchers as training datasets to evaluate electricity usage consumption.

Subjects:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: India Electric power -- Conservation Electric power consumption
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Invariant Action Recognition Dataset

A dataset of five actors performing five different actions (drink, eat, jump, run and walk) on a treadmill from five different views (0, 45, 90, 135, and 180 degrees from the front of the actor/treadmill; the treadmill rather than the camera was rotated in place to acquire from different viewpoints). The dataset was filmed on a fixed, constant background.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Motion perception (Vision) Computer vision Optical pattern recognition
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SUFR-W (Subtasks of unconstrained face recognition)

This package contains: 1. SUFR-W, a dataset of “in the wild” natural images of faces gathered from the internet. The protocol used to create the dataset is described in Leibo, Liao and Poggio (2014) - https://cbmm.mit.edu/publications/conference-abstracts/subtasks-unconstrained-face-recognition 2. The full set of SUFR synthetic datasets, called the “Subtasks of Unconstrained Face Recognition Challenge” in Leibo, Liao and Poggio (2014) - https://cbmm.mit.edu/publications/conference-abstracts/subtasks-unconstrained-face-recognition

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Human face recognition (Computer science) Optical pattern recognition
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A Benchmark Dataset for Manipuri Meetei-Mayek Handwritten Character Recognition

This work introduces a handwritten Manipuri Meetei-Mayek character dataset which consists of more than 5000 data samples which were collected from a diverse population group that belongs to different age groups (from 4 years to 60 years), genders, educational backgrounds, occupations, communities from three different districts of Manipur, India (Imphal East District, Thoubal District and Kangpokpi District) during March and April 2019.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Optical pattern recognition
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OAG Yearly Historic Flight Schedules

Projections of commercial airline flight schedules worldwide. Describe characteristics of each flight such as: departure and arrival airports, flight times, carrier, fares, capacity, and more. Projections are made at the beginning of every time period (month or year) and project the schedules for that time period until the next update is received. Data from 1979-March 1987 are available monthly. Data from 1987 onward are available annually.

Subjects:: Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering
Keywords:: Aeronautics -- Flights Airlines Aeronautics
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Ecotourism: Who Benefits?

The main objective of this case is to have students critically examine the costs and the benefits associated with ecotourism, a form of tourism usuallly involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial mass tourism.

Subjects:: Hotel, Travel and Tourism
Keywords:: Ecotourism
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Ad*Access

Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955.

Subjects:: Advertising Design
Keywords:: Canada Databases Advertising United States
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Gateway to Chinese

A website built by University of Texas at Austin provides resources to learn Mandarin, including resources on pronunciation, vocabulary, listening, grammar and reading.

Subjects:: Foreign Language Learning
Keywords:: Chinese language -- Dialects Marin dialects
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Visionary: A Dictionary for the Study of Vision

A dictionary for terminology used in the study of human and animal vision. It includes terms from the areas of biological and machine vision, visual psychophysics, visual neuroscience and other related fields.

Subjects:: Optometry
Keywords:: Vision
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Free Marketing Simulation Game

A free marketing simulation game designed for use by lecturers and instructors, to help their students to understand various marketing concepts. Instruction video and PowerPoint slides are included. The game can accommodate up to 10 teams to play at the one time, and up to 8 rounds. The simulation game is built in Excel, requires no special software to run and does not include any macros.

Subjects:: Marketing
Keywords:: Marketing -- Simulation methods Management games
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ABG Online Learning Activity

An interactive online learning activity (tutorial) for nurses and healthcare personnel. ** Skip registration and click on the 'Start here' link (below the registration section), if you are not interested in the credits.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Nursing -- Study teaching Allied health personnel -- Study teaching
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Psych Pharm

A self-learning site for student nurses. It encourages the learning of psych pharmaceuticals through various online interactive activities provided by the Quizlet platform. Activity includes flash cards, multiple choice, Q&A, spelling, and games. Note that not all online activities are free.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Psychotropic drugs Psychopharmacology Nursing -- Study teaching
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Response To Intervention – RTI Resources

Intervention Central provides K-12 teachers and schools with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention, and attain the Common Core State Standards (of USA). See more about CCSS at http://www.corestandards.org/.

Subjects:: Psychology
Keywords:: Response to intervention (Learning disabled children)
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Health Topics A-Z

The CDC A-Z Index is a navigational and informational tool that makes the CDC.gov Website easier to use. It helps you quickly find and retrieve specific information. The A-Z index is structured so that synonyms, acronyms, and cross-referencing provide multiple ways for you to access the topics and features on CDC.gov. The index includes common and scientific terms to meet the needs of consumers as well as health professionals.

