...(IEB), 32 (1) (2004) 35-45 Fire hazard categorization and risk assessment for Dhaka city in GIS framework Md. Jobair B. Alam and George N. Baroi1 Department of Civil Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh Received in final revised form 13 December 2003 Abstract Occurrence of fire incidences is a common phenomenon in Dhaka city, particularly in dry season. Fire break out in slums, garment factories and small manufacturing industries are regular news item during the season. Fire break outs cause loss of numerous lives and valuable properties in the city as well as other metropolitan areas of the country. With the increase of industrial establishments, mainly small industries, the number of fire incidences is increasing rapidly. Although there are a couple of fire stations in Dhaka City, an integrated framework of fire hazard management is non-existent. Such a framework, combined with information and communication system, has the potential to alleviate the damages and sufferings of the people. Also 'Fire hazard categorization' is vital for emergency planning in order to minimize loss of lives and property. Geocoded records of fire incidences and their characteristics help in understanding the spatial distribution of fire susceptibility and vulnerability as well as assist in the 'Allocation' and 'Mobilization' of dynamic resources. This paper presents an assessment of risk of fire hazards in Dhaka City in GIS framework in order...
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...performance of Computer Gadgets. Human Resources It is extremely significant and vital to have Management for the HR (human resources) department. As the management team are very crucial, it is highly needed for them to be able to find the correct method to their employees and be competent to administer and organise them in a professional manner. For the staff at Computer Gadgets to have the ability to achieve, complete and perform as efficiently as possible so that the manufacturing and the customer service quality is all increased, this would mean that the Human Resources would need to be very on point. Your business is able to manage and accomplish all of the human resources via many methods. The methods are as follows: - Assessments - Personal development planning - Training and - Motivation An exceptionally important element to consider in the Human Resources Department, is the fact that when it comes to taking on and hiring new staff members, they would need to be equipped with the correct skills and especially qualifications. The correct qualifications are very much needed for a specific job, as well as the right training for the staff that don’t have the right and specific skills for a job. It is very necessary for the management team for human resources to obligate and compel your employees into accomplishing every single one of their aims and objectives. Physical Resources It is a necessity for your...
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...HR Management: Introduction Assessment-2 Our company name is escape to the wild, a clothing company, opened for over 15 years. Four years ago we opened first retail outlets since then it has expanded the number of outlets to 10.After that, we set up a website for online delivering and ordering so we got a rapid growth of export sales and retail sales. However, we have some weaknesses on managing employees and job. So we have to add the section of human resource management for the company and HRM activities necessary to run a successful business. Motivating Employees through Job Design Motivate employee by providing job satisfaction, commitment to an organization, absenteeism and turnover The more productive, satisfied has received attention from manager and researcher. Job specification includes job rotation, enlargement and enrichment. Job Rotation Acquire new skills, increase overall skill level of their employees- different tasks at different organization Job Enlargement Expand tasks to be autonomy Employee view themselves as being capable of performing a broader set of tasks. Job Enrichment Allows employees to take more responsibility and capability. The below list describe the characteristics of core job. Core Job Psychological States Outcomes -Skill variety -Meaningfulness -Motivation -Task...
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...Penetration Testing Submitted By: ___________________________ Course: ___________________________ Professor Name: ___________________________ Date: ____________________________ Introduction: Penetration testing also known as pen testing is the act of testing a PC framework, network and Web application to discover vulnerabilities that an aggressor could take advantage.Pen tests could be mechanized with software applications or they can be performed physically. The procedure incorporates gathering data about the objective before the test (observation), recognizing possible points, endeavoring to soften up (either for all intents and purposes or seriously) and reporting back the discoveries. The primary target of penetration testing is to decide security shortcomings. A pen test can likewise be utilized to test an association's security approach consistence, its representatives' security awareness and the association's ability to distinguish and react to security episodes. [1] The penetration test doesn't stop at just revealing vulnerabilities but it also check the following stride to effectively misuse those vulnerabilities with a specific end goal to demonstrate (or negate) true assault vectors against an association's IT resources, information, people and the physical security. An infiltration test takes into consideration different assault vectors to be investigated against the same target. It is basically the mix of data or vulnerabilities over...
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... INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this essay is to address several aspects in order to understand the importance of information management systems operation, improve the quality of business service that based on information technology, and enhance the level of management of information systems. Information management System (IMS) effectiveness assessment is an important issue for the organizations as IMS have become critical for their survival. With the incorporation of Internet technologies into the business environment, it is now more difficult to measure IMS effectiveness, because Internet provides a borderless, flexible and non-stop communication medium. Assessing the effectiveness of information systems (IS) is vital for survival and competitive advantage which is a complicated subject since there are several interacting factors to consider. In the literature there are several methods proposed for IS assessment. However, those studies have been far from providing a broad, comprehensive evaluation framework for any type of web-based IS independent of its domain. In this study, a generic IS effectiveness assessment framework is proposed. Information systems are the primary focus of study for the information systems discipline and for organizational informatics....
