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MyETL: A Java Software Tool to Extract, Transform, and Load Your Business

Abstract The project follows the development of a Java Software Tool that extracts data from Flat File (Fixed Length Record Type), CSV (Comma Separated Values), and XLS (Microsoft Excel 97-2003 Worksheet file), apply transformation to those sources, and finally load the data into the end target RDBMS. The software refers to a process known as ETL (Extract Transform and Load). Those kinds of systems are called ETL systems. The analysis involved research on the theory behind the ETL process as well as the theory behind the various phases of the applied methodology. Also an in-depth look at the design and architecture of the software has been made. To create a complete design needed to be used for the implementation, different techniques and diagrams where used to visualise and refine ideas: UML class diagrams, System Architecture Diagrams, Physical Data Model, and Project Timeline. The implementation of the project involved the translation of the system architecture into working software using the Extreme Programming Methodology and the Java programming language. A mapping algorithm module and design patterns have been used in the implementation phase. A transformation syntax has been defined to achieve data transformation. The testing of the software was done in the form of a unit test. A formal test plan was prepared to ensure that the main features of the system worked as defined. An error handling code implementation has been developed to avoid an unexpected crash of the system and to communicate to the user problems or errors.

Transforming scholarship: why women's and gender studies students are changing themselves and the world

Introduction: Transform Yourself: An Invitation to Explore Your Interest in Women's and Gender Studies Section One: You've Discovered Women's And Gender Studies and Want To Know More: Great! Now What? 1. The Birth of Women's and Gender Studies and Who We Are Now: Your Inheritance as a Student of Women's and Gender Studies 2. Claiming Your Education Section Two: You've Committed To Learning in Women's And Gender Studies: Great! Now What? 3. How You Can Talk About Women's and Gender Studies Anytime, Anywhere and to Anyone 4. Discovering and Claiming Your Internal Strengths and External Skills Section Three: You're Graduating: Great! Now What? 5. Women's and Gender Studies Graduates as Change Agents: Six Profiles 6. Transform your world: Preparing to Graduate and Living your Feminist Life

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Abstract FERPA Ensure FERPA compliance when disclosing records for reverse transfer Understand primary rights, key definitions related to FERPA Tools of the Trade Provide services online to ease access for distance students Help distance students access services with these strategies Tracking system available to all institutions News Get the most of your services from National Student Clearinghouse Find out what your colleagues think about software packages ED releases IPEDS data on fall 2012 enrollment WICHE launches framework for course transfers between states FERPA Consider what wording choices make a records disclosure approval FERPA‐compliant Professional Development Develop your skills, connections, confidence for career success What Would You Do? How would you address rumors about a new president? Lawsuits & Rulings DISMISSAL Sexual harassment suit stays alive for former Ph.D. student FERPA Schools may destroy records if no requests to review are pending Mother of student with disability can't sue to enforce FERPA Leaders & Innovators JENNIFER WASHINGTON, REGISTRAR, CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE Transform your office with ongoing professional development for staff members Encourage staff development with these strategies

Normalice la innovación y transformará su empresa: Una hoja de ruta propia

Normalice la innovación y transformará su empresa: Una hoja de ruta propia

Lean Library Management: Eleven Strategies for Reducing Costs and Improving Customer Services

John J. Huber is a management consultant and was on the forefront of introducing the Toyota Production System to manufacturing some thirty years ago. “Lean Management,” the concept behind this book, developed out of the Toyota Production System and is best summarized by Huber as follows: “Lean is a very simple concept: constantly strive to reduce the distance between you and your customer by eliminating all of the waste in your service delivery cycle” (p. xiv). The book opens with an introduction to Lean Management principles and moves quickly to identify eleven strategies for applying these principles in libraries, including the following: Recognize that service performance is the key to customer retention. Transform your change-resistant culture. Understand how delivery service chains drive your library's performance. Align your performance metrics with your delivery service chains. Transform your new book delivery service chain. Transform your customer holds and reserves delivery service chain. Transform your cost control philosophy to a lean service improvement philosophy. Transform your overall library service performance metrics. Transform your digital research delivery service chain. Transform your delivery service chain from a “push” to a “pull” philosophy. Think lean before the concrete is poured. The Lean Management techniques that have been used to streamline manufacturing, distribution, and retail can be applied to the library environment. These strategies were time-tested in successful companies such as McDonald's, Amazon, and Google. These real-life examples are used to clarify specific points. Readers should not be put off by some of the business jargon, such as using “delivery service chains” to describe library work flows. It is refreshing to see library processes and procedures through the eyes of someone who is not a library insider and who can bring a fresh perspective to solving common problems. There are many parallels between working in libraries and manufacturing, distribution, or retail, which is why these Lean Management principles work so well. Huber illustrates these concepts with diagrams, tables, and flowcharts. He takes readers through streamlining several library projects step-by-step so that readers understand how these processes can be applied in their own libraries. Lean Management helps readers recognize the gap between current and desired performance measures and uses quantitative analyses, teamwork, and pilot studies to close this gap. Even though the case studies discussed in the book describe public and academic libraries, the principles are easily applied to health sciences libraries of all types. The strategies that particularly resonated for this reviewer were strategies 2, 9, and 10. Who hasn't struggled with managing change and motivating staff to accept new work flows? When was the last time you reviewed the number of steps it takes your customers to get a portable document format (PDF) file of a journal article? Does the adoption of patron-driven acquisition for some collection development activities mean that selectors are no longer needed? Huber helps readers recognize that the library is a complex organization that competes for customers with industry leaders such as Google and Amazon, especially in today's environment where customers expect to receive immediate service. For a library to thrive, or even survive, in this economy, customer service must be a priority. Read this thought-provoking book to find out how your library can improve customer satisfaction and library services and save money along the way.

