...Yes this is an original research report Causes and Consequences of Sports concussions. Jonathan C. Edwards M.D graduated from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and is a professor at the Medical University of Neurosciences. Jeffrey D Bodle MD graduated from the Indiana University School of medicine and is a neurologist in Charleston, North Carolina. The title Causes and Consequences of Sports concussions reflects the focus of the study because in the article the focus is on causes of sports related concussions and also the consequences. The research in this article is qualitative because the researchers focus on gathering verbal data rather than measurements. This report includes an abstract, discussion, results and references. It does not contain an introduction or methods. The abstract of this article contains the purpose of the study; it covers the common characteristics of concussions, certain symptoms and touches base on the impact of a concussions. Within the overview a concussion can also happen with impact to the...
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...THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION The Effects of Technology There is no escape from technology. In most cases this is not a problem though. Many people respect and admire technology because it is there to benefit them. Without the technological advances we have had over the years, the world would not be what it is today. What people don’t understand is that technology can actually be a bad thing. In society today, people are looking for more and more ways to be entertained, and all it is doing is causing problems. People are doing less and less thinking and more and more watching, listening, and playing, all because of technology. Forms of entertainment like the Internet, television and even video games seem harmless to people, but they are really not. When the Internet was first introduced, people never thought it would be as big as it is today. The Internet is an easy to use technology that can do just about anything. But what people understand is that the Internet is not all good. Much of the information posted on sites on the Internet is merely opinions, not factual information. When people look at this information, it looks and seems like trustful information, but most of the time, it is not. Although the Internet is a relatively new technology television has been around for about fifty years. There are many problems with television though, mainly with the content of the shows. Many of the shows on television portray...
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...After having examined the information you provided on the imminent storm and its potential consequences, I have made significant headway in determining what course(s) of action Freemark Abbey Winery can take confidently. However, more important than what the two page summary explains is the information it disregards. The limited scope of information in regards to harvesting options, brand reputation, competitive analysis, managerial risk tolerance, and consumer preferences contribute to a considerable framing bias. Additionally, we have failed to consider the decision of when/how to harvest the Riesling grapes from the perspectives of the various parties involved, including but not limited to other owners, your families, company shareholders, competitors, employees, retailers, and your own. These perspectives are essential in formulating the appropriate problem from which to solve your dilemma. If short-term profit maximization is your goal, with no regard for any of the considerations listed above (a non-exhaustive list), then your best alternative is not to harvest any of your Riesling grapes before the storm. Your Expected Monetary Value for this option is $3.27/bottle; you could expect revenues of $39,240. The highest expected revenue given the “No Harvest” decision is $67,200 ($8.00/bottle), and the lowest is $24,000 ($2.00/bottle). Given Freemark Abbey’s aspirations to compete with Chateau Lafite-Rothschild products, however, it would be short-sighted to ignore the impact...
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...Information technology (IT) is a critical resource for today’s businesses. It both supports and consumes a significant amount of an organization’s resources. Just like the other three major types of business resources—people, money, and machines—it needs to be managed wisely. IT spends a significant portion of corporate budgets. Worldwide IT spending topped $3.7 trillion in 2011, a jump of almost 8% from the previous year. It’s projected to continue to increase.5 More than 350 companies each plan to invest more than $1 billion in IT, particularly in cloud, social, mobile and big data. Companies in a Gartner study reported that cloud services will grow five times faster than overall IT enterprise spending annually through 2015. These resources must return value, or they will be invested elsewhere. The business manager, not the IS specialist, decides which activities receive funding, estimates the risk associated with the investment, and develops metrics for evaluating the performance of the Reasons IS must be managed as a critical resource IS enable change in the way people work together IS are part of almost every aspect of business IS enable or inhibit business opportunities and new strategies IS can be used to combat business challenges from competitors FIGURE I-1 Reasons why business managers should participate in information systems decisions. 5 http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/it-spending-forecast/ (accessed on February 12, 2012). 4 c Introduction ...
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...Service………………………………………………………….. |8 | | |Business Practices that would Assist Customer Satisfaction……………………………….. |8 | | |Areas to Keep in Mind………………………………………………………………………………………… |9 | |CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. |N/A | |REFERENCES..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… |N/A | Introduction In recent years, technology advancement and the desire to reduce costs has driven some companies to adopt and implement automated telephone support...