Subjects:: Health Sciences
Keywords:: Public health Medicine Preventive Centers for Disease Control Prevention (U.S.)
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Mental Health Screening Center

A collection of self-help online screening tools for the assessment of mental conditions: Depression, Mania, and Anxiety.

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Mania Depression Mental Anxiety
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IELTS Online Practice Materials

Online self-study materials developed to provide support for students who are preparing to take the IELTS test.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: International English Language Testing System English language -- Study teaching -- Foreign speakers
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Optimus: Online Project for the Improvement of University Speaking

English presentational speaking is important for students during their studies and for their post-tertiary careers. The goal of the Online Project for the Improvement of University Speaking Project (OPTIMUS) is to provide Hong Kong tertiary students with an online, self-access resource for the improvement of their English speaking skills. OPTIMUS is the product of a large UGC-funded project conducted collaboratively by HKU, CityU and PolyU. OPTIMUS is centred on a database of more than 60 video exemplars of authentic best-practice speaking from expert and peer presenters. The user interface allows learners a large degree of independence to tailor usage to their preferred learning styles and needs.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: English language -- Spoken English
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IdiomsTube

IdiomsTube is a computer tool developed by Dr Phoebe Lin of the Department of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The tool helps you to learn English idioms from watching any subtitled YouTube videos.

Subjects:: English Language
Keywords:: English language -- Idioms
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FOCUSED Project

The "Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D." philosophy is a strategic thinking framework designed to help prepare the next generation of thought-leaders for a complicated world. By using this framework, you will learn BETTER, learn FASTER and learn MORE than you are used to.

We operationalized this framework through the aid of seven (7) dice to give a “touch-and-feel” of the philosophy. The statements / prompts / questions appearing on each of the seven dice have been statistically determined. The “Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D.” framework has proven so useful that real organizations are using it to help their senior management and board of directors open up the ALTERNATIVES to better deal with their UNSOLVED problems, issues and challenges."

The F.O.C.U.S.E.D dice are designed based on an extensive survey carried out with 400+ business students at our Faculty of Business and feedback from practitioners on what our students need to do to help take their learning to the next level. The key findings culminated in the importance of the “Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D.” philosophy where each letter represents a critical competency much sought-after in the real world today:

"F" - Bring Fresh Perspective

"O" - Think, feel and act like an Owner/ Manager

"C" - Show Connected-thinking

"U" - Have a Sense of Urgency

"S" - Show Team SPIRIT

"E" - Always Engage

"D" - Exercise Deliberate Practice

To learn more about the idea of the “ecosystem” that we built around the FOCUSED philosophy and its accompanying 7 colourful dice framework, please visit the FOCUSED homepage or click "View Resource".

Keywords:: Problem solving Dice games
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The first six books of the elements of Euclid with coloured diagrams and symbols

Euclid’s Elements was a collection of 13 books about geometry originally written circa 300 BC. Shortly after the advent of the printing press, many editions and translations have been created over the centuries. Byrne’s 1847 edition of the first six books stands out for its unique use of colorful illustrations to demonstrate proofs rather than using letters to label angles, edges, and shapes. His edition was one of the first books to be published with such detailed use of colors and combined with its detailed diagrams makes it an impressive feat of publishing for the times and it stands out even today as a work of art. This site is a reproduction of Byrne’s Euclid by Oliver Byrne from 1847 that pays tribute to the beautiful original design and includes enhancements such as interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Euclid's Elements Elements (Euclid) Geometry
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台北國立故宮博物院Open Data專區

國立故宮博物院為提升政府資料開放品質、促進故宮資料在教學、個人賞析及營利使用之傳播，特別自106年起更新下載專區之「文物圖像下載」及「精選圖像下載」，所有圖像民眾無需申請，不限用途，不用付費，可直接下載使用，相關規範均依「政府資料開放授權條款1.0版」辦理，歡迎各界多加利用。

Keywords:: Taiwan Art objects Chinese Art Chinese
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Want to test your knowledge on Primary and Secondary Sources?

In this exercise, learners are required to distinguish the information belong to "primary sources" or "secondary sources". Primary information source are anything created at the time when the incident/event happened. They were created with the intention to record the incident/event. It could be a document, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, a diary, an artifact, and so on. Secondary information source is anything (e.g., documents, records, artifacts, objects, and so on) that discuss, relates, or refers another piece of information existing elsewhere.

Keywords:: Information resources Research -- Methodology Information literacy
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12 types of biases

In this slide, there could be as many as 12 types of biases that information user could fall victim when dealing with information.

Keywords:: Fallacies (Logic) Cognition Selectivity (Psychology)
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Check the essentials using AAOCC

In this slide, it introduces AAOCC, a way to identify bad information that helps people carrying out to filter information.

