The Self

http://knol.google.com/k/kevin-spaulding/the-self/3smazt4fj02nv/29

A knol with more than 69,000 page views so far



The Self

Understanding What and Who We Are

When we look in the mirror, make plans, and think about anything there is always an inner understanding that we are a being. This understanding of being, or self, is extremely important for everything in life and not every animal is capable of such understanding. Lets explore what the self is and how it is developed.

Contents

Introduction
Self-Schemas
Self-Regulation
Self and Culture
Gender and Self
Introspection
Judging Emotion
Self-Perception Theory
Comparisons to Others
Self-Enhancement

KNOL QUESTION AND ANSWER BOARD

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Visitors can ask questions various issues related to various subjects, and knol authors and visitors will try to answer them.

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New Knols - A Knol to Record New Knols

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Authors can record the new knols started in the month in the above knol. Other authors and visitors can easily find their knol in this list as it is a classified list for a month.

Best Knol of the Month - Selection Knol

Knolympics: Best Knol of the Month


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In this knol authors and visitors can give their choice for best knol of the month. The list of knols is made from the knols written in the last month.

Learn Languages in Knol

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Knol list about language learning
This is a list where you can find knols to learn languages
language, idioma, lenguaje, aprender,
Contents
General
Japanese
Dutch - Nederlands
English
Russian - русский язык
Spanish - Español
Hindi - हिन्दी
Sanskrit
Chinese - 中文
French - Français
Knol Authors and Visitors - Bulletin Board December 2008

Financial Accounting - Simplified Explanation for Technical Personnel

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/financial-accounting-simplified/2utb2lsm2k7a/583

Summary of the knol

The links are to knols that explain the basic accounting process in very simple manner for explaining the same to technical personnel. The complexities of accounting transactions are minimized to a very large extent to illustrate the basic principles and a process of accounting. Around six hours of learning may be sufficient to understand the basic accounting process using these knols.

The links given in the knol

Journalising a Business Transaction
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/journalising-a-business-transaction/2utb2lsm2k7a/397#

Journal Entry – Exercise Problem
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/journal-entry-exercise-problem/2utb2lsm2k7a/452#

Journal Entry – Exercise Problem 2(More simple problem)
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/journal-entry-exercise-problem-2/2utb2lsm2k7a/463

Solution to Journal Entry – Exercise Problem 2
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/solution-to-journal-entry-exercise/2utb2lsm2k7a/506



Posting Ledger from Journal Entries
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/posting-ledger-from-journal-entries/2utb2lsm2k7a/398

Ledger Posting Exercise 1
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/ledger-posting-exercise-1/2utb2lsm2k7a/464


Trial Balance
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/trial-balance/2utb2lsm2k7a/399#

Preparing Profit and Loss Account From Trial Balance
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/-/2utb2lsm2k7a/582#view


Questions and Answers on Basics of Accounting Process
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/questions-and-answers-on-basics-of/2utb2lsm2k7a/590#

Corruption of Wikipedia

http://knol.google.com/k/carl-hewitt-httpcarlhewittinfo/corruption-of-wikipedia/pcxtp4rx7g1t/5


Summary

Wikipedia's business model is generating Web traffic (primarily from search engines) for articles on conventional wisdom that are tightly controlled by a commune of mostly anonymous Administrators to motivate (financial) contributions.

However, according to Correa, Correa and Askanas:
"in Wikipedia, ultimate decisions about what constitutes 'encyclopedic fact' and what constitutes 'vandalism' devolve to a cadre of Internet bureaucrats with no other qualifications than their devotion to Wikipedianism... One of the main problems stems precisely from the fact that Wikipedia's de-facto arbiters of what constitutes 'science', 'information', 'fact', 'knowledge' - those who make it into the ranks of Wikipedia administrators ... are Internet technobureaucrats without any actual love of knowledge or any respect for those who spend their life fighting for it."

The purpose of this article is to explore issues regarding the corruption of Wikipedia. It does not address other Wikipedia issues.

Censorship by Wikipedia, Corruption of Wikipedia, Seth Finkelstein, Kyle Gann, R. Stuart Geiger, Mike Godwin, John Harnad, Jenny Kleeman, Gregory Kohs, Barry Kort, Robert Kowalski, Arthur Rubin, Rachel Marsden, Charles Matthews, Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales

Contents

Censorship by Wikipedia
Vandalism and Harassment by Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an “infoCommune”, not an encyclopedia
Wikipedia's Business Model
Wikipedia Libels and Vilifies People
Can Wikipedia be Reformed?
Audio recording of the event is available at the following location:
References
Wikipedia discussion of "History of Logic Programming by Carl Hewitt" is available here.