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...Anne Tramposh CSS150-1304A-02 Introduction to Computer Security Professor Mark Ford 10/26/2013 Business Continuity Implementation Planning A Business Continuity Plan is “a plan for how to handle outages to IT systems, applications and data access in order to maintain business operation. A Business Impact Analysis is a prerequisite analysis for a Business continuity plan that prioritizes mission critical systems, applications and data and the impact of an outage or downtime.” (Kim. 2012. Pg.478) Every organization faces risk. Sometimes risk is measurable and predictable, and other times it is not. For example, a lawn care company knows that it has a seasonal business. There is some unpredictability in the seasons in that you do not know for sure if it is going to be a “wet” spring or a “dry” spring, or a hot summer or a cooler summer and so on. However, at least in the Midwest, a lawn care company can pretty well determine that we will have winter, spring, summer and fall. Additionally, it is predictable that the grass will need mowing from about mid to late March all the way through November. So, there is a small risk that it may start a little later and/or end a little sooner, but on the average it is fairly predictable. Other organizations have much greater risk inherent in their organizations. For example, a small stock brokerage firm may lose its entire business if stocks take the type of tumble that they did in 1998. (I personally know of some small firms that...
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...Research Paper on Client Criteria, Products and Services, Organization Structure and Personnel, Information and Communication of Social Fund Tran Thi Thanh Thuy Columbia Southern University Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to build a fund social developing sustainability and stability, achieving operational self-sufficiency and achieving social efficiency. This study analyze four problems such as client criteria, products and services, organization structure and personnel, information and communication of social fund. To understand better the characteristics of the client, social fund can build products and services which appropriate to the needs of target customers. Besides it also helps build organization structure and personnel of social fund to ensure operating efficiency and performance. The construction of information and communication is very important to help fund to manage social fund data efficient. The study of this subjects helps me to fulfill my current job also to complete the courses of Columbia Southern University. Table of contents Page I. Introduction……………………………………………………….. 4 II. Client criteria…………………………………. …………………… 4 III. Products and services ……………………………… . . . . . . . 5 A. Credit services ……………………………………………. . 5 1. Key criteria of credit services ………………………...
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...The Clarion School for Boys, Inc – Milwaukee Division June 14. 2014 MGMT 408 Rene Trevino Introduction The best way to divide up a project is to find out exactly who does what and how. Basically who ate the key players in the project? It seems like the key players are as follows: * The Social Services Department is responsible for ensuring that those under care receive the appropriate clinical treatment. Access is required to treatment files, email, mail routing and dictation. The supervisor functions as a department head and a member of the administrative council as well as a member of the institutional treatment team. Counselors handle direct counseling and casework functions, enter progress data and serve as members of the institutional and the unit treatment teams. Data entry and counselors are required to generate reports. * The Program Department is responsible for the group living environment as well as activities such as crisis intervention, recreation, and special events of the treatment program. Departmental staff members supervise part time employees within their particular treatment area. One lead program supervisor serves as the primary department head and has access to computer treatment data and all other information resources. Seven associate program supervisors share direct supervisory responsibility for the child care and recreation data. * The Education Department is responsible for the comprehensive year-round education program. The...
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...Windows XP, Windows CE, Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other products and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. mVerify Corporation ii WHAT’S MY TESTING ROI? Abstract An automated software testing system is a solution to a common business problem: how to produce high quality software with ever-more complex technology under increasing competitive pressure. Automated software testing provides a cost-effective solution to this problem. This white paper identifies the costs and benefits of software testing and explains the added value of automation. A case study shows how to estimate the return on investment (ROI) of automated testing for your company or department using the mVerify ROI model. The calculations are done in a companion Excel spreadsheet, allowing readers to easily estimate the ROI for their unique situation. Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ 1 The Business Case for Automated Testing..................................................................................... 2 How Does Software Testing Create Value?...
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...Hypervisors 1 Runner Header: Hypervisors Hypervisors CIS 512 December 16, 2012 Hypervisors 2 In today’s world technology has advance in numerous ways. Technology has given the capabilities to receive, fix, and move objects without being present. This is the concept of virtualization. “Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources”. The virtualization innovation has assisted companies in a positive way, but also can inflict negative wounds to the organization. Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. The 1960s was when virtualization was first deployed by IBM, itts main purpose was to operate mainframe hardware through separating them into virtual machine. In the 1980s and 1990s virtualization was not needed due to the growing numbers of desktop computing and x86 servers. New issues came to rise such as soaring maintenance and managing cost which lead to the creation of virtualization for x86 platform. Virtualization significantly drops general IT costs. Virtualization permits you to run several operating systems on a single computer. In July 2006 Microsoft made public a free Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 which is a windows hosted virtualization program. The latest version is combined with Windows 7 operating system (http://www.infobarrel.com/History_of_Virtualization)...