Keywords:: Web sites -- Evaluation Information literacy
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Further personal competencies and skills

Apart from subject domain knowledge, there are some personal competencies and skills that learner may want to develop in university. The personal competencies and skills include, critical thinking, evaluating definitions, evaluating arguments, evaluating news & media, evaluating scientific studies, evaluating disagreement, and evaluating statistics & graphs.

Keywords:: Critical thinking Media literacy Journalism -- Social aspects Information literacy Press criticism
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5 Levels of research output

The way you put ideas together reflect your level of understanding about the issue you have inquired in your research, which, is what your professor looks for when she/he assess your work. In this slide, it introduces 5 level of research output and note the differences between different sentences, and the depth of idea you could get.

Keywords:: Research -- Methodology Report writing Academic writing
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The role information and information literacy play in 4 steps methods for creating refutations

In this slide, it explains the 4-steps-method outlined by the University of Pittsburg and it illustrate the role information and information literacy play in each step to help learners to see the bigger picture.

Keywords:: Information retrieval Study skills Information literacy
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What are the six frame of informed learning

In this slide, it introduces the six frames for informed learning, suggested by Prof. Christine Bruce, would help learners brainstorm about the research topic in all-rounded, comprehensive way. The six aspects of your research topic that you should brainstorm for are: (1) Content frame, (2) Competency frame, (3) Learning to learn frame, (4) Personal relevance frame, (5) Social impact frame, and (6) Relational frame.

Keywords:: Learning Information literacy
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Steps in preparing for research task

When preparing for research tasks (e.g. articles, essay, projects, reports, thesis,...), you have to go through a series of small tasks. In this slide, it elaborates and expands the research topic before carrying out the actual search.

Keywords:: Research -- Methodology
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My info buddies

In this slide, it introduces different type of resource was created with a particular kind of purpose: to transmit facts, to interpret the findings, to put forward a viewpoint, to let fellow workers know some important idea, and so on.

Keywords:: Information resources Research -- Methodology
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Why is information from authoritative sources not trustworthy?

In this slide, it explains the reason why the information came from authoritative sources but still not trustworthy. The possible reason could be (1) the way information is produced, (2)carelessness or loaded with secret intentions, (3) in favour of their hidden goal, (4)not spending enough time, (5) limited topic vocabulary, (6) limited by technical barriers, (7)information that fits with your knowledge & beliefs, and (8) from a source that you think is trustworthy.

Keywords:: Research -- Methodology Information resources -- Evaluation
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What do you usually do when you receive the assignment topic?

In this exercise, learners are require to order the tasks in a way that reflect the research usual practice.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Humanities -- Research -- Methodology Humanities -- Research
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Where is the best place to find primary sources for cultural project?

In the exercise, learner need to determine where is the best place to find these primary information.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Information resources Humanities -- Research Information literacy
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Search the business databases

In this slide, it explains 3 questions: (1) How do I gather the forecast of key economic indicators in Hong Kong, (2) How can I find the market data and analytics for mobile phones in China, and (3) How can I create a customized table to compare P/F ratios of all constituent stocks in Hang Seng Index.

Keywords:: China -- Hong Kong Economic conditions -- Statistics Business -- Databases
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Search the journal databases

In this slide, it explains 3 questions: (1) What are the top 20 journals in the subject discipline of business and international management, (2) How can I find the most highly cited articles on a specific strategy, and (3) How can I find the articles from practitioner magazines and newspapers.

Keywords:: Business -- Periodicals Information retrieval Information resources -- Evaluation Bibliometrics Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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Matching various engineering content types

In this exercise, you will learn various engineering content types. For example, journal articles & conference papers, e-books, patents, standards, thesis & dissertations.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Information resources Engineering -- Research Information literacy
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How to find high impact articles?

In this slide, you will learn more about citation counts, h-index, eigenfactor score, and impact factor.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Engineering -- Periodicals Bibliometrics Scholarly periodicals -- Ratings rankings
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What do you usually do when you receive the research topic (Medicine)

In this exercise, please rank the task in the order that reflect your usual research practices.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medicine -- Research
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Recognizing various types of information in health sciences

In this exercise, students are required to match various types of information in health sciences.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Information resources Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medicine -- Research Medical sciences -- Research Information literacy
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Sort these into scholarly journals and popular magazines

In this exercise, learners are required to sort the given information into scholarly journals or popular magazine.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Information resources Public health -- Research Medical care -- Research Medical sciences -- Research Information literacy
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Matching various scientific content types with their intended purpose

In this matching game, learners are required to match various scientific content types, for example, books, literature review articles, encyclopedia entry, conference proceedings, scholarly journal articles, government documents, reference books, technical reports, with their intended purpose.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Research Information literacy Information resources
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Brainstorming the project workflow

In this matching game, learners are required to match the different phases of a research project.

Subjects:: Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Research -- Methodology Research
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