Archive for Systems and Models

ROBOTICS: Development of Personal Success

March 2, 2012 Systems and Models No comments

With my experience in the NASA-funded robotics project, I saw myself grow as a person who can feel confident about the outcomes of dedicated work. By being the team director of this project, having introduced the idea to my math/science teacher Mr. Bae, I learned the importance of commitment and planning. What I did by motivating my peers about this project it became very successful seeing how many students learned from the experience. It taught me the value of team ethic and being a prime instructor for guidance; knowing people could come to me for help and I would subject myself to their needs. It put me in a position of value and self-respect.

I learned about myself in ways of reflecting on my strengths and weaknesses. In areas of education, it is important to recognize what you can improve on and what you can build upon so that learning is a personal process of success. I saw a lot of my abilities come out, and I was also able to focus on improvement in areas of work. Given this project was highly integrated, I noticed various levels of expertise in which I could understand and others regarding social dexterity where I worked on improvements. Being a supporter of a working team taught me many values of the working environment which will prepare me for seeking out progress in my future.

In my efforts to be a person of assistance, I felt my job was to be a guidance for those who were challenged with organization tactics. In other ways, I myself was very caught up with much of this that I wish I could have differently involved myself in more ways. I did provide significance in the building process of the robotic figure, however it was difficult for me to cooperate with other individuals who wanted to share different ideas. Seeing the break down of ideas did advance my own understanding, but I do wish that I could have asserted more authority in that process.

I enjoyed seeing how people really advanced their understanding of group efforts and success in completion. I saw so much progress in how my classmates were genuinely motivated to produce ideas and dedication to the robot design, video work, website development, written portions, and interviewing. It grew to become a individualized passion in which we all wanted to gain something unique out of this experience. I am proud of having helped make this happen for everyone and being there to support them.

In the Millennium Development goals, we have a universal instruction to focus on important modifications in global societies. Robotics in itself is an ever-advancing expression of human evolution of rationality and mental work. We as people living in a connected system of living always develop new ways to assist the wellness of others. In its importance, I find that robotics best suits combating universal education in the sense we can continue to fully understand our capabilities. By integrating robotic building into schools, we can educate people on what can really be understood about human invention and applied functions. Just as I helped make happen at GCE by wanting to use FIRST robotics as a way to teach students professional development skills. Robotic building is not only the outcome of genuinely created function, but a symbol of understanding the importance of making personally dedicated goals to seek successful educational outcomes.

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Statistics of Examining a Problem

February 7, 2012 Systems and Models No comments

In my Organizational Systems and Models class, I developed an equation to examine the content of a certain statistic I did research on. So I developed a math problem to explain the statistics I studied to better understand how to organize a system of data.

Problem:
The issue proposed in the artifact of death rates by suicide in the United States and in Japan, by 100,000 people, is based on the affecting variable: psychiatrists by 1 person of 100,000 people with some tangent in the diagnosis of mood disorders. By which there are 220,000 people who committed suicide in the United States and 500,000 people who committed suicide in Japan.

The independent factor that compliments the rate of deaths per country is proceeded by a diagnoses that seems to have little affect on the amount of suicides. This means of all eight countries, there are four countries with >10% diagnosed mood disorders out of 2 different approximate wholes of people who committed suicides: ~220,000 and ~500,000 victims. For the diagnosis of mood disorders per 100,000 people who committed suicide; there is 9% of ~220,000 people in the United states, and 4.5% of 500,000 people in Japan.

Solution:
The main co-factor dependent for the amount of suicides per country is primarily the amount of 1 psychiatrist accessed per 1 person by 100,000 people who committed suicide in certain populations.This is the break-down of these variables seen per country out of 2 different countries of interest: In the United States there are ~120,000 psychiatrists for ~220,000 people who committed suicide = 57% of suicide victims had a psychiatrist. In Japan there are ~70,000 psychiatrists for 500,000 people who committed suicide = 14% of suicide victims had a psychiatrist.

In summary, based on the amount of suicide victims in each country, we see Japan has 280,000 more suicide victims than the United states: that’s a 56% more victims than the U.S. Given the United states has 50,000 more psychiatrists than Japan for its 220,000 victims (that’s 280,000 suicide victims less than Japan’s 500,000 victims), that means the United States has 58% more psychological care for its victims than Japan does and has less victims in total. Therefore, the more psychological care is offered, the less suicide outcomes occur. The mood disorders increase based on the required attention needed to receive a psychiatrist, which is why there are more psychiatrists per suicide victim who had a mood disorder; who actually committed suicide. In Japan, there are less mood disorders and less psychiatrists but more suicide victims.

Resources: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v429/n6993/full/429696a.html

How Do We Define Systems and Models?

January 17, 2012 Systems and Models No comments

In order to understand how to think about scientific processes and theories, we need to be able to know how to organize. In my Organizational Systems and Models, we created examples of how organization tactics work as a flow chart system and model. These flow charts define Models and Systems which use examples, definitions, and uses for each term recognized in the flow chart. Systems and models as a whole will be ale to help me develop further understanding of how to approach applying real systems and models for scientific studies.


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