Ethical and Practical Implications of Modern Technologies
Case 1: Canadian Oil Sands
Oil sand is composed of grains of quartz sand, surrounded by a layer of water and clay, and then covered in a slick of heavy oil called bitumen.
Alberta’s oil sands, considered the largest single deposit of oil in the world, are contained in three areas: Athabasca, Cold Lake, and Peace River. They are believed to have formed many millions of years ago, when Alberta was covered by a tropical sea.
Oil is removed by two methods: surface mining and in situ technology.
- Surface
Understanding Group Dynamics: Objectives, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution
Understanding Group Dynamics
What is a Group?
A group is a collection of people who come together to work collaboratively towards a shared goal or outcome.
Benefits of Group Work:
- Sharing diverse opinions to achieve better results.
Disadvantages of Group Work:
- Differing viewpoints among members can hinder goal achievement.
Group Structure and Cohesion
A group consists of individuals with different roles, working together with a certain level of cohesion.
Formal and Informal Structures:
- Formal Structure: Defined
Leadership, Management, and Total Quality: Key Concepts
The Temptations of a Leader
- Arrogance
- Egocentrism
- The power for self-gratification
Participative vs. Authoritarian Leadership
- Hierarchy based on power – personal power
- Oriented Order – designed to manage and understand
- People do things because they have to – people do things because they want to
- People give time – people deliver time and energy
- Yields normal results – people produce more than expected
Ways to Achieve Leadership
- Work with clear and specific goals.
- Leave your office and walk around. Get close
Security Concepts: True/False and Threat Modeling Q&A
True/False Questions
True: CFI is a technique for dynamically checking if indirect control transfers during program execution are consistent with those described by the program source code.
True: Cache timing attacks can be used to break process isolation.
False: Cookies are unique tokens generated by web browsers to identify themselves to web servers.
True: A browser configured to not execute JavaScript cannot be attacked via cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
False: Eliminating all XSS attacks also
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Failure Analysis Stages
- Collection and analysis of the background and design specifications of the failed item.
- Collection of information on the service life of the item. Developed once installed in place, of particular interest are any amendments made to the original design element.
- Graphically document the failure site, as the element appears immediately after having failed.
- Visual site inspection and selection of samples representative of the phenomenon – analysis of remains.
- NDT Inspection of the
Human Resources Management Essentials
Key Aspects of Human Resources (HR)
Core HR Functions:
- Selection
- Recruitment
- Induction
- Orientation
- Training
- Mentoring
- Health and Safety
- Benefits
- Payroll
Supporting Disciplines for HR:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Law
- Mathematics
- Business
Characteristics of HR:
- Owned by the company
- Difficult to evaluate economically
- Subject to individual will
- Limited
HR Legal Framework:
- Federal Labor Law
- Collective Bargaining
- Social Security Law
- Rules of Procedure
- Constitution
Definition of HR:
A discipline or science dedicated to managing groups of
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