Carl Hewitt is Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He obtained his PhD in mathematics at MIT in 1971, under the supervision of Seymour Papert (adviser), Marvin Minsky, and Mike Paterson. From September 1989 to August 1990, Hewitt was the IBM Chair Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Keio University in Japan. He is known for his design of Planner (a pioneering Artificial Intelligence programming language), his work on concurrency (the Actor model), the Scientific Community Metaphor with Bill Kornfeld, and, most recently, on strongly paraconsistent logic (Direct Logic). Hewitt's Erdős number is 3 (by two different co-authors).

Write Knols in Holidays

Writing - A Holiday Craft

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/make-writing-knols-a-holiday-craft/2utb2lsm2k7a/552

Summary

Teachers, Trainers and Preachers - Use these holiday to write knols.

Written materials are essential to spread your message to your immediate audience as well as audience far and wide.

Knol offers you a cost effective and convenient opportunity.



Contents

Knol - A Great Platform for Creating Written Materials
Knols by Knol Help to Help you in Writing Knols
Knols on writing knols by Knol Authors

Knol Authors - Become Active - Preserve Knol

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Warning

Google may starve Knol.

3rd December 2008
Google, the Internet search engine giant, is resorting to austerity measures, The Wall Street Journal reported.



http://infotech.indiatimes.com/News/Look_how_Google_is_cutting_costs/articleshow/3788131.cms



Prominent among them include cutting new projects.

Schmidt , CEO, said the company is “not going to give” an engineer 20 people to work with on certain experimental projects anymore.



Top executives say they remain committed to projects they believe hold long-term potential, but are prepared to “starve” lesser ones.


Knol authors write your messages on knol bulletin board for December 2008



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Knol authors write your messages on knol bulletin board for December 2008



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Yes knol authors have to come together and do some thing to preserve knol

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Some more astonishing news



Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry says Google (GOOG) will post revenue declines for the next three years -- $15.71 billion in 2008, $15.23 billion in 2009 and $14.57 billion in 2010.

Chowdhry says contacts tell him Google's number of keywords sold is down 2% to 5%. He claims bids on keywords are down by as much as 20%.

Source:

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/analyst-google-revenues-will-shrink-till-2010

Things You Need to Know About Automotive Brakes

By

Charles Evans
Chairman - Society of Automotive Engineers - Brake Linings Standards Committee


http://knol.google.com/k/charles-evans/things-you-need-to-know-about/g8e47v9qyrfp/2#

Important message in the knol

Never touch the parking brake in an emergency stopping situation, it will cause the vehicle to spin and loose control.

This knol is an authoritative article - Certification by Other Authors

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This knol is an authoritative article - Self Certification by the Author

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This knol provides an place for the author to declare the knols that he has written comprehensively as self certified knols. Other authors may pick his knol and then certify it as other author certified knol.

Visitors also can use this knol for choosing comprehensive knols to visit.

Fibonacci Trading - Author Selzer-McKenzie

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A knol on Fibonacci trading

KNOLSTORMING - Brainstorming in Knol Space

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Knolstorming

A knol instigates another person to write a new knol. Knols are entities that have come out of people as knowledge capsules. The knoller has to dig into his brain, the internal knowledge bank as well as into his external knowledge bank to create a knolwedge capsule, a knol that he can pass on to others.

Socialization

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/socialization/2utb2lsm2k7a/107#

Socialization – The Process


Socialization is the process of social interaction through which people acquire personality and learn the way of life of their society. Socialization is a life long process.


Contents of the KNol


Socialization – The Process
Personality
Result of Lack of Socialization
Understanding Theories of Learning
The Emergence of Self
Freud’s Theory
Cooley’s Theory
Mead’s Theory
Agencies of Socialization
The Family
The School
The Peer Group
The Mass Media
References

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The Laws of Entrepreneurial Marketing

A knol by Nate Nead
NateNead.com, DigitalSignage.com

Law of the Angle: strategy vs. tactics. Massive advertising programs are no substitute for a good angle. Find a tactic. There must be a “reason to believe.”

Law of Pain or Opportunity: Find the pain—found the market capitalize of opportunity.

Law of the Sweet Spot

Law of Specialization

Law of the Neighbor

Law of the Horse

Law of the Spider Webb

Law of Energy

Law of Benefactors

Law of the Puffer Fish

Law of Beta Gold Mine

Law of the Anchor

Law of the Chase

Some more are there.

Visit for explanation of various laws

http://knol.google.com/k/nate-nead/the-laws-of-entrepreneurial-marketing/3bd4ygu9uszjm/5#

Theory Z - Type Z Organizations

William Ouchi proposed the concept of theory Z organizations. The concept was developed in his efforts to understand the best practices of Japanese management which can be used in companies of USA.


http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/theory-z-type-z-organizations/2utb2lsm2k7a/47

Six Sigma

Six Sigma is a business management strategy, originally developed by Motorola, that today enjoys wide-spread application in many sectors of industry.

