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"fragmented system" refers to a situation where something is divided into many separate parts that do not work together smoothly. It is like having a bunch of puzzle pieces that don't fit well together, making it difficult to connect or understand the whole picture.
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Why: Reducing the number of
fragments your system files are scattered across on your hard drive makes your hard drive have to do less work to retrieve them.
Upon entering the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Harvey intensified from a disorganized,
fragmented system into a strong Tropical Storm, finally making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane around 9:45 pm on August 25 (with wind speeds of 130 mph).
Fragmented systems lead to duplicate information and repetitive entries as employees working with different data sets attempt to collaborate.
As scientists study the unbalanced and
fragmented systems humans create as they alter the environment, they are realizing how interdependent species are.
In an
increasingly fragmented system, here's how one part of the country has taken a joint approach to school improvement, explain Simon Faull and Simon Burgess In England...
He continues: «Historically, firms perform most HR analyses with Excel spreadsheets that are powered
by fragmented systems and driven by a few select users, which does not provide the «whole story» of the firm at a detailed level.
The solution to
fragmented systems is to build one comprehensive UX layer — a system of engagement — that walks you through, leverages that data, and puts it into a workflow that's user friendly,» says McElrath.
Scott Greer of the U-M School of Public Health and colleagues studied the U.S. response to Ebola and found
a fragmented system with no clear leadership, and considerable «strategic politicization» due to the outbreak's arrival during a midterm election year.
In such
a fragmented system, the authors said, the responses «tend to be driven by suasion — persuasive expertise — and executive action by presidents and governors, rather than a coherent bureaucratic response.»
«It's really trying to figure out how the state fits into
this fragmented system, in the midst of politics and financial pressures,» said Jackson, a faculty senior associate with ExEl.
Changes to the nature of work from agrarian to factory during the mid-19th century, combined with westward expansion, further encouraged
a fragmented system of academies to give way to widespread public schooling.
What possible good can come of
fragmenting a system to breaking point, especially with years of austerity behind us, and probably years to come?
Moreover,
this fragmented system has eroded the policy of positive discrimination.
«We operate in a highly autonomous and
fragmented system.
What often results from
our fragmented system of care and education is a lack of rigorous and appropriate experiences for children...
«For too long, families have found themselves battling against a complex and
fragmented system.
But the reforms need to be sustainable, and
the fragmented system we are moving towards at the moment is anything but.
Crooks, K.R. and Soulé, M.E., «Mesopredator release and avifaunal extinctions in
a fragmented system.»
We enable firms to promote self - service, support better collaborative decision - making, optimise and manage their workforce performance and replace
their fragmented systems into a single view of their HR data».
A blockchain distributed ledger system - powered, central clearinghouse would complete every transaction with certainty and is capable of replacing the thousands of
fragmented systems that currently facilitate this process.
Responding to frustrations over
a fragmented system, some MLSs are considering unification.