‘Transform Your Child's Behaviour Now’: Parent Education as Self-Help Culture and Lifelong Learning

Parents in the Western world today are often said to feel unsure and inadequate and as a consequence there are a plethora of self-help products on the market as well as parent education programmes. This article explores the kinds of research questions that are raised by this state of affairs. The discussion is mainly based on existing studies of self-help culture as well as other studies of parents and families. One argument is that parent education, which is aimed at supporting parents to improve their parenting skills, is part of a governing strategy in a learning society. The Swedish government has an ongoing investment in parent education. This community support for parents is used as a reference point to study the ways in which parents are governed and how discourses on what constitutes a good parent or child at a government level are transformed into parent education advice and programmes. Other issues consider the importance of studies regarding how parents interpret these discourses and focus on the processes of inclusion and exclusion and the ways that some parents and children become problematic and hard to reach with regard to, for example, issues around gender, social class and ethnicity.

Transform your practice

Transform your practice

Transform your data

Transforming your data means applying a non-linear unction to your data—usually a log, square-root, or recipocal function—and analyzing the results rather than the aw data. You may decide not to transform your data—if the aw data are symmetrically distributed, for example—but hat should be a conscious choice. Transforming your data efore analysis is like focusing a camera before taking a icture. It is almost always worthwhile and makes everyhing clearer. Many measurements used in nutrition reearch, including counts, blood and liver concentrations, nzyme activity, and areas under curve [1], are likely to ield better results if transformed. Most statistics textbooks say little about transformation. ost scientific papers do not mention it. I first encountered the dea that transformation was very important in John Tukey’s xploratory Data Analysis [2], which devoted an early chapter o it and returned to the topic several times in later chapters. ukey believed that a set of data rarely comes to us in the best orm (scale) for analyzing it—for discovering the regularities it ontains. We can usually find a better form. I decided that Tukey was right, and 1000 textbooks rong, when I found, again and again, that transforming my ata made it much easier to work with. It was like sharpning a knife. Choosing a good transformation really was as mportant as Tukey said. It improved my analyses in three ays. First, graphs were more informative. The data were pread out across the page instead of clumped near the edge for an example, see the section on visual clarity). Second, utliers were less worrisome. When data contain outliers, nd I made graphs of means or similar averages, I constantly orried that two points that appeared different—for examle, the value for Tuesday looked significantly higher than he value for Monday—were not actually different accordng to a statistical test, that they appeared different because

Transform your training:

This article describes how the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) Library has integrated interactivity into its information literacy (IL) training. Research has shown that interactivity is an important aspect of enhancing the learning process and this has been recognised in MMU’s InfoSkills training programme. This paper will consider the theory behind adult learners and preferred learning styles and will illustrate specific examples of how MMU has included interactivity into its sessions. InfoSkills at MMU is taught through a variety of different methods, for example, lecturing, workshops and hands-on computer work. However, each of these alone is not enough and must be combined with other practical approaches in order to make training truly effective. Regardless of environment or technology available, active participation within MMU’s InfoSkills sessions is key to enhancing students’ independent learning. Although IL trainers at MMU have access to new technologies such as interactive whiteboards and voting pods, these are not always accessible in every teaching location and so this article also refers to low- tech alternative methods. This paper hopes to provide practical ideas for engaging students in interactive IL sessions that may inspire other IL trainers. It also gives information about future developments the InfoSkills team will be making in this area.

Transform your life: Become the person you want to be

Transform your life: become the person you want to be is published by Infinite Ideas. Readers of BMJ Careers can purchase the book at the special price of £9.99 with free P&P (normal book RRP £12.99). For credit card orders please call 01865 514 888 or send a cheque to Infinite Ideas, 36 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LD. Please quote the promotional code of “Brilliant 111”. For more information about Infinite Ideas visit their website at www.infideas.com Penny Ferguson. Infinite Ideas, 2004, £12.99, 240 pages ISBN 1 90490 223 5 Rating: ★★★★/5 “Oh no,” I hear you say. But don't be put off by the title. And before you ask, I have …

Transform your training function into a corporate university

Transform your training function into a corporate university

Splendid isolation: Breakfast and self-actualization in the dream society.

Abstract Using a recently published book for entrepreneurs, Rolf Jensen's The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business, a case is made that the commodification of the story is an inherent aspect not only in the market for things, but in psychotherapy as well. Special attention is paid to the Depth Psychological tradition and its recent resurgence in popular culture. This paper argues that a therapy grounded in the buying and selling of stories necessarily leads to the commodification of the client herself, who is forced to redeem herself through the process of therapy, within the bounds of the capitalistic frame such a therapy imposes upon her.

2020 vision: Transform your business to succeed in tomorrow's economy, by Stan Davis and Bill Davidson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991

2020 vision: Transform your business to succeed in tomorrow's economy, by Stan Davis and Bill Davidson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991

Science Fact. Astounding and Exciting Developments That Will Transform Your Life. Frank George

Previous articleNext article No AccessNew Biological BooksScience Fact. Astounding and Exciting Developments That Will Transform Your Life. Frank George Sue BottigheimerSue Bottigheimer Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Quarterly Review of Biology Volume 53, Number 4Dec., 1978 Published in association with Stony Brook University Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/410802 Copyright 1978 The Stony Brook Foundation, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Creatively Study and Apply Mao Tse-Tung Thought and Conscientiously Transform Your World Outlook

In response to Chairman Mao's great call to send the masses of cadres to do manual labor, we of Sung-hu Company have settled down to do manual labor in Sung-hu Commune of Hsin-chien hsien for a year. It has been a year for renewing through labor tempering. It is also a year which witnessed our creative study and application of Mao Tse-tung Thought, our drive to combat and repudiate revisionism, and our continuous progress in improving ourselves.