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...Hippocrates as well as two millenniums before European stalwarts such as Celsius and Galen (Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2009). Today, plastic surgery is becoming very popular among all people especially for teenagers. The number of teenage girls who underwent breast implant had increased from 3,872 to 11,326 in Washington, DC, USA. Based on the information from American Society of Plastic Surgeons, cosmetic implants have become very popular for all people. There were 32,000 women who underwent breast implants for augmentation in the year of 1992 whereas there was a high increase of number by the year 2003 which is 247,000 in Washington, DC, USA (Boodman, 2004). This shows that there is an increasing demand for plastic surgery. Although plastic surgery is very popular among teenagers nowadays, there are several negative drawbacks in having plastic surgery. Therefore, the main purpose of this essay is to indicate the negative drawbacks on plastic surgery in various aspects such as psychological, physical and monetary. Everyone knows that plastic surgery can help people improve or change their appearance to become better look or attractive. However, plastic surgery is a real surgery and there will be risks and limitations during or after undergoing it. Although a patient is very satisfied with his or her new appearance after the surgery, there is still the risk of getting side effects. The complication and risks may happen during or after the surgery. During the...
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...smartphones had allowed for the increase in the use of more short cuts and slang such as “lol” which means “laugh out loud” and “tbh” which means “to be honest.” In the image called “Shelved,” a wall of books look in horror and anger as a young man uses a laptop for work instead of the wall of knowledge behind him (Source H). The size of the shelf of books compared to the man in his seat conveys the message that the man’s knowledge is so miniscule with the use of his laptop compared to immense knowledge contained in the shelf of books. This image voices one of the reasons as to why the claim of the under-thirty generation being the dumbest is made. Despite this image mocking the under-thirty generation, they had an increase in intelligence quotient (IQ), and “have been rising since the 1930s” in the United States (Source B). This rise in IQ counters the claim that the under-thirty generation is the dumbest generation because their sense of critical thinking has grown more than the older generations. To further support the intelligence of the under-thirty generation, a Stanford university research had found that “students were remarkably adept at… tone and technique to get their point across”(Source G). The improvement in literacy and writing skill has shown itself in this research which demonstrates that the under-thirty generation is not the dumbest generation, rather they may be the smartest with all their new technology and improved education...
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...Globalisation What is the Globalisation? Well, it`s known that „ Globalisation”—( lt. Globus –sphera, fr. Global—general,gross). Globalization is the process of interaction and integration among the businesses and people of different countries, companies. Likewise, it is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and other aspects of culture. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political system, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world. Globalization is not a phenomenon. It is not just some passing trend. Today it is an overarching international system shaping the domestic politics and foreign relations of virtually every country, and we need to understand it as such. Globalization is the process of increased interconnectedness among countries most notably in the areas of economics, politics, and culture. Globalization is not new, though. It is long past are closely related, we can see it in the past. That is corporations have been buying from and selling to each other in lands at great distances, such as through the famed Silk Road across the Central Asia that connected China and Europa during the Middle Age. Also, we can be realized Aleksandra Macedon to unite all the land and the establishment of a system that moves. In the years since the Second World War, and especially during the past two decades, many governments have adopted...
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...Ikea Case Study By: Nikki Barker Marketing Management Professor Forbes The Current Situation of IKEA shows that industry trends are currently changing and leading more towards online purchasing. The level of competitors is increasing due to availability of the Internet. Consumer perceptions are evolving. Legal considerations are more linnet in China and India on copyright laws. Technology is leaning more towards media and Internet and less towards physical catalogs. Therefore, due to changing of the current situation, new plans need to be formed and implemented. First, we as a company must establish a full analysis of the situation and then look at the target markets. The main internal strength of the company has been making a profit with the current expansion from 2012 (IKEA, 2014). With every strength there is a weakness and it is critical to realize what our internal weakness is. Management throughout the company has not been on the same idea level of where the company is headed in terms of expansion. For company growth there must be unity. So we want for management to be able to have a round table discussion and work out the details of expansion. The first thing is for management to get all concerns on the floor at the beginning and work from there. IKEA has the chance to expand and evolve with the times in China and India. This is an opportunity that needs to be jumped on before it is no longer an option. With lax laws in China, competitor companies...
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...Security Assessment for Aircraft Solutions Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Company Overview 3 Security Vulnerabilities 4 Hardware Vulnerability – Absence of a Firewall 4 Policy Vulnerability – Lack of Timely Updates 5 Recommended Solutions 6 A Hardware Solution 6 Impact on Business Processes 9 A Policy Solution 9 Impact on Business Processes 10 Summary 10 References 12 Executive Summary This report will seek to evaluate and address security weaknesses with the Aircraft Solutions company. As security weaknesses are pointed out relating to hardware and policy weaknesses, recommendations will be made to Aircraft Solutions to be examined and hopefully implemented to improve IT security operations. Aircraft Solutions, located in Southern California, recognized leader in the design and fabrication of component products and services for companies in the electronics, commercial, defense, and aerospace industry. In reviewing Aircraft Solutions and its operations, uncovered were security vulnerabilities. Two vulnerabilities that were evident were issues with a lack of firewalls and the current security policy in place that is reviewed only every two years. Recommendations have been made that made help to remedy these vulnerabilities through the use of virtualization and by changing the security policy to be evaluated semi-annually instead of every two...
