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Four Key Processes Enhanced by Visual Thinking

Let’s examine four processes improved by visual thinking:

1. Understand the Essence

• Visual Grammar: The Business Model Canvas poster is a conceptual map that functions as a visual language with corresponding grammar. It tells you which pieces of information to insert in the model, and where.
• Capturing the Big Picture: By sketching out all the elements of the Canvas, you immediately give viewers the big picture of a business model. A sketch provides just the right amount of information to allow a viewer to grasp the idea, yet not too much detail to distract them.
• Seeing Relationships: Understanding a business model requires not only knowing the compositional elements, but also grasping the interdependencies

Technique No. 2: Business Model Ideation

Mapping an existing business model is one thing; designing a new and innovative business model is another. Ideation is the process for generating a large number of business model ideas and successfully isolating the best ones. Today, different business models compete in the same markets, and boundaries between industries are blurring—or disappearing altogether.

One challenge we face when trying to create new business model options is ignoring the status quo and suspending concerns over operational issues so that we can generate truly new ideas. Business model innovation is not about looking back, because the past indicates little about what is possible in terms of future business models. Business model... Continue reading "Business Model Ideation: Generating Innovative Concepts" »

Please stand (1) on this board. Put your hands on the back of your hips and your elbows forward. I'll help you. (2) push your elbows (3) out. Keep (4) breathing. In a moment I'll ask you to (5) take a deep breath in and hold it. Breathe in, (6) hold it. That's it. Fine. You can breathe out now.

Thank you. I'll need to check the film. Now I'm going to take a side view.

Can you stand (7) sideways with your right side close to the machine and your arms raised?

1 MRI provides more detailed information than CT because of high contrast sensitivity.

2 MRI is not approved for use in the first three months of pregnancy.

3 MRI is safer than X-rays because there is no radiation.

4 MRI allows imaging on many planes unlike CT.

1 I'm going to

Instructions:

Choose the best answer for each multiple-choice question.

Questions:

1. Carl Jung believed that all humans have a common hereditary...
   1. Collective unconscious
   2. Displacement
   3. Rationalization
   4. Projection
   5. Regression
2. Three-year-old Joey is very angry with his parents but instead yells at his teddy bear. This is an example of...
   1. Collective unconscious
   2. Displacement
   3. Rationalization
   4. Projection
   5. Regression
3. A person with anorexia nervosa tells her therapist that she doesn't eat because she is worried about gaining weight, not because she wants to punish her parents. This is an example of...
   1. Collective unconscious
   2. Displacement
   3. Rationalization
   4. Projection
   5. Regression
4. Sam says that he does not trust Dorothy, but in reality, Dorothy feels that Sam is the one who cannot be

Key Concepts in Child Development and Psychology

Developmental Stages and Processes

1. During the course of successful prenatal development, a human organism begins as a zygote and finally develops into a fetus.
2. One of the most consistently damaging teratogens is alcohol.
3. The symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome are most likely to include mental abnormalities.
4. The rooting reflex refers to a baby's tendency to open the mouth in search of a nipple when touched on the cheek.

Early Cognitive Abilities

5. In order to test whether newborns can visually discriminate between various shapes and colors, psychologists have made use of the process of habituation.
6. The best evidence that a 4-month-old infant possesses an understanding of object permanence is the child's

MODAL VERBS

He must be in love/ She could be working too hard/ He may not earn very much/ That must be very hard/ That can't be Claire's grandfather/ He must have sold his business for a lot of money/ They can't have had another argument/ we might have met before/ she can't have had a happy childhood/ She may have thought I'd be angry.

I might be able to give you a lift but../ I wasn't able to swim till last year/ I can see Sarah../ I've made the main course for dinner.. so I haven't been able to make the dessert yet/ When I was 14, I was able to run from my home../ Will you be able to speak Chinese../ I was able to go to last Saturday's../ my brother can usually fix the computer

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Cave Diving

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Gerunds and Infinitives (TO/ING)

Practice using gerunds (V-ing) and infinitives (to + V) correctly after specific verbs and phrases.

• I began going snowboarding.
• There wasn't any point trying to windsurf.
• We continued to train for the race.
• I stopped to rest after the run.
• Remember not to go to college.
• I started doing rock climbing.
• Don't forget to bring plenty (of supplies).
• It wasn't worth continuing up the mountain.
• My family stopped visiting Scotland.
• I prefer to sail on the sea.
• I was offered a place travelling (around the world).
• I meant to tell Oliver.

Phrasal Verbs and Collocations with TAKE

The verb TAKE is used in many common phrasal verbs and fixed expressions:

• Everybody is welcome to take part in the race.
• Jack was injured, so Andy took his place

Map & Diccionarios

Import Statements

import java.security.InvalidParameterException;
import java.util.*;

RedCarreteras Class

public class RedCarreteras { 
    private Map<String, Map<String, Integer>> red;

    //CONSTRUCTORES
    public RedCarreteras() {
        red = new HashMap<>();// Nuevo dicc a 0
    }

    //METODOS
    private void validarTramo(String una, String otra, int distancia) {
        if (una == null || otra == null || una.equals(otra) || distancia < 1)
            throw new InvalidParameterException();
    }

    public Set<String> ciudades() {
        return red.keySet();
    }

    public int nuevoTramo(String una, String otra, int distancia) {
        validarTramo(una, otra, distancia);

English Grammar: Verb Tenses

Present Simple: Habits and Routines

• Used to express habitual actions or permanent situations.
• Verb + -s (for third person singular).

Present Continuous: Ongoing or Temporary Actions

• Indicates actions happening at the moment of speaking.
• To be + verb + -ing.

Past Simple: Completed Past Actions

• Verb + -ed or irregular verb (V2).
• Used with did...? and didn't.
• Describes finished actions.
• Common time expressions: last..., a month ago, yesterday, when, once, in 2011.
• Example: She died in 1916.

Past Continuous: Actions in Progress in the Past

• Describes actions in progress at a specific time in the past.
• Was/Were + verb + -ing.
• Indicates unfinished actions.
• Common time expressions: while, as, yesterday at 9 AM.
• Example: The phone rang when

Dual Income Tax System

This system levies a proportional tax rate on all net income (capital, wage, and pension income less deductions) combined with progressive tax rates on gross labor and pension income.

Implemented in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, the dual income tax (DIT) system was introduced for reasons of economic efficiency, net-wealth tax, and a broader tax base.

Key features:

• Capital incomes are taxed at a lower rate.
• Acts as a hybrid model between income and consumption concepts (interest-adjusted income tax).
• All income and profit are divided into capital income (proportional/flat rate) and labor income (progressive rate).
• Features the lowest personal income tax (PIT) percentage on labor income.

Dividend Taxation

Corporate tax systems... Continue reading "Dual Income Tax & Dividend Taxation: A Comprehensive Guide" »