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Business events and friendship: Leveraging the sociable legacies
© 2014 Cognizant Comm. Corp. Business events are celebrated for their contributions to community and industry. They are understood to be shared social contexts in which people meet to advance knowledge, sell products, and network. Less celebrated and, arguably, less understood is that business events provide a context for the development of friendships. In 2011 an online survey was conducted with the delegates of five international business events held in Sydney, Australia in the period 2009-2011. The survey was designed to investigate business legacies of the events (such as investment opportunities, research collaborations) rather than sociable legacies. However, a surprising number of references to friendship were made in the "additional comments" sections of the questionnaire. Reflecting on this finding, this article argues that friendships forged at business events contribute to, respectively: the well-being of delegates, association membership levels, conference attendance, retention of personnel in the profession, successful research and professional collaborations, and creativity and innovation in the sector. Business event planners can maximize opportunities for sociable outcomes among delegates by designing warm and inviting event spaces that facilitate interaction, and by providing social space for the development of relationships, optimal conditions for sociability, and opportunities for play to stimulate creativity and build community
Maximizing the Area of a Sector With Fixed Perimeter
Historically, many maxima and minima were found long before Newton and Leibniz developed calculus. Ivan
Niven's (1981) classic Maxima and Minima Without Calculus provides a systematic and thorough account
of solving extreme-value problems using elementary algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Niven devotes a
chapter to isoperimetric problems: problems that ask "for the region of largest area in a given class of regions ... of a specified perimeter" (p. 77). We use technology as a tool to solve the isoperimetric problem for the
sector of a circle—an investigation inspired by a project in Farrell and Boyd (2007)
Shape Affects the Sound of a Drum: Modeling Area and Perimeter
The sound of a drum is based on the wave equation from physics. The surface area of the
drumhead and its fixed perimeter are key parameters. This paper uses area and perimeter to model and
answer the question, Can a rectangular and a circular drum make the same sound
PCN71 Value of Progression-Free Survival (PFS) in Refractory Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): An Exploratory Modeling Analysis
Examining cost measurements in production and delivery of three case studies using eLearning for Applied Health Sciences: a cross-case synthesis
The World Health Organization World Health Report conveys that a significant increase is needed in global healthcare resourcing to meet current and future demand for health professionals. eLearning presents a possible opportunity to change and optimize training by providing a scalable means for instruction, thus reducing the costs for training health professionals and providing patient education. Research literature often suggests that a benefit of eLearning is its cost-effectiveness compared with face-to-face instruction, yet there is limited evidence comparing design and production costs with other forms of instruction, or the establishment of standards for budgeting for these costs
The excited hadron spectrum in lattice QCD using a new method of estimating quark propagation
Progress in determining the spectrum of excited baryons and mesons in lattice
QCD is described. Large sets of carefully-designed hadron operators have been
studied and their effectiveness in facilitating the extraction of excited-state
energies is demonstrated. A new method of stochastically estimating the
low-lying effects of quark propagation is proposed which will allow reliable
determinations of temporal correlations of single-hadron and multi-hadron
operators.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, talk given at Hadron 2009, Tallahassee, Florida,
December 1, 200
Fractal Dimensions in Perceptual Color Space: A Comparison Study Using Jackson Pollock's Art
The fractal dimensions of color-specific paint patterns in various Jackson
Pollock paintings are calculated using a filtering process which models
perceptual response to color differences (\Lab color space). The advantage of
the \Lab space filtering method over traditional RGB spaces is that the
former is a perceptually-uniform (metric) space, leading to a more consistent
definition of ``perceptually different'' colors. It is determined that the RGB
filtering method underestimates the perceived fractal dimension of lighter
colored patterns but not of darker ones, if the same selection criteria is
applied to each. Implications of the findings to Fechner's 'Principle of the
Aesthetic Middle' and Berlyne's work on perception of complexity are discussed.Comment: 21 pp LaTeX; two postscript figure
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