Six Sigma seeks to identify and remove the causes of defects and errors in manufacturing and business processes. It uses a set of quality management methods, including statistical methods, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization ("Black Belts" etc.) who are experts in these methods. Each Six Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified financial targets (cost reduction or profit increase).


http://knol.google.com/k/michal-thanry/six-sigma/259vl5ys6f4g5/2

Student Behavior Evaluation Scale (BES)

Purpose: To contribute to the early identification and service delivery for students with serious emotional disturbance or behavior disorders.


Population: Standardized on a total of 5, 124 behaviorally disordered and regular education students ages 4-19 years old. Students from 29 states, represented all geographic regions of the United States, and closely approximated the 2000 demographic characteristics of the United States.


Time: The BES-3 can be completed in about 20 minutes and includes 76 items easily observed and documented by educational personnel.


Factor Clusters/Subscales: Learning Problems, Interpersonal Difficulties, Inappropriate Behavior, Unhappiness/Depression, and Physical Symptoms/Fears.


Authors: Stephen B. McCarney & Tamara J. Arthaud


Publisher: Hawthorne Educational Services, Inc.

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Private Equity - Placement Process

Once the company has decided to seek private equity, the first step will be the preparation of a detailed business plan or private placement memorandum ("PPM") that describes the Company's business and operations, summarizes its business strategy, describes the relevant market, includes financial statements and detailed financial projections.

• The due diligence review is essential to formulating a valuation by potential investors. It involves verifying the assets, liabilities and contractual obligations (including any existing or potential contingent liabilities) and financial condition of the company.

Typically, after a potential investor has performed due diligence and has indicated a serious interest in making an investment, the parties will want to negotiate a term sheet or equivalent letter of intent which sets forth, in detail, the principal terms and conditions on which the investment will be made.


Visit

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BRAIN & MIND

HOW THE MIND WORKS FOR THE BRAIN FOR MANY, WHILE ITS THE MIND THAT SHOULD BE INCHARGE.

Know the difference between your brain and mind. Know the difference between your emotional intelligence and your regular intelligence. Know the difference between emotional intelligence education and regular intelligence education. Learn how to put your brain to work for you and not the other way arround.

http://knol.google.com/k/sajid-khan/brain-mind/2whdi0jnjfq1x/67

American Depository Receipts

A depository receipt is a security that represents ownership in a foreign security.

They provide opportunity for investors in a country to trade or transact on their domestic stock exchanges a security whose underlying is a foreign security. They have the benefit of trading the instrument through their familiar broker in the same way they trade their country's securities.

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/american-depository-receipts/2utb2lsm2k7a/175

Licenses Google Knol and Wikipedia

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Content on Wikipedia is published under the GNU Free Documentation License -- when you click any of the "edit" links in a Wikipedia article and begin typing in new content, you're agreeing to submit your content under the terms of the GFDL. When you publish on Knol, on the other hand, your options are to publish under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY), a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License (CC-BY-NC), or a traditional "All Rights Reserved" copyright model. Both the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution licenses are popular with content creators who want to give content altruistically "to the world" -- these licenses all allow content to be redistributed freely without modification. The main difference is in the rights that they grant to people who want to create derivative works (modifying or expanding on the original work).

The GFDL is intended as a "viral" license -- if you take a work that is published under the GFDL, and publish a derivative work created from that, your derivative work must also be published under the terms of the GFDL -- that is, also allowing other users to redistribute your work freely and create derivative works from it as well. If a site mirrors Wikipedia articles without including the terms of the GFDL, Wikipedia encourages users to send notifications to those sites pointing out that they're violating Wikipedia's copyright, and if necessary to escalate the matter to their Web hosting provider for noncompliance. You can mirror Wikipedia all you want, and even put put ads all over your mirror site, but you cannot change the terms.

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licenses, on the other hand, allow users to create derivative works and publish them under almost any terms they want, including an "All rights reserved" model, provided that they give attribution to the author of the original work.

Section 5.5 of Knol's Terms of Service explicitly states that GFDL content cannot be re-published under a CC-BY license

Focus of Industrial Engineering

Industrial engineers have to focus on human efficiency and system efficiency in the design of integrated systems and they can look for a leadership role in the systems design due to their broad learning curriculum.

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/focus-of-industrial-engineering/2utb2lsm2k7a/2#

A Successful Angel Investor Presentation: The Last 5 Minutes

http://knol.google.com/k/gary-whitehill-jr/a-successful-angel-investor/2jd7v2pvhdqtc/6#

by Gary Whitehill Jr.
Due Diligence Analyst/ VP of SalesNew York City, NY