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...differences in the authors’ writing styles, they still have some similarities. These two essays share a similar theme: that the internet and social media diminish our human capabilities to think and make friends. Some differences occur in how Carr and Schaub approach their readers’, one author uses personal examples and the other shows differences in word meanings. In Carr’s article, he includes his own examples to show readers how the internet has changed his capability of reading longer texts; now his attention span has greatly decreased because he is used to short style of text on the internet. At the beginning of Carr’s essay there is a short part of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddyssey which Carr uses to show readers how far we have come with technology. Carr not only uses his own example of how technology changed him (for example, he is impatient and craves information instantaneously) but also shows how technology changed Friedrich Nietzsche’s writing style when he started using a typewriter in 1882. One of Nietzche’s friends realized how his writing changed: “His already terse prose had...
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...inability to make effective decisions when required at all hierarchical levels. If a decision must be made, particularly for an unexpected situation or problem, there is a tendency to look up, at superior’s intents and desires, and look around, at the general consensus of peers, before making any decisions. Jackall also explains managerial short term focus, the corporate culture of self interest and the reasons for each. In particular, he explains the manager’s interest in their progression and preference for short term, self promoting, often political, decisions over rational decisions that benefit the organisation in the long term. These passages show that personal ambition prevents good, rational decisions being made. Jackall also shows how this extends to the blaming of others and changing jobs in order to avoid being accountable for the consequences of previous decisions or strategies that enabled individual corporate progression. In essence, if you ‘outrun your mistakes’ through promotion or transfer, you will succeed no matter the impact on the organisation or others. This is facilitated through a lack of accountability at all levels. Without ever explicitly expressing it, the author is criticising these methods, this culture and the acceptance of it. He highlights the negative consequences of a focus on personal interest...
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...potential for long-term maintenance of well-being, which has ecological, economic, political and cultural dimensions. Sustainability requires the reconciliation of environmental, social equity and economic demands - also referred to as the "three pillars" of sustainability or (the 3 Es). Healthy ecosystems and environments are necessary to the survival and flourishing of humans and other organisms. There are a number of major ways of reducing negative human impact. The first of these is environmental management. This approach is based largely on information gained from earth science, environmental science and conservation biology. The second approach is management of human consumption of resources, which is based largely on information gained from economics. A third more recent approach adds cultural and political concerns into the sustainability matrix. Sustainability interfaces with economics through the social and environmental consequences of economic activity. Sustainability economics involves ecological economics where social aspects including cultural, health-related and monetary/financial aspects are integrated. Moving towards sustainability is also a social challenge that entails international and national law, urban planning and transport, local and individual lifestyles and ethical consumerism. Ways of living more sustainably can take many forms from reorganizing living conditions (e.g., Eco villages, eco-municipalities and sustainable cities), reappraising economic sectors...
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...Jenkins, J. L., Grimes, M., Proudfoot, J. G., & Lowry, P. B. (2014). Improving Password Cybersecurity through inexpensive and minimally invasive means: Detecting and deterring password reuse through keystroke-dynamics monitoring and just-in-time fear appeals. Information Technology for Development, 20(2), 196-213. doi:10.1080/02681102.2013.814040 This study attempts to create an algorithm to detect password reuse and determine if warning messages concerning their dangers will deter password reuse. The researchers created a test website where 135 students were asked to create a password. Then randomly selected students were shown a warning message about the dangers of password reuse. Their keystroke timing was recorded. They were asked to complete a questionnaire to determine if they created unique passwords initially and after receiving the warning. The researchers found they could detect unique passwords. They also found that only 4.45% of users created a unique password initially while 88.41% created a unique password after receiving the warning message. The article is well written with sound research. However, the premise of the research is troubling. The authors cite a study of over 500,000 users showing they have on average...
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...GLOBALIZATION by Wendy M. Jeffus Southern New Hampshire University TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION II. Internationalization versus Globalization Multinational Enterprises Exporting Licensing/Franchising Strategic Alliances Joint Ventures Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Emerging Economies Developed Economies Universalizers versus Particularists World-systems Diversity of Cultures Global Mindset III. HYPERGLOBALIZATION Conflicting Goals Environmental Consequences Social Consequences Extended Product Responsibility Subsidies and Preferential Treatment of the Corporation Lack of Accountability Misaligned Incentives Short-term Profits Money versus Spirituality Borderless Economy Liberalization Conflicting Goals Misaligned Incentives Short-term Solutions versus Long-Term Growth Protection of Natural Resources Lies, Damn Lies, & Statistics Standardization versus Adaptation Regional Focus New Paradigm IV. GLOBALIZATION AND STRATEGY Global versus Multidomestic Strategies Service Industry Common Global Misunderstandings Developing and Implementing a Global Strategy Organizational Culture V. GLOBALIZATION AND PUBLIC POLICY Approaches to Economic Organization Historical Review Determinants of Economic...
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