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...Teaching Computer Skills To Children with Visual Impairments: A Concept-Based Approach | [Graphic. Three color photos are standing side-by-side. In the first, a young teen-age boy is typing on a computer keyboard and smiling. In the second, a man is sitting in front of a computer reading using his refreshable braille display. In the third, three children are in a computer lab. All three have headphones. One is looking at the screen and one is listening to the output. (The face of the third child is blocked by the head of the second). End of graphic description]Joanmarie Diggs, M.Ed.The Carroll Center for the Blind 2002 AER International Conference 20 July 2002We know….The world is made up of objects whose function and form dictate how we access and use these objects. Children who are blind or visually impaired need concrete, hands-on experiences so that they can understand the world around them and can independently and safely interact with the objects they encounter.Similarly….The Windows Operating System is made up of objects whose function and form dictate how we access and use these objects. As with accessing objects in the environment, people who are sighted have visual information about the form and function of Windows objects and controls. In addition, a mouse user can access all windows controls in the same way: clicking on them. Children who are blind or visually impaired need to understand the form and function of these objects and controls so that they can independently...
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...Mid-term Exam Unit 1 Questions: 1. Explain the Morris Worm and its significance. It is considered to be the first Internet Worm. It was designed to count the number of systems connected to the Internet, however due to a flaw the worm replicated quickly and caused widespread slowdown across the globe. 2. Explain what____ hackers are. White-Hat- Those that know how hacking works but use skills for good Black-Hat – Those that through actions or stated intent, indicated that their hacking is designed to break the law, disrupt systems or businesses, or generate an illegal return Grey-Hat – Rehabilitated hackers or those that once were on the (black-hat) dark side but are now reformed, not all people will trust a grey-hat hacker 3. What is ECPA and what does it regulate? The Electronic Communications Privacy Act it prohibits eavesdropping or the interception of message contents without distinguishing between private or public systems 4. What is SOX and what does it regulate? It is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and it generates laws that affect public corporations financial reporting. Under SOX corps must certify the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting and accounting 5. What is the main motivation for hackers today and what was the previous motivation for earlier generations of hackers? Today’s hackers are motivated by greed or money some for status/terrorism/revenge and some for fun. Early hackers were in it for the curiosity. However also today...
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...Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa — No Early End to the Outbreak Margaret Chan, M.D. N Engl J Med 2014; 371:1183-1185September 25, 2014DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1409859 Share: ArticleCiting Articles (5) Many people have asked me why the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa is so large, so severe, and so difficult to contain. These questions can be answered with a single word: poverty. The hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, are among the poorest in the world. They have only recently emerged from years of conflict and civil war that have left their health systems largely destroyed or severely disabled and, in some areas, left a generation of children without education. In these countries, only one or two doctors are available for every 100,000 people, and these doctors are heavily concentrated in urban areas. Isolation wards and even hospital capacity for infection control are virtually nonexistent. Contacts of infected persons are being traced but not consistently isolated for monitoring. Large numbers of people in these countries do not have steady, salaried employment. Their quest to find work contributes to fluid population movements across porous borders. The area where the borders of the three countries intersect is now the designated hot zone, where transmission is intense and people in the three countries continue to reinfect each other. Recent decisions to quarantine this area have brought extreme hardship to more than a million people...
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...policies, hence underscoring the fact that implementers are crucial actors whose actions determine the success or failure of policy initiatives’, (Juma and Clarke 1985). Better practice implementation plans are scalable and flexible. They reflect the degree of urgency, innovation, complexity and/or sensitivity associated with the particular policy measure, and provides sufficient detail to support and inform successful implementation. One of the most important effects of the division between policy-making and implementation is the possibility for policy makers to avoid responsibility. ‘The dichotomy between policy-making and implementation is dangerous. That is because it separates the ‘decision’ from the ‘implementation’ and thus opens up ‘escape hatches’ through...
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...and people in the three countries continue to reinfect each other. Recent decisions to quarantine this area have brought extreme hardship to more than a million people — but are essential for containment. These are only some of the many challenges to be overcome in the worst Ebola outbreak in the nearly four-decade history of this disease. The needs are enormous; the prospects for rapid containment are slim. The outbreak, in all its unprecedented dimensions, is an emergency of international concern and a medical and public health crisis, but it is also a social problem. Now, 6 months into the response to the outbreak, fear remains the most difficult barrier to overcome. Fear causes people who have had contact with infected persons to escape from...
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